How Twitter?

[beyelzu]

“The Twitter nightmare continues as Musk uses Tesla as his own ATM machine to keep funding the red ink at Twitter,” Wedbush analysts Dan Ives and John Katsingris wrote in a Thursday note to clients, referring to Twitter’s struggles to keep advertisers on the site. “Musk has managed to change the narrative of Tesla from the fundamental [electric vehicle] transformation story” to a story of Tesla funding Twitter, “which we believe will go down as the most overpaid tech acquisition in the history of M&A and remains a train wreck situation.”

Elon Musk Has Now Sold $22.9 Billion In Tesla Shares Since Buying Twitter and Dragged Down Tesla's Market Cap By $700 Billion In The Process

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by erimir

Free speech and "working better than ever" and all that, but I have found that many times you see a tweet marked as having dozens of replies, and only a handful are visible, many times none of them are visible.

They're not hidden replies, they just seem to be invisible.

I'd noticed this before elon bought the platform. How long before I don't remember exactly but it's been a thing for awhile.

[erimir]

Well, it's certainly not getting better, it seems to be worse.

[ChuckF]

Elon Musk's Twitter bans accounts of CNN, NYT, WaPo journalists | CNN Business

neat

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon - The Verge

[JoeP]

Attempting to tweet many Mastodon links will result in an error message saying, “We can’t complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful to Elon Musk's ego.”

[erimir]

More for Twitter working better than ever: there was a bug where suspended accounts could still participate in "Spaces" (audio chats), so some of these journalists joined one and were discussing Musk's censorship. Musk showed up, got asked some uncomfortable questions and then left. Then he clearly wanted to shut down that Space, or fix that bug, but evidently they had to settle for shutting down all Spaces.

You know, because the engineering staff is working better now.

[ChuckF]

Apparently free speech = voting on who gets to speak? (subject to do-over)

[Ensign Steve]

DEMOCRACY

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

My guy - you can just talk to a therapist or read some self-help tips regarding social anxiety. You did not have to take over an entire social media network to lay it bare online.

— Nick Mercadante (@NMercad) December 16, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

It is now clear beyond doubt that Musk is a buffoon, an imbecile, a moral derelict and a profound danger to global free speech https://t.co/pveTggePIo

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) December 16, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Asking someone to buy your car at msrp after you rolled it driving it out of the parking lot

— Travis Koeppen (@koeppen_travis) December 16, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

lol, what a baby.

[Ari]

Welcome to High School, where only the popular are allowed to speak, this is really what he wanted, attention over his god like ability to control the social lives of others.

I have this hypothesis that a lot of people, especially rich men, are just replaying high school but with cheat codes on.

“The people have spoken,” Musk tweeted. Reinstating some of the previously banned accounts.

Elon Musk reinstates Twitter accounts of suspended journalists | Twitter | The Guardian

[Stephen Maturin]

"Are you in, genius?"

~ Bugs Bunny

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Originally Posted by Ari

Welcome to High School, where only the popular are allowed to speak ...

You must have gone to a really shitty High School

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by Ari

Welcome to High School, where only the popular are allowed to speak, this is really what he wanted, attention over his god like ability to control the social lives of others.

I have this hypothesis that a lot of people, especially rich men, are just replaying high school but with cheat codes on.

“The people have spoken,” Musk tweeted. Reinstating some of the previously banned accounts.

Elon Musk reinstates Twitter accounts of suspended journalists | Twitter | The Guardian

Speculating elon was the class clown just so the beatings in the cafeteria would stop.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Under Musk's regime, oligarchs are a protected class while trans people are fair targets of incitement & threats. https://t.co/jHkkPx52H4

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) December 17, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Thrad

������This is true, and all of these actors should be looked at more closely, because they are all very suspect. Here is a thread on them. ������ https://t.co/ZMpdHMfOGh

— Sinews of War (@nervusbelli) December 18, 2022

[ChuckF]

Today's freeze peach absolutism is the prohibition on mentioning other platforms. Maybe it's illegal in Germany?

[viscousmemories]

Musk realizes he shit the bed and needs to step down but doesn’t want to look like a quitter so he started a poll with an obvious outcome.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/...iXU3hRd6SjRwtA

[erimir]

The tip button was just too beautiful for this world

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

either way it goes it’s still your fault elon

[-FX-]

Originally Posted by Ari

The most successful Twitter person I know personally is @middleageriot. He's been doing his brand of sarcastic comedy for decades, but within the last few years got a lot of likes and retweets from some more famous people.

It is interesting that this thread lay dormant for 9 months after that post. But when Elon said he would. buy Twitter, the thread exploded, and now is almost as busy as Twitter.

(just kidding, it's not even close)

[erimir]

News happens specifically concerning Twitter itself, discussion of Twitter itself increases.

Explain THAT, libtards!