Twitter is better

[Ohio Elite]

[jross]

My (Democrat politician) teammate almost picked a fight on Sunday.  I had to stop him when he said, "Before X screwed up Twitter"... I like him better as a baseball player.

[GreatWhiteNorth]

15 hours ago, headshuck said:

Referring to the former President as the sitting President isn’t a speech impediment. Ai could swap the words out though.

You don't know what "stammering" is?

Then maybe stop using the word in your posts to describe someone with a speech impediment.

That's super f'd up. Not everyone is born perfect, and nobody needs turds like you to point out our imperfections.

[headshuck]

You don't know what "stammering" is?
Then maybe stop using the word in your posts to describe someone with a speech impediment.
That's super f'd up. Not everyone is born perfect, and nobody needs turds like you to point out our imperfections.

Ignored

[Wrestleknownothing]

This is a Tesla question, but would you pay Elon Musk $55.8 billion at this point in Tesla's history?

[Wrestleknownothing]

Bringing back an oldie, but a goodie thread because this is too funny not to post.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-x-is-flooded-with-ad-spam-stolen-credit-cards-may-be-key?ref=thediff.co

“Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, has in the past couple of months been inundated with a wave of ads for porn sites and fake luxury goods. That might sound like a low-priority problem for X, as these ads – no matter how sketchy – could in theory bring in much-needed ad revenue.

The problem is that the flood of ad spam, as insiders refer to it, has coincided with a surge in credit card firms asking X for refunds on unauthorized transactions. That indicates that at least some of the spam ads are paid for with stolen cards, say people familiar with the situation, which means X doesn’t get to keep any money generated from the ads.”

[jross]

The wave of only fan type comments within otherwise legit posting is uncool and real.

[headshuck]

[Offthemat]

X. has become more like a town square than an Intelligence operation since Musk bought it. 

[Wrestleknownothing]

9 hours ago, headshuck said:

 

I love contextless numbers like this. It is a sure sign things are not going well.

My favorite is the engagement with brands. No starting point, just up some unitless %.

Amongst all these numbers, one type seems to be missing. Financial. Hmmm.

[jross]

5 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

I love contextless numbers like this. It is a sure sign things are not going well.

My favorite is the engagement with brands. No starting point, just up some unitless %.

Amongst all these numbers, one type seems to be missing. Financial. Hmmm.

We know it financially isn't going well by reading into Elon's response in the Don Lemon interview about buying Twitter to protect free speech while avoiding talk of profit.  

From a user perspective, X is going VERY WELL!

[Offthemat]

25 minutes ago, jross said:

We know it financially isn't going well by reading into Elon's response in the Don Lemon interview about buying Twitter to protect free speech while avoiding talk of profit.  

From a user perspective, X is going VERY WELL!

Need to mention that X  isn’t receiving the millions in tax dollars from the FBI that twitter did. 

[Wrestleknownothing]

1 hour ago, Offthemat said:

Need to mention that X  isn’t receiving the millions in tax dollars from the FBI that twitter did. 

It is also not receiving the hundreds of millions in dollars from advertisers that Twitter did.

[Offthemat]

1 hour ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

It is also not receiving the hundreds of millions in dollars from advertisers that Twitter did.

But those weren’t my dollars.  And they weren’t for censorship. 

Edited March 21 by Offthemat

[Wrestleknownothing]

I missed this last week, but the Supreme Court refused to hear Musk's Twitter Sitter case, where he claims the agreement he signed with the SEC violates his constitutional rights to free speech. I guess you still can't lie to commit securities fraud.

[headshuck]

[three_arrows]

It's sssooo much better that they are begging for advertisers...

 

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-begs-advertisers-return-twitter-revenue

 

FTA:

Now, Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino are back in damage control mode, trying to scrounge up some much-needed funds at this year's Cannes Lions festival in southern France. The mercurial billionaire reportedly met with executives from the likes of the NFL, L'Oreal, Qualcomm, and Target, according to new reporting by the NYT.

But whether these measures will help Musk's hate speech-ridden echo chamber from bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars per quarter remains to be seen.

After all, who could forget that Musk quite literally told advertisers to go ***duck** themselves in November — fighting words that likely didn't sit well with the execs he's now pleading to return to X.

 

[headshuck]

Mike, is that you?

Clearly I’m long on X.

[jross]

X is 100% better for us because we decide what information is shared rather than a few editors with agendas.

Imagine how many nit wits would believe all the information hoaxes without Twitter.  

 

[Offthemat]

17 minutes ago, jross said:

X is 100% better for us because we decide what information is shared rather than a few editors with agendas.

Imagine how many nit wits would believe all the information hoaxes without Twitter.  

 

81 million?

[headshuck]

81 million?

[Wrestleknownothing]

3 hours ago, three_arrows said:

It's sssooo much better that they are begging for advertisers...

 

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-begs-advertisers-return-twitter-revenue

 

FTA:

Now, Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino are back in damage control mode, trying to scrounge up some much-needed funds at this year's Cannes Lions festival in southern France. The mercurial billionaire reportedly met with executives from the likes of the NFL, L'Oreal, Qualcomm, and Target, according to new reporting by the NYT.

But whether these measures will help Musk's hate speech-ridden echo chamber from bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars per quarter remains to be seen.

After all, who could forget that Musk quite literally told advertisers to go ***duck** themselves in November — fighting words that likely didn't sit well with the execs he's now pleading to return to X.

 

How did the conversation with Robert Eiger go?

[Wrestleknownothing]

So this is all just about building a colony on Mars?

"Musk, 53, has directed SpaceX employees to drill into the design and details of a Martian city, according to five people with knowledge of the efforts and documents viewed by The New York Times. One team is drawing up plans for small dome habitats, including the materials that could be used to build them. Another is working on spacesuits to combat Mars’s hostile environment, while a medical team is researching whether humans can have children there. Mr. Musk has volunteered his sperm to help seed a colony, two people familiar with his comments said.

The initiatives, which are in their infancy, are a shift toward more concrete planning for life on Mars as Mr. Musk’s timeline has hastened. While he said in 2016 that it would take 40 to 100 years to have a self-sustaining civilization on the planet, Mr. Musk told SpaceX employees in April that he now expects one million people to be living there in about 20 years. ...

Mr. Musk is so wedded to the idea of creating a civilization on Mars — he once said he plans to die there — that it has propelled nearly every business endeavor he has undertaken on Earth. His vision for Mars underlies most of the six companies that he leads or owns, each of which could potentially contribute to an extraterrestrial colony, according to the documents and the people with knowledge of the efforts.

The Boring Company, a private tunneling venture founded by Mr. Musk, was started in part to ready equipment to burrow under Mars’s surface, two of the people said. Mr. Musk has told people that he bought X, the social media platform, partly to help test how a citizen-led government that rules by consensus might work on Mars. He has also said that he envisions residents on the planet will drive a version of the steel-paneled Cybertrucks made by Tesla, his electric vehicle company."

The bit about his sperm is a bit weird, but otherwise...cool.

[WrestlingRasta]

Why are we fixated on colonizing on Mars? I don’t see any oceans for kayaks.  Wearing a space suit will undoubtedly lessen the smoking experience, whether it be brisket or ganja….and there are no alligators to shoot at. 
 

Why is this attractive? 

[ionel]

3 minutes ago, WrestlingRasta said:

Why are we fixated on colonizing on Mars? I don’t see any oceans for kayaks.  Wearing a space suit will undoubtedly lessen the smoking experience, whether it be brisket or ganja….and there are no alligators to shoot at. 
 

Why is this attractive? 

We can grow potatoes on Mars @Idaho is on board with this.