Tiedrich: From 'we're all going to mars!' to 'give me 8 dollars'

[zuul]

Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich)

Holy fucking shit, look how quickly things went from 'we're all going to mars!' to 'give me 8 dollars'

9:39 AM · Nov 3, 2022

Link to tweet

[Pete Ross Junior]

1. Please do bear in mind, no matter what else is going on with Musk and Twitter ...

He is in business for the money.
He expects to make a lot of money from Twitter's new audience.

Any effective counter must be on that level (and not in a Tweet).

[Demsrule86]

2. Fuck Musk...he is a magat and I despise him. He took money from the government you know...I

won't give him one red cent...I have signed off permanently from Twitter...it takes a month so Musk can play pretend with his creditors. After what he did to Paul Pelosi. Fuck him again.

[zuul]

3. I think the most effective counter to Elon is to mock him.

Very publicly.

On his own site that he paid waaaay to much for.

Because he didn't like people mocking his shitty cars.

On social media.

[Demsrule86]

7. And according to the watch dogs his cars are shitty.

The complaints point to all sorts of problems with the experience of owning a Tesla vehicle, including an inadequate number of service centers, limited stock of replacement parts, bad communication, poor manufacturing quality, and long wait times for repair appointments.

On May 3, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced a recall of nearly 130,000 Tesla cars because of an overheating issue in some cars’ central information display screens.

The news reignited discussion about the automotive company’s history with recalls, including claims that anywhere between a quarter and a half of the cars Tesla has ever sold have been recalled. This year alone, people have made the claim in tweets with more than 60,000 likes at least three separate times.

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/business-verify/tesla-has-recalled-at-least-quarter-of-cars-sold/536-eac87b54-4706-40a8-a2f1-3a6144cc100a

[OMGWTF]

14. Thank you for this! I've been driving a Chevy Volt for eight years and love it, but my dream car

was always a blue Tesla Model S; however, there's NFW I'm buying one now. So many other great electric cars are coming on the market.

[Celerity]

24. Porsche Taycan 💙

[Harker]

34. That's one nice looking four-door.

I don't think I've ever said that before, though there may be many.

[reACTIONary]

30. This is true....

.... and about all that we can do individually. Making twit a hellscape would help also, but it looks like musk can take care of that himself.

[Demsrule86]

5. Please do bear in mind no on here gives a shit about Musk or his need to 'make '

money. I often wonder about the greed of someone like Musk.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Well he's got an audience of one - FG. FG told him

earlier that there are too many fake bot accounts. So musk is trying to find them. But oops it's like a great day in management when you find something that's free and you could charge. He has bad timing. Why not just stop verifying??

What I don't get is ... Did the blue verified check mark mean anything? Didn't to me. Not even noticed. Do people equate it to legitimacy? Did people ask to be verified?

[Johonny]

4. I left Twitter. I like the format better than Facebook, but won't be on again

until I see how things shake out.

[Demsrule86]

6. I am done with twitter...Musk (the head nit-twit) posted that garbage about Pelosi... though he

he deleted the original...the BS replies from MAGA are still up. It is MAGA-twitter now and I want nothing to do with it.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. Yikes thought we knew of Russian influence on Facebook?

[Johonny]

25. ?

LOL, I drop kids pictures to my parents. No Russians are involved. People get so paranoid at times.

[reACTIONary]

31. +100. Me too, plus high school friends. nt.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. True dat. Know someone who refuses to open a TikTok too.

Guess I'm just averse to the whole idea of Facebook.... Cuz it corrals the low info's. And saw first hand how Cruz waited until the last minute when running against Beto and spread smear in FB. And it spread exponentially. Boom his work was done.

But like someone said, introverts don't want their whole life out there for anyone to see. We know people that actually feel it's necessary to tell the world that they are at a hamburger joint eating lunch

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. Ya well, there's the Mueller report..

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716374421/fact-check-russian-interference-went-far-beyond-facebook-ads-kushner-described

Not only were influence specialists within Russia's Internet Research Agency purchasing normal advertisements, they were authoring their own posts, memes and other content as they posed as American users.

They also reached out to politically active Americans, posing as like-minded supporters, and helped organize rallies and other events in the real world.

Facebook says the Internet Research Agency may have reached as many as 126 million people. Separately, Twitter announced that about 1.4 million people may have been in contact with IRA-controlled accounts.

The social media aspect of the interference was just one dimension. Cyberattackers also went after political victims in the United States — whose emails and other data were released publicly to embarrass them — and state elections officials and other targets. And there may have been other avenues of interference as well.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Well, I have absolutely no interest in going to Mars.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. I'll go to Mars

If its maintained as a MAGAt-free environment.

[CaptainTruth]

12. MAGAts to Mars!!!

Send them all.

[housecat]

27. I have no interest in Twitter or Facebook --never had, never will. Haven't decided about Mars though

[Lars39]

10. I will follow Tiedrich and Dan Rather

and all the other wonderful voices I had never known, wherever they land.

[housecat]

28. George Takei

[Lars39]

29. Yes!

I’m sure I’ve not mentioned many treasures.

[catrose]

37. Jorts the Cat

[Lars39]

41. Hadn't seen him before! Thanks!

[catrose]

42. No? The whole wonderful world of Jorts (and Jean) awaits you

Start with the 3 posts on AITA, the story of how we got Jorts and Pam had to stop buttering him. There's even a Jorts sea shanty.
Now he says nice things to us, helps cats get adopted (official Jorts merch!), and is a union leader.
[link:https://www.tiktok.com/@cyra_nope/video/7043158193002024239?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7043158193002024239]|

[gratuitous]

11. There's a good post at Balloon Juice about Musk's incredible blunder

Link to post here.

There is an unrolled 10-tweet analysis by Prof. Paul Bernal of what Musk has done and what he didn't do to safeguard his reckless investment, as well as the consequences for turning Twitter into another 4chan or Reddit troll farm. The lead-off tweet is:

Anyway, my tuppence worth on Musk and Twitter. He’s in for a rocky ride, and the question for me is whether his ego is going to make him destroy Twitter. Right now, what’s pretty clear is that he doesn’t understand what makes Twitter work.

It's worth a few minutes to read over.

[renate]

19. interesting!

And hilarious.

Musk's buying Twitter is kind of a Wizard-of-Oz man-behind-the-curtain moment. And I am here for it!

[gratuitous]

26. One point I thought was particularly salient

All the conservative message boards and chat platforms quickly become mutual support groups where they repeat their heinous crap to each other. While fun, what they really want to do is pwn the libs, and the libs aren't on their substacks or 4chan pages or wherever. So they're all chomping at the bit to get onto Twitter where the libs are, but as soon as these dumbasses are given their head by Musk the free speech absolutist, the libs are going to leave, and Twitter becomes just another troll farm. And there's no way that is profitable enough to service the debt that Musk has taken on.

But if Musk goes back on his free speech absolutist stance, the trolls will turn on him. As thin-skinned as Musk appears to be from the mild criticism he's getting now, wait until the most odious fuckers on the internet start roasting him. All the people Musk is getting rid of are the people who up until now have done what they can to keep Twitter a decent enough place that so many influential people want to be there. When they leave, Twitter becomes another troll desert where bored dipshits create another circle jerk platform shunned by all decent people.

Gives the whole episode a kind of Shakespearean "just deserts" vibe if Musk winds up losing his shirt trying to please the trolls.

[GoCubsGo]

35. "... he doesn't understand what makes Twitter work."

That imbecile doesn't even understand the point of a blue check mark for which he wants to charge people. He thinks it's some sort of status thing. It's not. It's a security thing to discourage fake accounts. I'll be surprised if Twitter is still around in current form six months from now.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. Thanks just read and posted too. Just saw this.

[smb]

43. From The Financial Times Article Linked From That Article

Banks that lent $12.7bn to Elon Musk for his $44bn Twitter takeover are preparing to hold the debt until early next year as they wait for the billionaire to unveil a clearer business plan they can market to investors....

I'd advise them not to hold their breath waiting....

[ShazamIam]

13. We know he will use bots and paid commenters, will he charge them $8? Who to pay for the bots?

[republianmushroom]

15. YES

[heckles65]

16. Ha! You silly addicts,

he's got you now.

I'll keep my $8 for something more useful, like a couple of those cracker-cheese-cured meat K-ration lunch packs.

[smb]

44. I'll Spend My $8 On Something More Worthwhile...

...like pitching eight hundred pennies into a sewer drain.

[IronLionZion]

17. Please sir, can I have some more?

Don't worry, his billions will trickle down eventually

[Farmer-Rick]

18. Keep in mind that's $96 plus tax

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A year it's not just $8 for the app.

That's $96 plus tax every year, over and over again.

I have so many more important things to do with $96, plus $9.6 tax in TN, then to give it to a greedy billionaire heir.

Couldn't I just get born into a filthy rich family then buy up popular websites and use tax supported space travel technology to look cool like Musk did?

So much easier than actually working.

[calimary]

32. He won't be getting my $8.

I use Twitter so infrequently that leaving it altogether is easy.

And if I had been a big user, I’d still leave, out of spite.

[dalton99a]

22. Another very stable genius

[ColinC]

23. Didn't he have a blue check before?

[keithbvadu2]

33. Well, it was to be $20. Before that it was free?

Well, it was to be $20.

Before that it was free?

What a bargain!

[Initech]

40. Elon went from billionaire visionary to bully who beats you up for your lunch money.