Musk offers to buy Twitter

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Let's all shed a tear for Elon, all he wanted to do was allow hate free speech.

As Jon put it, he bought a toilet and turned it into a cesspool and is wondering what the issue is.

Also saying activists and advertisers are trying to kill free speech is extremely ironic. He clearly doesn’t know what free speech is.

I think FREE STUFF social media is coming to an end and in the final analysis there was absolutely nothing special about its founders and they mostly have luck to thank. There’s nothing groundbreaking in there other then having the bandwidth to pull it off globally.

 

[lizkat]

Twitter seems not that different right now, as long as I don't start looking at replies to tweets by media outlets, journalists, lawyers, high profile pols and so forth. But among replies now to any tweet that is even vaguely political, there are a lot more garbage troll posts than before Musk took over.

So far I don't see more random spam posts stuck into replies to tweets by ordinary members not discussing politics.

There are a lot of what i'd call off-brand ads, and they are repeated and more often than major brand ads were before Musk.

Because I don't tend to just scroll through my timeline, I'm not sure how algos are different. I tend to home in on particular follows and jump from there to a website, or go through part of my follows and check in on their time lines.

 

[Alli]

I don’t believe this will change anything for most of us. You know, the peons of Twitter. I doubt the politicians I’ve Tweeted to have ever read my comments. Of course, I don’t believe they read my emails or letters either. We will still be able to carry on conversations with our mutual follows. We can still use Twitter to vent our spleens, and the people who follow us will still see our Tweets and be able to like or Retweet them.

In the meanwhile, as people threaten to leave Twitter I recommend they try an old fashioned forum, and invite them here.

 

[Andropov]

Yesterday I said that I though Twitter would have to re-hire some of the people they had just fired (I was talking about SREs, though) but I didn’t think it would happen this early

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1589075543420325888/

 

[fischersd]

They should have made it a red check to be more on the nose.

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[Cmaier]

Yesterday I said that I though Twitter would have to re-hire some of the people they had just fired (I was talking about SREs, though) but I didn’t think it would happen this early

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1589075543420325888/

Hopefully at twice the salary, guarantees of continuing remote work privileges, and a delicious pie.

 

[lizkat]

Hopefully at twice the salary, guarantees of continuing remote work privileges, and a delicious pie.

Right to say no after 72 hours of work a week.

 

[shadow puppet]

In the meanwhile, as people threaten to leave Twitter I recommend they try an old fashioned forum, and invite them here.

I'm already on five forums. I don't want another one. The reason I've enjoyed Twitter's format is the feed combined with my personally chosen mix of politics, dogs, art, local & international news, you name it. If the above change I shared does happen and I have to search for each account separately due to the potential algorithm, that is going to be a royal PITA. I guess we'll find out next week. But I'm definitely not happy.

In the meantime, I am enjoying the various folks who have created verified checkmark Elon Musk accounts who are now posting things I doubt the Musk Rat would ever post himself. The comments are quite hilarious and laughter is definitely much needed right now.

 

[Eric]

I don’t believe this will change anything for most of us. You know, the peons of Twitter. I doubt the politicians I’ve Tweeted to have ever read my comments. Of course, I don’t believe they read my emails or letters either. We will still be able to carry on conversations with our mutual follows. We can still use Twitter to vent our spleens, and the people who follow us will still see our Tweets and be able to like or Retweet them.

In the meanwhile, as people threaten to leave Twitter I recommend they try an old fashioned forum, and invite them here.

I think this is pretty accurate TBH, the only real issue for me as one of those little people is that you'll never know who is actually who they say they are anymore. For better or worse they had that system really nailed down and if they had the blue check they you knew they were 100% legit, Elon has essentially upended it.

 

[Eric]

Pretty much says it all, the most egregious change he's made is delegitimizing those who were actually genuine.

If everyone is verified, no one is verified - 9to5Mac

Twitter has been good to me. It’s a direct line to readers, a shared workspace for writers and creators, an...

9to5mac.com

 

[Cmaier]

Pretty much says it all, the most egregious change he's made is delegitimizing those who were actually genuine.

If everyone is verified, no one is verified - 9to5Mac

Twitter has been good to me. It’s a direct line to readers, a shared workspace for writers and creators, an...

9to5mac.com

And now they’ve delayed this until after the election because of the obvious potential for hijinks. But no explanation as to how they’ll solve this going forward.

 

[fooferdoggie]

And now they’ve delayed this until after the election because of the obvious potential for hijinks. But no explanation as to how they’ll solve this going forward.

you would almost think twitter is run by someone that does not know anything about running such a platform.

 

[Pumbaa]

you would almost think twitter is run by someone that does not know anything about running such a platform.

But he has the blue mark! He must be doing something right!

 

[ronntaylor]

We will still be able to carry on conversations with our mutual follows. We can still use Twitter to vent our spleens, and the people who follow us will still see our Tweets and be able to like or Retweet them.

The verification process will mess up our timelines though. It'll be harder to see tweets from your followers and those you're following. Musty hinted at that days ago.

I'm taking a wait & see attitude. I mostly just retweet and like tweets. But so many are leaving and depending on what happens after Tuesday, there's no telling if many/most will follow suit.

 

[Eric]

But he has the blue mark! He must be doing something right!

Hey, I didn't authorize that!

 

[Pumbaa]

Hey, I didn't authorize that!

I don’t think he listens to you, especially not without the blue mark.

On a related note, the forum post lists here look quite interesting nowadays.

 

[Eric]

I don’t think he listens to you, especially not without the blue mark.

On a related note, the forum post lists here look quite interesting nowadays.

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Well done, I definitely had to do a double take here lol.

 

[Pumbaa]

Well done, I definitely had to do a double take here lol.

Confused the hell out of me at first. Okay, it still does.

Hakuna matata.

 

[Cmaier]

But… but.. what happened to free speech?

And what about COMEDY?

So you can only be comedic if you tell people you are being comedic?

The Onion had something to say about that recently: https://www.supremecourt.gov/Docket....10.03 - Novak-Parma - Onion Amicus Brief.pdf