Twitter DOOM

[AtW]

"Twitter could split into strands allowing users to stage rows, Elon Musk says

The billionaire owner suggests the platform could have different video game-style modes, including a ‘player versus player’

Elon Musk has indicated that Twitter could be split into different strands where users give their posts content ratings and stage online rows in a specially created space on the platform.

The world’s richest man moved to assuage concerns about a rise in harmful content under his ownership on Friday by announcing the creation of a content moderation council."

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...vp-row-strands

Musk is copying the General!!! Admin should sue him for all he's got!

[SueEllen]

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...-musk-takeover

Who let the dogs out?

[_V_]

Bloke down the pub told me that YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are going to merge next....









... it will be called YouTwitFace

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What a agreeing to pay such a ludicrous price in the midst of a bear market. Other social media stocks have fallen 70-80%.

No wonder he got buyer's remorse and tried to wriggle out of the deal. Luckily for him, there were other idiots willing to put up some of the money.

This will go down as one of the most overpaid tech acquisitions in history.

If only he'd got your financial savvy, he could be the richest man in the world.

He has already said he hasn't bought it primarily to make money. That may or may not be BS but most of Musk's businesses seem set out to disrupt an industry and provide something, and make money along the way. He doesn't seem driven by getting rich, that just happens. He can afford to spend $50bn just for his own pet project, and not need to care about the share-price or investors.

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And of course it's only right and sensible that as "the digital town square, where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated”, Twitter should be under direct control of one private individual.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63458380

He basically just became mod of the world's largest forum. And the thing about internet forums, they don't respect free speech. They are about the most tightly totalitarian (often dictatorship) communities in the world. Even in little places like CUK, people get very upset when a mod can act with total power and zero accountability - imagine it on Twitter when Elon gets upset and deletes the accounts of half the world leaders because they don't support Tesla? And the thing is, on past form that's exactly the sort of thing he might do.

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Ricky Gervais on twitter users

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEawbnXaIDs

Reminded of your post by this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-63483918

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You don't need to have used twitter to have an opinion on it ... I've seen enough news articles about it to know what it's about and the type of crud that is posted.

In the same way that I don't read the Wail, but I've seen enough crud posted from it to know the type of 'news' it reports', and the types of people who do read it

The stuff you see posted from the Mail it is always the more extreme stuff simply by virtue that nobody would quote the other stuff.
An opinion based on others opinions is rarely accurate. Do you really trust those sources to be accurate in their portrayal? Like the internet in general there's all sorts of stuff there it's just where you look.