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Threads hasn't been alive for a day, and Twitter is already threatening to sue
Mike, given what was written in the article above, this claim rings a bit hollow. I’ve been following you guys for years. I like the tech stuff. Buy some of your writers don’t seem to be able to help themselves and can’t stay on message or on mission - that this is a tech publication. I haven’t posted much here of late for a reason.Anilu_777 said:
I agree with your last paragraph but not the first two. Twitter was a shitshow before Musk and it has only gotten worse since he bought it. Having a decent “town square” where debates could happen and things could be shared very much depends on the moderators preventing said shitshow. Threads will undoubtedly become just as bad.jdw said:I personally feel folks need to leave Musk alone. He bought Twitter. He can and SHOULD try things. You win sometimes and you lose sometimes. Not all decisions are good. But CHANGE is better than what the old Twitter did.
I am mainly writing this post because I spotted a separate article here on AppleInsider today entitled "How to delete your Twitter account on iOS & the web." I couldn't help but feel that was pushing the "We think Twitter is bad, and we think you should feel that way too" narrative. And what do you know? Comments are BANNED under that article, thereby giving credence to my suspicions.
The world has gone mad. The very fact people spend so much time on social media is partly evidence of that. Calm down. Take a deep breath. Look outside at the beautiful world instead of your mobile phone. Think positive thoughts rather than be so critical. There is a batter way. Most people simply chose not to pursue it.
I know you’ll delete this, and that’s OK. At least you will have read it.
I wish you all the best and hope for better days to come for AI.
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Twitter staff nearly decimated by Musk's 'extremely hardcore' demand
That 75% number appears to be BS. It’s hater talking points.DAalseth said:LOL Those posts here saying that Musk is just clearing out the dead wood, that Twitter staff was full of people that weren’t working hard, weren’t pulling their weight really crack me up. Do you really think that 75%+ of the staff weren’t needed? Do you really think the site that had trouble staying up last World Cup will do just fine with not just people, but whole departments gone? With Content Moderation crippled? With Public Relations and Communications dark? With most of the programmers and infrastructure people not there, or at best spending time looking to get out? Do you honestly think that by selectively driving away the most experienced, most talented, most capable members of the staff, the site will somehow work better?
Get real. This fiasco will be used by business schools in the future of exactly how not to take over a company. As an example of precisely how not to treat your staff. As Exhibit A of managers that did not know WTH they were doing.
The Twitter employees who are leaving won’t be around to undermine the new boss. It’s a good way to clear house. Obviously, many posters here think that Twitter was just fine and dandy befits big bad Elon showed up. Twitter was bonkers partisan. It was a poorly run profitless shit show. Arbitrary enforcement of their rules undermined its credibility. Musk is putting and end to it. And he’s going to to it with committed people and not those who would secretly try to undermine him.
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Elon Musk moving forward on Twitter deal, and might mean it this time
Sounds like the nattering nabobs of negativism who said no one could create reusable rockets.DAalseth said:What’s going to be funny is the scale of this failure. He has said that he was going to clean up Twitter, let it be a free speech zone, and eliminate the bots. These are mutually exclusive, and contradictory wishes. What’s more, if he fails at any of them, he fails. If he does something the current users don’t like, he fails. If he does nothing he fails. If he tries something totally out of left field and overhauls how Twitter works and operates, it won’t work, and he fails. There is literally no way Musk can do anything with Twitter without looking like he screwed up, and without losing a s***ton of money. He literally cannot win this one. Musk thought he was the golden boy that could do no wrong, and is about to be proven terribly wrong.
Twitter has been running on empty for the last few years. Their heavy focus on political content moderation has diverted their attention from improving user experience and fighting bots and similar fake accounts. Twitter invented and owned this space. But their misguided focus has opened a window of opportunity for new competing platforms and people have been leaving for these platforms.
Musk will move to verify all accounts. He will fire roughly 75% of the workforce that appears to be focused on political moderation and censorship. Good riddance. He will clean up the mishmash of algorithms that compartmentalized people into likeminded demographics without them even knowing.
Twitter is a hot mess but it has great potential. Musk sees that very clearly. He loves the platform. -
Twitter sues Elon Musk for backing out of $44 billion merger
Inspection of a house before committing money is a perfectly apt example. I wouldn’t be too sure that Twitter management covered any contingency like this is the contract. Twitter recently lost over $1.5B within an 18 month period. So these guys haven’t exactly been on the ball.sconosciuto said:Except he’s not buying a house so your analogy falls flat on its face.
I would be shocked if Twitter hadn’t covered this exact contingency in the contract.
Occam’s Razor says this is simply a sociopathic billionaire (but I repeat myself) trying to back out of a bad deal he made. -
Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal over high fake user count
So, how do you know that Musk didn’t expect the Tesla stock hit? Firstly, we knew he was going to sell Tesla stock, and any large share sales would negatively affect the stock price. Secondly, you have wonders like Bill Gates who publicly said he was going to short the stock.sandor said:Would anyone really be surprised if >50% of Twitter accounts were not "fake" "spam" "bots" "non-human"?
He didnt expect the Tesla stock hit, so his $44 billion in funding suddenly represented a majority of his on-paper fortune.
Hopefully Twitter holds out for the $1 billion payment from him if he does back out.
One of the most immediate fixes social media could implement is human-backed accounts.
Agree that verification of all accounts is going to be a very good thing. It’s rather surprising that Twitter made so little effort to do it.
