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

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unwashed potato! said:
There almost needs to be something that twitter brings in, that helps distinguish notable real users from fake ones. Nothing paid for, just a free way that twitter marks certain worthy accounts as real and the person they say they are. Not sure what simple easy way they could do this.
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Watching him destroy Twitter one bad decision at a time is hilarious. A shame as I used to enjoy the platform as it did what it said on the tin. Anyone who was going to pay him $8 a month has already done it, this won't bring more subscribers and it won't deal with the bots which have got so much worse since he took over.
 
unwashed potato! said:
And they are all blue tick bots. He created this issue as now bots can appear more prominent and important than an average user.
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But I'm sure certain posters told us that no one would pay $8 a month for a bot. Amazing how wrong some people can be time and time again. Obviously Elon doesn't give a damn how many 1000s of blue check bots there are as long as they pay the $8
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
But I'm sure certain posters told us that no one would pay $8 a month for a bot. Amazing how wrong some people can be time and time again. Obviously Elon doesn't give a damn how many 1000s of blue check bots there are as long as they pay the $8
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Well he needs them to pump up the blue tick numbers, other wise without the bots, charging for blue rocks seems even more of a failure
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
haha talk about missing the point! :cry: :cry: :cry:
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Well you were the one that said.

Colonel_Klinck said:
They say its a tech company and not a car company but its tech is no better than others and some have caught up and overtaken Tesla.
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You're comparing the tech inside the car with the tech in other cars.

That isn't what is meant. It's Starlink, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, energy and now potentially robotics and AI. The share price has been an option on Musk to create companies across different industries.
 
Trusty said:
Well you were the one that said.



You're comparing the tech inside the car with the tech in other cars.

That isn't what is meant. It's Starlink, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, energy and now potentially robotics and AI. The share price has been an option on Musk to create companies across different industries.
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I said that because posters on here have stated its a tech company, not a car company. And the tech in their cars is no better than the competition any longer.

Only 1 of those companies falls under Tesla stock, that is Tesla. All the others are separate companies with separate ownership.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
I said that because posters on here have stated its a tech company, not a car company. And the tech in their cars is no better than the competition any longer.

Only 1 of those companies falls under Tesla stock, that is Tesla. All the others are separate companies with separate ownership.
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Yeah, you're still not getting it. Wall street doesn't bid up the price from $20 to $400 in less than 8 years off the back of "it's just a car company" and only looking at the revenue from Tesla. It's the idea that all his companies come under one umbrella corporation. X.com maybe? he's been pretty obsessed with X for a while
 
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Rroff said:
Wish people would just stop using Twitter LOL... (by that I mean content creators and businesses, etc. rather than people sharing).
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This. I found breaking the Twitter habit difficult but it was worth doing. It must be 100% more difficult if you rely on it for your living. X is surviving on inertia alone though.
 
I find the BBC by line inaccurate and I don't think the point she was making was wildly inaccurate. I'm assuming the only reason she didn't sue at her original dismissal is that the cost of litigation is so high it would eat up all she has worked hard to earn. Now her defence seemingly is going to be bankrolled by X/Musk it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I have no idea about the strength of her case but in one respect it is nice to see a large company being held to account where historically they have been able to hide behind the asymmetric cost of the legal process to squash dissent.... Even if it is only as a consequence of another mega corp paying the bill.
 
PlacidCasual said:
I find the BBC by line inaccurate and I don't think the point she was making was wildly inaccurate. I'm assuming the only reason she didn't sue at her original dismissal is that the cost of litigation is so high it would eat up all she has worked hard to earn. Now her defence seemingly is going to be bankrolled by X/Musk it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I have no idea about the strength of her case but in one respect it is nice to see a large company being held to account where historically they have been able to hide behind the asymmetric cost of the legal process to squash dissent.... Even if it is only as a consequence of another mega corp paying the bill.
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Something that Elon abuses himself so it's hardly out of principle is it?
 
But everyone on social media told me that Gina is a racist transphobe. Now I must hate her even more because of the association to Musk and his hate speech machine. OMG, I'm literally shaking right now.
 
Fubsy said:
But everyone on social media told me that Gina is a racist transphobe. Now I must hate her even more because of the association to Musk and his hate speech machine. OMG, I'm literally shaking right now.
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Maybe quit those social media sites and enjoy the real world where this stuff isn't talked about and has zero weight to anyone's lives?

Does anyone even know who she is or really care?
 
a1ex2001 said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Actress Gina Carano sues Disney and Lucasfilm with Elon Musk's help

The actress was fired in 2021 for comparing being a Republican to being a Jew during the Holocaust.
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So Elon actually doing what he said for once although I'm not sure I can applaud him for coming to the defence of people who say such utterly stupid and wildly inaccurate things!
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What did she say that were stupid and or inaccurate?

Though stupidity outside your job is rarely a reason to be dismissed.
 
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