Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter
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wrote on 29 Jul 2023, 10:04 last edited by
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wrote on 29 Jul 2023, 22:48 last edited by
Musk pulled the trigger. Update Twitter app and the bird goes away
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wrote on 29 Jul 2023, 23:29 last edited by
@Jon said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Musk pulled the trigger. Update Twitter app and the bird goes away
I never use the app. Access via the web page. Is it any different/better?
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wrote on 29 Jul 2023, 23:33 last edited by
I use the app on my iOS devices, web on Mac.
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wrote on 10 Sept 2023, 23:40 last edited by
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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wrote on 3 Oct 2023, 01:41 last edited by
...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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wrote on 8 Oct 2023, 00:51 last edited by
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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wrote on 18 Oct 2023, 01:45 last edited by
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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wrote on 18 Oct 2023, 01:45 last edited by
I'd probably be happy to pay a nominal fee just to get rid of the obnoxious ads.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2023, 01:52 last edited by
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.
wrote on 18 Oct 2023, 01:55 last edited by@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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wrote on 18 Oct 2023, 01:59 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2023, 02:07 last edited by
I like that this bold experiment is being conducted to control/limit the boys. Think Facebook/Instagram or maybe even LinkedIn will follow?
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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.
wrote on 18 Nov 2023, 02:03 last edited by@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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wrote on 18 Nov 2023, 02:05 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 20 Aug 2024, 14:44 last edited by
`https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-x-sued-120-million-worth-of-server-parts-2024-8?op=1
Elon Musk's X is facing yet another possible legal battle, this time over $120 million worth of unpaid IT bills.
Taiwanese tech firm Wiwynn is suing the social media giant formerly known as Twitter for $61 million over claims it refused to pay for around $120 million in server parts after Musk took over in 2022.
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In addition to the Wiwynn lawsuit, Musk is facing lawsuits from several former Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, over $128 million in unpaid severance.
X is also being sued by former Twitter chairman Omid Kordestani over $20 million worth of shares and other ex-Twitter staff over unpaid bonuses, with the growing number of legal fights unlikely to help the company's reportedly sagging revenues.
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wrote on 20 Aug 2024, 16:30 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
(I think he really means ‘since the Obama Depression’)
Works for me.
"Own the language", the Demonrats said.
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wrote on 30 Aug 2024, 02:10 last edited by
https://futurism.com/mistake-elon-musk-begged-twitter-staff-turn-off-new-feature
In late 2022, long before multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk renamed Twitter to X, rumors swirled that he was getting ready to shake up the platform's verification system.
His proposal: charge each subscriber for the privilege of being verified without ever doing the homework of actually verifying their identity — a short-sighted and ultimately disastrous decision that Musk reportedly regretted almost immediately.
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The 2022 US midterm elections took place on November 8, a day before Musk started charging users for a blue checkmark.
When the switch was made, all hell broke loose, with countless newly verified accounts masquerading as politicians, celebrities, and companies. One account parading as Nintendo shared a viral image of Super Mario giving the finger.
Advertisers, who had gotten wind of the mayhem, started reaching out to Twitter's sales teams, threatening to pull their ads. According to Mac and Conger's sources, Nike executives threatened to never advertise on the platform again.
And Musk was terrified of the prospect of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising revenue.
"Turn it off," he reportedly told an engineer. "Turn it off!"
