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I love that musk is groveling asking people to pay for their blue checkmarks while tumblr's fundraising solution was to sell a tiny shitting horse, shoe laces, forced post visibility, and crab rain
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 ❤️
Elon Musk and Hank Green were having an argument over how Elon Musk is burying Twitter and then this guy cut in:
top 10 screenshots taken right before a Twitter ban
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
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.
Like. Okay. The reply inline system they were using before has been used on forums and threads for DECADES. Ever since we first use the computer we see the reply system that tumblr used to have. Our eyes have been trained to read conversations on the internet like that. And then Tumblr applies this new system, of reading a convo the same way we read an article. It doesn’t work because we’re used to seeing a new line, a new indentation, as a new person talking. The new system is set up like an article, without much of a visual queue to indicate that a new person is speaking. That’s my main problem. It’s making everything so much more difficult to read, especially for people with trouble reading. It makes me wonder just what kind of site the staff thinks they’re running. This is not an article site. This is a chat site. Its a conversation site. This is a multiple narrative site. They’re going against how literally every other thread site on the internet goes. They’ve made a horrible move here, in my opinion.
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:
he’s probably gonna try to take over the world but i mean, eh, let ‘em
