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

[Apathetic Luigi]

Reminder that elon will "TOTALLY SAVE TWITTER AND FREE SPEECH".
Now give the boer nigger your ID photo goyim, for a "freer" internet.

 

[Schpoots]

>null joins xitter
>three days later xitter adds gov ID

 

[Dona Morte]

Here is a response I would like to denbunk.

No it won't.
These two men along with his crew have been calling 3 people chomos and predators without proof for up to 3- 4 years now.

 

[World in Scarlet]

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"Hi anon! Wanna get verified so people see your Xweets more? Please show us your full government name and face!"

I look forward to all the grifters and prostitutes flooding every tag having their ID on record. Maybe some will be held accountable for wasting people's time. From what I read this for the "blue checkmark" accounts only.

 

[Anonitolia]

god I hate that people like this exist
reading this shit makes my skin crawl

 

[Kung Pow Cream]

Okay so let me get this straight:

1. Twitter needs money.
2. Elon scares off corporations that pay Twitter for ads.
3. Elon then makes people pay for a blue checkmark. The price of the feature is then haggled down via a public discussion with Stephen King like it's a fucking yard sale
4. To even get to the amount of money needed to make Twitter profitable, a significant portion of people would have to pay for the checkmark. The portion would have been smaller if Elon hadn't haggled it down.
5. Twitter still needs money
6. Folks then pretend to be companies, further scaring them away and even impacting their stock market prices.
7. No one is buying the fucking checkmark and some users are even having the checkmark forced upon them.
8. The checkmark, something that was free a few months ago, is now requiring your ID, something that was never needed. This will definitely not backfire and the data will definitely not get leaked.
9. Twitter still needs money

Big brain thinking happening at Twitter right now

 

[World in Scarlet]

No one is buying the fucking checkmark

Scammers and grifters of every variety are buying it, because it's an extremely cheap way to get your trash pushed to the top of every feed.

 

[Kung Pow Cream]

Scammers and grifters of every variety are buying it, because it's an extremely cheap way to get your trash pushed to the top of every feed.

Okay, so in order to fight off those people, they're requiring an ID. This is turning into a "Old lady swallowed a fly" situation.

 

[Sperghetti]

Here is a response I would like to denbunk.

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay might have begged to differ about that.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

Elon scares off corporations that pay Twitter for ads.

Journalists and seething ex-employees pressure advertisers to stop advertising on Twitter.

Twitter still needs money

Twitter was always relying on outside funding. Journalists didn't report it until Elon owned Twitter. Some even reported it before the purchase was finalized. American journalists did the same with Bolsonaro's election victory. They were including photos of Brazil's massive wealth gap and claiming it was "Bolsonaro's Brazil" before he was even sworn in.


People in this thread forget or willingly ignore how many people in influential positions in "the cathedral" have been negatively impacted by Elon owning Twitter.

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay might have begged to differ about that.

That's fascist lit, sir.

 

[Kung Pow Cream]

Twitter was always relying on outside funding. Journalists didn't report it until Elon owned Twitter. Some even reported it before the purchase was finalized. American journalists did the same with Bolsonaro's election victory. They were including photos of Brazil's massive wealth gap and claiming it was "Bolsonaro's Brazil" before he was even sworn in.

Nigger, that's why I put "Twitter needs money" as the first thing. Social media has consistently been difficult to be profitable. That's why they always do retarded shit like sell your data to try to get some kind of check.

Elon even said that Twitter wasn't profitable when he first started. That's why he tried to do all these things that I listed to get some semblance of profit and they failed to get the social media app to make money. And that's why I put it at the beginning.

It's always needed money.

 

[DumbDude43]

Wasn't this the entire point of verification in the first place? So people know that you are who you say you are? Musk is so fucking retarded holy shit

to crack down on bot accounts

 

[Breadbassket]

Nigger, that's why I put "Twitter needs money" as the first thing. Social media has consistently been difficult to be profitable. That's why they always do retarded shit like sell your data to try to get some kind of check.

Elon even said that Twitter wasn't profitable when he first started. That's why he tried to do all these things that I listed to get some semblance of profit and they failed to get the social media app to make money. And that's why I put it at the beginning.

It's always needed money.

Twitter as a social media site is notorious for not making much money even before Musk. Considering everything that has transpired from when he bought the site up to now it appears not much is going to change in terms of profitability.

 

[Omen_Sulk]

Here is a response I would like to denbunk.
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No it won't.
These two men along with his crew have been calling 3 people chomos and predators without proof for up to 3- 4 years now.

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They already tested GovID for Internet in South Korea for years. It was scrapped in 2007, because they found it did fucking nothing. People will still call you out. There was no change in "hate speech"

It's not for reducing haters. It's for Government tracking purposes.

 

[teriyakiburns]

The checkmark, something that was free a few months ago, is now requiring your ID, something that was never needed.

Blue check marks always required some form of id, otherwise how could they call it verification? What's new with this is the requirement to facedox yourself to a third party facial recognition service.

Also, checkmarks were "free", but often had an under-the-table price of possibly thousands of dollars to speed up the verification process.

 

[Oliver Onions]

This is retarded but caring about being verified on Twitter is more retarded and still using Twitter for anything more than a shitposting playground is more retarded still.

Anything Musk does to accelerate the death of bird site and social media as a whole is good with me.

 

[MunsterCheeseJr]

@Kung Pow Cream Yes, twitter needs money. But I think it would be more accurate to state that twitter needs short term cash flow to extend the time Musk has to develop his master plan.

Twitter has an extremely large existing userbase. Musk has always been into payment processors such as paypal. He is going to want to turn twitter into an app that you use to pay for things.

And from there, the obvious master plan is to turn twitter aka "X" into an "everything app." Similar to Tencent's WeChat program in China. It is used for everything there. Payments at stores. Banking. Travel transit ticket purchases. Movie ticket purchases.

By twitter becoming the man-in-the-middle for everything the profits would just fall into his lap by skimming... taking a percentage off of every transaction.

Tencent's WeChat get's to pick the winners & losers of any industry. You want to be a winner for your industry? Then give WeChat a better cut of the profits, or pay for top visability.

It is a winning plan IF Musk can slowly roll out the features that people want, get them used, and turn it into everyone's goto app. It has been done before, Musk just needs to replicate it here in the US.

Apple might be the biggest stick in the mud. They may demand 30% of every transaction.

 

[Oxyjen]

It is a winning plan IF Musk can slowly roll out the features that people want, get them used, and turn it into everyone's goto app. It has been done before, Musk just needs to replicate it here in the US.

Indeed his ambition is to be in control of and making money from “everything”, and I can’t think of a worse person to have that sort of power to abuse.

 

[Sperghetti]

It is a winning plan IF Musk can slowly roll out the features that people want, get them used, and turn it into everyone's goto app. It has been done before, Musk just needs to replicate it here in the US.

That’s a massive “if” though.

The problem is that he’s using Twitter as a base for it which, despite what Twitter addicts like Musk think, not everybody uses or even has any real reason to use. Normies over the age of 25 don’t use Twitter, they use Facebook, and that’s because they don’t care as much about keeping in touch with celebrities and random internet people as much as they do about keeping in touch with people they already know in real life. I don’t know about anyone else here, but I can’t think of a single person I know in real life who has ever mentioned using Twitter.

WeChat originally gained popularity from being an instant messaging app, something that’s massively useful to outside of the first world where most phones run on Android and sending every text via SMS costs money. It’s easy to gradually expand like that when your base is something that even your average person who just wants to keep in touch with friends/family is using.

Trying to do that with Twitter, though, means you need to convince people who aren’t already using it to sign up, and when virtually every attractive feature you could add already has a well-established alternative or two that those people are already using, that’s going to be kind of hard.

 

[ForTheHoard]

Any US company acting as a payment processor is going to have significant pressure on them from the government to enact KYC (know your customer) policies. They've been working very hard to end anonymous financial transactions for a decade. None of the payment processors have tried fighting it yet, but Janet Yellen has already shown she's willing to use sanctions against any entity facilitating anonynimity in finance. Think Tornado Cash. Their excuse was that anything anonymous means it's being used by rogue states and terrorist organizations. We're actively sanctioning lines of code because "North Korea uses it."

It's all just a means to track low dollar transactions for the sake of tax enforcement and debanking political dissidents. If you violate sanctions and use the service, you'll basically get charged with treason.