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Regalingualius posted:Meanwhile on substack: They would have come off better if they just said "Yyyyeah, it turns out a lot of our income comes from right wing grifters, so we've gotta protect our bottom line as a business." I would have had much more respect for that, at least. But instead that whole thing will become a meme.
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Well I prefer the heyday of social media when we had to pay by the letter to send a mobile text.
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Apr 14, 2023 10:35
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kazil posted:Eh, I think the tide has mostly turned against Musk. The fact that he's gonna be on Tucker all but confirms this. He's entering the full mask off phase and now he's doing the whole "woe is me" persecution porn right wing media tour that they all love so much. Because now is the time his ego needs shoring up since all other media has turned against him. And it will work for him, it will work for the right wing media, and it will work for shitheads all over the world. He'll keep being rich, he'll keep being a shithead, and he'll get all of the adulation and ego stroking he needs as he burrows deeper into shithead-right spaces to avoid any kind of introspection or reality. We've all seen it all before.
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Apr 14, 2023 16:00
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thin blue whine posted:It just makes me think they are really looking for any excuse to bring their advertising back to Twitter, and it only takes a few major ones to potentially give advertisers confidence in Twitter again. I've long suspected (as I'm sure many do) that the vast majority of people either don't care or won't change their habits regarding brands who advertise next to lovely content. The only saving grace was that corporations didn't want to risk harming their brands and this in turn provided an incentive for a lot of platforms to at least make a minimal effort to moderate in order to appease advertisers. At least to boot mask of nazis and what not. I have a very bad feeling that the big corps are going to come back to Twitter and then everyone is going to realize that it actually doesn't really matter much at all where you advertise and how vile the content next to your ad might be vs not advertising at all, and the Internet will get a whole lot worse once social media companies realize that moderation has no effect on their bottom line.
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Apr 15, 2023 07:23
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Neddy Seagoon posted:They can't even do that because the people they'd engage with to set up advertisement buys are just plain gone at Twitter. There's no money in the company, Elon's buried in scandal after scandal, and the userbase has been decreasing since the takeover. It's just a plain bad investment. I'm not sure that's true. All it really does is make Musk/Twitter more desperate and puts advertisers in a better position to haggle down their price which I can imagine is possibly enticement enough to come back for at least some of them. At the end of the day it's all about getting as many eyes on your product as possible and as diminished as Twitter is, it still has millions of users. It feels a little like advertisers didn't so much jump ship, but temporarily withdrew to see which way the wind would blow. All of this is presupposing, as mentioned before, that they decide to say "gently caress it" and chance advertising next to vile poo poo. I think at least some of the big boys will probably chance it. But I hope you're right.
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Apr 15, 2023 09:51
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Now I'm imagining Musk with a Habsburg jaw and I'll never sleep again thanks very much.
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Makes billions in tech, doesn't know what a database is. Checks out.
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Gadzuko posted:Concerning. I'm sure it will get funny again if people say it another 150 times.
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Apr 21, 2023 05:20
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The exploding rocket was one small step for a man, but if Elon were on it, it'd be a giant leap for mankind.
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Apr 21, 2023 10:08
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I can't get hard for anyone without a checkmark, sorry.
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Apr 22, 2023 04:28
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They targeted blue check marks... Blue check marks.
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explosivo posted:It really is hilarious how in the span of one day the concept of a blue checkmark on Twitter is completely ruined to the point that seeing one now indicates that they are a nobody and/or a huge loving rear end in a top hat. Someone else mentioned it but I really wouldn't be surprised if they added the ability to buy checks for other people just so the musk sycophants can keep dumping money into Twitter by forcing checkmarks on celebrities they want in their super cool club for cool guys. This is potentially the smartest thing Musk could do. He's already ensured that Twitter is overrun by chuds, a group famously begging at all times to be grifted. Allowing purchase of checkmarks for other users is basically charging chuds $8 a pop to own a lib, and they'd probably beg him to raise the price, the loving schmucks.
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E the Shaggy posted:The issue is that those chuds don't make up even a fraction of the advertising dollars that Musk lost. He can lie and state that Twitter is doing well but all the downsizing doesn't mean much in the face of the debt Elmo put on the company when he bought it. No one in their right mind ever expected Musk to recoup his $44 bil.
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I'm sure those look like some pretty sick burns if you spend a lot of time on Reddit.
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A perfect encapsulation of the zero sum game conservative mindset.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Ok, that's the $10 phone bill somewhat answered, now what about the $19,000 for skulls, is there a subsidy for that? Asking for a skeletal friend The skull represents child support.
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The Epic launcher is horrible for anything but launching and redeeming free games, but it's really good for triggering gamer nerds who are still mad about having to wait a little while for a few games to release on Steam before they spend their money to complain about video games anyway.
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Apr 24, 2023 18:31
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Chuds take over discussion via checkmark priority, more non-chuds leave or move on to another site. Chuds get what they think they wanted in a site without snowflake libs but then realize they're children who need libs to "own" to feel any value in their life. Chuds start leaving Twitter for the same places the non-chuds went. It seems like a likely scenario until you remember that people are so thoroughly addicted to that loving site and will cave in and buy the checkmarks eventually anyway, just to be able to compete with the cuds in visibility. But really, it's more likely that the verified system will be completely scrapped and rebuilt exactly the way it was a year ago, let's be honest. Block lists will probably be forcibly purged, too.
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Hey guys do you want to talk about dinosaurs
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Hey guys do you want to talk about Elon Musk loving up Twitter
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Apr 26, 2023 16:53
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The stegosaurus gingerly creeps through the thick ferns and undergrowth. The tyronnosaurus stops in its tracks and sniffs the air.
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explosivo posted:Musk no longer needed Taibbi's services after his reporting was proven to be false during an interview and discarded him like a used kleenex And much to Tiabbi's disappointment, Elon didn't cum on him first.
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Senor Tron posted:That era is done, and a whole lot of people, celebs included, that stayed active on Twitter out of inertia aren't gonna move over to a new service, they're just going to check out entirely. I think you're vastly underestimating the power of addiction and the need a lot of people have for attention and validation.
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Apr 27, 2023 07:06
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It's because they've realized that they'll be supporting/housing their children until they die. Also because their husband has spent too much time online and became an incel who quotes Jordan Peterson at every opportunity.
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Apr 27, 2023 13:35
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There's a Behind the Bastards episode(s) on him, I think. He's a very weird dude.
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I'm pretty sure that everyone would love and respect Elon forever if he was on his next rocket, especially the people in this thread. Someone tell him.
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Twitter will only be usable with a blocker that uses CSS before long. They're gonna make their own app useless.
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Konar posted:Ah yes more social media poo poo hole platforms is actually the right decision AI will ruin them all. It won't be too long now, don't worry.
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I'm looking forward to the time AI needs to be dumbed down to pass off as an average Internet user so it can be used to effectively astroturf/propagandize/scam, and I suspect we're also not far off that, either. There needs to be a word for that point. Like there's a word for the singularity.
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tokyo reject posted:How big is porn traffic on Twitter? I wasn't on Twitter for long, but from what I saw, it was almost entirely weeb poo poo.
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"Elon Musk plans to bring back old Twitter feature, but worse" is a pretty perennial headline at the point.
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Willatron posted:TBF, Elon has greatly reduced his overhead by not paying rent, utilities or even occasionally payroll expenses. This is why I want to be rich. So I don't have to spend money.
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Blowjob Overtime posted:Noteworthy omissions to this blanket blue check policy were Jack Dorsey and Greta Thunberg, so you can take solace in knowing Elon went out of his way to make sure his posting enemies didn't "benefit" from it. It's probably the most charitable thing he's ever done. He'd be able to claim it on tax if he paid any.
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kazil posted:so loving annoying He's bringing back the 1840's South, quit your complaining.
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That TOS stuff is stock standard poo poo in a billion places. People are just looking for reasons to be mad and don't know what they're talking about.
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Different words and phrasing that means the same thing for pretty much the same purposes. I've seen people flip out about this poo poo countless times over the years, saying "Well what if you make something popular and then the service just claims ownership of it and makes a billion dollars and you get nothing?". It never happens and people work themselves up about some hypothetical dystopian future. Especially people looking for attention and outrage clicks. This is nothing new and it has strong "Slow news day" energy. Good luck finding a court that would just hand over someone's IP just because a social media TOS "claimed ownership" to it. Same poo poo with the "We reserve the right to terminate your account at any time for any reason". It's stock standard poo poo that scares people with wild imaginations but has existed in TOS for decades at this point. You couldn't get more standard than a site reserving their right to boot you whenever they want to. I would personally rather that this language didn't exist in TOS, but there's no reason to think it's suddenly going to be used to take over the world. If it concerns anyone that much, I encourage them not to sign up.
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This was always the big concern about deepfakes for me, not about the damage they could potentially cause directly, but because they can be used as a convenient excuse for anything, and those without shame will use those excuses liberally.
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