While Twitter has the current vibe of a going away party, I am here to say it isn’t going away despite it needing to be.
Recall the exuberance over Elon “attempting” to back out of the deal to buy Twitter and how many felt that was the end of it? I consistently stated during that transition that Elon was still going to buy Twitter. He did and did so within a truncated time frame due to a Judge setting a hard date Elon had to make and barely did.
Twitter as it presently is, isn’t functioning for some people. It will lose a lot of users over the next two weeks and may have repeated crashes, scripting bugs and a ton of issues. Even if it goes down that is only a temporary thing as Musk has his own team of engineers assembled to bring X, which is simply Twitter 2.0 to market. That will include many of the features Twitter has, along with long long form written and video content meant to inform, entertain and most importantly, to radicalize on a widely accepted mainstream social media outlet that the media failed to accurately report on for a decade at least.
Silicon Valley execs DO have plans. This isn’t JUST Elon here making the decisions alone either. He bought the platform because his teammate Peter Thiel wanted him to capture it for the team, and he will use that platform’s next iteration with all the stored data effectively.
I still like this Ben Collins statement here, save the first line, as he hits the truth regarding Twitter’s critical and central role within US Democracy and the world.
I repeat, Twitter isn’t going to ever go away permanently.
One reason Twitter isn’t, is this intelligent take:
The talent is there.
I haven’t reported that much on some of the talent and tech Peter Thiel and his associates previously lined up using data acquired from social media though I do have a general understanding and knowledge of it.
It’s extensive. Much of that stuff is military grade, Palantir, ClearviewAI, Yonder tech, meant to be used by a police state surveilling the populace. That sort of tech makes governments dependent on the very individuals intending to disrupt and dismantle manipulating social behavior to get what they want.
Those same actual genius level engineers are available from Thiel to transform Elon’s Twitter into X, something I personally anticipated would have happened no earlier than spring of 2024 until this past week.
Get it?
Elon may have screwed up timelines here, lost a third and likely another third of his wealth before this is over, yet he knows the longer timeline here is supposed to be a “win” if executed fully.
Just like January 6th was supposed to.
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JFC, we gotta take these billionaires out. It starts here with you, Mr. Jarvis. So grateful for your help ❤️