Elon’s Latest Moves Highlight Self-Curiosity, Lack of Vision for Twitter’s Future

Truthfully, I don’t see how anyone might nonetheless have religion that Elon Musk has some grand plan for reviving Twitter, nor that he might probably be the ‘singular answer’ to avoid wasting the platform, as once proclaimed by former CEO Jack Dorsey. 

As a result of whereas Elon is considered by many to be a genius, and has performed a key position in making vital advances in varied cutting-edge technical fields, his time at Twitter has solely highlighted the truth that he’s compulsive, erratic, self-interested and self-serving, on the grandest scale, which may solely mirror poorly on his general management in any respect of his firms. 

Take, for instance, Twitter Blue, and his $8 verification checkmark program. Elon doesn’t care about night the taking part in subject and/or giving everybody an opportunity to verify their id, thus bettering the integrity of the app. Elon hates some of the folks that have already got blue ticks, and he wants cash, so he’s re-framed it as some kind of particular deal to get again at these pesky elites who look down upon the frequent folks from their adorned kingdom.

Price noting right here that Elon is (or was) the richest particular person on the planet, the elite of the elite, and he’s promoting you this story to make much more cash. It’s a money seize, for virtually actually nothing further – besides extra revenue for him.

Or what about his choice to ban all accounts that share a live location after his younger son was reportedly accosted by a stalker. That call had nothing to do with bettering the platform, or making it a extra workable, equitable course of. He was upset, he owns the platform, and he modified the foundations, for no different cause than to make himself really feel higher.

Doesn’t that go towards his free speech ethos that he repeatedly harps on about in his tweets? Sure, sure it does – however what Elon desires, Elon will get.

Then there are the stories this week that previous E was upset when his Tremendous Bowl tweets didn’t get as much attention as Joe Biden’s. So upset was Elon that he sparked an all-hands emergency to handle the imbalance, and threatened engineers’ jobs in the event that they couldn’t repair it.

The outcome? Elon’s tweets are actually proven in each customers’ ‘For You’ feed, which Elon himself appears fairly pleased with.

Like, what?

Why do you want this a lot consideration? What previous damages have precipitated you to require adoration and reward at this stage? You might have all the cash on the planet, you would do something, but you spend your time creating memes about your self and forcing individuals to take a look at them.

For $44 billion. Billion, with a ‘b’.

Whereas on the similar time, Twitter continues to fracture beneath the pressure of decreased oversight, together with points with tweet load times, issues with Twitter Blue edits, broken algorithms, advert account errors, and so forth. Twitter itself is more and more being held along with the digital equal of packing tape – but, Elon is sitting in his workplace, calling out ‘who’s the fairest of all of them’ throughout the manufacturing ground.

I assume, in case you have the cash, it’s open season – however certainly even Elon’s strongest supporters are beginning to query his management, and the deity-like view they’ve of him, primarily based on his previous achievements.

That’s a broader concern with Musk’s Twitter management – it’s exposing him for what he’s, and the way he operates, which is clearly spooking Tesla investors.

However then once more, in accordance with Elon:

Might that be true? We don’t know, as a result of Twitter is now not a public firm, and subsequently doesn’t should checklist its efficiency figures. However Elon says it’s. Perhaps it’s. 

Both approach, force-feeding all customers with your personal tweets can’t be a very good factor, certainly this received’t go the way in which Elon expects, and certainly this can be a pink flag to anybody who nonetheless believes in his Twitter plan.

Perhaps. In all probability not. 

Both approach, the Elon Twitter present continues to astound and entertain.