If it becomes profitable for 1-2 years he will sell it for way more than he purchased it. Thats a big IF....
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My use of Twitter has diminished significantly over the years. I mostly lurk these days, but I use to actively tweet. Really lost interest and this was before Elon bought it. I joined a new network that’s similar to Twitter called Mastadon. It’s kinda confusing right now, but in rush.
I think he just likes attention and wants to "change the world" which he has done and is doing with space and tesla. But he has so much money he can do some crazy stuff...and he likes the attention.
This is exactly the issue. Suddenly the unwashed masses are permitted the Blue Check Mark(tm) so the people with it are no longer "special" (which they weren't anyway but certainly thought they were).
They really don't get it. They own the entire catored news and media sector. There is a MASSIVE demand for a free speech social network that isn't just a right-wing echo chamber. People will pretend they're leaving Twitter and over time it will be more popular than ever.
Extreme content is whatever most people don't want to see. Nazi flags are legal to display in the US, but most people and (more important to Twitter's bottom line) most brands don't want to see them on their phones when they open the app. Charmin doesn't want its toilet paper ads next to posts with Nazis or gore videos or hentai or many other things that are legal but not something users want as part of their user experience. People won't open the app as much or not sign up to begin with, twitter will get fewer ad impressions, and their revenue will plummet.
What is with people in this thread jumping right to Hitler and Nazis to try and make their points?
I'm grounded in reality. I've been on the dark web I know what "free speech" on the internet looks like. It's no mistake that people are fighting for the right to post their fringe ideologies on Twitter rather than Gab/4chan/whatever horrible place. Normal people don't want to interact with the kind of content that would previously get you banned from Twitter and/or Thanksgiving dinner.
I agree, I was being facetious as in AOC and the like are trying to conflate a stupid blue check mark with free speech - which is clearly false.
That’s what some people want to believe to be the case so it’s the narrative they push. Can you provide actual tweets from blue checks complaining that they won’t be special anymore?
We were were talking about extreme content that is legal but not wise to have on a social network. A Nazi flag/armband is a good example of something that is entirely legal in the US but distasteful to most people. It was on my mind because a guy in NYC came into a bar on Halloween a couple days ago in a Nazi costume and was asked to leave. Got it?
Interesting you mention this because there are stories on The Verge all the time about green bubble anxiety yet it seems like the only people who really have anxiety about being a green bubble are people who work at The Verge.
I feel great. Please send screenshot of canceled account
Are you really asking me for a direct quote source on people admitting they won't feel special anymore? Really? Of course such a thing doesn't exist - people aren't going to admit they are that shallow for the world to see by literally saying that sentence. They will instead admit they are that shallow by posting stupid things like AOC did. Use some common sense here and read between the lines.
How can you do this with a canceled account? Also it’s ironic that you are using your free speech to harass someone who you are saying is impeding your free speech
The two features I expect are timed muting (ie: mute someone for x amount of time) and bigger font display (like it used to be years ago) 🤷🏻
Because it's not as extreme as jumping straight to Mao or Stalin?
But they don't really do that, do they? Odd, that, what with their respective scorecards and all. 🤔
What? What are you talking about??? "Respective scorecards"? What a deeply weird thing to say.
Agreed. Individuals that have a blue check mark most likely have large followings which they benefit from directly or indirectly. No more free passes.
Hilarious response from Elon. But I've never understood the apel of twitter, why it would be valued that high and what the h**l Musk wants with it.
Trading any and all information you willingly gave to Twitter was the proposition for the free service. If they're going to charge everyone for it, plus still require all your personal information that the service will own in exchange, then I'm sure lots of users will just delete their accounts and apps then move onto the next place. There are so many social media options, the market is super flooded with services ranging in all directions.
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Twitter shouldn't be charging popular accounts to have blue check marks, Twitter should be the ones paying the successful content creators for producing content on Twitter (much like YouTube does). Without the content creators, hardly anyone would be on the platform. To charge them on top of creating content for Twitter is absurd. Sad to see them go down this road.
They may mean this.
From https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...ngs-era/01044df5-03dd-49f4-a453-a033c5287bce/
News Corp bought MySpace in 2005, it tanked after Facebook became available to everyone who wasn't in college. Time Inc bought it from News Corp, then they were purchased by Meredith Corp. They still own the company today. Yahoo never owned the company.
They do, twice already in this thread. Both unnecessary since it is always unnecessary.