The kicker is that Musk himself clarifies Poop Emoji = "BS".<p>So press@twitter.com official's, automatic response is... fake news? A pre-emptive dismissal of criticism or questions with 'it must be bullshit'?<p>There's a tacit endorsement of raw power here - the strong do what they can (lol! poop emoji!), the weak endure what they must (I guess the powerful can just send us poop emojis in response to questions now...)<p>Another public square is destroyed. Another means of organization co-opted.<p>We are in trouble.
Musk seems to be more like an immature high school student than anything else. If he's always been this way it shows how much "meritocracy" is completely untrue. I just don't get it.
Any Tesla or Space X workers want to weigh in here, can't feel good to be under the pump 24/7 while your CEO has spent most of his time since November arguing with everyone online.
Enjoy your ad revenue not coming back!<p>There's one thing most ad money cares about: brand management. If you can't answer questions to the client they'll happily find other places to advertise.
So, some newspapers have a policy that they will publish whatever the company replies with when they enquire about upcoming stories, as a sort of right of response.<p>This may be the first time that the poop emoji will grace the pages of respectable broadsheets (I wonder does the printing tech support emojis, actually…)<p>I do wonder if Musk is in a bit of a bubble with all his weird twitter sycophants, and doesn’t understand how _bad_ the company looks right now.
Nice.<p>===============<p>from: Shaftway <my@email.address><p>to: press@twitter.com<p>date: Mar 20, 2023, 3:29 PM<p>subject: Elon Musk<p>What is Twitter's official opinion of Elon Musk?<p>--------------------<p>from: Press <press+noreply@twitter.com><p>to: my@email.address<p>date: Mar 20, 2023, 3:30 PM<p>subject: Re: Elon Musk<p>signed-by: twitter.com<p>security: Standard encryption (TLS) Learn more<p><poop emoji><p>===============<p>I plan on keeping this email in case it turns out to be useful.