Paul is back but has 600 followers.
Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
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#642It seems the account is back. I assume the damage is quite irreparable though.
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#643Musk just tweeted that @paulg will be restored shortly: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046164261149327... And “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.” https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046168636732088... Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240...
He's really making it up as he goes. I don't know how anyone can look at anything he's done recently and still think that he's competent at any of his roles.
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#644This 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 :)
To put this into perspective, here's user growth over the last few days [1]. Before Musk bought Twitter, it was often ~4k a day. Earlier today it was back down to less than 2k an hour, after a peak a bit above 4k an hour after the journalist fiasco.
It's currently at 5,477 in the last hour.
Before the journalist fiasco it had fallen back to ~1k/hour, and I think you need to go back to Nov 19th to find similar peaks.
In other words, things had died down massively, and he's chosen to pointlessly inflame things again rather than letting it calm down further.
[1] https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount/10953715946301...
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#646Wow. 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.
Paul’s unbanned now.
Additionally, Elon Musk just tweeted asking if he should resign as head of Twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097
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#647There's kind of three options here: * Elon is personally policing twitter, and has banned PG in a fit of pique, despite literally being at a party in Doha the world cup * Twitter's staff are just being crazy over the top with bannings - this might actually be the most likely. It's kind of obvious that Twitter has some automated systems that suspend accounts when they get mass reported, and some people with a sense of…
Haven't we learned anything from the Trump era? People like you continue to give people like Musk the benefit of the doubt despite massive public evidence that we are long past the benefit of doubt stage.
I agree. We can say with near-certainty that had musk not bought Twitter, PG would still be on Twitter. Whether Musk pressed the button or not, he’s ultimately responsible for the mess.
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Wait, when did he suggest that Taiwan surrender? I missed that. He is speed-running the Howard Hughes game.
It's hard not to be reminded of Howard Hughes. And to be reminded that such is a tragic outcome.
Hughes had a lot more restraint than Musk though.
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#649I think Twitter is about to jump the shark. This is insane.
It's been off the shark for two months. We're already to the point we've been judging people still there for having not seen it yet. o.o Unbanning the alt-right wasn't jumping the shark? Firing over half the employees wasn't jumping the shark? Promoting COVID misinformation wasn't jumping the shark? Yeah, he finally started banning journalists, but he's been making the place unwelcome for anyone who isn't a Trump sup…
At least unbanning alt-right figures (as much as I disagree with) was in line with Musk's free-speech pretense. Everything else that came after that... yikes. I wonder what juicy government contracts the GOP has promised him.
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Mastodon lacks one very important thing: global trends, the most important tool for minorities and the oppressed to call for attention. So many crimes got the spotlight because of that, and Mastodon by design can't replicate it.
Global trends are happening there nevertheless -- we've seen a few happen already.
Yeah indeed, but it's so much harder for something to gain traction on Mastodon vs on Twitter and its country specific trends.