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Twitter’s Board Is Said to Seriously Consider Elon Musk’s Bid
- version_five 5y agohttps://archive.ph/7IfKf https://archive.ph/7IfKf
- slater 5y agoSo, this Mastodon thing, ey...?
- usrn 5y agoIt's really great but people get confused that you can't just "go to mastodon."
- sbinthree 5y agoLegally they have to seriously consider any serious offer to buy the company. All the better that they are doing so :)
- andersco 5y agoThe article quotes an analyst describing Musk’s bid as the beginning of the end for Twitter as a public company. I would say it will spell the beginning of the end of Twitter period. Imo, if Musk in fact acquires Twitter, he himself and the changes he is proposing will become a poison pill resulting in droves of users abandoning it. I, for one, will certainly be one of them.
- xqcgrek2 5y agodroves may abandon it, but droves will also flock to it
- elzbardico 5y agoThe intolerant minorities that want to shut up everyone else wouldn't be missed. Unfortunately I am not taking to bank their promise of leaving twitter
- panick21_ 5y agoThe main changes he advocates are that more people would get their identity verified and that bots will be removed. Why do you think that will drive people away?
- Krollifi 5y agoThe changes people are afraid of are Musk bringing back Trump and Alex Jones to the platform. Making Twitter more like 4chan and Bitchute in the name of free speech absolutism will turn it into a fringe place that drives people away.
- tamaharbor 5y agoTrump would be a big moneymaker for Twitter.
- smt88 5y agoI don't think he would have much effect on their bottom line, but looser moderation in general would drive more users away than it would attract.
- zelon88 5y agoThis. Also, Twitter isn't a place for regular users. Other platforms go out of their way to make content go viral. The only content that goes viral on Twitter are posts from accounts that are already popular. Musk sees more value in Twitter than the average user because it's his microphone to his bootlickers. That much won't change. In fact it will be extended to people who demonstratably don't deserve to have a soap box.
- polski-g 5y agoBoth of those people were on Twitter four years ago and it functioned fine
- usrn 5y agoIt's probably ending no matter what.
- uejfiweun 5y agoI think that's the point. I for one will be celebrating the death of Twitter if Musk manages to pull it off, as I think it is one of the worst parts of our modern world and is actively making the world a worse place.
- tayo42 5y agoHow is it actively making the world worse. My day to day has almost no impact from Twitter or things that happen on it
- anonfornoreason 5y agoAssuming you read the news, that is not true. It’s the communication and social channel of choice for modern journalists, and the way it’s used by said groups absolutely influences how news is covered.
- is_true 5y agoI use Twitter in a way that makes it really hard for me to understand this comments. I follow people related with my interests and it's the best tool I know to learn about those topics. You can gain so much insight asking questions directly to experts in field you are interested in
- postalrat 5y agoSo twitters board is doing their job?