Elon Cleaning House

You can spin it any way you like, but the Twitter purchase would at worst amount to a nice write off for him, if it were to fail.

 

Pointing out a very misleading tweet about Social Security by Joe Biden = "hard right turn"

 

Yeah, I don't think he needs a write off for 20% of his total net worth in a single year.

 

I'm assuming much of it would be carry-forward, but again, it's not going to stop him. I'm sorry he took away your mouthpiece and is turning it into a true town square.

 

Lol. As I pointed out, this is a meaningless phrase (what is a "true town square?"). He has maintained the content moderation group (even through the layoffs). Also, I don't even post on my Twitter account. So strike two. Want to try for strike three?

 

Looks like Mastodon has the early lead to be the Twitter replacement from what I am seeing.

However, I generated an email confirmation there 3 hours ago and still don't have the email.

 

Some resident experts think they know how to handle inflation so why wouldn’t others know how to lay off folks?

 

I wish this wasn't funny, but it is

 

Ha. Fanboy says what? I’m picturing Elon as Pee Wee Herman flipping over the $44B handle bars standing up and saying “I meant to do that”.

 

Meh, I tend to think that won't take off huge just because I don't see any benefits other than no Elon Musk for people that just don't want him. But I am starting to wonder if there will be a replacement. I am waiting to see what happens when he tries to charge all the reporters and such for their verification. And also if a bunch of fake accounts with their pictures pop up and end up verified. If the reporters won't pay for verification or fakes become a huge issue, I could see people abandoning the platform the way people left Myspace when Facebook took off.

I'd probably love to see an intentionally news based social media platform (Twitter's initial intent wasn't for this, and it just sort of happened) that addresses the issue of siloing of information and low source knowledge (i.e., people not knowing about the quality of sources). But I also have to remember that one of the issues is that customers aren't necessarily looking for good information.

 

He did fire the head of the content moderation team and the entire Ethical AI team. Not a good trend.

And this:

Twitter's Content Moderation Team Reportedly Unable to Work Amid Musk Takeover

 

Yeah, the ethical AI team doesn't do much in terms of moderation (they were more of a long-term/big picture sort of thing that most tech companies tend to collect; and I can see arguments on both side of that one (they need an innovation to gain profitability which could come from a group like that, but they don't have the money to engage in such navel gazing)). The cut in human moderation might be why advertisers are at least temporarily stepping back. They don't feel like taking risk for a very small chunk of their budgets.

 

Pretty soon the only advertisers of note will be the my pillow guy, Tesla, disaster prepares and gold/silver sxams. Turns out advertisers don’t take well to having the owner of the platform tweet nut job conspiracy theories.

Who knew?

 

That’s awesome, if true.

 

Yep. Trump followers dig shunning Support of human rights and the following below “Thats awesome dude”


“The flood of racist posts was among the most prominent signs of how Twitter had changed…..An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter Elon now controls twitter. Unleash the racial slurs. K---S AND N-----S,” said one account, using slurs for Jews and Black people. “I can freely express how much I hate n-----s … now, thank you elon,” another said.”

twitter human rights work….
“working to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, and to defend the needs of those particularly at risk of human rights abuse by virtue of their social media presence,”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/28/musk-twitter-racist-posts/

 

The advertisers will be there if the eyeballs are. So far, I don't see any difference in the amount of Twitter traffic in my feed. Of course, that's very reductive. But it still seems like a lot of people on the platform that advertisers will want to reach. But advertisers also don't want to be associated with that type of white supremacist stuff that Musk seems intent on allowing out there. I know Musk hates it, but the young urban types that populate Twitter that he so despises are the very same people that advertisers want to reach. He can't force that to change.

 

Why?

 

I am really conflicted. I really enjoy Twitter as a news source and for football and animal videos. It really seems to be falling apart, which I did not expect and would feel deprived if it went away. But man is it good to good people standing up and resisting his stupid bullying behavior. He really looks stupid