Elon Musk Twitter Trainwreck Mega-Thread

[hoodrow trillson]

I feel bad for all the people that abruptly lost their jobs.

If Twitter fails, I bet you Musk will say he did it on purpose to save face.  100% guaranteed.  

Edited November 5, 2022 by hoodrow trillson

[Chuco]

I love how just because E-lawns is a celebrity businessman that everybody's going crazy over the twitter buy.

In the end I don't think a lot will change. He'll float a lot of ideas, then reality will hit, and he'll go back on most all of them, because Twitter is already being run close to optimally by the previous owners. Not a lot can be improved given the situation right now. 

[JTL]

Was just speechless when I saw this 

[thepixelmonk]

interesting moderation debate over at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33449791

Edited November 5, 2022 by thepixelmonk

[hoodrow trillson]

2 hours ago, JTL said:

 

 

Lol what a dork.

[Phil777]

16 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Love you guys.

❤️

[Space]

Some interesting developments:

 

Edited November 6, 2022 by Space

[Victor van Rijn]

Another interesting link in a comment on a Reddit post about Twitter, the examples in this letter to Elon illustrate the difficulties social media platforms encounter when they aspire to be free speech havens:

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/

[Danioover9000]

   Interesting video:

 

[Osaid]

 

[Osaid]

Elon Musk is just trolling us at this point

[MarkKol]

Twitter had a big impersonation scam problem even while Agrawal and Dorsey we're CEO's

There was a big cyrpto one including Obama (the most followed person) and many others a few months ago

[Raze]

22 hours ago, Space said:

Some interesting developments:

 

I think he can improve twitter, but he seems to be over promising now. All the new features he’s floating would making running it cost more. I think he should focus on ideas that are clearly profitable, like allowing tipping of tweets and paid verification with more benefits, and outsourcing as much work to cheaper countries, to at least get Twitter breaking even. It was losing 4 million a day before the activists pressured advertisers to drop, this company has serious problems and now the elite and mainstream media are clearly upset by his criticism of them and desire for more free speech and will actively try to sabotage it.

Edited November 7, 2022 by Raze

[Extreme Z7]

 

[Arcangelo]

On 11/5/2022 at 0:49 AM, Leo Gura said:

YouTube is extremely responsible and vigilant about hate speech. Musk is the opposite.

we need him to balance things out.

Things are too 1984ish right now.

[Roy]

Seeing Twitter collapse brings me so much joy. It's one of the most toxic technologies humans have invented and been a net negative for our species.

[Extreme Z7]

https://medium.com/tech-titans/why-elon-musk-fired-twitter-ceo-who-asked-for-a-hand-raise-emoji-f3747c55b3f4

[Osaid]

 

[Hello from Russia]

Wow

Most of you guys are such toxic scepticists

[Kid A]

12 hours ago, Arcangelo said:

we need him to balance things out.

Things are too 1984ish right now.

Something tells me that George Orwell would never have written that book if he knew it would be used by people like Jordan Peterson to justify their whining about their first world problems.