There is a laundry list of glitches and features that no longer work on Twitter, yet Elon Musk and the GOP keep claiming that mass firings made it better and will make the government better too.
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Twitter started falling apart the second Elon bought it. Also, I endured months of harassment on Twitter, and Twitter’s moderation team did nothing, despite the several reports. 🖕🏼Elon, 🖕🏼 Twitter/X, & 🖕🏼 to any incel who supports Elon
For them it's working perfectly. When they allowed the douche nozzles run free it's seen as perfectly fine. For normal people it's been a cluster fuck from day one and gone down hill every since.
May Twitter die a slow and drawn out death because it's not the Twitter that worked all those years.
It doesn't work, bleeds money on the hourly but sure. We can always cut government waste by cutting Congress' salaries by 50%. Maybe they'll understand how the people they're supposedly serving are suffering.
Elon musk also has no clue how to run an essential service. Firing 80% of a social media company staff, while it sucks for the staff, has minimal impact on society. Just wait till those govt services disappear and no one is available to answer the phone.
I was recalling the massive Twitter terminations when he bought it. I wonder if he’ll just revoke govn’t employees’ access like he did at Twitter without notifying them they’re fired.
Made it better for Elononia - narcissistic sociopath- so yeah, he’s good. Turned it into a nightmare for the rest of the world. Is Elonia really autistic or is he just so deep down and up his narcissistic asshole he can’t figure out the difference. FU traitor. I’m done with being nice.
Twitter lost all profits. The app is no longer functional and is hemorrhaging users every day.
He cut the staff by 80% which is Interesting because the valuation of Twitter has also dropped by 80%… Elon lost 80% of its value since buying it…. He is an imbecile
That's a crock of shit. Twitter is so much worse now. Plus Elon suppressed my account. I'm pretty much invisible now - and I pay for my account (Premium+).
I went from several thousand Impressions per day down to between 0 and 100 per day. Pretty much no action.
The pudgy man boy is trying to be so cool and cruel to people cause he is a dork who has insecurities that he tries to hide. Ain’t working. We see who you are!
@patriottakes.bsky.social Not to mention it is worth 80% less than when he bought it. I imagine the same will be said of the US once these clowns are through with it.
Here’s the deal. I am against government waste. There does need to be some better oversight.
But that’s why they need to put better employees at the top who will use the money wisely. Not people who get elected. People who care about the job and the job only.
They know that mass firing of government employees will cause chaos. The point of doing this is to destroy America's institutions and make our nation into a Kleptocracy. America has accumulated a great deal of wealth and instead of that wealth benefiting families, it will benefit the wealthy few.
Musk bought the hottest strip club in town, then proceeded to fire the hottest strippers, the security staff, the accountants and the janitorial staff.. then, he converted the strip club into a Mexican pony show. Then, when his advertisers left he told them to GFT and tried to sue them to come back.
He cut security personnel. The web site turned into a cesspool of Russian bots, porn bots, and disinformation. Folks are leaving. Company has dropped in value. I’d consider the cuts a failure.
Every pot-bellied meth head with bedbugs in his beard and a red MAGA cap now thinks he's Rush Limbaugh. A million different, semi-literate messages and zero messaging discipline. Just chaos.
Tell me how THAT'S going to survive and prevail! Cold comfort maybe, but it's something
Eloon definitely made that garbage website better for right-wing fuknutz. They'll do the same to the federal government...turn it into a kakistocracy by MAGAts for MAGAts.
Because a nation of 350 million and 3.8 million square miles can function fine without people to do the work. What, shall we use AI from Tesla and Starlink just to be turned off when they feel like it?
What about the metrics of purchasing Twitter for $44B and steering it to decline to current value of $673M? 80% decline in value, Elon. That's going to show up in less clearly measurable ways as he tears gov systems apart. But there WILL be decline.
His success has been off the backs of his employees. Once these employees are gone, you start seeing how inept he really is. He may have the idea but not the ability.
The goal of Musk buying Twitter was to destroy it. The goal of Trump creating a kakistocracy is to destroy America's ability to govern effectively. Congrats Putin on your most successful op ever.
I didn't use Twitter all that often and even I noticed a difference when Elon took over.
Had to refresh constantly to get the feed to work, spammy ads, uptick in Anti-Semitism, and a reporting system that thought "kill a n*ggers" didn't violate standards cause it used an asterisk.
Leon can’t even stream a single successful podcast interview on his site without it crashing. It constantly glitches. It makes Netflix during the Tyson fight look like cable internet while X is liking dialing up to AOL
How much public funding has made its way into Elon Musk'd pocket before he tells me how amazing a businessman he is because he cuts his workforce. $41 million since 2008 for Tesla, a $2.89 billion contract with Nasa in 2021, and $653 milliin contract with the US airforce in 2020.
Elon Musk has contracts with the federal government worth billions. The richest man in the world will keep taxpayer dollars flowing to him & his companies while knee-capping/gutting/killing federal agencies/programs aimed at helping average Americans.
It’s is SO enraging and beyond offensive that this immigrant, who came here illegally, would have so much influence in OUR govt. he should be deported.
If reporting an accounting that calls me a satanic kosher wh0re and getting a response that the comment didn't violate twitter's policies means it's better. OK then.
And hasn’t the value of twitter dramatically dropped? And isn’t the platform bleeding users? Why doesn’t anyone print those things out. If they’re true? His business plan was a failure.
How much money has Twitter lost since Musk bought it again? How many times has Trump been sued? How many times has Trump filed for bankruptcy? I’m sure this is will end well.
Also just kinda weird how populists admire a guy proud of firing workers who presumably were hard working and competent. Yes, sometimes it makes sense to let even good workers go, but it’s not something to be proudly flippant about.
It bewilders me that anyone who is in the working classes would vote from Trump who claims to not be willing to pay overtime, or Elon Musk who has a habit of cleaning out house. How does any of that align with *you* working class American?
Potus 45 requested that Clare County Council provide Sea Defences at his private Golf course with Atlantic Ocean views. The Council said "yeah right"
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The USA are destroying themselves. Putin must be laughing his ass of. To watch this happening is so sad. I hope we all will survive this and come out as better and stronger.
Agree, not to mention that government should not operate like a business for whom profit is the top priority. While I know that there is inefficiency in government, profit is not the priority, service to citizens should be.
Plus the employees who were eliminated weee screwed out of severance and other compensation and had to go to court to get it, if they even got it. Musk is both an idiot and a monster.
I haven’t seen him make any public excuses for this. It’s surely just a matter of time before he’s bleating about the mass x-odus being the liberals’ fault in some way or other. Not his own. No, that’s impossible.
Oh they’re going to break the US government, but to these oligarchs, that’s a feature, not a bug. Regular Americans will be far worse off, but dickheads like Elon will be richer and more powerful than ever.
Most importantly, Musk made it so Twitter didn't even work as a good or fun place to be. Instead of relevant replies and posts we only got paid blue check Musk sycophants. You couldn't block enough of them to make it useful.
The fact that anyone is comparing what X does to ANY country’s government is a fucking joke. That’s like comparing Candy Crush to the New York Stock Exchange.
Yes. I can't prove it, I just know it's true. Elmo Muck bought (acquired) America for Putin. How much did he pay to buy off the election officials in each of the swing states. The sad part is that once this is uncovered, the GOP's Frankenstein monster will be installed as America's Hitler.
Company valued at a tenth of what he paid for it, infested with bots & socks, and community notes seem to be the only fraction of moderation left.
Musk is a living definition of the phrase Sunk Cost Fallacy.
The first thing taught in my Public Administration program was that government cannot be run like a business because profit isn't and shouldn't be the goal. That's why Public Administration and non-profit management are a thing.
Elon fired 80% of the staff, and now Twitter is worth 86% of the value it had when he bought it, making it one of the worst buyouts in history. Is that the plan? Decrease the value of the US by 86%?
Based on how he destroyed the multi point of view tweets I used to read, his government would be to only provide services he personally approves of & only to recipients that hail him as their true alpha male leader.
Oh, sure, everyone knows things work better with a stressed-out skeleton crew paranoid about losing their jobs. It's definitely the model work culture.
Their goal is to remove governmental rights and protections so the robber-barons can loot and pillage at their leisure. Libertarianism in its raw form.
So, I guess a few mid-air collisions will be a glitch? Or a couple hundred people dying and agonizing death from something poisoning the food supply that went unnoticed because no one was watching? Great. So many people are going to have their lives ruined by these clowns, which is their goal.
He ruined Twitter. It used to be where news trended. Now all that happens there is lies and vitriol. It’s a waste of time to try and find the truth and truth seekers moved here. 👏
Functioning better? I guess I don't actually understand the meaning of either of those words if Twitter is 'functioning better' after Musky fired everyone 🤷♀️
Sadly, many have returned to twitter but use minimum ad posting because they claim they saw a "sizable drop" in sales after removing ads from twitter and not at all because of their own efforts to finance opposition to minimum wage increases and workers rights on then upcoming US election.
There are currently 2.278 million civilian federal employees and nearly 30 percent of them are veterans. If DOGE follows through on proposed threats, and lays off 75 percent of the federal workforce, an estimated 481,950 veterans will be laid off.
What BS, musk tried to host couple Town Halls via his own twitter and failed. Cause, you know, he fired everyone who knew how to manage global town halls on twitter.
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May Twitter die a slow and drawn out death because it's not the Twitter that worked all those years.
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He cut the staff by 80% which is Interesting because the valuation of Twitter has also dropped by 80%… Elon lost 80% of its value since buying it…. He is an imbecile
I went from several thousand Impressions per day down to between 0 and 100 per day. Pretty much no action.
Where have we heard this before?
But that’s why they need to put better employees at the top who will use the money wisely. Not people who get elected. People who care about the job and the job only.
This is why IMO, MAGAism will eventually collapse of its own weight, as it encourages lone wolves like this nutjob to do their own messaging.
Every pot-bellied meth head with bedbugs in his beard and a red MAGA cap now thinks he's Rush Limbaugh. A million different, semi-literate messages and zero messaging discipline. Just chaos.
Tell me how THAT'S going to survive and prevail! Cold comfort maybe, but it's something
Had to refresh constantly to get the feed to work, spammy ads, uptick in Anti-Semitism, and a reporting system that thought "kill a n*ggers" didn't violate standards cause it used an asterisk.
Reminder for the people, the military is chock full of government employees
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Great work, Elonia.
The self-debasement in which people are willing to engage in order to justify greed just sicken me...🤮
Musk is a living definition of the phrase Sunk Cost Fallacy.
The Government is NOT a social media company.
The Government is NOT focused on revenues and profitability.
You can't apply ruthless business principles to The Government.
You find efficiencies with a scalpel, not a chainsaw.
Billionaires are NOT the good guys.
So it follows that....
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/technology/twitter-outages-elon-musk.html
These people are mental to a degree it's almost unfair to call them humans
Here's a chart of Twitter's quarterly revenue from 2012 to 2024. Guess when Musk took over...
He doesn’t even livestream major events on X, like his vaporware 2 seat robotaxi looping around a movie set in California.
maybe that makes it easier to lie to everybody else
maybe we should try it lol
i wanna win! this is already too oppressive