I will become a Musk fanboi if he reverts twitter to allowing unlimited reading without being logged in.
uhhhh, Tesla, SpaceX, and everything else didn't do it for you, but not having to sign in to read a website, will?!!!!!
Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#852Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
I have never understood this aversion to Anonymous Speech, free speech requires Anonymous Speech. Some of the most important events in history (like the Founding of the United States) would never have happened with out Anonymous Speech. We should debate idea's not authors. Anonymous Speech enables idea's to be spread not personality cults, one would thing those opposing Elon believing that people just support him bec…
>We should debate idea's not authors.
How can you cancel anyone with a better idea than you have if you don't know who they are?
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#853He's already said that he'd follow all local laws so it would be interesting to see if he can find the elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side". Personally my reservations are because I think running a social media site is a lot about understanding people and defining a healthy culture for your elusive…
Let's hope this is the beginning of rolling back woke culture.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#854Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
I have never understood this aversion to Anonymous Speech, free speech requires Anonymous Speech. Some of the most important events in history (like the Founding of the United States) would never have happened with out Anonymous Speech. We should debate idea's not authors. Anonymous Speech enables idea's to be spread not personality cults, one would thing those opposing Elon believing that people just support him bec…
It’s not anonymous speech though but pseudonymous. The “profile” can get trusted over time without knowing the real identity by establishing a reputation for good content.
Although this will probably get derailed now by GPT3-esque astroturfing/trolling.
Anonymous speech is like graffiti, pseudonymous is like Banksy.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#855Think 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
Turns out, no amount of money can speed up launch of a rocket when the regulatory agency in charge approving launches takes months to respond.
Turns out no amount of money can speed up opening a car factory when a bunch of so called "environmentalists" keep nagging the regulators for baseless water shortage claims (all of which have eventually been declined).
Musk has already done more awesome stuff than any single human in history has done with their cash. He has built multiple companies, each a catalyst and revolutionary in their field; has paid more tax than any single citizen in US history; and shit load more than I can remember right now from top of my head.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#856Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
Or more realistically, the first thing he’ll do is re-platform all those that got de-platformed. Trump 2024, here we go.
Do you think twitter was a significant factor in Trump's 2016 win?
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#857Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
> Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol Those are not mutually exclusive. I may be interested to know that @emmanuelmacron and @emmanuel_macron are both real persons but I’d also want to know that @emmanuelmacron is the famous one while the other is just an homonyme. Blue Check symbols are also a lot useful to distinguish real brand accounts from fake ones…
“See @yishan’s thread on moderation”
you mean go on twitter? ew, no
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#858So why isn't TWTR trading at $54.20? There must be a significant chance this won't go through. Indeed, the deal is "Subject to the approval of Twitter stockholders". Stockholders are holding it because they believe it's worth more than its current price. And Elon's offer is only slightly more than the current price. The board members do not hold much stock at all. It seems this might fail at shareholder vote.
Small but non-zero chance.
The price was At this point, an investor might see it as a chance to make $2.30 MAX or loose 11.60 OR MORE if it drops lower than it started.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#859I hope Elon opens the firehose back up. I would also like to see a return of the tweet count API, and reasonable pricing for Twitter Premium API calls.
Twitter premium API pricing right now is ~$0.25/call. How about $0.01/call?
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#860I think this represents an event horizon for both Twitter and social media, beyond which it is a little more difficult than usual to make accurate predictions.
We know Musk wants a less moderated Twitter (less censored, depending on your point of view). But it's hard to think that all the changes would stop there. I can't imagine Musk just opening the door on content and then... Stagnation. But what else would he change? A more comprehensive social platform than just tweets? Revive the Vine concept to compete with TikTok after completely missing that opportunity the first time around?
And since Twitter is one of the social media pillars, whether they succeed or fail will strongly influence the direction of the other big players. They could follow suit in content policy, or lean harder in the opposite direction to distinguish themselves in the marketplace: Twitter is open, some other places are more of a walled garden, users choose what they want.
It could also mean slightly less antitrust & political attention for other social media players: again, market differentiation would mean that mainstream social media still provided all users with a top-tier platform. It's difficult to argue that Big Social Media (BSM™) is stifling free speech, or has a collective monopoly (or Cartel), and therefore needs to be regulated or broken up. Not when one of the most influential outlets is a much more open platform.