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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

#81

This is beyond ridiculous. Twitter has given me so much over the years and it’s dismantled in days

Twitter is great, but its the users that provide the value, not Twitter itself. If all the interesting people are moving to Mastodon, guess I'll need to move as well.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

#82
Previous, I thought the "he's trying to destroy Twitter along with a good chunk of his own fortune" idea was ludicrous. I assumed he was trying his best, in his own way, and would take a few months to rediscover how to run things. Eventually end up a good business, somewhat more Free than before.

Now... not so sure. Anything's possible.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

#83

Elon Musk is going the way of Will Smith in terms of public goodwill and adoration! There's no turning back!

Less Will Smith and more Kanye.

I was going to disagree, but then I thought about it and gave a reluctant upvote.

Maybe it’s a bit crass, but I wonder if Elon is on some drugs or something. His behavior is bizarre, and I don’t buy the “he was always like this” line. He didn’t seem to be like this at all until recently.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

#85

Possibly malicious enforcement by Twitter staff in light of https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604593057676300288 “Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme”

I wouldn't be surprised if the employee who did this gets fired as a result of this. In fact, I'd be shocked if @paulg isn't reinstated within 48 hours (as they did with Taylor Lorenz a few hours ago.) All of Musk's previous interactions with Graham suggests that their relationship is friendly. And if there's one thing we've seen from Elon Musk's Twitter, it's that he's not hesitant to fire Twitter employees.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

#88

I 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 Japanese trending on Twitter went from a whole bunch of political stuff to more neutral cultural stuff. Stuff like that is what I wanted to see.

Instead we're getting this hilarious situation where Elon is using his authority to ban everything he doesn't like. It's worse than it was.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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pg's twitter was amazing archive of insightful content. How do I get the backup of his tweets? I always thought it will be there all the time. Does he has backup that he can share? I am all but stunned right now. Need time to process this.

I suspect the account will be restored eventually but the wayback machine looks like it has a full snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20221218215229/https://twitter.co...
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