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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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Durzel
Nov 15, 2005


Roblo posted:

"Pro Hamas protestors". Eugh FFS. I'm sure this is one of the "citizen journalists" that Musk loves so much.
Well, he's one of the foremost Musk sycophants, who was unbanned under his rule, so yeah - big time.

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kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!





"Don't trust the media, I'm not banning the EU. Also, wouldn't it be really funny if I banned the EU?"

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!
"I tanked my fortune and all I got was this lousy guillotine" shirt is not for sale on Twitter.

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


just incredible how bad of a poster he is.

Tei
Feb 19, 2011

MrMojok posted:

He’s gone from “We will eliminate the bot problem” to “$8 a month will eliminate the bot problem” to “1$ to join won’t eliminate, but will help the bot problem” while simultaneously facing loss of ad revenue due to what he calls “woke” and now facing sanctions from the EU

What in the gently caress is this lard-brained Boer chud even talking about at this point?


I don't currently use Twitter, but I wish it would let me use the network withouth the recomendation bots.


Like, I follow Jane. I see all post from Jane on my wall. I unfollow Jane, I stop receiving his posts.
I follow Kelvin, now my wall has a mix of Jane and Kelvin posts.

Sometimes Kelvin post a funny joke and he get 200 brown points. But I am still seeing Jane posts. Maybe Kelvin paid the russia mafia for bots to add 199 brown points to his joke. I can't care less.

I know why networks dont work like this anymore. But I am unhappy why they don't even have the option to truly use the site like this.

It seems all social networks works like this:

1) they identify what type of person you are
2) uses statistics to see what content this type of people watch
3) when more content of that type appears, and is popular, shows it to you

My problems with this design:
- Is not compatible with democracy. It encourage content with a strong reaction, such has violence or lies. Religious fanatism, racism, political extremism. Fascism.
- Puts democracy in risk. It would be very easy for the person controlling the argorithm to completelly block some political beliefs, or weight down so they are less visible than the opposing political views. A person with this power can make winners and losers, and control the beliefs of the public.

I am even less unconfortable when the current owner is so clearly a idiot, a right wing fanatic and a bootlicker fascist; and since he was abandoned by his wife, a ginophobe incel and conspiracy theory believer. Is a pyromaniac with a box of matches.

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

just incredible how bad of a poster he is.

He's a reply guy, OP. Not a poster

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



I love how every hot take he has is just him latching on to a vague or veiled allusion someone says and then just saying it louder and clearer, like he thinks he's the big brain drawing out the big-picture conclusion that nobody else sees

"Business Insider has an iffy track record :ninja:"
"BUSINESS INSIDER IS FAKE NEWS"

"Pro-Hamas protesters in the Capitol"
"MUSLIM TERRORISTS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD"

"Moneyed interests are in control"
"IT'S THE JEWS :eng101:"

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

Data Graham posted:

I love how every hot take he has is just him latching on to a vague or veiled allusion someone says and then just saying it louder and clearer, like he thinks he's the big brain drawing out the big-picture conclusion that nobody else sees

"Business Insider has an iffy track record :ninja:"
"BUSINESS INSIDER IS FAKE NEWS"

"Pro-Hamas protesters in the Capitol"
"MUSLIM TERRORISTS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD"

"Moneyed interests are in control"
"IT'S THE JEWS :eng101:"
This is maybe the most recognizable part of executive MBA brain that we get to see in real time as he stream of conscious replies. The same thing is happening in the brain of everyone with VP or executive in the title. Their goal of existence is to find out about things and simplify them to a soundbite.

A good one of those has a filter that doesn't diarrhea blast every real or imagined insight and instead waits to synthesize a few into policy and direction but when you're a tech CEO cranked on ket and diet pills trying to drink up social media engagement, why not post the raw thoughts?

Peter Falk
Sep 29, 2023

Tei posted:

I know why networks dont work like this anymore. But I am unhappy why they don't even have the option to truly use the site like this.

It's one of the things I like best about Mastodon now that Twitter no longer does it

Peter Falk fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Oct 19, 2023

Decrepus
May 21, 2008

In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.


I had a dream that I got a cybertruck by hitting children each sequentially labeled N I N T E N D and O. A dire portent.

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

Bad Purchase posted:

spreading false information about how to vote in an election? a victimless crime if i’ve ever seen one!

They were memes!

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

Decrepus posted:

I had a dream that I got a cybertruck by hitting children each sequentially labeled N I N T E N D and O. A dire portent.

A dire portent or the next Mario Kart smash hit game!!

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc

kazil posted:

This is some Twitter 1.0 Woke Mind Virus thinking right here

gently caress, I never saw this happening to me

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc

Mudlark posted:

$1/year from every user won't even cover the processing fees from any PCP, let alone the compliance and etc. they'll need to cover before they can even start taking cards, with any organization that isn't basically running Billionaire Prince and phony call center scams out of their slushfunds.

My money's on him hearing about test transaction ($1-$11 charges that show up on your credit card statement but get removed later; they're there to validate the authenticity of the card) and thinking: `great we'll just implement our own version of that`.

But that's probably more thought than was actually given before or since.

Might be more a thing to get people in the system, I don't know anything about payment stuff online though.

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc

MunchE posted:

Very curious to see if they do like they did with the Tesla Semi (call it released and then never mention it again) or just shove that unfinished turd out to customer En Masse

yes

Time_pants
Jun 25, 2012

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

Bad Purchase posted:

the $1 is not about revenue. his basic idea, from way back before he even bought twitter and was already talking about charging for it, was offloading all the work detecting fraud and bots to the app stores and payment processors, because he doesn’t understand how they work. (and of course he still threw a tantrum about the fees they charge despite believing they were providing that value.)

i guarantee if he ever does try to turn twitter into a real banking/payment service, he will continue to rely solely on the processor on the other end to detect problems

It's also very much to lower people's resistance to providing their payment details to his site. They're trying to onboard people so they can sell more stuff (read: worse versions of stuff they had for free).

smoobles
Sep 4, 2014

why is world richest man asking me for one dollar ?

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
You don't get rich by not asking for money.

sure okay
Apr 7, 2006





made bank on this earnings call. Thanks Elon!

$TSLA will like rally from 220 and im sure theres a ton of resistance at 200, but on the off chance it breaks through then things will get interesting. Twitter was bought on BofA, Morgan Stanley, and Saudi loan money, using Tesla stock for collateral.

Kind of a unique problem to multi-CEOs, where performance in one of their business can greatly hurt the other, especially when one is public, and the other is private but also mortgaged to the waist.

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



smoobles posted:

why is world richest man asking me for one dollar ?

e: never mind, probably a Low Content Reddit Post

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

DRINK ME posted:

We’re at the paid celebrity endorsement stage of “please use my site”. I’m too old to know but isn’t Paris Hilton kind of a has-been? Like she was a thing 20 years ago but mostly people either wanted to be her or made fun of her, then found her kind of endearing, then forgot her.
She was considered one of the most overexposed celebrity circa 2006-2008, then she had her trial then she went the DJ way and she tried a comeback in 2020 but the covid. So yeah she pushed NFTs apes and now a dead bird site.

R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay dog house
her premium app icon makes it look even more like porn

Viscous Soda
Apr 24, 2004

ComfyPants posted:

Article was paywalled so I don’t know the details but lol if true



How does his scraggly neckbeard get worse every time I see it?

ObamaAkbar.
Apr 7, 2009

DesiredPopulationMin = 3
DesiredPopulationMax = 19
AverageDeathsPerDay = 6
WeaponsUsed = 13



Look more and more like a proper boer

Thoughtless
Feb 1, 2007


Doesn't think, just types.
God I'm begging you Elon, please block Twitter in Europe. Please "own" us totally and drink our liberal tears, we'll be horrified to see you go.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"
I can only assume the EU, or Elon''s lawyers, have made it clear to Elon that the EU shutting down Twitter within their borders is very much on the table and he's going to do it first to try and look good.

And all I can say is; "Do it, you loving coward".

temple
Jul 29, 2006

I have actual skeletons in my closet
Please elon don't take my twitter. I need it to be woke and cancel people.

morningdrew
Jul 18, 2003

It's toe-tapping-ly tragic!

Welcome to Humanity's Town Square*

holtemon
May 2, 2019

Dancing is forbidden
New stories coming out about how Cybertruck is tanking the company and Elon is over his head and here I am thinking he was gonna be the one putting us on Mars

Concerning

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

being told elon is taking the l on this one?

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat
that's not what i'm hearing. perhaps you should get your news from more trustworthy sources, such as the fine citizen journalists posting on x, the everything app, repository of all human knowledge

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
What I'm hearing is that if you take the wheels off your Cybertruck, they will all connect together into an Ark like space ship.
Buying one means you get your definite ticket to Mars.

Bar Crow
Oct 10, 2012
I’m hearing Cybertrucks comically fall apart on the road leaving the driver holding a disconnected steering wheel and skidding to a stop.

Kingo Ligma
Aug 24, 2019

Ask me about calling people racist because I failed geography.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

They were memes!

They were just normal memes, Elon. Just innocent memes

Steadiman
Jan 31, 2006

Hey...what kind of party is this? there's no booze and only one hooker!

silly sevens
is there even a price for the CyBrtrCK yet? Seems like a useful thing to know for people who wanna buy one

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

Steadiman posted:

is there even a price for the CyBrtrCK yet? Seems like a useful thing to know for people who wanna buy one

$44 Billion. Only gotta sell 1!

smoobles
Sep 4, 2014

Bar Crow posted:

I’m hearing Cybertrucks comically fall apart on the road leaving the driver holding a disconnected steering wheel and skidding to a stop.

I've heard the ones that don't comically fall apart on the road leaving the driver holding a disconnected steering wheel and skidding to a stop don't even start, they make a cartoon coughing sound and smoke billows out of the hood

holtemon
May 2, 2019

Dancing is forbidden

Steadiman posted:

is there even a price for the CyBrtrCK yet? Seems like a useful thing to know for people who wanna buy one

Supposed to start around $40k but let's be real the rubes will spend at least double for one

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-musk-raises-cybertruck-production-concerns-reveals-delivery-date-2023-10-19/

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Relativelt cheap for 2 tons of batteries.

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Speleothing
May 6, 2008

Spare batteries are pretty key.
Look at how badly its built.

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