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.

Just before I took off for vacation, I put together this comprehensive guide that we’ll no doubt have to update from time to time: the big master list of Elon Musk’s big, dumb lies: https://t.co/cNluBIc6pT

— 🌴🌤️🌺 Miles Klee 🐠🦉🦂 (@youwouldntpost) August 20, 2023

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