all is well! remain calm!

How did Rupert Murdoch get secret information from the Saudis that could potentially have a major effect on the US economy in a negative way? Mystery of the century there.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitters-revenue-adjusted-earnings-fell-about-40-in-month-of-december-ee91f1eb

Twitter’s Revenue, Adjusted Earnings Fell About 40% in Month of December

The company recently made a first interest payment to banks that lent $13 billion to help pay for Elon Musk’s buyout, people familiar with the matter said

The Wall Street Journal

it amazes me Musk thinks birdsite can threaten a company that's part of FAANG. fucking get out

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musk-delayed-paying-twitters-amazon-cloud-bill-sparking-ad-threat

Musk Delayed Paying Twitter’s Amazon Cloud Bill, Sparking Ad Threat

Elon Musk is running into an obstacle in his relentless drive to cut costs at Twitter: some of the same vendors that Twitter is squeezing to save money are also its advertising clients. As recently as last month, Twitter sales and marketing staff were told by their colleagues that Amazon had ...

The Information

can't share revenue if there isn't any

ofc even if he was making money elom would use accounting tricks to keep from paying out any of this shit

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/23623927/twitter-blue-ad-revenue-one-month-missing

Elon Musk’s ad revenue split for Twitter Blue is still missing, one month later

A month ago, Elon Musk said that Twitter had started sharing ad revenue with creators. So far, there are very few signs that’s actually been happening.

The Verge
Elon's a master of 2, 4, and 5
🥳

long tweets are getting even longer lol

Fuck yes, make it long enough to galtse people

Sacking the kiddie porn team is a special kind of evil

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64804007

"Current and former employees of the company tell BBC Panorama that features intended to protect Twitter users from trolling and harassment are proving difficult to maintain, amid what they describe as a chaotic working environment in which Mr Musk is shadowed by bodyguards at all times."

Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk

Current and former employees of the company say there are serious ramifications from mass lay-offs.

BBC News

"He believes this lack of trust is betrayed by the level of security Mr Musk surrounds himself with.

"Wherever he goes in the office, there are at least two bodyguards - very bulky, tall, Hollywood movie-[style] bodyguards. Even when [he goes] to the restroom," he tells me.

He thinks for Mr Musk it's about money. He says cleaning and catering staff were all sacked - and that Mr Musk even tried to sell the office plants to employees."

lmfao

Article: elon musk has made Twitter a safe haven for pedophiles and other sex abusers

Elon: sorry not sorry 🤣🤣

"Anyone who can best the CEO in hand-to-hand combat" may seem barbaric and harsh, but the Delaware Chancery Court has operated under these traditions since time immemorial

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bodyguards-follow-elon-musk-everywhere-at-twitter-hq-even-to-restroom-says-engineer

Bodyguards Follow Elon Musk Everywhere at Twitter HQ, Even to Restroom, Says Engineer

The bodyguards are “tall” and “bulky” like something out of a Hollywood movie, a Twitter engineer said.

The Daily Beast

"'you have been found guilty by the court of musk, based on the compelling evidence of 'my friend said so'. the sentence is death."

A group of gaggling paid for blue check mark idiots cheering on Elon Musk suspending the creator of a video because they didn’t want some clout chasing account using it without permission is really a perfect encapsulation of how art is treated in general in America. How fucking dire

yeah I totally remember all those times that Twitter shit itself to death on a monthly basis before Musk bought it, thinking back to all those times that jack shrugged and complained about his company's brittle coding stack, definitely a thing that happened all the time back in 2021 and before

also lol when has a complete code refactor ever successfully solved these sort of structural problems? You can't program around having fired all your competent coders.

Getting chirped by a hockey mascot
If there was ever a phrase that is a dead giveaway that you no longer have a functional testing environment and push all your code changes directly to the live site, it's definitely "a small API change had massive ramifications"

little baby bitch boy musk afraid of his own employees lol

Kinda wondering if Elon is just suffering from amphetamine paranoia or if he's actually worried about getting bonesawed by the Saudis who he owes all that money to.

Probably both.

they are getting paid in exposure

Twitter is only one website therefore it only needs one site reliability engineer

https://www.platformer.news/p/how-a-single-engineer-brought-down

How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday

The high cost of cutting expenses

Platformer
who's gonna oust him at twitter though? he dissolved the board.

gonna post all my content on the site that won't take DMCA requests seriously, fuck yeah

and surely the guy that won't pay rent will pay me for my content

Who would have thought that Elon would rush to the defense of people who copy/paste other people's stuff and pass it off as their own?

i'm sure the replies are full of empathetic folks offering words of support, now to scroll down...

this guy was iceland's person of the year in 2022, has done more productive work and more good for humanity than elon by a wide margin

and is currently getting mocked by the richest man in the world and his hooting apes as though he's an Engineer-1 who's trying to bluster through a code review (which would still be incredibly assholish behavior by elon and co)

Does elon delete these tweets when he realizes he's cry-laughing at a person with muscular dystrophy who has won national awards both for his design work and also his material contributions to equality and disability causes? Nope.

This is an incredible level of shitty behavior and being an abhorrent human being, even for Elon. Holding his contract hostage after taking his company and making him grovel in public to determine if he gets paid what his contract owes is some next level psychopathy.

This guy took a salary for the sale of his company so he’d pay the maximum tax in Iceland vs a lump sum, so he’s probably owed a lot of money.

I’m sure with the way courts have ruled in Elon’s favor this guy will get what he’s owed.

Elon has just made an enemy of the entire nation of Iceland.

"After my website completely shat the bed for 2 hours today, I decided to pick a fight and publicly humiliate a disabled former employee, who is also a well known and highly esteemed philanthropist, for the crime of asking why no-one in HR had even replied to his email asking if he was fired.

Just another day as a gigachad CEO"

peep the replies if you wanna see some seriously depraved bullshit from the musk stans
From Iceland — Elon Musk Mocks Iceland In SNL Sketch

What do you do when you’re a billionaire and signed up for a sketch on Saturday Night Live? Right –...

The Reykjavik Grapevine

"Sir, do you even know what a Figma is?"

"No, what's a Figma with you? Rolling laughing emoji with tears streaming down it's face."

"Sir, did you just--"

"You're fired. You fucking moron."

Love saving my company $500k and sucking on the pudgy toes of my favorite CEO in exchange for a grand slam breakfast

Not at all surprised by musk's treatment of Halli as it seems very typical of his personality. I find it a lot harder to read all the musk sycophants jumping in to insult him. just so fucking gross

Holy fucking shit if that isn't clear cut discrimination and fucking hate crimes against someone disabled.

Like dude just daily somehow keeps digging fucking deeper into the bedrock and keeps fucking finding new lows.

Just fuck you Elon, fuck you.

He is genuinely the biggest piece of shit in the world, jesus christ.

I get why that kid pushed him down a flight of stairs and put him in the hospital in elementary school now.

motherfucker seriously believes designers have to code

Here's some background on Hali's alleged deal with Twitter, taken from ResetEra's Musk thread:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-twitter-drama-ot-let%E2%80%99s-keep-it-here-parody-%F0%9F%94%B5-official-%EA%95%A4.649272/page-631#post-102287260

Sounds like he's owed a rather large amount of money over time as compensation for pre-Musk Twitter acquiring his company, and Musk is trying to stiff him

Elon Musk Twitter Drama |OT| Let’s keep it here. (Parody) 🔵 Official ꕤ

yeah, that's how code works my guy Oh so the company you bought for $40 billion has bad engineering and poor ad targetting and tanking relationships with advertisers. Maybe you should have vetted it first?

ResetEra

This information matches what's been reported in this BBC article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64871183

I sincerely hope that the dude has a contract like resetera states and it then gets a goddamn country to sue Twitter for breaking contract and drags him over the coals. Dude deserves way better then how's he's being treated

Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?

In a viral Twitter thread, Halli Thorleifsson is asked by Elon Musk what work he has done for the firm.

BBC News

The guy didn't even insult Elon or slight him at all, and Elon just openly, in front of God, the Meme Community, and everyone viciously shit talked this dude for daring to speak to him.

This is a new nadir, even for Elon. Proper Twilight Zone shit seeing that all play out in public. Of all the things that have happened this in particular has left me reeling, like it’s too surreal to have actually happened in our reality.

Dude trying to find out if he’s still employed because no one will answer him and he’s basically treated like a cat toy by Musk and his stans. He wasn't badmouthing Elon or attacking Twitter, continually said that Elon had every right to lay him off, etc. The reaction of Musk and his fans is insane and so defensive. Right to victim mode, the poor helpless billionaire being bullied by the mean disabled former employee.

What is a poor Elon to do but make a complete ass of himself in public instead of just sorting this internally, like a normal company would?

Why Apple and co would continue to advertise on this platform is beyond me. There comes a point where the public antics of the very ingratiated figurehead reflect on you if you’re putting money in their/his pocket.

Oh hey look, it gets worse. The guy posts a picture of himself, in a wheelchair because...well he's in a wheelchair, and the Elon fans' response is about as level headed and friendly as you would expect

I did an instant follow on the Icelandic dude and he is slamming Elon into the ground

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1633082707835080705.html

Thread by @iamharaldur on Thread Reader App

@iamharaldur: Hi again @elonmusk 👋 I hope you are well. I’m fine too. I’m thankful for your interest in my health. But since you mentioned it, I wanted to give you more info. I have muscular...

The Elon stans are even worse than you could imagine

His lawyer must've given him the go-ahead to drag Elon through the mud

Get his ass

remember how he made a joke about the automated new manager training notification he got after buying twitter? maybe he should have taken it

then again they probably wouldn't put in "Don't fire someone and then in a public forum say you did it because you think they're faking a disability" because no one thought it needed to be said

Just fake news all around, spread by a nazi, then boosted by Musk

-the woman in the video he's replying to is a Dutch far-right provocateur
-the farmer she's talking about isn't a farmer and doesn't live in the province he claims to live in
-he stole the story from facebook where it was posted by another guy, an actual farmer who was also lying
-No farmers have been forced to stop, and certainly not for the reason she claims (Dutch Debunk: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1633057193535631361.html )

Truly inscrutable politics~

Thread by @tiesjoosten on Thread Reader App

@tiesjoosten: Hoi Eva, Ik zag onderstaande tweet (4,5 mln views inmiddels). Samen met @jsdaalder heb ik even onderzocht wat hier aan de hand is. Spoiler: je verhaal klopt niet. Een draadje🧵 1) Misschien heb je het...…

Being the CEO means stoking J6 conspiracies and mocking disabled people

"I sleep at Twitter, do you?"

"No I sleep in my house, with my wife."

“I have 2 kids. I see them every day. I recommend that.”

just because you're in a wheelchair doesn't mean you can't dunk

"You see the problem with this world is that corporations don't have enough freedom to fire and public humiliate workers"

Arguments about disability and what work he has done aside, it seems pretty clear that he is being paid for the sale of his company. He is pretty much collecting paychecks as an installment plan, so any work he accomplishes at all is gravy, frankly. I hope they have to pay the guy an exorbitant amount for breaking contract.

The case with the Iceland guy might go a bit different than other cases it seems:

https://nitter.net/anotherglassbox/status/1633128682641293317

Dan Seljak (@anotherglassbox)

wow. the guy, Halli, that Elon Musk has been mocking is not only a class act, but was literally on a list of "do not fire" VIPs because of how expensive his exit package was (likely because, if what Halli's other tweets say are true, Twitter acquired his company for a good price)

Nitter

Further down in the quoted thread, they link to a part of the article that says Halli elected to receive the buyout payment for Ueno as a salary, rather than as a lump-sum buyout, because the latter would be taxed as capital gains (less) and Halli was fine with paying salary income taxes (more) because he'd benefitted from the Icelandic social system and wanted to give back at that level instead.

https://nitter.net/_ElizabethMay/status/1633127286680563712#m

Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick (is away working) (@_ElizabethMay)

bahahahahahahahahaha ohhhhhh my.

Nitter
Which explains why Elon thinks he was doing nothing (he's just sitting there collecting a paycheck!!!) and also makes this all the more hilarious, since they literally can't stop paying him until the buyout amount is met. I'm sure that's why Halli keeps saying "are you going to pay me as agreed in the contract," I'm sure the contract was basically written up to say they pay him a salary at least until the buyout amount is met

(which was probably an 8 figure amount in USD, based on estimates of what the company was worth at the acquisition), or there was some early payout with a penalty. Ueno was purchased in January 2021, how much of his share of the buyout could he have received as salary in the last two years?

I have no idea what the outcome of this will be but I hope the very nice Icelandic guy continues to infuriate Musk for a while.

even the dogecoin guy was telling him it's not a good look and he still doubled down... now its deleted

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633147320056557569?cxt=HHwWgsDR3ba1jaotAAAA

lol if one of the lawyers tackled him and wrestled his phone away

"Read between the lines, the guy baited Elon big time and Elon fell for it like the gigantic stupid asshole that he is"

Work being lines of code, I assume

The big payout being the one that he’s contractually owed lol

Yeah love getting to know Elon through questions like “hey can you have HR call me it looks like I’m fired but no one will talk to me” and getting such insightful insights into Elon as “likes to make an idiot out of himself”

Twitter is still good for some things

The article that that is from seems to have been taken down. luckily its still up on the internet archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20220610161154/https://www.yahoo.com/now/stern-south-african-childhood-fuelled-152910283.html

Trump’s usage of Twitter gave me a constant headache but he at least just wanted to use it to projectile diarrhea his stream of consciousness all over the place. Elmo tries to do the same thing but then also tries to mix it up like a 2006 forums poster everyone hates. Can’t summon up the willpower to disengage and tries to roll with the punches.

Stern South African childhood fuelled Musk's ambition, says father

Elon Musk knows how to dominate a news cycle, but for all the coverage of the world's richest man, the tech billionaire's early life in apartheid-era South...

Yahoo
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Courtney Milan 🦖 (@courtneymilan)

It’s fascinating that some people think that Mosk is somehow gaining cred in his fight with Halli, who gets characterized as a “bitter” employee when the reality is that Halli needed a clear statement that Twitter had breached their acquisition contract.

Nitter

you have to be a psychopath to get as much money as Elon has. any decent person will drop out to do whateverthefuck makes them happy long before hitting the multi-billion mark. Halli looks to be a fantastic example of someone doing exactly that.

a "normal" person would be absolutely wrecked by being personally responsible for a mass layoff and all the pain that brings to the people affected. you have to enjoy hurting people to choose being a CEO when you have enough money for several lifetimes

Yeah, I can entirely see Elon’s smooth brain thinking he can disparage this guy on Twitter and it will get him out of paying the millions he’s owed for selling his company.

Meanwhile some junior partner probably busted into the law office like the kid from the matrix "elon just fired haraldur"

https://www.icelandreview.com/news/haraldur-thorleifsson-sweeps-person-of-the-year-awards/

Haraldur Þorleifsson Sweeps Person of the Year Awards

Haraldur Þorleifsson, known as Halli, has swept several Person of the Year awards in Icelandic media. Ramp Up Iceland...

Iceland Review

"the FTC also asked the company to “identify all journalists” granted access to company records"

"The agency asked Twitter to describe the “nature of access granted each person” and how allowing that access “is consistent with your privacy and information security obligations under the Order.” It asked if Twitter conducted background checks on the journalists, and whether the journalists could access Twitter users’ personal messages."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-investigation-ftc-musk-documents-db6b179e

TrumpMusk: "RIGGED INVESTIGATION"

FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk’s Internal Communications, Journalist Names

Documents obtained by a House panel shed light on the probe into Twitter’s compliance with settlement

The Wall Street Journal

"UNCONSTITUTIONAL WITCH HUNT"

"PHONY RINO"

jesus christ his tweets are indistinguishable from trump now, just more boring

*musk looks out his window and sees a growing crowd of drooling disability litigation lawyers like a walking dead scene*

Disability stuff isn't anything you want to fuck with if you make it very obvious you fired someone with money for disability reasons. And Musk was dumb enough to comment exactly on this on twitter and is preserved forever.

Told by who exactly? The voices in his head?

"Why didn't anyone tell me the dumb shit I was making up to attack my posting enemies wasn't true?!"

Also "upon learning I have committed many crimes and he has done nothing wrong I would like to say it was all just a silly misunderstanding"

@cspam Wasn't it less than a year ago he was declaring himself "politically moderate"? Here propping up Max Right-hole himself, Charlie Kirk. Psychotic.
@cspam Several lifetimes is even underplaying it, multiple thousands of years would count as "several civilisations".

@cspam so many guys who got metoo'ed ... excuse me, WHAT THE FCK

how can this man keep getting worse so relentlessly

@chancerydaily @cspam
Four years of watching trump gave him a blueprint?

@cspam That interview with his father is wild. This says so much: “ He said that even as a pre-schooler, Elon had set his sights on becoming the wealthiest man alive, crediting that uber-macho "South African boy" upbringing with driving his ambition.

"It's part of the way we lived, the way I lived. We strove to be the best we could," he told AFP in an interview…”

@fsinn It probably helped that his dad owned a emerald mine.
@JoCzechowska Taught that “best” means “richest”. How very sad.
@cspam Anybody note Edgelord is describing himself in great detail here?
@cspam Agreeing with an idiot, shows there are two. Especially if neither knows all the facts.
@cspam stone cold murder, love it
@cspam haha elon just apologised, guess someone asked the lawyers
@cspam Yep. Who couldn’t see this one coming? He’s doing everything possible to promote far right propaganda, at the worst possible time.
@cspam Musk turns out to be a quite despicable fellow traveler. Well have I ever, who'd have thunk! 🙄
@cspam I guess he didn't attend it.