• TassieTosser@aussie.zone
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    Twitter, also known as X Corp, no longer has a media relations office.
    Reuters could not immediately reach Twitter’s Australia office for comment.

    Are they no longer even replying with the poop emoji? Damn those staff cuts must be drastic.

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      They fired the intern who used to post the poop emoji, he then proceeded to leave a little “poop emoji” in the old Twitter HQ.

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      Am I reading this right? The media company tried to reach the company without media office and expected a different outcome? XD

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        It’s probably part of their impartiality guidelines to ask for a comment.

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      They can mean cash flow problems. In Musk’s case, it may just be leverage. Just like Trump, he knows that he’s the bigger guy, when dealing with contractors. They can swallow the loss or fight it in court.

      If it’s planned, he should be prosecuted for theft, however, as always, it’s considered a civil matter and he’s protected by the corporate veil.

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      Yeah yeah, promises, promises. They keep saying Trump is going to jail too, but that never happens either!

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      god, i hope not. Elon Fuck is a source of amusement for me when he does his bullshit with Twatter.

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        If he ever goes to prison we should let him keep a connection to the internet so he can continue to embarrass himself for our amusement, sorta like Andrew Tate when he got people from the outside to compose increasingly unhinged tweets for him (shout out to when he claimed he was fighting ghosts in his cell, because he was being haunted???).

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        It’s more amusing watching him lose billions of his theoretical dollars and publicly brand himself a business failure.

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          Yeah, I’m totally amped to see him pop up in a “worst of tech” article a few years from now. “How do you destroy a wildly successful social network used by millions of people, including celebrities and politicians? Just add Musk!”

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    When you overpaid…you might as well run it down quickly and move on.

    Meanwhile he takes down the “left’s propeganda tool” but unwittingly spurs the further adoption of decentralised tools.

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      It does feel a little like “capture and kill” by Musk. Previous Twitter management wasn’t great, but the outsized influence of the platform has been well noted. It’s place in organising against dictatorships and preventing censorship (previously) has also been probably a net positive. All of that is gone with Musk at ENORMOUS cost.