Soldato
She's still going but getting next to no replies to her tweets.
The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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She's still going but getting next to no replies to her tweets.
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Who could possibly have guessed when Musk IIRC got rid of the dedicated teams at twitter that co-ordinated with the likes of law enforcement and international agencies, and gutted the moderating teams that this sort of thing might happen.Yeah, but the capitalism snark works best with Russian.
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Meanwhile, things going brilliantly on the 'child safety' end of things with Twitter these days.
Well apart from anyone who understood the reasons those teams who did little if any programming and didn't tend to commit lines of code existed.
Hopefully he can get back on top of it, but I doubt it's going to be any sort of priority for him and it's unlikely that many of the people with the skills and training are going to want to work for someone like him, especially as he is known to sack any employee who dares speak the truth or tries to suggest that "going fast, breaking things" is not a great idea when it comes to content moderation and protections.
I'm not going to be at all surprised if it turns out some of the "unnecessary" process and services he shut down to "speed things up" related to things like the servers that check uploaded images and video, or he's removed capacity from those systems to reduce costs.
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Another day, another big fat L for old mate.
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Errrgh, the comments are typicalAnother day, another big fat L for old mate.
"Of course CNN would say that"
"CNN can write this because it's most ardent supporters wouldn't read the twitter files"
"CNN can't be trusted"
They are reporting WHAT TWITTER LAWYERS SUBMITTED UNDER OATH IN COURT you morons.
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It is odd. For example, Trump is the most ridiculously obvious con artist/liar in the public sphere, yet ~40% of the USA seem utterly fixated with him and think he can do no wrong.
Utter absurdity.
Soldato
Its pride.
Forget the proper phrasing but "to fool someone you only need to exceed their intelligence, to get them to admit they have been fooled you need to exceed their pride"
Soldato
Easy fix for Elon if he really wants the world townhall of free speech.
1) Pay off the venture funders with his massive excessive wealth, he's just gained a fortune and he doesn't care about money we are told.
2) Use the massive interest savings to hire a team of people who can moderate the platform within the law, give back confidence to advertisers
3) Run the platform at a small loss / revenue neutral with no share holders to expect improving results
IF I was the richest man in world and wanted to have THE townhall of free speech for the globe thats how I would go about it...
1) Pay off the venture funders with his massive excessive wealth, he's just gained a fortune and he doesn't care about money we are told.
2) Use the massive interest savings to hire a team of people who can moderate the platform within the law, give back confidence to advertisers
3) Run the platform at a small loss / revenue neutral with no share holders to expect improving results
IF I was the richest man in world and wanted to have THE townhall of free speech for the globe thats how I would go about it...
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I doubt it was direct government censorship.
The top people on the left are very good at putting their money where their mouth is. Where as the top people on the right prefer to moan and complain.
He seems willing to blame others when he's causing some of the problems himself.
He should be aiming for a utopian platform allowing everything that is legal in the US. Not getting involved in the culture wars.
The top people on the left are very good at putting their money where their mouth is. Where as the top people on the right prefer to moan and complain.
He seems willing to blame others when he's causing some of the problems himself.
He should be aiming for a utopian platform allowing everything that is legal in the US. Not getting involved in the culture wars.
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But then he wouldn't be headline news all the time, and how would his narcissism be fed...?
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I was thinking about this the other day. He's not really been tweet worthy for a short while now. I'm expecting something crazy to be said by him any day now so that he gets those retweets that he needs.
I wonder if he will get the staff to change the algorithm again so that his accounts is pushed to more users
Soldato
There is a bit of chatter about the first Tucker show but not as much as I think they had hoped for
Maybe we will see another "detailed Elon peace initiative" soon
Caporegime
Can't wait for the next episode of Tucker Gone Wild. Just curious to know how he plans to top this:
70 million views in 16 hours.....
Soldato
MY Friend put up a video on his facebook business page. it's a rubbish video with nothing viral about it. 20k views in a few days. 5 comments.
i don't trust how these social media companies list their viewing figures.
i don't trust how these social media companies list their viewing figures.
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Its not about views, its to drive reaction, thats what drives more views
There was limited chatter about it, as I wrote.
I don't believe for 1 minute 70 million people watched that drivel. Although I watched the start for the lols as it came up on my feed so maybe I am one of them.
In that case then its easy to see how.
The sad thing is, just like he admitted in private about the election fraud nonsense, he doesn't believe any of it himself.
He just knows it is an easy way to make money off the backs of stupid people.
I think I saw he mentioned Epstein maybe he should be looking into the Epstein Musk links, you know just asking questions
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Isn't that Tweet (seen) views rather than watched views (https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/view-counts)?
IIRC, Twitter removed the watched metric last year which might explain why the 'legacy' data within the 'TweetDetail' JSON states the views as (currently) 17.2m - still relatively high though i guess.
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What does that tell you about America given the content?
And is that 70m views of the whole video or 70m people who pushed play?
It's worldwide not just the US.
No idea, I believe that's just folks who viewed the tweet tbh (Edit: as per Visibleman's post, even 17millon is still pretty good and puts 'legacy' media to shame i ebeilve - he was always going to do pretty good views after he was fired from Fox, he was the most watched in his time slot after all)
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