If Joseph plays as well as he interviews, Eagles got a good one.

33 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

What are the actual alternatives? What an amazing way it was for these publications to reach thousands if not millions more people than ever would have seen their stuff. One would think they HAVE to replace that somehow, or else its going to have a ripple effect across all media companies and put a hurtin on them.

Theres gotta be something more legitimate than truth social right?

Will it be instagram? Will reporters like Caplan have to do short tik tok videos with dances to advertise the link he wants you to click?

You gotta understand something, folks... *begins to do the swagg bouncee dance"

40 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Sounds like Twitter is about to shut down. It’s going to suck to have to refresh ProFootballTalk or whatever garbage website has rumors 

So that Elon Musk guy paid 40 something billion to buy Twitter only for it to be shut down?

Am I missing something here?

Just now, 315Eagles said:

So that Elon Musk guy paid 40 something billion to buy Twitter only for it to be shut down?

Am I missing something here?

 

Basically what I’ve gathered is going on 

 

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Basically what I’ve gathered is going on 

 

 

 

 

Yeah Twitter isn't shutting down.  Elon is just taking out the trash within the company.  

My conspiracy brain is running wild right now regarding twitter. 

22 minutes ago, DawkinsOwnage03 said:

Quay Walker over and over 

I was a big Quay Walker fan.  I think he's gonna be a stud.

I know Amari Rodgers had some serious fumbling issues but I would have taken a flier on him given the chance.  Texans claimed him

8 minutes ago, schuy7 said:

My conspiracy brain is running wild right now regarding twitter. 

The bottom line is Elon Musk isn’t very bright, but he’s a helluva bankroller. 

15 minutes ago, schuy7 said:

You gotta understand something, folks... *begins to do the swagg bouncee dance"

"These hips are fluid”

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

The bottom line is Elon Musk isn’t very bright, but he’s a helluva bankroller. 

 

16 minutes ago, 315Eagles said:

So that Elon Musk guy paid 40 something billion to buy Twitter only for it to be shut down?

Am I missing something here?

I haven’t been following it all that closely, but the gist is he bought it, made some radical changes, everyone is quitting because they don’t want to work for him and it’s going to eventually crash because they don’t have the engineers to keep it running. 

 

I think Musk is brilliant. And I think a lot of the criticism he has received in the past 2 months or so is undue (namely- his handling of starlink in Ukraine). But thats not for discussion here. My thoughts on that are all in CVON.

But with that said, even the most successful entrepreneurs have major failures and/or missed opportunities. You are never going to get every investment right. Youll miss some that would have exploded huge for you. Or youll buy something that tanks. No matter who you are and how smart.

Initially when I heard Musk was trying to buy Twitter, I assumed he would make it better than ever.

Now, its starting to look like he mis-read the room. Tech is full of young west coast liberals who now find it popular to hate Musk for his more conservative views. They were never going to give in to all of his demands when he walks in there with the kitchen sink and starts trying to tell them to work crazy hours and get back in to the office building. Not only are they inherently unlikely to cooperate with a boss they were pre-programmed to hate, but aside from having completely different ethics and values, they are also in a sector where they are swimming in opportunity. They can quit this job, and have a new high paying job, working remote, before theyd reach the doors to exit their office after telling him to F off.

I think he may have Fd up and misjudged how he needed to handle this group of people. And I dont think its possible to win any of them back.

34 minutes ago, 315Eagles said:

So that Elon Musk guy paid 40 something billion to buy Twitter only for it to be shut down?

Am I missing something here?

I don’t know, it seems like the current employees throwing a temper tantrum more than anything. I’m not the biggest Musk fan, but he’s laying the law down as far as what his expectations are, which he’s well within his rights of doing. It’s his company now and he can do what he wants. I don’t think it’s going anywhere, there’s just a lot of anti-Musk sentiment right now and people are piling on and being dramatic. 

All the twitter gloom and doom is reminding me of Y2K.  Bunch of people getting worked up over nothing.  Twitter is going to be just fine.   Sometimes you have to tear the rot out of the old house before you can start rebuilding again.  

A bunch of candyass millennials walked out of twitter today because Musk took away their free lunches and told them they had to actually put in 40 hours at the office every week instead of working from home.  Sounds to me like he's letting the trash take itself out.

10 hours ago, ManuManu said:

Oh my

Dodged a bullet. 

18 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

I think Musk is brilliant. And I think a lot of the criticism he has received in the past 2 months or so is undue (namely- his handling of starlink in Ukraine). But thats not for discussion here. My thoughts on that are all in CVON.

But with that said, even the most successful entrepreneurs have major failures and/or missed opportunities. You are never going to get every investment right. Youll miss some that would have exploded huge for you. Or youll buy something that tanks. No matter who you are and how smart.

Initially when I heard Musk was trying to buy Twitter, I assumed he would make it better than ever.

Now, its starting to look like he mis-read the room. Tech is full of young west coast liberals who now find it popular to hate Musk for his more conservative views. They were never going to give in to all of his demands when he walks in there with the kitchen sink and starts trying to tell them to work crazy hours and get back in to the office building. Not only are they inherently unlikely to cooperate with a boss they were pre-programmed to hate, but aside from having completely different ethics and values, they are also in a sector where they are swimming in opportunity. They can quit this job, and have a new high paying job, working remote, before theyd reach the doors to exit their office after telling him to F off.

I think he may have Fd up and misjudged how he needed to handle this group of people. And I dont think its possible to win any of them back.

All of this is true, but another aspect that he’s misjudging is that Twitter is not a startup company where the success of the employees is contingent on the success of the company. They don’t have any skin in the game as far as equity, shares, growth goals that could yield them millions in VC money, etc. So when he’s telling the employees he wants them in the office 90 hours a week or whatever, he’s coming in with a startup mentality for a company that’s been around for nearly 20 years. 

39 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

The bottom line is Elon Musk isn’t very bright, but he’s a helluva bankroller. 

Literally one of the smartest people on earth. What a comment.

1 minute ago, Texas Eagle said:

Literally one of the smartest people on earth. What a comment.

He's very good at crafting an image of being far smarter than he actually is. Is he a moron? Absolutely not, but he's not even close to being one of the smartest people on earth. 

57 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

So, a Twitter clone ran by a bunch of dead weight.   what could go wrong?

18 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

All of this is true, but another aspect that he’s misjudging is that Twitter is not a startup company where the success of the employees is contingent on the success of the company. They don’t have any skin in the game as far as equity, shares, growth goals that could yield them millions in VC money, etc. So when he’s telling the employees he wants them in the office 90 hours a week or whatever, he’s coming in with a startup mentality for a company that’s been around for nearly 20 years. 

Yeah. Theyre just not going to do it.

His only hope is probably to quickly poach about 10,000 employes from truth social, and rumble.

Do those companies even have that many employees? Are they good enough at their jobs to run a big successful company like twitter?

I dont know. 

But its going to be hard otherwise to fill that many jobs with a bunch people in the tech sector who dont feel nauseous at the thought of working for a tyrannical conservative boss.

I think he gets away with it at tesla because there are tons of jobs in manufacturing there. And, he moved it from California to Texas. Like other big companies such as amazon, walmart, etc. those production workers all complain. But anywhere else they go, their job still sucks in much the same ways. Companies like Tesla, and Space X, Starlink... are opportunities to change the world. Those jobs can be propped up at least slightly with an inherent sense of pride in what you are working to accomplish for all of mankind. 

Twitter is just another social network that, as you said is already well established. It certainly changed the way the world consumes media. But thats already done. The excitement of blazing that trail is in the past. These people can go coast through another tech job from the comfort of their own home, or some fancy air bnb in exotic locations rather than slave away for a company trying to achieve status quo. They dont need to slave away in an office for a company that is going nowhere but right where it is.

These people are all going to go to facebook, google, apple, etc and do bigger and better things anyway.

Just now, we_gotta_believe said:

He's very good at crafting an image of being far smarter than he actually is. Is he a moron? Absolutely not, but he's not even close to being one of the smartest people on earth. 

No, wrong. What he’s achieved in the solar energy space, Tesla, and his SpaceX projects are incredible.

Just because he’s causing an uproar doesn’t make him less smart. He has an IQ of 155 which places him in the 99th percentile I would venture to guess.

1 minute ago, Texas Eagle said:

No, wrong. What he’s achieved in the solar energy space, Tesla, and his SpaceX projects are incredible.

Just because he’s causing an uproar doesn’t make him less smart. He has an IQ of 155 which places him in the 99th percentile I would venture to guess.

yeah but dont you know, there are a bunch of people over in CVON that are way smarter?