The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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Don't make a mockery of my right arm. Left one, definitely.
Well, that's not true and you can literally just read what he said and see the context... you love to do this though, just deny facts when they're presented to you.
It's mostly tongue-in-cheek to be fair, but there is some truth to it.
Dowie your going to have a busy night writing to all the news editors then loads of news sites got it wrong as well
Reuters
Politico
WashingtonPost
No not really, see my earlier post, that's standard clickbait:
Try the first link, that headline isn't as bad, that he's personally backed them is true and a slightly different claim to the one about him telling others to - that definitely needed more context, now we can look at the article.. the thing the headline wanted to draw our attention to:
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Twitter owner Musk backs Republicans on eve of U.S. midterms
Elon Musk, Twitter's new owner, urged Americans to elect a Republican Congress in U.S. midterms on Tuesday to counterbalance President Joe Biden's Democrats, the first time a major social media CEO explicitly took a side.
www.reuters.com
Reuters said:
They've at least given *some* of the context in the body of the article, they've omitted the first line and the second tweet so missing that it was addressed to independents though.
If you want to see whether I'm right or not then just read the actual tweets, they're right here, currently pinned on his profile:
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Soldato
You really will believe anything he tweets won't you. Who does it serve if Republicans take Congress? Democrats want to tax billionaires and want to give tax breaks to EV car makers that have unionised workforces. Something Musk has fought against with Tesla.
So while you might be buying his "worst excesses" bull **** he's got massive amounts of skin in this game and using Twitter, a company he has just purchased to tell people to vote Republican just seem off to me. Like I said earlier, it would be like Bezos using a full front page of the Washington Post to tell people to vote for a party because it was politically beneficial for him.
So while you might be buying his "worst excesses" bull **** he's got massive amounts of skin in this game and using Twitter, a company he has just purchased to tell people to vote Republican just seem off to me. Like I said earlier, it would be like Bezos using a full front page of the Washington Post to tell people to vote for a party because it was politically beneficial for him.
publications just want click bait - his republican comment was trolling and playing both sides , not wanting to alienate either side he knows which side his twitter is buttered.
have the volume of tweets increased during his ownership , if people are clicking on all the OC links, twitter must be contributing some good imprints.
have the volume of tweets increased during his ownership , if people are clicking on all the OC links, twitter must be contributing some good imprints.
The point I'm making has nothing to do with belief, it doesn't matter what I personally believe, I could personally believe he's a total liar but the point I made is still true.
If you believe what he has to say on that matter then yes:
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Soldato
"twitter usage it at an all time high lol"?
That is good to hear though, it's not the true stats. This thread has a lot of twitter posts in it, but it's not twitter that's being used as such. I wonder is twitter downloads/uninstall on mobiles at an all time high, what about users closing accounts. The usage may be higher by those that use it, but I wouldn't have thought it was good usage, more like when trump was insicitng a coup and everyone was tuning in to see what he said. News agencies around the world refreshing to get the news of his latest tweets the second it hits etc.
To those that think blue tick paying for and allowing anyone to have it is a good thing, I have a question.
at the moment blue ticks are typically only for notable people/celebs. When a blue tick cleeb puts out a tweet, they have the ability to see replies from just other blue tick users, so they can easily find replies they've had from notable celebs and then reply to it. Really useful for someone with say a million followers. How will they still get this if now the blue tick only users is just full of randoms and the notable celebs get lost in say 30k other blue tick replies?
That is good to hear though, it's not the true stats. This thread has a lot of twitter posts in it, but it's not twitter that's being used as such. I wonder is twitter downloads/uninstall on mobiles at an all time high, what about users closing accounts. The usage may be higher by those that use it, but I wouldn't have thought it was good usage, more like when trump was insicitng a coup and everyone was tuning in to see what he said. News agencies around the world refreshing to get the news of his latest tweets the second it hits etc.
To those that think blue tick paying for and allowing anyone to have it is a good thing, I have a question.
at the moment blue ticks are typically only for notable people/celebs. When a blue tick cleeb puts out a tweet, they have the ability to see replies from just other blue tick users, so they can easily find replies they've had from notable celebs and then reply to it. Really useful for someone with say a million followers. How will they still get this if now the blue tick only users is just full of randoms and the notable celebs get lost in say 30k other blue tick replies?
Soldato
Celebs can buy golden stars for only $100pcm.
wont somebody please think of the poor celebs
Soldato
I imagine the owner wants to be thinking about them given they are the creators that create something that 100 million users then view, and they view it along with adverts next to it.wont somebody please think of the poor celebs
Make it worse for those celebs = less content = less adverts shown..
There's nothing stopping them from 'creating'? The issue of filtering out the replies from the normies that will be blue check marks is entirely different. 99% of the time most of these celebs barely break 1000 replies anyway unless it's something hyper partisan like a political hot take.
It's already been stated that there will be a separate public figure tag:
If they could previously filter by blue checks then presumably filtering by that would be an obvious solution to this very pressing celeb issue.
I'd presume the public figure tag would result in such users appearing higher in the replies as a matter of course anyway, even if there wasn't a filter option for celebs etc. I guess we'll see after launch.
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Commissario
It's just a shame that the chief twit didn't bring in the new tag before making the existing one meaningless...
Or even better, that he didn't didn't just bring in the new mark for the marks who are paying $8 a month to be his product.
Mind you so far nothing about the Musk takeover of Twitter has shown any sign that it was actually thought through and planned.
Or even better, that he didn't didn't just bring in the new mark for the marks who are paying $8 a month to be his product.
Mind you so far nothing about the Musk takeover of Twitter has shown any sign that it was actually thought through and planned.
It's because he's a genius, you just don't understand his approach. His net worth clearly shows that he knows more than you about everything. His arm is stronger than yours.
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It's a combination of the sloping forehead our right whinging brethren have and the massive chip on the shoulder that causes their knuckles to drag on the ground.
It's almost like there was already layers of blue check marks before musk took over twitter and there will be layers once he's done adding in monetization... I'm outraged I tell you! Outraged!! Admittedly it's because he comes across as righty not a lefty, but I'm still outraged!!
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