Twitter and Musk

Discussion in 'Politics' started by VicBee, Oct 31, 2022.

  1. UsualName

    UsualName

    This guy just doesn’t understand public relations. Why he bent on tanking Tesla stock to own the line is beyond me.
     
    #1131     Dec 28, 2022
  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #1132     Dec 28, 2022
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #1133     Dec 28, 2022
  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    I don't care much for Krugman but he has certainly taken Musk out to the woodshed in his recent column.

    Economist Paul Krugman trashes Elon Musk as being unable to care for a cat much less a company
    https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-tesla-downfall/

    After the swift downfall of Twitter leadership, investors appear to be bailing on Elon Musk's other company, Tesla. The company's stock closed at just $110 on Tuesday, and Forbes reported that they'd lost $800 billion over the course of the year. With China, Tesla's top market, dealing with the pandemic, few are thinking about buying a Tesla.

    New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman compared Tesla to cryptocurrency, which has some brands that have slowly collapsed over the year as well.

    Writing Tuesday, Krugman asked whether the company was ever all that to begin with. He compared it to companies like Apple, Microsoft and other big tech giants that have a market for continuous purchases like apps, devices, music and more. Tesla, he argued, is a one-trick pony.

    While Tesla managed to make the electric vehicle a fad, GM and Ford are now entering the competition. Companies like Volvo and Kia are at work to ensure that their cars can meet the "American-made" requirement for the EV tax credit.

    "It's hard to see what would give Tesla a long-term lock on the electric vehicle business," Krugman wrote.

    A significant portion of Tesla's popularity came from the "cool guy" attitude of Elon Musk and the rest came from liberal environmentalists eager to do their part to cut down on carbon emissions. Over the course of just six months, Musk has eliminated both through his Twitter leadership allying himself with the far-right, Russia and becoming more uninspiring.

    "And as I said, there’s a parallel here with Bitcoin," wrote Krugman. "Despite years of effort, nobody has yet managed to find any serious use for cryptocurrency other than money laundering. But prices nonetheless soared on the hype, and are still being sustained by a hard-core group of true believers. Something similar surely happened with Tesla, even though the company does actually make useful things."

    "I guess we’ll eventually see what happens. But I definitely won’t trust Elon Musk with my cat," Krugman told readers.

    Read the full column at the New York Times.
     
    #1134     Dec 28, 2022
  5. I sold half my puts on.TSLA.....could see a massive.short.covering before year end haha....

    still looking for below $100 soon.... Musk.cant help himself....
     
    #1135     Dec 28, 2022
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  6. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Musk's Twitter becomes the Southwest of the Internet since Wednesday. In related news, Twitter has been frantically begging engineers it fired to come back in the past 24 hours.

    Twitter outage: Elon Musk says ‘works for me’ as users report problems with website
    The technical failure comes after mass layoffs at the tech firm following its takeover by Elon Musk
    https://www.theguardian.com/technol...e-with-many-unable-to-log-into-website-or-app

    Twitter suffers outage amid Elon Musk making ‘significant’ backend server architecture changes
    https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/28/twitter-down-outage/

    Twitter suffers global outage, remains unavailable for thousands of users
    https://interestingengineering.com/culture/twitter-suffers-global-outage

    Twitter Users Report Errors, Disruption from New York to Tokyo
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-users-report-errors-disruption-023957775.html

    Twitter suffers partial outage in another blow to Musk
    https://www.smh.com.au/technology/t...-in-another-blow-to-musk-20221229-p5c9at.html

    Twitter users report app ‘finally broken’ as thousands face suspected global outage
    Elon Musk purchased the social media giant for $44billion in October and has since faced an onslaught of issues.
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1714788/twitter-down-elon-musk-global-outage-ont
     
    Last edited: Dec 29, 2022
    #1136     Dec 29, 2022
  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #1137     Dec 29, 2022
  8. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #1138     Dec 29, 2022
  9. #1139     Dec 29, 2022
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  10. Just doing a quick check here to see if GWB has reported on the up move in TSLA today after having religiously reported every down tick for weeks.

    Nope. I don't see anything.

    Situation normal.
     
    #1140     Dec 29, 2022