Rob Fahrni

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The Musk Files: Part II

As the world turns so does the mess Elon Musk is making at Twitter.

Who knows how much of this once titan of social will exist once he’s finished dismantling it. Who will be the lucky company to buy twitter.com when the place fails?

Of course that’s probably a bit premature but it sure seems like it’s headed that direction.

How about his effect on Tesla? Yeah, it’s been bad.

Axios

Tesla’s stock plunged by 9% on Tuesday, poised to end 2022 on a grim note after having shed over 70% of value this year.

How about his own wealth? Yeah, it’s been bad.

Bloomberg

The Tesla Inc. chief executive officer has now achieved a first of his own: becoming the only person in history to erase $200 billion from their net worth.

Watch out! It's a blog fly!How are things going inside Twitter? By some accounts it really smells. Talk about a shit show.

New York Times

That has left the office in disarray. With people packed into more confined spaces, the smell of leftover takeout food and body odor has lingered on the floors, according to four current and former employees. Bathrooms have grown dirty, these people said. And because janitorial services have largely been ended, some workers have resorted to bringing their own rolls of toilet paper from home.

I’m sure the site is running just fine since Mr. Musk is a genius computer programmer and has probably optimized the site to the point of being able to run on a single 8 MHz 8088 PC, right?

Oh, there have been service disruptions? I see. 🤔

TechCrunch

If Twitter isn’t loading fine for you, you’re not alone. Tens of thousands of users are complaining that they unable to access the Elon Musk-owned social network, seeing scores of strange error-messages instead.

I’m trying not to embed Tweets into my blog these days but this chart shared by Dare Obasanjo is too good to skip. Tap or click on the embed below to see the chart.

Who knows, maybe once Musk as destroyed Twitter he’d like to run a Mastodon instance on musk.social? It’s still there for you, Elon.

So, yes, Twitter is going great! 🥳