<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 23:56 Chris Frey <<a href="mailto:cdfrey@foursquare.net">cdfrey@foursquare.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 09:48:51PM -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
> A good summary of Twitter under Elon Musk, so far ...<br>
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> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63593242" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63593242</a><br>
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Sure seems like a lot of people hoping he'll fail. :-)</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is more about the erratic behavior and inconsistent stances.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A checkmark was intended to verify identity, to prevent impersonation. Now, for the sake of revenue, anyone gets it. Just pay $8 and pretend to be anyone.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Claims to be a free speech absolutist, yet when some use parody to point out the perils of paid checkmark for all, he bans them.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When companies withdraw ads, he blames activists no his own erratic behaviour or his own retweets of conspiracy theories.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And he bought the company on a whim, for 3X its market value ...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">He may improve Twitter in the long run, like he did with Tesla and SpaceX. But in the meantime, it is all because of his own actions ... </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"></div></div>