Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by inferiorhuman on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:25PM (#33379271)

  My prediction is he ends up growing twitter into a fairly bland chat/communications app/social network, and the focus on global political and social debates slowly weans over time.

So far Musk's brought back a very high profile antisemite (Ye) and a bunch of others took the hint to return to Twitter. I'm pretty sure bland isn't the right word.

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Racist-tweets-quickl...

  "Elon now controls twitter. Unleash the racial slurs. K---S AND N-----S," said
  one account, using slurs for Jews and Black people. "I can freely express how
  much I hate n-----s . . . now, thank you elon," another said.

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  Some of the Twitter influx was organized on other platforms, including the pro-Trump
  forum TheDonald, where its top posts Friday morning showed tweets celebrating lies
  about Trump's 2020 election loss and memes criticizing transgender people under the
  headline "When you can't get banned on Twitter anymore."

My prediction is Musk flails about, burns a pile of money, and decimates any goodwill his associated companies (e.g. SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink) currently have.

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by mikkergp on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:36PM (#33379375)

Musk earlier today he didn’t bring Kanye back. I mean he’s certainly riling up the dregs of humanity and now not like a good person but I don’t think he’s going to burn 44 bil

> My prediction is Musk flails about, burns a pile of money, and decimates any goodwill his associated companies (e.g. SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink) currently have.

I hope you’re right.

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by inferiorhuman on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:44PM (#33379429)

This morning NY Daily News was claiming Ye was allowed back. It'd be nice if that were wrong or has since been redacted, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

As for Musk, he's playing with other people's money. At that scale he can afford to tell the American banks to go fuck themselves. The foreign investors are probably cheering on this nonsense. The Saudis want pro-oil republicans, the Russians are going to relish the chaos, and at the very least the Chinese will cheer on the loss of a TikTok competitor. There aren't a lot of guardrails here.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Kanye-West-s-Twitter-acc...

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by mikkergp on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:53PM (#33379502)

Really the Ye thing doesn’t matter because I under minded my own argument :-) I think all those terrible things are coming but he’s going to thread the needle around discoverability to make it palatable. Too much chaos isn’t good for anyone even bad actors if the site becomes irrelevant, but we’ll see, I’m not super convinced youre wrong. Maybe Twitter has enough momentum to stay in the public eye in spite of itself.

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