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Josterman said:
"Congratulations Jack Dorsey for selling your life's work to someone this unstable."1651119100830.png
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LMAO. This is like claiming Minecraft was Notch's life's work. I guess in a way it is, both products are the only thing either man will ever be known for, despite absolutely half-assing it all the way in both instances. Both men had a flash of inspiration, made a thing, got lucky with cult-like users and marketing, and completely gave up on maintaining and curating their creation and sold the fucking thing to people who know even less about how to manage it.

There's nothing unique about what twitter is under the hood, almost anybody can make an app that lets you SMS-text each other either via phones or desktops today. There's minor value in other companies having tied their services to interfacing with you(like being able to tweet World of Warcraft screenshots in game, what a waste of a Warlords patch) but it's all brand loyalty, addicted accounts and existing habits.
 
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Plaintiff is fat said:
Hoping Musk raises the characters limit to 1200 or more, it'd tank the impressions/engagement count of all the fags that do "tHrEaDs 🧵" unnecessarily long just to farm big numbers for dopamine, it'd make it easy for people to share big chunks of articles nerfing traffic to press sites (opposite of clickbait)
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That's fucking... actually a really good idea. I wonder why nobody else thought of this.
 
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L50LasPak said:
That's fucking... actually a really good idea. I wonder why nobody else thought of this.
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someone would have made the suggestion/change eventually; the original 140 character limit was to be in-line with SMS protocols, and wasn't raised to 280 characters until 2017ish. As the technology and user habits advance, so does the service, presumably.
 
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mr.moon1488 said:
That's not to say he doesn't have any power yet though. Most employees aren't going to want to piss off the guy who will have absolute control over the company once all is settled.
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If most of their comp was tied up in equity they probably dont care. Its in their interest now to find a new job.

How does equity vesting work when taking a company private? You get all your shares dollar value immediately or just the fraction that has vested?
 
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NeroRisotto said:
I really hope @Secret Asshole make a long post about this
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I mean, I was thinking on it.

But really, its a billionaire doing what I would do: Shitpost with money. Its not new for billionaires to get pissed and crush/buy things they dislike. Such as Peter Theil with Gawker, who basically funded Hulk Hogan's suit to crush them into the ground because they fucked him over.

Do I think this will change discourse for the better? Hm, probably not. Maybe. Its hard to say. I think the funniest revelation is how terrified the progressive left is by it becoming a level playing field and just losing their absolute fucking minds. I've seen nothing well thought out, just desperate, knee-jerk reactions from people trying to 'own' Elon Musk by going "HURR HE BLOCKED ME FREE SPEECH LOLOZ" when its like, "Yeah, people don't have to listen to your shit. They have that right." Which says a lot, that they believe you should be forced to listen to them at all times.

I think it is quite obvious Twitter controlled information, micro-managed their users, allowed bots to proliferate and used incredibly shady tactics that would make despots blush in order to promote points of view. I'm nobody on Twitter, I use it to shit post and look at memes and ignore everything else. And even still my tweets were getting no engagement until Musk took it over. So I was being hidden just because I was a minor shitposter and did absolutely nothing else. I mean, that's kind of scary to me. If they had an algorithm to limit who sees my mild shitposting, what the fuck else are they doing?

It is clear that Twitter was a platform to control speech. Just look at their board. Nobody owned a single iota of stock, they just wanted to influence it. I do think that they will be helpless to stifle people now and that their viewpoints won't be the only ones heard anymore, and they really do seem terrified of that. Which again, is scary to consider. These people are absolutely TERRIFIED of people hearing or seeing something else. They have a child's view of the world. Twitter's top lawyer openly crying? Pathetic.

The main problem they will experience is that companies were told Twitter = Real Life. Their views predominated and nobody really was there to oppose them because they were either banned or ghosted or muted. So this idea that these zoomers and millenials have sold corporate boomers and boards on is going to come back and bite them in the ass, because those boards aren't going to understand the dynamics of online conversation. That's what they pay them for. Its the chickens coming home to roost, so to speak.

If Musk does keep his promise (who knows if he will or not), cancel culture, Twitter mobbing, shit like that will be infinitely harder. Twitter going private ensures that Musk retains a lot of influence over it and doesn't need to face any sort of buy-outs or hostile take-overs from firms like Blackrock or Vanguard or any other billionaire who is pissed that their favorite propaganda machine got taken over.

So, what essentially this means is basically Twitter as propaganda and a mob machine is basically dying, it was a powerful mechanism to enforce the will of progressives and with people saying what they want as long as its not illegal, it just can't have the same effect that it once did.

There is always Reddit though.
 
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Social media is akin to The Allegory Of The Cave with a difference being people willingly go into the cave hoping to somehow find a reality that's acceptable to them. That's why so many twitter users are terminally online because what these people want is never good enough so they just sink deeper into the hole they've made trying to convince you the gender shadow puppets on the wall are real!

The old twitter staff fostered this behavior so they were allies. Elon threatens this so salt ensues even though his intentions are tame. What I find funny is Elon no longer living rent free in their heads. Now he literally holds the deed!
 
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Where do they all go now? Are we about to see a Reddit or Tumblr intake of spergs again?

God, I hope not. I liked it when people would still stay on it so we could mock their shitty takes. As based as Elon is, people are probably going to leave (not that he cares).
 
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