Musk offers to buy Twitter

[DT]

Regarding their "content moderation council"... Will be interesting seeing who will be on it. Perhaps stephen miller is looking for a job.

 

[Alli]

My wife sent me this. I was unaware of Bluesky as a project. Is this a viable alternative?

Everything we know so far about Jack Dorsey’s brand new app

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's Bluesky Social app is now accepting users for beta testing, and says it will launch soon.

uk.finance.yahoo.com

We won’t know until it’s up and at least in beta.

 

[Yoused]

My wife sent me this. I was unaware of Bluesky as a project. Is this a viable alternative?

Everything we know so far about Jack Dorsey’s brand new app

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's Bluesky Social app is now accepting users for beta testing, and says it will launch soon.

uk.finance.yahoo.com

My feeling, from the sound of it, is that it will lie somewhere between a thing like Disqus and Usenet.

We won’t know until it’s up and at least in beta.

Or maybe in betta

 

[lizkat]

Talk about strange bedfellows. Saudi Arabia has invested $1.89 billion from prior ownership of publicly traded Twitter into Musk's new private venture.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1585975226567110656/​

 

[lizkat]

This should end well.

Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover

Tesla employees who Musk enlisted to help with his Twitter takeover include dozens of Autopilot engineers, but also security information and other lieutenants.

www.cnbc.com

Several Twitter employees told CNBC over the weekend that Tesla employees now at Twitter have been involved in code review at the social network, even though their skills from working on Autopilot and other Tesla software and hardware do not directly overlap with the languages and systems used to build and maintain the social network. These employees asked not to be named because they’re not authorized to talk to the press about internal matters, and feared retaliation.

For example, most engineers in automotive companies, even the tech-forward Tesla, do not have experience designing and operating search engines and platforms that are broadly accessible to the public.

Twitter has multiple code bases with millions of lines of code in each, and myriad 10- or even 100-query per second (QPS) systems underpinning it. At Tesla, Python is one of the preferred scripting languages, and at Twitter programmers have used Scala extensively.

 

[fooferdoggie]

so he spends billions so he can post conspiracy theories?

 

[shadow puppet]

This should end well.

That plus possibly charging $20 month for blue check mark verified users who want to remain verified. Among other pay options.

Twitter is planning to start charging soon for verification

“The whole verification process is being revamped right now,” Musk tweeted.

www.theverge.com

Chief Twit Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave."

 

[lizkat]

That plus possibly charging $20 month for blue check mark verified users who want to remain verified. Among other pay options.

Twitter is planning to start charging soon for verification

“The whole verification process is being revamped right now,” Musk tweeted.

www.theverge.com

Chief Twit Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave."

Great. Tick off essential help and the high-value customers at the same time, which of course leaves the advertisers with yet more wonderment about whether to depart the platform.

Wonder how the banks that lent him 13 billion dollars feel about all this so far. They're probably cold-calling everyone they ever met in Las Vegas during the subprime mortgage boom, asking if they'd like to buy some really classy debt before someone else snaps it up... and meanwhile these banks are all stuck with it on their balance sheets and it ain't no AAA rated stuff either. Not right now anyway.

 

[dada_dave]

so he spends billions so he can post conspiracy theories?

Yup ... well and this:

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1587274263077171200/

He's a charmer

 

[lizkat]

He's a charmer

Oh indeed. A bearer of many gifts.

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[lizkat]

Hah, sometimes on Twitter the best parts are in the comments. Some great replies to a remark about an FT piece noting that the big banks are now stuck for awhile just holding the debt on their $13 billion loan to Musk, which loan of course they made without having a clue how Musk's business plan (as such, if any, after Musk was dragged kicking and screaming into finalizing the deal to begin with) might ever play out. And yeah, some of the replies are from people figuring it's bank customers will foot the offset.. with higher fees related to their own dealings with those banks.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1587453231529353219/​

 

[Andropov]

This exchange was hilarious.
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1587312517679878144/

 

[Eric]

This exchange was hilarious.
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1587312517679878144/

There's something very American about a man worth $209 billion asking average people for $8 a month.

 

[Eric]

Ouch, he's probably smoking doobies while fucking with people's accounts.

 

[Andropov]

Ouch, he's probably smoking doobies while fucking with people's accounts.

I'm not sure about that one. Seems like an unprecedentedly dumb thing to do, even for Musk. Maybe it's just a bug. It wouldn't be so surprising to see things breaking down, seeing how Musk seems fixated on firing most of his new employees.

 

[ronntaylor]

I'm not sure about that one. Seems like an unprecedentedly dumb thing to do, even for Musk. Maybe it's just a bug. It wouldn't be so surprising to see things breaking down, seeing how Musk seems fixated on firing most of his new employees.

Like calling a critic a pedo?

 

[Eric]

This is what happens when you're raised by a diamond mine owner.

'The Expectation Is Literally To Work 24/7': Elon Musk Orders Twitter Staff To Work 84-Hour Weeks As 75% Of Employees Face Being Fired​

'The Expectation Is Literally To Work 24/7': Elon Musk Orders Twitter Staff To Work 84-Hour Weeks As 75% Of Employees Face Being Fired

 

[Edd]

I can see getting beyond these elections to utilize Twitter’s value but seriously, fuck Twitter. If all the left-wingers leave it is a smoldering husk of shit. It loses all value. The left wing has Musk by the balls, Squeeze hard and put Twitter out of its misery.

 

[Deleted member 215]

^Basically how I feel. If the left-wingers leave, Twitter will be another Parler/Truth Social, which ultimately is not what many right-wingers want. They want left-wingers there so they can “own” them. A circle-jerk loses its appeal quickly.

 

[Andropov]

Like calling a critic a pedo?

I should have been clearer. The diver he called a pedo had no power over Musk. Musk faced some social backslash but that's about it. Arbitrarily silencing or messing with politician accounts he doesn't like, though... it's asking to be regulated.