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Should I step down as head of twitter
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Yes 420 4.43%
No 69 0.73%
Goku 9001 94.85%
Total: 9490 votes
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Soapy_Bumslap
Jun 19, 2013

We're gonna need a bigger chode
Grimey Drawer
I bet Elon's penis is like a big sexy sweet potato

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junan_paalla
Dec 29, 2009

Seriously, do drugs
elon's penis houses a genie that will gift you a horse if you rub it and set it free

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable
This no headline article thing has to be some form of someone hosed up the code, right? Nobody could possibly think yes just a no context image will suffice for relaying text articles to others.

SimonChris
Apr 24, 2008

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Grimey Drawer

Asproigerosis posted:

This no headline article thing has to be some form of someone hosed up the code, right? Nobody could possibly think yes just a no context image will suffice for relaying text articles to others.

He announced it in August.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1693843680904216619

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

Asproigerosis posted:

This no headline article thing has to be some form of someone hosed up the code, right? Nobody could possibly think yes just a no context image will suffice for relaying text articles to others.
Nah, yeah he announced it a few months back. I would like to say that the quality of the pictures associated with the article text is generally indicative of the level of professionalism of the articles, but lol no, it may just be that AP style quality pictures versus dumb Q meme photos made by a 12 years old maybe allowed too many people to filter some fake news too easily. Reducing the news to the easiest to fake part (a title) is really going to be something.
And also generate clicks for less reputable sources of information. Which is the goal.

Elman
Oct 26, 2009

Toplowtech posted:

Nah, yeah he announced it a few months back. I would like to say that the quality of the pictures associated with the article text is generally indicative of the level of professionalism of the articles, but lol no, it may just be that AP style quality pictures versus dumb Q meme photos made by a 12 years old maybe allowed too many people to filter some fake news too easily. Reducing the news to the easiest to fake part (a title) is really going to be something.
And also generate clicks for less reputable sources of information. Which is the goal.

Trashy far right sites will start using clickbait thumbnails for their articles and reputable news sites can either do the same or get way less traffic.

malder
Feb 7, 2005

Grimey Drawer

Elman posted:

Trashy far right sites will start using clickbait thumbnails for their articles and reputable news sites can either do the same or get way less traffic.

They could also stop using a platform infested with Nazis

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

malder posted:

They could also stop using a platform infested with Nazis

they cant stop also they dont care to

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
Surely the "esthetics" could've been improved while retaining the headline? How does a picture take priority over a headline when talking about news stories?

People are supposed to either add their own summaries or just copy-and-paste the original headline? I don't understand how anyone, even Elon Musk, can think this an improvement. I must be missing something.

Scientastic
Mar 1, 2010

TRULY scientastic.
🔬🍒


marshalljim posted:

I must be missing something.

Elon Musk is a loving idiot

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
try around 10 consecutive days of stimulant abuse

WrasslorMonkey
Mar 5, 2012

Scientastic posted:

Elon Musk is a loving idiot

@CommunityNotes is this true?

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



marshalljim posted:

Surely the "esthetics" could've been improved while retaining the headline? How does a picture take priority over a headline when talking about news stories?

People are supposed to either add their own summaries or just copy-and-paste the original headline? I don't understand how anyone, even Elon Musk, can think this an improvement. I must be missing something.

It's because if you add your own misleading headline it will drive engagement by sowing rage and hatred, op. He is thinking out of the box, he is so very smart

WrasslorMonkey
Mar 5, 2012

marshalljim posted:

Surely the "esthetics" could've been improved while retaining the headline? How does a picture take priority over a headline when talking about news stories?

People are supposed to either add their own summaries or just copy-and-paste the original headline? I don't understand how anyone, even Elon Musk, can think this an improvement. I must be missing something.

It has nothing to do with esthetics. He lied less here:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1709244708533264592?s=46&t=O_6ihmc-D7Z9EEE42NYBYQ

Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep
I used to think "citizen journalism" was cool and good before the covid pandemic, when here in Brazil far-right assholes started to invade hospitals and harass health workers filming all for youtube, to prove covid was fake and etc

Like 10 years ago it was mostly the left who was skeptical of the mainstream media and favoring alternative, independent sources, and theres a lot of valid reasons for that, of course. But them the nazis hijacked the whole thing to flood the world with lies, their falsified version of reality

Now is mostly "yeah, mainstream media is all lies, you got to be a fool to believe them! cause of course the earth is flat and covid never existed!"

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 13 days!
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1709713103036768376?t=ZSsArq1mWwK16JfiroCDDg&s=19

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
*observing the modern era of content amongst popular apps like instagram and tiktok* what the people crave is likely long form text

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


I crave long form text

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
you bought a platform whose whole thing was short text posts!

Chairman Wao
Mar 5, 2013

go star
the next great american novel will be posted on x (everything app)

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

Elias_Maluco posted:

I used to think "citizen journalism" was cool and good before the covid pandemic, when here in Brazil far-right assholes started to invade hospitals and harass health workers filming all for youtube, to prove covid was fake and etc

Like 10 years ago it was mostly the left who was skeptical of the mainstream media and favoring alternative, independent sources, and theres a lot of valid reasons for that, of course. But them the nazis hijacked the whole thing to flood the world with lies, their falsified version of reality

Now is mostly "yeah, mainstream media is all lies, you got to be a fool to believe them! cause of course the earth is flat and covid never existed!"

oh yeah the wheels are truly off

mainstream media is actually lies but the twist is so is all the non-mainstream stuff. I mean i guess there are people just trying to tell the truth out there but you have to use what is essentially vibes to find them and then other people might disagree and decide you're crazy anyway. Consensus reality is gone and isn't coming back.

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

thathonkey posted:

they cant stop also they dont care to

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014



Dumbest guy alive.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Panfilo posted:

Citizen Journalism!
https://twitter.com/ChayaRaichik10/status/1709612144009056712?t=xWHNpCNjyPXqoZn9fGulYw&s=19
Wait no not like that! Guards! I demand you sue this journalist into oblivion!

Just telling the whole world she doesn't actually know what "incites" means.

a.lo
Sep 12, 2009

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

Rip Elon, in haven wit da angles :angel:

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?

Seth Pecksniff posted:

Rip Elon, in haven wit da angles :angel:

WrasslorMonkey
Mar 5, 2012

I can't believe Elon Musk finally managed to suck his own microdick and died moments later.

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.




Good night sweet prince

Mr Scumbag
Jun 6, 2007

You're a fucking cocksucker, Jonathan

can i have your stuff

Time_pants
Jun 25, 2012

Now sauntering to the ring, please welcome the lackadaisical style of the man who is always doing something...

Elman posted:

Trashy far right sites will start using clickbait thumbnails for their articles and reputable news sites can either do the same or get way less traffic.

Let's be honest: everyone's going to do that. The right is just going to be the ones who make money by doing it.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
the bill hicks bit of just showing pornography as an ad with "Drink Coke!" at the end

Squinky v2.0
Nov 16, 2006

Behind you! A three headed monkey!

College Slice
dang. elon musk. that guy is so freakin smart

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Squinky v2.0 posted:

dang. elon musk. that guy is so freakin smart

he's like a real life Tony Stark Rick Sanchez

Squinky v2.0
Nov 16, 2006

Behind you! A three headed monkey!

College Slice
he says he wants to die on mars. absolutely epic

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable
Soyface and thirsttraps for all your latest stock and foreign policy news

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

Cup Runneth Over posted:

he's like a real life Tony Stark Rick Sanchez

Who is smarter: Rick Sanchez or Stewie Griffin? Rick has made more epic inventions, but he is just a baby... imagine how smart he will be at Rick's age!!

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Who is smarter: Rick Sanchez or Stewie Griffin? Rick has made more epic inventions, but he is just a baby... imagine how smart he will be at Rick's age!!

Baby geniuses usually lose their super intellect powers as they age

See
Baby Geniuses
Baby Geniuses 2: Super Babies
Boss Baby
Boss Baby the animated series
Boss Baby 2

Squinky v2.0
Nov 16, 2006

Behind you! A three headed monkey!

College Slice
that famous picture of the vulture eyeballing the starving Sudanese child but Joe Biden has been sloppily photoshopped on there and is doing the “Uber driver sucked me off???” face. article text is an unrelated crypto scam. welcome to the new look cnn.com

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WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

can’t wait for legacy print to start using Uber driver sucked me off clickbait photos for their articles

edit - wow beaten on the Uber driver sucked me off

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