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

Royale with Cheese

I voted no anyway. Plz don't go Elon, it's been absolutely hilarious watching you fail.

one armed dwarf

Yeah locking down other sites was such a weird move when you think of the increased integration there are between social sites and twitter. Even here on boards, you paste a link and it executes some js to integrate twitter's UI right here. Even as a non twitter user (I have an account, but it has maybe 10 tweets and I don't really engage actively) you're forced to look at it. A savvy mind would look at the increased uptake of things like Mastodon and keep looking at ways to integrate twitter into these sites, keeping even the alt-twitters within orbit of its sphere of influence. It's one of many contributing factors to the failure to really leave twitter behind imo. So if you wanted to see twitter die you'd probably welcome the big outside-engagement 'wall' they seemed to try to build here

Every decision appears to be made with full Streisand effect impact. Decisions that are within the owner's remit to make, its his platform, but they are stupendously dim and damaging decisions.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120012961#Comment_120012961

From half of them it's just going to be more low value contributions like EDM (not the fun kind) and "you're just triggered, blah blah wokeness PC gone mad blah blah". There's playing devil's advocate (which imo is fine) but then there's also just singing from the same hymnbook in CA week after week

Quin_Dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120013482#Comment_120013482

It's also a complete misunderstanding of the how the "social" part of social media actually works.

So someone with a big Youtube channel - MrBeast for example, might go on Twitter and post a clip from their latest offering on YT and say , come see my latest 1hr video about whatever.

That generates views and clicks and Ad revenue for Twitter as followers share and comment about the tweet about the latest video.

All that is now gone - So less views , less clicks and less revenue.

All because of yet another petty childish over-reaction to something by Elon.

Quin_Dub

And.... He's walked it back already.

What an absolute imbecile.

Twitter on Sunday announced it would ban the “free promotion” of other social media services and suspend accounts encouraging users to move to a different platform.

“We recognise that many of our users are active on other social media platforms,” Twitter Support said in a now-deleted tweet.

“We will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter,” it added, citing a list of other services such as Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post accounts.

Accounts that were created for the sole purpose of promoting other social media platforms will be removed, Twitter said.

It added that accounts would be prohibited from sharing link aggregators such as Linktree and Lnk.bio.

“We still allow cross-posting content from any social media platform.”

How many walk-backs and climb-downs is that now?

magicbastarder

do people really want unmoderated social media?

Headshot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120012701#Comment_120012701

He'll probably try to get Mike Pence to overturn this Poll

farmingquestion

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120013938#Comment_120013938

I'd rather unmoderated to overly moderated, yes.

The whatsapp groups are great. People can post whatever they like. That's good for news and gossip. Not good for discussion though.

For example over on r/ireland, I remember there was a video of a young black lad stabbing the **** out of another lad. Video got removed.

But when it was a far left activist who was hit, then there was multiple videos and discussions around it.

During the abortion referendum, when yanks commented against abortion, they were called astro turfers. But all the pro abortion yanks were welcomed.

Few months ago, anyone wanting a cap on Ukrainian refugees was called a Putin apologist. Thankfully now that people are seeing the effects, they're now admitting these people were right and are turning around now.

UsBus

There must be serious pressure coming from Tesla board/investors. He's gone missing since this debacle started. The workload involved in being in charge of one of these companies would be off the charts, let alone 3 of them. Whatever your opinion of Tesla, it's outrageous the effect he is having on the company selling huge share volume to fund this mess.

I think the ultimatum has been laid down to him that he can't run all companies competently. The pole give's him an out that was already planned.

He’s got what? Less than 10% of Tesla? The shareholders should just oust him. The whole thing’s ridiculously damaging to the brand and to its value.

I mean what does he bring to the brand? Chaos is hardly something desirable.

Quin_Dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120014053#Comment_120014053

I think that is absolutely on the cards in the near future.

Tesla has lost $640B in value over the last 12 months which is over 50% and despite Musk trying to blame it all on the Federal reserve interest rate hikes , the collapse in the Telsa stock price has far far outpaced the general decline in the Stock market.

In the last 6 Months the Nasdaq is down about 2% whereas Tesla is down 31% in the same time-frame.

Either he starts to at least look like he's spending the majority of his time focused on Tesla or the stock-holders are absolutely going to kick him out.

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120014296#Comment_120014296

And that's where Musk's biggest lie will be fully exposed. His claims about social media, protecting free speech, and defending democracy through protecting Twitter as a public square.... it'll all become a fart in the wind when he chooses to protect his money instead. The Twitter poll was always going to result in a vote for him to step down as CEO, that much was clear after his previous poll with the loaded question about unsuspending journalists who dox his family's location went against him.

To try and secure new funding for Twitter and try to stabilise the platform for advertisers, as well as trying to protect Tesla and go back to focusing on it to prevent shareholders ousting him, stepping down from being so involved with Twitter would be his best move even if he retains ownership. He will always value his wealth over everything else.

magicbastarder

i wonder does he really think that 'putting it to a poll' equates to 'free speech'? hard to guess what his thinking is.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120014389#Comment_120014389

Presumably like the patina about "free speech", this is some facade of "direct democracy" to give his ego an out from this whole debacle. Oh well if the people say I should leave...

Twitter will probably financially collapse and he’ll just blame poll, the Twitter community of users who voted and whoever is stupid enough to put themselves into the CEO position … and no doubt continue to berate the advertisers as biased, because they won’t touch it with a barge pole.

He started the dumpster fire and will just away… It’ll cost him billions, but it’s all about ego and face.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120014692#Comment_120014692

I still maintain we won't know the true change in Twitter's value & success until a couple of years pass; it's entirely possible Musk might step down, insert someone without a giant McCain oven chip on their shoulder & the new boss claw back some monetary purpose for the site.

This online poll over Musk's status (JFC, 2022 everyone) was a surprise and if he's serious it reads like he wants an out via the convenience of letting "the people" decide.

Brussels Sprout

He hasn't tweeted in 13 hours. I take it that that is unusual for him these days?

Bit like when Bolsonaro lost that Brazilian election and there wasn't a peep out of him for days.

FunLover18

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120013992#Comment_120013992

Your example of reddit being over moderated is them removing a video of someone getting stabbed!?

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120014733#Comment_120014733

Well with sleep and likely travelling back from Qatar, it's probably understandable. You'd think though he would have set the poll to end at a time he could respond to the results.

Probably accidentally banned himself and has had to move to Mastodon.

Brussels Sprout

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120013938#Comment_120013938

They say that they do but, as Musk as shown, what they really want is for "their side" to be free to say what they want while clamping down hard on the rights of the other side.

It's analogous to football managers saying that all they want are consistent referees when what they really want are for the refs to not make 50/50 decisions that go against their teams (if they make them in favour of their team they won't be complaining about consistency then).

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120014748#Comment_120014748

But doesn’t he only sleep for 6 hours a night? And doesn’t he own a satellite internet provider that will be providing internet communication to the airline industry in 2023? Be strange if his own private jet doesn’t have it already, either from Starlink or another provider.

super_furry

This is the most expensive forum moderator meltdown the world has ever seen. We’re about a day away from him posting ‘hacked’ dick pics of himself with a sock puppet account.

Brussels Sprout

15 hours without a tweet - for someone who tweets as frequently as him he's very likely explicitly trying to stay off the platform at this point. I can't see his resolve lasting too long. Apparently when Trump was kicked off the platform he was practically going through withdrawals from not getting his tweeting fix in.

Tow

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015023#Comment_120015023

I saw that happen one Christmas day, except the offender wrote a script to replace all his own posts with child porn.

xxxxxxl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015256#Comment_120015256

I hope that was reported to the Garda.

Tow

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015265#Comment_120015265

It was a FUBRA, the user had thousands of posts. The form was run from Australia, hosted in the US and the offender lived in the UK. What made it worse was the police did not want the posts deleted, as they were evidence. In the end, I believe the UK police called to his house and he got a warning.

xxxxxxl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015314#Comment_120015314

must have been lucky then not having the images on the machine just hyperlink to a database. Even so that should be a red flag.

joseywhales

So will he hire Jack Dorsey as CEO? lol

This is turning into a bit of a ‘will he? .. wont he?’ high drama. The only thing that I can certainly see is he’s getting a LOTS of attention…

Dohnjoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015531#Comment_120015531

True and that'll likely be his go-to spiel after the dust settles, that it was all an "act" to draw attention to the business and get more users.

pixelburp

Well. From 17 million accounts, 57.5% told Musk to step down. What comes next will be a fascinating latest twist in this lurid, bizarre tale.

Commoner

The hard left are having a tough time finding an alternative to Twitter! Looks like these activists failed to get the desired effect from pressuring advertising companies to dance to their tune.

kowloon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015683#Comment_120015683

Yep, it was all a conspiracy from activists and nothing to do with Musk's mismanagement.

I’m predicting: “They’re all bots! It was a fix 🤖”

It’s a well trodden path!

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015857#Comment_120015857

Not a good look for a platform to admit your user base are mostly bots!

Unless in the sense of...

All your bots are belonging to us

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015857#Comment_120015857

Kim Dotcom and his followers are waaaaay ahead of you.

https://mobile.twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1604810383646027776

Even claiming that the poll could have been a deliberate ploy to oust all the bots!

https://mobile.twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1604813005833015296

Funny thing is, Musk already claimed he got rid of all the bots. So if they believe that the results were thrown by bots, then they must also believe that Musk is either a liar or incompetent 😂

SuperBowserWorld

Pissing around on Twitter while Rome burns.

I would say that history will look back at this era to be the most selfish, egotistic, idiotic ever.

Commoner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015843#Comment_120015843

.....😂

Snake Plisken

Perfect 😀

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1604945683513217025?s=19

That Kim dot guy is funny;

1. Move the company to a jurisdiction that offers solid Internet freedom laws and crypto regulations that are good for users. Not the US.

I'm not going to link to his crazy.

VinLieger

So hes moving to only allowing blue subscribers to vote on policy decisions.... from "free speech for all" to instituting a poll tax that directly benefits him in a matter of weeks, that's pretty impressive.

He still doesn't grasp or maybe just doesnt care that advertisers demand stability not volatility and controversy. Theres no way advertisers will be happy to go back if his biggest supporters can be involved in changing the platform rules at the drop of a hat.

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120016857#Comment_120016857

Vox divitum, Vox dei

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120016857#Comment_120016857

First he doesn't actually respect Free Speech, now he has decided Direct Democracy ain't all that hot either? I take this to mean he won't actually be stepping down - perhaps as discussed earlier his investors have had a word in his ear.

Man, his dreamed-of Martian colony will be an absolute hellscape, won't it?

astrofool

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120016959#Comment_120016959

You can see how the story in "The Expanse" came about now :)

Boggles

I'm assuming he has no actual friends or family left in his circle that may stage an intervention?

He is making an absolute holy show of himself. As public meltdowns go, it has to be up there.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120016417#Comment_120016417

Funny how he has all the answers but doesn’t actually do anything about it himself

BailMeOut

The Jan. 6 committee refers 4 criminal charges against Trump and from my Twitter feed, I have not seen anything relating to this or Trump trending under my 'for you' or under 'trending' since it was announced. For such a huge story something is not right here and is Musk suppressing this news?

one armed dwarf

tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if people were just fatigued by Trump stuff at this point

Quin_Dub

So , Musks 1st tweet since the poll about him stepping down as CEO is to comment "Interesting" in reply to the Kim Dot Com tweet about the poll really being a "deep state bot hunt"

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120016959#Comment_120016959

Well, the surface of Mars is increasingly looking like it’s just very incompatible with Earth biology - dust is sharp particles, a bit like asbestos and highly statically charged -sticks to all surfaces and even a whiff of it would destroy your lungs and the soil is full of odd chorine compounds that destroy cells, and that’s before you get to the thin atmosphere, the cosmic rays and average temperatures being a lovely -65°C.

I think though I’d still prefer it to living in a little Twitter society in some hellscape of a hermetically sealed bubble with a band of hardcore Musketeers, Muskrats and Space Karens.

Better to leave it to the robots!