Elon Musk Buys X (formerly Twitter)

[squeekness]

Or evolve into another version of 8chan or Parler.

Pretty much. Good riddance.

 

[Sithborg]

Or evolve into another version of 8chan or Parler.

I think it is going to become the new Gab.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Business Insider - Elon Musk personally called CEOs of companies that stopped advertising on Twitter to complain, report says

Elon Musk called up the chief executives of companies that pulled advertising spending from Twitter to complain, the Financial Times reported.

A number of leading media buyers and advertising agencies say that almost all the major brands they act for have stopped ad spending on Twitter, the report said.

Musk took it upon himself to personally call CEOs to chastise them, one industry figure told the FT, but his actions have backfired, the newspaper reported.

Half of Twitter's top 100 advertisers have stopped advertising on the platform in recent weeks as a result of "controversies" and "warnings from media buyers." The list includes Meta, Coca-Cola and Kellogg's, according to a report by Media Matters.

The Washington Post - Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests
For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated

Musk is indebted to the Chinese government for Tesla and he has written for the Chinese censors so it bears watching.

 

[Teelie]

Reuters - Twitter job cuts a concern as new EU rules kick in, EU justice head says

Jerusalem Post - Elon Musk calls Jewish US Army officer ‘puppet & puppeteer’
Musk's tweet—deliberately or not—evoked an antisemitic trope.

He's always like this.

I will go with "deliberately antisemitic" when it comes to questioning Musk.

 

[Lily Adler]

I will go with "deliberately antisemitic" when it comes to questioning Musk.

When will he be caught at a dinner with Nick Fuentes next.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

After publishing white supremacist mascot Pepe the Frog on his Twitter feed today, Musk is attacking Apple for allegedly stopping ads on Twitter and demanding Twitter moderate itself and potentially be pulled from the Apple App Store like they have done to other apps and social networks. He's whining about Apple getting a cut of the payments (30%) for Twitter on Apple platforms.

He's gathering up his sycophantic losers and other assorted flop sweat moppers to attack Apple using multiple tweets and straw polls right now. Bit of a manic meltdown today.

Daily Kos - Musk is turning Twitter into 4Chan, and people will die as a result

 

[Sithborg]

After publishing white supremacist mascot Pepe the Frog on his Twitter feed today, Musk is attacking Apple for allegedly stopping ads on Twitter and demanding Twitter moderate itself and potentially be pulled from the Apple App Store like they have done to other apps and social networks. He's whining about Apple getting a cut of the payments (30%) for Twitter on Apple platforms.

He's gathering up his sycophantic losers and other assorted flop sweat moppers to attack Apple using multiple tweets and straw polls right now. Bit of a manic meltdown today.

Daily Kos - Musk is turning Twitter into 4Chan, and people will die as a result

We are reaching previously unseen levels of "not mad, bro".

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

India Today - Diet Coke and [show] guns, Elon Musk tweets photo of his bedside table

We are reaching previously unseen levels of "not mad, bro".

He's reaching dril corn cob tweet level.

 

[Lily Adler]

After publishing white supremacist mascot Pepe the Frog on his Twitter feed today, Musk is attacking Apple for allegedly stopping ads on Twitter and demanding Twitter moderate itself and potentially be pulled from the Apple App Store like they have done to other apps and social networks. He's whining about Apple getting a cut of the payments (30%) for Twitter on Apple platforms.

He's gathering up his sycophantic losers and other assorted flop sweat moppers to attack Apple using multiple tweets and straw polls right now. Bit of a manic meltdown today.

Daily Kos - Musk is turning Twitter into 4Chan, and people will die as a result

Again Google, Amazon, and Microsoft need to follow suit.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Wall Street Journal - Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America
The tunnel venture has repeatedly teased local officials with a pledge to ‘solve soul-destroying traffic,’ only to back out

Another horrible idea from Musk to stop public transportation and privatize it using taxpayer money transferred into Musk's hands and control over operations. And for what? Underground tunnels with Teslas or whatever.

Wired - Layoffs Have Gutted Twitter’s Child Safety Team
Just one person remains to enforce the company’s ban on child sexual abuse content across Japan and the Asia Pacific region.

Bloomberg News - Musk’s Twitter Risks Being EU Outlaw After Staff Exodus

• Data regulator says it’s very concerned over law compliance
• Twitter’s recent turmoil includes loss of all Brussels staff

 

[squeekness]

Business Insider - Elon Musk personally called CEOs of companies that stopped advertising on Twitter to complain, report says




The Washington Post - Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests
For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated

Musk is indebted to the Chinese government for Tesla and he has written for the Chinese censors so it bears watching.

Aw, poor baby, lol.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Faiz Siddiqui, The Washington Post: "NEW: Documents show why Apple pulling its Twitter ads is devastating for Elon Musk: In the first quarter of 2022, Apple was Twitter's top advertiser, accounting for nearly $50M in revenue" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/28/musk-apple-app-store-twitter/

We need an eaten corn cob emoji.

 

[Sithborg]

Yeah, he's definitely had some conversations with Apple, probably Google too, about moderation practices and why they don't like New Gab.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Eric Schmeltzer: "Elon Musk has Tweeted 88 (white supremacist code for Heil Hitler) to which they replied with 14 (code for their 14 Words), trotted out the Jewish Puppet Master trope, and then posted a wink to anti-Semites with a cartoon similar to the one they use, in reference to Vindman. @ADL" "Of course, all done with 'plausible deniability' which is standard. But he has tweeted 88 and deleted it before. He very well knows what the dumbass frog cartoons are associated with when talking about Jews (but didn't use THE Pepe one). It's all textbook anti-Semitic trolling." "All this happened in 2016, among the banned accounts he personally reactivated. They'd constantly harass Jews and then call the harassed Jews paranoid. It was all a game to them. Musk is copying it all to a Tee, and he very well knows it. And they're loving it. And HE loves it."

 

[squeekness]

What a disappointing human being.

 

[Iceman]

Faiz Siddiqui, The Washington Post: "NEW: Documents show why Apple pulling its Twitter ads is devastating for Elon Musk: In the first quarter of 2022, Apple was Twitter's top advertiser, accounting for nearly $50M in revenue" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/28/musk-apple-app-store-twitter/

Ha that's a big one to lose. Musk has been tweeting about it too - absolutely not the way to get advertisers to come back. An app store ban would be huge.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Bloomberg News - Musk Threatens War With Apple, Jeopardizing Vital Relationship
Elon Musk’s tumultuous month atop Twitter Inc. has already included firing most of the company’s employees, tinkering with key features and restoring banned accounts. Now he’s embarking on what could be his riskiest gambit yet: a war with Apple Inc.

In taking aim at Apple, Musk is challenging a company that's vital to Twitter's livelihood. Apple was consistently one of the top advertisers on the social network, which had an entire team of employees dedicated to helping maintain the relationship, according to people familiar with the matter. The ad spending was well above $100 million annually, one of the people said.

The Cupertino, California-based company holds meetings with Twitter to discuss various issues -- roughly once a week -- just as it does with other major social networking apps, including Facebook and Instagram. Apple has historically relied heavily on Twitter because it doesn't advertise on Facebook, according to one of the people with knowledge of its strategy.

 

[Sithborg]

Man, I want to see this "war".

 

[Teelie]

Not much of a war when one side has all the power and other side has Elon Musk.

 

[:eek:]

Time to add an "r" to the title of the thread: "Elon Musk to bury Twitter".

 

[Iceman]

Musk school of thought: The customer is always wrong (because I’m too clever for them).

 

[Lily Adler]

I think it is going to become the new Gab.

What's funny Apple is threatening to do to Twitter what they did to Parler.

 

[Lily Adler]

Man, I want to see this "war".

Musk cult pushing the Tesla phone or blocking Apple from satellites use with SpaceX.

 

[:eek:]

Twitter Will No Longer Enforce Covid Misinformation Policy – Deadline