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  • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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    Doctor Phibes
    wrote on last edited by
    #713

    Apparently Elon isn't as keen on those funny little practical jokes where he's the punchline.

    I was only joking

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    • George KG Offline
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      George K
      wrote on last edited by
      #714

      Anyone notice that Musk has been really, uncharacteristically, quiet for 24 hours?

      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      • George KG George K

        Anyone notice that Musk has been really, uncharacteristically, quiet for 24 hours?

        AxtremusA Offline
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        Axtremus
        wrote on last edited by Axtremus
        #715

        @George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

        Anyone notice that Musk has been really, uncharacteristically, quiet for 24 hours?

        Busy cutting deals palling around with Jared and the Arabs while watching the World Cup final? There is a thread on that, right?

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        • jon-nycJ Offline
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          jon-nyc
          wrote on last edited by
          #716

          You were warned.

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          • AxtremusA Offline
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            Axtremus
            wrote on last edited by
            #717

            https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/twitter-is-down-to-fewer-than-550-full-time-engineers.html

            Twitter employee head count down by 80% since Elon Musk took over. Has 1300 employees now with 550 "engineers" (by title) among them.

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            • George KG Offline
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              George K
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              #718

              Interesting.

              I won't even try to pretend the implications of this. However, the platform is up and appears to be functioning pretty much as always.

              Yeah, there's bugs, and changes to under-the-hood stuff, but it appears that, unlike predictions, it has survived.

              At least for now.

              Related, how are Truth Social, Mastodon, WeMe, and Parler doing?

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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              • George KG George K

                Interesting.

                I won't even try to pretend the implications of this. However, the platform is up and appears to be functioning pretty much as always.

                Yeah, there's bugs, and changes to under-the-hood stuff, but it appears that, unlike predictions, it has survived.

                At least for now.

                Related, how are Truth Social, Mastodon, WeMe, and Parler doing?

                Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                Doctor Phibes
                wrote on last edited by
                #719

                @George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                Related, how are Truth Social, Mastodon, WeMe, and Parler doing?

                Truth social is amazing. Just so amazing. Truly. It's been really, really great, and it has all the best people. Just the best. I could give you the numbers, but you wouldn't believe me because they're so amazing.

                I was only joking

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                • RenaudaR Offline
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                  #720

                  Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! 😞

                  Elbows up!

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                  • RenaudaR Renauda

                    Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! 😞

                    George KG Offline
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                    George K
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #721

                    @Renauda said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                    Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! 😞

                    No shit! Look at his avatar!

                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                    • HoraceH Offline
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                      Horace
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                      #722

                      Really sad to see how tribal he’s become. Fox News captures another ideological prisoner.

                      Education is extremely important.

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                      • HoraceH Horace

                        Really sad to see how tribal he’s become. Fox News captures another ideological prisoner.

                        Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                        Aqua Letifer
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                        #723

                        @Horace said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                        Really sad to see how tribal he’s become. Fox News captures another ideological prisoner.

                        Yeah, but Carlson was never that great to begin with.

                        Please love yourself.

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                        • George KG George K

                          @Renauda said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                          Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! 😞

                          No shit! Look at his avatar!

                          Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                          Doctor Phibes
                          wrote on last edited by Doctor Phibes
                          #724

                          @George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                          @Renauda said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                          Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! 😞

                          No shit! Look at his avatar!

                          That's not Tucker, it's his twin brother, Magnus. He's so amazing. And really, really smart. Like a stable genius. He cleans out the horses so well, like really really well.

                          I was only joking

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                          • AxtremusA Offline
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                            Axtremus
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                            #725

                            What else is broken at Twitter?

                            https://www.propublica.org/article/politwoops-deleted-tweets-twitter-politicians-musk

                            Politicians haven’t stopped deleting some of their most cringeworthy tweets, but Politwoops, our project that has tracked and archived more than half a million deleted tweets from candidates and elected officials since 2012, is no longer able to track them.

                            Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the platform has disabled the function we used to track deletions — and the new method that Twitter says should identify them appears to be broken. We have been unable to find anyone who can help us, and with Twitter surprising developers by announcing a move to a paid model for gathering tweet data, it’s no longer clear that Twitter is a stable platform on which to maintain this work. ...

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                            • AxtremusA Offline
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                              Axtremus
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                              #726

                              Another round of job cuts at Twitter:

                              https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-lays-off-least-50-relentless-cost-cuts-information-2023-02-26/

                              "At least 50" people were let go this time.

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                                #727

                                Yet another Twitter outage:

                                https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/after-musks-mass-layoffs-one-engineers-mistake-broke-the-twitter-api/

                                "... the sixth major outage since January 23." ...

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                                • Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                                  Aqua Letifer
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #728

                                  Ax, are you on Twitter? How do you use it?

                                  Please love yourself.

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                                  • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                                    Ax, are you on Twitter? How do you use it?

                                    Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                                    Doctor Phibes
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #729

                                    @Aqua-Letifer said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                    Ax, are you on Twitter? How do you use it?

                                    This is me:
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                                    This is me on Twitter:

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                                    I was only joking

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                                    • AxtremusA Offline
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                                      Axtremus
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #730

                                      https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musk-suffers-a-huge-loss

                                      Elon Musk now values Twitter at $20 Billion.
                                      (Any one willing to buy Twitter at $20 Billion?)
                                      Musk also says he sees a path to $250 Billion valuation years from now.

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                                      • AxtremusA Axtremus

                                        https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musk-suffers-a-huge-loss

                                        Elon Musk now values Twitter at $20 Billion.
                                        (Any one willing to buy Twitter at $20 Billion?)
                                        Musk also says he sees a path to $250 Billion valuation years from now.

                                        Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                                        Doctor Phibes
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #731

                                        @Axtremus said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                        Musk also says he sees a path to $250 Billion valuation years from now.

                                        Presumably that path doesn't involve him selling it to somebody who knows what they're doing?

                                        I was only joking

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                                        • taiwan_girlT Offline
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                                          taiwan_girl
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #732

                                          Twitter no long exists as a company. It has been absorbed by X Corp.

                                          https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/twitter-no-longer-exists-as-a-company-merges-into-musks-x-corp/

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