I think the equivalent English meme would be this exchange from Pirates of the Caribbean: "You are without doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of"/"But you have heard of me"
Funny thing about running an internet service. Every visit costs you money. With advertisers dropping like flies, more eyeballs isn't always a good thing.
Pretty sure other disasters have caused spikes in Twitter usage too. Even someone as dense as F.Elon should know that transient fluctuations in any metric don't mean anything. Do they not teach statistics in South African high schools? Only sustainable changes matter, and when Twitter itself is the disaster that's not sustainable. People will only stand around in hopes of seeing the final collapse for so long.
Highest DAU for xx% less overhead is literally winning. That's why people have lost their minds. They want him to fail so badly and they're getting the feeling that he won't, so cognitive dissonance is through the roof.
Twitter has not changed as a product. His Twitter blue has been a disaster so far. Hes getting attention for his much larger failure, being the worst tech company manager we've seen in a while.
You cant take credit for positive outcomes if you done nothing yet.
The same Twitter but with higher DAU is running with xx% less overhead. That's an objective improvement measured by numbers. That Twitter blue was a mess for a day doesn't matter in the long run.
Losing advertisers is a problem in the short term, but less overhead helps and they're pivoting the model. I thought we all hated ads? Now people suddenly support that model? Please. It's all so fake.
You’re giving him a lot of benefit of the doubt. So far we only have his untrustworthy[1] statements about DAU slightly ticking up, but we have third party confirmation that he’s lost a significant number of employees in critical job roles with no explanation about how Twitter can survive long term without them and advertisers leaving which is dropping revenue. Until he has an actual win or a compelling argument as to how his strategy is going to improve long term, I don’t see why you wouldn’t look at his management of Twitter as a disaster
[1]he already posted a conspiracy theory, deleted it when called out, and then said he never posted it. That’s his recent behavior, if you trust his statements I have a bridge to sell you
I give builders the benefit of the doubt, especially if they've done it before. Especially if they've put rockets in space.
That he deleted that stupid tweet was admission it was stupid. Where did he say he never posted it though? It's highly unlikely he said that and wasn't joking. He knows everything he posts is captured immediately.
>That he deleted that stupid tweet was admission it was stupid.
No, admitting that it was stupid would be an admission that it was stupid. Removing its existence is just hiding the mistake.
>Where did he say he never posted it though? It's highly unlikely he said that and wasn't joking.
Here[1], and inb4 you say that's obviously a joke. No it is not to a casual observer. He claims he never tweeted what was reported, and the only indication at all that the tweet should be read in a not monotone voice is the emphasis asterisks around not. All that indicates to a casual observer is that he is emphatically denying he ever made the first indirect tweet.
If you're a power plant owner and want to maximize energy output, setting the plant on fire is certainly one way to release a lot of energy very quickly.
Winning means making more money. Twitter isn’t a machine that automatically converts DAU to money. It’s an operation that sells ads. And it seems to be doing poorly at that as of late.
That just tells me that (a) they were/are over provisioned so an increase in DAU was a rather simple thing, (b) computers are deterministic and if everybody quit then the system is at the same state as it was when it already had less DAU and was able to handle more. There is no engineering feat here brought by him.
Are you seriously suggesting that making people believe that you're running the company to the ground is a good way to build publicity?
It's true that good publicity comes from amazing turnarounds. Final Fantasy XIV is a good example, since FFXIV 1.0 was widely regarded as terrible and 2.0 was lauded for somehow miraculously turning the company's fortunes around.
But the big difference there is that it was a new management that did it. You don't get points for completely ruining your company's best-known product (to the point where some believe it to be the company's only product).
The reason people are "using" Twitter now is to watch a trainwreck. Most people by now probably have a backup plan.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593455727611215872
> And … we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol
> Let that sink in …
He literally cannot distinguish between good and bad attention. He still thinks he's winning this.