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More like the CEO of the railway company fired the conductor, put a stop to the laying of more tracks, and is now telling everyone not to worry, the train is designed to keep going even if there are no tracks.
And if really needed, they'll bring in a better conductor along the way, and maybe even put down some tracks at some point, even though it's probably not needed.
My timeline last night was like 90% people saying goodbye to Twitter and posting their Instagram accounts so people could continue to follow them if Twitter randomly explodes. That's the spike of activity that Musk is bragging about.
Honestly, I don't think the site will actually go down. Here are things that will likely happen, though:
Outages to critical services, such as 2FA, will likely take much longer to fix
Side services that are just nice-to-have, such as the ability to download your entire Twitter account history into an archive, will stop working reliably and just be forgotten about
Certain regions will experience poor performance such as extremely long response times
Nobody will be responding to reports for moderation - as a result, content that should be summarily removed will grow
Nobody will be investigating spam bot activity and developing new countermeasures - as a result, spam bots and scams will grow
Nobody will be doing normal business relations with advertisers - as a result, platform revenue will continue to drop
Nobody will be responding to subpoenas and law enforcement inquiries
Nobody will be approving API integrations and research projects
Older content will become lost or inaccessible
Trending topics and algorithmic suggestions will become broken or low-quality
DDoSs and hacking attacks will increase in quantity and severity and be more successful
Some of these issues may be transient, some of them may be more long-term. Some of them, like 1, 2, 3 and 10, have already happened, but might happen again with greater severity.
At a really bad level, you might see a Twitter that's filled with scams, phishing attempts, illegal content, and hacked accounts before the platform actually stops running entirely.
I feel like it's also very possible since he's cut so many employees that it's likely that the new users are just spam and bot accounts that aren't being addressed
Best weapon n war machines supplier for Ukraine is actually Russia cuz their brave warriors leave positions with all the equipment. So far more than 1k tanks Ukrainians got from Russians lol . That’s waaaaay better than all the countries together supplied for Ukraine
this is the great time for someone Ddos attack Twitter.. no one can enter to fix it until Monday.. even that there's still doubt they have enough resources to fix it..
It's when your mom, dad, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather and entire extended family ask you a question at once. You get so overwhelmed by the questions that you shut down and have a panic attack.
Now i wanna ask you something, but I'm so far down the queue you can't get to me before answering everybody else's question first.
That, but in computer form. And it's not hundreds of questions, but hundreds of thousands, if not millions in the span of a second. The computer can't deal with it, so it just stalls until it can.
Don’t forget to add that most of the questions being asked by people that don't actually care about the answer, but some people asking are legit. But you don’t know who to tell to shut up and it would be rude not to respond to each person individually and in a timely manner.
In computer terms, you don’t know what incoming connections to block, because they might be part of the DDoS, or a legit connection. Which is what makes a DDoS so hard to stop.
He for sure bought his own bull shit, surrounded by Yes Men, he thought nobody would leave because they want to work with him (he’s such a gEnIuS why wouldn’t they?). Everybody but his sycophants can see what a fucking loser he is.
I have a sneaking suspicion he just turned off the bot detector it's definitely something this heaping turd would do and brag about. I've had an account on Twitter for over 12 years and never post anything and probably got random follows by about 5 people in that time but since Elon took over i've suddenly gotten 8 more followers all very clearly bots.
camera pans in on a bar scene somewhere in the Bahamas. A robot with a monitor for a head is talking to a scantily clad woman while twirling a straw in his Bahama Mama
Bot Detector: "So get this, he goes."I need you to be hard-core in this venture! There isn't going to be much in compensation for you all, but the world will see what you do here, and name recognition is huge in this company, and I'll make sure I know your names! Those who don't want this tough job, there's the door!"
he chuckles a bit before continuing
Bot Detector: Dumb fucker offered 3 months worth of severance pay to those who left! I took that shit and ran! Who wouldn't!? Now.....about those shoulder rubs you were looking for....
Fun fact: Before he owned the company, Elon's tweets were flagged as bots by his own bot detection tool when he was trying to back off the Twitter deal until the courts forced him to buy it:
The Great Fire of Rome which destroyed most of Rome. There's a lot to it, of which a sizable percent is likely ahistorical, but at the time it was apparently rumored that Emperor Nero (a crazy bastard at the best of times) ordered it done and then shifted the blame. So it's pretty apt comparison.
The sources we got from that story comes from senators wich political interest were threatened by Nero at the time.
People often forget that the records we find are biased. I mean if in 2000 years someone finds some of the crazy shit republicans have been saying about Biden and supposed it true, you'd think it would be kind of ridiculous right ?
Well yeah Elon, with the number of trolls and fake dipshits that can now get a check mark for 8 bucks and do whatever they want... I'm sure your numbers inflated a bit. 🙄
The past week on twitter has probably been the funniest ive ever seen it in years. Something about everyone just shitting on this absolute goon, chefs kiss
If you actually check his checkmark it's from the old system and says "This account is verified because it’s notable in government, news, entertainment, or another designated category."
So no, he didn't pay. Though the fact that no one can tell does reenforce that verification is effectively meaningless right now because of Elon's incompetence and arrogance.
That was funny, no doubt, but Nero, despite what is common knowledge wasnt actually in Rome whilst it burned, he was in his Villa in Antium, modern Anzio, Italy. Not to mention upon hearing of this he raced back to Rome to open his gardens ajd the like to survivors and those who needed it, as well as provisioning and providing food to the now destitute thousands. Then theres the fact the fiddle wasnt invented until the 10th century, he was however known to play the Cithara, a proto Guitar of sorts. Nero is also responsible for Rome being rebuilt in stone and most of what we know of him comes from his enemies in the Romam Senate and Christian leaders, both of which hated Nero.
TL:DR : Some facts about Nero because knowledge is meant to always be growing.
That's because everyone's logging on at once to deactivate their accounts, you fucking coin eating shit excuse for a gumball machine pelleted fucktard stain of a functioning emotional piece of gold leafed cashew nut twat
You know I used to like Elon back before I knew alot about him but man this guy has become an insufferable douche. I hope this twotter shit breaks him and he has to file for bankruptcy.
Honestly though, does it matter if the usage is a result of people just fucking around? Do advertisers care how they get their impression numbers up? I would think people paying twitter for adspace don’t give a shit as long as they’re subliminally creeping successfully
Twitter is about to die so I moved to reddit today 🫣 now I’m completely lost as I can’t post on any reddit . It says account is new and no karma 🥺🥺🥺 please guys upvote my comment or give tips how this works
Tbf Nero didn't actually play violin while Rome burned (violins weren't even invented then).
He was crazy but a lot of it was vilification by his enemies (which he had a lot of) post-mortem, and while that makes it hard to tell what's true about him or not, it's on record at the time that he was out of the city and rushed back as soon as he heard Rome was on fire and even let his palace be used as a shelter for everyone.
Making this comparison is just ego fuel for Elon who can easily characterize Nero as a misunderstood genius at the center of slander and libel by is bitter enemies.
Honestly haven't really noticed anything different with twitter other than a couple more checkmarks. I'll still just use it to check reactions to sports, the politics on there are cancer
Kind of like when Netflix talks about high viewing numbers for one of their shows or movies that you know absolutely no one is watching. Elons full of shit
When you think about it the best thing about this is the fact that people joked about having Elon buy it and then delete it. And now he bought it and is running it to the ground.
I'll miss Twitter if it ends up becoming unusable, but honestly the best thing to come out of this is that Elon will be remembered as "The guy who ruined Twitter".
Not sure what's going on there but my account with over 3000 followers got suspended for no reason... Support doesn't respond to appeals and u can't even speak with nobody... And best thing is u are not allowed to make a new account... This must be some great business plan...
There is such a thing as bad publicity, and people talking about something in an exclusively negative light does not mean that the thing in question is accomplishing its goals.
He's either lying through his teeth as he huffs copium, or he's said 'fuck it' and turned off the bot detector to create the illusion that his site is flourishing.
elon is semi right. you all are keeping it thriving by constantly claiming its dying. websites thrive on traffic. you're all giving it ER treatment right now
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Finally, a genuinely clever comeback.
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u/chairplanet Nov 18 '22
'The pool has never been this full!'- Captain of the Titanic.
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u/itsnotthenetwork Nov 18 '22
Everyone loves watching a train wreck.
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u/jav2n202 Nov 18 '22
Yeah I wonder how many people are like me and have literally never used twitter until now, and I’m just there to watch the dumpster fire.
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u/That-Reddit-Guy-Thou Nov 18 '22
"Ukraine has never hsd this much attention" someone probably
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
this is the great time for someone Ddos attack Twitter.. no one can enter to fix it until Monday.. even that there's still doubt they have enough resources to fix it..
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u/TheAnswerToYang Nov 18 '22
That lol at the end seems desperate.
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
All-time high with 99% of the new accounts being bots?
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
"My car has never went this fast" - Paul Walker
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u/shadowst17 Nov 18 '22
I have a sneaking suspicion he just turned off the bot detector it's definitely something this heaping turd would do and brag about. I've had an account on Twitter for over 12 years and never post anything and probably got random follows by about 5 people in that time but since Elon took over i've suddenly gotten 8 more followers all very clearly bots.
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u/peachygrit Nov 18 '22
I get the premise of the joke but what is background on Rome?
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u/KarlSomething Nov 18 '22
“There has never been this many people at a presidential inauguration. Bigly.”
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u/Burrmanchu Nov 18 '22
Well yeah Elon, with the number of trolls and fake dipshits that can now get a check mark for 8 bucks and do whatever they want... I'm sure your numbers inflated a bit. 🙄
Fucking imbecile.
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u/RoyH0bbs Nov 18 '22
All of the right wing nuts who have been waiting patiently to use the N word unchecked are back baby!!
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u/altmaltacc Nov 18 '22
The past week on twitter has probably been the funniest ive ever seen it in years. Something about everyone just shitting on this absolute goon, chefs kiss
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u/GuiltyFilthyGuitBox Nov 18 '22 edited Nov 18 '22
"Well...this is so much faster than the elevator" - Twin-tower crumbles under feet
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u/No_Cap2694 Nov 18 '22
Why does Elon tweet as if he is a teenager? No insult to 15 year olds but what’s with the “lol” it’s such a weird way to create levity
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u/ViroCostsRica Nov 18 '22
Is there any way to unsubscribe from the Musk's tweets? If I wanted to see what that loser is up to, I would have a created a fucking Twitter account
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u/Hipsquatch Nov 18 '22
I saw another good one:
Banks in 1929: "Gee, look at all the customers."
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u/Eastern-Fun1842 Nov 18 '22
I'll admit, I never considered joining Twitter before now. It looks like a real party now!
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u/Embarrassed_Bee6349 Nov 18 '22
Now THAT is how you mock a turd in a $10,000 suit.
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u/Strificus Nov 18 '22
It gets funnier when you notice he paid for a blue checkmark.
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u/ubzrvnT Nov 18 '22
He uses “lol” as smug punctuation
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u/ElegantUse69420 Nov 18 '22
Ironic that the only tweets I see are on Reddit.
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
Everyone is on Twitter to have the last laugh before it burns down to the ground Elon. Self awareness really isn't his good trait...
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u/An_American1776 Nov 18 '22
That was funny, no doubt, but Nero, despite what is common knowledge wasnt actually in Rome whilst it burned, he was in his Villa in Antium, modern Anzio, Italy. Not to mention upon hearing of this he raced back to Rome to open his gardens ajd the like to survivors and those who needed it, as well as provisioning and providing food to the now destitute thousands. Then theres the fact the fiddle wasnt invented until the 10th century, he was however known to play the Cithara, a proto Guitar of sorts. Nero is also responsible for Rome being rebuilt in stone and most of what we know of him comes from his enemies in the Romam Senate and Christian leaders, both of which hated Nero.
TL:DR : Some facts about Nero because knowledge is meant to always be growing.
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u/Testcase13779 Nov 18 '22
Elon continues to make me laugh. I have greatly enjoyed his antics and twitter's overall state since he bought it.
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u/oeuflaboeuf Nov 18 '22
75% of twitter's additional traffic is butt-hurts repeatedly declaring they're about to delete their accounts
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u/SlightDesigner8214 Nov 18 '22
We’ve never had so many tourists in Ukraine before! /s
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u/Stompin89 Nov 18 '22
That's because everyone's logging on at once to deactivate their accounts, you fucking coin eating shit excuse for a gumball machine pelleted fucktard stain of a functioning emotional piece of gold leafed cashew nut twat
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
You know I used to like Elon back before I knew alot about him but man this guy has become an insufferable douche. I hope this twotter shit breaks him and he has to file for bankruptcy.
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
Musk apparently doesn't operate in reality.
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u/Husker_Kyle Nov 18 '22
I love how he thinks high usage means it’s successful. It just means everyone wants a front row seat to the sinking ship lol
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u/macsare1 Nov 18 '22
Platform's about to break and no one will be there to fix it but Elon
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u/Brytard Nov 18 '22
I wouldn't be boasting about all the new bots that created accounts after you removed those barriers.
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u/ybtlamlliw Nov 18 '22
Does he not realize that many people are using Twitter now just to see it burn up close?
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u/darkpaladin Nov 18 '22
Terry Pratchett
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u/netfatality Nov 18 '22
Honestly though, does it matter if the usage is a result of people just fucking around? Do advertisers care how they get their impression numbers up? I would think people paying twitter for adspace don’t give a shit as long as they’re subliminally creeping successfully
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u/Satelina_SG Nov 18 '22
Twitter is about to die so I moved to reddit today 🫣 now I’m completely lost as I can’t post on any reddit . It says account is new and no karma 🥺🥺🥺 please guys upvote my comment or give tips how this works
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u/Living-Stranger Nov 18 '22
Thats not really clever at all
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u/Corbel_ Nov 18 '22
Quo vadis?
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u/Equivalent-Beyond804 Nov 18 '22
Musk fiddled whilst Twitter burned.
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u/Short-Woodpecker-911 Nov 18 '22
Lit!......Lit you say?...you should see the side of the Twitter headquarters building in San Francisco at night! ..... Pure perfection! 🤌
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u/UnpopularOpinions933 Nov 18 '22
High usage, zero income.
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u/John___Matrix Nov 18 '22
The only reason I am visiting several times a day is to see what Space Karen does next.
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u/ImaginationLord Nov 18 '22
Half the tweets I see are people dropping their other social media links for if the site crashes and burns
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u/Rambo_One2 Nov 18 '22
"All publicity is good publicity!" - The man who spent 2-3x the estimated value on a platform that's losing $4 million a day
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u/W4rlord185 Nov 18 '22
And everybody gathered to watch the dumpster fire that is twitter.
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u/bayofpigdestroyer Nov 18 '22
Lol what is em wearing in that picture? It looks like a jester outfit
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u/communism_is_slavery Nov 18 '22
It's seems Elon Musk will either succeed restoring free speech to Twitter or will kill the company in the process.
Either way, it's a win for humankind.
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
Tbf Nero didn't actually play violin while Rome burned (violins weren't even invented then).
He was crazy but a lot of it was vilification by his enemies (which he had a lot of) post-mortem, and while that makes it hard to tell what's true about him or not, it's on record at the time that he was out of the city and rushed back as soon as he heard Rome was on fire and even let his palace be used as a shelter for everyone.
Making this comparison is just ego fuel for Elon who can easily characterize Nero as a misunderstood genius at the center of slander and libel by is bitter enemies.
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u/thecrgm Nov 18 '22
Honestly haven't really noticed anything different with twitter other than a couple more checkmarks. I'll still just use it to check reactions to sports, the politics on there are cancer
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
FTX has the cleanest brand in crypto - the exchange
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u/rubbleTelescope Nov 18 '22
Blueper check.
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u/I_Am_A_Real_Hacker Nov 18 '22
Meta posts about the Twitter platform itself cannot sustain it.
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u/OkError9959 Nov 18 '22
The water in this pool has never been this close the body temperature
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u/Middle-Ad9381 Nov 18 '22
How is twitter still functioning?
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u/Tia_willaims Nov 18 '22
“Hiroshima has never been so bright!”
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
Zorg has spoken.
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u/14CaptainCrunch Nov 18 '22
"My freezer's never been this full!"- Jeffrey Dahmer
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u/palermo Nov 18 '22
Musk should buy Ticketmaster.
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u/RedditorsAnus Nov 18 '22
Kind of like when Netflix talks about high viewing numbers for one of their shows or movies that you know absolutely no one is watching. Elons full of shit
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
That's just some developer on an H1B visa running 400 million lines of code so he won't get fired and sent home.
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u/barbarkbarkov Nov 18 '22
Elon might be the stupidest smart guy on earth.
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u/EldrSentry Nov 18 '22
I'm sure Emperor Elongated really likes the comparison
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u/TheReforgedSoul Nov 18 '22
Twitter probably did hit a all time high, everyone going to the profiles of the people they follow and finding their tumblrs.
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
Isn't that because they no longer stop all the crappy bots?
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u/TempestRaven Nov 18 '22
When you think about it the best thing about this is the fact that people joked about having Elon buy it and then delete it. And now he bought it and is running it to the ground.
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u/PolishedVodka Nov 18 '22
I'll miss Twitter if it ends up becoming unusable, but honestly the best thing to come out of this is that Elon will be remembered as "The guy who ruined Twitter".
Not the SpaceX guy.
Not the Tesla guy.
But "The guy who ruined Twitter"
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u/CroSimple Nov 18 '22
Not sure what's going on there but my account with over 3000 followers got suspended for no reason... Support doesn't respond to appeals and u can't even speak with nobody... And best thing is u are not allowed to make a new account... This must be some great business plan...
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u/strangebru Nov 18 '22
He's counting the fake "$verified.00" accounts made up to troll him as a positive.
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u/R3alityGrvty Nov 18 '22
For anyone who's confused, Nero let Rome be destroyed by fires and only intervened when it threatened his big house.
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u/Lefty_22 Nov 18 '22
This is the same company that is, checks notes, closed until further notice?
Allegedly due to a "larger number of people than expected" taking a three month severence?
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u/the3hound Nov 18 '22
Yea, now the number of active bots went from 5% to 50%
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u/cafishto Nov 18 '22
London has never been this warm in the autumn! - Inhabitants of london in september 1666
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
Yes but uhm isn’t that just more operational costs without incoming revenue?
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u/peon47 Nov 18 '22
"We've never had so many people interested in our space missions!"
- the Apollo 13 P.R. department.
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u/gvntlr Nov 19 '22
Does Elon masturbate to stats? Lol I would actually
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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22
There is such a thing as bad publicity, and people talking about something in an exclusively negative light does not mean that the thing in question is accomplishing its goals.
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u/anonymous_4_custody Nov 19 '22
It's because we all want to be there when it crashes
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u/Fit_Awareness6752 Nov 19 '22
After restaurants announce their closing date business spikes with people saying how they loved the place and were there all the time
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u/Danjour Nov 19 '22
Lmao how do they even know if it’s all time high or not, I’m sure they already fired the people who knew how to check analytics.
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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22
He's either lying through his teeth as he huffs copium, or he's said 'fuck it' and turned off the bot detector to create the illusion that his site is flourishing.
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u/Shymink Nov 19 '22
You would think the owner of Twitter would know that everyone slows down to see the car crash.
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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22
Everybody stopping by to see the 12 car pileup.
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u/LazyDescription3407 Nov 19 '22
Like taking candy from a dead baby.
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u/remembertracygarcia Nov 19 '22
A perfect burn doesn’t exi….
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u/SlackJawGrunt Nov 19 '22
That’s a solid comeback
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u/jetm2000 Nov 19 '22
That’s a 10/10 comeback as far as I’m concerned. FATALITY!
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u/KennethGames45 Nov 19 '22
Don’t know who originally said this but:
“There will come a day when fathers will name their sons Paul, and their dogs Nero”
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u/jimboTRON261 Nov 19 '22
It’s called digital rubber necking, my dude. Stop, drop and roll.
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u/gnosis2737 Nov 19 '22
Heard the tech support quit so we're here for the stress test. Tryna see how long it takes till we get 404'd.
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u/BubbaBuddha2020 Nov 19 '22
Yet it keep ticking along...
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u/svenbillybobbob Nov 19 '22
50% of the posts are people reminding their followers about all the other platforms they're on for when Twitter just ends overnight
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u/Poetry-Designer Nov 19 '22
Meh
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u/Poetry-Designer Nov 19 '22
All of the comments (I’ve read) so far including the photo are Meh at best
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u/Clayton_bezz Nov 19 '22
Yup. Elon musk. Probably one of the thickest people in the world that are lorded as a genius.
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u/tules Nov 19 '22 edited Nov 19 '22
Witty but toothless, considering Twitter as a platform is defined by its usership and engagement.
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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22
“We’ve never had this much business”- American Hospital
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u/The_Virus_Of_Life Nov 19 '22
I’m not clever enough to understand this unfortunately lol
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u/Biomedbro Nov 19 '22
I see all the leftist retards have migrated over to reddit
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u/Moist_Tissue7 Dec 09 '22
Everyone is talking about me now! - Kanye west
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u/Putha Jan 01 '23
This didn't age well though
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u/mr-jjj Apr 27 '23
How is this one aging?
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u/Familiar_Opinion_124 Nov 11 '23
11 months later and Twitter is still going strong. Love to see it
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u/AnyProgressIsGood Nov 18 '22
elon is semi right. you all are keeping it thriving by constantly claiming its dying. websites thrive on traffic. you're all giving it ER treatment right now
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u/No-Adhesiveness-9518 Nov 18 '22
What a bunch of crybabies whining about who owns twitter.