Folks on camp “let’s give Elon the benefit of the doubt because he is successful” seem to fall for the same “let’s give Trump the benefit of the doubt because he is a businessman.”
In both cases, they have fallen into the trap that having some amount of executive function translates into a guaranteed success in other domains.
@Migueldeicaza i’m giving him the benefit of the doubt becase what he tries to do is interresting. I’m not sure he will succee in making twitter a bot free social network where the algorithms are open for everyone to see. I’m not sure that it’s going to be good, even i he does succee. But it’s interresting to watch. It might become something good or it might totaly bomb.
@Migueldeicaza I’m not arguing with that. He also clearly have no clue on how crowds of people work. But still. I don’t like what twitter, facebook etc has become over the years, so it is interesting to see someone try something else. Elon is the only one that has the posibility to try things at scale, without shareholders or board members kicking him out.
@kajetan I get it, it is exactly what I said on the first tweet. It is a bad premise to start with.
@kajetan his ideas were flawed, as were his perception of twitter - extensively documented. So he didn’t start on a great path, he was chasing ghosts that were not there. And his execution so far has been a master class in incompetence.