Elon Musk... no different than Trump. Twitter’s Unpaid Bills Threaten to Be an Even Bigger Problem for Elon Musk At least 10 vendors have sued the company, claiming it has not paid them money it owes them. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...eate-another-headache-for-elon-musk#xj4y7vzkg
Undoubtedly... Twitter Really Is Worse Than Ever Under Elon Musk, hate speech has surged and propaganda accounts have thrived. https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-really-is-worse-than-ever/
Just like Trump, Musk does not pay his bills -- especially screwing the small vendors. A business owner suing Twitter over unpaid bills says the company ignored her and answered her with a bot following Elon Musk's takeover https://finance.yahoo.com/news/business-owner-suing-twitter-over-101917437.html
It's Thursday... that means another outage. Just like all the other days of the week. TWIT TWOUBLE Twitter ‘down’ as thousands of users complain app not working in mystery outage TWITTER has reportedly suffered a major outage Thursday morning https://www.the-sun.com/tech/8035389/twitter-down-thousands-users-complain-app/
I don't see "Elon" as an option: "J.D. Power's data show the number of shoppers "very unlikely" to consider an EV purchase in the next 12 months reached 21% in March. That's up 2% from the month before and the highest "very unlikely" response J.D. Power had ever seen. Price and charging were the biggest reasons survey respondents rejected EVs. Of those "very unlikely" and "somewhat unlikely" to consider an EV, 49% cited both "lack of charging station availability" and "purchase price" as reasons for their disinterest in EVs. "Limited driving distance per charge" and "time required to charge" were also frequently cited, with 43% and 41% of respondents, respectively, listing them as factors in avoiding an EV purchase." Credit: J.D. Power Part 2. J.D. Power survey for origin of data Source material...J.D. Power survey Credit: J.D. Power "Demographics are also playing a role in these results. While it may not be surprising that the majority of Boomers[1] and Pre-Boomers aren’t considering EVs, fully one-third (33%) of Gen Z shoppers—the future of the marketplace—say they’re “somewhat unlikely” or “very unlikely.” It is clear in the data that price and charging infrastructure are significant obstacles for a wide spectrum of potential customers."
J.D. Power conducts nearly 200 benchmarking studies annually, drawn from analysis of consumer behavior and market data, that are fully self-funded and fully independent. The firm conducts industry benchmarking studies of hundreds of leading brands in the following industries: automotive, financial services, healthcare, home, insurance, technology, media and telecom, travel and hospitality, senior living, and utilities. The firm does not earn money on its product rankings, although using the logo and referencing results in advertising requires paying a licensing fee. Most of the firm's revenue comes from corporations that seek data for internal use.[26]
That's about as significant as a flea in his world. Try not to focus on minutia. What will you say when he ipo's Twitter and 5 months later... he doubles his money? Allow me to answer. "Sour grapes".
"he ipo's Twitter and 5 months later... he doubles his money" LOL. Twitter is worth pennies on the dollar after Musk ran it into the ground. Even Musk admitted he took at least a 50% haircut on the company. While Musk was recently able to make his second Twitter interest payment; late this year Twitter will likely not able to have the cash to make its payments. At this point, the bond holders will take action. Let's take a look at the grim reality for Twitter's few remaining employees. Musk has failed to pay bonuses and has not given out the stock grants he committed to. Twitter workers fear Elon Musk's promised equity is worthless https://www.businessinsider.com/twi...n-musks-rsu-stock-grants-are-worthless-2023-5 Elon Musk for months has said "excellent" Twitter employees will be rewarded for their efforts. No rewards have come. Instead, bonuses were scrapped, benefits cut and stock grants haven't appeared. Workers already assume any such grants "won't be worth anything." Employees at Twitter are frustrated by Elon Musk's unkept promises. The Tesla billionaire, who took over Twitter six months ago, has for months told remaining employees that they will be rewarded for "excellent" performance, including in the form of restricted stock units. Even those who have been told that they're performing up to Musk's mercurial standards have yet to reap any such rewards. Instead, they've received further cuts to benefits, "nebulous" and "shady" promises of future financial returns, and more work. Some even regularly work 100-hour weeks given the lack of staff and Musk's shifting demands, two people familiar with the company said. Earlier this year several employees received letters of "intent to grant" a certain amount in company stock priced at "fair market value" with no information on price or when grants would be issued, the people familiar said. In March, Musk told employees in an email reported by the newsletter Platformer that Twitter, now part of X Corp., is currently valued at $20 billion, or less than half the $44 billion he paid to acquire it in October. Musk did not share any detail of how that valuation was reached, according to the people familiar. Although, an accurate valuation doesn't matter much right now, since no employees have received any grants of company stock as yet. They still only have the emailed "intent to grant" letters, one of the people familiar said. And, as of this week, there has been "no transparency" into the valuation of the company or pricing of the expected shares. "We're all assuming they may not be worth anything," the person familiar said. "The story was that committing to Twitter 2.0 will be rewarding, but he's failed to deliver." Musk and other representatives of Twitter did not respond to emails seeking comment. Twitter also recently told employees that there will no longer be any cash bonuses given to anyone at the company. Although employees were supposed to receive a payout for bonuses earned last year, none of the bonuses have been funded, the people familiar said. One of the people familiar expressed doubt that performers deemed "excellent" will ever receive anything for their work under Musk and that the "intent to grant" letters were simply an "attempt to retain people." Through layoffs, firings, and attrition, Twitter is now down to roughly 1,000 employees, as Insider reported. Beyond the lack of any financial reward, Musk has continued to drastically cut benefits at Twitter. The latest is paid parental leave, which is now just two weeks, down from a previous paid leave policy of 20 weeks. Outside of that leave period, Twitter employees will be able to take unpaid leave up to the amount mandated by state law. In California, where Twitter is still based, workers are legally entitled to 12 weeks of protected, but unpaid, parental leave. Workers initially learned of the change to the leave policy last month through their managers, the people familiar said. They then realized company documents outlining benefits had been changed, although there was no internal announcement of the change. It created so much consternation among staff that Twitter's new head of HR, Walter Gilbert, who joined from Reddit and earlier worked for Musk at SpaceX, addressed it briefly in a meeting with staff, one of the people familiar said. The person described Gilbert's comments during the meeting as "spin," as he claimed that two weeks of paid parental leave brought Twitter's policy in line with other Musk-owned companies. That appears to be untrue. At Tesla, currently, Musk's only publicly listed company, workers receive 16 weeks, or four months, of paid parental leave, according to its most recent impact report. At SpaceX, which is a private company and makes no such public reports, paid parental leave is said to be four weeks, in addition to whatever is mandated by state law. Musk has fathered 10 known children, including youngest son X, who has been frequently spotted at Twitter's San Francisco offices, according to the people familiar. The billionaire last year said he intended to increase childcare benefits at all of his companies.
Musk's idiocy undermines U.S. elections. New Twitter rules expose election offices to spoof accounts Election administrators across the United States say they’re concerned their offices will be targeted for fake Twitter accounts that'll confuse or mislead voters after the social media platform changed its long-standing verification service https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...pose-election-offices-spoof-accounts-99135914