So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

AMKC

If Elon Musk buys Twitter that Clown Trump will be back on it as Elon Musk is a supporter of him. That is not good.

I will admit Elon Musk has done some great things like Tesla and Space X but am not a fan of how he goes about things or that he supports that Clown Trump.

I really hope for all out sakes that Twitter do not sell to him but with the offer he has made them it's likely the loss making platform will sell to him.

What does everyone here think of this?

Are you a supporter of Musk?

sam t smith

Twitter is toxic.

Far worse than The Facebuke. I’d love to see Twitter disappear.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118928821#Comment_118928821

Agreed totally. I have tried it three times and failed twice the third time I am still on it but never even use it. It makes no sense. It is a mess.

sam t smith

You are better off away from it.

My opinion of Musk has improved in the last few years. He is an Uber troll. His pump and dump schemes in crypto are funny to watch as a bystander.

Still comes out with a lot of crap.

elperello

Usually one might say "I'm not buying what he is selling".

In this case "I'm not buying what he is buying".

Twitter is full of people who couldn't sustain an argument if you paid them.

A haven for hit and run merchants.

(I'm not on it but I look at links from here sometimes)

brokenangel

Musk has a desperate need to be in the press…this is just the latest in a long line

Cant have a war on the front pages so Musk comes up with this to get himself back into the media

i am still waiting for him to get arrested for the messing with crypto currency

Still stihl waters 3

You're not being forced to use it, musk has zero bearing on anything that happens in my life, apart from commenting on this thread

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058241791/so-elon-musk-wants-to-buy-twitter-i-hope-he-does-not-succeed-but-its-likely-he-will

You started a thread to get peoples opinion about Twitter because you don't use Twitter and you don't want someone to buy Twitter because another person you don't like will be allowed back on Twitter.

Seems like you think too much about Twitter.

joseywhales

It's nonsense. He hasn't detailed how he will fund it and he's come straight out the blocks with a final and best offer. As things stand he can't change the board until 2023. It's a publicity stunt, he is just going to pump and dump his stock like the charlatan that he is. And if he was serious about charging for the service, they would lose their vast network of users(which is the only asset the company really has) at an exponential rate.

brokenangel

I thought he was recently solving world hunger? How he get on with that?

Amadan Dubh

Twitter and Facebook are two cheeks of the same arse. If this move alienates the wokerati then I support it (in the same way I support the terminal decline of Facebook with a its right wing and conspiracy theory/fake news nonsense).

Twitter is a private company anyway, it is not a media publication so I don't see why people would get so antsy about Musk unless they themselves are fearful of losing their platform.

BruteStock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118928945#Comment_118928945

He wasn't serious. The $3 a month charge so everybody can have a blue checkmark was a joke.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118928894#Comment_118928894

Actually I think about it very little and I never asked for anyone's opinion on Twitter. I asked what do they think about Elon Musk buying it. I even forget I have it on my phone lol unless a link comes up here in some of the forums I am following or it's in the news like today.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929054#Comment_118929054

Might have read you wrong so mate. No offense intended but it just seems an odd thing to start a thread about if you don't use it.

NSAman

Twitter: people who love to hear themselves speak, giving advice to the rest of the world who don’t care.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929088#Comment_118929088

I just do not want that Orange Baffoon Trump getting back into power in America ever again and if Elon Musk does buy Twitter it might just happen which should worry us all.

Once with that Clown was enough.

Ha Long Bay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929088#Comment_118929088

Can I start a thread on heroin? I have never used it but I should be allowed start a thread if I wanted to.

SimonTemplar

Twitter is fine if you only interact with people you know well. Replying to strangers especially about controversial topics can be a recipe for disaster and I never do it.

I think one of Twitter's biggest problems for user experience is contextualising the results of trending words. For example, 'luas' sometimes trends in Ireland but when I click it from the trending page, I often see posts from another language (I think from India) because 'luas' is a common word in that language. That's obviously is not why that word was trending in Ireland.

Another more severe example recently is when I clicked 'circle k' which was trending in Ireland because of the fuel prices and was shown a clip of some disgusting creep licking the toilet seat in a circle k bathroom.

sam t smith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929120#Comment_118929120

Go for it. You have my blessing for what it is worth.

Ha Long Bay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929126#Comment_118929126

So you agree you don't need to have first hand experience to start or comment on a thread?

Why did you not direct your reply at the poster who said this?

sam t smith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929142#Comment_118929142

Correct.

The poster doesn’t need to be told, they clearly know since the poster created the thread… they didn’t need to ask could they create the thread. They just went ahead and did it.

But you seemed to be unclear on it, so I tried to assist you.

bennyineire

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118928950#Comment_118928950

I'm not a fan boy but I have to correct you on that, he called out the UN for saying $6 billion would solve it, oh yeah and by the way he donated 5.7 billion shortly after https://fortune.com/2022/02/15/elon-musk-5-7-billion-donation-weeks-after-asking-un-world-hunger/

sam t smith

Why would any charity want to ‘solve’ the issue they were setup to address? It would be like turkeys voting for Christmas.

Charity is an industry. It is in their interest to keep the issue ‘ticking over’ so they can continue to exist and employ the charity staff which is they reason for a charity to exist.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929099#Comment_118929099

Whatever

😉

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929107#Comment_118929107

Once with that Clown was enough.

Is that you Melania?

animalinside

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058241791/so-elon-musk-wants-to-buy-twitter-i-hope-he-does-not-succeed-but-its-likely-he-will

I have exactly the inverse opinion of you - I think Musk has promised far more than he has ever delivered, lost many millions of investors' money and runs on a kind of culty basis.

On the other hand, I think allowing Trump back on would be a great step in the right direction - note that I don't like Trump, I just don't think it's reasonable for him to be banned.

A lot more importantly is how it would make Twitter a lot more relevant again. Twitter has been declining for years and there was a time not long ago when it looked like it might fall off a cliff and be completely abandoned by the mainstream, thankfully that did not happen. I love twitter and hope it to continue in the future, Musk would breathe a lot of new life into it.

Suckit

$43 Billion is f*cking vulgar.

Far too much money. Whatever about the platform and the people that use it, for that money they should be able to police it properly.

Getting away with something because somebody used their platform as a tool should not be an excuse, they should be held to account and not allowed any protections from liability. They should also have to pay for any licences similar to the link tax, although I am not sure I agree with that actual one, but for special exceptions, and itself policed also.

Plagiarism. For God sake....... I'm not even referring to actual plagiarism. I know very little about twitter, but the links I get sent in groups from that or Tiktok seems to be people stealing other peoples jokes or skits and again and again... We get it! We thought it was funny too, and got it the first time, but I don't want to make a video of me miming to it, or type out the same joke and pretend it's mine... 😡

There are so many charges they should be facing if something like that is worth $43 Billion.

Overheal

Relevant to remind folks, why a company that sells no product and doesn't take a penny of your money, makes such ludicrous amounts of money on Wall Street.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA

MakersMark

Op...you're in favour of free speech then, except when you're not?

MakersMark

Putins account still active apparently, just limited

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/technology-60992373.amp

_Kaiser_

So this thread is more about the OP not liking Trump than anything to do with Musk or Twitter.

What is it in this country with the obsession over these 3 things? We don't live in America, Trump - like him or loathe him - isn't president anymore and Musk just strikes me as another overpaid celeb with a gimmick.

As for Twitter itself, if it shut down in the morning I think society as a whole would be better off, but I generally ignore all 3 so who cares. If Musk wants to spend a ridiculous amount of money on it that's his business.

The one thing I do take issue with is the OPs concern that someone they don't like doesn't get back on the platform. That sort of control of a narrative is dangerous for the concept of free speech and democracy.

JPA

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058241791/so-elon-musk-wants-to-buy-twitter-i-hope-he-does-not-succeed-but-its-likely-he-will

Where did get the impression Musk supports Trump? He supports himself. He's for anyone that liberates the market to allow him to do whatever he wants.

He has described himself as socially liberal, fiscally conservative, he has no political affiliation, certainly not publicly.

brokenangel

Twitter is a cess pool, I couldn't care less who buys it.

Musk is a glory hunter but he has nothing to do with my day to day life. The Tesla fanboy club are interested in him and he has figured out he can make billions off that by playing around with crypto

Trump, well would Ireland be better off if he was still the President? yes we would. Do I care who is President in the US, not really at all. We should be more interested in who is running Europe and not who is running the US

All of the online platforms could be turned off tomorrow morning and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to the World. Probably because as soon as they are turned off another version of something will pop up and suddenly be the "in platform"

I would be only interested if any of these tools could actually implement a system to stop their platform been used for online bullying, none of them seem to care at all

Fred Cryton

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058241791/so-elon-musk-wants-to-buy-twitter-i-hope-he-does-not-succeed-but-its-likely-he-will

I am a supporter of Musk yes. We need more innovators and engineering geniuses who work 20 hours a day to succeed. It's not like he inherited his wealth for goodness sake, he build everything from scratch. Of course the Irish will always begrudge and engage in petty envy/jealousy.

I don't think he is a big fan of Trump. He is a libertarian and likes the idea of free speech for everyone including people we disagree with. That is a fair enough position to take.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929742#Comment_118929742

Ah the old Ireland is full of begrudgers trope.

Fred Cryton

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929746#Comment_118929746

Stereotypes are usually built on fact, that one is certainly true.

conorhal

Musk is an idiot, but it's been funny to watch the cope/seethe spew forth from the blue checkmark brigade. The hypocrisy has been hillarious.

archfi

A couple of rules is all that's needed to fix Twitter. I'm all for the purging of the ideological nuts who hold sway over it right now.

No violent threats

No porn

No paedos

No doxxing

Effective mechanism to obliterate bots

Block/ mute and not leaving dm's open are already in place.

FunLover18

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929742#Comment_118929742

Eh his dad owns an emerald mine.

brokenangel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929789#Comment_118929789

If you shut down the bots/dummy accounts then you shut down all of the rest of the problems

It is too easy on twitter to create 100 accounts and then attack anyone who is the "enemy"

We have a huge problem in Irish politics with this carry on. Facebook has become the same and now TikTok is heading that direction.

Even if you look at a so called "journalist" who's website was quoted on a thread here. He was caught with a second account calling Ukraine's people pigs etc

I know the person behind it has problems, but what sort of platform allows that to continue? even when identified he just closed the account and continues his main account. I am sure along with another few dummy ones

Boggles

As soon as the insufferable attention whore fúcks off the better. .

circadian

He's pumping the share price, just like clockwork. I wonder how long it'll be before he sells 10% to "test liquidity" in the market.

Snake Plisken

I really hope Elon gets his way

circadian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929435#Comment_118929435

If it's free, you're the product.

seamus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929742#Comment_118929742

"It's not like he inherited his wealth for goodness sake".

L.O.L.

Musk is no different from any of the other blood sucking billionaires except that he's more tech-savvy. They're all narcissistic sociopaths. If you think Musk is somehow different or more "down to earth", remember the fact that he used a random password generator to name his child and thought it was genius.

For the last year he's been using Twitter to manipulate financial markets. Stock market and crypto investors are for the most part clueless sheep who follow the market and react how everyone else does. Musk knows this and sticks up a statement on Twitter which he knows will cause a certain stock portfolio to react in a certain way. For example, he stuck a load of money in crypto, made a statement about how great crypto is, and boom, value of his crypto went up.

Same thing with his Twitter shares. He bought a load of shares, and delayed notifying the markets - breaking the law - so as to maximise the amount of stock he could buy before his shareholding would pump the price.

In most spheres this kind of direct manipulation of stock markets is illegal, but when you're rich and bending the rules, they don't care.

This offer to buy Twitter is just another part of this manipulation. Other billionaires buy newspaper and TV stations to manipulate propaganda and pump up the value of their pet projects. Musk has realised that you can get much faster reactions on Twitter and is seeking to secure that for himself so that he can't be cut off from it.

Amadan Dubh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929107#Comment_118929107

Joe Biden has been a catastrophic failure as a president and looks to be genuinely senile in interviews. I think this is the biggest reason Trump will get back in. So I don't think that should be your main concern when it comes to Musk buying Twitter.

conorhal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929849#Comment_118929849

Where better for an insufferable attention whore to be than Twitter?

Boggles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118930186#Comment_118930186

He has no intention of buying twitter, he fúcked is toys out the pram because he wasn't allowed influence decisions, now he is pumping the stock price to dump his stock he doesn't want any more.

The dribblers lap him up, unable to see what he is, a spoilt rich attention whore who has to make everything about himself.

Absolute cretin.

Space Karen.

Boggles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118930172#Comment_118930172

Trump isn't running, he is already laying the ground for the reasons he can't / won't. He is 76 in June and hardly a pinnacle of health.

It's probably 50/50 Biden will run.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118930172#Comment_118930172

Joe Biden is a very good President. He might not be as good as Obama or Bill Clinton but he is still a good president doing and saying what needs to be said. Do you think Trump would have helped Ukraine or criticised that monster Putin about his war in Ukraine? I doubt it. In fact Trump would probably be licking that monsters feet. So yes I am glad Biden is there and hope either he or Kamilla Harris get the next 4 years after this term is done.

joseywhales

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118930172#Comment_118930172

I have yet to see a president that hasn't been described as catastrophic failure by someone. Or even an Taoiseach or a prime minister, all catastrophies apparently. The only ones anyone likes are historical figures air brushed by propaganda.