Twitter is different than Elon's failures at Tesla. you can't just tells your customers your on a waiting list and then delay them a second, third, fourth time as the failures mount up.
I'm still waiting on that promised solar roof I was supposed to be able to buy like 6 years ago...
Elon hasn't been this rock star leader he is made out to be. he has more in common with Paris Hilton than Steve jobs,.. he's more personality than accomplishments.
...but social media is not cars. it's "free" and there are alternatives. even well run social like Facebook is having trouble keeping it's community. PUBG was big until it wasn't. there will always be the next tik tok or fortnight and when the product is free to use the keeping the community is fragile.
Um no?
Tesla's recent struggles have been with ramping up production. Their solar roof for example has been available for years but with limited supply. Tesla is different than Twitter but in a way that makes Twitter simpler. No supply chains, no physical products, no cutting edge software, etc. It's a company with nearly 100,000 employees vs a company with ~7,000 employees before layoffs.
Also no need to make stuff up just because he's stupid in other areas. I know relatively little on the Tesla side, but with SpaceX he's a combo of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Every person involved says this.
One might argue that it's likely easier to make a Twitter competitor than it is to make a Tesla/SpaceX competitor; which might not bode well for Twitter long term.
I definitely agree on the threat of alternatives siphoning away users, but Twitter has been stagnant for years and that hasn't happened. At least to me it seems like that's more of an issue for its long term potential, not the next few years.