Elon Musk $41B offer for Twitter

[Byker28i]

Nothing to see here - just Musk pushing Qanon stuff
https://www.mediamatters.org/elon-musk/elon-musk-h...

[FNG]

pquinn said:

It'd be more interesting to mention (for example) that the Twitter press query email address now just responds with a single 'st' emoji. That sort of thing says a lot about the Saffer arse running the place.

The whole politics thing though is as tedious as Elon's attempts to be funny.

Which, despite Byker's lame attempts at projecting st onto me that isn't there, is my sole reason for mentioning it.

He's got an obsession with Trump, Bannon, and a load of US political detail that's drier than a firework factory. Fine. But at least keep it in one place we can all avoid.

Perhaps I misread the room, and everyone here wants a load of Trump guff to permeate this thread like it's done the other one. Go to it if that's the case and I'll get my entertainment elsewhere. There's slim pickings in this thread at the moment.

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[Al Gorithum]

FNG said:

Which, despite Byker's lame attempts at projecting st onto me that isn't there, is my sole reason for mentioning it.

He's got an obsession with Trump, Bannon, and a load of US political detail that's drier than a firework factory. Fine. But at least keep it in one place we can all avoid.

Perhaps I misread the room, and everyone here wants a load of Trump guff to permeate this thread like it's done the other one. Go to it if that's the case and I'll get my entertainment elsewhere. There's slim pickings in this thread at the moment.

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Electro1980 called it correctly a few posts above IMO.

Maybe substitute "obsession" with "interest in the biggest political scandal/s in US history" which bleeds into this thread to get a better idea.

[_dobbo_]

FNG said:

Which, despite Byker's lame attempts at projecting st onto me that isn't there, is my sole reason for mentioning it.

He's got an obsession with Trump, Bannon, and a load of US political detail that's drier than a firework factory. Fine. But at least keep it in one place we can all avoid.

Perhaps I misread the room, and everyone here wants a load of Trump guff to permeate this thread like it's done the other one. Go to it if that's the case and I'll get my entertainment elsewhere. There's slim pickings in this thread at the moment.

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I think you're the one projecting. As far as I can see on the previous page that offended you so, Byker hasn't even mentioned Trump. It's a Musk thread, where it's being discussed that Musk repeatedly aligns with Q-Anon conspiracies and right wing or Russian disinfo/talking points.

His much lauded "verification" system has simply made the disinformation on the platform worse than ever. Nothing whatsoever to do with Trump unless you choose to connect dots and make it so.

[FNG]

My mistake, I'll be off then.

[_dobbo_]

FNG said:

My mistake, I'll be off then.

Or you could join in the discussion and we can all skip the ad-hom attacks? Your choice I guess.

[Some Gump]

_dobbo_ said:

Or you could join in the discussion and we can all skip the ad-hom attacks? Your choice I guess.

Last few.pages have been nowt but qanon wibble. I can wee where he's coming from.

[tangerine_sedge]

Some Gump said:

_dobbo_ said:

Or you could join in the discussion and we can all skip the ad-hom attacks? Your choice I guess.

Last few.pages have been nowt but qanon wibble. I can wee where he's coming from.

Well, if elno didn't post Qanon wibble we wouldn't be talking about it...

[Byker28i]

Musk has valued twitter at $20bn in an email to remaining employees offering stock grants, a long way from the $44bn he paid for it.
https://nordot.app/1012527219320537088?c=592622757...

[Byker28i]

FNG said:

Which, despite Byker's lame attempts at projecting st onto me that isn't there, is my sole reason for mentioning it.

He's got an obsession with Trump, Bannon, and a load of US political detail that's drier than a firework factory. Fine. But at least keep it in one place we can all avoid.

Perhaps I misread the room, and everyone here wants a load of Trump guff to permeate this thread like it's done the other one. Go to it if that's the case and I'll get my entertainment elsewhere. There's slim pickings in this thread at the moment.

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Whoa - "lame attempt?" - I stood up for your rant post, explained why, then you've continued a personal attack?
The only one showing obsessive behaviour is you. Think about that!

[spookly]

Byker28i said:

Musk has valued twitter at $20bn in an email to remaining employees offering stock grants, a long way from the $44bn he paid for it.
https://nordot.app/1012527219320537088?c=592622757...

Still a punchy price IMHO. $20b for something that isn't even turning a profit and could easily be displaced by the next big SM platform.

[skwdenyer]

Businesses who want to be verified must join Blue for
Business, a programme under which they can - confusingly - receive a gold tick, in return for the modest sum of £1k / month…

[Gweeds]

skwdenyer said:

Businesses who want to be verified must join Blue for
Business, a programme under which they can - confusingly - receive a gold tick, in return for the modest sum of £1k / month…

Ryan Broderick had a lovely bit about this last week:

"At this point, I no longer consider Twitter’s comms channels an official broadcast of the company’s activity and, instead, now I sort of treat it like a glimpse into the frothing and desperate collective Id of late-stage Big Tech. Every couple days it’ll blast out a bunch of updates on features and products and monetization strategies that will never actually happen and don’t really mean anything. I mean, the company’s ability to articulate its own roadmap seems to be so meaningless to itself that it literally set up an auto-reply to its PR email that just sends back a poop emoji.

This week, though, Twitter announced a couple curious things that I do think provide some fun insights into how grim things are getting over there. First, we finally have an actual date for the “winding down” of of the “legacy verified program”. It’s April 1st. Because there is literally no one with any common sense left at that company.

Oh, even funnier, if an institution wants to be verified it will cost $1,000 a month! Plus an additional $50 for each account underneath that organization. lol sorry, but are you out of your fking mind???

I clicked on the link to see what the paid verification currently offers and it didn’t work for a while because the site is breaking in front of our very eyes. But when I finally got it to show up, it currently lists access to things like an edit button, folders for bookmarks, a way to customize your navigation inside the app, and the ability to post long videos. Apparently, you’ll eventually get the ability to rank higher in replies and see less ads. See the first paragraph above for how I feel about the likelihood of those things happening.

But let’s pretend that on April 1st the legacy-check-pocalypse will happen. According to the most recent data I can find, 0.2% of the site pays for Twitter Blue. I do not believe there is anything that Twitter can do to get that number above even 1% in the next nine days. So all that’s going to happen is that we’ll suddenly be able to immediately identify who pays for Twitter (and doesn’t matter) and lose any ability to know if what we’re looking at is an account run by real person (who does, assumedly, matter).

This will also, hilariously, immediately remove any reason to pay for verification. Now, I’m sure there are some people who are paying $8 a month for an edit button and longer video uploads. And if you pay for Twitter and read this newsletter, know I love you and by reading Garbage Day, the cringe itself cancels out. But based on the amount of NFT and AI spam being pumped out by Twitter Blue subscribers, it seems like the majority of the 0.2% that pays for Twitter is paying to make themselves look like people who are important or notable enough to be legacy verified.

And it seems like at least someone inside of Twitter is aware of this little conundrum because Alessandro Paluzzi, a platform features leaker, noticed earlier this month that the app is currently testing ways to hide your Twitter Blue checkmark. So I just want to put all of this together in one concise paragraph because it’s maybe the funniest thing in the whole world:

Elon Musk and an army of the tech industry’s biggest reactionary dorks literally bought and took over Twitter after years of being both obsessed with it and also completely consumed with resentment over “the liberal establishment’s” perceived importance on the app. They were furious that they did not also get the same little blue checkmark that 22-year-old viral news reporters were given so they could protect themselves from impersonators and mute some of the death threats they get on a daily basis. And so these giant losers built a new way to pay for a blue checkmark so they could pretend like they were just as important as they assumed the verified users believed themselves to be. And they expected everyone else to eventually pay to keep their checkmarks. No one has, of course, but Twitter is still moving forward with this. But they seem to realize that if they do that all it’ll do is make Musk’s try-hard fanboys immediately identifiable on the app. So now they’re building a way to hide how lame they will look alone on the site with their paid checkmarks.

Very cool. Good stuff. Excited for April 1st.'

[Byker28i]

Monika Lewinsky has joined the blue tick verification questioning, pointing out theres several fake accounts, including a fake one thats verified

https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/16399726...

[dimots]

Byker28i said:

Monika Lewinsky has joined the blue tick verification questioning, pointing out theres several fake accounts, including a fake one thats verified

https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/16399726...

So I got sucked in (no pun intended) and checked the '@monicalewinskai' account and it doesn't pretend to be Monica Lewisnky at all, it just has an account name that is a lame pun on her name and AI.

A bit like if I called my Twitter account '@ChillClinton'.

WTF people is the internet too didficult for you or what?

[_dobbo_]

dimots said:

So I got sucked in (no pun intended) and checked the '@monicalewinskai' account and it doesn't pretend to be Monica Lewisnky at all, it just has an account name that is a lame pun on her name and AI.

A bit like if I called my Twitter account '@ChillClinton'.

WTF people is the internet too didficult for you or what?

So you got sucked in, but the problem is other people, who find the internet too "didficult "

I genuinely don't know where to start. It's too didficult.

[dimots___]

I had a didficult time earlier understanding basic things but now I feel OK because I payed for blooooo tick.

[captain_cynic]

dimots said:

So I got sucked in (no pun intended) and checked the '@monicalewinskai' account and it doesn't pretend to be Monica Lewisnky at all, it just has an account name that is a lame pun on her name and AI.

A bit like if I called my Twitter account '@ChillClinton'.

WTF people is the internet too didficult for you or what?

There in lies the problem you see.

If someone as "samrt" as you could be so easily suckered in, how would the average person do?

[Byker28i]

dimots___ said:

I had a didficult time earlier understanding basic things but now I feel OK because I payed for blooooo tick.

Sigh - have to spell it out for Musks public defender.
You were defending Musks blue tick approach and paying for it - there's yet another problem and someone complaining about it?
One of those fake accounts is blue ticked...

[Byker28i]

Some parts of Twitter Inc's source code have been leaked and Twitter/Musk is seeking information on the person responsible in a filing made on 24 march. They want Github to produce "All identifying information" associated with the 'FreeSpeechEnthusiast' user name
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67091763/twit...

According to the filing, "various excerpts" of Twitter's source code, which is used to run the company online, were posted on Github, a Microsoft-owned platform for sharing code for software development, by a user named 'FreeSpeechEnthusiast'. GitHub did not comment on how long Twitter's source code had been publicly available but have removed the code

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/26/twitter-source-cod...

The article says that Musk has said he will release the code used to make recomendations at the end of the month

Edited by Byker28i on Monday 27th March 06:08