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I welcome this. Twitter is overrun with bots and anonymous shitposting. He's either going to make it better or invigorate the competition.
My life will get a lot better when I abandon the platform the second this deal goes through. It's just the last reason, not the first.
Social Media is so horrible. I'm absolutely convinced that humans haven't evolved to handle the insanity that is social media. Yet, they are the public squares. And isolating myself from the cesspools (FB, Twitter, etc) has also isolated me from everyone. Twitter was the last one I used a very small amount (never more than 5 minutes at a time, not more than once a day). This was the final straw for me. No good option…
Think of all the awesome stuff he could have done for humankind with that kind of money. But nooooo, he wastes it all on a that dungpool of a website
Okay. Now actually let's see how "free speech absolutist" Musk will deal with this account: https://twitter.com/elonmuskjet It's will tell us a lot about his plans with Twitter.
Prediction: he’ll force them to add an edit button, and put Twitter up for sale again within 6 months. Like a social media fixer-upper
I feel for the employees of Twitter. Years with a part time CEO whose time was dedicated elsewhere… now they’ll have a new part time owner whose time will be dedicated elsewhere and has a propensity to do weird things for the online lulz.
>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.…
He, undoubtedly, overpaid for Twitter. Also, the blue-check allows key users to distinguish themselves and is one major reason that "notable" people are using Twitter for essentially all their communications. Elon's plan to diminish the blue-check by giving it to anyone who has verified themselves by buying Twitter Blue would be very destructive and hurt Twitter's moat. -- Edit -- Actually, disregard the blue-check c…