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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

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Post by stjohnswarts »

runako wrote: post #747
abnry wrote: post #631

Ways 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…

- Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. This is one of those things that sounds great in theory. But in reality, it likely functions much more like any other adjudication system. People can break rules an infinite number of ways, so there are an infinite number of reasons to ban an account. Understanding many of them will require…

That's why you set vague site policies like "no personal attacks or tweets inciting violence in public or against individuals"

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

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Post by mzs »

>Elon Musk told the United Nations he would give them $6 billion to end world hunger if they showed him a detailed plan of how they would use the money. They called his bluff and gave him their plan— and then they never got the money. Now he’s buying Twitter for $45 billion.

https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1518658761979842560

>Here is the executive summary of the UN’s plan for how they would spend the money. Musk publicly ghosted them after this was provided.

>Months later, they told Forbes they never received the money. “Whether WFP receives any of this money is yet to be seen”

https://www.wfp.org/stories/wfps-plan-support-42-million-peo...

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

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Post by sytelus »

vinay_ys wrote: post #647
altacc wrote: post #41

He'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…

Musk had no qualifications to run a rocket company. He didn't have much qualifications to run a car or solar company either. But he has done well by any measure of success. The only qualification that he seems to need is clear thinking based on first principles and genuine conviction and perseverance at super hard problems even while facing total personal destruction. And total personal destruction is always a real p…

Tesla and SpaceX are technology/engineering problems. This is what Musk is good at and can take huge risks to go after it. Twitter is NOT engineering or technology problem. The politics and policies are not Musk's forte, at least not yet. However, the more concerning part is his continued defragmentation of attention. Tesla is now genuinly falling behind with massive new competitions rising up. New models haven't been on market for a while. Previously announced models aren't getting delievered. Pace of growth of superchargers is not keeping up. There is a lot at stack where Musk can make huge difference.

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

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Post by abvdasker »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #729

Could twitter allow real people to stay anonymous? As AI generated content approaches 100% of internet content over the next decade (gtp-powered bots, russian troll farms, etc), it will be good to have human verification… If, after human verification, twitter can implement a zero-trust software means to allow those humans to post anonymously to protect certain dialogue… that would be great.

If Twitter learns your identity through the verification process are you really anonymous, though?

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

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Post by avgcorrection »

Jaruzel wrote: post #254

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…

Eh. Older folks on social media don’t seem to have any qualms with associating their real identities with toxic posting behavior.

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

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Post by stjohnswarts »

tensor wrote: post #756
abnry wrote: post #631

Ways 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…

Mine is this, if you want twitter blue to be at all appealing, make it so that you can eliminate all ads, including promoted tweets. Getting rid of ads is my #1 ask. I'd pay for it.

Install an adblocker. I literally never see ads on twitter...

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

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Post by andrepd »

Trias11 wrote: post #693
abnry wrote: post #631

Ways 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…

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>More free speech

>Less of [thing you like most]

How does that work?

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

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Post by stjohnswarts »

pastor_bob wrote: post #640
abnry wrote: post #631

Ways 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…

I personally would love to see how many people a person has Blocked, similar to Following/Followers number. would find it very informative about a tweeter

I think that would be a bad idea because it might make the person a target for haters.

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Post by xeromal »

NaturalPhallacy wrote: post #765

You can check if twitter is silently oppressing your account here: https://taishin-miyamoto.com/ShadowBan/ Mine currently has "reply deboosting" applied. Twitter didn't notify me of this either. I had to actively hunt it down. And there's nothing I can do to change it. Such a shady company so far.

Damn, I have reply deboosting and search ban. I post rarely to complain about services being down or for customer support.
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