#twitter ceo jack dorsey

[hashtagloveloses]

should you delete twitter and get bluesky? (or just get a bluesky in general)? here's what i've found:

yes. my answer was no before bc the former CEO of twitter who also sucked, jack dorsey, was on the board, but he left as of may 2024, and things have gotten a lot better. also a lot of japanese and korean artists have joined

don't delete your twitter. lock your account, use a service to delete all your tweets, delete the app off of your phone, and keep your account/handle so you can't be impersonated.

get a bluesky with the same handle, even if you won't use it, also so you won't be impersonated.

get the sky follower bridge extension for chrome or firefox. you can find everyone you follow on twitter AND everyone you blocked so you don't have to start fresh: https://skyfollowerbridge.com/

learn how to use its moderation tools (labelers, block lists, NSFW settings) so you can immediately cut out the grifters, fascists, t*rfs, AI freaks, have the NSFW content you want to see if you so choose, and moderate for triggers. here's a helpful thread with a lot of tools.

the bluesky phone app is pretty good, but there is also tweetdeck for bluesky, called https://deck.blue/ on desktop, if you miss tweetdeck.

bluesky has explicitly stated they do not use your data to train generative AI, which is nice to hear from an up and coming startup. obviously we can’t trust these companies and please use nightshade and glaze, but it’s good to hear.

[wolfspaw]

[journalsmente]

India threatened to shut down Twitter, says ex-CEO Jack Dorsey; govt says ‘outright lie’

There has been a significant surge in legal demands being made by India — from various courts and the government — to remove content from Twitter between 2014 and 2020, an analysis of Twitter’s global transparency reports by The Indian Express had earlier shown.

Twitter’s co-founder and former boss Jack Dorsey has reiterated that the platform received “many requests” from the Indian government to block accounts covering farmers’ protests and those critical of the government. He has also said that the platform was threatened with “a shut down” and conducting raids at its employees’ homes in the country.

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar responded to Dorsey’s claims, saying that under him, Twitter was in “repeated and continuous violations of India law” and at times “weaponised misinformation”.

It is worth noting that Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk also has a similar view of India’s social media regulations, having previously called them “strict”. In April this year, Musk had said that he would rather comply with the government’s blocking orders than risk sending Twitter employees to jail. ​Read more

[beesmygod]

we can all look back on and laugh at this when im wrong, but it seems like social media in its current incarnation is dying an undignified and overdue death. it turns out throwing all of humanity into one room and expecting everyone to develop a single ethos was beyond insane conceptually and the artists who built their following on social media are probably in a tail spin right now. people jumping to bluesky are insane lol. did you forget jack dorsey is the idiot who got us into this mess in the first place. why would you choose to subject yourself to this shit again. for what purpose?

the stock answer i got was that "for discoverability/audience" and if that's true thats a problem. i've been hollerin about this to anyone who would listen prior to this but the customer base of twitter (and all social media) is its advertisers. they have not been shy from the start about that fact because its the only way they generate income, as far as i know. YOU (the user) are the product. YOU (still the user) are also what draws people to the site. there is not a social media website on earth that has figured out that making a good website (which would require hiring and paying for quality labor over an extended period of time) is more likely to result in economic success than exclusively courting the businesses whose interest is in making the website worse to use with ads. at no point were our interests ever a factor.

in fact, imo, the number of people following you is not an accurate representational sample of your audience. the reasonable assumption you should make is that the vast majority of numbers involved with any website (esp those with a vested interest in showing off big numbers to VC investors or advertising execs) are inflated or just outright fake. the numbers exist solely to drive you insane and make awful people happy. the numbers cause you and everyone around you to start spontaneously spawning myths about a beast called "the algorithm" that possesses the incredible traits of being both something you can game for success or blame for your failures. it coerces you into enacting out nonsense superstitions to try to counteract or appease it in the hopes of, let's be honest, breaking it big and going viral. this way, you, the creator, do not have to do the hard work of building up a rapport with an audience. none of this goes anything but adds more numbers for the ceos to look at and nod approvingly or disapprovingly at.

the people running the world today are, without exaggeration, cartoon villains. they are deeply stupid, devoid of empathy, and open about their intent to do deeply evil acts in order to further their economic interests. trying to derive some kind of financial benefit from the creations of these unapologetic losers was always bound to be a wasted effort. the best thing i can say about twitter, a website i was banned from countless times and returned to out of stubborn desire, was that i got to make some great jokes with friends and cause some chaos lol. letting people know i have a web comic was always a secondary function once the realization of what social media was turning out to be set in like 7 years ago. any artist who insists that you have to do this or that on this or that social media site is trying to drag you down into the quagmire of online numbers poisoning.

run away!!! children heed my advice!!! the joy of creation does not lie on a path that encourages you to cater to the lowest common denominators while casting your net. just fucking have fun with it. if its not fun then it wont even be fun to do financially anyway. and isnt that, like. the point.

[luxe-pauvre]

While it's quite fashionable in the modern productivity culture to fast, and many a productivity guru swears by it - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, for one, has talked about the "focused point of mind," whatever that may be, and the drive that comes from his fasts - the science is decidedly more negative when it comes to decision-making ability. Fasting has been shown to affect our delay discounting ability: we start to prefer smaller rewards sooner rather than waiting for larger rewards later. In effect, we become more impulsive. Indeed, even work that has shown some benefits of fasting on certain tasks also admitted that the thought process involved was reliant on "gut feelings" - an appropriate choice of words for decisions governed by the stomach. And while that's all well and good for someone like Erik, whose "intuition" is actually decades of careful expertise that he doesn't necessarily have conscious access to, for the rest of us, our guts are just as likely to be wrong than right - and we have no way of telling the difference. We become reliant more on our reflexive thinking than on cool, measured reflection. And we become more emotional: we often interpret the cues of hunger that our bodies send as negative emotional states hence the term "hangry" - and so, all the negative decision effects that occur when we misattribute mood as information may very well now enter into our thought process.

Maria Konnikova, The Biggest Bluff

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ryan Bass at NewsNation:

(NewsNation) — Social media site Bluesky says it’s gained more than 1 million new users since the presidential election. Some users say they want an alternative to X — formerly Twitter — since its owner Elon Musk is poised to join President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

What is Bluesky?

Bluesky is reminiscent of Twitter’s early days. It has a similar layout, feel and search functions. The site has become a safe space of sorts for left-leaning celebrities and people turned off by X’s politics. Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey launched Bluesky in 2019, but it’s seen a surge in users migrating to the platform since Trump’s presidential election victory. The company says it gained more than 1.5 million users in the past week.

In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, Bluesky has been gaining at least 1.5M users (mostly left-leaning), as part of the X exodus due to Elon Musk’s support for Trump and other right-wing causes.

From the 11.14.2024 edition of NewsNation's Morning In America:

[xoxovalerie-c]

Blog Post Week 10: Due 10/31

How do cyber mobs normalize online harassment, and what does this mean for legal and social responses?

Using the book Hate Crime in Cyberspace, Danielle Keats Citron describes cyber mobs as, Mobs from dominant groups are notorious for shaming relatively powerless groups, in taking delight in the discomfort of the excluded and stigmatized. Cyber mobs gather online to harass individuals in degrading and threatening ways (Citron, 2014). So the normalization comes from creating an environment that feeds into abusive behavior, as individuals become so assertive in inflicting harm to others. The mob creates a culture as they tend to recruit members and celebrate them for their contributions to online hate. Currently, the lack of effective policies to address this form of harassment makes it increasingly difficult for victims to receive legal support, especially as technology continues to evolve. This leaves many individuals to navigate their challenges largely on their own. While it may be impossible to completely eliminate cyber mobs, it’s essential to recognize that anyone can fall victim to such groups. By educating ourselves about the harmful effects of these mobs, we can empower ourselves to speak up, report incidents, and assist those who are suffering from their impact.

How can the creation and sharing of fictional narratives, like the Grandpa Wiggly case on Reddit, lead to harmful consequences or negative perceptions?

The Grandpa Wiggly case on the social platform Reddit illustrates how fictional narratives can cause a line between reality and imagination. While it can be fun to create a storyline with plain creativity and community-based opinions, it can lead to misunderstandings and harmful consequences. When stories are taken seriously, they may result in misinformation, panic, or even harassment. Online communities can become negative making it dangerous for creators to continue these narratives as seen in the Grandpa Wiggly case. People were getting out of hand and even sent death threats to portray this image of being a victim to this story. Ultimately, both posters and audiences need to be aware of the potential repercussions of blending fiction with reality.

In what ways can online trolling impact an individual’s life, what does this reveal about digital harassment?

Online trolling can significantly impact an individual’s financial stability by leading to lost income, job opportunities,, and damaged lifelong professional reputations. It is truly devastating to think that your entire lifeline can depend on what happens in these online spaces. For instance, those targeted may be forced to leave their jobs. The emotional toll of trolling can result in mental health issues.  Demonstrating how big of an issue is online trolling.

To what extent did Leslie Jones receive support on Twitter? Was it based solely on her celebrity status? What does this reveal about social media platforms? 

I believe that Leslie Jones’s experience on Twitter highlights how celebrity status can significantly influence the level of support one receives while engaging in a social media platform. After receiving racist and sexist hate speech associated with her role in the Ghostbusters reboot movie she tweeted how all the negativity was affecting her. She would even tweet out to Twitter asking for help. Since she became a trending topic on Twitter, founder and CEO Jack Dorsey reached out to Leslie and tells her to “DM him.” Releasing this statement: This type of abusive behavior is not permitted on Twitter, and we’ve taken action on many accounts reported to us by both Leslie and others (Seetharaman, 2016). This makes me think back to the case of Grandpa Wiggly where someone who wasn’t well known made this fictional character and he received so much hate. Just like Leslie yet Reddit never took it upon themselves to support this user by “protecting” them in any way. This also makes me wonder about the other stories where other women experienced physical harm coming from online forces but the platforms don’t take it upon themselves to speak out or support. This shows to me that platforms depend on celebrities to demonstrate that they have this sort of “code of conduct” in honor of providing a safe and positive online environment for other users to engage as well. 

Bergstrom, K. (2011). “Don’t feed the troll”: Shutting down debate about community expectations on Reddit.com. First Monday, 16(8). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v16i8.3498

Citron, D. K. (2014). Hate crimes in cyberspace. Harvard University Press.

Seetharaman, D., & Wells, G. (2016, August 30). Leslie Jones’ horrific online abuse shows how Twitter’s troll problem has spun out of control. Wall Street Journal.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Matt Lamb

Published: Jan 31, 2025

ANALYSIS: Kendi’s center has significantly scaled back following massing spending with little results. He will now create something similar at Howard University

Professor Ibram Kendi and Boston University will shut down the Center for Antiracist Research on June 30 as the “antiracism” proponent moves to Howard University.

Kendi will start a similar center at the Washington, D.C. historically black university, focused on “advancing research of importance to the global African Diaspora, including inquiry into race, technology, racism, climate change, and disparities.”

The “Institute for Advanced Study” will be “[b]uilt on the highest standards of intellectual inquiry,” according to a news release from Howard.

However, Kendi’s Boston U. center failed to deliver on many promises. The university and center ignored at least twenty requests for comment from The College Fix about productivity during that time. A 2024 analysis from The Fix found the center had been largely quiet in the past year. The scaled back version, following overspending by Kendi, produced little. The university investigated the center and cleared Kendi of any wrongdoing.

The center started off with strong fundraising, including $10 million from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. It also had the benefit of being started in summer 2020, as Black Lives Matter grew in prominence and corporations and governments focused on “antiracism” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” principles. Kendi himself did quite well during that time, hauling in $35,000 for 60-minute speeches. A 2021 analysis estimated Kendi had made around $300,000 from speaking gigs, an amount that has likely eclipsed half a million dollars by now.

Following layoffs of about half the staff, which disproportionately harmed racial minorities and thus violated the principles of “antiracism,” Kendi moved to focusing on fellowships.

But The Fix spoke to one “research affiliate” who did not even know she had been accepted for a position until being contacted for comment on what the role entailed.

Boston U. heralded some of Kendi’s work, including the “COVID Racial Data Tracker.” But Kendi and his team did little on that project – rather a team of volunteers from The Atlantic did the work and the publication shut down new data collection in March 2021.

His center existed at Boston U. for five years, after he left a similar project at American University. For the last two years, representing 40 percent of his time there, the center did practically nothing, while Kendi wrote zero academic papers at least during the first three years he was there.

As The Fix reported in Sep. 2024:

 The latest post on the Antiracist Tech Initiative blog was from August 2023, as was the most recent update from the Racial Data Lab. On a page titled “What We’re Working On,” nothing is listed from this year. No policy reports or convenings have been published since 2022, and no amicus briefs have been submitted by the center since 2023. The Model Legislation Project also has not been updated this year. The Antiracist Legal Education Project advertises an event from September 2023 as “upcoming,” while the annual Antiracist Book Festival was not held in 2023 or 2024. A Vertex Symposium, which is also described as an annual event, has not occurred since 2022.

Kendi was quick to accuse his critics of racism when questions were raised about his leadership, even though some of them were racial minorities, such as scholar Saida Grundy.

“I have been disappointed in journalists who report criticisms of a Black leader without asking for evidence to substantiate those allegations,” he told The Daily Free Press. “Racist ideas about a corrupt Black leader running a dysfunctional or toxic organization are so ingrained that reporters don’t feel the need for evidence.”

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Of course he did. He has no other cards to play because he's a full-blown fraud.

"If you hold me responsible for all the things I did, you're a racist." This is how liars and ideologues like him deflect.

But it would be racist not to hold him accountable, as we do other leaders and managers. There's nothing more racist than saying, well, since you're black we should hold you to a lower standard because we just can't expect that much from you.

What I will say is that Howard University deserves everything it's going to get.

[twitter-today]

Ok, I was ignoring all the Musk giving most of the twitter accounts over 1 million followers free blue checks, because who cares, but I've just found out that he has left a few big accounts without blue checks, and one of the is...

Jack Dorsey, @jack, twitter founder and former CEO.

Oh my god this is so high-school-drama level. They are all stuck at 14-years-old psyche, I tell you.

[beardedmrbean]

Nov. 29 (UPI) -- On this date in history:

In 1877, Thomas Edison demonstrated a hand-cranked phonograph that recorded sound on grooved metal cylinders. Edison shouted verses of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" into the machine, which played back his voice.

In 1890, the first Army-Navy football game was played. Navy won 24-0.

In 1929, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard Byrd and three crewmen became the first people to fly over the South Pole.

In 1935, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger published his famous thought experiment dubbed "Schrödinger's cat," to illustrate a paradox of quantum mechanics.

In 1947, despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations voted for the partition of Palestine and the creation of the independent Jewish state of Israel.

In 1963, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson appointed the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John Kennedy.

In 1981, actor Natalie Wood drowned while on a boat trip to Santa Catalina Island, Calif.

In 1986, movie icon Cary Grant died of a stroke at the age of 82.

In 1989, Romanian Olympic gymnastic hero Nadia Comaneci fled to Hungary. She eventually reached the United States.

In 1990, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution authorizing "all necessary means," including military force, against Iraq if it didn't withdraw from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991.

In 1991, a dust storm in Coalinga, Calif., triggered a massive pileup by more than 250 vehicles on Interstate 5, killing 15 people and injuring more than 100.

In 1994, voters in Norway rejected a proposal to join the European Union.

In 2001, George Harrison, lead guitarist of the Beatles, died of cancer. He was 58.

In 2011, Dr. Conrad Murray was sentenced to four years in prison for an involuntary manslaughter conviction in the death of Michael Jackson. He was released on parole Oct. 28, 2013.

In 2012, the United Nations voted 138-9, with 31 abstentions, to give Palestinians non-member observer status.

In 2021, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey announced his resignation as CEO of the social media platform He was replaced by Parag Agrawal, who was ousted in October 2022 upon Elon Musk's purchase of the company.

In 2022, 46% of people in England and Wales described themselves as Christian in a census survey, the first time that figure represented less than half the populations of the two countries.

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From AP via TechXplore.com:

What is Bluesky, the fast-growing social platform welcoming fleeing X users?

November 16, 2024

Disgruntled X users are again flocking to Bluesky, a newer social media platform that grew out of the former Twitter before billionaire Elon Musk took it over in 2022. While it remains small compared to established online spaces such as X, it has emerged as an alternative for those looking for a different mood, lighter and friendlier and less influenced by Musk.

What is Bluesky?

Championed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Bluesky was an invitation-only space until it opened to the public in February. That invite-only period gave the site time to build out moderation tools and other features. The platform resembles Musk's X, with a "discover" feed and a chronological feed for accounts that users follow. Users can send direct messages and pin posts, as well as find "starter packs" that provide a curated list of people and custom feeds to follow.

Why is Bluesky growing?

Bluesky said in mid-November that its total users surged to 15 million, up from roughly 13 million at the end of October, as some X users look for an alternative platform to post their thoughts and talk to others online. The post-election uptick in users isn't the first time Bluesky has benefited from people leaving X. The platform gained 2.6 million users in the week after X was banned in Brazil in August—85% of them from Brazil, the company said. About 500,000 new users signed up in one day in October, when X signaled that blocked accounts would be able to see a user's public posts.

Across the platform, new users—among them journalists, left-leaning politicians and celebrities—have posted memes and shared that they were looking forward to using a space free from advertisements and hate speech. Some said it reminded them of the early days of Twitter more than a decade ago.

Despite Bluesky's growth, X posted after the election that it had "dominated the global conversation on the U.S. election" and had set new records.

Beyond social networking

Bluesky, though, has bigger ambitions than to supplant X. Beyond the platform itself, it is building a technical foundation—what it calls "a protocol for public conversation"—that could make social networks work across different platforms—also known as interoperability—like email, blogs or phone numbers.

Currently, you can't cross between social platforms to leave a comment on someone's account. Twitter users must stay on Twitter and TikTok users must stay on TikTok if they want to interact with accounts on those services. Big Tech companies have largely built moats around their online properties, which helps serve their advertising-focused business models.

Bluesky is trying to reimagine all of this and working toward interoperability.

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From Deutsche Welle:

Germany assumes sabotage after Baltic Sea data cable damaged

November 19, 2024

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday that the damage to an undersea data cable running from Germany to Finland was likely due to sabotage.

The damage to the C-Lion1 cable was first reported on Monday with officials saying the 1,173-kilometer (729-mile) line had been cut, although the impact would probably not be noticeable for most people.

Sweden's Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin also reported on Monday that a second undersea cable had been damaged, according to the French press agency AFP.

The incident occurred in the same maritime region where the Nord Stream pipelines were sabotaged in 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine earlier that year.

'Can't all just be coincidences'

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Europe would remain united in light of the hybrid threats following the cut in the fiber-optic cables in the Baltic Sea.

"We are now also experiencing this in Germany … with cyber attacks, with the surveillance of critical infrastructure, parcels suddenly exploding when transported on planes and yesterday … a data cable between Finland and Germany which probably also affected Sweden," said Baerbock. "These can't all just be coincidences."

What else did Germany say about the damaged Baltic Sea cable?

"No one believes that these cables were cut accidentally. I also don't want to believe in versions that these were anchors that accidentally caused damage over these cables," Pistorius said before a meeting with EU defense ministers in Brussels.

"Therefore, we have to state, without knowing specifically who it came from, that it is a 'hybrid' action. And we also have to assume, without knowing it yet, that it is sabotage," he added.

While Pistorius was unable to produce any evidence for his suspicions, his Estonian counterpart Hanno Pevkur also said it was not a "natural cause" based on their preliminary information.

A joint statement from the German and Finnish Foreign Ministers on Monday evening said: "Our European security is not only under threat from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, but also from hybrid warfare by malicious actors."

Additional reporting by Teri Schultz.

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Is being a terrible person job requirement to be a CEO of a social media site?

Elon Musk on twitter. Before him was Jack Dorsey who is a techbro crypto shill. Mark Zuckerberg. And now Tumblr and Matt.

Like Shou Zi Chew from TikTok seems like a saint compared to them.

[reality-detective]

Now they want you to believe this is the Former Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey. 🤔

Let's take a closer löök shall we... 👇

Where are the wrinkles on his forehead?

Does the video seem a bit robotic?

The ears are different?

The hair is different?

Mouth and mustache seems different?

No bags under the eyes?

No line from his nose to the mouth?

You Decide 🤔

[justgracehere]

Blog Post 10/31

How can trolling be considered a subculture?

Phillips defines trolling as a subculture because it is born from wider cultures in mainstream media, such as television, books, and gaming. In turn, trolling is often incorporated into mainstream media when popular or widely recognized trolling practices, such as images and other memes, are referenced in popular culture. Phillips also explains that, for online users who self-identify as trolls, trolling is an online identity. This further reinforces the idea that trolling is a subculture because it demonstrates that for many it is a source of community in a larger online space.

Why were so many Reddit users outraged at the revelation that “Grandpa Wiggly” was not a real person?

Many Redditors responded with outrage when they learned that user “Grandpa Wiggly” was a fictional character. This may be a result of what Bergstrom describes as the “expectation of truthfulness” inherent in Reddit users. On the platform, which relies on trust between community members in order to spread information, the character of Grandpa Wiggly may have been perceived as a betrayal of trust. Many Redditors also accused Wiggly of being a troll, which suggests that the user behind Wiggly was actively seeking to make fun of a welcoming online community. This is because trolls seek to embarrass online users for their vulnerability, and since the Reddit community is so trusting, Redditors may have viewed Wiggly in this way.

What does Leslie Jones’ online abuse demonstrate about developers’ control over their platforms?

When Leslie Jones suffered online abuse from Twitter users, the founder and CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, made attempts to stifle the behavior. While Twitter was able to ban one of the lead perpetrators behind Jones’ abuse, much of Twitter's response relied on user reports of harmful behavior. Leslie Jones’ case demonstrates how little control developers and owners have over their own platforms. Once in the hands of users, social media can be used however consumers see fit, and it is impossible to control user behavior on such a large scale. This is why hate speech and abuse on online platforms is so difficult to quell, and often requires owners to seek help from the online community.

Why might harassment be more prevalent in cyberspace than in real space?

Cyber harassment is far more common than harassment in real life because it is much easier to perform and also much more damaging. Cyber harassment can have a lifelong impact on victims because of the permanence of online posts. Cyber attacks on victims of abuse can gain more traction because of the internet’s wide reach. There is less personal risk for perpetrators associated with cyber harassment because it is harder to track them down. While harassment in real life can be traced and potentially forgotten over time, cyber harassment is anonymous, widespread, and permanent.

Phillips, W. The Origins of Trolling.

Bergstrom, Kelly. “Don’t feed the troll”: Shutting down debate about community expectations on Reddit.com.

Silman, Anna. A Timeline of Leslie Jones’s Horrific Online Abuse.

K. Citron, Danielle. Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.

[kittymuffins374]

BREAKING NEWS: Twitter removes the block button!

Twitter is in the process of removing the block feature from their website. They're actively just screwing the site up entire, as if it wasn't screwed up before.

Stalkers, harrasers, and everyone would be able to see anyone's posts, but won't "engage" with the posts. The point of the block button is to not have people engage with you, and vice versa, by BLOCKING THEM TO NOT SEE THEIR POSTS.

Gore accounts? Obvious bot accounts, especially with virus links?

Those with 18+ accounts blocking minors to not see their 18+ art and vice versa those minors blocking 18+ accounts to not see their 18 art?

WELL, you can see their posts that you didn't want to see in the first place with this "new feature"!

"Protecting your account" is simply locking it altogether. That doesn't do anything to not see any post that you personally dislike.

Watch this backfire immediately with Elon being forced to see posts he doesn't want to see.

At this point, I encourage this behavior to spam Elon with things he doesn't want to see. Malicious compliance.

What can he do? Block them?

For anyone looking for a Twitter alternative, there's a website called "Bluesky" who's owner was the former CEO of Twitter; Jack Dorsey. However, the current owner is Jay Graber.

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Character Limit by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

Behind the scenes of a corporate acquisition that changed social media for ever

There was a time, just three or four years ago, when you could follow the news closely and not hear about Elon Musk for days – or even weeks. He was well on his way to becoming the world’s richest man, and was already a polarising figure, but he was a missable one. Those days are long gone.

Musk is now locked in a fierce public battle with the government and judicial system of Brazil, in the name of free speech, after he refused a court order to block several accounts that were accused of spreading hate speech and disinformation. He is a key figure in the US election race, having been lined up for a job finding savings in government spending should Donald Trump – who he has endorsed – win the presidency. Thanks to his Starlink satellites, he is a critical figure in the balance of power between Russia and Ukraine.

Musk is a powerful man because of his wealth and his control of strategic industries, including space launch and satellites. But he is inescapable because of the social network he took over and then transformed: Twitter.

Even people who never used Twitter more or less know its story over the last few years: Musk bought it, gave it a juvenile new name, X, and the whole thing seems to have been a complete mess that has made everyone miserable, including Musk himself.

That makes the job of New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac in their chronicle of the takeover and its resulting fallout, a difficult one: almost anyone who might actually read this book is pretty familiar with how things have played out. How can you make a story compelling when each step along the way has already been so heavily covered?

Conger and Mac’s answer to that is their astonishing ability to take the reader into almost every room that mattered during the contentious $44bn acquisition. The book opens with a Twitter data scientist getting ready to meet Musk, ostensibly in a bid to keep his job. The employee, however, has already decided he’s quitting and is instead using the opportunity to level with the new boss. The encounter goes predictably badly, leading him to accuse Musk of being one of the most gullible men on the planet. The book records Musk’s response as being two words long: “Fuck you.”

At other moments, the narration seems to know Musk’s exact movements when he was at home with his then-girlfriend Claire Elise Boucher (better known as the musician Grimes), or the conversations that take place on his plane. Such is the apparent omniscience that impressive accounts of goings-on in boardrooms and executive suites during the takeover seem par for the course.

Musk himself did not grant the authors an interview. Some of their insights come from court documents and other reporting, but there is no doubt that Conger and Mac enjoyed unmatched access to a range of characters from all sides. You couldn’t hope for a better ringside seat on the unfolding drama.

This closeup view is rarely flattering. Twitter’s co-founder, Jack Dorsey, comes across first as flighty and disengaged, then outright sulky as he is eased out as Twitter’s CEO – before himself joining Musk on the radical right. By the time we leave him, “his online posts were the kinds of things he would have had labelled or removed while he was Twitter’s CEO”. Musk’s authorised biographer, Walter Isaacson, seems to jump from observer to participant. Not only does he reportedly advise Elon Musk on the price point for his ill-fated plan to sell Twitter verification – the fabled “blue tick” – but apparently tells Musk to drop labels “for all media”.

Heroism, where it comes, centres on efforts to keep datacentres online, or to keep a moderation team in their jobs for another day or two to cover elections in the US and Brazil. Some characters are more sympathetic than others, but there are few good guys here – Character Limit is the story of a dysfunctional company becoming a shambolic one.

All of this makes for compelling reading, perhaps compelling enough to keep even people used to X’s 280-character-long posts engaged for a 430-page book, which is surely no small feat. Those who have followed the story obsessively will find plenty of nuggets to keep them interested if they can get past the somewhat stodgy first third of the book. Casual observers, who will probably have already had their fill from the endless news reporting on Musk’s antics, might find it harder going.

One of Conger and Mac’s challenges is that they are telling a story without an ending. X might go bust within the next year, or prove decisive in the 2024 presidential race. It could easily do both. In fact, the stately speed of book publishing means that Character Limit’s narrative has already been overtaken by events. As a retelling of exactly what happened and what it felt like to be there, it is a triumph. Anyone hoping for insights into what it all means, or what might happen next, will need to look elsewhere.

Musk’s companies have put more rockets into space this year than every government on the planet combined. He has businesses developing artificial intelligence, human-machine interfaces, self-driving vehicles, and more. A book with unprecedented access to his circle portrays him as a man with no impulse control, no plans, a desperate need for flattery and no ability to separate truth from fiction. If it leaves open the question of why he does what he does, and what he’ll do next, that may be because no one – least of all Musk – really knows.

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