Taylor LorenzJul 18, 2023
“It sure is funny that the CEO of a business based on serving ads to an audience that is 99.8% non-subscribers is saying that any metrics including those numbers are untrustworthy and shouldn’t be counted! Wonder how the advertisers feel about this!” https://www.zenofdesign.com/in-which-elon-pays-people-to-be-his-friend/
In Which Elon Pays People To Be His Friend – Zen Of Design

Show thread2xfoJul 18, 2023

@taylorlorenz

"Elon Musk’s reign running Twitter has been a cavalcade of failure ever since he walked into Twitter HQ carrying a sink, "

It was a bathroom sink. He failed to make a coherent practical pun as his kickoff. This was prescient.

Show threadFeralRobotsJul 18, 2023
@RnDanger
Honestly I've never been sure what the pun was supposed to be (which I guess reinforces your point) - he said 'let that sink in', but I also heard variations on 'sinking feeling,' 'kitchen sink' & 'down the drain'.
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@FeralRobots
Maybe it's the "covfefe" of practical punnery 🙃
Jul 18, 2023 at 7:29pmWeb
Show threadFeralRobotsJul 18, 2023
@RnDanger
I think he does a lot of that, just either blurting stuff out & retconning it as a joke, or throwing a bunch of shit out there & mugging until people laugh.
Show threadFeralRobotsJul 18, 2023
@RnDanger also I shouldn't miss the chance to promote one of the more underrated caper-comedies of all time, _That Sinking Feeling_.
https://youtu.be/Gs7KF0hLUQQ
Mark Kermode reviews That Sinking Feeling (1979) | BFI Player

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