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

[Iceman]

Ron DeSantis and Tucker Carlson partner and dictator-hugger Melon endorses banning non-parents from voting after denying the far rightwing exists yesterday in a BBC report about them.

He comes out with more dangerous stuff every day.

 

[squeekness]

Scary that anyone can even think that way. Makes me ill.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Twitter faces lawsuit over alleged non-payment for office services in four countries | Twitter | The Guardian

 

[squeekness]

What is it with rich guys not paying their bills?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Reuters - Musk's Twitter rate limits could undermine new CEO, ad experts say
Elon Musk's move to temporarily cap how many posts Twitter users can read on the social media site could undermine efforts by the company's new Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino to attract advertisers, marketing industry professionals said.

Melon is still running the show, she is just the ad person from NBCU he brought in to pretend she's in charge like he did earlier with his dog.

 

[Iceman]

Twitter faces lawsuit over alleged non-payment for office services in four countries | Twitter | The Guardian

I don’t understand this strategy. I can’t see how he’ll win the suits, and the reputational damage for the company goes beyond that and will make it more expensive to borrow when needed.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - TweetDeck Falters as Elon Musk Wrecks Twitter

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

February 2023: "During a planning meeting several weeks ago, he suggested several ways to cut costs at Twitter that struck some in the meeting as 'insane,' another one of the people familiar said. Suggestions like making the entirety of Twitter a subscription product, selling usernames, or limiting services to only users in the US and Japan, because that's where Twitter is most popular, were floated."

Business Insider - Elon Musk's mood and intensity at Twitter are 'worse' than during Tesla's existential crisis 5 years ago, staff says

"People that worked with him at Tesla then say they've never seen him this bad," one of the people said. "He is obviously stressed." Still, there is "zero talk" inside Twitter of a new CEO coming in to replace Musk, this person added. Just Wednesday, Musk said that "towards the end of this year should be good timing to find someone else to run the company," he said via a remote video link at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

New is Musk's obsession with loyalty. He's been known to "rage-fire" people he deems not working hard enough or who question his demands. At Twitter, workers are being fired at the slightest hint of political or personal dissent, even if it's based on internal research, as happened to a principal engineer last week, the newsletter Platformer reported. Since activity on internal Slack channels is limited now, workers' activity on Twitter and other social-media platforms is being used to accuse people of "misconduct" and fire them without severance, the people familiar with the situation said.

During a planning meeting several weeks ago, he suggested several ways to cut costs at Twitter that struck some in the meeting as "insane," another one of the people familiar said. Suggestions like making the entirety of Twitter a subscription product, selling usernames, or limiting services to only users in the US and Japan, because that's where Twitter is most popular, were floated.

The number of principal engineers, a title typically gained through years of experience at a company, has gone from at least 30 to just one. Overall head count is now thought to be about 2,000 and likely to decline further as offices keep closing and intermittent layoffs continue. The site has become glitchy and unreliable, with a major crash last week during which all of Twitter's core functions stopped working for several hours.

 

[Lily Adler]

Again points to title.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Melon/Twitter has announced that all non-paying accounts/non-verified accounts are hereby banned from TweetDeck in 30 days.

Twitter Support: "In 30 days, users must be Verified to access TweetDeck."

February 2023: "During a planning meeting several weeks ago, he suggested several ways to cut costs at Twitter that struck some in the meeting as 'insane,' another one of the people familiar said. Suggestions like making the entirety of Twitter a subscription product, selling usernames, or limiting services to only users in the US and Japan, because that's where Twitter is most popular, were floated."

Google Search Showing 50% Fewer Twitter URLs After Twitter Blocked Unregistered Users

Twitter didn't just block unregistered users, it blocked Google Search

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[Iceman]

Hopefully it can do everything Twitter can do and give Elon some real problems.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

9to5Mac - Meta to launch its new Threads app this week as Twitter falls apart

9to5Mac has heard from people familiar with the matter that Meta was first planning to launch Threads at the end of July. However, as many Twitter users are upset with the platform, Meta has decided to rush the launch of its new microblogging social network.

 

[squeekness]

Hopefully it can do everything Twitter can do and give Elon some real problems.

Or at least a few nightmares, lol.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Business Insider - Elon Musk and new CEO Linda Yaccarino kept Twitter staff in the dark during the days of 'rate limit' chaos

 

[Sithborg]

Zuck smells blood in the water. I do wonder how much of it is rushing for a perfect time, or it was just waiting for a perfect time to deploy/

 

[Iceman]

I’m ready to permanently move if it does what pre-Musk Twitter did to a similar standard. Mastodon unfortunately didn’t when I checked it out.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Tom’s Guide - 5 best Twitter alternatives to try now

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Twitter: Elon Musk ghosts layoff arbitration cases | Fortunehttps://fortune.com/2023/07/03/twitter-elon-musk-fired-employees-arbitration-lawsuit-layoffs/amp/

 

[Lily Adler]

I’m ready to permanently move if it does what pre-Musk Twitter did to a similar standard. Mastodon unfortunately didn’t when I checked it out.

Yeah it's a little more complex. I see a lot of tech sites opened accounts on it, but I also see some just seemed to have been abandoned.

 

[Iceman]

Tom’s Guide - 5 best Twitter alternatives to try now

I think people want to move to one new one that has everything and all the accounts they follow there. If it’s splintered amongst multiple sites it won’t have the same appeal.

 

[squeekness]

Elon gets even more vile day by day.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

As Twitter stumbles, Mastodon launches improved Android app - gHacks Tech News

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

I think people want to move to one new one that has everything and all the accounts they follow there. If it’s splintered amongst multiple sites it won’t have the same appeal.

It's good from a citizen/competitive standpoint that there isn't one abusive monopoly over social media. What there needs to be is some level of secure interoperability, much like AT&T customers can text/call Verizon and T-Mobile customers and so forth.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Lifehacker - The Five Best Twitter Alternatives

Reuters - Twitter not suited for emergency communications, Dutch say after storm

TechCrunch - Threads, Meta's Twitter competitor, is now live