Cont: Musk buys Twitter II

He really isn't going to react to the tone of that letter well, it reads as if it is a standard letter that would be sent to any company, he won't take well to "just" being another owner of a media company and not the god king. Interesting that they didn't send it to the fig leaf, sorry the CEO...
 
Darat said:
He really isn't going to react to the tone of that letter well, it reads as if it is a standard letter that would be sent to any company, he won't take well to "just" being another owner of a media company and not the god king. Interesting that they didn't send it to the fig leaf, sorry the CEO...
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She's probably too busy banking the $10 advertising revenue that Visa has given the last quarter.
 
I repeat: I don't know what the hell Musk wants to get out of his management of Twitter/X, but it sure is not money.
 
i think he's been taking adderall and xanax like all his buddies and hasn't been thinking straight for quite some time
 
Orphia Nay said:
"Breton told Musk: “We will include your answer in our assessment file on your compliance with the DSA. I remind you that following the opening of a potential investigation and a finding of non-compliance, penalties can be imposed.”"

What penalties can be imposed? Wouldn't it be delightful for Musk if X was banned in Europe? :D
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Yep. AIUI fines of up to six percent of the company's annual turnover or getting blocked in the EU. Not exactly small potatoes.
 
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible

The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic


A lot of people threaten to leave Twitter. Not many of them have actually done it.

This was true even before Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform a year ago. But the parade of calamities since — cutting back on moderation, unplugging servers, reinstating banned accounts, replacing verified check marks with paid subscription badges, throttling access to news sites, blaming the Anti-Defamation League for a decline in advertising — has made stepping away more appealing, either because the timeline is toxic or because the site simply doesn’t function the way it used to.

Last April, the company gave NPR a reason to quit — it labeled the network “U.S. state-affiliated media,” a designation that was at odds with Twitter’s own definition of the term. NPR stopped posting from its account on April 4. A week later, it posted its last update — a series of tweets directing users to NPR’s newsletters, app, and other social media accounts. Many member stations across the country, including KUOW in Seattle, LAist in Los Angeles, and Minnesota Public Radio, followed suit.

Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of traffic before the posting stopped. (NPR declined an interview request but shared the memo and other information). While NPR’s main account had 8.7 million followers and the politics account had just under three million, “the platform’s algorithm updates made it increasingly challenging to reach active users; you often saw a near-immediate drop-off in engagement after tweeting and users rarely left the platform,” the memo says...
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I haven’t noticed a huge change to my Twitter experience, but it might be analogous to the apocryphal boiling toad - hard to notice when change is so gradual. At worst, a rightward creep that’s easy to lessen with judicious use of the block function

One thing that can’t escape my notice: Mandy K Cohen, the Director of the CDC, has posted some rightfully pro-COVID vaccine tweets. One such here:

https://x.com/cdcdirector/status/1712852744875155864?s=61&t=Ndf3WQHD1m7z4Mog6ZXyRA

The comments skew at least 10:1 anti-vax. I don’t remember this being so clearly negative in the past.

As an aside, I got the most recent COVID booster on Wednesday, with zero side effects so far other than a slightly sore arm. I’m generally pretty healthy, but at 74 I can’t deny I find myself in a high risk demographic, and I want to try to tilt the odds in my favor as much as possible.
 
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Australia fines Musk's X platform $386,000 over anti-child abuse gaps

SYDNEY, Oct 16 (Reuters) - An Australian regulator has fined Elon Musk's social media platform X A$610,500 ($386,000) for failing to cooperate with a probe into anti-child abuse practices, a blow to a company that has struggled to keep advertisers amid complaints it is going soft on moderating content.

The e-Safety Commission fined X, the platform Musk rebranded from Twitter, saying it failed to respond to questions including how long it took to respond to reports of child abuse material on the platform and the methods it used to detect it.

Though small compared to the $44 billion Musk paid for the website in October 2022, the fine is a reputational hit for a company that has seen a continuous revenue decline as advertisers cut spending on a platform that has stopped most content moderation and reinstated thousands of banned accounts.
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Fast Eddie B said:
I haven’t noticed a huge change to my Twitter experience, but it might be analogous to the apocryphal boiling toad - hard to notice when change is so gradual. At worst, a rightward creep that’s easy to lessen with judicious use of the block function

One thing that can’t escape my notice: Mandy K Cohen, the Director of the CDC, has posted some rightfully pro-COVID vaccine tweets. One such here:

https://x.com/cdcdirector/status/1712852744875155864?s=61&t=Ndf3WQHD1m7z4Mog6ZXyRA

The comments skew at least 10:1 anti-vax. I don’t remember this being so clearly negative in the past.

As an aside, I got the most recent COVID booster on Wednesday, with zero side effects so far other than a slightly sore arm. I’m generally pretty healthy, but at 74 I can’t deny I find myself in a high risk demographic, and I want to try to tilt the odds in my favor as much as possible.
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The two things I've noticed most is:

1) People I used to follow are now less active or gone altogether

2) Anything post that is even slightly popular is dominated by blue-check morons, much like your anti-vax observations.

Seems to me that Twitter is following the MySpace death trajectory. Not suddenly, just very gradual decline of user base until a once nearly monolithic social media service becomes a backwater for only niche communities.

That said, something more catastrophic may occur related to Twitter's unpayable and massive debts.
 
A tidal wave of sex bots liking every reply to a tweet within seconds of posting.

They spring up as fast as you block.

They are getting clever now, they include a surname and less obvious avatar picture.

I block them as a routine now. Today already the sex bot likes equal the number of actual likes
 
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A tidal wave of sex bots liking every reply to a tweet within seconds of posting.

They spring up as fast as you block.

They are getting clever now, they include a surname and less obvious avatar picture.

I block them as a routine now. Today already the sex bot likes equal the number of actual likes
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I haven't had any of those for weeks now. What interrupts my feed are numerous crypto ads, disguised as pot shots at a variety of celebrities.
 
Twitter are going to start charging new users $1 to sign up.
It's to stop bot accounts apparently.

All the bots that are already here must be laughing their chips off at not having to pay a dollar. Thank goodness they aren't a problem.
 
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Twitter are going to start charging new users $1 to sign up.
It's to stop bot accounts apparently.

All the bots that are already here must be laughing their chips off at not having to pay a dollar. Thank goodness they aren't a problem.
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The CEO* doesn't seem to understand how making money from advertising works.


It's not even going to be MySpace


*ha
 
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