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Fair enough, good luck to him - he could do with more money. If it ends up with people no longer using X because he charges them then no great loss to the world is it.
Do people really want to give their banking details to someone who lives by the tech-knobber "Move fast and break things" mantra?
Well obviously we did with PayPal, but he had Peter Thiel and Co. To keep an eye on things then...
He'll only hang on to your details for 30 days while he engages the services of an operation in Israel to make sure YOU'RE legit. F right off mate. aren't you on f'ing mars yet? get lost.
He should stick to building rockets rather than trying to become the new Messiah.
He clearly has the social skills of the balrog from lord of the rings.
X really sucks at the moment but the concept isn't bad. i think that initially WhatsApp was meant to charge 1EUR to your phone account every year but that never actually happened. The problem now is that so many people are stuck in the idea that it SHOULD be free and will never pay that it has killed the space it could be 🙁
Well obviously we did with PayPal, but he had Peter Thiel and Co. To keep an eye on things then…
Peter Thiel is a libertarian ****
Thats all I have to say
Whatsapp did have a charging mechanism- then facebook bought it and made it free to get people on board. Couldn’t possibly hazard a guess as to how they’re making money off it instead.
Question for everyone really, Do you trust Twitter more now or before Musk took over?<br /><br />
I trust it about as far as I could spit a rat, but I’m still on there, mainly because there are a number of artists using it who I follow, and it’s a way of directly insulting various Republikkkans.
Satan will host the Winter Olympics before I give the likes of Muskrat any financial details. Unless they were his…
Some kind soul gave me a Bluesky invite today – seems a but rustic (eg. no iPad support) and not many people obviously on it but we’ll see…
Eh, I’ve got Bluesky on my iPad, seems no different to what’s on my iPhone, there’s an app in the iPad App Store.
X really sucks at the moment but the concept isn’t bad. i think that initially WhatsApp was meant to charge
You know that whatsapp is facebook, as in Meta/zucckerberg right?
right?
X is Musk/tesla
@swanny853 theres also a business account version of whatsapp that is paid for. Quite amusing that Meta paid half what Musk paid for Twitter, has tripled the user base to two billion by cutting subscriptions for and is making money...
Well I haven't used twitter/X for around 8 years, no longer have an account as far as I'm aware. But there's absolutely nothing that Musk has done to it since his purchase that makes me want to sign up again. A 1$ a year 'verification' charge isn't going to encourage me.
Strange that he bought X for 44billion, when it was free to use but now he wants to charge based on the premise that a pay to use system gets rid of bots. From what I've read his monthly charge hasn't go rid of the problem, so it's a dumb idea that a lower charge will.
It's got to the point where I'd rather have the bots than all the real life neo-nazis he keeps encouraging.
If you want to see just how openly racist Elon Musk is then have a look at the thread below from a civil rights lawyer in the states. Turns out he’s just as racist as his father and grandfather. <br /><br />
<br /> https://twitter.com/SIfill_/status/1725148264545112137?s=20
Apparently he is going to open a thermonuclear lawsuit on media matters now.
That will be fun
@grahamt1980 To a point. It's (yet more) lawfare and I suspect the civil rights orgs that he'll want to sue won't have massively deep pockets.
“The split second court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and ALL those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company,” Musk said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Sounds just like that other overly-influential US-based man baby. Can’t stand either of them. I wouldn’t buy a Tesla on principle I hope his next mega-rocket (today???) sharts itself.
Well apparently he will be banning users who "advocate genocide", which you might think is fair enough, except that the only examples he's given so far of "advocating genocide" are calling for 'decolonialisation' and 'from the river to the sea'. It's getting reminiscent of Chinese social media where critics of Xi have to do so by posting pictures of Winnie the Pooh. Luckily Musk is not the owner of any gulags to send violators to. Unless you count Tesla factories.
Unless you count Tesla factories.
Tesla workers are striking in Sweden.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sweden-tesla-strike-cleaners
He's turning into Ken Lingstone, he just can't help but put his foot endlessly in the same hole..
I suspect the civil rights orgs that he’ll want to sue won’t have massively deep pockets.
Civil rights groups usually have their own lawyers and also get free representation from volunteers. The last thing Elon should ever do is put himself in a position where he's obliged to testify in court under oath. It sounds to me like his rant actually confirmed that the Media Matters reports were correct - they only have to show that it happened a single time and he has no case.
Didn’t Spitting Image do a song about him?
Sounds just like that other overly-influential US-based man baby. Can’t stand either of them. I wouldn’t buy a Tesla on principle I hope his next mega-rocket (today???) sharts itself.
About that....
Didn’t Spitting Image do a song about him?
I’m not sure I’ve Never Met A Nice South African is about him?
Totally off-topic, for which humble apologies, but on another thread I mentioned the issue of Armenians in Israel and a book by William Dalrymple, and I just saw this Tweet and wanted to share it, or at least write dowen the reference.
https://twitter.com/DalrympleWill/status/1725616557089562652?s=20
He had so many toys to play with, so many, he literally has his own rocket.... But he is as addicted to X as badly as pubescent boy with frontal lobes that still haven't fully developed and just can't stop himself.
It's almost poetic really, he's ensnared in a trap that he owns.
I'm surprised to learn that there are any "real" companies still advertising on X. All I see now are chinese drop shippers with their text book sped up videos selling aliexpress tat.
It's kind of depressing how much of the commentary and reporting about the awful things going on with Twitter are being posted on Twitter.
Well, if anyone is after a Bluesky code you merely need ask on this thread…
Threads has seen an upsurge in activity and users, although sadly the dregs of Xhitter are moving over there also. Still the algorithms there are mostly keeping my feed to bikes and geek stuff.
Looks like it might all be getting to him a little bit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67574396
An interesting marketing strategy to tell your potential advertisers to ‘go **** themselves!’
Elon Musk hurls defiant, profanity-laced retort at fleeing advertisers
I wonder what X is now worth, compared to the 44 billion he paid for it, after his latest Gerald Ratner moment?
It's certainly an "interesting" way to win back the advertisers that X needs.
On a related note... big companies need to look to new ways to have a marketing presence on the internet... Google, Facebook and X have all been shown to be wilfully impotent when it comes to adverts sitting alongside content than damages brands, especially those aimed at entire families.
Google, Facebook and X have all been shown to be wilfully impotent when it comes to adverts sitting alongside content than damages brands, especially those aimed at entire families.
I mentioned it on one of the STW ads threads but I think we are starting to reach the end game of the 'free stuff for your data' business model. The fact that youtube has been trying (unsuccessfully) to wage war on adblockers tells me that if even YT can't make it work then the end is nigh.
Google, Facebook and X have all been shown to be wilfully impotent when it comes to adverts sitting alongside content than damages brands, especially those aimed at entire families.
I have been pondering this. Facebook particularly is now so utterly toxic as an advertiser, why would we use the platform?
We are having conversations at work about dumping X and Facebook and putting all that effort back into our website, articles and organic growth. We have already backed off Instagram. Linkedin still works well - and is growing bigger than the others for us in terms of reach and quality.
Threads has seen an upsurge in activity and users.
Along with the big advertiser boycott,could Threads crush Elon's dream?