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The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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I bet you have a star wars character as your facebook profile picture
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How’s your mother’s basement?
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Seriously WTF sort of reply is that?
I bet you have a poster of Musk hanging above your bed and directly infront of your toilet.
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He is a troll, just ignore him.
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This is simply untrue.
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Oh really? Why on every tweet now do I see totally unrelated but always right wing stuff? Wasn’t it also proven that he was promoting his own right wing Tweets?
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To hazard a guess, you're used to not having right wing views around at all.
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So on every Elon Tweet the fact I now see a Trump was right post is by sheer coincidence
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Just checked a half dozen of his tweets and don't see that myself.
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What’s that got to do with anything? I’m saying I didn’t used to see that months back. He’s clearly amplifying certain content, I suspect all of these people have bought the “blue tick”
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Are you claiming there were no rightwing views on Twitter before Musk allowed them on?
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What is 'it'?
Well Twitter blue posts are given priority, so given people of the "progressive" side won't pay for it because they've been led to believe Elon Musk is evil because he unbanned Donald Trump from Twitter (he's the actual devil remember), their posts have less visibility.
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Who is "this" clown?
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But why are they given priority? I thought you wanted a site which was impartial and objective, now you're saying it's okay to pay your way to the top? Not exactly a town square is it?
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I'm saying I don't these 'Trump was right' tweets at all, perhaps there's something unusual about your feed? You may be right about the blue-check business though, it is literally a mechanism for boosting content.
No. I'm claiming that equality can feel like 'always seeing right-wing stuff' if you were more used to left-leaning content being the norm.
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Always seeing right-wing stuff though is not making the site more objective, it's just making it bad the other direction.
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Example Tweet:
Literally the second reply:
I never used to see stuff like this, what on Earth has any of this got to do with the Tweet that was posted? My view is that Elon has broken the algorithm that used to filter out unrelated content like this. It's so bad I now can't tell if these are replies to the original Tweet or they're just sponsored and put there. The UI experience is terrible.
Literally the second reply:
I never used to see stuff like this, what on Earth has any of this got to do with the Tweet that was posted? My view is that Elon has broken the algorithm that used to filter out unrelated content like this. It's so bad I now can't tell if these are replies to the original Tweet or they're just sponsored and put there. The UI experience is terrible.
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When was I saying it was more objective? Objectivity exists separately to political spectra. I said it's not true that:
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