Agreed. The commons should be open to all. Not controlled by petulant billionaires who now just stamp their feet when their tweets don't get enough views.
Thank goodness for Mastodon.
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Agreed. The commons should be open to all. Not controlled by petulant billionaires who now just stamp their feet when their tweets don't get enough views.
Thank goodness for Mastodon.
The best part of Enron's new pay per month blue check grift is he is going to depress interaction even more by site visitors resulting in EVEN LESS advertisers being interested in buying ads, resulting Twitter's value going from the already less than half of what he paid for it to $12-15 billion even faster that it went from 44 to 20 billion.
Business genius!
Business genius!
I feel the media cares more about Twitter stories than people actually care about Twitter. And so this buzz creates a false importance of the platform, just like media attention can artificially make some people a lot more important than they should be. Anyway, platforms die all the time and people do move on with their lives.
Just watched the new Nintendo live stream for Tears of the kingdom.
God, it's me Margaret....
Please never allow Enron to buy Nintendo ok?
God, it's me Margaret....
Please never allow Enron to buy Nintendo ok?
Deleting Twitter was a great decision for me personally. It’s a total cesspool.
I remember when he was going to sic advanced AI on the site to ferret out all bots. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that his proposed alternative calls for money from end-users.
I would like to think he could have gotten his act together fast enough to give the employee stock when the blue bird of unhappiness was closer to that $44 billion number.
But I guess giving your employees stock after you halved the company's value is a genius business thing too?:
"This week, Musk revealed in a company-wide email that he now values Twitter at $20 billion, less than half what he paid for it in 2022."
But I guess giving your employees stock after you halved the company's value is a genius business thing too?:
"This week, Musk revealed in a company-wide email that he now values Twitter at $20 billion, less than half what he paid for it in 2022."
The genius at work again… or ’hot to will a once successful service’
I wonder how long until the leaked source code results in a ransomware attack on twitter.com?
I hope the ransomware people base their ransom amount on the new tanked value of twitter and not what Enron paid for it.
I mean, give the guy a break!
I hope the ransomware people base their ransom amount on the new tanked value of twitter and not what Enron paid for it.
I mean, give the guy a break!
What amazes me is that anything Twitter does is still news-worthy. If you stay on the platform and complain instead of switching to something more decentralized like Mastodon, you're part of the problem...
When projection is presented as a made up " realistic" fact. Elon's response to the poll was very similar to the poll results he received onstage with David Chappelle. Changing the rules after a reality check just scratches the surface of the man. Buying Twitter brought him into an unfiltered spotlight losing the protections of his enablers. Quite the emperor has no clothes coming out.
The poll was always a joke to begin with. He had no intent of going by any results of it, he did it for a laugh and to get it mentioned in the press and drive more traffic to twitter and it worked. So call him whatever you want, but I'd say he knows what he is doing. Self-made billionaire for a reason. And yes, he is self-made.
This is all because people voted he should step down, lol. I'm sure they crunched the numbers and realized the majority of the "No" votes were twitter blue subscribers and "Yes" were not. Going to pretend like its bots, despite the fact that the blue checkmark is about 3 days away from just becoming an "I 🩵 Elon" sticker.
I bet he predicted "no" would win but since it was a fake poll designed to increase press and traffic, he didn't really care. The poll served its purpose. It wasn't legally binding and the result is exactly what he likely anticipated.
Apparently, free speech isn't so free anymore. Want to participate in Musk's digital time square and exercise your voice? You're gonna have to pay Musk $8 (or $11 if through iOS) per month first.
Which means this is just a cash grab. Plain and simple.
The "free" in "free speech" never referred to the price of something.
And it remains free to tweet there and have your tweets seen by others for free.
Twitter has lost more than half its value since Elon bought it. He's got them magic touch, doesn't he?
Their value was heavily inflated. The company was a pile of garbage with no profits, it is revisionist history to act like it was a success story. He knew he was overpaying. He just had so-called "f you money" and went for it. The "value" dipped as soon as the transaction closed and then some more soon after due to advertisers being bullied into pausing their campaigns.
With a whole lot of taxpayer grants, look up his path to wealth, typical suck up the taxpayer cash path. The Musk distortion field is strong no doubt. a joke absolutely, just not in the way you mean.
What's blue mark ? You have to go through security check where you have to provide ID or address or its just a tool to suck money from you ?
That's my understanding as the general, core "sales pitch" for all social media, whether it be YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, (old) Twitter, reddit, etc.:
Anyone from anywhere can get on and post as long as they can connect to the Internet. The costs associated with running the site and continuous moderation of posts is paid by advertising.
As soon as you set up a system where there's a minimum fee to even get seen then the whole allure of social media is gone.
With an $8 fee, Twitter will skew to be predominantly comprised of users with a commercial/publicity agenda and away from those with agendas that aren't monetizable.
And he was tweeting about keeping a credit card on file for blue check?
Might as well throw my credit cards out the window, will be about as secure.
He's the Peter Principal, in Billionaire form.
