It's "Twitter Freedom Friday!"

[Rotadom]

Newsweek answers it for me and in a simple format that even you can understand.


Have a nice day, if your bitterness at how your life turned out allows you to.

Newsweek proved that you lied and they caught you lying. Every time you get rightfully called out, you shove irrelevant links down our throats that don't ever help your plight.

 

[JohnEBbad]

 

[ll74]

So did all Trumpies get a pony this morning? That's what it sounded like.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

I'm always in awe of who you people hero worship. False idles indeed.

They can probably spell idol tho.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

To be fair, IDLES are pretty badass.

 

[phrodeau]

The problem isn’t Musk and Twitter enabling American Nazis and white supremacists. The problem is that America has Nazis and white supremacists.

So to deal with that, do we treat them like dangerous drugs and only go after those who produce and deliver them, or do we treat them like guns and only go after those who use them for assault?

 

[Dribble]

 

[Dribble]

The problem isn’t Musk and Twitter enabling American Nazis and white supremacists. The problem is that America has Nazis and white supremacists.

So to deal with that, do we treat them like dangerous drugs and only go after those who produce and deliver them, or do we treat them like guns and only go after those who use them for assault?

We criticize other countries when they deal with issues like this...yet...those countries don't have those issues long.

The simplest way is also the most effective.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

You boomers crack me up. You only care about twitter because your lord and saviour was banned. He dictates what upsets you and it's hilarious. Who really gives a shit about twitter?lol

 

[John_von_Neumann]

I wonder if Assmeal (dba Chodeham) understands there are different use cases for bots, and that Twitter, like many other social media platforms, specifically provides API for users to operate their own bots.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

You boomers crack me up. You only care about twitter because your lord and saviour was banned. He dictates what upsets you and it's hilarious. Who really gives a shit about twitter?lol

Because like their orange god, they are far too fucking stupid to follow simple rules and get booted from their gracious host's home.

 

[iso36]

Because like their orange god, they are far too fucking stupid to follow simple rules and get booted from their gracious host's home.

Sounds like something from Chairman Xi.

 

[SubzeroGirl]

I’m not on twitter. I hope Elon makes millions from it.

 

[Wrong Element]

Oh, goodie. Another subject for Assmeal to pretend he understands better than anyone else.

As I've said before, you can always tell who is actually on Twitter and who is merely repeating talking points by how much they believe there's been some sort of conservative purge of the site. Wingnuts are all over Twitter, because as we see on Lit, these are people for whom the belief that they're "owning the libs" is essentially the one thing that gives their life any meaning. Without an audience to troll, they cease to exist.

We probably will see a return of the Nazis, thugs who like to issue threats, and fatass former presidents, but Twitter last night was full of people gloating ... on Twitter, because they never left or were banned from Twitter to begin with.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Sounds like something from Chairman Xi.

I bet this made sense in your empty head.

 

[John_von_Neumann]

As I've said before, you can always tell who is actually on Twitter and who is merely repeating talking points by how much they believe there's been some sort of conservative purge of the site. Wingnuts are all over Twitter, because as we see on Lit, these are people for whom the belief that they're "owning the libs" is essentially the one thing that gives their life any meaning. Without an audience to troll, they cease to exist.

We probably will see a return of the Nazis, thugs who like to issue threats, and fatass former presidents, but Twitter last night was full of people gloating ... on Twitter, because they never left or were banned from Twitter to begin with.

I have both a professional and personal presence on Twitter, but I'm careful about what accounts I choose to follow. As a result my feeds tend to be actually relevant, and useful for keeping abreast of my interests and networking. In the few cases I've relaxed my standards, I've been inundated with partisan content from both ends of the spectrum. On casual inspection, it's really difficult to say what interests groups have more volume on Twitter. It's definitely not a libs only club.

 

[Wrong Element]

I’m not on twitter. I hope Elon makes millions from it.

He paid way too much for it. Twitter has been difficult to turn into something that makes money, and Musk now has a insane amount of debt to service.

As for why Musk bought it, he's Richie Rich, basically. A dilettante who has had his already massive ego further inflated by online worshippers living vicariously through him.

The company basically has three options that I can see: One, launch some sort of pay tier that people who actually on Twitter for influencer reasons will be interested in (I assume from the fact this hasn't already been tried that no one seems to think it will work). Two, cut staff dramatically. Three, increase the presence of advertising.

To the extent that staffing cuts lead to less content moderation and more harassment and open bigotry, well, let's just say I don't think that's going to be appealing to advertisers, and to a lot of Twitter users who will look for an alternative (to say nothing of those who have concerns about the world's richest man having access to their DMs and the like). I see a lot of dopes cackling, "Haha! Musk owns you now! No one will leave Twitter because that's where the audience is!" But the Internet graveyard is filled with dead social sites. It's not like the basic technology behind Twitter can't be replicated elsewhere; witness Trump's own vast wasteland of a Twitter knockoff.

 

[ll74]

He paid way too much for it. Twitter has been difficult to turn into something that makes money, and Musk now has a insane amount of debt to service.

As for why Musk bought it, he's Richie Rich, basically. A dilettante who has had his already massive ego further inflated by online worshippers living vicariously through him.

The company basically has three options that I can see: One, launch some sort of pay tier that people who actually on Twitter for influencer reasons will be interested in (I assume from the fact this hasn't already been tried that no one seems to think it will work). Two, cut staff dramatically. Three, increase the presence of advertising.

To the extent that staffing cuts lead to less content moderation and more harassment and open bigotry, well, let's just say I don't think that's going to be appealing to advertisers, and to a lot of Twitter users who will look for an alternative (to say nothing of those who have concerns about the world's richest man having access to their DMs and the like). I see a lot of dopes cackling, "Haha! Musk owns you now! No one will leave Twitter because that's where the audience is!" But the Internet graveyard is filled with dead social sites. It's not like the basic technology behind Twitter can't be replicated elsewhere; witness Trump's own vast wasteland of a Twitter knockoff.

Plus, he has to pay for all the free ponies he gave to trumpies

 

[SubzeroGirl]

You care a lot about twitter. I think Elon is a cool guy, but I’ll never buy a Tesla or tweet. It’s his money, let him spend it.

 

[John_von_Neumann]

The company basically has three options that I can see: One, launch some sort of pay tier that people who actually on Twitter for influencer reasons will be interested in (I assume from the fact this hasn't already been tried that no one seems to think it will work). Two, cut staff dramatically. Three, increase the presence of advertising.

I've read speculation that Musk will introduce additional functionality to the site, to extend advertising opportunities. Like a YouTube clone. The reasoning being that much of the content on Twitter consists of outbound links to YouTube, and this represents lost revenue opportunity. I have no idea how plausible this speculation is, though.

 

[phrodeau]

Plus, he has to pay for all the free ponies he gave to trumpies

Are they playing polo wih Marco?

 

[Chobham]

He paid way too much for it. Twitter has been difficult to turn into something that makes money, and Musk now has a insane amount of debt to service.

As for why Musk bought it, he's Richie Rich, basically. A dilettante who has had his already massive ego further inflated by online worshippers living vicariously through him.

The company basically has three options that I can see: One, launch some sort of pay tier that people who actually on Twitter for influencer reasons will be interested in (I assume from the fact this hasn't already been tried that no one seems to think it will work). Two, cut staff dramatically. Three, increase the presence of advertising.

To the extent that staffing cuts lead to less content moderation and more harassment and open bigotry, well, let's just say I don't think that's going to be appealing to advertisers, and to a lot of Twitter users who will look for an alternative (to say nothing of those who have concerns about the world's richest man having access to their DMs and the like). I see a lot of dopes cackling, "Haha! Musk owns you now! No one will leave Twitter because that's where the audience is!" But the Internet graveyard is filled with dead social sites. It's not like the basic technology behind Twitter can't be replicated elsewhere; witness Trump's own vast wasteland of a Twitter knockoff.

Musk did not buy Twitter out of some overriding altruistic impulse. I agree that he did pay too much for it but I suspect that he has a plan based on a business model.

First of all, all of that code contains a large swath of AI. Technology that he can transfer to his other enterprises. Twitter also meshes well with his Starlink initiative. As a matter of fact Starlink provides the very paywall you referenced. "Buy Starlink and get a free Twitter premium account." That would certainly go a long way in reducing the bot count. If he structures his business model properly Twitter could be used to drive economy of scale to reduce the costs of Starlink.

Now, I don't pretend to know what Musk's long term plans are, I just know that there are many ways he can integrate Twitter into his existing business interests.

 

[Rotadom]

Musk did not buy Twitter out of some overriding altruistic impulse. I agree that he did pay too much for it but I suspect that he has a plan based on a business model.

First of all, all of that code contains a large swath of AI. Technology that he can transfer to his other enterprises. Twitter also meshes well with his Starlink initiative. As a matter of fact Starlink provides the very paywall you referenced. "Buy Starlink and get a free Twitter premium account." That would certainly go a long way in reducing the bot count. If he structures his business model properly Twitter could be used to drive economy of scale to reduce the costs of Starlink.

Now, I don't pretend to know what Musk's long term plans are, I just know that there are many ways he can integrate Twitter into his existing business interests.

lol, Great insight about Twitter from the guy who has proudly claimed that he's not even on Twitter.

 

[Chobham]

lol, Great insight about Twitter from the guy who has proudly claimed that he's not even on Twitter.

And that has what to do with what? Fucking moron.

 

[Rotadom]

And that has what to do with what? Fucking moron.

It means you're just regurgitating what you've read and have no idea how Twitter works and how the bots interract and it seems like you barely have a grip on the financial side to boot. You also, according to your previous posts, should be all over Musk for his billionaire EV conglomerate

And it isn't a good investment. It would be like investing in the Pet Rock market at this point.