When I read this I was thinking of Procter & Gamble, the other PG...
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> Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240 ... If it doesn't go his way how many times will he put up a new poll?
What % of Twitter users are voting in these polls? If you’re serious about democratizing big decisions, maybe have a set day for polls, like Tuesday, so people who want to engage can plan ahead.
Yeah it definitely bothers me that these polls are going to be biased to his followers. Would love for big decisions to be shown by twitter (rather than his account) to every user. That would be more democratic than what he’s doing.
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What % of Twitter users are voting in these polls? If you’re serious about democratizing big decisions, maybe have a set day for polls, like Tuesday, so people who want to engage can plan ahead.
Yeah it definitely bothers me that these polls are going to be biased to his followers. Would love for big decisions to be shown by twitter (rather than his account) to every user. That would be more democratic than what he’s doing.
> Yeah it definitely bothers me that these polls are going to be biased to his followers.
I mean, they are propaganda move, not a serious decision-making tool, so it really doesn’t matter.
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So, platforms can't delete spam as long as the spam is a competitor? That's... interesting.
If someone follows me, that means they’ve affirmatively expressed interest in what I have to say. How is it “spam” for me to tell them how they can continue hearing from me?
He's saying such a rule from the EU could allow spam from the companies themselves, not that these posts from advocate users would be an instance of spam.
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Odd use of 'gatekeeper' isn't it? Even if I would call this 'gatekeeping behaviour' (I don't think it is, the way that's usually used around here at least? Not to say that it isn't 'misbehaviour') surely the thing that's objected to really is gatekeep ing by x platforms, where x is 'monopoly' or 'dominant' or something?
Twitter is a bit of a gatekeeper is it not? So many companies ran their customer service through there, it became one of the dominant customer service platforms (alongside Facebook). On top of this, many news platforms also relied heavily on Twitter to break and share news, same with journalists who used Twitter as their only form of communication effectively. Twitter was positioning itself as a major gatekeeper of i…
You're right, now might be a smart time to enter the customer support SaaS space.
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#926Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet besides Twitter.
>Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Twitter may have lost more than a million users since Elon Musk took over : https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/03/1062752/twitter-... [1 hour ago - 4 comments] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34046074 This does Not bode well; links to Mastodon, including your Mastodon account in your pr…
A million users is insignificant compared to the number of advertisers who have abandoned them, and it's probably causing cash flow problems which is one reason why he was so desperate to chase people away and/or fire them, and why Twitter has been liquidating equipment (that and the huge debt he's generated on Twitter's books.)
Remember how Twitter has stopped paying rent on a bunch of its offices? And Musk just cashed $3.5B in Tesla stock? They probably couldn't pay the rent without people going unpaid.
Not paying your rent is one thing, but not paying employees results in immediate, we-gonna-fuck-you-in-the-ass attention from governments around the world. My state treats non-payment of wages as a criminal offense by the officers of the company.
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#927Interesting how opinions changed so quickly: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1592852796185128961
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#928I have two questions: 1) What happened to "it's a private platform, they can do what they want?" 2) Does anyone think Musk bought Twitter to deliberately destroy it?
Nobody is saying he can't do what he wants with Twitter. He's being criticized for being hypocritical and untrue to his professed "free speech absolutist" ideals. Also, criticized for being an all around jackass.
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Notice that TikTok isn't on the list. Seems like Musk crafted the rules in a way to ensure that one of his favorite Twitter accounts is safe from this rule about posting links to other social media.
YouTube also isn’t included. I think it’s possible that while the policy is foolhardy and vague, he deliberately excluded video sites. This means he’d have failed to achieved his purpose, since TikTok is certainly a competitor even if the medium is video rather than text, but I also don’t think he understands social media all that well.
Nor is Onlyfans. So many people use linktree though. Does this ban that?
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I vaguely feel like someone (ahem) is trying to get us to riot over silly things, as an experiment. It doesn’t make any sense.
Musk's entire Twitter reign makes complete sense if you just view it as one thin-skinned guy arbitrarily lashing out. There's no secret plan, he's just trying to "fix" whatever personally bothers him.
Which is not a good way to handle a $44 billion investment.