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Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#411

People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself. Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills…

Yeah but even with an honest profile at one, I asked Twitter for the data they had one; I’m an early 40s single dad and Twitter thought I was a late 40s married mom.

Then there’s his view of what Twitter is; de facto public square. When the user base is 300 million MAU minus bots and spam, it’s hardly pushing numbers that make me believe it’s to be taken seriously as a place for discourse.

His greater good pandering to the middle ground who just want the Clinton years back, appeals to his wealth as some sort infallible measure of his correctness, it’s all just more of the same human lizard brain going where it feels warm and fuzziest; no one has any evidence any of these efforts are helping the future and the industrial and social wasteland they create seem to indicate the opposite.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#412

What if the Chinese government forces Elon to ban criticism of China? Nice EV business you have there in Shanghai...be a shame if...you know..

Just to play devil's advocate, he could also reverse that and threaten to promote criticism of China if they don't play ball.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#414

The ONLY way to solve the toxic nature of Twitter is to enforce a)a real name policy, and b)fully verified[1] identities for all users/bots (opt-in, where others by default filter out non-verified accounts in their feeds) Bots can continue to exist, but must be identifiable as such and connected to a verified real user. Not only will this clean up twitter dramatically, it will also push off those who wish to hide beh…

>The ONLY way to solve the toxic nature of Twitter is to enforce a)a real name policy

Facebook has real names and the messages are just as bad if not often worse.

Extremely naive to think this will solve anything.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#415

The ONLY way to solve the toxic nature of Twitter is to enforce a)a real name policy, and b)fully verified[1] identities for all users/bots (opt-in, where others by default filter out non-verified accounts in their feeds) Bots can continue to exist, but must be identifiable as such and connected to a verified real user. Not only will this clean up twitter dramatically, it will also push off those who wish to hide beh…

Being verified isn't going to solve the problem of shouty nutjobs and political shills. We are in a post-truth environment, where people spreading misinformation and flat-out lies don't feel an obligation to issue retractions or corrections. They just shamelessly move onto the next lie. Public opinion or consequences other than being deplatformed just don't matter to the likes of Trump and his acolytes.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#417
I liked it when StackOverflow introduced features to elicit better community manners. For example, the prompt that say something to the effect of "BobUserXYZ is new to SO, he may not know all the social rules of our community, please take that into consideration and try to be welcoming and polite".

I wonder if similar prompts like that on Twitter/et al would improve toxicity. I don't specifically mean a "welcome our new community member" prompt. I'm suggesting UI changes that are designed with the goal of improved community manners which work in the context of Twitter.

StackOverflow being a community of mostly tech professional is far from an analog to Twitter. Surely, the goal of curtailing toxic behavior is much more easily attained in a community where the society have a common goal of solving technical problems.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#418
Wonder if it'll be able to compare to Tumblr from a social media-quality perspective now that it's private like Tumblr has been.

I just paid Tumblr $25 last week to have 7000 people see a funny joke I made last year. Win-win. The users get a sensible chuckle, and Tumblr gets a little walking around money. Can't believe Tumblr Blaze is advertising done right.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#419
post #147

Honest question, why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem? Software devs have been trying to solve this problem since the beginning of the internet and yet bots still fill every space on the web.

because its not a technical problem. its a political problem

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

#420
My understanding of the narrative:

* Musk approached us and we decided it was the best thing for him to take over and join the board

* We have decided that the best way forwards will be for him not to join the board

* We have decided that we absolutely do not want to have Musk as owner

* We have decided to accept the offer to buy Twitter by Musk.

All of this is corporate bollocks and probably has very few useful lessons for us lesser mortals except that to succeed in business, truth and honesty does not add any value.

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