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

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    #7712
    Ashbourne hoop
    Registered Users Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Ashbourne hoop


    It's just weird what he has done to Twitter. He's taken an excellent app, not perfect but in social media terms it's about as good as it gets, and completely ruined it. The ridiculous price he paid, the stupid and unnecessary re-branding, blue ticks for people who pay (people with a few hundred followers paying to use a free app is a whole different matter !!), the "for you" section, and now threatening to remove blocking. It's just odd !!!



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    #7713
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Latest plan is to removal headlines and other metadata (eg a blurb) from articles when they're shared on Twitter. This is some impressive degrees of stupid since it's ignoring basic web design principles. Advertisers apparently think the idea is dumb as ****. The fans shall declare this to a genius reinvention of how we view content.

    https://fortune.com/2023/08/21/elon-musk-plans-remove-headlines-news-articles-link-shared-on-x-twitter/




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    #7714
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,667 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121010754#Comment_121010754

    The only thing I can think on this is that he doesn't want people leaving Twitter to read the article, and instead wants people to just check the replies where people discuss it to see what the article is about, and therefore get no actual useful information from the article itself and mostly just see people's opinions about it.

    Then he'll announce that if the news sites pay a fee, they can have the headlines & blurbs back.



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    #7715
    Doctor Jimbob
    Registered Users Posts: 7,637 ✭✭✭Doctor Jimbob


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121010754#Comment_121010754

    Does a day go by where he doesn't do or say something completely stupid?

    The man is a textbook example of the fact that wealth is not an indicator of intelligence.



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    #7716
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,481 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121010781#Comment_121010781

    Then he'll announce that if the news sites pay a fee, they can have the headlines & blurbs back.

    That is clearly the plan.

    A terrible , poorly thought out and doomed to failure plan , but that is clearly the plan.



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    #7717
    francois
    Registered Users Posts: 3,466 ✭✭✭francois


    Interesting article on Space Karen in the New Yorker

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule



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    #7718
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,584 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121010754#Comment_121010754

    ..

    Untitled Image




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    #7719
    Davis Salmon Scumbag
    Posts: 13,688 ✭ Davis Salmon Scumbag


    Anyone else having hassle this morning?

    I was browsing away and it suddenly asked me to authenticate my account (something I done long ago) and it asks me to complete one of those little puzzles but when I do it's just a blank screen and all I can do is refresh and start over.

    Panic over - a change of browser and I'm back in the room...and you'll never believe it..

    I'm following the dear leader again haha



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    #7720
    Ashbourne hoop
    Registered Users Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Ashbourne hoop


    As if it isn't bad enough there, trump has returned.....a **** show



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    #7721
    Kevrano
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭Kevrano


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121025395#Comment_121025395

    Yep, he would only return if he felt it would benefit him. Wonder if Musk contacted him privately



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    #7722
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,467 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    It's interesting how this site (Vanilla) hasn't yet got around to supporting embeds from x.com - still only supporting twitter; that's telling. Well, it also tells that Vanilla is slow to update and respond very dynamically - but that's another subject altogether.

    Cos I was looking around while driving this morning and it's crazy how often you'll see the blue bird logo; it's everywhere, on the back of vans, on billboards and signage, printouts from random SMEs. And I can't imagine there'll be much drive for these companies to redo their entire marketing stuff to match Musk's impulsiveness. I'll be curious to see how long that little blue bird endures despite Musk's best efforts.

    Even a cursory glance across some daily websites I haunt, I still see that blue bird. I've only spotted one site so far (letterboxd) that has updated its Twitter logo to the X - and yeah, it looks a bit crap compared with the impact of the bird.



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    #7723
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Is Trump tweeting?

    I cancelled my account but may dip in and out when people are apoplectic

    Edit - and i suppose this is everything that's wrong with social media; more conflict, more views



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    #7724
    nachouser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭nachouser


    The European Union's tough new laws on social media content have officially come into force

    https://jrnl.ie/6151679

    The 60m+ plus 0 follower accounts he has following him might be a bit of a worry now.



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    #7725
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121025429#Comment_121025429

    The fact threads are unreadable if you don't have an account is pretty bad too. Previously I would link people to them and people could read a multi tweet post. Now I just don't bother linking across cause a lot of people can only read the first tweet.



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    #7726
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,467 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121026292#Comment_121026292

    This will be interesting. I see no great movement yet with Threads coming to the EU - wonder were they stalling til this came into effect so they could address all the privacy issues in one go.



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    #7727
    nachouser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭nachouser


    Musks reply to Breton; "We are working hard on this."

    Scroll down a few pages on the timeline and blue-ticks are sharing Nazi symbols comparing the EU to the SS.

    Twitter is farked.



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    #7728
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,607 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Trump & Tucker are being forced onto my feed everytime I open twitter in the last day and I follow neither of them.

    So Tuckers 20billion trillion views are actually forced views on peoples feeds.



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    #7729
    Davis Salmon Scumbag
    Posts: 13,688 ✭ Davis Salmon Scumbag


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121026035#Comment_121026035
    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1694886846050771321

    This is all he tweeted. Basically just begging for money.



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    #7730
    nachouser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭nachouser


    Zoolander had Blue Steel. Trump's look is more Red Cheeseburger.



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    #7731
    I.R.Y.E.D
    Registered Users Posts: 885 ✭✭✭I.R.Y.E.D


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121027148#Comment_121027148

    Must have tapped out the suckers on truth social.



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    #7732
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,467 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I'm honestly amazed Truth Social has lasted as long as it has, though I'm guessing almost entirely off the back of it being a bullhorn for Trump and nothing else; did it ever exit the invite/beta stage? I'm gonna presume most other users are just conservative Americans ranting about Woke this, BLM that, and lots and lots of antisemitic / racist dog whistling.



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    #7733
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121027093#Comment_121027093

    Not only that, it seems to push news tweets to android UI about 24 hours after the event. I don't really use the app anymore, so it pushes random crap at this stage. I would say my personal usage and tweeting have dropped off a cliff since they started modifying the algorithm. Similar for my general friends group.



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    #7734
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,779 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121010781#Comment_121010781

    Considering Google and Facebook pay some news publishers in a number of countries rather than the other way around, that plans definitely going to work...



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    #7735
    francois
    Registered Users Posts: 3,466 ✭✭✭francois


    Just noticed a new "report illegal EU content" option on the app



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    #7736
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,427 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121029961#Comment_121029961

    I wasn't aware they had done that but it would fit.



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    #7737
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,548 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121029961#Comment_121029961

    He said what???


    Wow!



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    #7738
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 29,934 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    No surprise those who want to post vile tweets are in favour of anything that weakens restrictions against such conduct.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #7739
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,467 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I'm surprised it took this long, but sure enough the complete absence of any account verification with Twitter Blue is having an obvious effect: account scamming, trying to fool people into thinking they're interacting with a legitimate support account.

    Interesting booking(.)com is one of the companies who are paying the hefty monthly fee for the "gold" status.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/27/consumers-complaining-x-targeted-scammers-verification-changes-twitter




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    #7740
    growleaves
    Registered Users Posts: 7,858 ✭✭✭growleaves


    I hate Twitter and never look at it but I do recall for years political liberals making the losertarian argument that it was a private company which could choose or not choose to host whatever content blah blah blah

    That was the justification for excluding conservative/right-wing/whatever views.

    Aren't the losertarians now getting what they asked for? Just decamp to another platform.

    Alternative is to treat social media companies like Twitter and Facebook, and indeed Google, as information monopolies and break them up.



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    #7741
    Christy42
    Registered Users Posts: 7,991 ✭✭✭Christy42


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121038900#Comment_121038900

    They can indeed do what they want (within the law which twitter seems unsure on). I can point out the flaws in what they are doing and pointing out cases of hypocrisy such as claiming it is now about free speech. Generally I have not seen anyone say that twitter can't have blue ticks or whatever, just pointing out that it won't have the effect many claimed beforehand and pointing out it is not neutral. They have the right to be the next Truth Social but claiming they are neutral now is silly.


    Plus the cult of personality around Elon is an interesting effect worthy of discussion.



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