𝕏 / Twitter / X, the Social Media Platform Formerly Known as Twitter / "MUSK OWNS TWITTER"

[Beavis]

This is awesome and anyone angry about it is a wet blanket.

 

[not william stenchever]

Fuck blind people. They can't even see, the idiot faggots.

At least they are not insufferable faggots like the kind of deaf people who think hearing aids are "erasing deaf culture". We can talk shit about those people with the blinds behind their backs (where the deaf people can't read our lips)

 

[AnOminous]

At least they are not insufferable faggots like the kind of deaf people who think hearing aids are "erasing deaf culture". We can talk shit about those people with the blinds behind their backs (where the deaf people can't read our lips)

Fuck blind people. Also double fuck deaf people. They can't even hear me when I call them faggots!

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

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To be fair, this one is probably true.

 

[Local Fed]

Not sure if this came up but the disability organizations are pretty upset at Musk's firings as well:
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Note the wording: their job is (was) to "think" about those issues. Most of them probably haven't done a single actual tangible thing about those issues, however.

 

[not william stenchever]

Musk needs to make software that allows blind people to call deaf people faggots using braille and it gets displayed to the deaf people in sign language.

 

[Tree]

Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

Far too many corrupt legacy Blue “verification” checkmarks exist, so no choice but to remove legacy Blue in coming months

nitter.poast.org

Virtually backhanded

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

 

[DavidS877]

I'm seeing people say "Musk will destroy privacy on Twitter." Maybe I missed something, but it's all public, it's no more private than sticking a sign in your lawn. Are Twitter users really that dumb? Wait, never mind, I know the answer.

 

[Matt Damon]

Terminally online crying about this hate fun. Twitter just got better

This is awesome and anyone angry about it is a wet blanket.

Anything that pushes a website more towards the spirit of the old egalitarian Internet I used to know is a positive in my book.

 

[Slimy Time]

Anything that pushes a website more towards the spirit of the old egalitarian Internet I used to know is a positive in my book.

Sadly I went to check those accounts and they blew up enough for them to get banned. Apparently this is now a thing in the interim with this $8 a month. Can pretend to be a celeb who hasn't bought the checkmark, buy the blue checkmark, and the software will assume for a short period of time that your account is the verified account. There is other shenanigans like not being able to change account name once verified.



I just hope that this nonsense continues as it spirals out of control, back to what it used to be.

 

[Markass the Worst]

I'm seeing people say "Musk will destroy privacy on Twitter." Maybe I missed something, but it's all public, it's no more private than sticking a sign in your lawn. Are Twitter users really that dumb? Wait, never mind, I know the answer.

These are the same people angry at Kiwifarms for reposting information they themselves made public. "Wait, you're telling me if I tell everyone I am John Doe living at 1234 Main St in Columbus, Ohio, people can doxxxxx my legal name and address?!?!? What a bunch of transphobic bigots!!"

 

[TitusOvid]

There's still blue checks for "notable people" so they still don't have to pay.

 

[Not Jewish Wario]

I can only see Musk's ownership as a positive. Either Twitter will die for good, or slightly improve. Either is a win in my book.

 

[DumbDude43]

Sadly I went to check those accounts and they blew up enough for them to get banned.

imagine paying real money for a checkmark so you can impersonate some e-celeb on twitter for a few hours before getting yeeted for impersonation
that's some real next level dedication to shitposting

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

This is the most fun the internet has been in quite a while.

 

[GenociderSyo]

He is already talking about bankruptcy (archive).

Elon Musk tells Twitter employees ‘bankruptcy is not out of the question’​

Ad revenue has declined significantly since Musk took over the company.

Two weeks after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has finally addressed the company’s remaining staff and the message was bleak. Speaking at an all-hands meeting, Musk said that Twitter is losing so much money that “bankruptcy is not out of the question,” The Information and Platformer reported.

Twitter hasn’t turned a profit since 2019, and ad revenue has declined significantly since Musk’s takeover as advertisers pull back from the platform. At the all-hands, Musk said Twitter could have "net negative cash flow of several billion dollars” in 2023, according to The Information. He also suggested that Twitter’s future depends upon the success of the revamped Twitter Blue subscription service.

“The reason we’re going hardcore on subscribers is to keep Twitter alive,” he said.

Musk also told employees, again, that they are expected to work from Twitter’s office, a reversal of the company’s previous “work from anywhere” policy. “If you can physically make it to an office and you don’t show up, resignation accepted," he said, Platformer’s Zoe Schiffer, reported.

Twitter is also rapidly losing the top executives that survived Musk’s layoffs. The company’s chief information security officer, chief privacy officer and chief compliance officer all recently resigned, exposing the company to potential new FTC fines. And two other high-profile executives, head of trust and Safety Yoel Roth and head of ad sales Robin Wheeler, also resigned on Thursday, Bloomberg reported. The two had joined Musk in a town hall meant to reassure Twitter’s advertisers just one day before.

Meanwhile, the roll out of the new Blue subscription has been rocky. After introducing — and quickly killing — a separate “official” checkmark, there’s been a surge in scammers and pranksters impersonating politicians, celebrities and brands. Musk reportedly told employees that rooting out scammers abusing the checkmark was a “top priority.”

 

[DumbDude43]

>buy company
>immediately bankrupt it
based or cringe?

“If you can physically make it to an office and you don’t show up, resignation accepted," he said

mega based

 

[AnOminous]

>buy company
>immediately bankrupt it
based or cringe?

Maybe we need a new word for it. Bringe?

 

[Toolbox]

He is already talking about bankruptcy (archive).

Elon Musk tells Twitter employees ‘bankruptcy is not out of the question’​

Ad revenue has declined significantly since Musk took over the company.

Two weeks after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has finally addressed the company’s remaining staff and the message was bleak. Speaking at an all-hands meeting, Musk said that Twitter is losing so much money that “bankruptcy is not out of the question,” The Information and Platformer reported.

Twitter hasn’t turned a profit since 2019, and ad revenue has declined significantly since Musk’s takeover as advertisers pull back from the platform. At the all-hands, Musk said Twitter could have "net negative cash flow of several billion dollars” in 2023, according to The Information. He also suggested that Twitter’s future depends upon the success of the revamped Twitter Blue subscription service.

“The reason we’re going hardcore on subscribers is to keep Twitter alive,” he said.

Musk also told employees, again, that they are expected to work from Twitter’s office, a reversal of the company’s previous “work from anywhere” policy. “If you can physically make it to an office and you don’t show up, resignation accepted," he said, Platformer’s Zoe Schiffer, reported.

Twitter is also rapidly losing the top executives that survived Musk’s layoffs. The company’s chief information security officer, chief privacy officer and chief compliance officer all recently resigned, exposing the company to potential new FTC fines. And two other high-profile executives, head of trust and Safety Yoel Roth and head of ad sales Robin Wheeler, also resigned on Thursday, Bloomberg reported. The two had joined Musk in a town hall meant to reassure Twitter’s advertisers just one day before.

Meanwhile, the roll out of the new Blue subscription has been rocky. After introducing — and quickly killing — a separate “official” checkmark, there’s been a surge in scammers and pranksters impersonating politicians, celebrities and brands. Musk reportedly told employees that rooting out scammers abusing the checkmark was a “top priority.”

I have no doubts he's just being honest about how poorly the company is performing, as to say it's basically been teetering on the edge this whole time. Wasn't Twitter purely unprofitable for several years until maybe the last two, where I'm not even sure it really broke even?