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arthwollipot · 23rd May 2023, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by angrysoba

I consider Twitter to be bad for journalism overall in that so many stories just end up being what people are saying on Twitter.

Yeah, that's not what I was referring to. I don't have any examples of what I am talking about because I've been basically off Twitter for quite a while now so I probably shouldn't try to push this angle too much.

Anyway.

Doubt · 23rd May 2023, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by Trebuchet

That's not going to make Trump happy. I wonder if Elon is mad at him for not coming back to Twatter after being reinstated?

That just made me check the price on DWAC stock, which is supposed to take Truth Social public. $13.29 per share.

angrysoba · 23rd May 2023, 08:06 PM

Cool! I wonder if Trump will announce his presidential run with Rudy Giuliani or someone like that. What’s that!? He’s already announced? Announce again!

Darat · 23rd May 2023, 11:54 PM

Originally Posted by angrysoba

I consider Twitter to be bad for journalism overall in that so many stories just end up being what people are saying on Twitter.

This. The "outrage about something" articles which are nothing but a copy and paste of a few tweets.

welshdean · 24th May 2023, 01:34 AM

Originally Posted by angrysoba

Cool! I wonder if Trump will announce his presidential run with Rudy Giuliani or someone like that. What’s that!? He’s already announced? Announce again!

"I had the best announcement, with all the world's press in attendance, the biggest announcement from any candidate in the history of the world. All channels on every continent showed it live. Billions watched my perfect announcement, more than any other announcement and DeSanctimonious announced his on a failing social media site alongside a failed businessman watched by no one. They are both losers."

Darat · 24th May 2023, 01:59 AM

Musk needs to be careful nailing himself to DeSantis. Trump is still the beloved of the mob and mobs can always turn.

The Great Zaganza · 24th May 2023, 02:40 AM

Making nice with DeSantis is Musk's idea of being "fair and balanced"

welshdean · 24th May 2023, 02:52 AM

Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza

Making nice with DeSantis is Musk's idea of being "fair and balanced"

It's revenge against Trump for not returning to Twitter. There's no ideological union between Musk and DeSantis, it's Musk's ego trying to punch back at Trump.

angrysoba · 24th May 2023, 03:36 AM

Originally Posted by Darat

Musk needs to be careful nailing himself to DeSantis. Trump is still the beloved of the mob and mobs can always turn.

Oooh! More popcorn.

Checkmite · 24th May 2023, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by welshdean

It's revenge against Trump for not returning to Twitter. There's no ideological union between Musk and DeSantis, it's Musk's ego trying to punch back at Trump.

I'm not convinced there's no ideological union between Musk and DeSantis. I think a lot of Musk fans who still imagine themselves to be left-leaning will latch onto that idea as a get-out-of-cognitive-dissonance-free card, but I haven't seen evidence to suggest any ideological incompatibility between the two.

Trump can't return to Twitter due to a legal contractual obligation. He absolutely would if he could, in a minute.

angrysoba · 24th May 2023, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by Checkmite

I'm not convinced there's no ideological union between Musk and DeSantis. I think a lot of Musk fans who still imagine themselves to be left-leaning will latch onto that idea as a get-out-of-cognitive-dissonance-free card, but I haven't seen evidence to suggest any ideological incompatibility between the two.

Trump can't return to Twitter due to a legal contractual obligation. He absolutely would if he could, in a minute.

Musk has explicitly said he supports Republicans now because apparently Democrats are nasty compared to GOP. Pretty much all of his friends are explicit supporters of the Republicans. Look, he even brought that idiot Dave Rubin round the Twitter offices to interrogate his own engineers about why cattiurd’s account wasn’t more popular and after finding no evidence it was throttled tried to boost the profile. Rubin is a self-hating gay who performatively moved to Florida to support DeSantis.

Orphia Nay · 24th May 2023, 03:49 PM

The Musk/DeSantis Space is happening now, I just saw on Elon Musk's Twitter feed. No time to check it out. Just a heads-up if you feel like poking your eyes out.

angrysoba · 24th May 2023, 04:01 PM

Those Commie libtards at the Grainiad are covering it with their usual Marxist sneering….

Quote:

This odd launch to DeSantis’s campaign has partly become an advertisement for Twitter.

Musk and Sacks played off the glitches on Twitter as DeSantis “breaking the internet”. It’s unclear why Twitter didn’t anticipate 500,000 listeners for a presidential announcement.

See! They broke the internet. The whole internet - created by the government so no wonder it it breaking. Not Twitter! Twitter is definitely not now understaffed and/or badly run.

This is so winning that the internet itself is sick of the winning.

phiwum · 24th May 2023, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by angrysoba

I consider Twitter to be bad for journalism overall in that so many stories just end up being what people are saying on Twitter.

Damn straight.

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arthwollipot · 24th May 2023, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by Checkmite

Trump can't return to Twitter due to a legal contractual obligation. He absolutely would if he could, in a minute.

I think that once he's burned a bridge, he would be resistant to coming back to it, because that would require him admitting to himself that he made a mistake. He is incapable of that.

angrysoba · 24th May 2023, 07:11 PM

Surprised to see anyone thinking Trump will be held back by contracts or looking like a hypocrite. He won’t care if he literally does the opposite thing he said he would five minutes ago. He would just deny he ever said what he is being held accountable for.

Almost his entire political life involves doing things that he criticized in previous tweets. He is not bound by truth. He is a ********ter. This is what he does.

I Am The Scum · 24th May 2023, 08:38 PM

Some audio from the event. It was a disaster. Apparently they had 3 guys in the same physical room using microphones for this and nobody realized that one person's vocals would be picked up on another mic. They could have hired a teenager with a crummy podcast as a consultant to explain this stuff to them.

I Am The Scum · 24th May 2023, 08:45 PM

Unrelated to today's festivities: Someone has posted the entirety of John Wick 4 on Twitter. It was posted in the middle of a Wednesday. It's been up for 10 hours.

angrysoba · 24th May 2023, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by I Am The Scum

Some audio from the event. It was a disaster. Apparently they had 3 guys in the same physical room using microphones for this and nobody realized that one person's vocals would be picked up on another mic. They could have hired a teenager with a crummy podcast as a consultant to explain this stuff to them.

Jesus Christ! That's exactly how I would expect a presidential candidacy announcement to sound from someone nicknamed Pudding Fingers.

jeremyp · 25th May 2023, 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by I Am The Scum

Some audio from the event. It was a disaster. Apparently they had 3 guys in the same physical room using microphones for this and nobody realized that one person's vocals would be picked up on another mic. They could have hired a teenager with a crummy podcast as a consultant to explain this stuff to them.

Thanks for that. It was hilarious.

Samson · 25th May 2023, 03:37 AM

Originally Posted by angrysoba

Musk has explicitly said he supports Republicans now because apparently Democrats are nasty compared to GOP. Pretty much all of his friends are explicit supporters of the Republicans. Look, he even brought that idiot Dave Rubin round the Twitter offices to interrogate his own engineers about why cattiurd’s account wasn’t more popular and after finding no evidence it was throttled tried to boost the profile. Rubin is a self-hating gay who performatively moved to Florida to support DeSantis.

That is a fine post.
Remember the song Melting Pot.
That was just about race and coffee colored people by the score. (Latte I think).
Now we have the everything melt, politics, ethics, philosophy. Let us rejoice the big stirring.

Darat · 25th May 2023, 03:50 AM

Originally Posted by angrysoba

Musk has explicitly said he supports Republicans now because apparently Democrats are nasty compared to GOP. Pretty much all of his friends are explicit supporters of the Republicans. Look, he even brought that idiot Dave Rubin round the Twitter offices to interrogate his own engineers about why cattiurd’s account wasn’t more popular and after finding no evidence it was throttled tried to boost the profile. Rubin is a self-hating gay who performatively moved to Florida to support DeSantis.

A billionaire arch-capitalist from a wealthy family from one of the most racially divisive countries in the world gravitates to the Republican party.... why that doesn't make any sense at all....

dirtywick · 25th May 2023, 05:09 AM

looks to me like elon wants to turn twitter into a right wing news platform, it's why he's pushing the video stuff so hard, and picked up tucker carlson and the daily wire. but, he botched this debut about as hard as possible.

jimbob · 25th May 2023, 05:24 AM

Originally Posted by dirtywick

looks to me like elon wants to turn twitter into a right wing news platform, it's why he's pushing the video stuff so hard, and picked up tucker carlson and the daily wire. but, he botched this debut about as hard as possible.

I'm sure he could prove you wrong in the near future.

TurkeysGhost · 25th May 2023, 05:31 AM

Originally Posted by dirtywick

looks to me like elon wants to turn twitter into a right wing news platform, it's why he's pushing the video stuff so hard, and picked up tucker carlson and the daily wire. but, he botched this debut about as hard as possible.

Elon has a lot of ambitions that don't seem to mesh well with the incredibly diminished technical capacity of Twitter. He's announced many ambitions to massively expand what the website does while simultaneously running the existing service into the ground.

People like Tucker or DeSantis should be wondering it Twitter is even going to be capable of hosting video for the many thousands of viewers that they anticipate (or at least hope for).

dudalb · 25th May 2023, 03:26 PM

And you know the lawyers for the movie studios are only waiting for the right moment to hit Musk with law suits over the film piracy going on at Twitter.
I think they are waiting for it to happen enough..which it will given the sloppy security at Twitter...to establish a pattern of negligance rather then just isolated incidents.

Skeptic Ginger · 25th May 2023, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by Trebuchet

That's not going to make Trump happy. I wonder if Elon is mad at him for not coming back to Twatter after being reinstated?

Elon does come across as the passive-aggressive type.

Orphia Nay · 25th May 2023, 06:17 PM

Musk says "All Presidential candidates are welcome on this platform."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/...ct3Axx0poHksMA

Ignoring the Spaces DeSaster, Musk is trying to attract customers (because that's what you are on Twitter) and of course, Trump.

dudalb · 25th May 2023, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by Orphia Nay

Musk says "All Presidential candidates are welcome on this platform."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/...ct3Axx0poHksMA

Ignoring the Spaces DeSaster, Musk is trying to attract customers (because that's what you are on Twitter) and of course, Trump.

Well, the buggy disaster yesterday is not going to encourage other candidates to make Tiwtter a center piece of their campaign.
And, yes, I think Trump has decided Twitter not worth while anymore.

kookbreaker · 26th May 2023, 05:39 AM

Originally Posted by angrysoba

Those Commie libtards at the Grainiad are covering it with their usual Marxist sneering….

See! They broke the internet. The whole internet - created by the government so no wonder it it breaking. Not Twitter! Twitter is definitely not now understaffed and/or badly run.

This is so winning that the internet itself is sick of the winning.

MSNBC put up a chart with other internet events that did not "break the internet" despite higher numbers. They include:

April the Giraffe giving birth: 1.2 million viewers
Buzzfeed making a watermelon explode: 800K viewers
AOC Playing a video game on Twitch: 430K Viewers
Christiano Ronaldo in the Sauna: 700K Viewers

The Great Zaganza · 26th May 2023, 05:46 AM

By not putting up the resources to host the political event, Musk clearly assumed that no one would give a hoot about DeSantis.

TurkeysGhost · 30th May 2023, 12:40 PM

Quote:

Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity, which recently marked down the value of its stake in the company.

...

Twitter has struggled financially since Musk took over. After saddling the company with $13 billion of debt, Musk’s erratic decision making and challenges with content moderation led advertising revenue to decline by 50%, Musk said in March. An attempt to recoup that revenue by selling Twitter Blue subscriptions has so far failed to take off. At the end of March, less than 1% of Twitter’s monthly users had signed up.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitt...185709550.html

Musk both overpaid for the company and managed to sabotage its profitability. Impressive work.

Orphia Nay · 30th May 2023, 02:12 PM

Delete

gerdbonk · 30th May 2023, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by Orphia Nay

Delete

Yeah, he should.

a_unique_person · 31st May 2023, 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza

By not putting up the resources to host the political event, Musk clearly assumed that no one would give a hoot about DeSantis.

He didn't even do a proper test of the infrastructure to host a simple video conference.

catsmate · 31st May 2023, 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by a_unique_person

He didn't even do a proper test of the infrastructure to host a simple video conference.

More tellingly no-one called him in that act of stupidity.

tyr_13 · 2nd June 2023, 03:00 PM

Another head of trust and safety resigned from Twitter. (CNBC link) Her team had marked noted fascist Matt Walsh's anti-lgbtq documentary as having violated Twitter TOS. Now Musk had invited Walsh's Daily Wire to provide content for Twitter and on the first day of Pride month Musk overruled his content moderation team to repost the video.

Shocking.

junkshop · 2nd June 2023, 05:54 PM

Dupe.

junkshop · 2nd June 2023, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by tyr_13

...Shocking.

~~Inconceivable~~ conceivable.

Orphia Nay · Yesterday, 10:40 PM

Next up: Elon Musk hosts Robert Kennedy Jr on Spaces.

Not a good look.

23rd May 2023, 07:18 PM	#2681
arthwollipot Observer of Phenomena Pronouns: he/him Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Ngunnawal Country Posts: 82,093	Originally Posted by angrysoba I consider Twitter to be bad for journalism overall in that so many stories just end up being what people are saying on Twitter. Yeah, that's not what I was referring to. I don't have any examples of what I am talking about because I've been basically off Twitter for quite a while now so I probably shouldn't try to push this angle too much. Anyway.
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23rd May 2023, 08:00 PM	#2682
Doubt Philosopher Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 7,841	Originally Posted by Trebuchet That's not going to make Trump happy. I wonder if Elon is mad at him for not coming back to Twatter after being reinstated? That just made me check the price on DWAC stock, which is supposed to take Truth Social public. $13.29 per share.
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23rd May 2023, 08:06 PM	#2683
angrysoba Philosophile Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Osaka, Japan Posts: 34,399	Cool! I wonder if Trump will announce his presidential run with Rudy Giuliani or someone like that. What’s that!? He’s already announced? Announce again!
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23rd May 2023, 11:54 PM	#2684
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 109,607	Originally Posted by angrysoba I consider Twitter to be bad for journalism overall in that so many stories just end up being what people are saying on Twitter. This. The "outrage about something" articles which are nothing but a copy and paste of a few tweets.
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24th May 2023, 01:34 AM	#2685
welshdean Michael McDonald 1967 - 2021 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 4,430	Originally Posted by angrysoba Cool! I wonder if Trump will announce his presidential run with Rudy Giuliani or someone like that. What’s that!? He’s already announced? Announce again! "I had the best announcement, with all the world's press in attendance, the biggest announcement from any candidate in the history of the world. All channels on every continent showed it live. Billions watched my perfect announcement, more than any other announcement and DeSanctimonious announced his on a failing social media site alongside a failed businessman watched by no one. They are both losers."
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24th May 2023, 01:59 AM	#2686
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 109,607	Musk needs to be careful nailing himself to DeSantis. Trump is still the beloved of the mob and mobs can always turn.
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24th May 2023, 02:40 AM	#2687
The Great Zaganza Maledictorian Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 19,893	Making nice with DeSantis is Musk's idea of being "fair and balanced"
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24th May 2023, 02:52 AM	#2688
welshdean Michael McDonald 1967 - 2021 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 4,430	Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza Making nice with DeSantis is Musk's idea of being "fair and balanced" It's revenge against Trump for not returning to Twitter. There's no ideological union between Musk and DeSantis, it's Musk's ego trying to punch back at Trump.
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24th May 2023, 03:36 AM	#2689
angrysoba Philosophile Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Osaka, Japan Posts: 34,399	Originally Posted by Darat Musk needs to be careful nailing himself to DeSantis. Trump is still the beloved of the mob and mobs can always turn. Oooh! More popcorn.
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24th May 2023, 12:24 PM	#2690
Checkmite Skepticifimisticalationist Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Gulf Coast Posts: 28,236	Originally Posted by welshdean It's revenge against Trump for not returning to Twitter. There's no ideological union between Musk and DeSantis, it's Musk's ego trying to punch back at Trump. I'm not convinced there's no ideological union between Musk and DeSantis. I think a lot of Musk fans who still imagine themselves to be left-leaning will latch onto that idea as a get-out-of-cognitive-dissonance-free card, but I haven't seen evidence to suggest any ideological incompatibility between the two. Trump can't return to Twitter due to a legal contractual obligation. He absolutely would if he could, in a minute.
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24th May 2023, 02:17 PM	#2691
angrysoba Philosophile Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Osaka, Japan Posts: 34,399	Originally Posted by Checkmite I'm not convinced there's no ideological union between Musk and DeSantis. I think a lot of Musk fans who still imagine themselves to be left-leaning will latch onto that idea as a get-out-of-cognitive-dissonance-free card, but I haven't seen evidence to suggest any ideological incompatibility between the two. Trump can't return to Twitter due to a legal contractual obligation. He absolutely would if he could, in a minute. Musk has explicitly said he supports Republicans now because apparently Democrats are nasty compared to GOP. Pretty much all of his friends are explicit supporters of the Republicans. Look, he even brought that idiot Dave Rubin round the Twitter offices to interrogate his own engineers about why cattiurd’s account wasn’t more popular and after finding no evidence it was throttled tried to boost the profile. Rubin is a self-hating gay who performatively moved to Florida to support DeSantis.
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24th May 2023, 03:49 PM	#2692
Orphia Nay Penguilicious Spodmaster. Tagger Photo Contest Winner Join Date: May 2005 Location: Ponylandistan Presidential Palace (above the Spods' stables). Posts: 41,966	The Musk/DeSantis Space is happening now, I just saw on Elon Musk's Twitter feed. No time to check it out. Just a heads-up if you feel like poking your eyes out.
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24th May 2023, 04:01 PM	#2693
angrysoba Philosophile Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Osaka, Japan Posts: 34,399	Those Commie libtards at the Grainiad are covering it with their usual Marxist sneering…. Quote: This odd launch to DeSantis’s campaign has partly become an advertisement for Twitter. Musk and Sacks played off the glitches on Twitter as DeSantis “breaking the internet”. It’s unclear why Twitter didn’t anticipate 500,000 listeners for a presidential announcement. See! They broke the internet. The whole internet - created by the government so no wonder it it breaking. Not Twitter! Twitter is definitely not now understaffed and/or badly run. This is so winning that the internet itself is sick of the winning.
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24th May 2023, 04:34 PM	#2694
phiwum Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 13,201	Originally Posted by angrysoba I consider Twitter to be bad for journalism overall in that so many stories just end up being what people are saying on Twitter. Damn straight. Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk

24th May 2023, 06:14 PM	#2695
arthwollipot Observer of Phenomena Pronouns: he/him Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Ngunnawal Country Posts: 82,093	Originally Posted by Checkmite Trump can't return to Twitter due to a legal contractual obligation. He absolutely would if he could, in a minute. I think that once he's burned a bridge, he would be resistant to coming back to it, because that would require him admitting to himself that he made a mistake. He is incapable of that.
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24th May 2023, 07:11 PM	#2696
angrysoba Philosophile Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Osaka, Japan Posts: 34,399	Surprised to see anyone thinking Trump will be held back by contracts or looking like a hypocrite. He won’t care if he literally does the opposite thing he said he would five minutes ago. He would just deny he ever said what he is being held accountable for. Almost his entire political life involves doing things that he criticized in previous tweets. He is not bound by truth. He is a ********ter. This is what he does.
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24th May 2023, 08:38 PM	#2697
I Am The Scum Philosopher Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 5,023	Some audio from the event. It was a disaster. Apparently they had 3 guys in the same physical room using microphones for this and nobody realized that one person's vocals would be picked up on another mic. They could have hired a teenager with a crummy podcast as a consultant to explain this stuff to them.
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24th May 2023, 08:45 PM	#2698
I Am The Scum Philosopher Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 5,023	Unrelated to today's festivities: Someone has posted the entirety of John Wick 4 on Twitter. It was posted in the middle of a Wednesday. It's been up for 10 hours.
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24th May 2023, 09:59 PM	#2699
angrysoba Philosophile Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Osaka, Japan Posts: 34,399	Originally Posted by I Am The Scum Some audio from the event. It was a disaster. Apparently they had 3 guys in the same physical room using microphones for this and nobody realized that one person's vocals would be picked up on another mic. They could have hired a teenager with a crummy podcast as a consultant to explain this stuff to them. Jesus Christ! That's exactly how I would expect a presidential candidacy announcement to sound from someone nicknamed Pudding Fingers.
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25th May 2023, 02:05 AM	#2700
jeremyp Master Poster Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Posts: 2,801	Originally Posted by I Am The Scum Some audio from the event. It was a disaster. Apparently they had 3 guys in the same physical room using microphones for this and nobody realized that one person's vocals would be picked up on another mic. They could have hired a teenager with a crummy podcast as a consultant to explain this stuff to them. Thanks for that. It was hilarious.

25th May 2023, 03:37 AM	#2701
Samson Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 10,734	Originally Posted by angrysoba Musk has explicitly said he supports Republicans now because apparently Democrats are nasty compared to GOP. Pretty much all of his friends are explicit supporters of the Republicans. Look, he even brought that idiot Dave Rubin round the Twitter offices to interrogate his own engineers about why cattiurd’s account wasn’t more popular and after finding no evidence it was throttled tried to boost the profile. Rubin is a self-hating gay who performatively moved to Florida to support DeSantis. That is a fine post. Remember the song Melting Pot. That was just about race and coffee colored people by the score. (Latte I think). Now we have the everything melt, politics, ethics, philosophy. Let us rejoice the big stirring.
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25th May 2023, 03:50 AM	#2702
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 109,607	Originally Posted by angrysoba Musk has explicitly said he supports Republicans now because apparently Democrats are nasty compared to GOP. Pretty much all of his friends are explicit supporters of the Republicans. Look, he even brought that idiot Dave Rubin round the Twitter offices to interrogate his own engineers about why cattiurd’s account wasn’t more popular and after finding no evidence it was throttled tried to boost the profile. Rubin is a self-hating gay who performatively moved to Florida to support DeSantis. A billionaire arch-capitalist from a wealthy family from one of the most racially divisive countries in the world gravitates to the Republican party.... why that doesn't make any sense at all....
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25th May 2023, 05:09 AM	#2703
dirtywick Illuminator Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 4,388	looks to me like elon wants to turn twitter into a right wing news platform, it's why he's pushing the video stuff so hard, and picked up tucker carlson and the daily wire. but, he botched this debut about as hard as possible.
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25th May 2023, 05:24 AM	#2704
jimbob Uncritical "thinker" Moderator Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UK Posts: 30,065	Originally Posted by dirtywick looks to me like elon wants to turn twitter into a right wing news platform, it's why he's pushing the video stuff so hard, and picked up tucker carlson and the daily wire. but, he botched this debut about as hard as possible. I'm sure he could prove you wrong in the near future.
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25th May 2023, 05:31 AM	#2705
TurkeysGhost Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 31,634	Originally Posted by dirtywick looks to me like elon wants to turn twitter into a right wing news platform, it's why he's pushing the video stuff so hard, and picked up tucker carlson and the daily wire. but, he botched this debut about as hard as possible. Elon has a lot of ambitions that don't seem to mesh well with the incredibly diminished technical capacity of Twitter. He's announced many ambitions to massively expand what the website does while simultaneously running the existing service into the ground. People like Tucker or DeSantis should be wondering it Twitter is even going to be capable of hosting video for the many thousands of viewers that they anticipate (or at least hope for).
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25th May 2023, 03:26 PM	#2706
dudalb Suspended Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sacramento Posts: 58,604	And you know the lawyers for the movie studios are only waiting for the right moment to hit Musk with law suits over the film piracy going on at Twitter. I think they are waiting for it to happen enough..which it will given the sloppy security at Twitter...to establish a pattern of negligance rather then just isolated incidents.
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25th May 2023, 05:48 PM	#2707
Skeptic Ginger Nasty Woman Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 93,946	Originally Posted by Trebuchet That's not going to make Trump happy. I wonder if Elon is mad at him for not coming back to Twatter after being reinstated? Elon does come across as the passive-aggressive type.
	Last edited by Skeptic Ginger; 25th May 2023 at 05:53 PM.

25th May 2023, 06:17 PM	#2708
Orphia Nay Penguilicious Spodmaster. Tagger Photo Contest Winner Join Date: May 2005 Location: Ponylandistan Presidential Palace (above the Spods' stables). Posts: 41,966	Musk says "All Presidential candidates are welcome on this platform." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/...ct3Axx0poHksMA Ignoring the Spaces DeSaster, Musk is trying to attract customers (because that's what you are on Twitter) and of course, Trump.
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25th May 2023, 06:39 PM	#2709
dudalb Suspended Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sacramento Posts: 58,604	Originally Posted by Orphia Nay Musk says "All Presidential candidates are welcome on this platform." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/...ct3Axx0poHksMA Ignoring the Spaces DeSaster, Musk is trying to attract customers (because that's what you are on Twitter) and of course, Trump. Well, the buggy disaster yesterday is not going to encourage other candidates to make Tiwtter a center piece of their campaign. And, yes, I think Trump has decided Twitter not worth while anymore.

26th May 2023, 05:39 AM	#2710
kookbreaker Evil Fokker Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 14,540	Originally Posted by angrysoba Those Commie libtards at the Grainiad are covering it with their usual Marxist sneering…. See! They broke the internet. The whole internet - created by the government so no wonder it it breaking. Not Twitter! Twitter is definitely not now understaffed and/or badly run. This is so winning that the internet itself is sick of the winning. MSNBC put up a chart with other internet events that did not "break the internet" despite higher numbers. They include: April the Giraffe giving birth: 1.2 million viewers Buzzfeed making a watermelon explode: 800K viewers AOC Playing a video game on Twitch: 430K Viewers Christiano Ronaldo in the Sauna: 700K Viewers
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26th May 2023, 05:46 AM	#2711
The Great Zaganza Maledictorian Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 19,893	By not putting up the resources to host the political event, Musk clearly assumed that no one would give a hoot about DeSantis.
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30th May 2023, 12:40 PM	#2712
TurkeysGhost Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 31,634	Quote: Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity, which recently marked down the value of its stake in the company. ... Twitter has struggled financially since Musk took over. After saddling the company with $13 billion of debt, Musk’s erratic decision making and challenges with content moderation led advertising revenue to decline by 50%, Musk said in March. An attempt to recoup that revenue by selling Twitter Blue subscriptions has so far failed to take off. At the end of March, less than 1% of Twitter’s monthly users had signed up. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitt...185709550.html Musk both overpaid for the company and managed to sabotage its profitability. Impressive work.
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30th May 2023, 02:12 PM	#2713
Orphia Nay Penguilicious Spodmaster. Tagger Photo Contest Winner Join Date: May 2005 Location: Ponylandistan Presidential Palace (above the Spods' stables). Posts: 41,966	Delete
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30th May 2023, 08:40 PM	#2714
gerdbonk Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula Posts: 24,254	Originally Posted by Orphia Nay Delete Yeah, he should.
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31st May 2023, 12:03 AM	#2715
a_unique_person Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Waiting for the pod bay door to open. Posts: 45,256	Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza By not putting up the resources to host the political event, Musk clearly assumed that no one would give a hoot about DeSantis. He didn't even do a proper test of the infrastructure to host a simple video conference.
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