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

[Prison Mike]

I hope Musk runs Twitter to the ground

 

[Iceman]

Unsurprising this dirt bag says Taiwan should surrender to China after telling Ukraine to surrender to Russia.

Musk offers proposal on China-Taiwan tensions, after Russia-Ukraine plan



Elon Musk writes column for Chinese Communist Party online censor agency's magazine (August 2022)

Musk will say whatever he thinks his paymasters in countries with large Tesla factories want him to. He doesn’t care about lives in Ukraine and Taiwan.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

’Why doesn’t South Korea just give in to North Korea’ types of stupid thoughts.

Elon ‘Why don’t people just surrender to bullies and abusers’ Musk tells everybody what kind of person he is geopolitically and personally.

 

[Lily Adler]

I hope Musk runs Twitter to the ground

There is no doubt he absolutely will.

 

[Sithborg]

Based on his texts, he doesn't seem to believe people can just leave Twitter. Probably based on his own habits.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

People leave when alternatives are better. We’re not all stuck on dialup internet and AOL and MySpace anymore.

 

[Mani-Man]

People leave when alternatives are better. We’re not all stuck on dialup internet and AOL and MySpace anymore.

That is true yeah.
Never thought Discord would become a thing...but it gets more and more popular, TikTok is on the rise and all that.

Create a Platform that works better than Twitter...and people will leave Twitter for that.
You just need enough Buzz pretty much and get momentum.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elon Musk welcomes Kanye back to Twitter after Instagram restricts his account

Update: Kanye West Locked Out of Twitter and Instagram for Antisemitism

 

[Sithborg]

That is true yeah.
Never thought Discord would become a thing...but it gets more and more popular, TikTok is on the rise and all that.

Create a Platform that works better than Twitter...and people will leave Twitter for that.
You just need enough Buzz pretty much and get momentum.

Or, when Elon introduces his idiotic monetization scheme, as shown in his text messages, Twitter just ends.

 

[Prison Mike]

Personally I think social media as a whole just needs to go away, but if Elon can run it to the ground then it’s a win-win. He loses billions and Twitter goes away.

 

[Teelie]

I am at best indifferent to Twitter so whatever happens to it doesn't personally affect me but I am conflicted on killing Twitter. On the one hand, it's Twitter, one of the major cesspools of the internet. On the other a lot of decent people use Twitter for some reason. I guess because the alternative is Facebook which is inexplicably worse.

Either way, Twitter users are ****ed.

 

[Iceman]

A lot of Elon Musk fans are finding out what he’s really like now.

 

[Sithborg]

A lot of Elon Musk fans are finding out what he’s really like now.

Most of his techbro "liberartian" fans were already like that. Its more that the face mask is off for the rest of the general public.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Vice - Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan: Report

Musk‘s denial of directly talking to Putin could mean he spoke through Putin’s English translator or other intermediary,

He was straight up repeating Russian propaganda and he used Russian terminology like ‘Krushchev’s mistake.’ Laundering the plans and talking points of the Kremlin as his own.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Mediaite - Ian Bremmer Clarifies Musk Did Indeed Say He Spoke to Putin

 

[Iceman]

Mediaite - Ian Bremmer Clarifies Musk Did Indeed Say He Spoke to Putin

Trump and Musk are their best and most high profile allies.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Bloomberg News - Twitter Seeks Documents Related to Federal Investigation of Musk

 

[Sithborg]

Probably the SEC again.

 

[Sithborg]

So, his current ploy to get out of buying Twitter is threatening to fire 75% of twitter's workforce.

Which, lol.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Sounds like a passive aggressive threat. Like ‘I’m delighted to be forced to buy you and remove the far vast majority of your jobs. It’s simply wonderful.’

A set up for an abusive relationship

 

[Iceman]

So, his current ploy to get out of buying Twitter is threatening to fire 75% of twitter's workforce.

Which, lol.

How great for morale. Hopefully the other 25% then all walk out on the same day. Someone needs to start setting up the Twitter replacement and offer everyone a job and take most of the business.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Business Insider - The US government is considering a national security review of Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter acquisition, report says. If it happens, Biden could ultimately kill the deal.

Musk is celebrating this on Twitter.

 

[Iceman]

Business Insider - The US government is considering a national security review of Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter acquisition, report says. If it happens, Biden could ultimately kill the deal.

Musk is celebrating this on Twitter.

Musk not getting control of Twitter is the lesser evil here IMO. It's too much power in the wrong hands otherwise.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

A national security review that goes sideways for Musk should also jeopardize his other company's government contracts, so he should be careful what he wishes for.

 

[Iceman]

A national security review that goes sideways for Musk should also jeopardize his other company's government contracts, so he should be careful what he wishes for.

Hopefully that happens! He's cosying up to Russia and China with major industrial plans and already seems a bit compromised with the kind of tweets he puts out favouring them in the face of military aggression, all fine as long as he gets his new shiny Tesla factories.