Maybe That Bankruptcy Threat Wasn't A Hollow One This Time

Musk came into twitter ownership with a hard directive: Cut, cut, cut.

Now, bills aren't getting paid. They're renegotiating software contracts, stiffing travel bills, ghosting vendors, finagling land leases. (the lights are still on, fwiw)

w/ @RMac18 https://t.co/DWX3Kzxlvi

— rat king 🐀 (@MikeIsaac) November 22, 2022

Or maybe firing everybody without paying attention to who does what (except the engineers, and then only a few of them) wasn't such a brilliant business plan?

Vox Populi, Vox Dei

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) November 22, 2022

I wasn't thinking of the poll, but of this:

example of depressing yet informative tweet: pic.twitter.com/AT2X8cbhv8

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) November 22, 2022

"Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit": "And do not listen to those who keep saying, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God', because the tumult of the crowd is always close to madness." --Alcuin of York, 735-804. Pretty much the sentiment of the "Founding Fathers." They weren't wrong.

More than a third of Twitter’s top 100 marketers have not advertised on the social media network in the past two weeks, a Post analysis found — an indication of the extent of skittishness among advertisers about Elon Musk’s control of the company. https://t.co/g5LfAyet0Q

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 22, 2022

Verified.

Elon Musk Accuses Own Genitals Of Being Far-Left Actor With Axe To Grind https://t.co/otTcGtkZgX pic.twitter.com/iKQgMkbghY

— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 20, 2022

Probably true.