Musk is a great engineer, at the level of a
Kelly Johnson but unlike Kelly, he knows not his limitations, especially in light of buying
Twitter, a company having no real profit potential outside of trying to package gossip, innuendos and lies along the lines of an unfiltered Facebook, something Musk is promising to do at an even higher level as he believes in absolute freedom of speech even if it means falsely shouting
Fire! in a Theater
when testing
the limits to free speech and individual rights in real time.
Trump anyone?
To whit ...
In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes introduced the specter of a man falsely
A self-inflicted CF ...
You fucked up real good, kiddo.
Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without making a series of enormous compromises that will ultimately destroy your reputation and possibly cause grievous damage to your other companies.
Why? ...
I say this with utter confidence because the problems with Twitter are not engineering problems. They are political problems. Twitter, the company, makes very little interesting technology; the tech stack is not the valuable asset. The asset is the user base: hopelessly addicted politicians, reporters, celebrities, and other people who should know better but keep posting anyway. You! You, Elon Musk, are addicted to Twitter. You’re the asset. You just bought yourself for $44 billion dollars.
In essence ...
What I mean is that you are now the King of Twitter, and people think that you, personally, are responsible for everything that happens on Twitter now. It also turns out that absolute monarchs usually get murdered when shit goes sideways.
Read the rest of The Verge's blurb if you dare. :)
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