Elon Musk

[MachoMadness]

Baffling how anyone can say new Twitter is good. Functionally it is clearly falling to bits, with no end of bugs on show. I've personally seen video playback errors, content not loading, blocking and following bugs, I couldn't see quote tweets at all for a while. Others have reported being unable to send DMs. Now we have Tweet rations, and everything Musk has said or done since taking charge proves he doesn't have a clue.

Boosting of paid blue ticks means that absolute f**king idiots - which you categorically are if you're paying for a blue tick - can artifically boost their reach, so interesting posts are buried beneath crypto scammers, Elon fanboys, spam bots, and a sprinkling of Nazis for good measure. Not to mention the epidemic of animal abuse videos posted under popular threads, which don't get removed for ages as the genius in charge fired most of the moderation team.

It's basically descending into a far right echo chamber, where the guy who runs the place shares conspiracy theories from white nationalists and launches Republican presidential campaign bids while still claiming to be politically neutral.

The reason the rate limit is needed is down to a rushed update the dipshit pushed out that forces people to log in to read tweets, by the way. It's sending too many requests to get data and DDOSing itself, which is normally something that malicious hackers to to crash a website.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Every time I go on Twitter lately, I'm bombarded by adverts for illegal telescopic batons and hugh powered catapults.

I can't decide whether Musk is a negligent big kid indulging his ego, or something far darker and more dangerous. But either way, it's insane that he's allowed to own and run this platform.

[BillyStubbsTears]

MM.

This, from a very smart Twitter user is an interesting take.

https://twitter.com/t0nyyates/status/1675987412973961217?s=20

As he says, it's contentious and his own opinion, but a lot of it fits with the facts over the past year.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Musk and Zuckerberg.

Owners of two dangerously powerful communications systems.

Having a public argument about whether they will have a cage fight.

f**k me it's like the entire world is in a script that was rejected for Black Mirror.

[idler]

Well that made me laugh BST but it says something about today’s world that people like this are so powerful.

[BillyStubbsTears]

It does Idler.  A pair of narcissistic kids with fragile egos.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Musk is slowly destroying Twitter.

He decimated the team that watched over hate speech and banned accounts. Just this week there have been complaints submitted about accounts with names that are variants of "gasthejews" and they've all been rejected, with Twitter saying there's no reason to ban the accounts.

So most Blue chip companies have withdrawn their advertising accounts - who wants to see adverts for their products in threads promoting genocide?

As a result, the actual adverts have become weirder. They used to be adverts for cheap trainers and stay-pressed shirts.

Then they morphed into adverts for lethal weapons.

Now I'm bombarded with adverts that claim to be BBC reports on the theme "People horrified by how he made his money" splattered across pictures of Chris Packham. Which turn out to be promoting scam cryptocurrency websites.

What an almighty f**k up.

[belton rover]

If it’s a f**k up that sees the demise of Twitter, then surely that’s a good thing.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Oh yeah. And in other news, it turns out Musk is running his own, private foreign policy.

Musk who has repeatedly called for the theft of land in the Russian invasion to be accepted as a fact, blocked Ukraine from using Starlink to support an attack on Russia's Black Sea fleet. That left the Russian ships free to lob missiles into Ukrainian city centres.

[BillyStubbsTears]

If it’s a f**k up that sees the demise of Twitter, then surely that’s a good thing.

No. Twitter is potentially one of the greatest things that humanity has ever produced. It allows communication on a scale never known before.

Personally I've found it wonderful to be able to tap in real time into the minds of genuine experts on topics that I'm interested in, either  professionally or personally.

The fact thatvit can also be used to spread hatred and deliberate disinformation is a reflection on the standards and morals of some parts of humanity. But you don't deal with that by cutting everyone off.

[belton rover]

If it’s a f**k up that sees the demise of Twitter, then surely that’s a good thing.

No. Twitter is potentially one of the greatest things that humanity has ever produced. It allows communication on a scale never known before.

Personally I've found it wonderful to be able to tap in real time into the minds of genuine experts on topics that I'm interested in, either  professionally or personally.

The fact thatvit can also be used to spread hatred and deliberate disinformation is a reflection on the standards and morals of some parts of humanity. But you don't deal with that by cutting everyone off.

That’s impossible to police. There are too many people in the world  with terrible standards and morals, I’m afraid. And too many people who think those people should have their say.

[SydneyRover]

Some interesting insights into the Musk ............

''Who or what is to blame for Elon Musk? Famed biographer of intellectually muscular men Walter Isaacson’s dull, insight-free doorstop of a book casts a wide but porous net in search of an answer. Throughout the tome, Musk’s confidantes, co-workers, ex-wives and girlfriends present a DSM-5’s worth of psychiatric and other theories for the “demon moods” that darken the lives of his subordinates, and increasingly the rest of us, among them bipolar disorder, OCD, and the form of autism formerly known as Asperger’s. But the idea that any of these conditions are what makes Musk an “asshole” (another frequently used descriptor of him in the book), while also making him successful in his many pursuits, is an insult to all those affected by them who manage to change the world without leaving a trail of wounded people, failing social networks and general despair behind them. The answer then must lie elsewhere''

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/13/elon-musk-by-walter-isaacson-review-arrested-development

[BillyStubbsTears]

https://twitter.com/michaelsobolik/status/1701926222962266341

This is like listening to a really poor A level student trying to form coherent thoughts.

But there's one thing consistent with him. He pushes Putin's line. He pushes Xi's line.

[BillyStubbsTears]

https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1703539315907645599/photo/1

f**k me. Full on anti-semitism. What a Kitson.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Musk has just reinstated the Twitter accounts of Katie Hopkins and Yaxley- Lennon, both of whom were banned for abusive postings.

It appears that Musk has done this after a few far right posters asked him to reinstate the two banned accounts.

Great, eh?

[Sprotyrover]

I have started using X but I am surprised at how many blatantly racist and sexist posts are on there!

[BillyStubbsTears]

It's fast becoming a cesspit.

The business model relies on people paying $8/month for premium accounts. Those people get their tweets pushed up the feed. It's quite clear that this has been hijacked by bits and organised hate groups paying this small sum to amplify their hate speech and make Twitter either unusable, or actively dangerous through normalising/pushing that sort of abuse.

It fits the FSB playbook. It's a cheap and effective way to totally f**k up reasonable democratic discussion and information flow.

The question is, is Musk complicit in that, or is he f**king thick beyond words and not understanding what he is doing?

[BillyStubbsTears]

Going well isn't it?

Musk can't stop posting genuinely disgusting anti-Semitic tropes. He's got major advertisers leaving Twitter faster than rats off a sinking ship.

[DRFC_AjA]

Regarding his approval of the antisemitism there's no defence. But the advertisers boycotting because apparently there's loads of nazi ads has been exposed as lefties faking news. His tweet gives details of the anaylsis X has done of their algos into what Media Matters actually did to basically falsify news. The nasty nasties strike again

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-suing-media-matters-advertising-x-twitter-ads-nazi-white-pride-1235798786/

[BillyStubbsTears]

Regarding his approval of the antisemitism there's no defence. But the advertisers boycotting because apparently there's loads of nazi ads has been exposed as lefties faking news. His tweet gives details of the anaylsis X has done of their algos into what Media Matters actually did to basically falsify news. The nasty nasties strike again

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-suing-media-matters-advertising-x-twitter-ads-nazi-white-pride-1235798786/

Let's get this right.

A man with a long track record of pushing car right views says his platform doesn't push far right views?

And you take that as case closed?

[Metalmicky]

Regarding his approval of the antisemitism there's no defence. But the advertisers boycotting because apparently there's loads of nazi ads has been exposed as lefties faking news. His tweet gives details of the anaylsis X has done of their algos into what Media Matters actually did to basically falsify news. The nasty nasties strike again

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-suing-media-matters-advertising-x-twitter-ads-nazi-white-pride-1235798786/

Let's get this right.

A man with a long track record of pushing car right views says his platform doesn't push far right views?

And you take that as case closed?

Freudian.....

[BillyStubbsTears]

The man is f**king unhinged. He's now spreading the Pizzagate conspiracy.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Ok. He's ready to be sectioned.

https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1729996181756129724

Picture it.

You are such a narcissist that you spend $44bn to buy the greatest communication system that humankind has ever produced, in order to make your voice louder.

But your voice can't stop saying disgusting things. Because you are a disgusting human.

And then you find that the companies who made the business model of your communications platform work, don't want to be associated with the disgusting things you and your friends say.

So what do you do?

By the look of it, you get shitfaced and go out in public telling those companies to go f**k themselves.

He's unraveling in public.

[MachoMadness]

He's a Kitson. Openly embracing the alt-right poster boy thing now, because it's all he's capable of.

Although it's quite funny to read the CEO of Twitter, who Musk hired specifically to woo advertisers, write about how welcoming the platform is to advertisers, while linking to the interview where Musk tells advertisers to f**k off:
https://twitter.com/lindayaX/status/1730088124615631060