1630
1631

This doesn’t include the best part - The Verge says Musk is doing this in a week and threatening to fire engineers if they don’t ship it by Nov. 7.

(Come to think of it … if this is Musk’s approach to software development, there’s no way in hell I’m ever buying a Tesla.)

Edit: Elon also apparently doesn’t want anything other than good old US dollars. Or, maybe he’s setting up an entire international billing system in a week. How hard can it be?

1632

Hell yeah, burn it all down.

1633
1634

Maybe this fuckin guy should delete his Twitter account instead of posting dozens of tweets about how bad Twitter is.

But he won’t, because he’s an addict.

1635

I mean, the blue checkmarks are responsible for most of the traffic going to Twitter anyway. Berating media people, journalists and athletes is half of the fucking point of the site.

1636

I have front row seats to watching an man-child burn $44 billion.

Also it’s a matter of the news feeds and the like while they exist.
And often finding out people’s counter.social handles so I can follow them when they leave.

1637

It’s possible if you set up Twitter to accept only cross-border card payments in USD and for Twitter to operating as a purely US business. You’d run on Mastercard/Visa/Amex rails for the most part. How easy would it be to integrate? I can’t imagine it would be that hard for the most part. Twitter’s payment acquirer should be able to manage the load.

1638
1639

Ok I lol’d at that. Thanks

1640

Another revenue-generating idea:

1641

There will be a rush on tokens prior to the RNC.

In all seriousness, my enjoyment of Twitter doesn’t really come from content from verified accounts. I follow a lot of indie artists, comedians, streamers and youtube personalities and just other randos that like the same content I like. Almost all of my interactions are with non-verified people.

I recently did a “following” purge and removed a lot of the bigger accounts I follow, just to help tailor my feed more towards the shitposting groups I follow.

It is a bit like the indie rock scene. If someone gets popular enough to be verified, they have “sold out” and stop getting followed.

1642

If you enjoy that side of Twitter, why would you want it burned down? I mean, I am no lover of Elon Musk, but I really enjoy Twitter and will miss it if he does ruin it. I don’t want him to destroy it. While I find it highly unlikely that he won’t screw it up, I am hoping he doesn’t. I hope he succeeds and maybe improves it.

1643

I think it is more gallows humor. Like, everyone who is on Twitter complains about how bad it is. It would be a bit sad if it were to go away, I would probably lose touch with some people I follow.

I think I would be sad if it went, but I also think that people might just move on to another system, and it wouldn’t be so bad.

1644

Some people already seem to be moving to Mastodon, which I was surprised to hear is still around.

1645

I fucking hate Mastodon, and the way they handle instances and usernames and such. It is just a mess.

Something else will come along.

1646

As a revenue stream it’s laughable. Even if every single verified user signed up tomorrow, the annual revenue would cover only 2.5% of the interest payments on the debt Twitter has absorbed in this deal.

1647

Presumably the idea would be to greatly increase the number of verified (and hence paying) users, but yeah it does seem like a big ask.

1648

To tens of millions of users? With a system built in less than a week? Sure, that’ll work. I doubt they can get payment processing working at that scale in that time, let alone any actual “verification”. And if they don’t verify anything other than your access to 20 bucks, they’ll just get sued again (which is why verification exists at all).

1649

Is this just a setup to fire the relevant employees “with cause” or something? He seems bent on reducing the workforce to about a 1/4 of its current size.