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Bhavik Patel's avatar

At first I was like that couldn't work

Then as I went on I saw the brilliance of the whole thing.

Twitter is presently maintaining their brands for FREE!

I would want to be an account exec with this sales strategy and honestly it's even cheap for the companies.

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apxhard's avatar

Brilliant.

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MORGAN WARSTLER's avatar

You almost got it :)

Told Elon this last year at ATX party- I've been saying it for years Twitter's correct biz model is the "Complaint Ticket"

EIGHT BILLION PEOPLE need a place to complain. To yell at Delta, or Wend;'s or a bodega in Turdistan, when they get fucked by commerce.

ALL sellers want you to go to their silo and file your complaint. Elon should perform a hostile takeover of all eCRM and sell brands the tools to manage their complaints LIVE AND IN PUBLIC.

If you don't pay up and then solve these complaints the complaints pile up and elon surfaces them to users right when they are thinking about buying (yes we know then that is)

Anyway, good job

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Sgt Sternhammer's avatar

I love the idea. But how do you get around US trademark law? I think OnlyFans Wendy gets immediately sued by Todd, and she loses. Elon doesn't even have to be part of the suit. But what if you charge Elon with conspiracy to commit fraud? I think there's a reason this $1 trillion bill is still sitting on the sidewalk.

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Sgt Sternhammer's avatar

Oops, I see Ryan and Curt beat me to this point.

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tugordie's avatar

This was amazing. Time to @Elon with it

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lv4lf's avatar

Yes, Everyone @elonmusk this on twitter.

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Mike's avatar

Very similar to Yarvin's thoughts, but this was more palpable, Elon really owns everyone with a vulnerable big brand, he just has to take it (while not tanking twitter's brand in the process).

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JBurner's avatar

The elites would not like this plan.

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Mxtyplk's avatar

I don’t understand why Elon is doing such a shitty job with Twitter so far. I mean this was a great essay but a successful businessman thinking 24/7 about how to maximize Twitter should already have thought of it or something like it?

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Elliot Temple's avatar

Some good ideas but Musk is just an idiot social climber.

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Curt J. Sampson's avatar

Trademark lawyers, not patent lawyers. And they'll have good reasons to be knocking on the door. Proposing something like this without even mentioning trademark law, much less demonstrating an understanding of the reasons for it, the problems it attempts to solve and how these relate to efficient markets is just a classic "I'm going to babble on the Internet" thing.

And let's not even start on the idea that rent-seeking over actual productivity is any kind of recipe for economic growth.

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