You know how people looked at the dumb decisions of #StocktonRush and said don't get in the #Titan ?
Don't get into an #ElonMusk #Tesla or #SpaceX
Great to know Elon cares this much about my mental health.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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It seems they're just trying to make it seem intentional when really, they're just struggling now that their Google Cloud contract has expired.
In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company’s Google Cloud servers. Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract’s June 30th renewal date. Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google’s infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is “running behind schedule,” putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline. Engadget, June 11, 2023
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LOL I do not miss Twitter a bit.
When I gave twitter a go to try and fill the Apollo shape hole in me I noticed the toxic algorithim and brain dead users so I am glad that I found Lemmy. I am just really confused as to what Elon is doing? He seems to be throwing money away for the fun of it.
Once Musk took over Twitter, and he opened his day with firing half his staff, we kinda knew he was going to enshittify Twitter into irrelevance. Now we're watching as the world catches up and seeks alternative platforms for general announcements.
Putting that 44 billion to work
In an interview he said he had to lay all these people off because otherwise the company would have gone bankrupt. But he is the reason it was on the path to bankruptcy. Like a god who saves you from a disaster he caused... In the dumbest way possible.
The big name platforms literally forgot its the community that makes them. They think its their platform. It never has been.
Taking bets : when will spez do the same thing ?
At this rate, end of the month
At this rate limit, end of the month.
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this is the dumbest thing i have ever seen in my fucking life, holy fucking god
we're reaching levels of capitalism that shouldn't even be possible!
this is genuinely mind boggling. So he plans on eventualy making twitter pay to play!?
i love how billionaires just get to ruin things now
Now. Yes. Now. Only now.
Yes, sort of. Elmo saddled the company with $12.5 billion in debt while alienating the advertisers which was where the majority of Twitter's revenue came from. Revenue has to come from somewhere. BuuuUUUUUuut, Elmo is in over his head, doesn't really understand Twitter's business model, and is making decisions by the seat of his pants. The answer to every question may as well be yes, no, maybe.