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

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Anyone else find it ironic that journalists go to twitter to complain about twitter?

It's a medium of communication, so no, not really.

+1 It’s not their fault that Elon purposely ran it into the ground. That’s a platform so many places used as news disseminators and I literally mean alerts and such like “are the fireworks going on despite the rain” earlier this summer. Twitter is now busted and unusable.

Yet people still use it. Elon has proven that he can curate material however he likes and change on a whim and journalists will still draw traffic to his app

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Researchers have uncovered a propaganda network of 67 accounts on the X social platform that are coordinating a campaign of posting false, inflammatory content related to the Israel-Hamas war.

While such information has proliferated on X after Saturday’s attack, the research is believed to be the first concrete evidence that deliberate propaganda to mislead people about the conflict has gone unchecked on the platform. Combined, the accounts’ misleading posts and videos have millions of views.

The accounts — many of which previously focused on more innocuous topics like professional basketball or life in Japan — previously showed no outward association, but suddenly began posting similar content over the weekend as news of the attacks broke, according to Alethea, a company that analyzes social media.

Follow live updates on the Israel-Hamas conflict

In many cases, the accounts would post the exact same phrases. It’s not clear if the accounts were created for the express purpose of posting the misinformation, or if they were hacked or sold.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/x-misinformation-israel-hamas-war-network-disinformation-rcna119696

Interesting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Researchers have uncovered a propaganda network of 67 accounts on the X social platform that are coordinating a campaign of posting false, inflammatory content related to the Israel-Hamas war.

While such information has proliferated on X after Saturday’s attack, the research is believed to be the first concrete evidence that deliberate propaganda to mislead people about the conflict has gone unchecked on the platform. Combined, the accounts’ misleading posts and videos have millions of views.

The accounts — many of which previously focused on more innocuous topics like professional basketball or life in Japan — previously showed no outward association, but suddenly began posting similar content over the weekend as news of the attacks broke, according to Alethea, a company that analyzes social media.

Follow live updates on the Israel-Hamas conflict

In many cases, the accounts would post the exact same phrases. It’s not clear if the accounts were created for the express purpose of posting the misinformation, or if they were hacked or sold.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/x-misinformation-israel-hamas-war-network-disinformation-rcna119696

Interesting

Yet another reason to avoid Twitter like the plague. It has no worth anymore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anyone else find it ironic that journalists go to twitter to complain about twitter?

It's a medium of communication, so no, not really.

+1 It’s not their fault that Elon purposely ran it into the ground. That’s a platform so many places used as news disseminators and I literally mean alerts and such like “are the fireworks going on despite the rain” earlier this summer. Twitter is now busted and unusable.

Yet people still use it. Elon has proven that he can curate material however he likes and change on a whim and journalists will still draw traffic to his app

It doesn’t help if no one will advertise on it, though.

[Anonymous]

And nobody I know wants to pay him a subscription fee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anyone else find it ironic that journalists go to twitter to complain about twitter?

It's a medium of communication, so no, not really.

+1 It’s not their fault that Elon purposely ran it into the ground. That’s a platform so many places used as news disseminators and I literally mean alerts and such like “are the fireworks going on despite the rain” earlier this summer. Twitter is now busted and unusable.

Yet people still use it. Elon has proven that he can curate material however he likes and change on a whim and journalists will still draw traffic to his app

Not really. If you don’t belong, you can’t see anything on Twitter anymore. Pre Elon I would scroll Twitter sometimes. I stopped doing so after he took over and now when I try to click over from here, for example, I can’t see anything.

I think the usership is in the toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anyone else find it ironic that journalists go to twitter to complain about twitter?

It's a medium of communication, so no, not really.

+1 It’s not their fault that Elon purposely ran it into the ground. That’s a platform so many places used as news disseminators and I literally mean alerts and such like “are the fireworks going on despite the rain” earlier this summer. Twitter is now busted and unusable.

Yet people still use it. Elon has proven that he can curate material however he likes and change on a whim and journalists will still draw traffic to his app

Journalists and some policy folk definitely feel they still need to be there, in case there’s newsworthy stuff there. The rest of us, not so much.

I’m trying to love Thread, and slowly friends are moving over there, but I’m not thrilled with the whole metaverse and at the moment I’m just getting a lot of cute pet content.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anyone else find it ironic that journalists go to twitter to complain about twitter?

It's a medium of communication, so no, not really.

+1 It’s not their fault that Elon purposely ran it into the ground. That’s a platform so many places used as news disseminators and I literally mean alerts and such like “are the fireworks going on despite the rain” earlier this summer. Twitter is now busted and unusable.

Yet people still use it. Elon has proven that he can curate material however he likes and change on a whim and journalists will still draw traffic to his app

Less and less, though. Truly, Twitter is basically useless anymore for just trying to find out what is happening in the world. It's a mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anyone else find it ironic that journalists go to twitter to complain about twitter?

It's a medium of communication, so no, not really.

+1 It’s not their fault that Elon purposely ran it into the ground. That’s a platform so many places used as news disseminators and I literally mean alerts and such like “are the fireworks going on despite the rain” earlier this summer. Twitter is now busted and unusable.

Yet people still use it. Elon has proven that he can curate material however he likes and change on a whim and journalists will still draw traffic to his app

Less and less, though. Truly, Twitter is basically useless anymore for just trying to find out what is happening in the world. It's a mess.

He should just sell it to Wikipedia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anyone else find it ironic that journalists go to twitter to complain about twitter?

It's a medium of communication, so no, not really.

+1 It’s not their fault that Elon purposely ran it into the ground. That’s a platform so many places used as news disseminators and I literally mean alerts and such like “are the fireworks going on despite the rain” earlier this summer. Twitter is now busted and unusable.

Yet people still use it. Elon has proven that he can curate material however he likes and change on a whim and journalists will still draw traffic to his app

Less and less, though. Truly, Twitter is basically useless anymore for just trying to find out what is happening in the world. It's a mess.

+1 I did a search for jobless claims earlier today while looking at a tweet that included the words jobless claims. I got the chicken symbol and the search turned up nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anyone else find it ironic that journalists go to twitter to complain about twitter?

It's a medium of communication, so no, not really.

+1 It’s not their fault that Elon purposely ran it into the ground. That’s a platform so many places used as news disseminators and I literally mean alerts and such like “are the fireworks going on despite the rain” earlier this summer. Twitter is now busted and unusable.

Yet people still use it. Elon has proven that he can curate material however he likes and change on a whim and journalists will still draw traffic to his app

Not really. If you don’t belong, you can’t see anything on Twitter anymore. Pre Elon I would scroll Twitter sometimes. I stopped doing so after he took over and now when I try to click over from here, for example, I can’t see anything.

I think the usership is in the toilet.

Yup.
“The number of people actively tweeting has dropped by more than 30 percent, according to previously unreported data obtained by The Washington Post.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/27/elon-musk-twitter-x-anniversary/

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

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He is a massively terrible person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anyone else find it ironic that journalists go to twitter to complain about twitter?

It's a medium of communication, so no, not really.

+1 It’s not their fault that Elon purposely ran it into the ground. That’s a platform so many places used as news disseminators and I literally mean alerts and such like “are the fireworks going on despite the rain” earlier this summer. Twitter is now busted and unusable.

Yet people still use it. Elon has proven that he can curate material however he likes and change on a whim and journalists will still draw traffic to his app

Journalists and some policy folk definitely feel they still need to be there, in case there’s newsworthy stuff there. The rest of us, not so much.

I’m trying to love Thread, and slowly friends are moving over there, but I’m not thrilled with the whole metaverse and at the moment I’m just getting a lot of cute pet content.

I don't think Threads will catch on but it does leave a whole for another competitor to come in.

Role back the name to twitter because x is never catch on and let people browse tweets without logging in. People need to see content in order to want to react.