I feel pretty confident literally nothing he’s done since arriving comports with the consent decree entered into with the FTC, so this is just another bullet point for their new complaint.
Dejin
4606
I don’t see how handing things off to Jared improves the situation. It’s not like Jared has any tech management experience at all nor does he have any advertising experience. As far as I know he has no experience in any company even somewhat adjacent to Twitter’s business areas.
Plus at this point Jared’s probably hated by both the left and the right. The left for obvious reasons and the right because he hasn’t stayed sufficiently loyal to their Cheeto god emperor after his fall from office.
The smart move is to put a neutral technocrat in charge who is only interested in whatever makes the company as successful as possible, has no political agenda, and isn’t known for being particularly politically active.
ShivaX
4607
Well Jared could, in theory, just hire people. Even hire back people if they were available and willing.
I think the ideal for them would be to have Twitter from a month ago, only with their dude running it and doing them favors ever so often.
Neutral people might not be pliable to their interests. Besides Jared can hire a guy to do that, as long as he retains the ability to step in and do what they want.
And really, it doesn’t matter at this point who is running it. It’s so toxic it will take possibly years to get to where it was before. Which was also not making a profit and didn’t have added debt thrown onto it.
Dejin
4608
The “No” vote is slowly catching up. Will it surpass “Yes” step down in the next 8 hours? Not sure, but I think it’s made up about 1-1.5% in the last hour and a half or so.
Presumably they can get whatever result they want by activating bots, which makes the whole thing a really funny joke given Musk’s previous concerns about bots followed by him deciding he’s going to run the company via public votes (without him having taken any time to take actions against the bots he was worried about)
ShivaX
4609
Yeah, it’s just assumed he can get whatever results he wants to get.
Though maybe not, since the “doxxing ban” thing obviously backfired on him.
You’d think the world’s 2nd (?) richest man could afford some bot farms, but it turns out he’s not super tech savvy.
Dejin
4610
Well that’s true for sure. Musk has basically been burning brand value and tech expertise and adding tech debt since he took over.
Timex
4611
Being “forced” to step down and only control Twitter entirely from behind the scenes with plausible deniability for any stupid thing that he does is… The ideal outcome for musk.
DoubleG
4612
lol why did they do all of this on a Sunday
jsnell
4613
The tweets on that account are totally unhinged. I would not trust a word in those tweets. (Like, “just overheard” would be implausible if coming from anyone, but way more unlikely when coming from somebody whose posting history is mostly angry rants about Musk.)
I don’t think it makes a lot of sense. The Saudis own a few %. They don’t get to dictate terms.
A Møøse once bit my sister…
Mind you, legal møøse team bites Kan be pretti nasti.
It’s hardcore, that’s why.
Menzo
4619
So either he was already planning to appoint a new CEO, or he is actually as stupid as he seems.
Thrag
4621
Always bet on the lettuce.
I am beginning to wonder whether public humiliation isn’t just Elon’s kink.
Meanwhile, there are a bunch of Twitter investors and workers who are reading the news this morning and thinking:
"Thank goodness. Now Elon can wrap up all that Twitter foolishness, where his insane micromanagement ruined everything, and instead turn his attention back to where it belongs, to Tesla.
Oh. Wait."
Enidigm
4623
The intoxicating air of unearned responsibility follows these tech bros around like winners of the world’s largest game of roulette. After doubling down on red 25 times in a row, people start following their clothing patterns, asking them opinions about literature, and wondering if they couldn’t write a book to encapsulate their wisdom for the ages. Meanwhile, they’re drunk on the ground shooting canned whipped cream in their mouths and getting their $20 ironic t-shirts soiled. IE, it’s the distorting effect of the late capitalism money-tree of the stock market. Elon is just the biggest bro (right now); but he’s also blowing Saudi and other investor’s money, money that came from translating real goods and services into cash and not just winning the market roulette game. Throwing a few billion away of other people’s money isn’t going to be good form.
That said, trusting him to actually follow a poll is kind of a fool’s errand. He’s basically a monarch of this company, and can change whatever he wants to do at a whim. It’s not as if he’s under any obligation to do anything other than exactly what he wants. It’s hard to understand why real news takes stuff like his polls seriously.
Thrag
4624
Stepping down as CEO is performance. He’ll still be dictating policy to the new CEO.
