Dave Troy Jul 3, 2023

Elon is such a liar.

1. Rate limits aren’t how you address scraping. Can easily be done with firewalls.

2. He is intentionally breaking the service.

3. No, it’s not because he didn’t pay a bill; but failing to pay bills is also an intentional, strategic choice.

People need to accept the fact that he is conducting a controlled demolition. The appropriate question then is “why?”

The answer is: to warp the information space.

Show threadKornelJul 3, 2023

@davetroy I don't think he's smart enough to even attempt to "warp the information space".

He bought Twitter by accident, because he wanted to flex.

He's surrounded by a skeleton crew of yes-men incapable of running the site properly or informing him of what is really going on.

He spews 4chan crap, because this gives him a huge applause from the MAGA crowd.

If there's any 4D chess going on, I'd rather bet on him trying to bankrupt Twitter, so that he can get out of the massive debt.

Show threadDave Troy Jul 3, 2023
@kornel no, he didn’t buy it by accident, sorry.
Show threadKornelJul 3, 2023
@davetroy so why did he try to weasel out of the purchase?
Show threadskryJul 3, 2023
@kornel @davetroy Because the value dropped, he wanted to pay less than his first offer.
Show threadskryJul 3, 2023
@kornel @davetroy Also, Tesla stock value suffered as investors balked.
Show threadBrian DearJul 3, 2023
@skry @kornel @davetroy Which Tesla investors balked, exactly? Besides Musk himself, who dumped more than $20 billion of Tesla stock for his Twitter fiasco, in so doing sending the TSLA price plummeting for over a year?
Show threadskryJul 3, 2023
@brianstorms @kornel @davetroy Probably the ones whose stock plummeted for over a year.
Show threadBrian Dear
@skry @kornel @davetroy I take it you’re not familiar with Tesla stock or Tesla investors.
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