The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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BBC misinformation specialist actually last person on earth Musk would be interviewed by
Thought she was made the recent tv programme where journalist pretended to be drunk to see what harassment occurred, moreover she set up up fake online male personna to explore online abuse
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Behind the Stories - Trolled by Elon Musk

Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring on trolls, online abuse and Elon Musk.
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When Elon Musk tweeted about a BBC Panorama investigation, it unleashed a torrent of abuse against me from trolls. It proved what I’d revealed about the site struggling to protect users. Here’s what it’s like being at the centre of a Twitter troll storm.

similar style of sensationalist agent provocateur journalism as the auditer who goes into police stations to video & test procedure, or the paedophile hunters, both can perpetuate problems.
I want a specialist to give me some insight into twitter code/algorithms they open-sourced.
 
So when npr said "is it worth continuing to use twitter due to the ongoing risks with the current owner" I guess they have their answer as does everyone else

Musk wrote a message without any text in the body but with this subject line: "You suck."
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This must be an example of that savagery the roar was on about yesterday
 
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even though Musk won't e accepting interview from bbc specialist Mariannah spring - latest article
guess he might accept one from times journalist, today - the woes of tik-tok geo-tracking my cat oriented personal account, to try to identify my insider/leaker in tik-tok
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TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account

London-based reporter Cristina Criddle says it was "chilling" to learn her data had been accessed.
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no geo tracking in twitter yet ?
 
mattx4 said:
Elon butt hurt that NPR stopped tweeting even after he caved and removed the publicly funded tag

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In an unprompted Tuesday email, Musk wrote: "So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company?"
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For a guy that called their tweets diarrhoea when they left, he does seem upset and vengeful that they didn't come back.

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Looks like they changed the wording on the free verified users so it's back how it was
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Except you can be a marked user without any notability behind it. Still needs a distinct subscriber badge.
 
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Twitter admits to ‘security incident’ involving Circles tweets

Feature allows users to set a list of friends and post tweets that only they are supposed to be able to read
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Twitter admits to ‘security incident’ involving Circles tweets​


Feature allows users to set a list of friends and post tweets that only they are supposed to be able to read
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A privacy breach at Twitter published tweets that were never supposed to be seen by anyone but the poster’s closest friends to the site at large, the company has admitted after weeks of stonewalling reports.
The site’s Circles feature allows users to set an exclusive list of friends and post tweets that only they can read. Similar to Instagram’s Close Friends setting, it allows users to share private thoughts, explicit images or unprofessional statements without risking sharing them with their wider network.

But, in an email to affected users seen by the Guardian, Twitter admitted tweets had escaped this containment. “A security incident that occurred earlier this year,” the email says, “may have allowed users outside of your Twitter Circle to see tweets that should have otherwise been limited to the Circle to which you were posting.”

For weeks, users had been reporting Circles tweets receiving likes and views from accounts that should not have been able to see them. Twitter, whose press office has been largely destaffed and set to autoreply to requests for comment with a poo emoji, did not acknowledge the reports.

Now, the company says the issue “was identified by our security team and immediately fixed so that these tweets were no longer visible outside of your Circle”.

“Twitter is committed to protecting the privacy of the people who use our service, and we understand the risks that an incident like this can introduce and we deeply regret this happened,” the company said.

The email did not address separate reports that similar privacy breaches were occurring to “private” accounts, whose tweets should not be displayed to anyone save for their approved followers.

Since Elon Musk acquired the company in late 2022, Twitter has shed at least 60% of its headcount, with wave after wave of layoffs stripping teams to the bone. Over the same period, the site has experienced numerous outages, leading Musk to declare that it would not be stable until a “complete rewrite” of the site’s underlying code was completed.

Similar cost-cutting measures have led the service to stop paying bills for office space, janitorial supplies and web hosting, with mixed success. Even as Musk attempted to institute a full return-to-the-office mandate, Twitter employees in countries including Singapore and London faced eviction from their workplaces over unpaid rent bills.
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wesimmo said:
He'd be better off spending less time being an ignorant **** on his social media platform and doing some moderating instead.

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Allen, Texas mall shooting: How graphic videos spread on Twitter

The footage went viral, often with no warnings. Experts say it's a disturbing failure by moderators.
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Both clips were visible at or near the top of search results in the hours after news broke of the attack north of Dallas
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Maybe if you don't want to see footage of a mass shooting, don't search for a mass shooting ?
 
Minusorange said:
Maybe if you don't want to see footage of a mass shooting, don't search for a mass shooting ?
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No, if you want to make money from a social media company you be paid well over the odds for because weed jokes are funny, you then take running it seriously.

If people search for news or views about a newsworthy event on mainstream sites, they don't expect to see dead bodies.
 
Seems like they're emulating HBO and the like in desperately grasping for a positive end of year spreadsheet (he absolutely cannot be wrong about turning Twitter around in his promised arbitrary recovery period, so it's an ego thing too), there are no principals with this man and there never will be.
 
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