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Elon Musk buys twitter
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Rorschach
Ricky Villa
Was that why Thiel got shot of him?
Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
I just got to laugh! Destroying it completly now!
Like, Twitter is such a strong name and a sort of standard of the SoMe! How many brands have their own verbs? Companies would kill to get to the point that their product/service is a verb. Tweet and retweet, just gone.
Amazing!
Not quite the same to write a X is it?
Stupid man!
Like, Twitter is such a strong name and a sort of standard of the SoMe! How many brands have their own verbs? Companies would kill to get to the point that their product/service is a verb. Tweet and retweet, just gone.
Amazing!
Not quite the same to write a X is it?
Stupid man!
Chrissivad
Chris Armstrong
Can't he wait until threads is a bit better before totally destroying twitter
So by this point we're all pretty much agreed that PayPal was a fluke, right?
He had very little to do with paypal. He owned x.com, which was some kind of online bank. They merged with a software company working on a digital wallet among other things. Six months later they kicked Musk out and changed their name to paypal.
He's turned a small fortune into a large one by investing in successful companies and some of it probably comes from the publicity he creates, but he's never been the innovative genius some like to think.
90291Spur
Paul Walsh
Don’t forget the hundreds of millions of government money he got to fund his operations:
https://www.businessinsider.com/elo...s-tesla-billions-spacex-solarcity-2021-12?amp
glasgowspur
Andy Thompson
He's a nutter, he's alway been a nutter and he always will be.
It's fantastic though how 18 months ago he was held up as a genius and a role model, and now because he has pulled off his rather thin disguise the ones who were championing him are cursing him.
Wonder if his cars can reverse as quick.
They can, but you have to find the reverse gear three menu options deep first.
Grays_1890
Barry Daines
Ohhh he is full blown wacko. That said I don't really get the level of the twitter controversy, I get people are creatures of habit and all, but it is a free service for people to post their badly thought out opinions and for people to peddle fake news, it always has been and as I said before its been a hotbed for people to be able to be a paedophile plain sight way before he joined. I don't get that changing the name or making changes to whats a pretty simplistic concept has people so heated.
I mean people chose to turn their back on myspace for facebook, there are so many platforms for people to spout utter boll0x, I don't even get the idea people get banned from there and its a big deal, don't make you any less of a person for not having twitter.
Baleforce
Les Bennett
it was a really valuable tool for news with incredible reach
the power was in having a large amount of control over what you saw
it’s become far less than it was
Grays_1890
Barry Daines
I always think the benefits were over stated though and offset by the sheer volume of unverified clap trap out there. I always found the main benefit was probably the voyeuristic nature of being able to quickly access what certain people of note were thinking but even that has its downside once you realised most of them were nutters haha.
Ultimately its always been a platform with far too many unverified faceless accounts or bots with absolutely no emphasis on accuracy or accountability for whats put out, the sheer volume of that and the abuse on there always made it impossible to really control what you saw.
If the platform still allows people to make claims like Jamie Foxx is a clone and the earth is flat then Im unsure its changed as much as people claim
Baleforce
Les Bennett
it was all about who you followed, but now, you have to follow musk, and see whatever random tweets get injected into your timeline
Grays_1890
Barry Daines
But was near on impossible to avoid crap. One of the most common tweets I would see before I stopped using it was along the lines of "why when I have blocked XYZ am I still seeing the crap" or posts to that theme.
Always been a quantity over quality proposition
Baleforce
Les Bennett
I used an app called Tweetbot, only showed me who I followed in chronological order, no ads
Twitter's own software could do that too, but they kept resetting my choice in order to show me stuff I might be interested in.
It's been months now since I deleted my account. Haven't really missed it, but it was handy to keep up with the latest news on your favourite bands or football club or whatever else interests you.
Baleforce
Les Bennett
I found the official app very advert heavy