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Twitter to Stop Unverified Accounts From Appearing in Recommended Tweets [Updated]
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The fact that you even need to explain something this blatantly obvious is shocking. Elon proclaiming "power to the people" and declaring that Twitter will "democratize free speech" while paywalling the ability for that to happen is absolutely laughable.
Last I checked, a true democracy didn't involve stratifying the public's voice & opinion by their ability to cough up a monthly payment.
If he wants to run it as his own personal echo chamber, that's absolutely fine. He owns the damn thing and can do with it as he pleases...but can we please drop this charade of him actually caring about humanity and the voice of the people 😆
True and the last I looked having the place overrun with bots and trolls isn't "power to the people" either.
So for a private enterprise to force a payment to reign in the platform to actually give some "power to the people" seems a just compromise.
"Forgot to mention that accounts you follow directly will also be in For You, since you have explicitly asked for them."
That's latin for:
"I TRULY do not know what the hell I am doing with twitter."
That's latin for:
"I TRULY do not know what the hell I am doing with twitter."
Twitter users are still able to tweet for free but monetizing for added exposure or reach is really nothing new. Twitter has been charging for added exposure (e.g., promoted tweets) for years, long before Musk took over the company.
One way or another, “money” (advertising, marketing, influence, etc.) has been used to stratify public voices and opinions for ages. That is sometimes necessary (some might call it a necessary evil) in order to also be able to provide "free" options to express views.
He might have to start charging 9$ a month soon. 🤣
Nah more and more clients are come out and they are better than Twitter in UI terms and they also are doing Pixelfed servers.
This whole bots talking point has been blown way out of proportion.
I've been using Twitter since 2009 and the only presence I have ever seen significantly plague & disrupt my experience on Twitter, both before and after Elon's takeover are the vocal minority of the braindead...bigoted racists fighting hypocritical SJWs, crypto shills pushing the latest shitcoin, wannabe influencers hawking their merch, etc. etc.
Now, Elon has done absolutely nothing to truly fix the bot issue, which to be honest wasn't significant enough to begin with anyway, while also handing an express ticket to these same vocal minorities to scream even louder. Fantastic solution.
I said so my original post too, Elon owns the platform and can do with it as he pleases. However what you are saying and what he is doing are most certainly not what he claimed as his intent to foster the internet's "town hall".
Call it something else if its pay-to-win, that's all I'm saying.
Your "one way or the other" argument makes no sense to me. There are right and wrong ways to do things. The means and ends don't exist in blank hypotheses. Just because the richest man on earth wants to recoup the costs of a purchase he was forced to follow through with after he got caught bluffing doesn't make this a "necessary evil".
Either way, if you see the update to the OP of this thread, in true Elon fashion he has already had to amend this change weeks before it was even implemented. This is just business as usual.
I'm not a twitter user, but I don't think one can have this both ways, whether or not there is universal agreement or not. Trying to reduce the noise while increasing usefulness seems like your arguing that someone will be disenfranchised.
Musk's argument was essentially that Twitter was too biased to the left which he claims to be addressing. The fact that he may also be expanding ways to allow content to get "enhanced exposure" does not necessarily take away from that nor is it different than how things have operated in the U.S. and similar countries for ages.
In order for Twitter to be able to provide a "free" source for people to express their views, they have to make money in other ways. This is and has been similarly true for all sorts of print, online and television news/information sources. In order for those to provide a "free" source (letters to the editor, op eds, interviews, forums, etc.) for people to express their views, they have to make money in other ways.
The simple fact remains that money can and is used to buy a "louder voice" and I don't think that will ever change. As I said, these sorts of things have been going on for ages one way or another through marketing/advertising, campaign donations, lobbying efforts, etc.
I've been on Twitter since 2009. I stopped using the Twitter app years ago. I only use Tweetdeck. I have 5 columns (News, Local, Sports/Tech/Music, Weather and Favs). I consider all of the users in these lists as reliable sources for news, weather, sports...etc. I have been adding and/or removing users to each list as I see fit. I rarely see bots except when someone gets hacked. If Tweetdeck wasn't available today; I would probably delete my account.
Yet it’s value is halved, advertisers abandoned the platform and apparently just 4 months cash reserves remaining. Musk’s regular poor decision making is resulting in a platform that is unstable, delivering new APIs that don’t meet needs but are significantly over priced, and restricts some basic functionality to those with its new blue tick as clearly it needs people to pay to help sure things up. I’ll not be surprised if they don’t survive.
and he will have ANOTHER billion dollar debt payment due soon. (Quarterly it seems)
Drain.
Circling.
Him.
Drain.
Circling.
Him.
Twitter was probably only worth about 2/3rds what Musk paid the day he bought it. I think he went in with a high bid in order to open the door for negations and expected he would end up paying much less by raising doubts about Twitter's public filings regarding fake/spam/bot account metrics. When that wasn't working, he attempted to back out but ultimately ended up completing the deal as originally presented.
Not sure what you mean by unstable or poor decision-making. Twitter has been better than ever with fewer people on its payroll.
Not sure what you mean by basic functionality. People without a blue checkmark can tweet and retweet just like before.
There are only two ways to go about this. Either you use the service for free and you yourself become the product, or you pay.
Twitter will survive because it's the only platform where you get to interact with the newsmakers directly and with no filter. No other social media platform has even come close.
The fact that MacRumors can't help themselves but update you on what's going on with Twitter should tell you how influential Twitter really is.
Well he got what all narcissist want.
It only cost him 24 billion dollars in company value loss and a constant berating of his employees to the point they were either so sick of listening to him or feared for their jobs so much they just forced programmed a follow of him to most of the accounts.
www.theverge.com
This should satisfy his ego no?
No.
It only cost him 24 billion dollars in company value loss and a constant berating of his employees to the point they were either so sick of listening to him or feared for their jobs so much they just forced programmed a follow of him to most of the accounts.
Elon Musk is now the most-followed person on Twitter
The billionaire took Barack Obama’s number one spot.
www.theverge.com
This should satisfy his ego no?
No.
Tired:
www.dummies.com
Wired:
hachyderm.io
LOL!
Mainstream here Mastodon comes!
GeoCities, there Twitter goes.
Twitter For Dummies | dummmies
Wired:
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hachyderm.io
LOL!
Mainstream here Mastodon comes!
GeoCities, there Twitter goes.