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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Unpaid bills mean cashflow problems. Clear signal that the end of Twitter is coming.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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???).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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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