So the clown who backs a clown, who ran on saying inflation is such a big problem, increases his own product by 37.5% per month. Ok buddy.
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ad-free? i thought most advertisers have already left that cesspool
What they don’t tell you is that main reason they are price hiking is because they have no ad revenue left since the big advertisers all left for Meta’s platform, they can’t associate anything with something toxic like dictator Musk. And looks like some of banks that loaned money to Musk is asking for some of the money back right now.
Twitter is simply doomed right now, would now be surprised if they merged with Truth Social soon to try to salvage the company.
I think it will continue to exist, in dwindling form. It's like an object falling into a black hole -- it will spiral in ever-tighter circles closer and closer to the singularity (i.e. Musk's ego, which has the density of a neutron star) until it all slips inside the event horizon.
But for it to go away would be an admission of defeat, and Elmo doesn't do admissions.
Let Elmo make an honest effort to clean up the neo-Nazi crap and the Holocaust denial crap and maybe I'd consider returning. It would sure cost him a hell of a lot less than he's losing in brand value.
Bless your heart. Twitter has turned into a nazi disinformation trolling raging dumpster fire. And this is exactly what Elmo wanted.
I’m sure all four subscribers are very upset with this.
And even if you are a paying subscriber, your account can still be arbitrarily and capriciously suspended at any time, with no effective way to communicate with a human being about why. X's "Trust & Safety" policies have been liberated from the evil Vijaya Gadde, but the people who remain in X's censorship brigade are still operating under her training.
For X to be chasing the approval of people who will never pay a dime for the service seems like a mistake to me. Hundreds of dollars a year and no customer service at all?
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Currency =/= investment and investment =/= currency. It's one or the other and the name cryptocurrency, in its current forms, is a misnomer.
Blockchain, yawn. I've been hearing for years how amazing blockchain is, but I've yet to see it implemented on a large scale outside of crypto, and it doesn't offer much that a database currently doesn't.
I have never, not one time, seen any tweets that are "fascist". That word, like too many others, is overused, misused, and come to mean nothing more than, "something I disagree with". I have certainly seen anti-semitism, I have certainly seen racism, and I report it when I see it, but it's not coming from conservative or libertarian accounts that have any clout, and a lot of it comes from accounts associated with the political left. I still see MUCH MORE Marxism/Communism/Socialism on X/Twitter, than I see outright "Nazism" or whatever/however the left chooses to define as "Fascism".
For libertarian-minded folks like myself, I don't see what is supposed to make X this "cesspool". I don't agree with hating anyone, I don't agree with violence, I don't want to overthrow the government, I don't want to imprison someone or ban them for their speech, and this has always been who I am. Comments I made in the past that were factual, verifiable, and not advocating anything, were enough to get me suspended when Twitter was under Dorsey, but are allowed (as they should be) under Musk. What you consider a "right-wing cesspool" was little more than a left-wing echo chamber that was grossly heavy-handed under Dorsey and actively worked with the media and a particular political party, to silence dissenting thoughts, comments, and information. I don't see X as having gone in that direction, from a right-wing perspective (whereas Twitter was obviously far left), it's more that people on the far left have lost their monopoly on voices and information. I am perfectly fine seeing and reading tweets from people on the left and I don't want X to turn into any sort of echo chamber and in my experience, it hasn't.
It's just my opinion, but all of the public figures I see wanting to bail on X for Bluesky, are universally leftist and they don't engage and won't tolerate, opposing perspectives. They want a new home for their old echo chamber, and it seems they've found it. That is fine, but if either side, left or right, don't get back to talking to each other and stop pandering to people mostly on the ultra-left or weirdo fringe right, the vitriol is just going to continue, the political violence will continue, and terror groups like Antifa and Proud Boys will continue getting attention rather than scorn.
I just don't know where you folks are seeing this. I cannot tell you how many people or groups I follow and information and "breaking news" types of events are precisely why I follow them.
If the legacy media would simply do their jobs and present all the information in a non-biased, non-partisan, objective manner, and not bury things that don't fit with "the message", you'd see a lot of social media sites lose their subscribers and users.
"life updates"?! That's an interesting way to say "unhinged ramblings of Neo-nazis and fascist propaganda"
I think you'll find that stopping ANY social media will be beneficial for your mental health. I'm not encouraging anyone to use ANY social media and I have all but quit Facebook, which is helpful for me. What social media is good for is what I use it for, information on issues, breaking news events, and coverage of events that don't get legacy media coverage. I don't really engage in back and forth political fights anymore, that's not good for you, and that's coming from someone that lives, eats, and breathes politics.
May I ask how you define "fascism" please? Do me a solid and don't look up the actual definition, please just give me your off the top of your head definition. Tell me what it means to you. Thanks!
Liberals aren't extreme in the US. They are the milk-toast ineffectual middle. The leftists are more extreme than the liberals,but still no where as extreme the country needs or as extreme as the fascist right wing... which is where twitter has gone since musk, a Neo-nazi supporter and fascist, has taken it over.
Fair question. My question to you is are you grouping socialism in with Communism?
I sort of agree but the jet follow thing, that's understandable. Banning accounts that link, that's stupid and counter-productive.
X isn't perfect and anyone that says it is, is a liar. What I can say, as someone who has made a lot of political posts there from a right of center perspective, is that the climate for what is tolerated/allowed, is MUCH better today, than it was under Dorsey. I had repeated bans and suspensions under Dorsey for simply posting viewpoints and factual information that wouldn't be outside the Overton Window anywhere, except on the ultra-left. I still see a lot of left-wingers on X posting information that is no different than what I saw under Dorsey and they're not facing repercussions at all and still have a lot of engagement.
From an "allow all sides to present viewpoints" perspective, it is much better than under Dorsey.