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He said in that second thread that he is not actually leaving Twitter.
Well, seems that choice was taken out of his hands by an insecure billionaire.
To be fair, that's most likely just a temporary ban.
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I’m guessing he got banned for posting this?
Banned for posting a link to his personal website (which has links to his other social media profiles) Ridiculous.
This is untrue. The link he posted in the tweet was this: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/160453126179152281...
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#103I think Twitter is about to jump the shark. This is insane.
Apparently people are trying to save so many tweets right now that the Internet Archive is having a delay: https://paquita.masto.host/@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange...
When all this started I thought that Twitter wouldn't make it to Christmas. Sometimes I think that was too much, that it'd take longer to collapse. This past week makes me think I might be right.
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#104This is amazing. He basically said, he'd return if elon comes around, and wishes him the best. And just said "my mastodon is on my website". No violation of those new "TOS" of any kind.
https://mas.to/@paulg seems to have been hugged to death already :)
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#105Someone tweeted that it’s not possible to screenshot the new terms on mobile.
This makes me wonder if preventing tweet exports and DRM are next on the list. Can widevine be applied here even if in a somewhat hacky way?
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#106A week ago ago it seemed like a reasonable person could thing there was a chance (however small) that Musk would turn things around for twitter. Banning paulg though… surely he has no idea wtf he is doing
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#107I would love to talk to one of the people that kept saying “you all don’t understand. Musk runs billion dollar companies, he knows what he is doing. He will fix Twitter” now that this is happening. What is the grand plan now in their world view?
Well you could ask paulg, who said that. But use email, not twitter.
Or use Mastodon ...
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#108Paul Graham said he wasn't leaving Twitter (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042993), but apparently Twitter has left him.
Graham excused Musk as being "eccentric".
It's foolish to make excuses for authoritarian, attention seeking narcissists like Musk. They will always let you down in the end.
When they show you who and what they are you ought to believe them.
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#109I distinctly remember a prescient thread from Yishan Wong (former Reddit CEO) about how trying to run Twitter would break Musk - and - it looks like it was spot on.
He paid 44 billion dollars to be a mod - I hope he is getting his money's worth.
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#110I would love to talk to one of the people that kept saying “you all don’t understand. Musk runs billion dollar companies, he knows what he is doing. He will fix Twitter” now that this is happening. What is the grand plan now in their world view?
I had hopes. Twitter was terribly run and there was all sorts of examples of them being a typical social media platform trying to push various ideas using their control. Elon could have come in, aligned the website to be a lot more neutral, slimmed down the employee count and pushed for more features and more payments for features to get away from dependence on advertisers. I saw some headline a few weeks ago about J…
I miss the Elon Musk of a decade ago.