Twitter is better

[Offthemat]

4 hours ago, GreatWhiteNorth said:

The disgusting one where you claim the US is behind the 9/11 attacks!? 

Never.

That was a miserable post. You are a POS for making the claim. You can't hide it from it, you posted it.

You’re name is not, per chance, Richard?  

[BobDole]

Per Elon, he is floating the idea of charging a small monthly fee to thwart bots

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/18/elon-musk-says-x-will-charge-users-a-small-monthly-payment-to-use-its-service/

I would guess that will hurt the brand greatly. 

[Offthemat]

Poor bots. 

[BobDole]

17 minutes ago, Offthemat said:

Poor bots. 

I'm more worried about my 16 troll accounts.

[Plasmodium]

1 hour ago, BobDole said:

Per Elon, he is floating the idea of charging a small monthly fee to thwart bots

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/18/elon-musk-says-x-will-charge-users-a-small-monthly-payment-to-use-its-service/

I would guess that will hurt the brand greatly. 

Which one?  He can easily revert to Twitter.  Or add the s, e and y to get some synergy with Tesla.

Technical question.  Now that Twitter is dead, does my autocorrect need to leave it all lower case?

[GreatWhiteNorth]

My guess is that there would be a mass exodus from Twitter/X. Just a hunch.

Switching to a subscription model may well be the quickest way to kill any popular free internet site.

[Wrestleknownothing]

What is an Elon Musk personal guarantee worth? For that matter, what is an Elon Musk contractural guarantee worth?

Apparently, in order to save $1bn in cash and get the deal done, Musk gave a free put struck at the deal price to Jack Dorsey to keep Dorsey invested, thereby saving Musk from also having to buy Dorsey's $1bn stake. But what does that even mean?

No one knows if it is a verbal agreement or written. But given Musk's unwillingness to honor contracts, it is not clear if the form matters.

Musk is also eternally short of cash (hence the need for the free put), so now Dorsey has both Musk's credit risk and his hatred of honoring contracts to deal with. 

Nothing to do with Twitter being better per se (except that if it is maybe Dorsey doesn't need to exercise the put), but boy if I was Fidelity or any other shareholder, I sure would be ticked that a director of the company who was suing Musk to make him pay up also got a side deal put worth hundreds of millions in order to not take any downside risk on the deal.

It is always entertaining with Musk.

Edited September 20, 2023 by Wrestleknownothing

[headshuck]

Imagine if every topic on This forum was overrun with thousands of bots?

[Ohio Elite]

1 hour ago, headshuck said:

Imagine if every topic on This forum was overrun with thousands of bots?

That would suck!

[jross]

Reason #439
 

 

[Plasmodium]

10 minutes ago, jross said:

Reason #439
 

 

Reason for what?

[headshuck]

Wow, you’d only see that on X.

[jross]

30 minutes ago, Plasmodium said:

Reason for what?

Reason #439 "That Twitter (X) is better."

[Wrestleknownothing]

8 minutes ago, jross said:

Reason #439 "That Twitter (X) is better."

In what way is this clip evidence that Twitter is better? Are you saying that in the past this would not have been on Twitter and now it is? Or that you can only find this on Twitter? Or something else?

[jross]

1 hour ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

In what way is this clip evidence that Twitter is better? 

That it can be seen.
 

 

[Plasmodium]

This is where the rubber meets the road on the new twitter.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/nfl-issues-statement-in-response-to-placement-of-its-ads-on-white-nationalist-twitter-x-pages

[jross]

X better listen.  Can’t prevent everything but can address what they discover.

[Plasmodium]

1 hour ago, jross said:

X better listen.  Can’t prevent everything but can address what they discover.

What is the solution? No company or organization wants any association whatsoever with organizations or individuals like that.  That type of organization is only going to increase in number.

[BobDole]

I love how every article says "Twitter (now known as X)" in it. Should we continue to deadname X or let it change to it's preferred name? This is a big conundrum.

[Bigbrog]

Just now, BobDole said:

I love how every article says "Twitter (now known as X)" in it. Should we continue to deadname X or let it change to it's preferred name? This is a big conundrum.

I noticed that too...wonder how long it last

[Plasmodium]

From now on, I am  calling it x with no qualifiers.   Further, no capitalization.

Edited October 6, 2023 by Plasmodium

[Offthemat]

I’ve only managed to progress to calling it twix.

[Plasmodium]

1 minute ago, Offthemat said:

I’ve only managed to progress to calling it twix.

Well, we know you are the right one so you are half way there.

[Offthemat]

10 minutes ago, Plasmodium said:

Well, we know you are the right one so you are half way there.

Bless your little heart. 

[BobDole]

1 hour ago, Plasmodium said:

From now on, I am  calling it x with no qualifiers.   Further, no capitalization.

But what if she wants to be a capital X?