Gulliver Foyle
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Merged Musk buys Twitter!/ Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold....
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Trebuchet
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Unlikely. It would involve working for a living, something Tucker Swanson Carlson has no concept of.
Don't go boycotting TV dinners, however, Tucker's uncles sold the company off years ago.
Gord_in_Toronto
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That is not how you spell "Elon Musk" backwards.
arthwollipot
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jeremyp
Philosopher
Not unless she has had a radical change of heart with respect to the transgender community.
What could possibly go wrong with the owner being the CTO, and with his well known love of meddling in engineering decisions, especially software engineering?
He will still be "exec chair" - all he means is that he's found some frontperson to take the flack for his crap.
Yup
Linda Yaccarino of NBCU.
Ah so he's hired a head of sales.
TurkeysGhost
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Probably the right choice. I don't know anything about this person specifically but a advertising sales exec sounds right. Twitter is first and foremost a company that makes money off selling advertising.
I imagine a person with experience in sales fully understands just how bad the recent changes to Twitter have been to that core business model.
It remains to be seen if Elon can manage to get out of his own way to try to return this business to something approaching a workable business model.
Given that fixing things would require reversing many of his most notable and publicized changes, I imagine that any new CEO won't be truly granted the freedom needed to try to save this disaster.
All of Elon's right wing buddies love that he's their #1 customer complaint contact for when Twitter isn't boosting their content appropriately, and they'll absolutely turn on them if he tries to abandon this post. Elon's made a deal with the devil and they won't forgive him if he tries to back out.
Elon famously can't code for ****. I feel bad for any actual software engineers who will have to work under his guidance, assuming he's serious about focusing on leading the technical side of things.
I'm sure his approach of looking at how many lines of code Twitter's coders had written and keeping those who had written the mode was both the obvious and best way of choosing the most productive coders, and there's no chance that inefficient bloated code would be produced compared to slim, more maintainable code.
angrysoba
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angrysoba
Philosophile
Elon Musk is trying to assuage Luke Rudkowski. Remember him? The guy from We Are Change, the 9.11 Truther site.
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Good to know she will be the one in charge....
The Great Zaganza
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Oh yeah - she will have the last say in all matters that Elon doesn't want to micromanage m
And I'm sure she will have retrospective responsibility for everything he ***** up.
Sweepstake - just over a year.
jeremyp
Philosopher
Not convinced Twitter will last a whole year. Apparently, when he took over, Musk found out that Twitter had $13 billion of debt with very little chance of being able to service it.
Yaccarino is likely to be the Dmitry Medvedev of Twitter.
Gulliver Foyle
Philosopher
Apparently it is. D'oh.
Checkmite
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So functionally no actual difference, then?
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