Robert GrahamNov 16, 2022
🧵"Twitter 2.0" is trending.
I'm a foremost expert on this and let me tell you what you should do: quit, take the 3 month severance with your friends, and build the 2.0 version yourself. Musk will give up and buy your company in a couple years.
Show threadProf Nisreen Alwan ☀️
@ErrataRob he really has no idea. The value of Twitter is in the people who use it, not the design or the product itself. He’s treating it as if it’s a car. I don’t talk to my car! I don’t share with it stuff and expect to learn from the exchange.
Nov 17, 2022 at 7:43amWeb
Show thread𝚃𝚘𝚖 𝙻𝚊𝚠𝚝𝚘𝚗 Nov 17, 2022

@nisreen @ErrataRob Feels like he's made a classic tech-bro misunderstanding. The tech is not the thing - the conversations and content are, and the people who generate them. And people can move pretty easily.

"All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again."

Show threadIt's Not All About MENov 17, 2022

@nisreen @ErrataRob

Part of his issue is, I believe, that his neurodiversity (he's open about being on the #ASD spectrum) means he is likely to not fully understand, and be poor at, the essential part of the app/company - communication.

Show threadSusan MichieNov 17, 2022
@nisreen @ErrataRob @ClaireMyfanwy … it appears he doesn’t value the people he’s trying to communicate with eg telling his workforce they have to work more intensely for longer hours if they want to stay. Back to the worst employment practices & attitudes of Victorian times.
Show threadIt's Not All About MENov 17, 2022

@SusanMichie @nisreen @ErrataRob

I agree, and is terribly misogynistic, ageist and ableist.

Show threadPhoenixSerenityNov 17, 2022

@ClaireMyfanwy @nisreen @ErrataRob That really bothers me, as a justification. I know so many ppl on the same spectrum & they try their best to utilize supports. He has so many extra supports available that most people on same spectrum can ever dream of accessing. Yet, choosed to hurt & exploit many people.

There's no true justification for choosing evil when you're not actually forced to do so.

Show threadPhoenixSerenityNov 17, 2022
@ClaireMyfanwy @nisreen @ErrataRob justifying his choices to be evil & tying it somewhat to his neuro disability actually harms many innocent disabled people with similar invisible disabilities. Please think about those realistic consequences.
Show threadKeiþ 🔭Nov 17, 2022
@nisreen @ErrataRob you’re right: the most valuable asset of Twitter is the community. To build the technological infrastructure to serve that community isn’t easy but nor is it remarkable either. It simply isn’t the asset.