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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Love Elon!  Look forward to more balance.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

Why the F isn’t he solving world hunger like he said he would?

What a useless pos he is[/quote]

You didn’t think Musk was serious about that, did you?  World hunger doesn’t personally affect him so he doesn’t care.

If this deal goes through (and it’s still far from a sure thing), he is going to make a mess of Twitter. [/quote]

Opportunity here for twitter to be replaced with something better.[/quote]

You think Musk is planning to buy Twitter just to shut it down?  Of course not.  Musk wants to make tweaks to Twitter to suit his preferences, but doesn’t seem to have thought them through very well.

For instance, his plan to make the algorithm open-source so everyone can see why tweets appear or don’t appear on their timelines.  This could hurt twitter’s ad revenues significantly if marketers can figure out how to get their tweets bumped up in timelines without paying Twitter for it.

Relatedly, yes, I know Musk once said he wanted to do away with ads on Twitter.  But he’s backed away from that suggestion, and reality is that he hasn’t articulated how he would replace ad revenue, which makes up nearly 90% of Twitter’s revenues.

Second, adding an edit feature could significantly discourage people from interacting with other users’ Tweets.  [b]Would you be comfortable liking or commenting favorably on a Tweet and having your endorsement associated with your user name (for which you have limited privacy) if the author of the tweet could later edit it to say something completely different?[/b]  A whole bunch of tweet with limited interaction by other users would be a completely different experience that doesn’t reflect how people like to use social media today.

As for Musk’s so-called free speech platform, a significant part of why Twitter started cracking down on false/misleading, abusive and otherwise inappropriate content was because (1) they were losing a lot of users over the lack of moderation, (2) they risked running afoul of European content regulations, and (3) there were concerns that the US government would take it upon itself to regulate the space if the platforms didn’t regulate themselves. Musk will run into a lot of legal issues if he lets Twitter become the kind of Wild West it was before. [/quote]

Good point.  I hadn’t considered that.[/quote]

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