TWITTER KILLER!

The Myth Of Elon Musk Being A Genius

Dash MacIntyre
7 min readNov 18, 2022

Is Musk’s purchase of Twitter the worst business decision ever? Is he actually a moron?

Credit: DonkeyHotey (via Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0)

Following Elon Musk’s demand that Twitter employees sacrifice their personal lives and mental sanity to fix arguably the single worst business decision in history of Musk buying famously unprofitable Twitter for $44 billion, the social media site is down to roughly 12% of its workforce as of just a few weeks ago after Musk fired half of the company’s employees and then convinced the majority of the rest it was time to find better, more stable employment elsewhere.

Whether Twitter dies completely from enough engineers leaving that Twitter literally powers down and the institutional expertise on how to keep it running is getting buzzed somewhere in a severance-funded vacation spot, or Twitter limps along with enough trolls, racists, Musk bootlickers, pornographers, and crypto scam artists paying the monthly $8 to keep the lights on, the Twitter we knew and were addicted to might possibly be ending.

It is at least the end of an era as Musk threatens to hide all the content and comments from users who don’t feel compelled to pay the richest person on Earth to use the formerly free Twitter, and whatever will remain of the social media company might feel like Rome following its sack by the Visigoths…

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Dash MacIntyre

Comedian, political satirist, and poet. Created The Halfway Post. Check out my comedy book Satire In The Trump Years, and my poetry book Cabaret No Stare.