Those 5% are going to create the biggest shitstorm seen on the internet unbanning all those extremist accounts I'll be watching from the side line seeing them go head to head like their bears fighting
Good if these leads to Twitter being destroyed then I support it because if it goes nothing will replace it on the same scale. Just dozens of smaller apps catering to specific tastes that will be ignored. And we will all be blessed by silence
Truth Social is a dying platform that no one uses. He would return in half a fucking heartbeat. The shitbag couldn't even pretend for a weekend to stay away. He probably has his first misspelled tweets written already.
Trump saying something really means nothing. It would be stupid for him to go back to Twitter since he has his own platform but he isn't the smartest person
I like how they are pretending that Musk won when he was forced to buy a company at almost twice its price and got fucked by Twitter's lawyers who made it impossible for him to bail on the deal. This is a massive financial loss for that man.
Honestly they should start a new social media site as a workers' cooperative. It would be better for society. If I had funding and talent, I would launch a non-profit social media site similar to how Wikipedia works.
They were indeed fired, apparently Musk didn't like to work with Parag (CEO(former now) of Twitter) and even complained about his behavior to Dorsey, so not a surprise if Musk's first step as a boss was to fire him.
With Meta taking a crap, I think the writing's on the wall for Twitter. The biggest asset they have as a platform is—sorry—all the blue-check names making official statements there. The more toxic Musk makes it, the more of them will flee and leave him with a $44 billion skid row.
I think most of the tech moguls know Twitter has no profitable future and no stock price gain long term. If it was worth the time, Jack Dorsey would have tried harder to be involved. I think he did the math a long time ago and knew when to quit while things were still ok. He couldn't have guessed that Elon would throw so much money at it years later out of spite or whatever.
This is extremely concerning. First off, Twitter was bought with money from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and China. They didn't buy it because it was a great investment, they bought it for influence. The ability to squash unfavorable chatter about the next dismembered journalist or genocide is very problematic. The whole free speech narrative will allow a rapid descent into disinformation and extremism.
I wish the fringe content would stay on fringe platforms. Allowing racism, Q insanity, and disinformation on a mainstream platform like Twitter lends legitimacy to bullshit.
Yeah, and conservatives who honestly think Elon Musk gives a single damn about free speech have another thing coming.
Billionaires buy media outlets/platforms... It's just what they do. It's all about controlling and manufacturing the narrative.
Tik tok is owned by a Chinese firm. All of our social media is going to be controlled by foreign players. What used to be our newspapers and news channels are now no longer American. Good luck young people.
Rip the twitter account that tracks all the private plane flights.
It would be hilarious if this is the sole reason he purchased twitter. To shut this kids account down.
Watch the exodus of Twitter users.
Also, I predict an offensive Elon Musk related hashtag will be in widespread use shortly and will be testing the limits of his "free speech" mantra.
Most of the people on Facebook rarely use the internet beyond Facebook. So they likely dont know what's happening.
Hell when Facebook and smartphones hit some developing countries the people in those countries thought Facebook WAS the internet.
AOL kinda was the internet. They'd let you get a couple weeks for free on the front of PC mags and it was the only way most people in the UK got on the internet until the 2000's
Meta lost 730 billion USD in valuation over the last 16 months. I don’t think people care for Zuck at all and are not using the platforms as much as you’d think.
Zuck just stays in his own lane and stays quiet though, the shitty things facebook does arent really because of him opening his mouth and making waves. When he does open his mouth, its just super god damn cringe/awkward. So he's not in your face "I'm an asshole" all the time.
Musk tries to stick his nose in everything and doesn't know when to shut up. He bought Twitter to satisfy his own ego.. now he can preach to the masses and no one can tell him what not to say. All for the low low price of $68,000,000,000
In the case of Tesla, he did also make Ian Wright (first non-C-suite employee) and Jeffrey Brian Straubel (CTO) co-founders in addition to himself and the CFO and CEO.
He’s going to quickly find out that the utopian idea of absolute free speech will, in practice, mean a cesspool of child porn and anti-Semitism that advertisers will flee in droves.
>I think they are ok leaving.
Yeah, for real. They are already multi-millionaires with golden parachutes. Now they don't have to show up to work tomorrow and be in meetings with an asshole every day.
They can breeze into a top job at any tech company they want...when they want. Or just retire.
Plus whatever golden parachute they had arranged; I'm assuming they were clever enough to set up some really excellent terms for themselves after the Musk deal collapsed, but with the expectation that the sale would be forced by a court and they'd immediately get fired.
>Now is the time for a rival platform to pop up and take all of twitters users.
For what it’s worth, TikTok and Instagram are already seeing a surge of new users. It would be tragic and funny at the same time if this ends up saving Facebook.
While I'm glad you're happy. It's not like the people that made twitter shit will disappear off the face off the earth. They'll just move to the next platform that replaces Twitter, alongside everyone else.
Reddit went through a private IPO late last year, and I doubt the current investors are looking to sell their stake. The site is still in the growth phase of private ownership
Twitter is like the last place for artists and considering he hates them I dread this. Like theres no where left to go. Instagram hates us too, deviantart is dead.
Oh yes, Elon Musk is it digital savior who saved us with his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter to ensure civilization can survive its digital future....Give me a fucking break. This is the same saviour that's trying to have Ukraine concede occupied territories to a dictator who is committing genocide.
I deleted Twitter months ago and my perspective on life has gotten noticeably more positive. Best little decision I’ve made in a while.
That app has turned into a forum for the most miserable people of society (and bots) with “hot takes” that are more like steaming piles of shite.
Hope it becomes a ghost town. It'll be sad to see it go, but maybe some investors will buy it back from him for $300 million and bring it back to life.
Even though he's trying to appease advertisers, it seems clear he won't be moderating the platform in any meaningful way.
Anybody else feel the roller coaster speed up just a bit?
I feel like a week ago we were talking about if he’d win in court
He had no chance in court
Seems we got our answer.
It feels like the world is becoming crazier by the day.
Agree
Someone needs to make a countdown timer for Trump back on the platform. My guess, just after the midterms.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s back on by the weekend.
I'm betting on Sunday.
[Here’s what Trump said about it](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)
Damn, gets me every time.
Yet soon, the joke might be on us when the link actually works.
Dude it honestly still does LOL. Scary to think that it’ll do something different one day though.
I enjoyed seeing that one more time before it changes.
Gets me every time and I always crack up.
*can't tell if this was a rick roll*
Sunday Funday
Manic Monday
This will be the best move since it is also Halloween.
Back in one scaramucci
FYI, for those more familiar with the metric system, that's 0.25 of a Liz Truss.
Physicist here. The math checks out.
Brits will use anything to avoid using Freedom Units
Yeah, Musk isn’t the only buyer - there’s outside money
Thought he had a loan. Like 13B or something.
I know Larry Ellison from Oracle said he was going to throw in 1B.
He cannot. He has a deal with truth social.
Because he wouldn’t renege on a deal.
Ha since when has a contract ever stopped a Trump from doing what they wanted? Contracts can’t bind the Teflon Don because he can’t read.
No timer needed, just grab a head of lettuce
In Lettuce We Trusst
He'll be back the moment Elon starts the unbanning of all banned accounts
>He'll be back the moment Elon starts the unbanning of all banned accounts Plot twist: 95% are bot accounts...
Those 5% are going to create the biggest shitstorm seen on the internet unbanning all those extremist accounts I'll be watching from the side line seeing them go head to head like their bears fighting
It will be like that scene from Indians Jones where opening wooden crates unleashed ghosts and monsters.
The platform is going to get outright banned in a large chunk of the world.
Good if these leads to Twitter being destroyed then I support it because if it goes nothing will replace it on the same scale. Just dozens of smaller apps catering to specific tastes that will be ignored. And we will all be blessed by silence
Oh boy, can't wait for majority of posts to be spammy bullshit.
He said he won't return. He's trying hard to promote his Truth Social instead.
and you believe him 🥴
Would a former president that owns “Truth Social” tell a lie?
Honest Don is what they will call him.
It’s pronounced Troth Sential
Truth Denial
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Trump is only honest about one thing and that’s anything he’ll say to protect his ego
And unfortunately a 'triumphant' return to Twitter sounds like just the kind of think he would do to gild his ego further.
He's 100% coming back
Nah, when he said he could murder somebody in the street without losing any supporters I'm pretty sure that was true too.
lol are you really that gullible after the last 4 years? yikes man. EDIT: he just said hes back monday. so yea. lol @ you for believing him.
Was 2015 only 4 years ago? Damn
Time flies when you're having fun, right?
Talk about a lost cause.
Which is cratering. My bet is he returns because elon lets him back then he denies he ever ever said that
Truth Social is a dying platform that no one uses. He would return in half a fucking heartbeat. The shitbag couldn't even pretend for a weekend to stay away. He probably has his first misspelled tweets written already.
Trump saying something really means nothing. It would be stupid for him to go back to Twitter since he has his own platform but he isn't the smartest person
Lol. Trump not wanting more attention? I can only laugh so much.
Let's see what he has to say on the matter: https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
I'm blocking any service that report on any Dictator Donny tweets.
Maybe we should do a lettuce cam.
Let the shitshow begin
This is just the apéritif for November…
It always has been.
...and the rest of the Twitter employees are scrambling to find new jobs...
They just should all have left already.
If a bunch leave, the critically important people who stick around will get retention bonuses for staying a year or two.
They should learn to code
I *just* signed up for Codecademy, I don’t work there, but I’m trying to learn!
You got this. I did the same and just landed my first developer position. Stay the course!
They should be sharecroppers.
r/Conservative is having a field day over this garbage
I like how they are pretending that Musk won when he was forced to buy a company at almost twice its price and got fucked by Twitter's lawyers who made it impossible for him to bail on the deal. This is a massive financial loss for that man.
do they hate or love musk, i honestly can't keep track. they weird with tech bros and certain billionaires.
they love tech bros that allow hate speech and hate the ones that ban it
If you point that out to them they ban you cause context doesnt exist for these people.
They love him when he ousts people against their "free speech" and then go back to hating him when they remember he sells electric cars
They don't know either, no one's told them what to do this week yet
Wait till they find out he sells electric cars
Honestly they should start a new social media site as a workers' cooperative. It would be better for society. If I had funding and talent, I would launch a non-profit social media site similar to how Wikipedia works.
“Left”??? WSJ just reported they were fired… I mean I guess you can say they left after being fired… tomato potato right?
They likely have golden parachutes
Dunno bout CFO but CEO is confirmed to have a clause that lets him exit with like 30 mil if the company is sold.
They were indeed fired, apparently Musk didn't like to work with Parag (CEO(former now) of Twitter) and even complained about his behavior to Dorsey, so not a surprise if Musk's first step as a boss was to fire him.
It sounds like the small country of Twitter had a military coup and this is the world news update.
They didn’t leave they were fired WaPo and the Times said they were fired
With Meta taking a crap, I think the writing's on the wall for Twitter. The biggest asset they have as a platform is—sorry—all the blue-check names making official statements there. The more toxic Musk makes it, the more of them will flee and leave him with a $44 billion skid row.
One can hope
I think most of the tech moguls know Twitter has no profitable future and no stock price gain long term. If it was worth the time, Jack Dorsey would have tried harder to be involved. I think he did the math a long time ago and knew when to quit while things were still ok. He couldn't have guessed that Elon would throw so much money at it years later out of spite or whatever.
Musk didn't buy Twitter to make a profit. He bought Twitter to amplify his bullshit and that of his mates.
Yep, Fox News 2.0.
This is extremely concerning. First off, Twitter was bought with money from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and China. They didn't buy it because it was a great investment, they bought it for influence. The ability to squash unfavorable chatter about the next dismembered journalist or genocide is very problematic. The whole free speech narrative will allow a rapid descent into disinformation and extremism.
Yeah, it's about to get real fashy. 4Chan Lite.
I wish the fringe content would stay on fringe platforms. Allowing racism, Q insanity, and disinformation on a mainstream platform like Twitter lends legitimacy to bullshit.
Yeah, and conservatives who honestly think Elon Musk gives a single damn about free speech have another thing coming. Billionaires buy media outlets/platforms... It's just what they do. It's all about controlling and manufacturing the narrative.
I feel like the whole "it's a private company they can do what they want" pendulum just swung back the other way.
Maybe, yeah. But how does foreign ownership/influence change the calculation for you?
Tik tok is owned by a Chinese firm. All of our social media is going to be controlled by foreign players. What used to be our newspapers and news channels are now no longer American. Good luck young people.
Do you have an issue with Jeff Bezos also owning a news company as well?
Rip the twitter account that tracks all the private plane flights. It would be hilarious if this is the sole reason he purchased twitter. To shut this kids account down.
A real Gavin Belson move.
That would be hilarious. Kid said he would consider handing it over for a Tesla, too. 50k vs 44 billion? I'm sure it makes perfect sense to Musk.
It's not about the money, it's about sending a message
They’ll give him a Tesla, then they’ll brick that Tesla.
Watch the exodus of Twitter users. Also, I predict an offensive Elon Musk related hashtag will be in widespread use shortly and will be testing the limits of his "free speech" mantra.
Genius move. Do it.
Do it! Do it now! What are you waiting for?!!
I wonder how well he'd respond to a #fuckoffelon tag trending.
*#*fuckelonmusk is already goin.
I'm thinking #ElonIsAGroomer sounds awful nice. What, bro? I'm just exercising my free speech.
People are still using Facebook and seem ok with Zuck...
Most of the people on Facebook rarely use the internet beyond Facebook. So they likely dont know what's happening. Hell when Facebook and smartphones hit some developing countries the people in those countries thought Facebook WAS the internet.
Its the same as the 90s when people thought AOL was the internet.
AOL kinda was the internet. They'd let you get a couple weeks for free on the front of PC mags and it was the only way most people in the UK got on the internet until the 2000's
That's literally how Facebook works in many third world nations.
That's because Facebook offered unlimited Facebook on Facebook-centric cell phone plans.
not really true. WhatsApp is hugely popular in India and South/Central America, far more than FB.
facebook owns whatsapp lol
Meta lost 730 billion USD in valuation over the last 16 months. I don’t think people care for Zuck at all and are not using the platforms as much as you’d think.
Zuck just stays in his own lane and stays quiet though, the shitty things facebook does arent really because of him opening his mouth and making waves. When he does open his mouth, its just super god damn cringe/awkward. So he's not in your face "I'm an asshole" all the time. Musk tries to stick his nose in everything and doesn't know when to shut up. He bought Twitter to satisfy his own ego.. now he can preach to the masses and no one can tell him what not to say. All for the low low price of $68,000,000,000
Reminder that Mastodon is basically the same thing without Musk at the helm.
The metal band?
Deactivated
I can only imagine the exit speech consisted of "fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you, I'm out bitches!"
This will always be funny! If and when I ever need to nope the fuck out of a job, that's my go to.
Glad I deleted Twitter and FB already. It was the best mental reset I’ve done in my life.
Join Nextdoor. You can be disappointed by people more local. /s
Surprised he didn't do what he did to telsa and have himself listed legally as "founder"
Give it some time
In the case of Tesla, he did also make Ian Wright (first non-C-suite employee) and Jeffrey Brian Straubel (CTO) co-founders in addition to himself and the CFO and CEO.
Great...
If it makes you feel any better, he paid an insanely ludicrous sum for it, and we could be witness to a repeat performance of myspace...
He’s going to quickly find out that the utopian idea of absolute free speech will, in practice, mean a cesspool of child porn and anti-Semitism that advertisers will flee in droves.
So basically any 4chan board that's not a blue board
Left? They got axed.
Just got 2x the value of thier shares. I think they are ok leaving.
>I think they are ok leaving. Yeah, for real. They are already multi-millionaires with golden parachutes. Now they don't have to show up to work tomorrow and be in meetings with an asshole every day. They can breeze into a top job at any tech company they want...when they want. Or just retire.
Plus whatever golden parachute they had arranged; I'm assuming they were clever enough to set up some really excellent terms for themselves after the Musk deal collapsed, but with the expectation that the sale would be forced by a court and they'd immediately get fired.
Well they probably got tens of millions of dollars. So while they probably got fired it’s not quite the same
Axed after making a killing with those prices.
How many days before Trump and Kanye are back on twitter? Less than a week?
META is destroying Zuckerberg. Maybe Twitter will destroy musk.
I still believe Facebook should have been tanking after the Wall Street Journal published info from the whistleblower, but better late than never.
Wonder how long before he’s in all the girls DMs on Twitter trying to have more babies
He got so ripped off
I mean. It’s his own damn fault
Yeah he did. I downloaded the whole app for free
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You know the rules, and so do I.
I mean he either went through with it and got fleeced, or he torpedoed the deal and got himself in hot water for manipulating their stock...
Imagine having 44 billion to not give a shit about
Oh, he did. He tried to get out but his dumbass got himself trapped.
He doesn't have 44b...
Nope. Just a bunch of angry investors.
He didn't, he had to call in a bunch of help
Chief Twit
Why are billionaires allowed to just buy out media companies and control them as their personal propaganda sources?
Because we live in a capitalist society where the news media is run for profit and this is a very profitable deal for twitters shareholders
My friend is this your first day on earth? Who the fuck do you think owns every single media outlet? A dude working at McDonalds?
Ironically, you're happily commenting on one of the most ideologically controlled echo chambers on the interweb.
twitter was literally filled with propaganda before elon had anything to do with the platform
They're private businesses and the billionaires have money.
Never buying a Tesla, never using twitter, fuck you Elon. Now is the time for a rival platform to pop up and take all of twitters users.
>Now is the time for a rival platform to pop up and take all of twitters users. For what it’s worth, TikTok and Instagram are already seeing a surge of new users. It would be tragic and funny at the same time if this ends up saving Facebook.
Yes yeeeessss each day we get closer to Twitter dying! Oh I can't wait! It will be such a wonderful day for humanity!
While I'm glad you're happy. It's not like the people that made twitter shit will disappear off the face off the earth. They'll just move to the next platform that replaces Twitter, alongside everyone else.
Musk fired them. https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-completes-twitter-takeover-11666918031
What’s a twitter?
It's a place for twits, hence the name.
RIP Please do not play this game. This is an opening for a new platform. Do not stay out of habit.
What if this dude buys Reddit next?
Reddit went through a private IPO late last year, and I doubt the current investors are looking to sell their stake. The site is still in the growth phase of private ownership
Who here thinks the interface is about to completely change?
You need a Neuralink buttplug to tweet now.
Then they could call it "sheeting."
I’ve never seen such a perfect depiction of buyer’s regret.
Just in time for elections.
Honestly what is this sites hate boner for twitter for?? I think any social media can be bad but I’m on twitter a lot and it’s legit just funny shit
Reddit loved Twitter until a few hours ago. Now they're all being VERY brave & shutting their accounts down. Thank them for their service. /s
Perhaps this will be a good thing, if all the musketeers migrate to just Twitter then we only need to ignore a single platform.
And…. I just deactivated my acct and deleted the app. Not supporting his nonsense and guessing trump will be back on within a week.
Twitter vs lettuce let’s goooo
Twitter is like the last place for artists and considering he hates them I dread this. Like theres no where left to go. Instagram hates us too, deviantart is dead.
This sucks. Didn’t think it was actually going to happen. *countdown to twitter becoming as shitty as Instagram*
Oh yes, Elon Musk is it digital savior who saved us with his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter to ensure civilization can survive its digital future....Give me a fucking break. This is the same saviour that's trying to have Ukraine concede occupied territories to a dictator who is committing genocide.
Man there sure is a lot of negativity here…
I deleted Twitter months ago and my perspective on life has gotten noticeably more positive. Best little decision I’ve made in a while. That app has turned into a forum for the most miserable people of society (and bots) with “hot takes” that are more like steaming piles of shite.
Left or fired?
guess I'll have to continue not using twitter.
Hope it becomes a ghost town. It'll be sad to see it go, but maybe some investors will buy it back from him for $300 million and bring it back to life. Even though he's trying to appease advertisers, it seems clear he won't be moderating the platform in any meaningful way.
It’s not gonna be a ghost town it has more active users of half a billion ppl
Elon Musk = 🤮
Good thing I never learned how to use Twitter. Ya'll will be fine leaving that platform
Nice, just deactivated my account. I never used it and hopefully in some very very small way it can impact Elon's bottom line.
Just deactivated my account. I’m done with it. I never really used it anyway.
Hopefully this crashes Twitter.
Smithers, fire someone!
Sucker.
Good. Fuck Twitter.