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The fact that Stephen King really said “fuck you” to Elon and Elon was like “wait but what if it’s $8 instead-” made my respect for Stephen King go up by 500%

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lizardsfromspace

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ELON MUSK'S GRAND PLAN FOR TWITTER

  1. Buy it for billions of dollars
  2. Be so surrounded by crypto and NFT shills and yes men that you start to see Twitter's ordinary users as the real bots
  3. 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
  4. Make impersonation trivial, and let everyone who pays you $5 have all their tweets boosted no matter what
  5. Make the site a barely functional husk run by a skeleton crew and reduce moderation in the name of free speech
  6. Have your site flooded with bots, impersonators, and spam
  7. ???
  8. 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

lizardsfromspace

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

lizardsfromspace

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

A tweet by Matt Binder: there’s a few interesting data points in the piece but here’s one traffic comparison: fake user visits to tracked ads from social media platforms over Super Bowl weekend: - X / Twitter: 75.9% - TikTok: 2.6% - Facebook: 2% - Instagram: 0.7% And a link to a Mashable story titled "The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests"ALT

It 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

lizardsfromspace

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%

bigbootybritches
wilwheaton

“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.

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