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James Gleick“Better to talk to people than communicate by tweet.”
The former tech giant known as Twitter has a new company motto.
Fraser Smith 🏴@JamesGleick I wonder if that video call was preceded by a video call from the legal team. 🙂
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Kévin ⏚@FrasSmith @JamesGleick I imagine it was one that they stressed how fucked they are right now and he can't just dodge it like every other person suing him right now
John Goerzen@FrasSmith @JamesGleick I've been suspecting something along those lines. Halli asked if they'd pay him what is owed under his contract. Large early termination penalty after being acquired maybe? I don't think anything but money would change Elon's mind
Jón Grétar@jgoerzen @FrasSmith @JamesGleick yeah. Halli took the payment for his company in the form of wages. Because he wanted to pay full tax for it. There is a reason Halli was chosen the man of the year by every media outlet.
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist@JamesGleick This drips with irony. OMFG.
@JamesGleick Oh, wait! I think this is the definition of self satire also.
Of course, I am replying via toot.
William Robison@JamesGleick maybe it's just cause I am old enough to be his father (and thanking God I am not). When he said “Better to talk to people than communicate by tweet.” I said well no shit sonny.
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5@JamesGleick This fits in the "small API change" schadenfreude grave Edgelord continues to dig himself into.
Buster McNuttHE'S BRILLIANT
Most Resplendent Bat@JamesGleick what's next, actually telling employees that they're fired?
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵
drdind@JamesGleick after be made a complete ass of himself tweeting
Sar@JamesGleick Ironically, that's exactly what Halli's original tweet was talking about.
Pity Musk finds that out 5,700 fired staff later...
Eliyah Havemann@JamesGleick Took him a lot of public embarrassment to finally getting it.
StefanoGaivota
morph@JamesGleick
@michael Will the complete rewrite he mentioned mean that twitter is gonna be like Skype then?
@michael Will the complete rewrite he mentioned mean that twitter is gonna be like Skype then?
Merijn 👨💻
schoolingdiana@JamesGleick That was some lawyer he talked to! The lawyer should give communication lessons. What an outstanding job! Cut right through the crap and the ego, with a meek-as-a-lamb apology afterwards.
NEight@schoolingdiana @JamesGleick when someone messes up that badly, putting $100 million at risk, exposing oneself to a massive job discrimination lawsuit for mocking necessary adaptive equipment who is employed in a country with actual employee protections with enforcement that cares, and humiliating someone who is not only vital to your core business but also is seen as a national hero in their country...
Yeah, you get your script writers to write an abject and humble apology.
Probably the hardest thing Elon has ever had to pay someone else to do, because you know that level of humility isn't coming from him.
Margaret@JamesGleick @stephenfry This gets funnier and funnier.
Jason Thomas@JamesGleick if it wasn’t real it would be the darkest comedy ever written.
Allen but one of the good ones@JamesGleick As first said by countless companies about their marketing department's twitter account, 1 month after they replaced their customer service numbers with a chatbot on their website 🤣
Mrinappropriate
Seachaint 
@JamesGleick He said, to the former employee that had to use Twitter as a last resort after being ignored through every other medium 
Carson Holzheimer@JamesGleick Such a BS passive aggressive statement. Who do you think has who's number? Why didn't you call Elon?
Matt Franz@JamesGleick Huge if true. 👏
Mikko Alasaarela@JamesGleick Elon said it, so it must be true 🤔
John Brophy@JamesGleick That stood out to me, too. It is absolutely the best quote from this whole debacle. He's wrong about a lot of things, but not that.
humanity404@JamesGleick even fleeting occasional bouts of common sense must be appreciated (even if melon was the last one on the planet to realize this?)
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YurkshireLad@JamesGleick I can’t imagine anyone that would voluntarily want to talk to Musk, except to resolve legal issues.
Mo Edray@JamesGleick especially when “driving” one of his cars
wellactually@JamesGleick the Twitter marketing & brand development department would be aghast if only Twitter still HAD a marketing department.
Kris Samsel@JamesGleick Elon is very stupid. Fires a person with MS. Then treats him like shit. Lucky that 1000 miles are between us. 🔥
stux⚡️@JamesGleick He's such a troll
GB@JamesGleick Twitter admits that Twitter not great place to communicate. News at 11.
DenzX@JamesGleick remember! This only applies when it suits musk most, he still prefers to lay people off without warning.
Michael Tuohy@JamesGleick It just annoys me that there are so many people on Twitter tweeting things like "oh my god, Musk is such a horrible person" but yet continue to use his platform.
At this point using Twitter is the equivalent of using Trump's "Truth" social network.
AJ in Seattle@JamesGleick Pardon my “French” and totally directed at Phony Stark: “No shit, Sherlock!”
Whatsup@JamesGleick Elon the great inventor and investor does it again, if you ever needed an example of someone who has been told how great he is by his cult, only to find out what a moron and terrible businessman he is, here you go 🤷🏻
n3wjack@JamesGleick time to dig up this classic:
ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊@JamesGleick Oh dayum 😬 😂
Lstn2urmama@JamesGleick ...Exactly...the re is so muchbin voice and body language that tells you if you are being hoodwinked ,deceived,lied to or lack of knowledge about subject being discussed...
@JamesGleick Guy is the new Mel Gibson, but doesn't need alcohol to open his inner gates of hell.
ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳🌈The guy who paid $44B so he could shitpost without filters would like you to know that's not the most effective method of communication.
BashCat@JamesGleick Welcome. 🐈
Martin Veart@JamesGleick it cost Musk $42 billion to learn that? Impressive.
Legion0FAnnoying@JamesGleick "Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet"
Word here is tweet.
We fail to realize that he is changing the landscape of what was twitter and the Tweet to X. So what is X now in forms of communication? Twitter was Tweets. He was starkly against Twitter and that's why he bought it.
Think of how in the U.S we are actively changing the word BreastFeed to Chest Feed or Human Feed? When you change the lingustics you change the meaning and usage of something. He's doing this.
Word here is tweet.
We fail to realize that he is changing the landscape of what was twitter and the Tweet to X. So what is X now in forms of communication? Twitter was Tweets. He was starkly against Twitter and that's why he bought it.
Think of how in the U.S we are actively changing the word BreastFeed to Chest Feed or Human Feed? When you change the lingustics you change the meaning and usage of something. He's doing this.
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