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Elon Musk | Owner of X
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As someone that hasn't even been on Twitter: Is there a legitimate reason to stay on this platform? I don't get it. Just to see that platform crash alone would be enough motivation for me to delete an existing account.
For me I still can control what I follow for the most part. I follow lots of funny accounts, interesting ones that tweet about current events and give me a better understanding, football news, music stuff, podcasters I listen to, etc…. I also block every single advert I see and the majority of blue ticks so I don’t give them any engagement.
He's such a fecking clown.
Fair enough. Bit of a tragedy that there doesn't seem to be a proper alternative to "X" for what it still brings. Or so it seems.
Yeah I did sign up to Bluesky and Threads but they’re both graveyards.
Facist weeaboos are so weird.
I cringe at this supposed rebranding. X.com still re-directs to twitter.com.
It’s hard to feel good about being on twitter. The quality is way down, every day is spent blocking idiots and terrible ads, blue ticks have ruined intelligent discussions and the place is swimming in disinformation. You feel complicit in the degradation. But every now and again there’s real quality there. There’s a sense you are on the deck of a sinking ship, the water is lapping around your ankles, you know you are going to have to jump ship and you are delaying the inevitable.
Twitter seems to be malfunctioning again.
I didn’t think my Twitter usage would drop but looking at the last 10 days usage I’ve done 3 hours 17 mins of on screen time. 19.7mins per day is definitely down on how I used to use it, quite significantly. When I open it the algorithm really has me misunderstood and I just close it these days. I think I open it habitually.
Threads was cool for all of one day when it just launched. Haven't touched it since
This is what I do with Facebook. Open it by habit then scroll for a bit until I realise I'm not even looking at what's on there.
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I predict that a second advertiser exodus is imminent, or probably already underway.
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locked account now. she's a lowlife. but also musk, man, what a waste of skin.
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Hopefully those that vehemently dislike Musk and the propaganda he has bandwagoned with refuse to pay that dollar. But I feel they’re too addicted.
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times:
You'd have to be a monumental moron to give that man and that site any of your money and more importantly your details.
You'd have to be a monumental moron to give that man and that site any of your money and more importantly your details.
Also, paying $0.09 per month is so negligible that it's barely considered money.
I'm curious, will all that content that can't be found anywhere else and those friends that can only be interacted with through the platform, be worth $1 a year?
The fact of giving your credit card information to a company that has spent the last year actively removing their security checks and authentication protocols would also have to be considered.
It says it's for new users. Can't imagine there's a lot of real new users these days compared to scam accounts (who'll pay the $1).
It'll could be a $1 sign on fee that gets you X number of months, but there will be a $24.95/mo. box checked in the fine print.
Looks like a pressure method for people to create new accounts now before is too late so they can boost revenue on adds based on users to me. I don't see that happening to be honest
He must be incredibly desperate for cashflow to be resorting to something like this.
The cash flow it’s going to generate is a drop in the ocean. He’s more interested in collecting PII, probably on behalf of one of his bad actor friends or investors.
Doesn't he need to generate like $1 billion extra every year just to maintain the loan? $1 feels like such a useless number. It's way too low to actually matter, but it's more than nothing so it will immediately push away those who won't pay literally any amount for Twitter. And worse than that, it's not even to use Twitter, it's just to tweet, retweet and like tweets? I sometimes like tweets, and once in a while even retweet something to my 12 followers (half of whom are those "girl in your area" bots, though one of them actually keeps liking them), but it's not actually worth $1 per year for me to do that.
Just seems like not enough to matter financially but enough to a) drive some people away and b) make himself look like a fool.
It's basically a social experiment at this point: how big of a twat does a social media CEO have to be for his app to finally crash?
Just deleted X. Does anyone have a BlueSky invite code?
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So is Twitter still not paying rent for their SF office? It's wild to me that we hear something like that and then there's just no follow up.
https://tech.co/news/musk-twitter-rent-refusal
https://tech.co/news/musk-twitter-rent-refusal
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I tend to believe that this is more of an attack on a source of knowledge he considers to be threat and less of his typical moronic delusions.
There's feckery afoot here. Wiki put a huge banner up across their page the other day saying 'Wikioedia IS NOT FOR SALE' After Musk said he would pay them $1 Billion if they changed the name of the site to Dickpedia.
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That’s really funny though. Dickpedia. Really clever also.
Musk doesn't have a billion dollars to give anyone. Could maybe swing a leveraged loan for that much, but he's never going to do so. He has, to my knowledge, never paid any money to anyone he told he would pay money if they did *thing*.
I assume the locations picked are growth areas for new subs hence why they’re the guinea pig with $$$ upside. I’d be interested to see if there are any stats to back up my baseless claim.