It’s almost as if this Elon Musk guy is a giant cunt or something.
Aaaand done. Now I’ve deactivated all my Twitter accounts too. ¯\(ツ)/¯
This #shitpimple …Jeez… I can’t even stand to be associated with the platform now.
Edit: I just realized that the article is rage bait and that those two things have no connection to one another but still, I stand by my words and actions. I don’t need Twitter in my life.
In Germany, we call people like him Würstchen.
If I was the employer, I’d want to know what my employee is still doing on Twitter. “Don’t you know about Mastodon?”
This article is factual yet also rage-bait. Suspending accounts is something he’s doing now. Contacting employers of people working at car companies and investment firms is something he did five years ago. The article does not say he is contacting the employer of accounts he is suspending now; they leave you to infer that by placing both facts in the same headline but separate paragraphs.
No love for Musk, avoid Twitter, etc.
Even before gaining control of Twitter, Musk would take a proactive approach to addressing criticism.
Back in 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk actively monitored Twitter for tweets containing the hashtag $TSLA, often used by Tesla short-sellers. Musk would reach out to executives at companies to investigate employees who were potentially publishing negative tweets about his electric vehicle company.
During that time, Musk reportedly emailed former Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess in July 2018, questioning whether one of Diess’s employees was using Twitter to criticize Tesla anonymously. Business Insider later reported that Volkswagen determined the tweets were posted by the employee’s brother.
Musk also allegedly texted Lawrence Fossi’s employer. According to the WSJ, on July 23, 2018, Musk sent a text to the top executive at Fossi’s company, asking the boss whether he knew his employee, known on Twitter as Montana Skeptic, “was obsessively trashing Tesla via a pseudonym,” as disclosed in the report.
Straight from the article, for anyone wondering.
And that’s why you always read the comments. so useful when someone takes the few minutes to summarize the actual content.
