"On Sunday, he tweeted that he had no successor and suggested that there were no qualified candidates to lead Twitter. 'No one who wants the job can actually keep Twitter alive,' he posted. As soon as Mr. Musk took ownership of Twitter on Oct. 27, he fired its top executives. Other senior leaders have since been fired or resigned, leaving the executive suite vacant.... [Musk] has borrowed employees from his other companies, including Tesla and the Boring Company, a tunneling start-up, to join him.... Mr. Musk has also relied on Tesla and SpaceX employees to deal with technical matters, as layoffs and resignations have decimated Twitter’s engineering ranks.... Mr. Musk, who was in Qatar for the World Cup final this weekend with Jared Kushner, is also seeking new investment in Twitter.... On Friday night, the company began another round of layoffs.... Twitter, which had about 7,500 employees when Mr. Musk took over, has lost roughly 70 percent through layoffs, firings and resignations. The Information earlier reported the most recent round of cuts."
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He has discovered a new source of revenue, charging the government to run psy-ops for them. The FBI and CIA are happy to chip in, apparently, constitutional questionability of these programs notwithstanding.
Basically he made his bid at the peak of the market. Twitter will never make money at that price.
The corrupt left are out to destroy him.
You do not reveal the corruption of the FBI without Clintonian consequences.
And yet after all those layoffs, Twitter continues to work fine.
If people don't like it, they could go start their own social media company. Or so I've been told.
I'm sure the NYTs is an accurate source and can read the mind of Elon Musk. Give us a break. Are we supposed to take this reporting seriously, or is it just being posted to highlight the bullshit??? At least it doesn't "look" like a tabloid. It can trick a person into feeling like they are reading something intellectual.
Most corrupt about their bullshit reporting is they focus on Musk and the search for a CEO (he said prior to the purchase he would be a temporary CEO). This is all bullshit.
Meanwhile the NYTs continues to ignore and suppress the horrific revelations of FBI infiltration, coordination, and compensation paid to Twitter to censor speech and alternative viewpoints on the 2020 Election and COVID revealed in the Twitter files. The Hunter Biden laptop is just part of it.
A REAL newspaper with some integrity would try to find out what went on at FB, YouTube, Apple, and Google too. But the NYTs already knows.
They ignore all of this because the NYTs has committed and continues with same sins as the former executives at Twitter 1.0. What piece of shit propaganda pushing organization.
They are all infected with the same clap that was injected into them as they voluntarily and enthusiastically fucked the FBI, CIA, and Democrat Party. Felt soooo good going in.
And now they continue to fuck and infect the American public with their propaganda. Especially their devoted fans.
Pure evil and lies. Happy Winter Solstice to the Godless New York Times.
TMT. Too Much Twitter.
Elon is playing the press like a one-string guitar. Twitter. Twitter. Twitter. Twitter ...
"It is unclear how meaningful stepping down as chief executive would be. The billionaire owns Twitter... and will remain its proprietor. It is unclear how meaningful stepping down as chief executive would be. The billionaire owns Twitter... and will remain its proprietor."
The people that write for the NYT's are intellectual flatworms.
This is just a worthless publication for people who want to feel smarter than the real world allows them to feel.
What a bunch of fucking hypocrites at the NYT.
The NYT, FBI and Twitter all collude to keep from the public the FACTS of how the Biden Crime Family has been bribed by China and Ukraine. This puts senile Joe in office. Joe, in turn, lets 5 million invaders into the country along with untold amounts of illegal drugs. Inflation goes wild.
How do those pricks at the NYT sleep at night? The NYT is the Enemy of the People.
As soon as Mr. Musk took ownership of Twitter on Oct. 27, he fired its top executives.
Deservedly.
Tell me Althouse, do you have any reason for your drooling Elon Musk hate other than the New York Times splashing its own Musk hatred all over its “news” reports?
I wonder how many of the 70% of the staff that have been laid off or resigned were actually doing real work that improved the company’s bottom line. 7500 seems like a lot of staff for a company that produces nothing gravity can act upon.
"Will we wrest back control of the narrative"?
Sure, but you could make the same comment about the New York Times or the Washington Post.
(Perhaps that was your point, Ann?)
Yes, Musk will still be the owner and not the CEO. That's not surprising. In most media companies the owner (controlling stockholder) doesn't run the magazine or newspaper or Film studio or TV media congolmerate. And the CEOs Of Google and Microsoft aren't the majority stockholders.
Musk probably just wants out of the line of fire. Look for the media to continue to claim that any "bad" decision was done by Musk, not the new CEO. Also, look for the new CEO to be someone the leftwing media likes. Musk isn't a conservative, just a free speech advocate.
I am sure they are lining up to run the dumpster fire of a company full of Elon's chosen yes-men.
I am not surprised he has grown weary of his new toy.
If they want Twitter Blue to do well, they need to eliminate the legacy blue checks. It has no chance of taking off until they do.
The question is whether all the tech-media companies are equally overstaffed and dominated by the government. Must be, must be, they're all pretty much alike.
The changes in policing in 2020 resulted in a doubling in the number of murders in Milwaukee and this increase happened solely within the black community. Disparate impact. No one cares, Milwaukee's black mayor - does not care. Why should he? Milwaukee's black voting bloc does not care. Is this because concerns can't be amplified due to tech media censorship? But why doesn't the University of Wisconsin-Madison Black Studies department speak up about disparate impact from changes in policing. Has the university got the same kudzu growth of lazy workers and busy bodies from government shrouding and strangling thought and action? I think so. Yes, I think so. I'd like to be wrong.
While I thought he would have a candidate in mind before he ran the poll, this is pretty much as expected. It also doesn't surprise me much that the tech companies are not cultivating new management talent so the bench is very thin at the top. The big tech companies were built quickly by young people with some tech skills but no understanding of how to run a company, so they're all bad at it but are kept afloat by mystique and lots of money. When the tide goes out, we find none of them are wearing bathing suits.
Have any credible news sources commented on this, or just the lying NYT?
Billionaires own the NYT and WAPO: no problem.
Billionaires own Facebook and Google: no problem.
A billionaire owns Twitter: DEFCON 1!
The former stockholders of Twitter right now are hopefully smiling to themselves.
I wrote in a thread a couple of days back- appoint one of the Trump children as CEO. Or Devin Nunes, Tucker Carlson, or Peter Thiel.
Are you really "with" someone if you happen to be invited to the same box as that person? I'm guessing it was a VIP box with lots of people in it.
Some people are never happy.
Those would be the control freaks.
Joe Eogan has about the right sensibility and pisses off the right people. I doubt he would be remotely interested in the job though..
“No one who wants the job can actually keep Twitter alive.”
Pre-Musk Twitter did not need a savior CEO to keep it alive. By his own terms, does Musk fall into the category of someone who wants the job, but won’t actually be able to keep Twitter alive? Or into the category of someone who can keep it alive but doesn’t want the job (he did try to get out of his deal)?
Joe Rogan has about right the sensibility and pisses off the right people. I doubt he would take the job though. has his hands full and is too smart to take it.
Political assets reportedly annoyed. NYT, cutoff from [anonymous] sources, whines.
"It is unclear how meaningful stepping down as chief executive would be."
This is just STUPID. Do they really think the owner of a company isn't going to exercise direction or influence? This is just their wishful thinking. They want Musk to go away and for Twitter to return to a state run propaganda outlet...like the NYTs.
That's why his child was threatened. And after, that action was defended by crazy asshole liberals who NOW pretend to embrace free speech.
Musk says when he finds the right person, he will remain in charge of the software team.
The bullshit "Paper of Record" fears they will be replaced by a free market of record. Replace by people and citizens committed to the truth. Twitter 2.0 is the biggest threat to the NYT's relevancy. Their credibility hangs by a thread on the hopes and dreams of the Ivory Tower Elite. You know. The let them eat cake crowd.
I'd imagine subscribing and reading to the NYTs is a lot like spending buying and smoking cigarettes.
It's and old addicting habit. Hard to shake. You know it's bad for you, but their is a familiar pleasure and a sense of relief. And the longer you do it, the harder it is to walk away even though you know damn well it's poison. One poisons your brain...the other you're lungs.
Both are not only bad for you as a reader and a smoker...but the second hand propaganda and smoke affects other people around you exposing them to the danger you choose to inhale.
Everything is unclear until it isn't. I hope he picks someone very controversial that will piss off the libtards. However, since that won't garner added revenue, he'll probably go with boring just to please Althouse and MBS and the rest of the sand tics.
Since he's an engineer, he'll likely appoint himself chief technology officer. He can still dictate the way the technology works, regardless of who is 'running' the company, though.
Layoffs: the thinning of the herd continues. Great!
Elon as CEO: He has other responsibilities. Nowhere has he stated that he is willing to give up CEO position and install someone that is not in line with his goals and thinking. Why are liberals so dense and try to attack this as something it isn't?
Marcus B. THEOLDMAN
Once again, folks at the Times writing about stuff they don't know and don't understand. It sure is tiresome. Despite all this negative press I have yet to hear a complaint about the product from users. Twitter seems to be fine.
Everyone who has worked in industry has seen this sort of thing go on as it happens to all organizations at some point. Mergers, byouts, layoffs, bankruptcies- they all happen. Not a big deal.
Twitter is lucky that it was someone like Musk who did the purchase. It could have been private equity that would mine the company for debt and stock buybacks and cash out prior to bankruptcy ( see ToysRUs)
will remain as the company's owner?
What The HELL, did the NYT think he'd do? Just give the company away? Like to THEM??
Oh, wait... That's EXACTLY what the NYT thought he'd do.. They are LITERALLY That Stupid
Interesting to me how the focus on Elon Musk takes away from covering the actual findings in the Twitter files releases. The 7th release contains true bombshells, but instead we are talking about Elon this and Elon that.
Prof Althouse is following the NY Times lead in this fashion.
The truth is, I already didn’t like/use twitter long before musk came along and he hasn’t done anything to change my mind. Although twitter continues to be a decent resource for humor.
Achillis - If you spent 1% of the time you whine about the NYT actually reading the paper you just might learn something.
Tesla informs employees layoffs coming. What incompetent management had too many employees?
Also, look for the new CEO to be someone the leftwing media likes. Musk isn't a conservative, just a free speech advocate.
To the 21st century lefties, free speech is regarded as a right wing value.
Mark said...
I am sure they are lining up to run the dumpster fire of a company full of Elon's chosen yes-men.
I am not surprised he has grown weary of his new toy.
Example A of an idiot NYTs reader: Mark.
These people are completely incompatible with a free high trust society.
Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVDUIyzeJn8 Musk explains some of the facts about keeping twitter alive. Interesting. It's amazing to see the truth instead of the caricatures.
Readering: "Tesla informs employees layoffs coming. What incompetent management had too many employees?"
LOL
Companies across the board in all industries are announcing layoffs. High interest rates, recessionary economic conditions, high inflation, have their risks.
Goldman Sachs and Cisco, for example, have already indicated the global macroeconomic situation is driving their internal layoff decisions. Ford, GM, Mercedes Benz, Jeep etc are all engaging in layoffs for different declared reasons.
Musk was actually one of the smartest CEO's around and was ahead of the curve when he announced early in 2022 a hiring freeze and prepping Tesla for a round of layoffs (to be determined later).
Its hilarious how Dumb Lefty Mark and the economic illiterate readering keep running around screaming about "Teh Tesla!!!" as if Tesla exists within its own economic universe all by its lonesome just because Musk has blown up one of the major mechanisms the left uses to censor political opponents and rig elections.
[Rabid] Diversity and publishing. It's because he's African-American, a Person of Color, a Peach American, right? NYT is notoriously albinophobic in the late 20th century modern family. They don't like when Zulu compete with Xhosa progress, Tutsi with Hutu, Kenyan deplorables with elite, nationalists with transnationalists.
"It could have been private equity that would mine the company for debt and stock buybacks and cash out prior to bankruptcy ( see ToysRUs)"
Fortunately Senator Romney was otherwise occupied.
I thought there was some hidden meaning behind the double headline.
"Tom T. said...
And yet after all those layoffs, Twitter continues to work fine."
Some people made a big deal about how much revenue Twitter has lost. I don't hear much discussion about how much money the company is saving on salaries and benefits after getting rid of several thousand employees. The reported average salary range was over $150,000. Just spitballing, the average salary and benefits was probably costing Twitter well over $200,000 a year. That means for every 4-5 employees he fired or who quit, the company is saving a million dollars. So, getting rid of 4,000 to 5,000 employees saves the company a billion dollars every year in expenses. Add to that the fact that it appears most of those employees were not actually producing much in the way of revenue and may have actually hindered the people who actually do the work, so the bottom-line impact is probably even greater.
Gusty Winds (Runnin' on Empty) said...
I'd imagine subscribing and reading to the NYTs is a lot like spending buying and smoking cigarettes.
It's and old addicting habit. Hard to shake. You know it's bad for you, but their is a familiar pleasure and a sense of relief. And the longer you do it, the harder it is to walk away even though you know damn well it's poison. One poisons your brain...the other you're lungs.
Both are not only bad for you as a reader and a smoker...but the second hand propaganda and smoke affects other people around you exposing them to the danger you choose to inhale.
12/21/22, 11:23 AM
Great analogy!!!
jim5301 said...
Achillis - If you spent 1% of the time you whine about the NYT actually reading the paper you just might learn something.
12/21/22, 12:48 PM
What?? That propaganda sells?? Have they given those Pulitzers they won for their reports on the Fake Russian Collusion yet?? Have they apologized for their lies? Maybe YOU need to learn something. They are liars.
Joe 🍊
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Why has Elon shown us more corruption in 3 weeks then John Durham has in more than 3 years?
“Tell me Althouse, do you have any reason for your drooling Elon Musk hate other than the New York Times splashing its own Musk hatred all over its “news” reports?”
How rude! I’m pretty sure Althouse doesn’t drool.
“Achillis - If you spent 1% of the time you whine about the NYT actually reading the paper you just might learn something.”
Speaking of droolers…
It’s funny how Althouse linking to the NYT triggers you folks. I thank her for not linking to garbage sites like the ones some you folks read.
Achillis [sic] -If you spent 1% of the time you whine about the NYT actually reading the paper you just might learn something.
But would one learn anything at all that is true and real (besides the box scores in the sports pages)?
"Happy Winter Solstice to the Godless New York Times."
We're all "godless," given that no god exists.
" If you spent 1% of the time you whine about the NYT actually reading the paper you just might learn something."
I used to subscribe to the New York Times, until I realized that the more you read it, the less you knew. Seriously, it's easy to fact check that paper, they don't outright lie to often, declaratively, but they almost always lie by omitting relevant facts.
"If they want Twitter Blue to do well, they need to eliminate the legacy blue checks. It has no chance of taking off until they do."
He said that this is in the works, he says there was simply too much corruption in the blue check process to keep the legacy ones around.
Ahh, the NYT! They are the "Sharper Image" of elite newspapers. Every product was overpriced Chinese junk but all the cool kids shopped their for the cachet. Kind of like NYT readers.
Robert Cook - I thought you were a "fact-based" person. You say there is no god. Is that a fact or just your belief? If a fact, please submit proof. If a belief, well, I have my own beliefs about God. To paraphrase an old saying by Trotsky, "you may not be interested in God but God is interested in you". Happy Holidays!
NYT once stated that Poland started WW2. They never rescinded that "fact".
Mad magazine had more credibilty.
Lot of Biden loonies still believe the Russian dossier hoax. Then they tell people to "get informed". Read the NYT.
3 words. Stockholm Syndrome.
Inga said...It’s funny how Althouse linking to the NYT triggers you folks. I thank her for not linking to garbage sites like the ones some you folks read.
I just can't figure out if Althouse links to the NYTs because she believes the bullshit or is just exposing and highlighting the bullshit. I'm inclined to believe it is the latter.
@Cookie, assholes like you give atheism a bad name.
That quote from the New York Times was well stated and spot on.
The corrupting influence of big money on media corporations is endemic.
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter and his experiments with configuring it to his liking are just the latest example of the problems Robert Kane Pappas shown a spotlight on in his 2003 documentary film titled 'Orwell Rolls in His Grave'.
I suspect that Elon Musk concurs with the Supreme Kangaroo Court's [errant] finding in 'Citizens United' that corporations, despite having foreign interests and foreign shareholders, may pour money into elections, that corporate campaign contributions, free air time and money spent on political advertising equals [corporate] free speech.
It comes as no shock to me that the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post and other right-wing-owned "news" rags have often been featured in Twitter's "What's happening" "news" feeds. It would not surprise me at all if right-wing troll-farm parroting of the Tweets of TuckerCarlson PaulManafort DailyCaller WeeklyStandard IngrahamAngle GatewayPundit BreitbartNews etc. etc. etc.. were to inundate Twitter the way they did prior to the 2016 elections and again during the confirmation hearings for [In]Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
jim5301 said...
Achillis - If you spent 1% of the time you whine about the NYT actually reading the paper you just might learn something.
I read the NYT's.
I just don't treat it as an honest source of information.
It is for people with no intellectual curiosity or honesty.
It is for stupid people like you.
Journalists, before calling anybody a billionaire, ought to mention who the billionaire who owns their own outlet is.
If Elon is smart, he'll gradually step down and take his place among the Carlos Slims and Jeff Bezoses of the world.
Journalists who want to keep the boycott going will continue to make him the evil face of Twitter, but nobody will pay much attention to them.
Blogger jim5301 said...
Achillis - If you spent 1% of the time you whine about the NYT actually reading the paper you just might learn something.
Boy, that Koolaid is just delicious, eh jim1234?
I also used to subscribe. I finally quit but I had to cancel a credit card to get rid of them. Like a leach.
Inga said...
Speaking of droolers…
It’s funny how Althouse linking to the NYT triggers you folks. I thank her for not linking to garbage sites like the ones some you folks read.
This person has swallowed every single one of the lies that the NYT's has fed her.
This is what 80 IQ people do.
She still believes in the Russian Collusion hoax. She still believes Trump supporters killed Brian Sicknick. She still believes inflation is transitory.
Flatworms are less gullible than you are.
You are one of the dumbest commentors I have ever seen on the internet.
Robert Cook said...
"Happy Winter Solstice to the Godless New York Times."
We're all "godless," given that no god exists.
As Robert Cook says, his is the only true faith, and the rest of you are heretics.
You will have to pry Jim53IQ's Pravd.....er......NYTimes out of his cold dead hands.
So Donald Trump is now Twitter's CEO?
Robert Cook, 5 minutes after dying:
"Well, fuck me!"
Musk's biggest concern when he took over was that the left would abandon Twitter out of pique.
By poking into it and actively participating, he kept a goodly number of them occupied and invested. He started a whole new fight within Twitter. Who would leave when they could actively interact with the Hated Guy himself?
I think he chose brilliantly.
So this is what the NYT wants us to know about Musk and Twitter. Along with their customer large dose of snark.
I can't understand Musk's dilemma.
I mean......FTX found a new CEO, John J. Ray. Mr. Ray says he is drawn to crisis.
You can call me J, or you can call me Ray.
Titles schmitles. As the owner he's still the big dog in the yard.
jim5301 said...
"Achillis - If you spent 1% of the time you whine about the NYT actually reading the paper you just might learn something."
It doesn't seem to have done you any good.
Robert Cook said...
"Happy Winter Solstice to the Godless New York Times."
"We're all "godless," given that no god exists."
We're not gods. However there is a god. Your's just happens to be socialism.
Thor is going to smite all you phony white culturally appropriating christian traitors to your race.
We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow
The hammer of the gods
Will drive our ships to new lands
To fight the horde, sing and cry
Valhalla, I am coming
We're not gods. However there is a god. Your's just happens to be socialism.
Mortal gods (e.g. Mao, Hitler) and goddesses (e.g. Sanger) that are historically first-order forcings of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. These are leaders of nominally "secular" sects that operate under the twilight (i.e. conflation) faith (i.e. trust logical domain), an ethical (i.e. relativistic) religion (e.g. Pro-Choice), and progressive liberal (i.e. monotonically divergent) ideology. That said, diversity (i.e. color judgment, class-based bigotry) breeds adversity. Close the abortion chambers, the Mengele clinics. End the redistributive change schemes (e.g. progressive prices, labor and environmental arbitrage).
Blogger Robert Cook said...
"Happy Winter Solstice to the Godless New York Times."
We're all "godless," given that no god exists.
Merry Christmas Everyone!!!.
In a nod to reality, maybe Musk should just hire Christopher Wray as CEO. Might as well make it official.
Merry Christmas Everyone!!!.
Make the Yuletide gay.
just hire Christopher Wray as CEO. Might as well make it official.
Deep Thrombosis.
Inga said..."It’s funny how Althouse linking to the NYT triggers you folks. I thank her for not linking to garbage sites like the ones some you folks read."
@Inga - They're all garbage sites. Every one of them, from the NYT to Fox News.
...except for the Althouse blog.
We're all "godless," given that no god exists.
You sound like a person of deep faith Cookie - faith that God does not exist.
Do you also believe in the Big Bang theory?
We all understand the intellectual pretensions of the fashionable lefties. What is amusing is that they seem to be far more confident in their atheism than religious people of varying degrees of faith.
Maybe it is the water in NYC. It supposedly makes the best bagels in more ways than one.
Howard is playing blog tough guy again.
Something uncomfortable must have happened today.
I don't know about God, but I feel a presence sometimes. I don't know what happens after we die, but I like to cover my bases just in case. I'm a Presbyterian/Methodist. It doesn't cost much and the potential benefits are enormous.
We're all "godless," given that no god exists.
Sounds like you have complete faith in that belief system Cook. Whatever makes you happy. You can't discern First Cause anymore than anyone else. Athiests are idiots.
We're all "godless," given that no god exists.
Sounds like you have complete faith in that belief system Cook. Whatever makes you happy. You can't discern First Cause anymore than anyone else. Athiests are idiots.
To Elon Musk, the 14th Warrior:
Lo, there do I see my father.
Lo, there do I see my mother
And my sisters and my brothers
Lo, there do I see the line of my people
Back to the beginning.
Lo, they do call to me.
They bid me take my place among them
In the halls of Valhalla
Where the brave may live forever.
If some of the allegations about sloppy database access permissioning and live environment software development are true, they need some executives who are committed to building in meaningful and effective operational controls for their database/IT environment and disaster recovery systems. The stuff Musk is focused on, like fixing their screwed up content moderation system, getting users to pay, and getting employees physically into the office seem like much simpler, second order problems in comparison, none of which will matter if their service goes down and turns out to be unrecoverable because they don't have comprehensive backups, or some disgruntled ex-employee decides to sell information on system vulnerabilities to a hostile actor. Again, this is all if the whistleblower allegations are true, which they may not be (whistleblower allegations often turn out to be either false or overblown). He needs a CEO who can pull in and oversee people to perform some serious technical work.
"He said that this is in the works, he says there was simply too much corruption in the blue check process to keep the legacy ones around."
But he's talking about doing it in months. They should do it today. You can't sell Blue if it comes in two tiers, and one of them is a more prestigious one that's free.
Musk said something simple in that Space: Twitter was on track to lose three billion dollars in the following year, with one billion dollars coming in. They would be bankrupt. So, he had to enormously cut costs, right away, by firing everyone.
That wasn't hard to explain, but it seems to be hard for people to understand.
Folks suggesting this or that individual for the new CEO of Twitter are forgetting what else Musk said about such a candidate:
“One catch: you have to invest your life savings in Twitter and it has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy since May. Still want the job?”
I'm just gonna leave this hear, and see if it goes anywhere.
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