There’s just something fucking hilarious about laying off employees, mocking them, and being sued for improperly firing them – and then whining that your competitor hired them and that they have access to Twitter information still.

I believe this fits well under the “fuck around and find out” doctrine.

  • @jonne
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    141 year ago

    It’s kind of weird that Musk assumes there’s anything special about Twitter that you couldn’t build in a few weeks with a competent dev team.

    The only value Twitter has/had is its user base. There’s no patents or intellectual property that can be sold off if they lose that.

    • @Salvo@aussie.zone
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      101 year ago

      Yes, It is definitely a case of taking US$44 billion and throwing it away. But it is worse than that, because Twitter was a resource for the internet community.

      And his attempts to make money after the fact are as pathetic as a World Leader using his position to spruik tins of beans.

      It is almost like some sort of performance art.

      • @jonne
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        81 year ago

        I never liked that the supposed public square on the internet was in private hands, it should’ve always been a protocol like Usenet or Mastodon where anyone could spin up a server and participate.