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Old 19th December 2022, 16:51     #161
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Quote:
"We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter," Twitter Support tweeted Sunday.

"Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post," the post continued.

The policy will also ban third-party link aggregators, including linktr.ee and lnk.bio, it said, adding that it will also seek to remove users who try to circumvent the rules by spelling out “dot” and sharing screenshots of their handles on prohibited platforms, among other means to get around the restrictions.
And now Twitter has deleted the entire thread, wtf
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Old 19th December 2022, 17:54     #162
Cyberbob
 
Elon's obviously already found a replacement CEO to manage Twitter, and will be transitioning shortly.

Or as he puts it:

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Old 19th December 2022, 18:51     #163
blynk
 
Pretty easy to use bots to skew it which way you like. But thats an interesting take as well.

He has someone he wants to take over and he knows the likely outcome of asking that question.
And if it does come back as no, then its his own validation.

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Old 19th December 2022, 19:00     #164
sidbo
Raptus regaliter
 
My guess is that he's been told to get back to Tesla or else, and this is his attempt to maintain the illusion that he's in control. And a cringey edgelord.
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Old 19th December 2022, 21:04     #165
Cyberbob
 
Or he just Thanos snaps everyone that votes “Yes.”
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Old 20th December 2022, 10:34     #166
sidbo
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https://www.fastcompany.com/90826940...off-the-island

top kek
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Old 20th December 2022, 10:43     #167
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Most likely outcome: Musk has already selected a CEO and the poll is just something to keep his ego in the news for another 48 hrs.
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Old 20th December 2022, 10:43     #168
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Meme format of the day

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Old 20th December 2022, 11:25     #169
sidbo
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I'll try and find a source, but I swear I read something earlier that said he doesn't have anyone lined up.
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Old 20th December 2022, 12:08     #170
Redneck
 
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Old 20th December 2022, 14:22     #171
DrTiTus
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I watched an interview the other day where Elon basically says the CxO titles are all made up - that only Treasurer, Secretary, President (from memory) are real titles of a C-Corp, and there needs to be one Director. They can all also be the same person. Everything else is bollocks, and his official title at Tesla is "Technoking" just to show that it's all arbitrary.

So he might drop the title of CEO, but does that change anything since he still owns the platform? He didn't conduct a poll on whether he should sell it and/or give up control.
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Old 22nd December 2022, 07:30     #172
sidbo
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I present to you, the most pathetic man in the world...




Looks like we were all wrong, Musk honestly thought he was liked enough that the poll would be in his favour. Now he's gonna re-do it with only those simps who ponied up able to vote.

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Old 3rd January 2023, 22:58     #173
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Irony is dead

https://twitter.com/anammostarac/sta...29155940823042
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Old 20th January 2023, 19:38     #174
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Sad.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01...end-of-an-era/

I think that was the first app I ever bought.
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Old 25th January 2023, 14:17     #175
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Tapbots just released Ivory for Mastodon, which means Mastodon just got a whole lot more attractive:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-...s/id6444602274

I'm [email protected] if any of you use it.
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Old 8th March 2023, 11:25     #176
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
This is hilarious and tragic:

https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/t...n_musk_twitter

https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/st...41759063605251
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Old 8th March 2023, 12:18     #177
wazza
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wow, that's insane
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Old 8th March 2023, 18:42     #178
Lightspeed
 
Thumbs up

Brilliant.
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Old 8th March 2023, 18:50     #179
Cyberbob
 
And of course it ends like everyone thought it would.

With great laywers and furious backtracking.

https://i.imgur.com/4fXEDPR.jpg
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Old 9th March 2023, 06:44     #180
StN
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"Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet"!

I wonder if he had retained the Corporate Communications department at Twitter, that they may have re-worded that sentiment...
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Old 9th March 2023, 06:59     #181
wazza
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyberbob
And of course it ends like everyone thought it would.

With great laywers and furious backtracking.

https://i.imgur.com/4fXEDPR.jpg
hah, gg
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Old 9th March 2023, 13:35     #182
Lightspeed
 
Laugh

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Old 10th March 2023, 01:48     #183
Ab
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This guy, an acquired owner on the "for god's sake do not fire" list, just baited Musk into firing him for being disabled, in public.

There are lawyers jerking off over this. Right now.
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Old 10th March 2023, 06:56     #184
wazza
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skeet skeet skeet
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Old 4th April 2023, 15:15     #185
StN
I have detailed files
 
And then he got bored, thought of an April fools joke, and applied it 3 days too late.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fsz562pa...pg&name=medium
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Old 11th April 2023, 12:53     #186
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Twitter no longer exists as a legal entity.

https://slate.com/technology/2023/04...-x-nevada.html
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Old 11th April 2023, 13:07     #187
Lightspeed
 
You reckon Jack Dorsey and the likes are loving this? They were holding a very complex bag, and then were just alleviated of it at a great price.

Is the whole "$13b loan for Project X" a hiding-in-plain-sight gambit?
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Old 17th May 2023, 12:17     #188
Ab
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Elon goes full antisemite:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1658291808592629761
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Old 1st June 2023, 18:36     #189
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Mastodon seems to have a strangely-high number of posts from people begging for money ("I'm a trans lesbian amputee of colour with lupus and I must move house tomorrow before I suffer genocide, click here for my Patreon to pay my expenses").
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Old 3rd June 2023, 02:31     #190
DrTiTus
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Mastodon is 100% gay.
Which is cool, unless you want serious responses.
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Old 7th June 2023, 16:40     #191
Lightspeed
 
Reddit purge?

Reddit to lay off about 5% of its workforce

Along with upcoming changes to API access, Reddit might going the way of many a nostalgically recalled platform of the past, on its path to making bank.

A more cynical person might wonder about the timing of what's being enabled and unfettered on Twitter, while a platform like Reddit succumbs to higher powers.
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Old 7th June 2023, 19:13     #192
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If Apollo dies, my Reddit usage dies along with it.
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Old 10th June 2023, 13:35     #193
Lightspeed
 
I am trying to puzzle out what outcome the Reddit execs are chasing right now.

Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA

What are they hoping for that's worth all this ill will? That the userbase will grumble, but ultimately accept the new status quo? Perhaps the hardcore will be satisfied with old., the rest will learn to love the ads?
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Old 14th June 2023, 21:29     #194
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ab
Mastodon seems to have a strangely-high number of posts from people begging for money ("I'm a trans lesbian amputee of colour with lupus and I must move house tomorrow before I suffer genocide, click here for my Patreon to pay my expenses").
Today’s:

https://octodon.social/@blkgoddess/110535112237399876
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Old 4th July 2023, 10:54     #195
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Columnist at Bloomberg:
Quote:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/ar...tter-from-home


Well, look, if I were the newly hired chief executive officer of a social media company, and if the directors and shareholders who brought me in as CEO had told me that my main mission was to turn around the company’s precarious financial situation by improving our position with advertisers, and if I spent my first few weeks reassuring advertisers and rebuilding relationships and talking up our site’s unique audience and powerful engagement, and then one day my head of software engineering came to me and said “hey boss, too many people were too engaged with too many posts, so I had to limit everyone’s ability to view posts on our site, just FYI,” I would ... probably ... fire ... him?
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Old 12th September 2023, 16:34     #196
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
The events described in this article are fucking insane.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/elon...f-urgency.html
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Old 12th September 2023, 17:06     #197
Lightspeed
 
Yup, exactly that.
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Old 13th September 2023, 17:20     #198
Know me.
 
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rip,_shit_orust
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Old 23rd September 2023, 14:51     #199
Lightspeed
 
An NYU professor with 560,000 followers says he's been locked out of his X account for over 2 weeks after declining to meet with Elon Musk

Quote:
Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU who's also known as an author and public speaker, said he was locked out of his X account after a quarrel with Elon Musk.

"A mutual friend reached out and said Elon feels 'unfairly attacked,' by me, and wants to meet," Galloway posted on Threads. "I declined."
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Old 25th September 2023, 10:40     #200
Ab
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Oh lol. Prof G is rich and successful enough to not give a fuck what Elon does. You can bet he’ll be writing and podcasting about this though.
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