Wednesday 27 April 2022

Five Observations From Yesterday On Twitter

 1.  From commentary of some employees....you get the feeling that they felt their company was Jesus, Incorporated.....and they were now going to work for Satan, Incorporated.   Made me almost think they were in a cult-like mentality.

2.  Some MSNBC analyst made the comment that 'sociopath' Musk was going to wreck the world with censorship.  I would admit that Twitter (before Elon) did a pretty fair job on censorship....I'm not sure if he can out-do the current crew on censorship.

3.  As much as Trump is deemed 'evil' and the greatest threat facing mankind....it seems that Elon has passed Trump....if you view social media commentary and CNN/MSNBC.  

4.  This chief lawyer for Twitter, Vijya Gadde, had some kind of internal staff meeting (virtual/zoom, I believe) and got highly emotional.....breaking down.  Her chief concern?  Well....things were going to CHANGE.  You just get the impression that she would not be able to function under Musk.

5.  You just get an overwhelming impression that various folks in the company will go and do a remarkable bit to destroy the company before Musk completes the deal.  It's the attitude 'if-we-can't-have-it-nobody-can' behavior that you'd see with 12-year old kids.  Maybe this was a Musk exercise to get them to accomplish this before the deal is concluded, and he'll just walk away with zero ownership, and Twitter just plain 'crapped-out'.  For those employees who held tens of thousands of shares?  Well....total destruction would leave them with nothing much of value.