Musk likes to look good. He weighs in on notable events to boost his brand. He is also an extremely savvy investor who is very greedy, and has routinely manipulated markets for profit. Considering he is willing to roll over for the chinese (with a direct link between tweet and outcome), I don't trust him. It's not cute anymore.
I like Musk on the whole and have a lot of respect for his engineering stuff with the cars and rockets at which I think he's very talented but really on social media he's a bit rubbish and seems to be losing it slightly.
I mean accusing advertisers who stop advertising of blackmailing him and saying he'll let Twitter/X go bust to show them what for is a bit bonkers.
I agree - Musk's behaviour is harmful to his personal reputation, his businesses, his investors, and sometimes beyond. Also utterly unbecoming a CEO of companies which routinely have human life at risk, serve critical national security interests, etc.
(Yet I would not bet against him making a success of Twitter, as he has Tesla and SpaceX.)
Musk burned one side of his image quite irrecoverably. My opinion of him, not that it matters much, changed when he took over twitter. Previously, and without digging too deep I thought he was an excentric bloke who was still on the good side of things and genuinely wanted to make the world a better place, the benefit of the doubt he got that I didn’t know much of him. He now appears to me just like any othet insecure power hungry flawed billionare out there. And even worse, he orchestrated scams, eg, dogecoin rugpulls on SNL and so on. Yes, he’s good with money but has no ethics or conscience at all. And him being worshipped by his followers and fans may not only be a byproduct of his fame but something he needs to feed on.
I used to respect and admire Musk on a personal basis which led to me being interested in buying into the products and services he's responsible for (I own a Tesla Model X, and I applied for an avionics SWE position at SpaceX). The more he keeps up his cavalier attitude on social-media the more it puts me - and others in my social network - off from benefiting his companies, and by extension, him.
The same way that I'm not interested in working at Facebook because of Zuckerberg's attitude towards his users.
TBH I think Musk's own behavior is a big turn off. If the CEO of Twitter isnt going to act professional on Twitter, why should we pay for an ostensibly professional checkmark.
I don't trust Musk as a leader after what he's doing to Twitter. And all the cover ups about why they removed radar and sonar etc from the Teslas, and the false advertising about self driving and battery replacements and all that. They may be good cars, but I'd rather go with a good enough car from someone less manipulative.
Musk is an arrogant blowhard who is trying to cover for his failings. The Musk ventures that are going well, like SpaceX, aren't managed by him on a day-to-day basis. He's not a good CEO and from information publicly available has no business managing people.
I love a lot of what Musk does but thought those tweets were just insane, classless, and reprehensible.
Fortunately, he's seemed to have calmed down his social media game since 2018 (thank God), but he should still absolutely have to settle with this guy for a lot of money.
Sure, but Musk is not the person I will trust with a principled stance on anything - except what concerns his own ego. A selfless defender of humanity? Hmm.
I used to be neutral or slightly positive about Musk but this year really changed my view on him. He's a pathological liar, attention-seeker, vengeful narcissist, obsessed about his public image who's unable to handle criticism.
Musk brought this on himself. All he had to do was not make false financial statements on Twitter.
For that matter, he'd be better served if he didn't libelously call people pedophiles, try to start a war with the media, subject his factory workers to unsafe working conditions, and engage in union busting. Ultimately, these are all going to bite him in the ass, and he will have brought it all on himself.
I'm pretty neutral on Musk but he has an established track record of saying stupid shit on Twitter and ruining others' days/lives. Market manipulation, libel, trolling, etc. I guess I don't trust that a man with that kind of track record would be a positive influence on the social media hellscape we already have.
This is acknowledging that he also shares awesome stuff, like technical SpaceX details, and that he often engages with people in a real cool way.
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