RussInCheshireJul 1, 2023

How to be An Genius:

1. Pay $44bn for a site worth 1/2 that
2. Sack everyone who knows how it works
3. Release far-right troll army
4. Turn genuine validation into a badge of idiocy
5. Kill most of your ad revenue
6. Inflate API price to recoup money
7. Everyone stops using API and scrapes site instead
8. Massively limit the service to end scraping
9. Service is now unusable
10. Remaining advertising value destroyed
11. Kill a cornerstone of the internet
12. Lose $44bn

Show threadNeil ScottJul 1, 2023

@RussInCheshire

Yeah but, 'disrupting'. Guys an arse, was so predictable he'd royally eff it up

Show threadBen Aveling
@RussInCheshire @Sc0tty sometimes what’s interesting is not the destination but the how you get there
Jul 2, 2023 at 7:53amWeb
Show threadJeremy NichollsJul 2, 2023
@BenAveling @RussInCheshire @Sc0tty The means justify the end?
Show threadBen AvelingJul 2, 2023
@jern @RussInCheshire @Sc0tty they certainly can’t be considered in isolation
Show threadNeil ScottJul 2, 2023

@BenAveling @jern @RussInCheshire

Not sure what Musks meaning to do with Twitter, but he isn’t half making a mess of it

Show threadBen AvelingJul 2, 2023
@jern @Sc0tty @RussInCheshire it’s either 5dimensional chess, or musk’s an idiot who’s bought a ppl business while having neither empathy with nor any understanding of ppl.