What did elon do wrong in Twitter

[Lorence.xD]

Wait a minute I used to think online is the next generation if your not going online your toast but elon musk just lost funds in Twitter trying to take it fully online. He sacked almost all the employees ,replaced them with bots and now he is trying   to sell it . Don't mistake me I'm not trying to criticise the dude but i don't get why this happened for real his plan was nice trying to reduce cost of work . But what went wrong
Twitter usage is really going down I think the app is more boring . What do you think we all know elon this might be another business Strategy right

Elon musk has a plan, he always has a plan and all that he's doing is only leading to his master plan that he has before he decided to buy the social media. Elon musk is a genius and he has already rebranded the platform to X which will be a host to all of his plans and he has also started paying content creators which means X will be filled with more content creators as they search for ways to make money from the social media and this will make him more profit from the social media.

When Elon musk bought twitter he noticed that the social media was been operated on losses and he has cut down on all those expenses and now the platform is generating revenue from those individual that want to verify their twitter badges or become content creators.

He really have a plan, when he bought Twitter he's already an idea what to do. We all know that Twitter is the most used app worldwide that connects people internationally so many users equal to many opportunities. Even these kind of reactions he'd already expected when he planned to have any changes in Twitter. Remember when he put a payment to just have a checkmark for any users with checkmark? If you've forgot to pay you mark will be gone and of course everyone also hated that idea it's like a ripoff just to get money from people. But we all know those mark also gave them benefits such as advertisement as well. Even crypto related and business are roaming in the Twitter so I think in the very future he would put a business thing in the Twitter and of course the fee so Twitter would still run.

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[ChiBitCTy]

I'm honestly amazed at how well Elon Musk has done in his life because for all the smart decisions he's made, he's made an equal (if not higher) percentage of dumb moves.

I think he regrets buying twitter...or should I say "X".  I HATED twitter before he took over, and I like it even less now that he has taken it over.  I deleted my account.  It's just such a shit show, and I honestly don't think he has any real idea how to run it.  He's a narcacist who wanted his own platform to blab away all day long (which he does) but I don't think he fully through through his purchase.

[Iroh]

He replaced the employees he had let go with bots? That’s news to me. I also don’t think Twitter usage has gone down as I think more people have, for a while been encouraged to join with the prospect of earning from the app. Asides all that, I do think Elons handling of the app has been not so good. If X, formerly known as Twitter hadn’t been as popular and used as well as doing so well before the new owners came along, X would have been by now been dead.
Before Elon bought the app, his engagements with other users was barely noticed. But now, he’s actively spouting his thoughts and opinions while his ass kissers eat it all up as truth.

[Pierre 2]

I feel like Elon Musk's only mistake along the way was him being too edgy for CEO or owner of such billion dollar worth business. He could keep generating money through twitter ads by getting good with advertisors - but he loved being as edgy as teenager - its costs him billions of dollars. But I don't personally think he did anything financially wrong except this. I think late move to give money back to users with most viewed posts was actually good move that will turn twitter (or x com) into youtube of texts. Elon Musk is wise guy in my opinion.

[Cryptomultiplier]

If you have really paid attention to this Elon Musk story and why he purchased Twitter, you would get to understand better that he has been trying to own his own social media platform from way back before he even got spaceX and Tesla.
He is working to remodel Twitter to an everyday app according to him, and in trying to do such good, more damage has to be perpetuated to enact the idea he has in mind.

What Elon did wrong was to not start his own social media platform from scratch and build up, instead he opted to redesign an already existing idea. In 5years time, we would clearly see the results of what he is doing right now.

[poodle63]

I feel like Elon Musk's only mistake along the way was him being too edgy for CEO or owner of such billion dollar worth business. He could keep generating money through twitter ads by getting good with advertisors - but he loved being as edgy as teenager - its costs him billions of dollars. But I don't personally think he did anything financially wrong except this. I think late move to give money back to users with most viewed posts was actually good move that will turn twitter (or x com) into youtube of texts. Elon Musk is wise guy in my opinion.

he's indeed sometime too much in making decision but i guess thats what make him enigmatic you just don't know what his decision will be and they are mostly out of the box.
take a look at the badge subscription that they have, now its even being imitated by the other platforms.
elon sure is trying to manage twitter differently compared to the previous executives of twitter so I guess thats why he has made some bold decision in regard of this billions worth platform.
surely in the future there will be more and more interesting decision coming from him that i'd expect gonna change the tide of the current condition, but we don't know whether he gonna suceeds or not.

[ancafe]

If that happens, which is not far from impossible, the only way for people to survive is to look at it as an opportunity and find a way to live among the changes given by technology. As much as some people want to live far from the grasp of technology, it is now close to impossible as technology keeps on evolving and we keep on finding ways to rely on it.

There are negative and positive sides of existing technological developments, especially when it is associated with the understanding of people who live in rural areas. Let me give an example: In the past, people in my village went to the fields to plant rice, which was entirely done by humans, but with technological developments, human involvement in planting rice is no longer dominant because technology already exists. The positive value of human labor is no longer drained for the process of planting rice until the harvest arrives because it is greatly helped by the presence of technology. On the other hand, the presence of technology does not provide benefits for small farmers because they have to incur much higher production costs, so that their yields are no longer worth the capital spent.

Discussion has gone a bit outside of the OP so I want to draw a conclusion, human life continues to innovate with the presence of technology and we are required to be able to adapt to it. Elon Musk is typical of a sophisticated generation in running any business and even though he is no longer young, some people say he is selfish or too arrogant. But to look successful, maybe some people need to follow the steps and methods that are done because sometimes their thinking is very precise, anyone can try to adopt their mindset to achieve success.

[dothebeats]

If you have really paid attention to this Elon Musk story and why he purchased Twitter, you would get to understand better that he has been trying to own his own social media platform from way back before he even got spaceX and Tesla.
He is working to remodel Twitter to an everyday app according to him, and in trying to do such good, more damage has to be perpetuated to enact the idea he has in mind.

What Elon did wrong was to not start his own social media platform from scratch and build up, instead he opted to redesign an already existing idea. In 5years time, we would clearly see the results of what he is doing right now.

I agree, If he made his own social media platform from scratch a lot of users would not have such negative feedback. I believe it is the comparison of old users' experience and what they are already familiar with in comparison to Elon Musk's changes that is causing such negative feedback. When reading most of the negative tweets regarding the changes applied by the rebranding of Twitter to X, users find it inconvenient as some of the features they enjoy are being removed and those they could not care about are being added. It's like taking them away from their comfort zone.

On the other hand, in relation to why Elon even bought Twitter and your answer to it, here is an article that showcased Elon Musk wants to build his own social media platform in early 2022 due to Twitter being a hindrance to free speech: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/28/elon-musk-says-hes-considering-building-a-new-social-media-platform.html

[icalical]

Elon getting too deep in his own crusade to create the platform that is ideal in his opinion, he doesn't listen to his employee nor his users. Changing the name to X, changing the feature name to Repost, implementing Verified Subscription and a lot of other things. Most of users and the former twitter employees is against that, but he didn't care.

But all that being said, I and probably most of other people would still use twitter, since the alternative is worse.

[Texac]

But all that being said, I and probably most of other people would still use twitter, since the alternative is worse.

If you also notice that, it means he is making good use of it and has succeeded.  one thing I see is people complaining, criticizing, booing... but in the end still use Twitter and still spend money to sign up for a blue tick.  so it can be said that he does what he wants and doesn't listen to anyone is completely right, right for him because it brings profit for him, not right for us because we have to spend money to use Twitter.  But as you said, we have no alternatives, and who is winning?

[Cookdata]

Wait a minute I used to think online is the next generation if your not going online your toast but elon musk just lost funds in Twitter trying to take it fully online. He sacked almost all the employees ,replaced them with bots and now he is trying   to sell it . Don't mistake me I'm not trying to criticise the dude but i don't get why this happened for real his plan was nice trying to reduce cost of work . But what went wrong
Twitter usage is really going down I think the app is more boring . What do you think we all know elon this might be another business Strategy right

I'm not sure what your sources are but this information is wrong, they are not facts but you can prove me wrong with the right source to read through. We all know how he wanted to buy Twitter back then and on realizing that it contains more than 40% of users are bots, he decided to drop the deal but somehow, the deal later went through. After he took over as the CEO, he found out that some employees were not needed, some jobs could be done by a person and he found out it was done by 5 people, he had to cut down the cost of the operation to bring twitter to the mainstream.

In addition, Twitter has been rebranded to X which we don't know why but it could be trademarking it to suit its parent company SpaceX. He has also decided to introduce revenue for content creators through their monthly impressions to bring more people to twitter, so I don't understand what you are talking about.

[icalical]

But all that being said, I and probably most of other people would still use twitter, since the alternative is worse.

If you also notice that, it means he is making good use of it and has succeeded.  one thing I see is people complaining, criticizing, booing... but in the end still use Twitter and still spend money to sign up for a blue tick.  so it can be said that he does what he wants and doesn't listen to anyone is completely right, right for him because it brings profit for him, not right for us because we have to spend money to use Twitter.  But as you said, we have no alternatives, and who is winning?

Yep as far as my experience with the new Twitter or X, they still has the best algorithm, and it keeps getting better. Everything that appear in my For You page is always relevant and it always keep me for scrolling for more. And to be honest, I don't really care about the Logo, Repost/Retweet term, and something like that, as long as it still gives me good content I would still using it.

[fuguebtc]

But all that being said, I and probably most of other people would still use twitter, since the alternative is worse.

If you also notice that, it means he is making good use of it and has succeeded.  one thing I see is people complaining, criticizing, booing... but in the end still use Twitter and still spend money to sign up for a blue tick.  so it can be said that he does what he wants and doesn't listen to anyone is completely right, right for him because it brings profit for him, not right for us because we have to spend money to use Twitter.  But as you said, we have no alternatives, and who is winning?

Yep as far as my experience with the new Twitter or X, they still has the best algorithm, and it keeps getting better. Everything that appear in my For You page is always relevant and it always keep me for scrolling for more. And to be honest, I don't really care about the Logo, Repost/Retweet term, and something like that, as long as it still gives me good content I would still using it.

Those who are trying to criticize Twitter's change of Logo or brand name because they have no better reason to blame Elon. It can be simply said that they are people who don't like him no matter what he does to make things better. One more thing, Elon bought Twitter with his own money which means he has full authority to do anything with it. Those who don't like Elon's changes to Twitter, I think they should buy Twitter instead of complaining everywhere.

I also don't really care if it's X or Tw, I just know that it still gives me what I need like before, even better than before. What about their stock falling or Twitter's revenue falling...what does that have to do with us?

[coupable]

But all that being said, I and probably most of other people would still use twitter, since the alternative is worse.

If you also notice that, it means he is making good use of it and has succeeded.  one thing I see is people complaining, criticizing, booing... but in the end still use Twitter and still spend money to sign up for a blue tick.  so it can be said that he does what he wants and doesn't listen to anyone is completely right, right for him because it brings profit for him, not right for us because we have to spend money to use Twitter.  But as you said, we have no alternatives, and who is winning?

Yep as far as my experience with the new Twitter or X, they still has the best algorithm, and it keeps getting better. Everything that appear in my For You page is always relevant and it always keep me for scrolling for more. And to be honest, I don't really care about the Logo, Repost/Retweet term, and something like that, as long as it still gives me good content I would still using it.

However, this does not explain the significant decline in Twitter's revenues since the completion of the purchase deal nearly a year ago, knowing that the platform had not been profitable for a long time before Elon Musk came to it. There is a significant decline in the demand for using the platform, whether from ordinary users or from advertising companies.
Even Mask's action to impose fees on the account verification logo did not help increase revenues and encouraged many to leave the platform for other platforms with less advantages.

[isaac_clarke22]

I think it's all media BS.
Since Elon bought twitter, that app is 100x better.
I remember before, i never saw content i want, never got ads i want, doesn't matter who i follow, i had bunch of garbage and bots on my home feed!
After Elon bought twitter, i really see what i want to see, i get what i want.

I think he set long term goals because in my eyes that app is far better, bots are long gone, politics is not pushed on surface as before and content makers can now earn money from ads revenue. win-win

Well it's kinda meh for me. I kinda agree with your part that it was like a pit for bots and just bunch of garbage posts due to how easily one can write a bot for it and just do mass posting. See those unnecessary follower you get in your news feed? Yeah that was one of the issues, and good thing that it isn't happening as much as it was before. No more of those "fake singles in your area" following your alter account.

I just hated that it became like subscription based now for some badges and ticks. I know it might not cost that much for people in US, but still I am not fan of that feature.

[KiaKia]

Wait a minute I used to think online is the next generation if your not going online your toast but elon musk just lost funds in Twitter trying to take it fully online. He sacked almost all the employees ,replaced them with bots and now he is trying   to sell it . Don't mistake me I'm not trying to criticise the dude but i don't get why this happened for real his plan was nice trying to reduce cost of work . But what went wrong
Twitter usage is really going down I think the app is more boring . What do you think we all know elon this might be another business Strategy right

Right now, Twitter remains one of the best social media platform, if you don't like it then that's you, you are free to leave and try others, you said Twitter is boring? That's a big fat lie, the most boring social media platform I know is Facebook,  I would choose Twitter over Facebook anyway.

Twitter is very useful for me and my crypto journey, I activate every notifications on all the projects on my watchlist so that I can stay up to date, and the moment Elon Musk changed the name to X, I knew that crypto payment through Twitter platform is coming.

Have patience, you will take all your words back, let's wait till after Bitcoin halving, I believe that what Elon have in mind will play a big part in the next bull run, do not underestimate that man, I repeat, Elon Musk shouldn't be underestimated.

[Unbunplease]

Elon Musk bought a pretty expensive toy - and now he's trying to realize its possibilities. I think he will have everything ready in time for the upcoming bull run in 2024-2025 and will more than recoup his costs. He has a powerful tool to influence the opinion of the cryptocurrency world. And what he does wrong and impulsively will soon be corrected.

[kojektea]

If it is really successful now without careful planning for its business competitors, maybe making the Twitter company completely online was a mistake even though Elon Musk could do it. If we think about how to fight against Elon Musk's competitors in the future, employees who are replaced by bots could even be more sophisticated than Elon Musk's. he's probably thinking about this.

[Cling18]

If it is really successful now without careful planning for its business competitors, maybe making the Twitter company completely online was a mistake even though Elon Musk could do it. If we think about how to fight against Elon Musk's competitors in the future, employees who are replaced by bots could even be more sophisticated than Elon Musk's. he's probably thinking about this.

He'll surely regret replacing those Twitter's long time employees with bots because we all know that bot has limitations and couldn't reach human intelligence. Elon has been really competitive and took everything as a business without concrete planning. Some people are now switching to other platforms since Elon took the ownership of it.
However, we all know how tricky Elon's strategies and we can still expect that he'll still do everything to recover and make profit again especially when the bull season approaches. He knows how to take advantage of everything.

[Gyfts]

I feel like Elon Musk's only mistake along the way was him being too edgy for CEO or owner of such billion dollar worth business. He could keep generating money through twitter ads by getting good with advertisors - but he loved being as edgy as teenager - its costs him billions of dollars. But I don't personally think he did anything financially wrong except this. I think late move to give money back to users with most viewed posts was actually good move that will turn twitter (or x com) into youtube of texts. Elon Musk is wise guy in my opinion.

Political activists drove out advertisers from the start. It was a losing battle.

Though I agree his "edginess" (I'd refer to it as billionaire eccentrics/mannerisms) didn't help. Twitter was not profitable prior to Elon's purchase. Setting aside his mannerisms and some mistakes with rebranding twitter as "X", he overpaid for a platform that isn't easily monetizable. Operating costs are too high, revenue is low, the results were predictable.