He could have just shut up and he would have continued to be seen as the cool rocket and electric car guy. But no. He’s and idiot that too self absorbed with the hot air that comes out of his mouth to know when not to speak.

First off, Musk fired the PR department, so there’s no way to get his side of the discussion.

I personally think that there’s something else going on and the scraping is just the front to push this through. Maybe he wants the death of Twitter look natural, which wouldn’t be the case if he just shut it down.

“The fun thing with Musk is it’s now impossible to determine whether he’s lying, doing something stupid, or simply inaccurately reporting something someone who actually knows what they’re talking about told him.”

This sounds like putin.

Maybe failing upwards was a zero interest rate phenomenon.

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

This is a pretty good write-up of the social media cycle. Short version is at first a new platform gains value from having more users so they focus on improving it for the users. Once they have a large enough user base, they phase into focusing on advertising and how to monetize off their users. Last stage is the company is large enough and their focus is on their shareholders now.

Makes sense to me, updates at first to a platform improve it. Then later updates add more ads. Then the platform gets manipulated to maximize monetization.