God this is depressing. I'm sure many people are excited about it but I feel like this will just make Twitter worse than it already is, and the scariest part is that it won't kill off the platform. People may say they'll ditch it but, realistically, there's no real competitor to it.
Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#422The 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…
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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#423He's already said that he'd follow all local laws so it would be interesting to see if he can find the elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side". Personally my reservations are because I think running a social media site is a lot about understanding people and defining a healthy culture for your elusive…
> He's already said that he'd follow all local laws
I'm all for a good damning with faint praise, and this definitely put a smile on my face.
I'm still convinced this is just the Twitter board calling Musk's bluff.
Lets say this does fall through, the SEC, Tesla, and SpaceX fall out could be REALLY bad.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#424People 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…
> welcomes non-extremists back on
He's come out and said that he's buying it to fulfill some kind of free-speech absolutism fantasy. If you think Twitter is toxic now, wait until it's just Parlor with 100x the users.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#425People 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…
I'm pretty sure the whole "people are getting removed from Twitter for expressing themselves" thing is just plain not true, and when very little changes on that particular front, I'm very curious about how that's going to go.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#426People 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…
> gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board
So is this a generational thing? Much like YouTube, where I spend a lot of my time instead of watching TV, the people I follow on Twitter are practically nobodies posting really funny and interesting stuff. Since 2015-2016, I'd say there really hasn't been a need for the old celebrities as we used to know them, there's plenty of people creating good content now.
You don't need to be approved by Netflix or HBO and be paid millions just to be funny.
> a bot army of shills repeating verbatim over and over and over
I really only see this under crypto tweets, and I've eliminated most crypto talk from my feed. Problem solved.
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#427Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest. I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.
I tried to mostly follow tech people, but so far I haven't had any luck finding someone to follow who doesn't fill 50% of their feed with political tweets. I could probably make it work with a mute list or something, but I just don't care enough to spend the time to be honest.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#428While I don’t advocate for anyone losing their job, my partial view on what Elon will do with Twitter once he takes it private is to shut down their ad business and focus on Twitter Blue (or some variation of subscription based product announcements). This will have several benefits. 1. Simplifies the business operation by reducing fixed headcount significantly 2. This will have a hard hit to Twitter revenue but Musk…
the innate value of Twitter is that it is open to the public and the interaction basically drives (sadly) a lot of public discourse.
Look at the trump presidency for just...rife examples of this but the phenomenon occurred before and after. Until the remaining news media stops having news stories that are primarily based on 'X tweeted Y' organically, there is a serious negative incentive to have Twitter's corporate leadership end it for them.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#429People 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…
Twitter may have brought in over 5 billion in revenue. But it’s net profit was nothing to write home about.
It’s not about how much you make. It’s about how much you keep. Besides the demographics of people who want the crazies back on Twitter are not exactly the type that mainstream advertisers care about. Have you seen the types of advertisers on most far right sites?
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#430I will become a Musk fanboi if he reverts twitter to allowing unlimited reading without being logged in.
I honestly can’t believe how bad the experience is. I click a link and can’t read the tweet without logging in. So they’re making it difficult for end users to view content. But on the flip side it’s so easy to make an account that there’s bots and spam everywhere. Twitter is literally designed to make it hard to consume, easy to pump in crap.