ThomasKnight

@ThomasKnight@mastodon.world

Thomas Knight. Conservation biologist. Dungeons & Dragons lover. Board game fanatic. Probably the only person alive to have been gored by a Nilgiri tahr. Have also held more kakapos than more than 8 billion other humans have. Even more than Stephen Fry, I'd wager. Liberal, in that I don't spread hate for people based on who they are- I am only intolerant of intolerance.

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ThomasKnight, to twitter

Well, yesterday I was impressed by how many news stories there were, all resulting from the incompetence & hate from . Yet here we are, less than a day later, with another stack of new articles on . It's insane. I suppose we'll start with a new/not new topic: Elon refuses to pay anyone he owes money to. He's being sued by yet another company he refused to pay once he bought Twitter. The company sums it up perfectly. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/03/twitter-faces-lawsuit-over-alleged-non-payment-for-office-services-in-four-countries

ThomasKnight, to twitter

Huh, I've been busy the past few weeks, and have been off social media & not paying much attention to news either. Then I noticed links to weren't working the past few days in media links. Checked the news about it, and am unsurprised that continues to destroy Twitter as fast as he can. Now has apparently got so many problems with the wheels falling off that he can't handle people looking at his website without another event 😂 https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-login-requirement-temporary

ThomasKnight,

It's so bad that even people who are subscribed (or even pay a subscription) are only allowed to view a set number of tweets per day on now, which is hilarious. continues to impress us with his business genius, that's for sure. There's nothing like blocking people from reading your social media site's posts to make people want to post there! https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/493046/twitter-access-limits-are-a-risky-move-and-the-reasons-given-are-unconvincing-nz-commentators

ThomasKnight,

Of course, refusing to pay his bills, the ones which keep running, might well be part of the problem here as well, and the reason is pretty much trending nonstop these days. is definitely not helping himself in that respect either. https://theconversation.com/twitter-is-refusing-to-pay-google-for-cloud-services-heres-why-it-matters-and-what-the-fallout-could-be-for-users-207718

ThomasKnight,

spreading hate against people isn't endearing him to most people who aren't left on either though, and he's done a lot of that. Mind you, it turns out that was backing the blocking of the nazis in a meeting, but then when his nazi supporters got mad, he threw his staff under the bus, so yet more of his staff have resigned. And in the end, the nazis called him out for being in the meeting when he said he wasn't aware of the decision. https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-the-daily-wire-twitter-resignations-explained

ThomasKnight,

And has finally followed through on his promise to hire a CEO for but nobody is happy about her. She's a right wing hack, but the right wing nutters are afraid she's part of the New World Order, so they hate her as well. And nobody thinks that won't really be running Twitter (into the ground) after she starts anyhow. So nothing is likely to change with her hire, apart from annoying more people. https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-new-twitter-ceo-linda-yaccarino

ThomasKnight,

On the bright side, has instituted 2 hour long videos on for some reason. As expected, it is being used to post movies, making movie studios angry with as well now. https://mashable.com/article/twitter-2-hour-long-videos-twitter-blue

ThomasKnight,

But it's not just pirated movies; is also now hosting the worst of right wing extremism, thanks to and his parade of nonstop supporters. They are also uploading videos of right wing extremists shooting people of other races & religions, because those are the people who connects with, it turns out. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchurch-mosque-shootings-terrorists-livestreamed-video-resurfaces-on-twitter/XQHRPVFNLNC3LM3GIXR2BPWVIE/

ThomasKnight,

It's interesting that has announced that the term is a slur on , but he is fine with attacking people nonstop. It's almost like is the snowflake that he accuses everyone who ISN'T a of being. His buying Twitter certainly has shown the world who he is. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2023/07/02/elon-musk-deems-cis-a-twitter-slurheres-why-its-is-so-polarizing/?sh=709408e84ac6

ThomasKnight,

Meanwhile, developers are fleeing as fast as they can due to the incompetence of and the complete lack of engineers remaining on the site. It's amazing to watch how fast has dismantled an incredibly successful social media site in such a short period of time. https://mashable.com/article/twitter-api-elon-musk-developer-issues-apps

ThomasKnight,

On top of that, keeps instituting things which are guaranteed to annoy users. has now said they are going to make it so you can't privately message people if they don't follow you unless you pay. You pretty much can't do anything without paying, and even then don't get much for it. https://mashable.com/article/twitter-blue-pay-dm-bots

ThomasKnight,

Of course, that's no surprise, since his insane extremist views & complete incompetence running a company means that has been tanking the value of , now worth 1/3 (or by now, much less) of what it was when he bought it, and falling. the financial genius at work. https://mashable.com/article/twitter-now-worth-one-third-what-elon-musk-paid

ThomasKnight,

told us all that his Blue subscriptions would save the company, but it appears that while the racists all rushed to buy subscriptions to support , only half of them kept them even this long. Poor Elon, even the nazis have deserted him. https://mashable.com/article/half-of-twitter-blue-earliest-subscribers-no-longer-subscribed

ThomasKnight,

Of course, wouldn't need nazis to fund him if he hadn't lost the ad revenue which used to keep afloat, but his open embrace of the drove the sponsors away, and they are less likely to come back as Twitter loses staff, loses users, and becomes more extremist & erratic. Which is all due to and his business genius. https://www.reuters.com/technology/ad-spending-twitter-falls-by-over-70-dec-data-2023-01-25/

ThomasKnight,

So now has disbanded and formed a new parent company for it, simply called X, in Nevada. Why Nevada, since he has no ties really to Nevada? I'm sure the fact that it's renowned to be nearly impossible for shareholders to sue you for incompetence/grift in Nevada had no part to play for when deciding. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-11/twitter-becomes-x-corp-as-musk-advances-everything-app-hopes

ThomasKnight,

@TudbuT Seriously. He's not even trying to hide his extremism and prejudices. It's just insanity. I don't understand why anyone is on anymore, given how horrible the owner is and how often is happening. What is the point any more? Even if you can ignore the extremism, the site doesn't work. It's baffling.

ThomasKnight,

@brianonbarrington It's not that it's insolvent; it's that Elon doesn't want to pay his bills. Typical billionaire bs, frankly. He's clearly hoping that he won't get sued though, on top of everything else.

ThomasKnight,

@brianonbarrington It would be more believable if Elon had made some payments, and then started missing payments, but he started off by refusing to pay any bills, while sacking half the staff. At this point it's broke for sure, but certainly didn't start that way.

ThomasKnight,

@Ongo_Gablogian @TudbuT Yep, I agree. I left long ago, and I have no regrets.

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