Twitter and Musk

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

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading


    On the day that the White House tosses him out the door, Musk gets another black eye when Twitter goes down across the U.S. Maybe his child knocked it out.


    Another black eye for Elon Musk as his $44bn prized possession crashes
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...Elon-Musk-40bn-prized-possession-crashes.html

    Elon Musk has suffered another blow as his $44 billion prized possession has crashed.

    His X platform, which he purchased for the eye-watering amount, is down for thousands of users across the US.

    Downdetector, a site the monitors online outages, shows the issues hit around 3:45pm ET, with users citing problems with the app and website.

    An outage map shows New York City, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles are experiencing glitches with X.

    Users are seeing blank newsfeeds when trying to search the platform and recent posts are not loading.

    The outage comes as Musk showed up to his Oval Office farewell with a black eye.

    The world's richest man claimed he received the injury from his five-year-old son X, saying they were 'horsing around and I told him to punch me in the face.'

    'It turns out a five year old can punch, actually. I didn't really feel much at the time,' he said.

    While Downdetector's outage map showed major cities in the red, it appears the outage is widespread.

    Users have flocked to Downdetector to share their frustrations about X being down, with many saying they have no access in Oregon, California, Utah and Arizona.

    Musk, however, was in Washington DC bidding farewell to the White House.

    Trump thanked Musk for his work at the Department of Government Efficiency as his five-month stint in office came to an end, and added that Musk would be 'going back and forth' between the White House and private life.

    The billionaire was handed a large key by Trump before vowing that DOGE's work slashing the federal government's spending would not end with him leaving.

    He likened his work slashing government spending to a personal form of Buddhism, describing it as a 'way of life' that he hopes permeates throughout the government.

    Musk's role working for Trump was always intended to be a temporary stint, however his departure notably comes after he broke ranks with the White House and trashed its 'Big Beautiful Bill' earlier this week.

    He said he was 'disappointed' in the president for 'undermining' the work he did at DOGE, in a parting shot before saying he was returning to his multi-billion-dollar businesses '24/7.'

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    Musk's X platform, which he purchased for the eye-watering amount, is down for thousands of users across the US. Downdetector, a site the monitors online outages, shows the issues hit around 3:45pm ET with users citing problems with the app and website

    Musk alluded to these complaints in his Friday meeting with Trump, saying his department became the 'DOGE boogeyman' and was unfairly blamed for controversies that weren't his fault.

    Many of the cuts made by DOGE have not been codified, but Trump said at the meeting on Friday he was 'totally committed to making the DOGE cuts permanent.'

    'This is not the end of DOGE, this is really the beginning,' Musk added.

    'The DOGE team will only grow stronger over time. I'm confident over time we will see a trillion dollars of waste and fraud reduction.

    'I think the DOGE team is doing an incredible job, they're going to continue doing an incredible job and I'll continue visiting her and being a friend and adviser to the president.'
     
    #2751     May 30, 2025
  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    X/Twitter -- still the top platform for CSAM content. Musk doesn't even pay the firm which provides detection and moderation software anymore. X/Twitter has stopped even pretending to care anymore -- as unsafe content floods the platform.

    Accounts peddling child abuse content flood some X hashtags as safety partner cuts ties
    Thorn, a nonprofit that provides detection and moderation software related to child safety, said it canceled its contract with X after the platform stopped paying it.
    https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-n...buse-musk-material-thorn-cuts-ties-rcna212107
     
    #2752     Jun 20, 2025
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    After completely destroying her industry reputation, Linda Yaccarino moves on.

    Linda Yaccarino resigns as CEO of X
    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/linda-yaccarino-x-ceo-resign-00443742

    Linda Yaccarino announced she is stepping down from her role as CEO of X in a post on the website on Wednesday.

    “After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of X,” she wrote. “I’m incredibly proud of the X team - the historic business turn around we have accomplished together has been nothing short of remarkable.”

    The former NBC Universal executive joined X in 2023 shortly after Elon Musk took ownership of the social media platform. Musk and Yaccarino had spearheaded an initiative to totally remake the company — which was then known as Twitter — with the tech titan warning the platform was too “woke.”

    Yaccarino praised the company and its owner in her post, and touted the features the company unveiled under her watch — including xAI. xAI is the engine behind its chatbot, Grok, which posted antisemitic content on X on Tuesday.

    But Yaccarino’s resignation was unrelated to the Grok incident, according to a person familiar with her departure who was granted anonymity to speak freely.
     
    #2753     Jul 9, 2025
  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading


    Her future career prospects don't look very bright.

    Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino couldn't turn Elon Musk's business around — because of Elon Musk
    https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-linda-yaccarino-twitter-x-ceo-why-explained-2025-7
    • X CEO Linda Yaccarino lasted two years at her job before announcing her departure.
    • That's much longer than some observers had speculated she would last.
    • That's because running an ad business for Elon Musk — a man with no interest in the ad business — is an impossible job.
    Linda Yaccarino took an impossible job. And she failed at it.

    That's my tweet-length summary of Yaccarino's two-year run at Twitter/X, which she announced via her own Twitter post Wednesday.

    The longer version of my analysis isn't much longer.

    In 2023, Elon Musk brought on Linda Yaccarino to fix his ad business, which he himself had broken after buying Twitter in 2022. And as long as Elon Musk owns Twitter, no one can fix his ad business: It's not big enough to be a must-buy for most advertisers, and his ownership generates potential headaches for any advertiser who thinks about investing money there. It's easier to ignore it, which is what most advertisers do.

    Rather than enumerate all of Musk's erratic approaches to advertising sales — No. 1 on the list, of course, remains his famous "go fuck yourself" pitch back in 2023 — let me sum it up this way: For years, Elon Musk was told that if he just toned down his behavior on his platform, he might have an easier time getting reputation-conscious brands to spend money with him. Instead, he sued them.

    But earlier this year, faced with the prospect that his behavior was tanking sales at Tesla — the company that's made him the richest man in the world — he at least made gestures to respond, telling anyone who would listen that he was going to spend less time on politics and more time running the automaker. (Whether he'll follow through is another matter.)

    That is: If Musk really wanted to make Twitter an ad business, he could have tried. Instead, he kept on doing what he was doing and hoped Yaccarino could clean up his mess.

    "Elon found the requests and requirements to get advertisers back to be tedious," says Lou Paskalis, an ad industry veteran who now works as a consultant via his AJL Advisory business. "But if he wants to understand why advertisers haven't returned, he should look in the mirror."

    I asked X for comment, but haven't heard back.

    Whether Yaccarino could have done better is a different question. At times, she seemed to channel her new boss's penchant for fighting with enemies real and imagined — like her bizarre onstage appearance at the Code Conference in 2023. At other times, she seemed committed to using her Rolodex to work with big brands that would still do business with Twitter, like the NFL.

    You can also debate whether she should have taken the job at all. Remember that Musk essentially announced her hire while she was still at her old job, running ad sales at NBCUniversal, which forced her out right before a crucial sales event. If that's how your new boss treats you before you start your new gig, imagine what it's going to be like when you're actually employed there?

    In retrospect, it seems clear that Musk himself has grown tired of even pretending that Twitter will make real money from advertising. While Yaccarino described her tenure there as a "historic business turnaround," documents the company sent to investors this year suggest that, at best, the company was generating operating profits similar to what it had earned before Musk's takeover — but that ad revenue was still way down since his purchase.

    But the people who gave Musk money this year didn't really care about its ad business, either — they were interested in Twitter's relationship with xAI, Musk's OpenAI competitor.

    That became even clearer in March, when Musk announced that xAI had "bought" Twitter. From an investor's perspective, it's a no-brainer: Who cares about the fortunes of a subscale social media platform, compared to the upside of a Musk-owned AI company during an AI boom?

    That deal may also explain why Musk had almost nothing to say in response to Yaccarino's departure post, beyond a pro forma "thank you for your contributions" response. He's moved on. Now she has, too.
     
    #2754     Jul 10, 2025
  5. VicBee

    VicBee

    You know that article is vindictive trash when they can't get themselves to call the company by its changed name of 2 years ago.
     
    #2755     Jul 10, 2025
  6. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #2756     Jul 10, 2025
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  7. Twitter and Musk are trash.
     
    #2757     Jul 10, 2025
  8. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Little petty Musk took away Yaccarino's blue check mark.

    Former X CEO Linda Yaccarino loses her checkmark after stepping down
    Linda Yaccarino, the former CEO of the social media platform X, has reportedly lost her blue checkmark after she stepped down from her role at the social media company on Wednesday
    https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/former-x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-35536596
     
    #2758     Jul 10, 2025
  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading


    Yaccarino's future looks bleak.

    Yaccarino’s Efforts to Salvage X’s Advertiser Relationships Ended Up Damaging Her Own: ‘People Hate Her Now’
    https://www.mediaite.com/media/news...nded-up-damaging-her-own-people-hate-her-now/
     
    #2759     Jul 11, 2025
  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

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