Gigathread August: X gonna give it to ya!

https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musks-creep-show

A good summary of this whole idiotic "fight" saga.

Twitter seems like its down right now.

https://www.businessinsider.com/threads-outperforms-x-in-brand-engagement-despite-fewer-followers-2023-8

Threads has fewer users, but far, far more active users / likes / engagement than Twitter.

On average, the companies received eight-times more likes on Threads than on X, according to Website Planet's research.

First? First. Definitely first.

https://hunterwalk.com/2023/08/07/winners-take-none-coworking-self-storage-scooters-have-burned-billions-of-investor-dollars-and-maybe-were-never-tech-companies/

I read a paragraph or two. Saving here.

I do think that the VC industry is related to Tesla. High flying startup mindset is what allowed Tesla to be popular so far.