Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

[Cid]

It's probably in line with them. Facebook is bigger though and they'll link it all together.

Better off away from the lot.

Even if you trust the current owners any billionaire could buy it. Along with your data.

Current for me is:

fb: marketplace, a few special interest groups.
Twitter: read only
Instagram: business and following related businesses (design, so it's actually pretty useful). And the odd picture of food/countryside.

That's really my point, if you don't trust meta there's no particular reason to trust the rest of them. It's more just whether one of these apps happens to catch on. I suppose the relatively public failures of meta might be a damper on uptake from the kind of people that made twitter genuinely relevant though.

I kind of just want a Musk mired in lawsuits to have to sell Twitter for $17m in a few years. Is that too much to ask?

 

[a_chap]

... sell Twitter for $17m in a few years. Is that too much to ask?

Yes, much too much.

A fiver would be more realistic.

 

[Raheem]

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[two sheds]

Google has removed most Twitter links because Musk blocked Google bots from crawling the site.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I thought Putin was going to win master strategist of the decade but between Elon and the sub guy he’s not going to manage it

 

[Raheem]

I thought Putin was going to win master strategist of the decade but between Elon and the sub guy he’s not going to manage it

Unless he's the handler for both Musk and the sub guy. Which is not quite totally implausible.

 

[keybored]

According to this thread it appears to be a technical issue, yes folks it's another explanation but from someone who sounds like they know what they're talking about:

That's one hell of a moniker.

 

[keybored]

 

[spitfire]

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[ska invita]

for two days now my feed is empty

 

[splonkydoo]

for two days now my feed is empty
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'rate feed limits in operaton to make twitter more efficient, more engineering fixes coming'

 

[ska invita]

'rate feed limits in operaton to make twitter more efficient, more engineering fixes coming'

yeah but i barely look at twitter, certainly havent hit any limits

 

[tommers]

Everything is fine Elon.

 

[Storm Fox]

Musk is taking Tweetdeck behind the $8 paywall:

Twitter’s TweetDeck will only be available to verified users, company says
Some may pay Musk the money, but it will further diminish the user base.

 

[a_chap]

To quote someone on Twitter: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets

Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.

techcrunch.com

 

[Ax^]

hmm threads has him shitting his pants

and its not even the movie

 

[Yossarian]

Is he just cutting things off to make himself look generous by restoring them?

Thursday: Twitter announces that unverified users can post consonants for free but vowels will be $1 each

Saturday: 'Free vowels for all,' announces Elon Musk

 

[hitmouse]

Still knackered for me. eta: working now. eta: no it isn't.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Thursday: Twitter announces that unverified users can post consonants for free but vowels will be $1 each

bllcks t ln msk

 

[Dogsauce]

Is he just cutting things off to make himself look generous by restoring them?

Thursday: Twitter announces that unverified users can post consonants for free but vowels will be $1 each

Saturday: 'Free vowels for all,' announces Elon Musk

Isn’t that what they call ‘kite flying’ in politics? Like throwing a stupid idea out to see what the response is, if you get away with it let it fly, if there’s too much resistance reel it in. And always make the proposal more extreme than you think you can get away with just in case you can, and to make the eventual thing you do seem generous in comparison.

 

[weltweit]

I think Musk's biger mistake with respect to Twitter is that he has driven left wingers away from the platform. Lefties must number about 50% of the population and driving them away is a big mistake. Think people like Stephen Fry.

 

[weltweit]

And what is more I think Musk knows about this problem as he has made an open invitation to lefties to come on and to a broadcast. My bet is that they won't bother. It is his loss.

 

[weltweit]

It wasn't clever to block googlebot though if you Musk wants twitter content to be found at G.

I wonder if he realised he was blocking G, perhaps he just blocked all bots and didn't realise.

 

[weltweit]

So hoe much of a threat to Twitter is the Facebook Tweeter?

It seems they are linking it to instagram which means it potentially starts with a user base, and apparently it has the same sorts of features to Twitter.

Well they all have this Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, all kind of muddle into the same sort of thing, boring ..

 

[cupid_stunt]

I see Meta's 'Threads' has launched, and getting loads of news coverage including on Sky & BBC News, over 10 million downloads in the first seven hours, and trending on Twitter in the UK, Musk is not going to like that.

 

[tommers]

No option to only see posts from people you follow. No chronological order. You can only see what the algorithm decides you want to see. Can't delete your account without deleting your Instagram account.

LOL. And indeed LMAO.

 

[Artaxerxes]

No option to only see posts from people you follow. No chronological order. You can only see what the algorithm decides you want to see. Can't delete your account without deleting your Instagram account.

LOL. And indeed LMAO.

Exactly as I’d expect tbh

 

[ska invita]

Doesnt pass EU privacy laws? Thats pretty damning. Luckily we live in the land of freedom from such red tape

 

[Dogsauce]

No option to only see posts from people you follow. No chronological order. You can only see what the algorithm decides you want to see. Can't delete your account without deleting your Instagram account.

LOL. And indeed LMAO.

I mostly dropped out of Facebook once they stopped doing stuff chronologically and didn’t show you all your friend’s posts, my slightly autistic brain was disorientated by it and fucking hated it. This sounds like more of the same shit. Holding out for bluesky as it seems to have some good features, particularly around moderation/filtering.

 

[lazythursday]

I'd say Threads has potential, but it's depressing how much they've got wrong on launch day. I want to see news and interesting content, not a load of vapid shite from influencers. I am persevering to see if the algorithm does learn my interests as I follow more people, but the lack of a content search and trending topics etc makes it feel even more limiting than Mastodon in many ways. They seem to be blethering on about how they want to enable great conversations, but missing the fact that the vast majority of people signed up to Twitter don't post that much actually - it's all about making it easy to generate an interesting feed of stuff related to your interests. And it's just not that easy to do that on Threads yet, which seems to be common to all of the failing Twitter rivals. But it's early days...