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I really hope he makes a social media that people are proud to use!
I really hope he makes a social media that people are proud to use!
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Elon Musk Offers to Buy All of Twitter
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I am not a part of either political party in the U.S. However, there is definitely anecdotal evidence that Twitter and other social media platforms have suspended and banned people for political opinions/ideas. This is wrong and bad for society no matter what side is being banned Or suspended. The problem here is that Twitter has never embraced a philosophy of who they are. Are they the public town square, or are they a company to disseminate news and information, or what are they? They want it both ways: They want to be and open forum for everybody while still maintaining tight control over the speech on the platform. That just doesn’t work. If Musk is successful I hope that Twitter can truly embrace free speech and stop with the namby pamby excuses for its banning of some information and people while others are allowed.
Yep, a true con artist. It's not like millions of Tesla's are being produced and SpaceX is ferrying crew and cargo to the ISS and are the only company that lands and re-uses boosters.
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This everyday. These idiots are granted an instant world wide platform and this needs to stop. There is so much hate on Twitter. It is the sewer of the Internet.
Wish he would spend more time getting his FSD cars functional and less time playing with social media.
Hopefully this doesn't happen. I don't use it, but the idea of someone happy to invent their own fake news owning a major social media platform is scary.
So what do you want to do? Ban them or "unban" others who have done similar things with different motivations?
This thread is the perfect example why there can never be working AND uncensored media and why Twitter and Co were a stupid idea from day one.
Or maybe do something else:
1. personal account, limited to 100 followers, no retweets, no bots just the place to plan grandma's birthday
2. public account, no politics, just the place to promote your music of your fishing club
3. political account, you can say whatever you want as long as can prove it and yes you can be sued over anything you can't
Would still be a s##tshow, you'd still have plenty people bending the rules and plenty more whining about how it is unfair......
Here is a crazy thought: Tesla doesn’t have a PR dept anymore. What if Elon’s big move is to turn Twitter into Tesla’s PR dept?
Millions of cars that yet have to deliver on features promised years ago. A vacuum tube train that isn't a train and not in a vaccum. A truly boring company making tunnels nobody needed for close the same cost as everyone else.
Musk is constantly claiming to "revolutionize" the world, and people buy it, while all he does is make very smart sales pitches while maintaining the veneer of being some kind of genius. Dude is smart, and dude knows how to use his persona, you can't take that from him, but that doesn't change the fact that SpaceX is probably his only endeavor that actually "did" something, and how that will pan out is yet to be seen.
If he purchases Twitter, I think it is with the intention that it will be used as the messenger platform for his car business. The cars AI could send and recieve messages abot car performance, car problems, traffic problems, call for help, get location information updates of places where they are driving through or close by, the list is endless. The problem at the moment is all of this would have to be done using a 3rd party messaging system of which Musk would have to pay a license to use. With twitter, it comes ready made with all the hardware and software he would need to make it work with the cars. This way he does not have to pay money to 3rd party for licenses to use their hardware or software, he does not have to pay people to build a messaging system for him.
A lot of stuff that is on twitter is from people using an app on their mobile phone where they have been out and about, seen something and felt the need to put it on twitter, for example, a road accident causing delays, someone has seen a celeb out and about, someone has seen a new vechicle, but instead of using an app on a mobile phone to do it, they could do it directly from the car. It's a possibility.
A lot of stuff that is on twitter is from people using an app on their mobile phone where they have been out and about, seen something and felt the need to put it on twitter, for example, a road accident causing delays, someone has seen a celeb out and about, someone has seen a new vechicle, but instead of using an app on a mobile phone to do it, they could do it directly from the car. It's a possibility.
I don't know what his plans are for twitter, and I really don't care.
Twitter, facebook, all of those are just toxicity on the internet. Yes there are good things there, but way too much bad ration wise.
Whatever he will do with twitter, couldn't make twitter any worse. The islands of good things in those sites/apps will stay as they are. The toxic unless changed, will just stay toxic, maybe less maybe more.
Twitter, facebook, all of those are just toxicity on the internet. Yes there are good things there, but way too much bad ration wise.
Whatever he will do with twitter, couldn't make twitter any worse. The islands of good things in those sites/apps will stay as they are. The toxic unless changed, will just stay toxic, maybe less maybe more.
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I think you are hugely discrediting how he got EVs to become mainstream and forced the major auto makers to pivot into making EVs. Tesla’s influence on the auto industry is the same as SpaceX’s influence in the commercial rocket industry.
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Wow! That’s insane. Straight up Boss status.
If this deal goes through. I’m curious if people will start quitting under Elon.
If this deal goes through. I’m curious if people will start quitting under Elon.
I see why you'd think that if all you do is look at his twitter feed. If you watch his interviews he's a completely different in person.
sounds like a mobster talking about intimidating someone, "naw we just sent a nice fellow to go chat with him... that's all"
Hate to break it to all of you, but the problem isn’t Twitter, (or Facebook). Those platforms are just microphones.
The problem is people.
Nuke Facebook and Twitter and build a new social website - and the same problems will arise.
The problem is people.
Nuke Facebook and Twitter and build a new social website - and the same problems will arise.
The only feature that is missing is FSD and it's not like it doesn't exist, it's simply not yet good enough. He's not even working on hyperloop. That nobody needed is not a fact, it's your opinion.
Currently there would be no EV revolution in the auto industry without Tesla paving the way. SpaceX has already revolutionized the space industry, there's nothing that has yet to pan out.
I sure hope not - the dude is massively overvalued. He doesn't live on some moral high ground, he's a market manipulator that wants to control the narrative. From silencing his own employees to racist practices at his facilities, he is not this good guy looking to help society. He's a rich kid who wants a bully pulpit. I seriously hope the US stops fetishizing these wannabe autocrats.
He is the biggest heel on the internet. I love that guy and I hope he transforms twitter into a legitimate platform.
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Completely agree. I would like to see a social media company like Twitter take on more of a Reddit model: let the people using the site vote on what is good content and what isn’t. While there would still be complaints (when isn’t there online), it would allow users to decide what is important information and what isn’t rather than algorithms and gatekeepers.
Elon is so freaking smart. Hope this happens and brings about free speech again.
This is just one massive 3 billion dollar pump and dump. Billionaire troll is literally asking to be done for market manipulation.
Twitter needs this, those employees are running the platform too unchecked and need to be brought back to reality. Standards are too fluid in its current state.
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