Hopefully my friends and artists I follow can be unbanned. It's annoying how their abuse team fails to understand the context behind messages because they aren't a part of the community.
Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#662Alot of huff and a lot of guff the end result will be Elon will think of this as buying his version of the washington post and then will be relatively hands off.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#663Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
> Return to a reverse chronological time They've had this for years. Press the "swish" (stars) button top right.
Sure, but what percentage of users know about it? Of those, what percentage remember it?
Defaults matter! Most people will just see the default state of things and not be too curious about ways they could change things, and never even notice this sort of setting.
And on top of that, like Facebook did long ago with its chronlogical timeline setting, it resets itself back to the algorithmic timeline periodically.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#664He'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…
But what exactly is “the law?” It’s not like this stuff is cut and dried even within the US. Posted this elsewhere, but free speech laws are some of the trickiest legal issues we grapple with in the US, and many statues hinge on the intent behind the speech. How is Twitter supposed to implement this (hypothetical) new policy? Do they always give posters the benefit of the doubt? Seems ripe for abuse. Assume the worst? Probably more censorious than it is today. Punt to the courts? Great, moderation now takes years and costs thousands of dollars. What is the standard of proof to take down a tweet? Preponderance of the evidence? What evidence is admissible? Does Twitter just internally recreate the US trial court system to manage this? What about cross-border disputes? What about laws that directly conflict? What about international law? Treaties to which the US is not a party (eg Protocols I & II of the Geneva Convention)? If “following the law” were easy we wouldn’t have so many layers and judges
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#665Something that gets missed a lot, is how much the news media relies on Twitter now. The percentage of stories that get run on online news sites which are built entirely on a few Twitter hot takes is astonishing. This is allowing journalists to write a lot more stories without leaving their desks, which means they can likely pump out a ton more articles each week than in the old days. If Twitter changes such that it's…
Good, it means that "journalists" will have to do some actual research before writing their articles.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#666Article updated: "The transaction was approved by the board and is now subject to a shareholder vote."
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#667Looks like the deal is done: https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1518664847768006656
Yeah I mean Parag was not going to make it. He was a lame duck but the product itself can't be changed much as it is still about amplifying status updates.
Pushbacks on Elon threatening to bring free speech back (hopefully addressing the toxic witch hunts, cancelling) were seemingly orchestrated by incumbent billionaires with their own mainstream media outlets feeling threatened by it—because it would undermine the impact of their own loudspeakers if views that challenge popular narratives or The Current Thing.
Anyways, I am not a fanboy of Elon by any means other than SpaceX, I think it was a refreshing move for a billionaire to not just buy another mainstream media outlet. Unsure what will happen going forward ....
but strictly from a business point of view, buying Twitter for the purpose of profiteering was a bad one, but at his level, money has become irrelevant, its more about control here.
Having said that I do question how far he would be able to take the free speech thing as a private company.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#668Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
Twitter could just switch to ActivityPub [0] and everything will be immediately improved for the users.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#669After all the theater about Musk joining the board, then him not joining the board as it's "best for all", then refusing the $54.20 offer for being too low...
I have a feeling that Twitter's Q1 numbers to be reported on Thursday won't be good.
If they would be, they could reasonably ask for a better offer. If, as I expect, they aren't, they wont have much of a credible leg to stand on to continue to refuse his offer.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#670Something that gets missed a lot, is how much the news media relies on Twitter now. The percentage of stories that get run on online news sites which are built entirely on a few Twitter hot takes is astonishing. This is allowing journalists to write a lot more stories without leaving their desks, which means they can likely pump out a ton more articles each week than in the old days. If Twitter changes such that it's…
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