Musk offers to buy Twitter
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I agree and, starting to sound like a broken record here, Twitter has an outsized level of importance that should not exist. It’d be best if it died a fast death IMO. Let‘s move on from it ASAP.Yikes. That's actually scary. I'm thinking Putin likely already has his hackers lining up a campaign that will tank everyone's 401k's.
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"Wait! Don't click send!"
"Oh shit."
The level of incompetence across the whole organization is, well, maybe it's not all that surprising.
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And there's so much noise, it's the equivalent of who can "out loud" someone in an argument.
Even people who I completely agree with, people like Jeff Tiedrich and Jo I unfollowed, they're just screaming, there's only so much "HEY! FUCKITY FUCK FUCK TRUMP SUCKS WHO AGREES!?" and Ks of meme responses I can take from the Jeff's of Twitter.
The political discourse here is way more thoughtful and enlightening.
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And there's so much noise, it's the equivalent of who can "out loud" someone in an argument.
Even people who I completely agree with, people like Jeff Tiedrich and Jo I unfollowed, they're just screaming, there's only so much "HEY! FUCKITY FUCK FUCK TRUMP SUCKS WHO AGREES!?" and Ks of meme responses I can take from the Jeff's of Twitter.
The political discourse here is way more thoughtful and enlightening.
I've noticed in the past couple weeks I too have unfollowed a few people whose opinions I tend to share but yeah they have raised their voices past conversation-level or started to respond less thoughtfully. Heh, of course others I follow also follow them so I end up seeing some of their tweets anyway and have even re-followed a few.
Did that yesterday and then told myself to log out and get a little more late fall yardwork done before Indian Summer finally caves in around here and brings snow. Anyway yes the noise level has got worse even with filters and silo-building. I guess I will revert to using bookmarks in a browser to launch into my news subscriptions for awhile, see what happens with Twitter from afar.
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Yikes. That's actually scary. I'm thinking Putin likely already has his hackers lining up a campaign that will tank everyone's 401k's.
Oh, my 401k is already tanking because of everything else going on.
To be honest, I don’t think this trick works well over the long term. It’s a bit like the boy who cried wolf. It will get folks the first few times, but if Twitter becomes known for this sort of stuff, people stop putting stock in what is said on the platform.
Which, ironically, is how you tank a platform like Twitter in the first place.
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Something is very wrong with the country when one person, because he is wealthy, can wreak havoc on the lives of thousands of people. And can we finally put to rest the notion that if someone is very rich they must be very smart, as if Donald Trump hadn't already disproved it.
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It thin it's just a matter of time before it loses all credibility, you can be sure that any authentically verified corporation or celebrity is rethinking the platform entirely now. It has the power to move markets in a big way as we've seen, it has to be freaking them all out right now.
Anyone who ever wanted to know what sort of influence the richest right-wing troll on the internet has to totally fuck a bunch of fortune 500 companies has now has an answer.
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I still follow them both. I just don't necessarily read their tweets all the time. But I have been enjoying them both amidst all this midterm aftermath. Especially as we were told to expect a huge red wave that didn't happen. Sure Jeff has a foul mouth but I know that going in. I love that he calls it like it is and to this day, one of my all time favorite tweets is his current pinned one:
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Yeah, and I didn't realize this had happened either... way to go Elon.
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Now he wants to turn twitter into paypal, because, that is what he knows.
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Oh yeah, I will entrust my paycheck to a "bank" that can't verify peoples identities.
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Heh, yeah. The real banks are about ready to slit their own throats over this guy by now....
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This appears to be a real interaction between two official accounts, though it’s hard to tell anymore. I don’t have any context as to whom the senator is, but it’s a rather odd way of trying to reassure advertisers that official accounts won’t be impersonated. 
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1591813228119855104/
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1591813228119855104/
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SO glad they're using "buddy Jesus" from Dogma. Need to watch that flick again.
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