It's not fair to call Musk an amateur. That suggests that he at least has some understanding of what he's doing. What Musk really is is an imbecile.
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter may soon go through
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Wait... so now you need to log in to see tweets on twitter, except (as this thread shows) this doesn't stop you just seeing the tweets if they're embedded off-site.
...so he's literally created a situation where his own site's content is more easily available, with fewer restrictions, outside of his own platform.
...so he's literally created a situation where his own site's content is more easily available, with fewer restrictions, outside of his own platform.
Musk stiffing Google could unleash yet more abuse on Twitter, report says
Musk’s top priorities seem to be cutting costs and removing spam bots from DMs.
arstechnica.com
Twitter refuses to pay Google Cloud bills, putting its Trust and Safety operations in jeopardy: Report - The Tech Portal
Twitter refuses to pay its Google Cloud bills during contract renewal, endangering trust and safety teams and operations.
thetechportal.com
Twitter stiffs Google
Musk won't pay his Google Cloud bill — and the company's trust and safety systems are hanging in the balance
www.platformer.news
Correct. Add vx infront of whatever shared link you want to see, like https://vxtwitter.com/whatever and you're good to go
When you see the word 'many', it actually means someone has an opinion and they are making up imaginary friends that agree with them to make it look like it's agreeable
Well, damn.
kotaku.com
Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Fans Have Had Enough Of Elon Musk
A Japanese player has blown up former Twitter CEO's name, and fans are in full support
kotaku.com
Go Japan!Well, damn.
Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Fans Have Had Enough Of Elon Musk
A Japanese player has blown up former Twitter CEO's name, and fans are in full support
This scenario would be too good to be true.
You have to give Elon Musk credit*; he's not being biased about whom Twitter stiffs.
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www.reuters.com
* This is a figure of speech. Do not give Elon Musk actual credit; he will probably stiff you.
Australian firm sues Twitter for $665,000 for not paying bills
An Australian project management firm has filed a lawsuit against Twitter Inc in a U.S. court seeking cumulative payments of about A$1 million ($665,000) over alleged non-payment of bills for work done in four countries, court filings showed.
www.reuters.com
* This is a figure of speech. Do not give Elon Musk actual credit; he will probably stiff you.
I mean, why would Google include results people can't actually see? Musk has a very poor sense of logic
Yes, this is very interesting.
One of the side-effects of Musk grievously wounding his own property, currently dominant in its environmental niche, is that he has made that niche extraordinarily attractive to competition. As we may note, even the once-dominant can fall very quickly when an effective competitor arrives.
What's even more worrying for Musk is that if competitor services do make large inroads, Twitter has got to be pretty fucked. After all, it's already losing money whilst on a skeleton staff that struggles to keep current functionality running smoothly. I wouldn't like to be a business owner having to react to falling market share with already overstretched staff and even fewer resources coming in.
Whatever it takes for Twitter to fully die, and so be it. Musk and those selling the social media site in the first place brought it on themselves. I do feel bad for those working there, and wish they find some place better whenever they leave.
Oh, the experts say that Twiter is going to turn evil and they need to stop it, but Musk doesn't listen because money and ego, and then it eats him and his rich friends at a big event?
I mean, there's any number of movies with that basic premise, so, presumably that's a thing that happens, right?
Twitter was already bad news from the start. I never liked it in the beginning, because stupid people do stupid things on what is a glorified chat room everyone (could once) can see. I know there's good and sensible people on there, but Twitter always has a problem with enabling assholes, or trying to remain "neutral". Don't get me started on the whole Trump supporters, Proud Boys, Klan, etc. We already know the results and they doing anything, along with YouTube, Facebook, and other social media sites, until after the fact, because of their fucking bottom line. Even though they all know they would not lose that much money to begin with.
It would be funny if Twitter gained sentience and somehow disposed of Musk and his pawn sycophants. It would be a great view.
Smells like Musk's Free Speech to me
On a related note, Facebook/Meta's new Twitter competitor 'Threads' will not launch in the EU alongside the US/UK, I'm guessing because of EU data protection compliance, since the new app is designed to piggyback off Instagram data. Good.
Punishing everyone for the system's problems always endears those systems to everyone.
An actual question - is it even possible to stop scraping from even happening? That seems impossible
70 million people have joined Zuck's threads. So the lesson in US capitalism is if you're angry with one billionaire, join another billionaire's platform.
That said if they ever fight I hope they both get brain damage.
That said if they ever fight I hope they both get brain damage.