Twitter to accept Elon Musk's offer

[Sebastian Cobb]

Don't most people use it to tell famous people to fuck off?

I saw someone reason recently that rather than banning anonymity on the platform they should enforce it - as in force blue-ticks to not use their real names, removing the self-promotion and bringing them down with the little people.

A lot of the friction and behaviours of celebrities are them not being used to having an immediate return-path of their thoughts/articles/etc.

[Twonty Gostelow]

Really worried that he's going to delete all of my puns now.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Glenn Greenwald is pulling himself around the room about this, his mistake mostly seems to be taking the free-speech commitments of a guy who makes people sign NDA's to get warranty repairs at face value.

[Sherman Krank]

I hope Musk gets rid of that 'Sign in or create an account to see more' shit that pops up now when you start to scroll down. If he does I might go back to occasionally reading stuff on it.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I hope Musk gets rid of that 'Sign in or create an account to see more' shit that pops up now when you start to scroll down. If he does I might go back to occasionally reading stuff on it.

Every social media outlet seems to be on this at the moment. I reckon they'll lower the walls again eventually; they only encourage people to sign up if they have a sense they're missing something.

[katzenjammer]

I hope Musk gets rid of that 'Sign in or create an account to see more' shit that pops up now when you start to scroll down. If he does I might go back to occasionally reading stuff on it.

I do and I don't. It works great at stopping me getting sucked into Twitter scrollathons

[imitationleather]

I'll need to consult David Baddiel and Emma Kennedy before I give my opinion on this matter.

[Butchers Blind]

Hope he uses it to kill people.

[PlanktonSideburns]

one more can't hurt

surely he risks regulation if he overeggs the pudding too much?  He's a scammer but he's also not an idiot when it comes to what he actually makes money from.

My hope is that he is cynical.

Isn't he tho?

[Thursday]

I'm not suggesting he wouldn't be above petty hypocrisy, but the suggestion that he'll allow hate groups to flourish in the name of free speech absolutism, doesn't quite sit with the idea that he'd also censor anyone criticizing him or posting that picture of Ghisliane Maxwell, so which is it?

[Memorex MP3]

Every social media outlet seems to be on this at the moment. I reckon they'll lower the walls again eventually; they only encourage people to sign up if they have a sense they're missing something.

it's to be able to boast about increased users to cover up other shortfalls, isn't it?

I saw Quora's emails to me have switched from pushing bizarrely specific LOTR questions to weirdly clickbaity sexualised ones with zero input from my end in years. Had a google and sure enough they were gearing up for an IPO.

[Pink Gregory]

Isn't he tho?

I mean, yeah, in all other aspects of his life, but he knows not to step on the money hose.

[idunnosomename]

HOPE HE POSTS AN DANK MEME

BADBOY EPIC BACON TIME BAYBEEE!!!

[Famous Mortimer]

RIP HARAMBE, SIPPIN ON SOME BOMBAY to play every time you open Twitter

[Sherman Krank]

Hope he uses it to kill people.

Or at the very least changes Bezos' user name to 'Peedo Guy'.

[Kankurette]

it's to be able to boast about increased users to cover up other shortfalls, isn't it?

I saw Quora's emails to me have switched from pushing bizarrely specific LOTR questions to weirdly clickbaity sexualised ones with zero input from my end in years. Had a google and sure enough they were gearing up for an IPO.

I keep getting emails about Russia and nukes.

[Suttonpubcrawl]

Dreaming of the thread "Twitter shut down, owner arrested"

[Fambo Number Mive]

I'm sure if anyone can make Twitter even worse Musk can.

[dissolute ocelot]

He will make every tweet be ALL CAPS.

[Pinball]

It's hard to overstate how important twitter is to today's world. This could be an absolutely seismic decision, even if his only action is unbanning Trump.  Or maybe nothing at all will be different.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-elon-musk-buy-company-b2064819.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Main&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1650888159

Trump doesn't want to be unbanned though, as he's setting up his fascist twitter. Maybe Musk wants to benefit from The Banned? Because Twitter isn't hateful enough.

[Zero Gravitas]

Better delete those bots fast before due diligence finds them and reveals pro-rata that at price it's worth $230,000 plus logo rights!

[Fambo Number Mive]

Novara Media's take on Musk buying Twitter:

[idunnosomename]

ITS PICKLE TWITTER DAY!!! EVERYONES TURNED INTO A PICKLE MORTY! WUB A LUB LUB LUB

[EOLAN]

My top recommended tweet is poot Mark Hamill getting upset about losing a couple of thousand of twitter followers from his account.

[Kankurette]

Awful lot of far right types getting excited about Tommy Robinson et al being allowed back on Twitter. (As an aside, praising Donald Trump while having a fucking Ukraine flag in your bio is...certainly a take.)

[lipsink]

Tommy Robinson was back on Twitter with big smiles showing off his new teeth. He seems to have had his account taken down now though. Doh!

[Butchers Blind]

Maybe adding someone's GPS location when they tweet might help.

[Pinball]

I was watching some youtube videos about 'swatting' of Twitch streamers. Obviously it would be awful if this were to happen to certain Twatters...

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

"I'm going to take this dirty, poorly maintained toilet block and turn it into a cesspit."

[superthunderstingcar]

All tweets to be forced to end with "YOU ARE A PEDO"