Bizarre discovery: Tesla has a fleet of haters who must search for tweets mentioning the company in order to reply to them. I've seen plenty of haters before, but never such proactive ones. Who are they? Car dealers? People who shorted the stock? Bots?
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Replying to @paulg
There’s been a lot of coverage. Best deep dive is probably thishttps://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-short-sellers-musk-20190408-story.html …
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Replying to @alexrkonrad
Whoah, I had no idea. Conspiracy theorists and short sellers have converged. How very strange. Are there any other companies that have this sort of antiposse?
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Replying to @paulg
I’m open to other answers but my best attempt: Facebook in public market and WeWork in private might be closest in terms of doubters. But nothing on same league as this unique blend of twitter battles and online celebrity of Tesla and its CEO.
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Replying to @alexrkonrad
There are other companies with flamboyant CEOs though. That doesn't seem enough to explain this. Something more is going on here than ordinary hating. I don't know what, but it feels different.
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I think an element of it is that excel jockeys are butthurt about not being creators. They can do financial/math stuff but that's it. Elon is loved and also does a lot of borderline fraud-y stuff. You put those things together and get the current situation.
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