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Elon Musk buys Twitter
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clem84
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Surprised Jack Dorsey said that. He is so right.
Fake
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There are some amazing meltdowns happening over this. My non-scientific estimate has 95% upset they might see tweets they disagree with, and 5% upset because they convinced themselves Musk wants to ban left-leaning politicians and anyone critical of Tesla.
And the top guy (for a few more weeks anyway) seems really averse to letting people edit posts. God forbid his cult let people move past tweets they blasted out as 14 year olds. Once tarnished always tarnished I guess.
And the top guy (for a few more weeks anyway) seems really averse to letting people edit posts. God forbid his cult let people move past tweets they blasted out as 14 year olds. Once tarnished always tarnished I guess.
Nester99
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You can make a second tweet and double your characters, then do it again! Length is not an issue at all.
zeorhymer
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Well yeah. He has to. The CEO reports to the board.Same guy in that pic just welcomed him to the board right?
Nester99
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Force? They are begging him to join for the clout and media frenzy it would create.
Pejo
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zeorhymer
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I was thinking about this last night. Elon may have simultaneously destroyed alternative Twitters and saved the company. If he actually course corrects the company, many many people will go back to it and put all of the other companies into backup mode. As a result, the stock will rise he will be able to cash out.
ReBurn
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Vicetrailia
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Wait so the dude BUYS his way onto the board, and then he wants to change things harping about free speech, when really twitter chooses to remove platforms from the dreg opinions of society. It sounds like he just wants his politically favorable opinions to be okay, and not actual free speech.
That is corrupt as shit.
That is corrupt as shit.
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Sure comrade. That makes total sense. Viva la resistance!
Yep learn to code men aren't women and the Babylon Bee are the dreg opinions of society.
///PATRIOT
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Someone has to bring balance...
///PATRIOT
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I see a lot of REEEEEtera and the woke shite in Twitter hurting. They're upset, of the thought of losing control over others and their brigade platform.
Yes sir, the fascists are showing their asses today. My favorites are the ones that refer to him as an oligarch because of this purchase. If I had a dollar for every time that crowd attributes Russia to political opponents, while calling for their political favorites to censor their political opponents, I'd be very rich.
It very well might be. There's a good chance he has the founder's support, and he is on record being unhappy with what has become of the platform. There's also a good chance he has friends who hold lots of votes / proxies and made a plan with them before jumping in. Add in his 80 million followers, and the business rational for why it makes sense to cast a wider net, and boom, change is possible. Not guaranteed, but very good chance.
sircaw
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Fingers crossed your right.
It's all about influence. He doesn't just own just under 10% of the company. He is single largest shareholder. That alone makes him incredibly influential to management. I work in a totally different industry, but big time shareholders at my firm who have a seat on the board have influenced who gets hired/fired from a senior management level. I'd suspect, if nothing else, existing management doesn't want Musk trying to convince other board members and the public that he thinks the CEO, CFO, etc need to be replaced.
With the news coming out today that part of the agreement that gives him a seat on the board for two years is that he can't buy more than 14% of the company that tells me there may have been some concern he would have gone for a hostile takeover, and instead existing leadership said "Here is some power and influence, please don't enact a hostile takeover."
I don't think Elon Musk is going to single handedly going to change Twitter, but I have no doubt he will be very influential in what the company does the next few years.
DragoonKain
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Multiple people have totally misunderstood what I meant by that post. People are taking it as me meaning the user experience. I’m not talking about the user experience. I’m saying a platform structured around character limits leads to toxicity because it’s not a way to communicate or understand someone else. Text in general is a poor way to communicate, so you’re going to get toxicity on all social media platforms, but the harder it is to communicate, the worse discourse always gets.
In terms of the user experience in and of itself it’s fine. But it’s going to lead to a toxic platform where everyone is hostile to one another. You can’t have honest discourse on a platform like that. There’s a reason Twitter is far and away the most toxic platform full of the most anger and division of all of the major social media platforms.
And that isn’t me saying Twitter would be better if there were no character limits either. It’s fine the way it is, but you’re going to get a hostile place with people at each other’s throats. It is what it is.
Fake
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Same apply to the quote lmao.
SafeOrAlone
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This is promising.
With Twitter, you can't even say "lunatics were running the asylum", because way too many people are, sadly, depending on it for information. It was more like "lunatics are burning down the town hall."
With Twitter, you can't even say "lunatics were running the asylum", because way too many people are, sadly, depending on it for information. It was more like "lunatics are burning down the town hall."
BigBooper
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Lunatics are peacefully burning down the courthouse.
zeorhymer
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Click on "Media" and paste the tweet url. Through some voodoo, the site displays it.
I ask for freedom when you are in power because it conforms with your beliefs. I remove your freedoms when I am in power because it conforms with my beliefs. Or something like that.
ManaByte
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The CEO of Babylon Bee had this to say
I know Elon is a fan of their work, so this might have had something to do with it
Guess who’s coming back. The meltdowns will make Chernobyl look like a gentle fart in comparison.
He’s currently suing Twitter to get his account back. Musk will convince them to lift the ban to avoid court.
Its insane to me that right leaning people with controversial views are wiped off the platform but Russian state/government affiliated accounts and other Pro Russian bots are allowed to spread misleading propaganda and misinformation in regards to War crimes and genocide. Like what the fuck twitter?
Rikku-X
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"If people have the will, you can kill Twitter within a few months. A mass exodus in the platform will quickly kill it. It doesn't even require you to do anything."
Shizumapower
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Maiden Voyage
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I don’t think even Musk can salvage enough to make me actively want to participate with Twitter.
I am curious what will come from his involvement though.
PrimetimeKnight
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I would gladly participate if I could but you cannot leave something you never registered for. Twitter is a cesspool, burn it to the ground.
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Mistake
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CCP officials are on it too
Musk would only do it for the lols, so who knows. If it makes money, it’s possibleGuess who’s coming back. The meltdowns will make Chernobyl look like a gentle fart in comparison.
He’s currently suing Twitter to get his account back. Musk will convince them to lift the ban to avoid court.
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AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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On what grounds?
I think he'll push to make the algorithm open source. He was talking about it before buying the 9.2% equity. He's probably the only person on the board who can actually understand the code too.
Are the people against this now claiming twitter is a publisher??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
nush
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It's been moving that way for a few months, Twitter isn't the entire world.
DragoonKain
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They're adding an edit button 24 hours after that poll Elon put up
DeaDPo0L84
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This has the potential to make me actually like something I formerly despised just like removing building from Fortnite, the tides truly are turning.
Lady Redfield
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The rich keep getting richer.
Time to whore the fuck out.
Time to whore the fuck out.
ManaByte
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It will be a shitpost worthy of the Smithsonian.
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Unknown?
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They don't need grounds as proven by many whistleblowers and journalists.
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