Elon Musk buys 100% of Twitter

[isha]

Can people be fired just for having voices that make you want to punch them?? Aaaaaaagggghhh. What an annoying way of speaking...

[Hugh_Bigazz]

I've actually been in the Twitter headquarters off Piccadilly Circus for work, it really some spot, fantastic canteen best I've ever come across

[KHD]

My own personal feeling on the Elon Musk buyout of twitter is that there are not going to be many changes. Musk is a business man and he's not going to run it into the ground for the sake of a couple of thousand likes. Twitter traffic thrives on conflict. It will still be a cesspit of conflict and hatefulness with maybe a few rules relaxed, if that even happens. Peace and good loving content doesn't generate much money in social media.

[Cyclepath]

I've been in IT for many years, specifically the human computer interface. I can tell you for sure that most large IT orgs are bloated and/or overstaffed. The real work is generally done by a few with the mediocre support of the many. I've been in roles myself where I 'coasted' for a few years while dealing with complicated personal life events etc.

Ultimately I predict not much or not much terrible will happen. There's so much pearl clutching going at the moment but people seem to forget that they can control who they follow, who follows them, who they block, ignore, respond to, and the language used. Folks are having conniptions about the prospect of encountering a disagreeable opinion. We all see just a tiny sliver of Twitter every day - we effectively avoid huge parts of twitter and have full control over what we're exposed to. Seriously the only threat to twitter is that mass hysteria might cause a mass exit thereby disturbing the balance of available opinions on the platform.

[Hairy-Joe]

I was thinking that if Musk makes major changes and brings back the likes of Trump, Kanye, etc he knows advertising will drop. That's Twitters income. He's not that stupid I think......

Edit - Damn you autocorrect

[nlgbbbblth]

I find it hard to believe that Twitter, Facebook, Ebay etc actually have employees.

Given that when you try and raise an issue with them, you get formulaic, automated responses that are very bot-like.

[DeletedUser]

I find it hard to believe that Twitter, Facebook, Ebay etc actually have employees.

Given that when you try and raise an issue with them, you get formulaic, automated responses that are very bot-like.

As my account was suspended permanently for posting that picture of Giulia, the butch bald “lady” GAA player with a cock and balls - and calling him a man, Musk has a lot to try to fix!

[archfi]

So, so beautiful

[Kaiser]

I can only hope that Elon runs it into the ground and it dies off - just as how Facebook is dying while Zuckerberg focuses on his Metaverse fantasy

Both platforms have a lot to answer for in regards to Westerm society today - some of the quotes from tweets in posts above are proof of that, but more damagingly is the effect a lot of the nonsense is having on life outside of the platform.

[95438756]

- nonsense and chaos.

[KHD]

Twitter post Elon Musk ( couldn't resist )

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[knownunknown]

Chief twit he’s calling himself

[Hairy-Joe]

Chief twit he’s calling himself

First sensible thing he's said.

[nlgbbbblth]

As my account was suspended permanently for posting that picture of Giulia, the butch bald “lady” GAA player with a cock and balls - and calling him a man, Musk has a lot to try to fix!

Was that mid-September or earlier?

Someone I follow there with similar views has dropped to 0 following and not posted for a few weeks

[knownunknown]

Never heard of Thierry Breton before but who the fck does he think he is?

[DeletedUser]

Was that mid-September or earlier?

Someone I follow there with similar views has dropped to 0 following and not posted for a few weeks

Yeah about then!

[Hairy-Joe]

I was thinking that if Musk makes major changes and brings back the likes of Trump, Kanye, etc he knows advertising will drop. That's Twitters income. He's not that stupid I think......

Edit - Damn you autocorrect

Turns out I'm wrong. GM has stopped it's advertising on Twitter

[isha]

GM and Musk's Tesla are rivals.

[schmittel]

I was thinking that if Musk makes major changes and brings back the likes of Trump, Kanye, etc he knows advertising will drop. That's Twitters income. He's not that stupid I think......

Edit - Damn you autocorrect

The cynic in me suspects Musk's interest in Twitter is nothing to do with free speech or advertising income, I think Twitter is a means to a profitable end.

Although the blue hair brigade make the most noise, there are a lot of other Twitter users quietly having sensible conversations. And one of the most active demographics is traders and investors.

Musk knows better than most the power of Twitter to move markets, his "funding secured" tweet and his musings on bitcoin have demonstrated this perfectly. Trump also had the ability to nudge the S&P one way or the other with an apparently ill-judged tweet. Maybe it was not so ill-judged if he had a big short position on S&P futures!

The problem with this from Musk's point of view is as an ordinary Twitter user, albeit a high profile one, it is very public and repeated activity along these lines is likely to cause a bit of trouble with the SEC.

However if you own the company you can be a) a lot more subtle about market moving messages and b) a lot more targeted.

Whether you like it or not, Twitter has shown it's outsized influence on the "narrative" and shaping trends.

If you were able to harness that ability to influence market sentiment and trend it would be enormously profitable.

Of course for the both the average investor and even the mega rich hedge funds it is impossible to harness that ability consistently and discretely, no matter how much you might daydream about the possibilities.

But if you're the richest man in the world and you start daydreaming about the possibilities, well then of course it's not impossible. You just need to buy the company!

[KHD]

Head of twitter censorship fired on air. Not sure if its a p1ss take or not.

[knownunknown]

Head of twitter censorship fired on air. Not sure if its a p1ss take or not.

It’s an old podcast with Vijaya Gadde and Jack Dorsey. It really revealed how bias they were at twitter. Very interesting podcast, among the most interesting of all time.

Interestingly Gadde was among the first fired and was the twitter employee Musk was addressing his letters to. She was also in the one from the internal twitter call that broke down crying upon hearing musk was taking over. I hated just about everything she said on that podcast.

[KHD]

Thanks unknown must take a listen

[knownunknown]

Thanks unknown must take a listen

It’s a long one but addresses the kind of issues we’re seeing on boards and hate speech legislation etc….

E.g. twitter took the ideological position with the idea of ‘misgendering’; to a lot of people it means calling someone a different sex than what they were born(I.e. calling a man a woman) To the regressive left this means calling someone the opposite sex of what they declare themselves to be. If you misgender an animal like a cat you’ve got its gender wrong; you’re not committing a hate crime against a cat.

Gadde goes on to explain that their rules are only there to prevent harassment of individuals etc.. but then Tim Pool shows her all the accounts that were banned for saying ‘men aren’t women though’ as well as all the people that were allowed to harass others. It follows ideological lines.

We’re just a couple of years behind with this stuff and we only need to look to the US to see what’s coming here.

[KHD]

It’s a long one but addresses the kind of issues we’re seeing on boards and hate speech legislation etc….

E.g. twitter took the ideological position with the idea of ‘misgendering’; to a lot of people it means calling someone a different sex than what they were born(I.e. calling a man a woman) To the regressive left this means calling someone the opposite sex of what they declare themselves to be. If you misgender an animal like a cat you’ve got its gender wrong; you’re not committing a hate crime against a cat.

Gadde goes on to explain that their rules are only there to prevent harassment of individuals etc.. but then Tim Pool shows her all the accounts that were banned for saying ‘men aren’t women though’ as well as all the people that were allowed to harass others. It follows ideological lines.

We’re just a couple of years behind with this stuff and we only need to look to the US to see what’s coming here.

I've listened to about 40 minutes of it there unknown. Can't listen to anymore of it. From what I see on twitter with regard to other current global issues, I can't take anything she says seriously. She's basically full of sh1t from what I can see.

[knownunknown]

I've listened to about 40 minutes of it there unknown. Can't listen to anymore of it. From what I see on twitter with regard to other current global issues, I can't take anything she says seriously. She's basically full of sh1t from what I can see.

That was the general consensus at the time among those who listened! It can only be a good thing for the world that she no longer yields that power