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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a tl;dr based on smmry.com, the original was reduced by 68%:

Twitter is getting evicted from its Colorado office over unpaid rent A judge deemed that the company must vacate by the end of July.

It's another day, so here's another entry in the endless "Twitter is slowly becoming an empty husk" conversation.

The judge sided with the landlord and has given Twitter until the end of July to vacate.

The line of credit ran out a few months back and Twitter failed to make any additional payments.

TechCrunch unearthed another Colorado lawsuit aimed at Twitter, as a local cleaning company claims the social media site didn't pay its bills, totaling nearly $100,000 for services rendered.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good b... Oh wait, we need more useful bots on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hehe so far I actually did it manually whenever I read a news post without any comment yet 😉 But my plan is to implement a bot once I find some time 😊 Would love to see the bots from reddit join lemmy 😁

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the summary. It would be great to see an actual bot for this purpose when we have too many articles to do it yourself. This was always a great way to get a basic idea whether the article was worth reading with that bot on Reddit.

[–] abrasiveteapot 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

OK, the conspiracy theory that Musk is deliberately tanking the company is starting to become believable. Given his insistence on people working in the office, refusal to pay the rent seems to be a little contradictory. He may have to reconsider that policy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember there was a thread that explained it. But basically it was because you can write it off if you don't pay and you're not liable. He's basically downsizing. It's like how rich people don't pay taxes but normal people have to.

[–] abrasiveteapot 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd be curious to see the thread in question if you can recall where it was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It was a Twitter thread when he started refusing to pay, so pretty old now.

[–] mcc 6 points 1 year ago

I don't think he even consider people not right around him his employees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Or he was really successful at tricking people into thinking he was smart. Now that he's in the spotlight of the public more, people are shining the light and seeing that he just buys still and claims he made them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not only that but what a complete loser of a "businessman" Elon turned out to be. Can't even pay your obligations...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bring me 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code you've written in the last 6 months.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh. Suddenly that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about nooooooooo?

You ain't gotta know how to code to see that this whole Twitter thing is an absolute shitshow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's quoting Elon - Big Dummy Elon actually said this lol

edit: sorry for linking to Twitter, but this made news a while ago: https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593649356661436417

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now I have to go back and remove my reduce. I guess some quotation marks might have helped avoid the confusion, but thanks for clearing it up!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought it was obvious, I copied the e-mail exactly as is. Well I apologize lol you had the right reaction to that brain dead mail.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just another example of how billionaires become billionaires

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

At this point, I don't know why any vendors would trust Twitter. It's going to make it very hard for them to deal with other businesses. Elon can't be that dumb, so maybe he really is trying to tank the company.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In related news, Elon Musk has been adamant about ending remote work, but that’s likely to be difficult without, you know, office space.

I like this journalist.

Twitter disbanded its press arm and its trust and safety council, so there’s nobody to reach out to for comment.

I really like this journalist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's refreshing to see one that doesn't pull their punches. It's also very refreshing to see the general aura of Elon being this genius fading away finally.

[–] socialjusticewizard 1 points 1 year ago

So many of them get softballed these hilarious articles and flub it anyway. Delightful.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'm so happy everyone is finally seeing Elon for the nepot baby he is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

lmao so, in other words, the richest man alive fails to pay his rent. what a time we live in~

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