Elon Musk buys $3 billion stake (9.2%) in Twitter and is now the platform's largest shareholder

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Just after watching the GOP for the Trump years I can’t help but think this was one of the goal’s behind Elon’s series of dumb choices at Twitter. Those poor kids.

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Weren’t they losing money before the acquisition?

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This makes no sense. Is it just incompetence? Some of Elon’s favorite people wrote on Substack.

“Writers trying to embed tweets in their Substack stories are in for a rude surprise: after pasting a link to the site, a message pops up saying that “Twitter has unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets in Substack posts” and explaining that the company is working on a fix.

After those reports surfaced, between Thursday night and Friday morning, Twitter apparently began to restrict promotion and visibility for tweets with links to Substack posts. New tweets linking directly to Substack.com can still be tweeted, but trying to retweet or like those tweets via Twitter’s website results in an error message saying, “Some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter,” while doing the same from within its apps or TweetDeck appears to work while failing silently.”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23673043/twitter-substack-embeds-bots-tools-api

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Anonymous wrote:This makes no sense. Is it just incompetence? Some of Elon’s favorite people wrote on Substack.

“Writers trying to embed tweets in their Substack stories are in for a rude surprise: after pasting a link to the site, a message pops up saying that “Twitter has unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets in Substack posts” and explaining that the company is working on a fix.

After those reports surfaced, between Thursday night and Friday morning, Twitter apparently began to restrict promotion and visibility for tweets with links to Substack posts. New tweets linking directly to Substack.com can still be tweeted, but trying to retweet or like those tweets via Twitter’s website results in an error message saying, “Some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter,” while doing the same from within its apps or TweetDeck appears to work while failing silently.”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23673043/twitter-substack-embeds-bots-tools-api

I’d assume incompetence, yes. He fired everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:This makes no sense. Is it just incompetence? Some of Elon’s favorite people wrote on Substack.

“Writers trying to embed tweets in their Substack stories are in for a rude surprise: after pasting a link to the site, a message pops up saying that “Twitter has unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets in Substack posts” and explaining that the company is working on a fix.

After those reports surfaced, between Thursday night and Friday morning, Twitter apparently began to restrict promotion and visibility for tweets with links to Substack posts. New tweets linking directly to Substack.com can still be tweeted, but trying to retweet or like those tweets via Twitter’s website results in an error message saying, “Some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter,” while doing the same from within its apps or TweetDeck appears to work while failing silently.”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23673043/twitter-substack-embeds-bots-tools-api

I’d assume incompetence, yes. He fired everyone.

Lots of journos announced they're done with Twitter over this since this is how they monetize it. Even Elon's fanboy Taibbi is leaving Twitter:

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This is just embarrassing for the BBC reporter.

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Anonymous wrote:This is just embarrassing for the BBC reporter.

That’s called gaslighting. It’s not debatable that twitter has increased hate speech since Musk. Shutting down a discussion because a person can’t produce an example on the spot is just a bully tactic. That reporter could have produced plenty of specific examples if given time and space to search his phone. The reporter couldn’t just stop the interview to search twitter for an example and Musk knew that and used it as a way to avoid a real discussion.

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Anonymous wrote:This is just embarrassing for the BBC reporter.

Reporter wasn't at all wrong - he was just underprepared. The platform has definitely gotten worse since Elon took it over.

Elon, being the bad-faith actor that he is, saw that and took advantage of it to bully and gaslight. I blame the reporter for not being prepared, but none of this takes away from the dumpster fire that is Twitter.

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Anonymous wrote:This makes no sense. Is it just incompetence? Some of Elon’s favorite people wrote on Substack.

“Writers trying to embed tweets in their Substack stories are in for a rude surprise: after pasting a link to the site, a message pops up saying that “Twitter has unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets in Substack posts” and explaining that the company is working on a fix.

After those reports surfaced, between Thursday night and Friday morning, Twitter apparently began to restrict promotion and visibility for tweets with links to Substack posts. New tweets linking directly to Substack.com can still be tweeted, but trying to retweet or like those tweets via Twitter’s website results in an error message saying, “Some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter,” while doing the same from within its apps or TweetDeck appears to work while failing silently.”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23673043/twitter-substack-embeds-bots-tools-api

A link is a link. Things like this don't just "unexpectedly" happen, Twitter deliberately did this, to limit users of other platforms like Substack from being able to call out egregious content on Twitter.

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I mean, the reporter isn't wring. This is now a verified account.

Also, the verified blue checks are going away, which means every valid source of informatation on the platform can be easily spoofed, thus undermining the credibility of the platform entirely. NPR has bailed on Twitter as of today, and I suspect other journalists and networks will shortly.

It will take a decade for another platform to emerge as useful as Twitter has been, which is why Musk was given money to buy it and destroy it.