Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter
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"Elon Musk launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a team made up of engineers from the same big U.S. technology firms that he hopes to challenge in his bid to build an alternative to ChatGPT."
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A long list (with summaries) of various lawsuits filed against Twitter/X for not paying its bills. These lawsuits have been filed by service providers, landlords, vendors, consulting companies, law firms, etc. The article claims that Elon Musk's attitude, when it comes to paying bills, is to "let them sue."
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...ad agency, X Social Media, on Monday sued X Corp. in Florida federal court, arguing that the rebrand has confused consumers by leading them to believe that the company’s ad services are associated with the Musk-led company.
X Corp. has filed to register “X” for use in association with social media, business data analytics, market research and advertising services, among various other areas. X Social Media, however, says it has used the mark in identical and closely-related services for over eight years.
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https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/7/23907424/x-unlabeled-ads-posts-cant-block-report-chumbox
Advertisements now mixed in with tweets without being labeled as advertisements, and users cannot block or report them.
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X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet, reply, quote, repost, like, bookmark, and create lists, according to a source familiar with the matter. This change will go live today for new users in New Zealand and the Philippines.
Roughly 20 minutes after this story published, X’s Support account confirmed the details, writing that “this new test was developed to bolster our already successful efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity, while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount. It is not a profit driver.”
The company published the “Not-a-Bot Terms and Conditions” today outlining its plan for a paid subscription service that gives users certain abilities on their platform, like posting content and interacting with other users. This program is different from X Premium, which offers more features like “Undo” and “Edit” for posts for $8 a month. Given the company’s tumultuous reputation under Musk, some users have voiced their hesitancy to turn over their credit card info.
X owner Elon Musk has long floated the idea of charging users $1 for the platform. During a livestreamed conversation with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month, Musk said “It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots.”
Shortly after the announcement, Musk tweeted that you can “read for free, but $1/year to write.”
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It does seem like it might be a good idea, and get rid of a lot of the fake accounts, etc.
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It does seem like it might be a good idea, and get rid of a lot of the fake accounts, etc.
@taiwan_girl said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
It does seem like it might be a good idea, and get rid of a lot of the fake accounts, etc.
That's what I thought as well, but...
This only applies to NEW accounts. The old bots are still there.
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Yes but it's a pilot. I assume they'll roll this out. It won't stop ads but it will greatly limit bots. I'd pay without thinking.
I was always supportive of the idea that sending an email would cost 1 penny or whatever. Trivially unnoticeable by actual humans, catastrophic for spammers.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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Yes but it's a pilot. I assume they'll roll this out. It won't stop ads but it will greatly limit bots. I'd pay without thinking.
I was always supportive of the idea that sending an email would cost 1 penny or whatever. Trivially unnoticeable by actual humans, catastrophic for spammers.
@jon-nyc said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Yes but it's a pilot. I assume they'll roll this out. It won't stop ads but it will greatly limit bots. I'd pay without thinking.
I was always supportive of the idea that sending an email would cost 1 penny or whatever. Trivially unnoticeable by actual humans, catastrophic for spammers.
Make it like what the telephone used to cost: free within an organization (free PBX calls) but costs money to send email across organizations.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/technology/elon-musk-twitter-x-advertisers.html
Advertisers flee X/Twitter again, this time because Elon allegedly endorsed an antisemitic x/tweet.
