every once and a while twitter is genuinely enjoyable
Elon Musk and Hank Green were having an argument over how Elon Musk is burying Twitter and then this guy cut in:
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Elon Musk hasn’t kept his promise to help the people of Flint. So I will.
All money goes to the Genesee County United Way and their Flint Water Fund to help people get clean bottled water.
Thanks ❤️
Anonymous asked:
I need help to prove to my aunt on why elon musk is bullshit
just show her his twitter
ELON MUSK'S GRAND PLAN FOR TWITTER
- Buy it for billions of dollars
- Be so surrounded by crypto and NFT shills and yes men that you start to see Twitter's ordinary users as the real bots
- Scrap the site's pre-existing bot programs bc you were mad a report showed that the site didn't have as much of a bot problem as you thought
- Make impersonation trivial, and let everyone who pays you $5 have all their tweets boosted no matter what
- Make the site a barely functional husk run by a skeleton crew and reduce moderation in the name of free speech
- Have your site flooded with bots, impersonators, and spam
- ???
- Make them pay you $1 as a effort to fix spam, even though most of them already paid $5 for the checkmark that incentivized them to spam
Genius. The real Tony Stark. A pioneer on par with the Wright brothers and Zefram Cochrane. Where do I sign up for my One-Way Ticket to Mars NFT
I love how he's obsessed with fixing bots on Twitter, but not just fixing it, he has to fix it.
A normal person buying a company would react to a report saying the site's bot problem isn't as bad as expected with "oh, great, that frees up resources we don't have to allocate there". He reacted by firing the staff responsible in anger, bc if there weren't millions of bots for him to ban, spending all that money would be a waste. This is the management style of a guy who demands a rescue team ditch their equipment to use his sub midway through, and who said he could fix world hunger then rejected an itemized list of what he could spend money on to end some world hunger bc it wouldn't fix all of it
When Elon bought Twitter, he was given a report saying the bot problem wasn't as bad as he thought. He fired the people responsible and started declaring that he would solve the bot problem
Today, the majority of traffic on Twitter is now bots
ALTIt all makes sense, though, when you realize Elon is not only really stupid and bad at everything, but also he didn't even realize the bots on Twitter were bots, bc of course someone who surrounds himself with crypto shills was going to end up seeing the site's normal users as the suspect ones
He literally ran the site into the ground due to an obsessive need to "fix the bot problem", and he ended up creating the worst bot problem in the history of social media, over 73% worse than the next-worst site. And that's before you consider the possibility that big brain genius Elon Musk is trying to fix Twitter's ad revenue problem by making bots that engage with ads. Incredible
Fave part of this, from the story itself, is that the cybersecurity firm monitoring this almost refused to publish the data, bc they didn't believe it could really be that bad
Apparently, before he did all this, the number of bots last year at the same time was...2.81%. That was the number Elon was desperate to fix, and he turned 2% into 75%
“If Elon Musk has his way, the effects on Twitter of his buying up the social media platform will end up being the least of our problems. To get a sense of how bad this could get, it’s instructive to look at the parallels between Musk’s Twitter acquisition and the creation of Fox News. When Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch started Fox News in the late 1990s, they envisioned the channel as a counterbalance to the rest of the supposedly liberal media, a cudgel to deploy against the news media to get coverage for manufactured controversies and right-wing misinformation. Musk views Twitter in much the same way that Murdoch and Ailes saw Fox at its inception. To Musk, social media companies haven’t just gone too far in addressing extremism, bigotry, and disinformation – they shouldn’t be addressing these issues at all. Musk’s vision of Twitter isn’t simply as a platform free from constraints, but as an instrument to counterbalance the “woke” social networks. As Twitter’s new owner, Musk will open the floodgates of hate and lies by undoing a host of very basic protections against harassment, abuse, and disinformation. There is a reason why banned users—ranging from Roger Stone and Marjorie Taylor Greene to QAnon and Infowars conspiracy theorists to white supremacists—are all celebrating this acquisition and gleefully anticipating the restoration of their accounts.”
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Elon Musk Will Use Twitter to Update Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Playbook
The second this purchase is finalized, every fascist in the world will be handed a megaphone so loud and unaccountable, they will use it to drown out every voice that isn’t their own.
This is a DISASTER for marginalized people, and a deadly weapon for autocrats.
In the continuing story of "genius" Elon Musk taking over Twitter and then possibly fucking up entirely, apparently you have to give at least 60 days notice of mass layoffs by federal and state law in California, and shockingly enough, Musk didn't do that when he bought to company and planned to start mass layoffs within a week.
Link to a non pay-walled version of the story at Archive.org.
Anonymous asked:
what r ur thoughts on Elon musk?
he’s probably gonna try to take over the world but i mean, eh, let ‘em
Anonymous asked:
WAIT NEVERMIND I RETRACT MY ELON MUSK STATEMENT I WAS SLIGHTLY WRONG. the facility is an offshoot of spacex named firefly that like went off on their own or some shit but not ACTUAL spacex ppl, and the offshoot ppl are the ones that were arrogant shits to everyone around here!! but apparently they filed for bankruptcy in april bc karma is real & i love her. i forgive u elon my resentment was misdirected. as long as ur brain chips stay away from me we cool lmao. go for ur man kaij
lmao bless