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Elon Musk Owns Twitter; CEO and CFO have left
- hitpointdrew 4y ago
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- dontbenebby 4y ago
- rvz 4y agoGood either way. It all started with a simple poll. [0] [0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344
- MallocVoidstar 4y agoHe started buying Twitter before the poll.
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- jerojero 4y agoThis whole thing has been rather interesting to observe. I do wonder how the platform will change now that it's privately owned. I don't really care a lot about the platform itself, but it's influence on politics is very real. Personally I don't think this acquisition is healthy for a democracy, but nonetheless, it's something I want to observe. I've always thought these platforms need more democratic structures of governance and this is a change in the opposite direction so I'm rather interested in what the future holds and the consequences of this buyout!
- jackosdev 4y agoIsn't he going to be bringing back people who were banned off the platform, that's more democratic. US has a bunch of problems but the one thing you used to get right is freedom of speech before big tech had so much influence, I thought the major purpose of Elon wanting to buy twitter was to uphold freedom of speech as it is written in the constitution, given it's something of a town square now.
- helf 4y ago
- Nomentatus 4y agoHis absolutism doesn't extend to bots. His absolutism probably doesn't extend to having no real recommendation algorithm, and just random views for everyone. If he throws in a PageRank-like algorithm a la the central Google algorithm; or even just the choice of that, you might get the equivalent of some pretty solid moderation. Google definitely has holes and problems, but it can't be considered absolutist re free speech.
- onethought 4y agoCan you give some examples of silencing his dissenters? Or where he has undermined democracy to make money? I'm genuinely curious if I've missed these, as I'm not familiar with any by my own recollection.
- fzeroracer 4y agoYou mean other than the time where he harassed someone, called them a pedophile and hired a detective to investigate and try to dig up dirt on them because they got under his skin? That guy, who now has everything anyone has ever said in private messages on Twitter?
- weberer 4y ago
- joshmn 4y agoA part of me is curious about what will happen next. And then there is a part of me, as a participant of whatever democracy is left in the United States, is concerned with what could happen if a particular user is allowed to use Twitter again after their orchestration of certain events.
- metamet 4y agoFrom what I've observed, the uptick in botted/recently created accounts tweeting about that particular user has been pretty dramatic in the last few days.
- joshmn 4y agoFellow Minnesotan, do you have a source for this? Not that I don’t believe you, I just want to read for my own eyes.
- metamet 4y agoUnfortunately it's anecdotally based on my feed and of who I follow. I typically use Twitter pretty passively. Most of my follows are tech oriented, journalists or local politicians, and it feels like every thread that has mentioned Musk's acquisition closing has been flooded with new accounts hailing the return of banned users. It could be related to the subject matter, of course, but this has been during non-trending times and on posts that generally have mostly genuine engagement. With the announcement today that he'll be reverting lifetime bans, I expect things to get even worse and the quality of the conversations to be near non-existent. Doubt Musk has some unthought of revolutionary way to detect and neuter botnet accounts, and if he's insisting on laxing the enforcement of such accounts, it's going to get mucky real quick.
- wellthatsawrap1 4y agoLike if people voted him back into the presidency. That would be terrible for democracy.
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- fzeroracer 4y agoThe odds are that Twitter will probably be dead in a year. He'll bring on a few yes-men executives that'll applaud him when he guts development and then when everything grinds to a halt they'll catch the blame. Especially since he'll probably force something like integrated NFTs on a whim. Unlike Facebook and how it's captured an older audience that's relative inelastic to moving to other platforms, I don't see people sticking around on Twitter nor do I see employees staying around either.
- peterangular 4y ago> nor do I see employees staying around either. With major members of the C-suite turning over and his outright public aggression toward them I'd sure be concerned if I worked there.
- pram 4y agoTwitter already has integrated NFTs lol
- Flatcircle 4y agoI'd argue that because twitter is the simplest social network it will last the longest. Just a place to post a short amount of characters. That's why he wanted to buy it.
- charlieyu1 4y agoYou can like or hate Elon Musk but it is not going to happen. It is really hard for tech giants to die, if companies that were run way worse didn't die, Twitter is not going to die. And he has experience of running tech companies anyway.
- SighMagi 4y agoWhat’s with the sink?
- LightG 4y agoKindergarten humour ...
- bhaak 4y ago„Musk bought Twitter. Let that sink in!” As usual, Musk fails to be funny. You’d think he could afford some good gag authors but that probably goes against his ego.
- Jataman606 4y ago> Fails to be funny Is this official position of some jokes association? I wouldn't want to laugh at unfunny joke.
- nsonha 4y agoWho gives a shit, if Elon drives Twitter to the ground that's be the best $44bn ever spent and a great contribution to humanity.
- tim333 4y agoThis is he probably won't, hence it may be an influence on the world.
- tb_technical 4y agoPeople are whining because social pariahs will get their accounts back. Good! Annoying these people is always the right move.
- elforce002 4y agoIf Elon is true to his word, then twitter will be the best social platform to discuss topics in realtime and listen to different points of view and make our own conclusions. None one can say we have that right now. Facebook, instagram, TikTok are left wing. Truth social, gettr, etc... Are right wing. Where's the "neutral", centric platform? There's none. Twitter could become this platform. I'm not in Truth social but I won't consume any left wing platform either. Twitter is the closest thing to "centric" pov and it's still heavily skewed to left ideologies. The main issue here is that the climate is soo polarized that you can't even discuss anything because if you don't agree 100% with me then you become my enemy. This is one of the reasons on why Hitler rose to power. Don't listen to what the other side is saying even if what they are saying make some sort of sense. They are wrong and they are destroying the world. I,for once, want to believe twitter can be saved and dialogue can come back.
- eatsyourtacos 4y ago>None one can say we have that right now. Facebook, instagram, TikTok are left wing. Truth social, gettr, etc... Are right wing >Where's the "neutral", centric platform? Are you.. serious? You construct this statement as if Facebook, instagram, tiktok, reddit etc are somehow mandated or left wing by some fake construction.. Truth social, gettr and whatever other bullshit people made are the only ones created for people of some specific viewpoints to go there because they don't understand they are in the vast minority on their views which is why no one wants to hear about their bullshit on the rest of the internet. So maybe you should be asking yourself the simple question: if every neutral platform naturally swings left.. hmm, that couldn't possibly mean because most people are actually more left leaning in this country?
- majani 4y agoIt is well studied that only a tiny percentage of social media users actually post. The rest just lurk. So posters aren't a good sample size