Dan GoodinA reminder to all the hangers on still using the wretched bird site: Twitter was never a public square. It was the private property of a for-profit business that was beholden to no one other than its shareholders. Now it has been taken over by a sociopath. Get over it. Move on!
Locksmith@dangoodin Before, there was at least the intent of integrity and service through the profit. Now, there is only the intent of Elmo.
@locksmithprime Wait, how was there intent of integrity and service? Twitter's intent has always been profit, no matter what the means. Maybe at times integrity and service were the means Twitter management chose, but there are plenty of other ways to derive profit.
@dangoodin An intent, not necessarily executed. They did hire people to deal with safety, trust, dissemination of false information, etc. Whether those people actually had any power...
🌲🧿 "Max"t💽d🏵️n 🔎🍄@locksmithprime @dangoodin Not really...Jack Dorsey was a giant asshole billionaire as well...& he made HORRIBLE decisions regularly (his latest one...choosing Elon Musk to "take over" & saying he is the "right person" to do so).
@MaxPow3r11 @dangoodin Whatever good he did, he erased with that take on Elmo.
@locksmithprime @MaxPow3r11 Jack had no choice but to accept Elmo's bid. By law, Jack had to do whatever brings the highest shareholder value. That's why Twitter never was a public square and why it was a mistake for people to think otherwise.
@dangoodin @MaxPow3r11 And then he had to ruin the rest of his reputation by licking elmo's software-locked li-ion batteries.
Matt Waters@dangoodin @locksmithprime @MaxPow3r11 Jack encouraged Musk to buy Twitter well before the firm offer with commitment letters.
The board had no great wiggle room to reject afterwards. But yeah, Jack didn't have to solicit the bid beforehand. Jack himself doesn't even benefit personally from the bid since he's a continuing shareholder. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/30/elon-musk-texts-twitter/
dsic@locksmithprime @dangoodin there's not even an intent of profit any more it seems looking at how he drove away advertiser's.
@dsic @dangoodin I meant, an intent before Elmo. Elmo only cared and only cares about Elmo. Twitter is the Elmo version of Truth Social.
MaybeMyMonkeys@locksmithprime @dangoodin only in so far as the bird used it to brand itself that way. It is under new management and rebranded.