Twitter- The Musk era

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Maybe there is some socially redeeming value in Twitterdom?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainm...c420b304b7b909

Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg

this is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes

12:05 AM · Dec 30, 2022

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Also saw an item about a resurfaced video from the Reich-wing idiot Fucker Carlson supporting this human trafficker.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Maybe there is some socially redeeming value in Twitterdom?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainm...c420b304b7b909

This has been a truly crazy story to follow. Between this, the Santos fake resume, the J6 report and transcripts and Trump's taxes, the last few days have been a laugh a minute.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg

this is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes

12:05 AM · Dec 30, 2022


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Also saw an item about a resurfaced video from the Reich-wing idiot Fucker Carlson supporting this human trafficker.

Quote from Fox lawyer.
You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's Lawyers
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/91774...ay-fox-s-lawye

[Pio1980]

Elon Musk is surrounded by yes-men, and it's a recipe for disaster: 'The emperor has no clothes, but everybody's too afraid to tell him'
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon...xperts-2022-12

[finnbow]

LONDON (AP) — Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary European Union agreement to combat online disinformation, a top EU official said Friday.

European Commissioner Thierry Breton tweeted that Twitter had pulled out of the EU’s disinformation “code of practice” that other major social media platforms have pledged to support. But he added that Twitter’s “obligation” remained, referring to the EU’s tough new digital rules taking effect in August.

“You can run but you can’t hide,” Breton said.

https://apnews.com/article/twitter-m...c390fdc97d4667

[Chicks]

Elon Musk supports eliminating voting rights for people without children
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2368725.html

As nutty as they come.

[finnbow]

(Reuters) - Elon Musk has sued the elite law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to recover most of a $90 million fee it received from Twitter for defeating his bid to walk away from his $44 billion buyout of the social media company.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-m...ut-2023-07-07/

Here's George Conway's take on this lawsuit (his practice focused on litigation involving securities, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, and antitrust):

1. Nut-job billionaire enters into imprudent merger agreement with acquisition target.

2. Nut-job billionaire breaches imprudent merger agreement with acquisition target.

3. Target company is forced to launch bet-the-company litigation to enforce imprudent merger agreement breached by nut-job billionaire.

4. Nut-job billionaire is forced in bet-the-co litigation to carry out imprudent merger agreement he entered into and breached.

5. Target company’s outgoing board pays big fee to lawyers who won bet-the-co case nut-job billionaire forced it to bring.

6. Nut-job billionaire forced to absorb cost of legal fees paid to enforce imprudent merger agreement he breached.

Seems to me the moral of the story is, don’t be a nut-job billionaire who signs and breaches imprudent merger agreements.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Elon Musk supports eliminating voting rights for people without children
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2368725.html

As nutty as they come.

Is Musk a liar, or just a stupid motherfucker? Both, I suppose...

In 2022, Musk, who has fathered nine children, wrote on Twitter that, “A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.

In fact, the greatest threat to civilization is the lack of a reduction in the human birth rate. We are already at the point where the planet cannot support more humanity. The easiest way to beat climate change is by a shrinking human population.

[RedTide]

I'm loving Musk's idea to rename Twitter to X. It's the stupidest thing I've heard of. I love that there is no good word to replace the word "tweets".

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/...-and-logo-to-x

Edit: Now that I've looked into this a bit his plan is to turn X into a "do everything" app the equivalent of China's WeChat which is a combination of Amazon/Google/Twitter/PayPal.

Quote from the CEO:
“X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.”

[Rajoo]

I have never been on any social media, but strictly from a business marketing standpoint, naming a company Twitter, with a bird fluttering as their logo and calling the posts tweets is beyond brilliant.

BMW bought Rolls Royce, Audi bought Bentley and these car are still marketed in their iconic names despite BMW and Audi being status symbols.