🦤Well, that hasn’t gone so well! Having bought Twitter with a mission to clean up fake accounts and proclaimed that “comedy is back on Twitter”, Elon’s new $8/month subscription service has been ROCKET FUEL for comedian tweeters. Now it’s over!
Some are funny, many are distasteful or offensive and a few caused real problems for corporations.
🦤Eli Lily’s share price bombed after a tweet from a verified account claimed insulin was now free.
🦤Chiquita issued a denial after a verified account tweeted they’d overthrown Brazil.
🦤 A verified “Pepsi” tweeted “Coke is better”
🦤They even went after Tesla with a verified fake account.
The thing is this (being serious now). This is an almighty Sh$tshow.
It’s costing Elon Musk far more than the $47 billion he spent to buy the platform.
Musk’s reputation as a one-of-a-kind, brilliant brain is taking a beating. Can it recover?
At this rate, Elon Musk will be joining Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng in the “that didn’t go to plan” club
I dont want Twitter to fail, but I can’t see how Elon Musk turns it around all the time he’s in charge.
Without an adult in the room, Twitter is doomed (doomed i tell you!)
PS: I wrote this thread with @typefully.
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