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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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The progressive/liberal side of politics has been hijacked by the elite, just as they did with the conservative side.
And they shut down speech because they feel it threatens them.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#863We wanted Mars landing instead we got an edit button.
- Peter Thiel, 2025.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#864You 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.
Shadowbans on reddit and youtube are also very annoying
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#865What’s the consequence for employees? People with 3 years left of vesting RSUs. Will those keep vesting somehow? Or they’ll get an upfront payout? And what’s my incentive to work for an established private company with no stock growth prospect? I guess Twitter will have to pay 500k senior eng. salaries in cash instead of stock?
> Will those keep vesting somehow?
Typically insta-vest and converted to cash on date of sale.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#866People 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…
What you are asking for is impossible essentially. We users, who are the product, want this rage free environment where we arent manipulated. That can’t happen because twitters actual customers, the advertisers, make money hand over fist with the rage bait. The company wouldn’t be worth anything if its customers stopped valuing it, and its customers will instead buy whoever offers them a higher quality product on the market place.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#867Ways 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.
My problem is that when I select that, I see a completely different feed, regardless of post times. In the algorithmically sorted mode I see tweets that I'll never see in the chronological mode.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#868Ways 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…
> Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol Those are not mutually exclusive. I may be interested to know that @emmanuelmacron and @emmanuel_macron are both real persons but I’d also want to know that @emmanuelmacron is the famous one while the other is just an homonyme. Blue Check symbols are also a lot useful to distinguish real brand accounts from fake ones…
Some things he writes in that thread - like the big tech companies not caring about politics - is so bafflingly far removed from reality (especially obvious for anyone who has worked at them) that it makes me wonder whether he's intentionally distorting it, or actually believes that.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#869Ways 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…
How about also remove user hostile obsession with diverting users to the app?
Yes please. Also:
• make it so you don't have log in to view a single tweet
• de-monopolize the apis
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#870I am so excited to be in this version of the multiverse.