#musk twitter acquisition

[transhuman-priestess]

Original tweet

[shwoo]

I was able to make a Bluesky account a couple of days ago! I can't even remember when I requested an invite, but it was months ago. Got around to setting it up just now, and hope to make posts and stuff! Got the Shwoo name, too. Didn't have to replace the 00s with zeroes like on Twitter! Probably because there weren't like ten million usernames already taken. Just two million.

Actually, I looked it up, and Twitter already had over twenty million users by the time I joined. Can't find consistent numbers for how many it has at the moment, but it's between 300 and 500 million. That's more than most countries. Except China and India and maybe the US if the numbers are on the lower side.

[trendynewsnow]

Elon Musk's Proposal to Acquire Substack: A Shift in Digital Discourse

The Unexpected Proposal: Elon Musk’s Interest in Substack In April 2023, a surprising proposal emerged from none other than Elon Musk, the newly minted owner of Twitter, now rebranded as X. Musk, looking to invigorate the platform’s paid subscription model, set his sights on the newsletter platform Substack, expressing a keen interest in acquiring it. During a conversation with Chris Best, the…

[richdadpoor]

Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Remove Option to Block Users

Twitter, (recently rebranded as X) appears to be taking another turn for the worse as Elon Musk claimed on Friday that he is removing the Block feature from the app. If Musk goes through with it, users will reportedly still have the option to mute other profiles from appearing on their feeds, but the option to block unwanted followers from seeing your activity may become a thing of the past. Mr.…

[videoplanchette]

Feels relevant for some reason.

[hands-off-my-macaroni]

Gonna need a microscope to find Elon’s

I know the rituals

[robpegoraro]

Weekly output: Disney CEO swap, streaming devices, adtech deal, Comcast freebies, robocall punishment, T-Mobile updates, World Cup ratings, Black Friday streaming deals, Musk touts Twitter growth

Weekly output: Disney CEO swap, streaming devices, adtech deal, Comcast freebies, robocall punishment, T-Mobile updates, World Cup ratings, Black Friday streaming deals, Musk touts Twitter growth

I had an exceedingly busy three days to start the week–as in, it was a good thing my flight Wednesday wasn’t until 3:15 in the afternoon–then managed to keep my hands off a keyboard for most of the rest of the week. Patreon readers got a bonus post Wednesday afternoon about my struggles getting Verizon to document where it’s expanded its C-band 5G service this year. 11/21/2022: Disney CEO…

[contemplatingoutlander]

Yoel Roth, PhD used to be in charge of the trust and safety team at Twitter. This is a must-read article to better understand how the far right is attacking anyone who wants to guard against disinformation being shared on social media. Consequently, the link above is a gift 🎁 link, so anyone can read the entire article, even if they do not subscribe to the NY Times.

Below are some excerpts:

When I worked at Twitter, I led the team that placed a fact-checking label on one of Donald Trump’s tweets for the first time. Following the violence of Jan. 6, I helped make the call to ban his account from Twitter altogether. Nothing prepared me for what would happen next. Backed by fans on social media, Mr. Trump publicly attacked me. Two years later, following his acquisition of Twitter and after I resigned my role as the company’s head of trust and safety, Elon Musk added fuel to the fire. I’ve lived with armed guards outside my home and have had to upend my family, go into hiding for months and repeatedly move. This isn’t a story I relish revisiting. But I’ve learned that what happened to me wasn’t an accident. It wasn’t just personal vindictiveness or “cancel culture.” It was a strategy — one that affects not just targeted individuals like me, but all of us, as it is rapidly changing what we see online. Private individuals — from academic researchers to employees of tech companies — are increasingly the targets of lawsuits, congressional hearings and vicious online attacks. These efforts, staged largely by the right, are having their desired effect: Universities are cutting back on efforts to quantify abusive and misleading information spreading online. Social media companies are shying away from making the kind of difficult decisions my team did when we intervened against Mr. Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. Platforms had finally begun taking these risks seriously only after the 2016 election. Now, faced with the prospect of disproportionate attacks on their employees, companies seem increasingly reluctant to make controversial decisions, letting misinformation and abuse fester in order to avoid provoking public retaliation.

I encourage you to use the gift link above and read the entire article. It is worth your time.

[swholli]

Not that my weighing in on anything means anything, but here’s my two cents as a decade plus user:

Tumblr has a TERF problem and has had one for a while. The amount of content on this website that was built around the HP fandom in the early days I think is particularly why. JKR did her thing and there was already a built-in cushion of diehards who might not have even had a formed opinion likely became transphobic and transmisogynists in defense of their favorite series.

The truscum and TERF lesbians catapulted themselves to the center of this new bloc by using the usual prey upon tactics, only fortifying their following.

Like any space being leeched upon by the far right, Tumblr was never really a place to take a foothold before as it was largely viewed as the SJW site- better to attack (like 4chan did) than to join. But it’s different now. It’s the last beacon of non-algorithmic social media. Sure the hardcore Nazis mostly stayed on Twitter post-Musk but you have to think how many of the TERFs who identify as LGB (no T) would leave a worse hellsite for this one.

What I’m getting at is, if you’ve been paying attention to the Tumblr ecosystem for as long as I have, you notice the trends. This issue has been festering for awhile, to claim as a CEO for the site that it’s misinformation is to ignore countless user experiences, most of us who’ve been using this site since before the acquisition by said CEO and company.

We’ve had this issue for years now, we’ve been trying to tell you, and you’ve done next to nothing. This is unacceptable and the backlash you’re getting from this is hubris.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Good post about elon musk's twitter acquisition, but why did you spell it gaol instead of jail? I assume jail was what you were referring to.

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Okay listen. You're not a bad person. I recognise that you are fundamentally well-intentioned, and you most likely did not intend offence with this question, just as I suspect all the other Americans who have seen fit to ask this probably didn't intend offence.

But you must see how incredibly rude this is? You must do. You cannot actually think it's socially acceptable to ask a stranger why they are using their own dialect instead of yours. You must realise how rude it would be for me to send you an ask saying "Good post, but why did you spell it neighbor? I assume neighbour is what you meant."

Here's the thing: I first started reading books in American English when I was nine years old. I loved Point Horror books, and Goosebumps, and the Saddle Club. And as I read those books, in a dialect not my own, with foreign spelling and unfamiliar words I hadn't encountered before, you know what I did?

I dealt with it. I just... coped. I recognised it was a different dialect. And then I spent a while confused as to what a pacifier was because Google didn't exist yet but through context I figured it was a small toy Americans give babies, and then eventually my Dad told me it was a dummy and I went OHHHHH...yeah that makes more sense.

But the point is, I just worked this out. I worked out what a sidewalk was, and galoshes, and teeth-floating in horses, and that 'pants' means something different, and that 'fanny' means something VERY different. I didn't get so confused at words having Z's instead of S's that I felt the need to write to the author and ask them why they did it; because I understood that I was reading a different language from someone in a different country.

I did my time at this particular coalface, is what I'm saying.

I recognise that Americans don't. Harry Potter was an international giant, but it had to be translated into American English so poor little American children wouldn't get confused; ditto His Dark Materials, and I will never understand why the translator for both of those franchises changed the titles of the first books (apparently Americans can't be trusted to understand what a philosopher is, or the Northern Lights.) But even so.

I encourage you, and all other Americans who are feeling the need to weigh in on this, to take some time to ask yourselves why, on seeing an unfamiliar dialectic word, you couldn't just work it out for yourself, but HAD to comment on it and even ask for a justification.

[ravenkings]

i think that part of the explanation for elon musk's behavior both during and after his twitter acquisition, aside from the fact that he's The Most Divorced Manchild in existence and is constantly high on ketamine, is that he's trying to compensate for the fact that he can never run for POTUS bc he was born in south africa.

[desperate-acts-of-capitalism]

Episode 46: Twitter - Autopsy of an acquisition

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PATREON

In today's episode, CT examines the wild and wacky history of Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. Buckle up.

Edited by Noah

Big Things Are Coming

[kabii-kins]

I'm going to be honest. I'm genuinely baffled-- like unphathomably IN AWE on the self-destructive thought process of spending BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO ACQUIRE A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM only to just FUCK IT straight into the goddamn ground.

Firing everyone who once worked for the company before they had a chance to work for you. Considering turning the platform into fucking REDDIT when Reddit is a forum based social media while Twitter is more or less a microblogging platform. Invalidating the legitimacy of verification and as a result, MADE IT PAY TO FUCKING WIN AS A RESULT. Which became the biggest fucking joke on the internet-- by the way. Making Blocking and Muting other people functionally useless and Circles almost dead on arrival.

That's merely the surface of the shit he's done and it hasn't been a fucking year since he bought the damn platform. He lost money because of this acquisition without knowing shit about the professionals who ran the fucking company and "desperation" is written in his attempts on at least TRYING to break even.

You have to walk on fucking eggshells when mentioning him or anything against his ideals or his "vision" for the platform. And if you aren't tying your hair back and sucking him off, you're not even worthy of being listened to. Let alone have a platform to stand on.

Which begs the question-- what the fuck is even the POINT of getting Twitter if you're gonna make it but a broken shell of what it once was? To own the libs? To dunk on those sensitive snowflakes? Because the only fucking person who's a goddamn snowflake is the cuRRENT FUCKING CEO OF TWITTER.COM.

Before he became CEO Twitter had solidified its spot as an essential social media platform. The place where people go to learn things first. It was the quickest and easiest of ways to keep your audience updated and engaged. News broke there much more effectively and in a far more broader sense.

It was a tool.

A hub of information and socialization. And it although it was also a toxic cesspool, and still is, it was still a viable platform for anyone to be on. Even the people who don't deserve a platform and are generally really shitty people.

Never before have I seen such a hard fucking decline of a platform in my life. And I was here for the Tumblr Porn ban. I was there for when Deviantart sold itself out.

Cut your fucking losses, Musk. It isn't fucking working.

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[videoplanchette]

Hey so, like, Twitter is making its users pay for two-factor authentification. Its also not making it super obvious about it, so I imagine if you plugged your financial info into the bird app it might just start pulling money anyway-- just keep an eye out.