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Whenever I get linked to twitter, it tries to get me to login when I just want to scan the thread..... I back out everytime now.
Honestly I feel like that killed Twitter more than many other changes.
People tell me "there's no way he (musk) would intentionally crash his own company - it makes no sense - "he's just terribly bad at business!"
But is he really THAT bad? In what world could these changes be made in which he's actively trying to improve the company? If nothing else, seeing the negative backlash, bad publicity and dropping number of users wouldn't any sound minded business owner at least temporarily undo some of these changes?
With any business, if you make a change that causes you to lose customers and get bad publicity.. don't you try to mitigate the damage done? Who goes balls to the wall on obviously bad decisions?
He's that bad at business. On Twitter, Musk has no workers to contain his bullshit or create a good public image for him. Nor does he have enough workers to keep Twitter running smoothly as it used to.
My point is, look I'm a dumb white hick. I've never ran anything as significant as this. Just from the way the guy talks I can tell he has eons more experience than I do. His track record? Jesus Christ.
Still, if I were him I would've just.. stopped. Long, long ago.
Yet he hasn't. Admittedly, I'm a dumb fuck yet smart cookie compared to some but honestly what are the odds that with zero experience I could make better business decisions than this guy?
Make it make sense, ya know? Explain to me like I'm 5 why he would make decisions that are so obviously detrimental to the company? What are the odds that I could give better business advice than this guy?
Yet this is what he's doing. He's either purposely destroying it or has some weird master plan and I'm not sure I can be convinced otherwise tbh. We all see it, as bad as he seems to be there's no way he doesn't.
He's the best example of someone falling upwards. He's not much more than a cash cow for other people running the companies that he owns and their successes are not happening because of Musk, they are happening despite of him. It goes as far as SpaceX allegedly using "handlers" to keep him from interfering with the actual development. I'm pretty sure that you, as a mod of !mechanicadvice@lemmy.world, have more technical experience as the guy who claims to be the genius behind Tesla.
The reason that Musk is making these obviously dumb decisions at Twitter is because it's 100% his toy to play with and there's nobody else running the show for him. What we are seeing is essentially the unfiltered effect that he has on a business.