Thin Skinned Elon Musk Goes After Verified Twitter Accounts That Parody Him
Over the last few days, a number of verified Twitter accounts have taken shots at Elon Musk because his take over of Twitter isn’t exactly popular. These accounts going to the lengths of changing their account names and profile pictures to look like Elon Musk’s Twitter account. Here’s a couple of examples:
Now the account of Chris Wallcraft got suspended by Musk Twitter. But clearly this is getting to Musk. And as a result he posted this late on Sunday:
Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended
While I admit that what these people are doing violate Twitter’s terms of service, you have to ask what happened to free speech Elon? Is your skin so thin that you can’t take a joke. Especially when you are looking like a big joke in terms of how you’re running Twitter?
What quickly followed was the hypocrisy of this pronouncement by Musk being pointed out:
N-word: ✅ Antisemitism: ✅ Misogyny: ✅ Misinformation: ✅ General Bigotry: ✅ Pretend To Be Elon Musk: ❌❌❌❌❌
And it also points out what’s wrong with his Twitter Blue pipe dream:
While impersonating is clearly against Twitter TOS: -Today's shenanigans illustrate why you might consider separating verification, authentication & enhanced services -An exciting thing you mentioned before was a path to redemption-hopefully "permanent" bans will have that option
This is another example of Musk being unable to deal with critics in an adult manner. I cited an example in this post where he’s blocked people who question him in ways that he doesn’t like. The thing is that if he thinks that this will stop people from taking shots at him, it won’t. It will not only encourage more of this, they will also change their tactics. And then what are you going to do Elon?
Oh wait, it’s already happening. Via a reader of this blog:
That fits the pronouncement that Musk put out in terms of what is allowed. Until he moves the goalposts because he doesn’t like how that’s working, or not working for him. Of course you can always just meme the guy instead:
A simple search finds that there’s lots of these around. Is he going to ban anyone and everyone?
What we’re seeing is Elon melt down in real time on Twitter as it’s becoming increasingly clear to anyone watching that Musk is way over his head and doesn’t know what to do and is likely reconsidering his life choices. That on top of the fact that he’s incredibly thin skinned.
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Thin Skinned Elon Musk Goes After Verified Twitter Accounts That Parody Him
Over the last few days, a number of verified Twitter accounts have taken shots at Elon Musk because his take over of Twitter isn’t exactly popular. These accounts going to the lengths of changing their account names and profile pictures to look like Elon Musk’s Twitter account. Here’s a couple of examples:
Now the account of Chris Wallcraft got suspended by
MuskTwitter. But clearly this is getting to Musk. And as a result he posted this late on Sunday:While I admit that what these people are doing violate Twitter’s terms of service, you have to ask what happened to free speech Elon? Is your skin so thin that you can’t take a joke. Especially when you are looking like a big joke in terms of how you’re running Twitter?
What quickly followed was the hypocrisy of this pronouncement by Musk being pointed out:
And it also points out what’s wrong with his Twitter Blue pipe dream:
This is another example of Musk being unable to deal with critics in an adult manner. I cited an example in this post where he’s blocked people who question him in ways that he doesn’t like. The thing is that if he thinks that this will stop people from taking shots at him, it won’t. It will not only encourage more of this, they will also change their tactics. And then what are you going to do Elon?
Oh wait, it’s already happening. Via a reader of this blog:
That fits the pronouncement that Musk put out in terms of what is allowed. Until he moves the goalposts because he doesn’t like how that’s working, or not working for him. Of course you can always just meme the guy instead:
Is he going to ban any meme that he doesn’t like? And then there’s this:
A simple search finds that there’s lots of these around. Is he going to ban anyone and everyone?
What we’re seeing is Elon melt down in real time on Twitter as it’s becoming increasingly clear to anyone watching that Musk is way over his head and doesn’t know what to do and is likely reconsidering his life choices. That on top of the fact that he’s incredibly thin skinned.
Sucks to be Elon Musk right now.
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This entry was posted on November 7, 2022 at 8:56 am and is filed under Commentary with tags Twitter. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.