Elon Musk

it's the only social network that gets mentioned regularly on TV news. seems like denial to say it's not "important". it's probably becoming less important.

How important is TV news?

definitely important, for all the reasons stated. it’s interesting it has such importance with so little regulation. in other areas i’d say regulation was slow in catching up, on the comms (not the data) side im not so sure. feels like the publisher/platform difficulty is a genuinely problematic area.

that was an xpost rather than a response to the tv news point!

it's subject to local laws too. i don't know much about DSA but it seems like it should be on his radar.

👋 @elonmusk

In Europe, the bird will fly by our 🇪🇺 rules.#DSA https://t.co/95W3qzYsal

— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) October 28, 2022

my instinct rn is that unless musk rly fucks up the high profile users and many others won’t go anywhere.

yeah europe def has the capacity to hamstring the business model - just look at GDPR.

seems like section 230 tbh (but unlikely to be repealed, unlike 230) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act#New_obligations_on_platform_companies

maybe they start making subtwitters to cater to niches - ie. /garfield

yeah europe def has the capacity to hamstring the business model - just look at GDPR.

my instinct rn is that unless musk rly fucks up the high profile users and many others won’t go anywhere.

Twitter has largely replaced PR firm press releases... I remember Whoopie Goldberg eulogizing Lou Reed on twitter (!) rather than quietly sending flowers to his widow.. in that respect, it's dirt cheap and purely performative

Oh lol at my half thought fucking up the quote anyway YOU GET WHAT I MEAN

i do and it’s absolutely right. things don’t change v much until they do very rapidly.

Twitter has largely replaced PR firm press releases... I remember Whoopie Goldberg eulogizing Lou Reed on twitter (!) rather than quietly sending flowers to his widow.. in that respect, it's dirt cheap and purely performative

lol i have been trying all day to get hold of a large publisher's publicity dept (via phone, via email and via twitter) and none of these avenues work

i blame elon musk

lol ok maybe just add twitter to the ways people won’t respond to you.

:(

no not that face! not you personally! i just mean channels of non-communication from businesses and people.

it is true advertisers are very picky about this stuff

― lag∞n, Friday, October 28, 2022 12:01 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

how many advertisers still run ads on Tucker's show? its the most watched thing on cable news but I know for a while it was nothing but ads for reverse mortgages and My Pillow

yeah the ads across fox news are all over priced gold coins and reverse mortgages lol

fwiw even with the efforts of the previous regime twitter still made less money per user than the other comparable sites because of the problem of being a bit of a hell hole

That Verge piece linked about goes into it well.

otm. once I found time to read it, it felt like the author accurately puts his finger upon the many constraints Twitter faces and how little Musk can do about them without ruining Twitter even worse and fucking himself out of billions of dollars. def worth a read.

the most muskian playbook here, considering his history with tesla, would be to manipulate the media into inflating twitters valuation, gonna be a lot harder than just saying full self driving is a year away every year tho

cut costs introduce some new features juice the numbers then take it public with the hope that the fanboys will buy it up

what happens when twitter bursts into flames

🙏🙏🙏

Congratulations to @elonmusk Maybe now I can get @verified pic.twitter.com/nlij2dPnnr

— O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) October 28, 2022

what a lovely welcome

Evidence suggests that bad actors are trying to test the limits on @Twitter. Several posts on 4chan encourage users to amplify derogatory slurs.

For example, over the last 12 hours, the use of the n-word has increased nearly 500% from the previous average. pic.twitter.com/mEqziaWuMF

— Network Contagion Research Institute (@ncri_io) October 28, 2022

I reported someone for the usual shit and had a message saying they’d nuked the account within about an hour, which is as good as unheard of. They’ve obvs been ready for such an onslaught.

Dropping mad N-words to welcome Trump back into the fold

Hey @elonmusk - you now have the power to bring back Vine. Seriously. Vine ruled AND it'll be a TikTok killer. #BringBackVine

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) October 28, 2022

I had forgotten Twitter was the company that bought and shut down Vine.

Vines problem was the videos were too short for the brain to comprehend imo

but many vines live on - on tiktok
sweet vine of grapes

vine was too good for this world

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk says no banned Twitter accounts will be restored before a review by new "content moderation council."

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) October 28, 2022

I reported someone for the usual shit and had a message saying they’d nuked the account within about an hour, which is as good as unheard of. They’ve obvs been ready for such an onslaught.

― piscesx, Friday, October 28, 2022 3:26 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

their policies and their implementation of those policies is not perfect, but it's pretty good, and a lot better than it was 3-4 years ago. unfortunately the person responsible for that was fired yesterday.

Elon Musk says no banned Twitter accounts will be restored before a review by new "content moderation council."

https://cinema1544.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/bill-and-ted-future-dudes.jpg?w=1020&h=446

I have noticed that every trending topic I've seen today is some right wing bullshit. I'm assuming it's conservatives feeling themselves about now.

i find this facebook tankie extremely annoying, but this seems obviously true?

I think @elonmusk has made a huge mistake, making himself the global face of content moderation at a critical moment of struggle with governments, while maintaining massive personal exposure to challenging countries.

— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 28, 2022

I guess General Motors has already begun cancelling advertising..?

I know another car company that can take up the slack!

_people on Twitter vastly overrate Twitter's actual importance_

Ha.. In MAU's (monthly active users), it's below platforms I've never even heard of.. it's even below Pinterest!

1. Facebook — 2.9 billion MAUs
2. YouTube — 2.2 billion MAUs
3. WhatsApp — 2 billion MAUs
4. Instagram — 2 billion MAUs
5. Facebook Messenger — 1.3 billion MAUs
6. WeChat — 1.26 billion MAUs
7. TikTok — 1 billion MAUs
8. Sina Weibo — 573 million MAUs
9. QQ — 538.91 million MAUs
10. Telegram — 550 million MAUs
11. Snapchat — 538 million MAUs
12. Kuaishou — 519.8 million MAUs
13. Qzone — 517 million MAUs
14. Pinterest — 444 million MAUs
15. Twitter — 436 million MAUs

https://y.yarn.co/3b2e88cd-9b12-479a-9f9a-ad38603d1e77_text.gif

my suggested topics are always useless garbage - oh you follow AOC and Ilhan Omar, you definitely want to see every attempt at a fascist hashtag!

Ed Zitron:

In short, Musk bought a company with a product that’s somewhat difficult to describe for reasons he has had a great deal of trouble elucidating. He didn’t want Twitter, he wanted to prove he could buy it, and he wanted everybody to think it was cool, which they did not. He has spent $44 billion in an attempt to make people love him only to be left with a very expensive way to make people angry at him every single day for the rest of his life.

https://ez.substack.com/p/the-death-of-the-boy-genius

what a fn dickhole

Here it is: Twitter engineers were told today to *print out* their last 30 to 60 days of code, so they could show it to Elon Musk himself.

Then they were told wait, no, actually, please shred all that code you just printed out.

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— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) October 28, 2022

learn to shred

Here are some examples: you can write as many polite letters to advertisers as you want, but you cannot reasonably expect to collect any meaningful advertising revenue if you do not promise those advertisers “brand safety.” That means you have to ban racism, sexism, transphobia, and all kinds of other speech that is totally legal in the United States but reveals people to be total assholes. So you can make all the promises about “free speech” you want, but the dull reality is that you still have to ban a bunch of legal speech if you want to make money. And when you start doing that, your creepy new right-wing fanboys are going to viciously turn on you, just like they turn on every other social network that realizes the same essential truth.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation

This isn’t the worst strategy to find terrible engineering managers and Twitter is supposedly filled with terrible engineering managers.

Without personal knowledge of Twitter infrastructure, I’d bet Musk is right that it’s a mess and over-staffed. Do I think he can fix that? Nope!

Wiki Foundation, for reference, spends about 100m annually.

Musk doesn’t even know how to read code, as has been shown repeatedly.

Like, he’s had to have people walk him through installing and running stuff off GitHub.

some sort of stunt to keep the troops on their toes type of thing youd see in a movie im sure it went over well in real life and the workers arent say brazenly posting your code to twitter cause they dont give a shit

Happy Friday all. pic.twitter.com/Rk9m1v1hmu

— Leah Culver (@leahculver) October 28, 2022

a social network with constantly shifting functionality would be cool, you always have to figure out whats going on like a game, of course no one would use it and it would fail

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgPXv2mXgAAIlky?format=jpg&name=medium

isnt it already this?

i mean it already fails lol but assuming we're not talking the kinds of multiple outage-dysfunction that accelerated livejournal's shift into the twilight