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

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The Washington Post - Twitter pushes hate speech, extremist content into 'For You' pages

 

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Bloomberg News - Musk’s Twitter Antics Keep Some Advertisers Away, Curbing Sales

 

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NY Times - Elon Musk Tried to Meet With F.T.C. Chair About Twitter but Was Rebuffed
Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter’s privacy and data practices.

 

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"Scoop: @WhiteHouse won’t pay for @Twitter verification — It will not enroll in Twitter’s “Verification for Organization” program either — It also won’t reimburse staff who chose to pay for Twitter Blue either Story on @axios

Axios - Scoop: White House won't pay for Twitter verification

Time to set up some clone government accounts on other microblogging platforms.

Sports Illustrated - LeBron James Makes It Clear He Won’t Be Paying for Twitter

 

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Musk publicly released Twitter's source code because he wants more free labor.


Zoe Schiffer, Platformer: "NEW: Twitter hasn’t paid thousands of dollars in charitable donations that employees made in 2022, around the time of the acquisition. The money was taken out of employee paychecks but never reached the organizations. Benevity, the third-party platform that is used to facilitate…" "Twitter was supposed to match these donations but that also has not yet happened."

 

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[Lily Adler]

Don't think we didn't notice that gold checkmark, Variety.

 

[Lily Adler]

Musk publicly released Twitter's source code because he wants more free labor.


Zoe Schiffer, Platformer: "NEW: Twitter hasn’t paid thousands of dollars in charitable donations that employees made in 2022, around the time of the acquisition. The money was taken out of employee paychecks but never reached the organizations. Benevity, the third-party platform that is used to facilitate…" "Twitter was supposed to match these donations but that also has not yet happened."

Oh, see guys he just wanted to make it open-source ya see.

 

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[Sithborg]

lol

Yeah, I think we all should have figured that is how he would tweek the algorithim.

 

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Nathan Hubbard: "1) As someone who was (briefly) in charge of the Twitter Media team - the group tasked with getting high profile people onto Twitter, and verification - AND as one of the few ever to voluntarily give up the blue check, I want to try to articulate how risky this policy change is."

continued: Thread by @NathanCHubbard on Thread Reader App

Yeah well Musk would like a return to feudalism, the kind of online feudalism you can see in the latest video from Folding Ideas/Dan Olsen about how the future is a dead mall (Decentraland and Metaverse).

 

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Mashable - Twitter's algorithm specifically tracks how Elon Musk's tweets are doing
Musk said he had no idea it was doing that!

When a guest speaker on the Twitter Space shared his concerns about grouping accounts into the categories "democrat" and "republican," one of Twitter's developers explained that this code was just for collecting stats. A note on the algorithm source code, however, states that the metric collecting was being used to ensure that changes to Twitter did not negatively affect any of these four groups.

According to Twitter's own explanation of how this metric tracking is being used, if an algorithm change benefited an entire group of users, but negatively impacted the group made up solely of Elon Musk, it would not implement that algorithm change.

Zoë Schiffer of Platformer reported that Twitter actually removed part of the source code that affected the reach of Musk's and other user's tweets before releasing the algorithm to the public.

 

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Bloomberg News - Musk Must Erase Threatening Tweet in Labor Fight, Court Says

 

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[Iceman]

This man is absolutely not predictable.

 

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[Sithborg]

Yeah, he got a good yelling at by his lawyers for that one.

 

[Sithborg]

The best take on the whole situation.

 

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[squeekness]

So glad I've never used Twitter, lol.

 

[Iceman]

He’s so bad at this.

 

[Sithborg]

You know what is also smart, messing with twitter to hide news about the lawsuit over your pump and dump scheme with a crypto, while simultaneously, likely turning it into another factor of your pump and dump scheme.

 

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Bloomberg News - Dogecoin Rises as Much as 30% After Twitter Home Button Becomes Doge Meme

Reuters - Elon Musk seeks to end $258 billion Dogecoin lawsuit
Elon Musk asked a U.S. judge on Friday to throw out a $258 billion racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.

 

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Reuters - Jury orders Tesla to pay $3.2 mln to Black ex-worker in US race bias case