Elon Musk

I think the Musk fanbois stick to the electric car thread.

Well, he paid $44b and its now valued at $4b, which is actually quite an impressive achievement

https://time.com/6297303/twitter-x-rebrand-cost/

Well, on the bright side, he did make a small fortune, he just started with a large fortune.

Is it $13b borrowed for that purchase? I dont want to even try imagine owing that much money (although google suggests its Twitter that owes it)

He didn’t buy twitter, he bought a fully formed user base for his new online banking project. It doesn’t really matter that he’s lost loads of users as they aren’t the kind of people who would have signed up to his one stop shop anyway.

I’m not suggesting he’s clever but if he can tap into the MAGA bunch with his free speech as long as it’s my free speech thing and then get them to bank with him, he’ll see the returns he wants.

TBF, it’s as likely that this was done inadvertently as deliberately.

More vandalism from @elonmusk. Twitter has now removed all media posted before 2014. Thats – so far – almost a decade of pictures and videos from the early 2000s removed from the service.

For example, here’s a search of my media tweets from before 2014. https://t.co/FU6K34oqmA

— Tom Coates (@tomcoates) August 19, 2023

Apparently it’s a breaking-of-links issue rather than a deletion issue. Which is worse, but is probably more easily fixable/reversible if applicable.

The’ll be restoring from backup as we speak.

He didn’t buy twitter, he bought a fully formed user base for his new online banking project.

This would be the same banking project that was such a good idea that the PayPal board forced him out when he tried it there.

I’m not honestly sure that this was the ulterior motive when he bought Twitter (which I think was a combination of his enthusiasm for ‘free speech’ and it being too good an offer for the Twitter board to pass up) but it might be now.

Behind it all, he’s a massive self-publicist who got lucky and who isn’t as clever as he or his f@n80is think.

I’m not honestly sure that this was the ulterior motive when he bought Twitter

Question for everyone really, Do you trust Twitter more now or before Musk took over?

Question for everyone really, Do you trust Twitter more now or before Musk took over?

I’ve entirely stopped using it, it’s just toxic garbage. If X was the last bank/social-media mashup on the planet I still would not use it.

Yep, I’m off it for good too. I miss Fesshole and Anon Opin but I’ll survive on the snippets in the b3ta weekly email….

Question for everyone really, Do you trust Twitter more now or before Musk took over?

I’ll answer this by not actually answering it

X will begin to have users verify their identity by having them submit a selfie alongside a government issued ID. The process requires users to consent to X storing their information for 30 days and sharing it with AU10TIX, an identity verification company based in Israel. pic.twitter.com/0NrDNEguWU

— PCMag (@PCMag) August 18, 2023

Also dont fancy trying to hang on to the MAGA crowd if they need to sign in with facial recognition.

I currently used Twitter with fake details and a VPN.

For those in GDPR, youd be consenting to sending your data outside of GDPR from what I can see.

Absolutely nothing has changed on Twitter for me, apart from the logo and more ads for stuff i dont care about. I never ever look at anything on the “for you” tab.

Just to partly correct that last post of mine

NOTE: ID verification will be *optional*.

It will be an additional way for verified (Premium) users to prove their identity, the same process Twitter 1.0 had for many years.

Seeing many users assuming this will be mandatory for all accounts when it won't be. https://t.co/E1mnNlCVtr

— X News Daily (@xDaily) August 16, 2023

@imkster Surely that’s rhetorical?

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…

This is a handy refresher on Musk’s bullshittery.

https://twitter.com/youwouldntpost/status/1693321900787630397

This would be the same banking project that was such a good idea that the PayPal board forced him out when he tried it there.

Yeah, it’s really unlike billionaire old white men to hold a grudge and try to prove they they were right all along, even if that comes at the distraction of technology and society.

Is Musk really this stupid or is he just trolling?

I missed this because, well, why are people awake on Twitter at 430am, but the owner of this hellsite was chatting it up with a neo-Nazi and saying the ADL are the real anti-Semites.

In other news, how is that “please ignore Elon” PR tour going @lindayaX? pic.twitter.com/Huh0h9TKtY

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 4, 2023

Stealth ads now. Just not a trustworthy service. But I guess everyone here has already dumped it… yeah?

X, formerly Twitter, caught running unlabeled ads in users’ Following feeds

I just block any promoted posts. I don’t follow many people so they don’t need to be labelled for me to see if they’re an ad or not.

If this actually happens, then this one might take the cake. https://t.co/P5rkNUUeNh pic.twitter.com/jXCwGcHUsC

— Oliver Alexander (@OAlexanderDK) September 18, 2023

yeah…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/18/x-twitter-1-dollar-annual-subscription-fee-new-users-elon-musk-new-zealand-nz-philippines

A $1 a year fee does seem so low that it may be being used to stop bots, unless those pesky bots have their own card/bank account.

Payment plans don’t stop bots, they tax them.

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.

Seems like a plan to get card details out of users so he can push them towards using it as a payment platform.

expect to see X appearing on your shopping website of choice along with PayPal etc

Yeah, I agree with @jonnyboi. Elon wants X to be some catch all site that everybody uses for everything, which includes banking and on line transactions

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?

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.