Elon Musk Buys X (formerly Twitter): Just Use Bluesky, Threads, or Mastodon instead

[MagnarTheGreat]

The sooner people bail out of the zombie corpse of Twitter or are essentially forced to by Melon the better.

SpaceX countersues DOJ over hiring bias claims

Elon Musk's private space company is claiming that the government's suit against it is unconstitutional.

gizmodo.com

Tom Mueller worked for Elon Musk at SpaceX for almost 20 years: 'I learned never to tell him no'

Tom Mueller told Walter Isaacson for his new biography of Elon Musk: "Just say you're going to try, then later explain why if it doesn't work out".

finance.yahoo.com

Elon Musk Reportedly Looking to Deepen His Ties With Saudi Arabia

Elon Musk is in talks with Saudi Arabia to open a Tesla facility less than a month after a man was sentenced to death for tweets criticizing the government.

gizmodo.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

halomancer1: "elon crashed grimes' recording session for cyberpunk 2077 with a flintlock and demanded to be in the video game"

Flashback (November 2022):

People are posting parody photos of their bedside table in response to Elon Musk's tweet which suggested the Twitter CEO kept two guns by his bed

Twitter CEO Elon Musk posted a photo of his bedside table which. People are responding by posting parody photos of their own set-up.

www.insider.com

 

[Iceman]

It will have a blue checkmark effect of shaming anyone who continues to use material from Twitter with people knowing they paid for a sub.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Larry David to Elon Musk: 'Do you just want to murder kids at school?'

Comedian Larry David reportedly confronted Elon Musk over the latter’s public statements in support of Republican candidates. According to the newly released Walter Isaacson biography of Musk, ...

www.dailykos.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Melon
Tesla
U.S. Department of Justice
federal criminal probe:

WSJ News Exclusive | Justice Department Probe Scrutinizes Elon Musk Perks at Tesla Going Back Years

Federal prosecutors are scrutinizing personal benefits Tesla may have provided Elon Musk since 2017—longer than previously known—as part of a criminal investigation examining issues including a proposed house for the chief executive.

www.wsj.com

There was also the weirdness (at best) of Melon making Tesla and SpaceX engineers work on Twitter for/to benefit him.

 

[Mani-Man]

Im not a violent Man, but Musk is one of these guys that need to catch some hands to understand that the is not the Protagonist he thinks he is.

Anyway, if its true that Musk wants to make have Twitter users on a basic pay for access...thats really the end of it.
We all said it countless of times, but this would be really it.
He doesnt even manage to get 1 million twitter blue people, what makes him think people would pay for the normal access to twitter?
Twitter blue, who helps promote ones account...and not many use it...that says all.

 

[Iceman]

Im not a violent Man, but Musk is one of these guys that need to catch some hands to understand that the is not the Protagonist he thinks he is.

Anyway, if its true that Musk wants to make have Twitter users on a basic pay for access...thats really the end of it.
We all said it countless of times, but this would be really it.
He doesnt even manage to get 1 million twitter blue people, what makes him think people would pay for the normal access to twitter?
Twitter blue, who helps promote ones account...and not many use it...that says all.

Free but with a huge number of users to advertise to as your main income was always the way to monetise successfully for social media. Hopefully he goes ahead with this and kills it off properly.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died

Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims.

www.wired.com

Court docs reveal secret Elon Musk children with long-term Musk exec

Musk responded to the article on Twitter.

www.theverge.com

It makes you wonder what his plans are for his Twitter parrot Linda could have been, but she’s too old for him now.

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, ranks last in climate ‘scorecard’

The report assessed policies that social media companies had established pertaining to climate misinformation.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Teelie]

Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All X/Twitter Users a Fee to Be on the Platform

Elon Musk may flip the switch to make X -- the social network formerly known as Twitter -- an entirely subscription-based platform.

variety.com

He will only hasten the death of X-Twitter.

 

[Lily Adler]

Not to be that person, but Threads can now be embedded on the Hype.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

X/Twitter CEO Shares and Deletes Video Ad That Features Tweets Dunking on Elon Musk

One of X’s latest ads included some critical tweets, but CEO Linda Yaccarino reposted the ad without them claiming they made a new ‘high-res version.’

gizmodo.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Mastodon 4.2 Brings Much-Needed Features to the Social Network

Full-text search, web app improvements, and more are rolling out to Mastodon servers.

www.howtogeek.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

New layoffs at Twitter hit trust and safety workers even as advertisers worry about toxic speech

Elon Musk continues to let go Twitter workers charged with making the platform safer as advertising revenue plummets.

www.businessinsider.com

Last person there remember to turn off the lights.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elon Musk's X has added 'formerly Twitter' to its App Store description as users continue to struggle with its rebrand

The app has changed its description on the app store from "Blaze your glory" to "Formerly Twitter", after the chaotic rebrand of the social media platform.

www.businessinsider.com

Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk | Hamilton Nolan

The carmaker is now US labor’s most important target. If Musk doesn’t like that, he’s welcome to settle it with an auto worker by cage match

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

X/Twitter Is Shutting Down Circles Next Month

A glitch in Circles earlier this year revealed private tweets to millions of users.

gizmodo.com

Ireland-based X worker gets disciplinary action halted

A senior Ireland-based employee of the social media platform X who allegedly liked tweets critical of the company and its owner Elon Musk has secured a temporary High Court injunction restraining the firm from taking any further steps in a disciplinary process against him.

www.rte.ie

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elon Musk's grandfather belonged to a political party that believed the world should be governed by technology. Newspapers at the time described it as having 'the tone of an incipient Fascist movement.'

Elon Musk's grandfather Joshua Haldeman was a raging racist and anti-semite, per the Atlantic. He also strongly believed in technocracy at one point in his life.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elon May Have Accidentally Revealed How ExTwitter Usage Has Dropped Massively Since His Takeover

Over the last few months, Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino keep trying to claim that exTwitter is actually growing and more used than ever. Yaccarino has talked about “largest usage days” without defi…

www.techdirt.com

 

[Iceman]

Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk | Hamilton Nolan

The carmaker is now US labor’s most important target. If Musk doesn’t like that, he’s welcome to settle it with an auto worker by cage match

www.theguardian.com

Definitely need more pressure on this to create a level playing field for all auto workers. Need to force Musk to follow some rules.

 

[squeekness]

Lol, I'm amazed Elon even has any workers left.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation

Musk is told his platform, now known as X, must comply with new laws designed to combat fake news and Russian propaganda

www.theguardian.com

On Twitter, she said "disinformation actors were found to have significantly more followers than their non-disinformation counterparts and tend to have joined the platform more recently than non-disinformation users".

 

[Iceman]

EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation

Musk is told his platform, now known as X, must comply with new laws designed to combat fake news and Russian propaganda

www.theguardian.com

I don’t have much hope of the US bringing Twitter into line but maybe the EU can do something.

 

[Lily Adler]

I don’t have much hope of the US bringing Twitter into line but maybe the EU can do something.

I mean it worked against Apple.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

100 Jewish leaders call out Elon Musk for antisemitism on X, formerly Twitter: "We have watched in horror"

A group of rabbis, academics and activists said the behavior of owner Elon Musk has allowed "a new stage in antisemitic discourse" to "spread like wildfire" on the social media site.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elon Musk Disables Option to Report Misinformation On X/Twitter

X is accused of rising levels of misinformation on its platform ahead of a major Australian referendum.

gizmodo.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elon Musk's X Cuts Half of Election Integrity Team: Report

The team likely has no more than six people now, leaving the site ill prepared for the 2024 presidential election

themessenger.com

Threads is struggling to retain users — but it could still catch up to X

Threads could attract users as more people turn away from X.

www.theverge.com

Instagram’s Threads is forecast to have 23.7 million monthly active users in the US by the end of this year as opposed to X’s 56.1 million, according to Insider Intelligence.