Public begging? How embarrassing
Yes, it’s so cringe. Honestly, he is like a child. Especially that this is all done publicly.
Desperate times call for desperate measures
He is getting exactly what he wants everyone is talking about him, why do I want to be reminded everyday about how he is?
plz :(
-Elon Musk
His new CEO is desperate as well.
How long until Spez starts parroting that line?
LMAO Twitter’s community has been the cesspool of the internet for ages now and everybody knows it. "On Twitter YOU can be real, as long as you’re real straight,
cis“non-transgendered”, and far right.YOU build the Twitter community
Uhhh… does she know what happened to Twitter during this year lol?
That lady is in so over her head all I see is her hands moving around frantically with that copy paste reply.
We all know she was put in the CEO position to take the fall, she has no way to save or fix anything.
I mean, she’s “right” in that Twitter can’t be duplicated — but it can be made obsolete by better alternatives.
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Nobody’s going to watch long form videos on Twitter as long as YouTube exists
I don’t feel that their system is even designed to share millions of video streams every minute like YouTube
I know that if I have internet connection so shitty that images don’t load on websites for minutes, there are still two websites that somehow manage to squeze videos in that bandwith, and those are YouTube and PornHub, I don’t think Twitter has the same network infrastructure capabilities
I didn’t realize anyone earned anything on Twitter ever. Is this just video views? Is this new?
Also, fuck Musk, etc.
I think it’s new, he decided to add it to attract Tucker Carlson. I don’t know who would watch a whole 20 minute video on their phone though.
I would if i was on a train. I don’t know if I would do it with Twitter’s video player though…
Almost everyone
On the twitter player? lord have mercy.
Who doesn’t?
I just don’t see the reason to do it.
If I have time to watch a 20min video it’s because I’m at home doing nothing and home is where my TV and computers are. If the only thing I have is my phone that means I’m out doing something, so I don’t have time to watch a 20min video.
Good thing your personal experiences are the only possible way to live. For a second there we were dangerously close to self awareness!
Good thing I said “”“I”“” don’t see the reason to do it, as in this is my use case for me personally . For a second there I was dangerously far from saying “No one should ever”
I have a friend who watches entire movies on his phone. It appalls me, but a lot of people do it.
This comes to mind https://youtu.be/wKiIroiCvZ0
Shouldn’t Mr. Musk pay his server bills first?
Or at least its rent.
I thought everything was on the clouds, not on servers
You hire servers to take the orders from clients and bring those orders to the clouds. Then they take the data from the clouds and bring it to the clients. It’s the RESTaurant protocol
How is he going to be able to handle more videos when he has to ration text views because it’s melting his servers.
Substitute “Urges” to “Begs”
Top bad Twitter’s video player is very bad, and Twitter’s but rate is very noticably worse than YouTube.
Also I don’t watch Mr beast so I don’t give a shit in the first place.
You spelt “but rate” wrong. It should be “butt rate”.
Even billionaires are begging MrBeast for shit now, lmao.
Elone will surely pay content creators. He just doesn’t like to pay anyone else.
Except no. If I’m a content creator, what’s the guarantee that he’ll pay me what I’m owed? His previous pattern of behavior in this space is “maybe I’ll pay, maybe I won’t.”
Anybody with half a brain wouldn’t do business with somebody like that.
I get that tech has been different for ages in big part because of the insane investor money coming in, but the industry is starting to maybe be grounded to reality now that interest rates are going up.
Imagine being a small to medium size business and taking on a client or supplier that has a history of not delivering or paying their invoices. Content creators are small to medium businesses and need to operate as such.
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Tech is different because people / regulators don’t largely understand tech, lots of people praise “moving fast and breaking things” and folks like Elone hand wave over things like bills and pat themselves on the back for being “innovators”.
If more people understood that folks like Elone aren’t “business geniuses” any more than criminals already are.
Wish Twitter would just stop existing already. Why do people acknowledge the shitty owner of the site at all? Just keep this scum out the news. Easy.
You need to know which way the shit is floating so you can avoid it.
If Twitter stops existing it will just mean less competition in the social media sphere and help further expand Meta’s share in the market. That’s not a good thing.
Counterpoint: Twitter failing and Elongated Cuck Musk having to maybe face consequences and figuring out how to actually pay some of the $44 billion he bought it for is a good thing.
It would also force people stuck on Twitter onto another platform and possibly lead them to another platform other than Meta.
Competition is good, but poorly run, shitty, unsustainable businesses failing despite the ultra wealthy mongoloids wishing otherwise is also good. It’s very good.
Most people don’t have any fucks to give over who owns what. If its running and convenient to them, they’ll use it.
He’s always been desperate for attention, but now the public sentiment has finally turned against him everything he does just looks sad.
Oh and his memes were always stale AF.
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How is he a fake philanthropist???
Google the definition of the word philanthropist, he’s a pretty on the nail example.
It’s not that he’s a fake philanthropist, it’s that philanthropy itself is bullshit. It’s apologia for wealth.
Alright this is a fair argument, it’s actually pretty true.
I think a lot of people mistake philanthropy for charity, but they are not the same.
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Is that because of a technical definition? I thought he does do a load of good for people. Regardless of whether he also profits from it. Isn’t that sort of a win-win? More reason to give back for him as well. But I don’t watch his videos and don’t know the fine details.
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Can you expand on this?
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Ok, but how is the person they are being generous to not benefiting from this arrangement as well?
maybe you could say that about his YT channel, but he also runs a food bank in his city, right? I don’t think he profits from that, so at least by that token he is a philantropist
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I’m not American, but tax write-offs aren’t free money afaik—you still end up with less money than you started with, had you not started the charity.
But, aside from that, you could say that about any other philanthropist, as most of them don’t get their money from thin air, which means they could use their philanthropy for tax write-offs. If that makes them not philanthropists, then there are no true philanthropists, which makes the distinction between fake and true ones meaningless.
tax write-offs aren’t free money afaik—you still end up with less money than you started with, had you not started the charity.
Exactly. Giving to charity basically just offsets the amount of income you’re taxed on. To give a really simplified example, say I’m making $100,000 per year and I’m taxed at 25%, so I pay $25,000 in taxes. But if I give $10,000 to charity and write that off on my taxes, I would be taxed as if I made $90,000 in the year, so I’d pay $22,500 in taxes.
Of course it gets really complicated when you own a business as well as your own tax-exempt charitable foundation and you distribute your money by donating to your own foundation…
He’s philanthropic in the same way Extreme Home Makeover is…
When your philanthropy is just enough to offsett your taxes and you still get to make money off of the assets you donate until the term of the trust expires, then is it really philanthropy? Not to mention, a lot of the time the “charity” they donate the assets to are run by them indirectly, and it’s then impossible to track where the money goes after that.
Donate your stock to a charity through a trust before you sell it. You get a tax break that year for the donation. The trust sells the asset and is tax exempt so no capital gains tax. You take 5% every year as that amount appreciates from investing it. Only pay regular income tax on that which you wrote off with another “donation”. Make your money back over 15-20 years, then make a profit until the trust expires, or you do and then your kids make the profit. Charity gets whatever is leftover after the trust term expires.
Just one example of why “philanthropy” is usually still making profit for them, maybe slightly less profit in some cases than they could have made with it otherwise, but considering they already have more money than the next 100 generations could possibly use, it’s just a small price to pay for the PR.
Yeah I mean you and I are in agreement then, the dude who coined the term philanthropy literally did it to get positive press while his company did some really terrible borderline illegal union busting. It’s not like calling someone a good person it a descriptive word.
Damn, I thought I was on r/funny for a second then I remembered reddit didn’t exist
