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

[Finger Pistols]

What even is the point of suing? I doubt that the Lizard's new project would have gained any traction to begin with. Now this has probably made some more people aware that Zuck is working on a twitter alternative without Musk. Also, considering his recent track record with Facebook and the Metaverse this project probably wouldn't amount to much and it would implode on it's own.

 

[FarmVille]

I’m sure there are many lawyers willing to take on Facebook for the guy who believes in paying invoices “over [his] dead body”

 

[Mothra1988]

What even is the point of suing? I doubt that the Lizard's new project would have gained any traction to begin with. Now this has probably made some more people aware that Zuck is working on a twitter alternative without Musk. Also, considering his recent track record with Facebook and the Metaverse this project probably wouldn't amount to much and it would implode on it's own.

It will still be a steaming failure no matter what happens like everything with "Meta." Exoduses like this don't work, and rebuilidng all the bullshit on Twitter will be a steep hill to climb. It took years of festering cancer for Twitter to become what it was. I hope they take half of the larger leftard accounts. None of their followers will move over, and they'll be talking to each other while no one else listens.

 

[Mothra1988]

I’m sure there are many lawyers willing to take on Facebook for the guy who believes in paying invoices “over [his] dead body”

I always like it when mad people say "no lawyer will take this case." What planet do you live on where lawyers will not sue over literally anything? There's a good chance Elon doesn't care if it has merits or not. That's what lawfare is. It's just a "fuck you" more than anything. lol

 

[AnOminous]

I’m sure there are many lawyers willing to take on Facebook for the guy who believes in paying invoices “over [his] dead body”

He'll definitely be getting block billed up front.

It will still be a steaming failure no matter what happens like everything with "Meta." Exoduses like this don't work, and rebuilidng all the bullshit on Twitter will be a steep hill to climb.

Zuck picked exactly the right time to try, though. If there's a market for it he'll at least have some takers, and if Elon keeps pissing people off, it will be a slow bleed. You can't create something like this without a market vacuum and Elon has created at least a little one. I hope it data harvests the fuck out of whatever losers flee to it.

 

[ScooterL]

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Threads is connective id .

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& no lewd on threads
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Reminds me of the time "everyone" ran back to Twitter after trying Mastodon for five minutes.

 

[Vect]

On paper, you can kind of see why Twitter feels threatened; integrating it with Instagram, which also has a much larger pre-existing userbase and more commercial-friendly applications, basically gives it an instant available userbase. But anybody who wants to use something like Twitter will already be on Twitter or those alt-tech spinoffs, and the only people moving over will be the kind of infantile losers who want to stick it to Musk over imaginary horseshit.

Meta has accrued higher reputational damage over data privacy scandals and a lot of Lefties still associate Facebook and Zuckerberg by extension with the Russian bot 'disinformation' stuff. It just feels like it'll end up being used for corporate networking with a few safe spaces thrown in. Zuckerberg once again came too late to the party, and threating to sue him makes Musk look pointlessly insecure again.

For all the complaining people do about Twitter, it's the 'place to be seen'. There's no point being famous and popular in an empty world.

 

[Omen_Sulk]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1677042708756439041

 

[Ghostse]

I don't get where the worship of Elon comes from, but watching his orbiters is almost as funny as watching the sped himself.

The man has Hitler luck. I think he's a drug-addicted sperg, but regardless of how much Telsa is built from ideas of people he bought & then fired... company stock going gangbusters. And he's surrounded by competent people who tardwrangle him enough to keep him from running everything off the rails. I cannot argue with results, only if past results indicate future returns. I think denying annoymous users the ability to see twitters is too far though, see below.

For all the complaining people do about Twitter, it's the 'place to be seen'. There's no point being famous and popular in an empty world.

This. And this is why if Elon doesn't undo that shit post haste to the point normies won't notice, that will be what sinks twitter. Like all social media, its about being performative. What's the point of posting on twitter if people can't see what I'm posting?

Facebook started tanking once they shifted the default security settings to not be 105% open.

 

[FarmVille]

On paper, you can kind of see why Twitter feels threatened; integrating it with Instagram, which also has a much larger pre-existing userbase and more commercial-friendly applications, basically gives it an instant available userbase. But anybody who wants to use something like Twitter will already be on Twitter or those alt-tech spinoffs, and the only people moving over will be the kind of infantile losers who want to stick it to Musk over imaginary horseshit.

Meta has accrued higher reputational damage over data privacy scandals and a lot of Lefties still associate Facebook and Zuckerberg by extension with the Russian bot 'disinformation' stuff. It just feels like it'll end up being used for corporate networking with a few safe spaces thrown in. Zuckerberg once again came too late to the party, and threating to sue him makes Musk look pointlessly insecure again.

For all the complaining people do about Twitter, it's the 'place to be seen'. There's no point being famous and popular in an empty world.

twitter literally didn’t work over the weekend and is suffering more and more random breakdowns. Replies don’t load, comment threads break, threads are filled with Bots. There’s no point being famous and popular on a platform where every random brain fart you want to tweet is met with an “error failed to load” message. It’s long past the time to pretend “only losers who want to stick it to Musk” are looking for a similar platform.

Facebook is the only company that could create a rival because ad sponsored social media is a shit tier business model no VC wants to touch. Masatadone or whatever will never be able to get the cash to scale. And none of the leftist are going to give a shit about Russian bot disinfo. They are literally screeching about China killing trannies on an app owned by the CCP.

 

[Star Platinum]

Musk retained Quinn Emanuel huh? they're notorious for being some of the country's most aggressive and obstinate lawyers in the corporate litigation scene. every time you take a breath they'll file a motion demanding to know who supplies your oxygen.

 

[FarmVille]

Musk retained Quinn Emanuel huh? they're notorious for being some of the country's most aggressive and obstinate lawyers in the corporate litigation scene. every time you take a breath they'll file a motion demanding to know who supplies your oxygen.

They’ve been his personal attorney for awhile now, working on the Dogecoin insider trader case

i guess if they can handle a shitcoin they can handle Facebook too

 

[ForTheHoard]

Maybe this will make it better?
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I'm guessing this happened sometime after wikileaks made Bush Jr. look bad but before they made Hill-dawg look bad. Assange does deserve to be free, but most of the "free assange" crowd jumped ship in 2016.

 

[Mothra1988]

Reminds me of the time "everyone" ran back to Twitter after trying Mastodon for five minutes.

Imagine being some leftard faggot running into the arms of Mark Zuckerberg. lol

 

[Vect]

twitter literally didn’t work over the weekend and is suffering more and more random breakdowns. Replies don’t load, comment threads break, threads are filled with Bots. There’s no point being famous and popular on a platform where every random brain fart you want to tweet is met with an “error failed to load” message. It’s long past the time to pretend “only losers who want to stick it to Musk” are looking for a similar platform.

You may be right, but I’ve heard the same sentiments about YouTube for years. It’s broken, I’m being demonitized, I’m being blacklisted, I’m being auto-unsubscribed, my comments are being botted, Susan Wojcicki bathes in orphan blood, yada, yada, yada. Oh, this and that platform will be what finally acts as a competitor to YouTube. If you listen to half these ‘creators’ they sound like they’re practically being held hostage. Almost nothing that YouTube has done in the past decade has been well received or popular, and yet that’s where people are. That’s where the eyes are established, and people will go to extraordinary degrees of inconvenience to justify a sunk-cost investment.

I don’t think people will swap over for just another version of Twitter, because it’s the risk investing in an unknown quantity for essentially no reward; the successor to it would have to be of a magnitude greater in terms of connectivity and advancement. Twitter, for all its faults, is already so convenient that the app set to replace it would literally have to allow you to kick someone in the nuts from the other side of the world to be competitive.

 

[cerulean hydra]

My own experience with Threads so far is that it's *exactly* what people were complaining about on twitter a few months ago with one of Elon's "gotta stop the bots somehow" plans. When the narrative became "Elon is going to make it so only blue ticks show up in 'For You'", but that didn't actually happen.

It's just a sea of blue ticks shilling shit and farming engagement.

 

[Oxyjen]

I'm guessing this happened sometime after wikileaks made Bush Jr. look bad but before they made Hill-dawg look bad. Assange does deserve to be free, but most of the "free assange" crowd jumped ship in 2016.

Sorry I cropped the date -‘this was yesterday.

 

[AnOminous]

Maybe this will make it better?

He has nothing to do with Ben & Jerry's any more. They sold it years and years ago. It's just a Unilever holding.

 

[Mothra1988]

You may be right, but I’ve heard the same sentiments about YouTube for years. It’s broken, I’m being demonitized, I’m being blacklisted, I’m being auto-unsubscribed, my comments are being botted, Susan Wojcicki bathes in orphan blood, yada, yada, yada. Oh, this and that platform will be what finally acts as a competitor to YouTube. If you listen to half these ‘creators’ they sound like they’re practically being held hostage. Almost nothing that YouTube has done in the past decade has been well received or popular, and yet that’s where people are. That’s where the eyes are established, and people will go to extraordinary degrees of inconvenience to justify a sunk-cost investment.

I don’t think people will swap over for just another version of Twitter, because it’s the risk investing in an unknown quantity for essentially no reward; the successor to it would have to be of a magnitude greater in terms of connectivity and advancement. Twitter, for all its faults, is already so convenient that the app set to replace it would literally have to allow you to kick someone in the nuts from the other side of the world to be competitive.

Yeah, notice how Twitter, Fackebook and TikTok all have different user bases. The only time I've ever seen a user base move successfully was when Tumblr, which was tiny in comparsion, dumped all its retards into Twitter. It was like of bottle of piss being being dumped into a bath tub full of piss, which is why it succeded. I have never seen a 1 to 1 Exodus. It always ends up like Parlor or Voat or whatever dumb thing that ends up floundering. Granted, Zukerberg will try to intertwine it with Instagram, which is successful, but good luck replicating Twitter through that strategy alone.

 

[AnOminous]

Granted, Zukerberg will try to intertwine it with Instagram, which is successful, but good luck replicating Twitter through that strategy alone.

I hope he doesn't replicate Twitter because Twitter is cancer. It'd be like exchanging pancreatic cancer for bone cancer. I hope he makes something harmless and commercial that your boomer aunt could enjoy, no porn or pervs allowed, and those fuckers have to go howl in the wilderness.