X -Where Twitter goes to die.

[Suranis]

The idea of stock grants as pay to me is rather insane, but hey no-one asked me.

[somerset]

The idea of stock grants as pay to me is rather insane, but hey no-one asked me.

Why?

It ties some of your compensation to the success of the company, and since options and RSUs typically vest over time they tend to keep folks around longer. It's standard practice in many, many high tech companies.

[much ado]

The idea of stock grants as pay to me is rather insane, but hey no-one asked me.

Our son made $1.2 million before taxes from his stock options last year when his startup was bought out. So he is in favor of them. None of mine ever panned out.

His first financial goal, he told us, was NOT to spend $200k on a new Porsche.

[Slarti the White]

The idea of stock grants as pay to me is rather insane, but hey no-one asked me.

If you aren't giving equity as part of pay, you cannot attract the top people. I'd guess this is pretty common in tech firms and startups.

[RTH10260]

The idea of stock grants as pay to me is rather insane, but hey no-one asked me.

If you aren't giving equity as part of pay, you cannot attract the top people. I'd guess this is pretty common in tech firms and startups.

I don't believe this is common practice in Europe. If that would be, the empoyee would have a prorata allowance when his job gets ended before the end of year. Apart that mass job terminations have to go thru government proscribed procedures on the Old Continent.

[poplove]

A very interesting thread:

Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ
@padresj
Now that block bot has had time to do its thing, here's a dispassionate look at the Twitter deal.

The purchase price was north of $44b. That amount was raised w/a combination of $12.5b in financing, $21b in equity, & the remainder from a loan secured against his Tesla stock.

This caught my eye:

ad sales account for about 92% of Twitter's revenue.

Those ad sales only went up once Twitter started aggressively going after troll and bot accounts.

No brand wants its ads posted in a stream of people writing the worst-possible thing they can think of to write.

[Volkonski]

[Foggy]

Yeah, y'know what? Good.

Because that's so unhinged it really says something about Elon Musk that people need to know. So, good job. Good tweet. Thanks.

Sorry, I'm in a mood. I couldn't do my class today. My arms hurt.

[bill_g]

Maybe Tesla sales will drop because of stuff like this.

OR

GQP members will suddenly get aboard the EV train.

[Foggy]

I might get banned, which would make me very sad.

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[Suranis]

I'd laugh and laugh if Tesla suddenly became a MAGA brand. "nyuk I got myself Tesla to make the Libs cry! Where do you put in the Gas?"

[Foggy]

No, because Dr. Conspiracy has two of them.

[RTH10260]

Dr C will stop driving them just show Elon .....

[SuzieC]

I hope the Pelosis sue Elon Musk for every one of his remaining billions.

[RTH10260]

You think Alex Jones left a papertrail of precedents thru the court system?

[RTH10260]

Foggy needs to claim copytight for Under The Bridge sections of a platform

Twitter could split into strands allowing users to stage rows, Elon Musk says
The billionaire owner suggests the platform could have different video game-style modes, including a ‘player versus player’

Dan Milmo Global technology editor
Sat 29 Oct 2022 13.36 BST

Elon Musk has indicated that Twitter could be split into different strands where users give their posts content ratings and stage online rows in a specially created space on the platform.

The world’s richest man moved to assuage concerns about a rise in harmful content under his ownership on Friday by announcing the creation of a content moderation council.

Musk bought Twitter for $44bn last week, giving him control of an influential social media business with more than 230 million users.

However, Musk then said on Twitter that a “better idea” than the council might be to separate the platform into different strands. He also backed a user’s suggestion that the service splits into different video game-style modes, including a “player versus player” version where verified accounts can hold Twitter spats.

A Twitter user tweeted Musk on Friday that the Oversight Board established by the owner of Facebook and Instagram was a “losing game” because it did not satisfy people on the right or left of the political spectrum. In reply, Musk wrote that a “better idea” might be to select a version of Twitter in the style of choosing a film based on its content rating.

He wrote: “Being able to select which version of Twitter you want is probably better, much as it would be for a movie maturity rating.”

Musk added that that rating of a user’s tweet could be self-selected and then “modified by user feedback”.



https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ow-strands

[p0rtia]

Fuck Elon Musk.

[Phoenix520]

…with a rusty dildo.

Let the Games Begin

What a fucker. Biggest troll on earth.

[RTH10260]

Twitter could split into strands allowing users to stage rows, Elon Musk says

Dan Milmo Global technology editor
Sat 29 Oct 2022 13.36 BST

Elon Musk has indicated that Twitter could be split into different strands where users give their posts content ratings and stage online rows in a specially created space on the platform.


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ow-strands

Dear Elon, do you still pay the qualified software engineers or did they already leave? Or did you fire them among the 75%?

[pipistrelle]

Bubbles are what got us here. Chief Twit indeed. I wouldn't cry if everything fell apart and he and the bone saw people suffer the financial consequences.

[raison de arizona]

Some people are calling this a threat against companies choosing to pull their advertising from Twitter from a sitting U.S. Senator. In other news, I’ve spent a chunk of my morning tweeting at companies whose ads I’m seeing directly before or after tweets prominently featuring the n-word, asking them how they feel regarding their ad placement.

Corporations should think carefully before throwing in their lot with the far left of the Democratic Party.

@GM

[pipistrelle]

[Chilidog]

…with a rusty dildo.

Let the Games Begin

What a fucker. Biggest troll on earth.

I was permanently suspended from Twitter for making that same suggestion about Empty Gee.

[Foggy]

I now think the replacement will be here sooner than later.

[Chilidog]

So Elon's $45 Billion idea is to to turn Twitter into the thunderdome for bum fights?

Seriously?

Musk is emotionally retarded.