Yeah, nah. You can't claim 'it's just a bot experiment' for polls you don't like the results of. He's making himself look like an absolute tool with all of this. And it's affecting his standing as a businessman quite badly. Anyone with an objective viewpoint can see that none of these decisions or actions are being made by someone who's in control, or knows what they're doing. Which is a shame, because he's shown he can be like that in different aspects. Seems ridiculous to piss it all away on a social media platform, but there you have it.
People have been suggesting, and he's also been hinting, that several high-profile polls have in part been efforts to learn how bots are used on twitter, so why would this poll be any different? And again, win or lose, I'm sure it changes nothing.
However, we can probably find a lot of common ground when it comes to how this all looks. It's not great. I'll defend the guy when I think he's being inaccurately criticized, support him when I agree with him, and criticize him myself when I don't agree with what he's doing. There's actually been a lot of the latter. Outside of what I feel was a pretty smart way to handle the twitter files, there's been a lot of dumb, contradictory, and hastily made decisions. Much of this isn't at all turning out to be what I was hoping for.
But I said this poll was pointless even before the results came in, and I'm sticking to that one.
