Best place to cut costs would be to retrench their whole video player team. At this point I am not even sure how it is possible to make a product that so routinely fails to function for so many people.
on desktop, if RES and old.reddit stop working. ill never go back
He single-handedly destroyed one of the best brands of the modern online era (tweet, Twitter, the bird logo) only to replace it with a brand identity that was stale 20 years ago and is commonly associated with porn.
The site’s traffic continues to plummet and his investment is worth billions less since he unleashed his acumen.
I used to think he was a great businessman until the Twitter thing removed his mask. It’s easy to achieve financial success when your father owns an Emerald mine. Then you strong-arm people out of their businesses (look up the businesses he actually started).
Twitter will be dead when people stop talking about it dying.
Musk making unforced errors isn't new. His businesses do incredibly well regardless.
He was very good at raising money when money was free. Unclear if all the other things about him add up to a net positive for his companies now.
I'm not fooled by the illusion any longer, but I do understand it's hard to separate the things he's taken credit from other people for, vs the things he himself championed/implemented.