Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot

Re:Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called h... by rgbrenner on Friday August 05, 2022 @08:39PM (#32363641)

note, musk created his twitter account in 2009... shortly after he became tesla's CEO. So unless you're talking about the original roadster, his twitter account existed before those people learned about tesla/musk.

Musk has pretty much used Twitter has his primary media communication method. Going so far as to say Tesla has no marketing budget because he's such a star on twitter. He has practically zero reach elsewhere. Sure, if he publishes on another platform, people will pay attention, but he doesn't... twitter is pretty much the way he communicates with the world.

If you dont think twitter is the reason you know Musk, then let me ask you this: who was the CEO of Fiskar? They released their EV product shortly before the model S. But you dont know the guys name do you? The product isnt why we know musk.

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Re:Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called h... by falcolas on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:08PM (#32363804)

Musk was pretty well known prior to Tesla because he was one of the PayPal co-founders (technically a co-founder of X.com which merged with Confinity to form PayPal).

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Re:Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called h... by rtkwe on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:17PM (#32364184)

I'll say as a person who was just coming out of HS and not in tech yet at that point I don't think I had any idea who Musk was until after he come into Tesla. I'll also say he wasn't as wild on his twitter till after Tesla and SpaceX bumped up his public profile.

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Re:Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called h... by andsoitis on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:18PM (#32363865)

> Musk was pretty well known prior to Tesla because he was one of the PayPal co-founders

Well known outside of tech? I don't think so.

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