Musk offers to buy Twitter

[Eric]

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But… but.. what happened to free speech?

And what about COMEDY?

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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/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/20221003125252896_35295545_1-22.10.03 - Novak-Parma - Onion Amicus Brief.pdf

Who's going to delete them? He literally fired the entire team that handles that.

 

[Cmaier]

Who's going to delete them? He literally fired the entire team that handles that.

It sounds like what he’s primarily relying on is that if you change your screen name at all it will automatically de-blue-check you. (Fun!) As for the rest, I’m guessing some Tesla engineer is busy writing a perl script that searches for screen names that match “Elon Musk“ and ”Donald J. Trump” and deletes those accounts unless they have the correct matching twitter handle.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Who's going to delete them? He literally fired the entire team that handles that.

thats his job now.

 

[Alli]

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.

So we stop following anyone with a blue check that isn’t following us? Don’t follow anyone with a blue check at all?

 

[shadow puppet]

#FreeKathy is now trending. Elon won't care but I find it hilarious.

 

[Cmaier]

#FreeKathy is now trending. Elon won't care but I find it hilarious.

I don’t get it. What is freekathy about?

 

[shadow puppet]

I don’t get it. What is freekathy about?

The post you shared from Musk threatening suspension for anyone presenting themselves as someone else without saying it's a parody, came about after comedienne Kathy Griffin impersonated Musk. People think it's ridiculous that he banned her without at least a warning. Especially after he posted "comedy is now legal".

 

[Cmaier]

The post you shared from Musk threatening suspension for anyone presenting themselves as someone else without saying it's a parody, came about after comedienne Kathy Griffin impersonated Musk. People think it's ridiculous that he banned her without at least a warning. Especially after he posted "comedy is now legal".

Oh, i didn;t know Kathy griffin was one of the impersonators. There have been a bunch

 

[shadow puppet]

Oh, i didn;t know Kathy griffin was one of the impersonators. There have been a bunch

True. For some reason, this one put him over the edge.

 

[lizkat]

So we stop following anyone with a blue check that isn’t following us? Don’t follow anyone with a blue check at all?

People have been impersonating a number of widely followed accounts. For example I saw someone had at least briefly impersonated an account @muellershewrote with name "Mueller, She Wrote" which is owned by Allison Gill, along with the website muellershewrote.com and it is a Twitter account followed by about half a million accounts.

The impersonator used @mueiiershewrote but then also used the name "Mueller, She Wrote" so it was easy at first not to notice the actual Twitter account name was wrong. The post I saw seemed a bit off from usual fare from the real account... and then I noticed the account only had 50 followers... Hmm I thought. Then I finally saw the Twitter account was not right. As of a couple hours ago the fake account was still up but the legit owner of the real account has reported it and had urged others to do so.

 

[shadow puppet]

People have been impersonating a number of widely followed accounts. For example I saw someone had at least briefly impersonated an account @muellershewrote with name "Mueller, She Wrote" which is owned by Allison Gill, along with the website muellershewrote.com and it is a Twitter account followed by about half a million accounts.

Yeah, she was the first I read having problems with impersonators. This is why it's important to now check the date they joined and the amount of followers to help detect if it's an impersonator or not.

 

[ronntaylor]

So we stop following anyone with a blue check that isn’t following us? Don’t follow anyone with a blue check at all?

Musty basically said that blue checks will be prioritized. So if those you follow don't have blue checks they'll be pushed down the timeline. He actually tried to use that as a selling point with advertisers.

 

[Cmaier]

Musty basically said that blue checks will be prioritized. So if those you follow don't have blue checks they'll be pushed down the timeline. He actually tried to use that as a selling point with advertisers.

Yeah, but to be fair, he says lots of things. Some of them end up being true.

 

[Eric]

People have been impersonating a number of widely followed accounts. For example I saw someone had at least briefly impersonated an account @muellershewrote with name "Mueller, She Wrote" which is owned by Allison Gill, along with the website muellershewrote.com and it is a Twitter account followed by about half a million accounts.

The impersonator used @mueiiershewrote but then also used the name "Mueller, She Wrote" so it was easy at first not to notice the actual Twitter account name was wrong. The post I saw seemed a bit off from usual fare from the real account... and then I noticed the account only had 50 followers... Hmm I thought. Then I finally saw the Twitter account was not right. As of a couple hours ago the fake account was still up but the legit owner of the real account has reported it and had urged others to do so.

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He's taken years of refinement in dealing with accounts and turned them into a total shit show in less than a week.

 

[lizkat]

Someone who has a FB account mailed me this, must be floating around over there. Can Zuckerberg draw?

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[Andropov]

A week into the 'free speech' version Twitter and Musk is already suspending accounts that use his name to make unhinged parody posts

 

[Alli]

Musty basically said that blue checks will be prioritized. So if those you follow don't have blue checks they'll be pushed down the timeline. He actually tried to use that as a selling point with advertisers.

Checks will be prioritized, but if you follow 300, and only 12 of those have checks…you’re right back where you are now.

 

[Eric]

 

[lizkat]

Most popular "app" on the planet is probably the common screen grab, ever since Musk started tinkering w/ Twitter.

He may micromanage his new toy but the internet is forever no matter what he deletes or whom he bans.

 

[Eric]

Most popular "app" on the planet is probably the common screen grab, ever since Musk started tinkering w/ Twitter.

He may micromanage his new toy but the internet is forever no matter what he deletes or whom he bans.

I think he lived in his little bubble of Conservatism without any real sense of the real world going on around him, this is common with those on the right. Now he's getting smacked with a dose of reality, undoing a system overnight (while not perfect) that took years to refine.