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

[Sithborg]

Anyway, someone had a nice little twitter call.


Lets just say, Tesla shareholders may be doing some legal work to remove him next year.

Also, he is super transphobic.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Anyway, someone had a nice little twitter call.


Lets just say, Tesla shareholders may be doing some legal work to remove him next year.

Also, he is super transphobic.

In thread form: Thread by @williamlegate on Thread Reader App

MusQ also restored virulent transphobic Graham Linehan's account.

Wall Street Journal - Elon Musk Says He Will Pause Selling Tesla Shares
The Tesla CEO says a share buyback would depend on the severity of any recession

Gizmodo - Musk Sells Tesla Stock Despite Saying He Wouldn't Sell More (August 2022)

 

[Snow Queen]

I'm dead.

 

[Lily Adler]

I'm dead.

He's seen them and very possibly been using them?

 

[Sithborg]

Grimes dating Chelsea Manning has absolutely broken this man.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Zoë Schiffer, Platformer: "NEW: Luke Simon -- one of Elon Musk's top lieutenants at Twitter -- appears to be out. He's been deactivated on Slack."

 

[squeekness]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Reuters - Exclusive: Elon Musk orders removal of Twitter suicide prevention feature, sources say

 

[Iceman]

What a dick if so.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Wall Street Journal - Elon Musk’s Finances Complicated by Declining Wealth, Twitter Pressures
Billionaire’s borrowing power has shrunk with Tesla share decline

 

[squeekness]

Wall Street Journal - Elon Musk’s Finances Complicated by Declining Wealth, Twitter Pressures
Billionaire’s borrowing power has shrunk with Tesla share decline

Gee, that's too bad......

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[Sithborg]

itshappening.gif

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

corn cob in slow real time

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Fast Company - Twitter Blue profiles are already a hotbed of misinformation
A startling percentage of tweets from accounts paying for verification include verifiably wrong information, according to new research.

Working as intended, Musk wants everybody to be as misinformed as he is.

 

[Teelie]

It really is like watching a train derail in slow motion. The train is also being derailed by the owner who has zero knowledge of how trains work and fired everyone who could have explained it to him. Everyone else has begun to leave the train and when it finally crashes and burns there may not be anyone left who cares enough about the train to put out the inevitable fire.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Reuters - Exclusive: Elon Musk orders removal of Twitter suicide prevention feature, sources say

Reuters - Twitter restores suicide prevention feature after Reuters report

After publication of the story, Twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin confirmed the removal and called it temporary. "We have been fixing and revamping our prompts. They were just temporarily removed while we do that," Irwin said in an email to Reuters.

"We expect to have them back up next week," she said.

About 15 hours after the initial report, Musk, who did not initially respond to requests for comment, tweeted "False, it is still there." In response to criticism by Twitter users, he also tweeted "Twitter doesn't prevent suicide."

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Business Insider - Self-harm images and videos are thriving on Elon Musk's Twitter, which is less capable than ever of dealing with it

Faiz Siddiqui, The Washington Post: "NEW: Elon Musk sent a Signal message ordering his staff to aid in the Twitter Files: 'please give Bari [Weiss] full access to everything at Twitter. No limits at all.' That triggered a frenzy inside Twitter, which was under a decade-old FTC order."

"IT staff refused to onboard Weiss, worried if she was granted the full access Musk requested Twitter would be breaking the law. The order was a response to previous privacy concerns. To some, it was unclear if Musk had read it."

"Days later, two executives with oversight of matters related to the Twitter Files were fired. Weiss' access was overseen by a chaperone, new Twitter Trust and Safety chief Ella Irwin, whose name appeared in a watermark on one of the documents."

"Inside Twitter, Musk occupies a 10th-floor conference room with a staging area. There, they wait for the Twitter CEO — sometimes for more than an hour — before being called in. Meeting guests are instructed not to speak until Musk does."

The Washington Post - Twitter brings Elon Musk’s genius reputation crashing down to earth
Musk’s intense focus on his social media company purchase has devolved into the culture wars. Meanwhile, Tesla is tanking.

 

[Iceman]

Wall Street Journal - Elon Musk’s Finances Complicated by Declining Wealth, Twitter Pressures
Billionaire’s borrowing power has shrunk with Tesla share decline

I want to be in on the next meeting with his personal accountant - "WTF are you doing?!"

Tesla is worth a fraction of what it was and is the majority of his wealth, while he's wrecked Twitter so fast it's crazy.

 

[Iceman]

It really is like watching a train derail in slow motion. The train is also being derailed by the owner who has zero knowledge of how trains work and fired everyone who could have explained it to him. Everyone else has begun to leave the train and when it finally crashes and burns there may not be anyone left who cares enough about the train to put out the inevitable fire.

Agree, except it doesn't feel like slow motion lol.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Washington Post - Here’s who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter
Who pulls the financial strings at Twitter? These are Musk’s backers

1. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud
2. The Qatar Investment Authority
3. Binance
4. Andreessen Horowitz
5. Sequoia Capital
6. Larry Ellison
7. Jack Dorsey
8. Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays

 

[Teelie]

Agree, except it doesn't feel like slow motion lol.

The wreck that is Twitter has not come to a complete stop yet.

 

[squeekness]

The Washington Post - Here’s who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter
Who pulls the financial strings at Twitter? These are Musk’s backers

1. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud
2. The Qatar Investment Authority
3. Binance
4. Andreessen Horowitz
5. Sequoia Capital
6. Larry Ellison
7. Jack Dorsey
8. Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays

I'm sure they are thrilled with that decision.

 

[Iceman]

The Washington Post - Here’s who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter
Who pulls the financial strings at Twitter? These are Musk’s backers

1. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud
2. The Qatar Investment Authority
3. Binance
4. Andreessen Horowitz
5. Sequoia Capital
6. Larry Ellison
7. Jack Dorsey
8. Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays

Haha, so they’ve all lost a fortune too.