Is Elon Musk KILLING Twitter?! | Asmongold Reacts 

Listen guys, the only thing that matters is the Internet Historian video that will come out covering this twitter shit in 3 years.

The insulin thing is even funnier when you consider the fact that Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a $1. They wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.

15:14 whether that's the real company responding or not, it's just too funny how they go "we have not overthrown a government since the 50's"

When he said fired and brought back I thought he meant Ligma Johnson. That shit was hilarious

twitter cant get any worse IMO, its already a cesspool of the most toxic humans ever

I like how twitter just removed politics in my trending page

what that senior director said is 100% accurate. some of the laziest people in tech will go out of their way to knowledge horde specifically to be gatekeepers and spend "4 days" working on something that anyone that knows where to find a config file, could update it in 20 minutes

People are so desperate for twitter to fail but my experience from 3 months ago to now has literally not changed at all.

"This tanked their stock" -price drops 5% XD

To be fair, when Steve Jobs came back to Apple in the 90s, he fired tons of people, and especially management, who trashed the brand and it’s products over a decade. So Elon cleaning house and rapidly changing direction isn’t new in any business, it’s just a matter of it will work out or not.

The way twitter is set up, from character limits to how people see tweets/trending, to the culture of snappy hot takes it promotes, I'm all for seeing it on fire. I did like it for announcements and stuff though, its the people part of it that sucked. And I think the reason it's catching more heat than Facebook is because people use twitter... most people I know at least left facebook for a while now.

twitter was killing itself perfectly fine without elons help. he might just be the final nail or he might pheonix it... even money

I dont think its downhill at all i think people are just upset that their echochamber is dying

People forget that twitter was losing tons of money before Elon bought it.

The moment I knew Elon being forced to buy twitter is thee moment I realize this thing will be wild ride. But man, I really agree with asmond, the whole thing is funny af If it fail let it fail, if it improve then its a good thing.

I've have over 10 years experience in IT and if you think twitter was going to have issues immediately because of the layoffs you're uninformed

This is where reacting to Illuminaughtii's Elon Musk video comes into play. Would be a good react from a background on him. I can't say it has all the hyper detailed info, but it goes pretty well in

If your team isn't running it, then it's gotta be dying, right?

I think everything is ganna be alright with or without Twitter and a bunch of arm chair experts will fill in the gaps.

“Oh no Twitter is dying” No, you’re just mad you’re not protected, and your echo chamber is being dismantled. All they want is moral high ground on every instance of everything true definition of insanity.

I think the funniest one with those impersonation accounts is the Nestle one, because they actually did do that. In California, while we were experiencing a drought, Nestle syphoned water from the reserves we had, then sold it at a premium. So shitty.

Everyone who cares about politics and hates Trump thinks Twitter is dying. Everyone else is having fun.

i like how the whole twitter elon musk take over thing just automatically exosed so many people as being too biased to even cofrim or even do any research on their shitty takes. ha

Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, the company that is researching the brain implants to help paraplegics walk again and improve prosthetics performance for those who use them. Whenever you buy a company, you come in a cut out the fat to improve performance. He did this with both Tesla and SpaceX when he took over. It's a method that works for him. Things will be hectic for a while, but long term things will smooth out and probably improve as he builds out his vision, and that being a western version of WeChat.

"Take a couple heads publicly, everyone starts following the rules" I meann ya not wrong tho 😂

I think he's going back to a "serve the customers" strategy. Customers pay for verification, so that becomes the income instead of investors or advertisers. It's less income, because the 99% don't have as much money to throw around as the 1%, but it also means a lower overhead cost because they can fire all the censors, commissars, "safety boards" and other such bloat. This is also why so many corporations are not responsive to their customers -- when they get most of their money from advertisers, investors, and other top-down sources, they do the things big money wants for the customers, not what the customers want. I think he's going back to the old school tech company style, like how in the late '90's-early '00's they were actually cool, they would "move fast and break stuff" without being bogged down by corporate bureaucracy.

Im still waiting for Act Man to tell me what the problem was.

It hasn't changed at all for me, twitter was losing like $4 million dollars a day Elon had to change shit up and a lot of useless staff needed to be cut.

I think what we're witnessing is a whole bunch of people QQing over losing their echo chamber, and shocked to find out that reality isn't in line with their echo chamber. The reactions and salt from this are gong to be gold.

As a guy who hates using Twitter, the change of the main Twitter page to the Trending page alone let me start using it.

Couple of thoughts. I was an engineer for SpaceX for 4 years. I'm not a fan of Elon Musk whatsoever but there are some key take away's here. With that being said, when Elon fires multiple thousands of people it isn't the way everyone is claiming. When another BIG BUSINESS in general, any big business "at least for the companies I have worked for. Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, SpaceX" takes over, the normal case is: Cancel every bodies badge, every single employee except for those absolutely necessary and kick them out of the building. This prevents internal sabotage of documents or equipment from upset employees. They will then send you an email over the weekend if you are still employed. They issue new clearance badges and have a new orientation for those that are coming back with a summary of the big changes and BGO's "business goals and objectives". They don't just "fire" people like everyone is claiming they were. So all those people that were asked to come back, were not fired they were deemed essential and simply told they are still employed. Also, Elon didn't create Tesla he bought and kicked out the CEO's via monopoly. Tesla was created by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. Elon bought them out as a majority share holder and kicked them out essentially. SpaceX on the other hand was financed by Elon "which is pretty cool" but he had 0 input on any implementation or ideas. Originally he tried to buy old Russian ICBM's to use as a foundation for lack of better words. He then funded the original 13 engineers who already had been working on the idea for quite a while when he realized the raw material cost of building the rocket was merely a fraction of what payload launch cost and a final assembled vehicle would actualize. If it wasn't for those brilliant original engineers who have an extreme passion and talent he would have been going nowhere. Point being, money can give you a lot more opportunities than would otherwise and it makes failures that much easier to absorb. So with regards to Twitter, he'll be absolutely fine since he has enough finance to absorb the blow and he will find passion project people who don't mind the longer hours or grueling work load as I once did. Hence why he offers stock options that vest over X amount of years. Hire all the brilliant engineers at the beginning of a project, offer stocks that vest, "mine took 4 years to vest and I left immediately after for a better work/life balance job" the overall project core structure is complete, now you can simply hire scrubs just coming out of college to "maintain" design implementation without any real core design. AKA revision changes.

The problem with misinformation and people impersonating others is that we don't regulate who can access the internet. It's easy to say stupid people don't deserve to be on the internet, but THEY ARE. They also vote based on the misinformation they read on the internet.

This man would be surprised at the amount inventions and successful businesses were a result of someone "just wingin it".

If Elon straight up deleted Twitter the day he acquired it, it would have been improvement of the situation.

Twitter is the first time he is paying for it instead of just flipping the bill on the gov (twiiter is the only company that havent been subsidized)

azmond: bro you take a couple heads you have a couple public exactions suddenly people will follow the rules me: sounds like the Chinese government when they deal with protests

Twitter experience has been the same. Maybe more responsive for app. Chaos is rabid people freaking out about their loss of a biased platform

I think Elon is using the same tactic he does with Space X, when you want a large amount of change or innovation you can either go painfully slow and release a new function every month or two or release one to see how it works. It isn’t great in the short term but it leads to large change in the long run. It is why his rockets improve far faster than other American companies, because he isn’t afraid to lose a rocket to speed up improvement. RU-vid takes months to release one new feature, Elon wants to change twitter. It would take years for him to change it to what he wants with that method.

Asmongold talking about Elon is like the Mayor of Emerald City talking about the Wizard the day before that chick from Kansas and her entourage turned up at the city gates. Y'all buyin the smoke, man.

He's not killing it,he's cleaning it.Thank f..k

Lmao people thinking Elon made tesla when he actually just strong armed his way in and then retroactively named himself founder

10:55 He didn't make those companies. He bought those companies.

The place was an adult daycare, thousands of unneeded people with meditation rooms for them to rest their aching muscles from all the heavy lifting they did. I love what he's done with the place.

Twitter from our perspective is pretty much the same, but we were not getting checks from advertisers either. He has to find a way to replace all the ad revenue he lost or just keep letting it bleed money until he declares it bankrupt.

I love streamers complaining about Twitter moving to a subscription type service when streamers literally only survive because they are on a subscription platform like twitch. Asmond really has the most normal person take.

I got fired from a job for being a few minutes late a few times. Even though 99% of the time we had to wait 30 minutes for the delivery truck to arrive. A few weeks later they called me and said "we really need you to come back." I told them to piss off. Before they fired me, my direct supervisor said "your late sometimes but your our best worker so its okay." And then the very next day some upper management clod saw me come in late on the camera and fired me

I feel like Actman gathered all the bad takes about the twitter situation and put them in one video

Just an FYI from a software engineer: a service like Twitter can run relatively fine even with a skeleton crew... until it doesn't. And when an unexpected issue emerges (and it is a when, not an if) you better hope that you didn't kick possibly the only people who know how a certain part of your spaghetti operates when you decided to kick off half of the workforce randomly. From my point of view saying "Twitter has worked just fine for me lol" after the layoffs is a very bad take.

None of these people gave any shits about the bad things happening on that platform for the last decade. It's just like other commenters said they're just pissed off They're losing their safe space echo chamber

I think a lot of people have never known what happens when a company is bought out. A lot of times a company is purchased and it is divided up and sold off in pieces. Other times a company that is running well is left pretty much to it’s devices but they enhance it. And I think this is a classic example of over half of the company needed to be completely revamped and reworked. The difference here is usually most of these kind of things are happening behind the walls of a building and going on outside of the public eye without a stopwatch. Because of what Twitter is, everybody is seeing it (or thinks they are lol) But I honestly laugh at people who think he doesn’t know what he’s doing. They don’t see the endgame and they don’t see the steps and phases that are not going to happen overnight like instant pudding to get there. Anything as big and complicated as Twitter is not going to be remedied overnight and honestly with some of the messages they had going with child porn along with the censorship, it’s ridiculous to think that could all be fixed so quickly. The people who were screaming the loudest are the people who were enjoying the censorship in my opinion which kept them in their cocoon of never really hearing an opposing view. A lot of people stepped away from Twitter because that’s all it was. Now they are coming back and honestly I’m enjoying it more.

Im not convinced Musk is as smart as people would have it, not compared to alot of other CEOs around the world. I dont think he bought twitter as a calculated thing either, rather than going too far in a dck measuring contest that he suddenly couldnt back out of. And no Zack, you are not an agent of chaos. You are actively trying to have as few changes impact your life as humanly possible. Chaos for everyone else though, thats probably just boredom xD

the firing, then re-hiring of people can also be done in smart way because it allows the renegotiation of contracts on re-hire

Personally, I'm just worried if the place where I can easily get good fan arts and lewd arts (as well as updates from certain creators/games/orgs i guess) is going to go down. Right now it's fine, but long term? I don't know. None of the others are like twitter, not even mastodon. It's like getting a new king -- so long as it goes alright, I'm fine, but lack of stability worries me, so I want him off so that things could go back to the way things were, where I don't need to care about what the king's doing. A lot of the things that Elon did makes too much risks to my comfort, and whether Twitter will sink or not will be a slow process, so I'd rather not have anything that risks that shit. Also, as a former fan of Musk, I do think he _was_ smart. But I think he's letting too much of his ego get to him. Just because you're smart at one thing, doesn't mean you're smart at another thing. Elon was smart, because as he said back then, he works a lot and absorbs a lot of knowledge from his subordinates. I'm not sure if he's doing that now. Being 'smart' is a constant process, and being smart doesn't guarantee you'll make the right decision every time. I don't think he's making the right decisions with Twitter, and I don't think he's still as smart as he was back then.

Asmon should check out Nevin Nash's video on this. He has actual data, agrees mostly with Asmongold, and the original video is about 45 minutes long. It's a win, win, win!

I only see a win/win here. Either he destroys an objectively terrible platform or he improves it.

How tf do you go your entire life without changing your own oil? It's like a 15 minute job on most cars.

10:54 Charlie has a incredible timing his response is gold .

People dont understand that failing is a good thing and people that succeed the most have also failed the most.

8:20 You are wrong here. These are not baristas from Starbucks (no offense). These are some of the most brilliant engineers in the world! Companies are already creating "crisis-mode war rooms" to strategize on how they are going to catch these rare "pokemons". And money is NOT the issue at all. They'll pay any reasonable compensation. It's not like Twitter paid too much.

Has Elon made Twitter better? The better question would be 'Has Elon made Twitter more profitable?' because that's what he's been aiming for with all these firings and changes to revenue. That's gonna be a LOT easier to measure.

Asmon, this is why I like you man. You aren't the typical streamer like this guy. He acts like he knows at all what it's like to run a multi million dollar company. He's not happy with how things have changed, maybe he knows someone who worked there who is upset or whatever but he's bot being objective. Firing people in a big company is totally normal. When my work was being sold I jumped ship because my pas was only min wage and I know how things go. Rather than stay and have to work ten times harder I left for higher pay. I was not making 6 figures, if I was I would have toughed it out and this guy's just not being real about how good these people had it. They were bragging on tiktok about their glamourous adult daycare life of free gourmet lunch and wine tap. These people played more than they worked so it was not hard to guess why his first move was downsizing the staff.

All the freaking out is absolutely funny as hell. I never seen so many people that are absolutely terrified. that some people will be able to talk and share their opinions.

I wish we had more platforms. But it’s like Asmon always says, people only play if other people are playing

He references the ship analogy so much Elon is going to build an aircraft carrier that can do a hair pin turn in half a second just to disprove this point.

You can easily tell what side RU-vidrs are on by weather they say Twitter has become 'objectively' worse or 'objectively' better.

Remember when Actman's crusade against QuantumTV failed?

This guy who Asmongold is watching is like reddit in person.

The thumbnail is a perfect representation of how to lose your pointer finger while firing a semi-auto lol

twitter has always been just the worst

Twitters numbers go against pretty much everything this dude is saying. I don’t think he knows what he’s talking about. I don’t think he knows to tell when he’s out of his league… Because he’s way off.

To be fair though Asmon, billionaire company owners can be as involved or uninvolved as they want with any (or all) of their companies. They can buy companies and then never set foot in them, or have people build their pet-project company and take in the credit despite their involvement amounting to firing the guy currently in charge if the end of year report says that profits are down. No actual skills are required. Not saying this is what Elon is doing... but keep in mind that those massive companies don't actually need the guy who owns them to get involved in any way in order for them to run/increase profit/innovate/improve/worsen. Just like the owner getting involved could have any of those consequences too. Money breeds money, and when your parents owned Emerald mines? You are wealthy enough to hire expert teams of people that will find great business deal ideas for you to purchase/invest in. People to manage every aspect of your finances for them to increase continuously. Including finding the best shady deals (like political bribing) that will directly help your companies bring in more profits/grow more. Have teams hired to get rid of small competitors or sabotage big ones. Personal ethical boundaries or what they are willing to sign are the only limit.... but, in essence, billionaires don't really need to have any skills or be geniuses in order to get at the top of the capitalist food chain. Capitalism does not run on skill or brilliance. It runs on conning people, screwing people over, taking advantage of others, destroying competition, bribing governments, creating loopholes, crushing worker rights, and on and on. Truth is, we don't know how much of Elon is at the base of any of his companies succeeding, nor does him being a billionaire company owner means he's a genius and a grand businessman. Maybe he's genuinely done some genius things for some of his companies... or maybe he just talks a bit of smack for attention and admiration.

Too many people who think they know how to run multibillion dollar companies criticizing a person who runs two multibillion dollar companies.

Twitter is working great on my end.

You were so right about the averts. They came flying back before we knew it. People get so caught up in the newest headline

Playing the bfv song during a warthunder ad. Classic

What I love the most about asmond is that he will watch every ad in a RU-vid video

I've been watching these reacts from time to time, but now you got a sub. You are resonable dude

I generally like the act man but he is pretty clueless this time around.

Not a musk fan, but it's a common tactic to just shotgun out a bunch of ideas and throw money at them until you find a winner. It's an effective way to make money if you already have a ton of money.

What do you mean Ethan didn't specify it? You literally looked at it when it happened, he had parody in his name and as his banner, he didn't have it in his twitter handle. Even you at the time questioned the ambiguity of Elon's tweet for not specifying clearly enough.

The Act Man loses on this take. The blue check on twitter was unfairly given to people, lots of people with lots of followers weren't given a blue check to verify them just because Twitter didn't like them. So his understanding of twitter being better before is only based on his experience with disregard of others. What about other people who are smaller but still want to be verified so one one bigger steals their smaller brands and be buried forever? Also did he know that already verified account changing their names to impersonate anyone other than themselves means they shouldn't keep their verification because now they are not who they say they are and should be rightfully banned regardless. Would these people themselves be fine if they get impersonated? If so then why bother keep their check? He also criticized Elon removing the Twitter managers. Did he know that these managers weren't in line with his vision and were against him? Did he know that people were blackmailing Elon with Tesla stocks and Twitter, people like Bill Gates? Advertisers and Media? The whole Democrat Party is against Elon Musk because he stole that Global Warming business they wanted to run and made the biggest business they were trying to control while they force fossil fuel out of the business and now they are stuck between their fake messaging of global warming to fund their eco friendly businesses that they will invest in which Elon took and wont heed their demands and the fossil fuel companies that they can't get into to get rich themselves. This is a much bigger picture than The Act Man could ever see which is disappointing because he always seemed like he would look into things with a microscope, maybe just a personal bias against Elon with this one. Let's hope he doesn't become the next Ethan. There is a lot more that is wrong with the Act Man take and this is a very stupid take, one might argue it is even more stupid than that time he thought sarcastically threatening youtube employees was a good idea on any joke scales. It is on the level of Ethan's call for violence followed by "it's just a joke bro" after everyone go against him on it. @37:25 Since when Twitter verification was used for your personal tracking of your colleagues and people of interest but others are considered unworthy of being verified of who they are and are "randos"? That is exactly the problem with what the blue check was, denied for some to create this class system where the verified ones gets all the gains. Then he is mad about Elon wanting to pay creators more than RU-vid. Twitter got videos on it already, they can simply scale it up and that's done, why is he so mad? The Act Man is supporting RU-vid who still have quantum running around who got him banned after breaking every rule to exist, one would think he would be happier there is a new competitor for RU-vid that could force RU-vid to treat and pay creators properly to not lose them.

They don't dislike parody accounts because dumb people might get scammed, they dislike parody accounts because dumb people might realize they've been getting scammed all along.

This video aged like milk. I hate to say it but asmongold is right again

36:10 so many people mix things up, its ok to not agree with a law, but that doesnt mean you can just completely ignore that law and not follow it.

I support everyone's right to be on the internet. But if you think an obviously fake tweet looks legit because of a blue checkmark then you should probably stay off for your own good.

Twitter can go away forever today and I wouldn't even notice or care.

It's funny he's saying calm down however he's the one waving his arms like he's a crazy person which needs to calm down because he doesn't like what he hears.

It's the "wow" during the war ad that got me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Yes...he needs to destroy the old Twitter in order to make Twitter 2.0...which what needed to happen anyway since Twitter 1.0 is fucking garbage. Good riddance

This didn't age well

I think it was a bring back because one of em said that he had locked other accounts on the way out

Act man really trying to act like he wouldn't post on Twitter in a year if he got paid more 🤣

This dude actman is so genius and so knowledgeable, he should build its own Muti Billion Dollar company. lol

Elon musks saying Twitter isn’t doing well, Asmongold saying Twitter is doing fine and says he isn’t biased😂😂🤦🏻

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the price of insulin high so that the insurance will have to cover 100% of it? Which means everyone is forced to get med insurance if they need insulin.

Also, Asmogold, I love that you acknowledge that just because a concept is a law that it doesn't therefore mean it is right. Amen.

39:45 "Is that a bad thing though?" Well, yes, it can be. The quote "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it" exists for a reason.

Imagine going from 12000 employees to 2000, firing the entire HR department, taking away peoples primary communication devices ( laptops, email addresses ). Then on top of that mandating that all employees be in office, in a company that is remote first. People literally had to take airplanes to other countries with 1 day notice to go into an office to not lose their job. Regardless if this somehow makes Twitter better in the future, many people got fucked at no fault of their own in the process.

Its funny to come back here now and see all the shit Elon done to make the app shittier.

Did he really use the battlefield theme for a War Thunder advertisement?