re: Twitter Purge continues, Offices Locked Down Until Monday?

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Well according to his own employees, Twitter is commie as all hell, so of course you can’t trust them. Fire everyone, including the janitor.

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That all sounds good and I know that's what people would like to see, but I don't think this would be doing anyone, including Elon, any favors.

He seems like he has taken on sort of a bull in a China cabinet approach and he is maybe trying to sort of reinvent twitter.

There is an organic part of building a social media company. The most valuable asset are users. They are all like a 24/7 live TV station that depends on a lot of people to continuously feed it content.

In a perfect world, everyone who signs up would not be able to sign up more than one account. There would not be fake accounts tweeting out information with no one held accountable for tweeting out.. I guess "toxic" tweets.

If someone wants to put something out there, they wouldn't be able to hide behind fake accounts. But to be an as profitable as possible company Elon will likely not be able to make all the changes he will want to make.

Part of what makes twitter, twitter is the shite show. shite happens and everyone goes to twitter to see what people are saying about it. Its 24/7 reality TV. Its a good source to keep track of what is happening and a good source for entertainment.

Is there anything Elon can do to attract more people to use twitter? Nothing is perfect so no matter what he wants it to become, it will always have its own set of problems.

Bottom line, he can't just fire everyone then just start changing the platform to see how things go. Something might be a great idea in theory, but its not a good idea to just roll it out, if you change something too much from what people are used to, they will stop using it.