FabSwingers.com forum: Elon buys Twitter

By *abio OP Man
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

Looks like Elon has got what he wanted… the Twitter board have accepted his deal to buy them…

He is buying it and taking it private…

Well I am this will mean trump is coming back….

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By *ohnnyTwoNotesMan
over a year ago

golden fields

"Looks like Elon has got what he wanted… the Twitter board have accepted his deal to buy them…

He is buying it and taking it private…

Well I am this will mean trump is coming back…."

Do you use Twitter?

I'm not on there, so don't know what the implications of this could be.

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By *one_wolf.Man
over a year ago

Chatham

Yup he probably will bring back Trump but I hope he sorts out the algorithm and shadow banning. Verification for real people and sorts out the bot farms.

It's a great day for free speech as a whole but twitter needs sorting out alot more than bringing back suspended accounts like Trump and babylon bee

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Capitalism at work, what’s not to like?

People who don’t like it can simply stop using Twitter, join an alternative or start their own.

(Never used twitter myself).

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By *ovebjsMan
over a year ago

Bristol

"Capitalism at work, what’s not to like?

People who don’t like it can simply stop using Twitter, join an alternative or start their own.

(Never used twitter myself). "

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

here

“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated”

“I want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential - I look forward to working with the company and community of users to unlock it”

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By *ohnnyTwoNotesMan
over a year ago

golden fields

"Capitalism at work, what’s not to like?

People who don’t like it can simply stop using Twitter, join an alternative or start their own.

(Never used twitter myself). "

Is the issue about platforming hate?

Isn't Twitter already privately owned?

I've no idea what the implications of this are.

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By *one_wolf.Man
over a year ago

Chatham

"Capitalism at work, what’s not to like?

People who don’t like it can simply stop using Twitter, join an alternative or start their own.

(Never used twitter myself).

Is the issue about platforming hate?

Isn't Twitter already privately owned?

I've no idea what the implications of this are."

Twitter was on the stock exchange as a public entity, its now being taken off and being set to an private company with limited shareholders, platforming anything you define as hate that is legally allowed then it's not an issue in my eyes. Combat "fake news" with "truth" instead of silencing voices. Let the user decide if what they read is true or not.

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Seems plenty of people have their knickers in a twist over this.

If you don’t like the platform then use another a phrase I have heard all along since the world went to shit.

I shall sit back and watch with interest.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Capitalism at work, what’s not to like?

People who don’t like it can simply stop using Twitter, join an alternative or start their own.

(Never used twitter myself).

Is the issue about platforming hate?

He wants to open up the platform and make control more transparent - but also

Make people more accountable.

Isn't Twitter already privately owned?

No. It is publicly traded.

I've no idea what the implications of this are."

Things will change. Elon Musk will be in control. Not someone else

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By *ohnnyTwoNotesMan
over a year ago

golden fields

"Capitalism at work, what’s not to like?

People who don’t like it can simply stop using Twitter, join an alternative or start their own.

(Never used twitter myself).

Is the issue about platforming hate?

Isn't Twitter already privately owned?

I've no idea what the implications of this are.

Got it. Thanks.

People are notoriously shit at deciding what's true or not. See Covid conspiracies, brexit, trump etc. Not that I'm saying it's their responsibility to control these things.

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By *ohnnyTwoNotesMan
over a year ago

golden fields

"Capitalism at work, what’s not to like?

People who don’t like it can simply stop using Twitter, join an alternative or start their own.

(Never used twitter myself).

Is the issue about platforming hate?

He wants to open up the platform and make control more transparent - but also

Make people more accountable.

Isn't Twitter already privately owned?

No. It is publicly traded.

I've no idea what the implications of this are.

Things will change. Elon Musk will be in control. Not someone else

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Trump has already announced he won't be going back onto the platform even if invited to

Its my favorite social media to be honest ...will it make a difference... I don't think so although he might bring in more ads or fee's

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By *one_wolf.Man
over a year ago

Chatham

"Capitalism at work, what’s not to like?

People who don’t like it can simply stop using Twitter, join an alternative or start their own.

(Never used twitter myself).

Is the issue about platforming hate?

Isn't Twitter already privately owned?

I've no idea what the implications of this are.

Got it. Thanks.

People are notoriously shit at deciding what's true or not. See Covid conspiracies, brexit, trump etc. Not that I'm saying it's their responsibility to control these things. "

I mean people were being banned and removed from social media for saying in the beginning that it was leaked from a lab, now its an legitimate theory. Same with at one time it was stated by health officials that once having the vaccine you was immune. People got banned for saying a different narrative, same with hunter bidens laptop etc.... what might be called a conspiracy, might be true but people were being silenced because it didn't fit the narrative.

This way the open source algorithm will bolster trust in the effective public square.

It's ironic that pzaki just stated they wanted to bring in title 230 reforms. It's laughable now they don't control the narrative.

In my eyes, if its legal then its fair play to be on twitter, don't quash debate/discourse. It's up to the end user to believe what they want to believe.

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By *ohnnyTwoNotesMan
over a year ago

golden fields

"Capitalism at work, what’s not to like?

People who don’t like it can simply stop using Twitter, join an alternative or start their own.

(Never used twitter myself).

Is the issue about platforming hate?

Isn't Twitter already privately owned?

I've no idea what the implications of this are.

Got it. Thanks.

People are notoriously shit at deciding what's true or not. See Covid conspiracies, brexit, trump etc. Not that I'm saying it's their responsibility to control these things.

This way the open source algorithm will bolster trust in the effective public square.

It's ironic that pzaki just stated they wanted to bring in title 230 reforms. It's laughable now they don't control the narrative.

In my eyes, if its legal then its fair play to be on twitter, don't quash debate/discourse. It's up to the end user to believe what they want to believe."

I'm all for freedom of speech.

Hate speech is difficult, I'm not sure de-platforming is the answer. But then again, if I owned a social media company, I wouldn't be up for allowing hate speech. So I don't know what the answer is.

The covid conspiracy stuff is different to the "aliens built the pyramids" stuff, it had real life consequences as anti-vaxxers and "plandemic" types died of covid that could have been avoided.

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By *ealthy_and_HungMan
over a year ago

Princes Risborough, Luasanne, Alderney

i guess he'll have quite a few people blindly rushing to hand him every scrap of data about themselves on a minute to minute basis for him to exploit then.

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

People are very upset over this. I don’t get it and I don’t have a Twitter account so can’t read the comments.

Can someone explain the angst?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"People are very upset over this. I don’t get it and I don’t have a Twitter account so can’t read the comments.

Can someone explain the angst? "

I am on Twitter, although I never tweet , it is difficult at this stage to work out why he has bought it,

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By *abio OP Man
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"People are very upset over this. I don’t get it and I don’t have a Twitter account so can’t read the comments.

Can someone explain the angst?

I am on Twitter, although I never tweet , it is difficult at this stage to work out why he has bought it, "

It’s a 43 billion dollar vanity thing because he was pissed off at the current board….

The fear is that between Tesla. Space X and now Twitter he is spreading himself too thin

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By *abio OP Man
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

The more interesting question will be if it becomes a subscription based thing… how many people would leave?

I love Twitter as it’s quicker than some of the news outlets

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By *ohnnyTwoNotesMan
over a year ago

golden fields

"People are very upset over this. I don’t get it and I don’t have a Twitter account so can’t read the comments.

Can someone explain the angst?

I am on Twitter, although I never tweet , it is difficult at this stage to work out why he has bought it,

It’s a 43 billion dollar vanity thing because he was pissed off at the current board….

The fear is that between Tesla. Space X and now Twitter he is spreading himself too thin "

He's a nasty bastard, so I'm not worried about him spreading himself too thin.

I don't use Twitter, but I can't see it retaining its popularity of they introduce a subscription. There are too many free alternatives.

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By *atEvolutionCouple
over a year ago

atlantisEVOLUTION Swingers Club. Stoke

'Twitter the Town Square of truth', lmfao.

Musk is paying how many billions just so that Trump can have a mouth again? OMG! We are so blessed with his altruism, lol.

The world according to Alt Right. The World according to Alt Left.

It's just another Karen Said outlet.

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By *al2001Man
over a year ago

kildare

I think it's a ridiculously bad business move by musk

It will be his downfall

Don't have or care about tweeter tho

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By *ovebjsMan
over a year ago

Bristol

It only 40 odd billion so he can afford it and he’s probably bored so just doing it to upset a few people

Will probably sell it in once he is bored wit that too

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

Just imagine the “good” Elon Musk could have done around the world with that $44bn. Eradicate some diseases. Famine. Poverty.

Nah let’s buy a vanity social media platform.

You’d think with so much money he might be interested in his legacy!

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By *atEvolutionCouple
over a year ago

atlantisEVOLUTION Swingers Club. Stoke

"It only 40 odd billion so he can afford it and he’s probably bored so just doing it to upset a few people

Will probably sell it in once he is bored wit that too

Yup. Just doing what Trump couldn't. Musk got censored a few times on twitter so hey I'll buy it instead.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The media seem to be playing up that this is a controversial move by Elon for some reason.

Have to admit, not heard positive things regarding how Twitter handles people who argue against common narratives.

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By *amantMan
over a year ago

Alnmouth

It's unclear exactly what it means to be more pro-free speech within the law. The big tech legislation may prove to be something of an obstacle given how it differs in different continents and the censorship in places like India.

As for authenticating all humans, this is potentially very daft. In addition to the seemingly endless bots, Twitter is used all over the world by political dissidents to express their discontent with their governments. Authenticating them could potentially put them in danger, governments could potentially access their data and all sorts of things become possible.

Another factor would be how could Twitter change at the point of use? Well, NFTs and the metaverse could be the future, or part of it, looking longer term. Moving away from the ads model could be something else to consider, Twitter being a subscribtion service has been mentioned, this could be something every new Tesla could come with as standard.

There's all sorts of things to consider and wonder about. This could be the end of Twitter as we once knew it, I think only Musk and his inner circle will really know what he exactly intends on doing. It would appear the CEO is remaining in place, that suggests that Twitter might not be changing wholesale.

As for whether people should now boycott it, I would say no. The money people behind Twitter before weren't people that were much better than Musk. Whether people should boycott it or not surely depends upon what Musk is going to do with it.

But consider this. Some are old enough to remember being active on Myspace, Friends Reunited and Bebo. While those old enough to remember being on those platforms, none of them were quite as interlinked with how the news gets out. Twitter is rather unique in that regard, it's a much more important platform. While I was a teenager when I used Bebo, I can't imagine it was used by people older than me to access news in the same way people use Twitter, or that its decline led to people changing how they accessed news.

If Twitter as we know it ends, the ramifications will be absolutely huge and I don't doubt we'll see the rise of another platform that people use in a similar way to Twitter, I would certainly hope so anyway.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Capitalism at work, what’s not to like?

People who don’t like it can simply stop using Twitter, join an alternative or start their own.

(Never used twitter myself). "

This this this

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The media seem to be playing up that this is a controversial move by Elon for some reason.

Have to admit, not heard positive things regarding how Twitter handles people who argue against common narratives."
it’s terrible for censorship

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

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"Just imagine the “good” Elon Musk could have done around the world with that $44bn. Eradicate some diseases. Famine. Poverty.

Nah let’s buy a vanity social media platform.

You’d think with so much money he might be interested in his legacy!"

He offered …

Nobody replied!

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By *atEvolutionCouple
over a year ago

atlantisEVOLUTION Swingers Club. Stoke

'Trump will not return to Twitter even as Elon Musk purchases platform, will begin using his own TRUTH Social'

Says everything about every platform there evry was or ever will be on that there t'interweb lol

Want to show pictures of the baby? Want to shout about a new lippy? Measure your trout-pout? Want to see product launches until your heart's content? Want to 'reality' yourself to extinction?

Twitter away.

Looking for a truth serum? Do exactly the opposite.

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

"Just imagine the “good” Elon Musk could have done around the world with that $44bn. Eradicate some diseases. Famine. Poverty.

Nah let’s buy a vanity social media platform.

You’d think with so much money he might be interested in his legacy!"

Well the people he brought it off have 44bn now to do good if you look at it that way? Let’s see what they do

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

"Just imagine the “good” Elon Musk could have done around the world with that $44bn. Eradicate some diseases. Famine. Poverty.

Nah let’s buy a vanity social media platform.

You’d think with so much money he might be interested in his legacy!

Well the people he brought it off have 44bn now to do good if you look at it that way? Let’s see what they do "

True but we know the answer. That 44bn will be subject to tax so US Govt will get a whack.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"'Trump will not return to Twitter even as Elon Musk purchases platform, will begin using his own TRUTH Social'

Says everything about every platform there evry was or ever will be on that there t'interweb lol

Want to show pictures of the baby? Want to shout about a new lippy? Measure your trout-pout? Want to see product launches until your heart's content? Want to 'reality' yourself to extinction?

Twitter away.

Looking for a truth serum? Do exactly the opposite.

I used to lose accounts because I’d say the wrong thing even when it was right with evidence

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By *V-AliceTV/TS
over a year ago

Ayr

"Capitalism at work, what’s not to like?

People who don’t like it can simply stop using Twitter, join an alternative or start their own.

(Never used twitter myself). "

I don't use Twitter either and, it's arguable, the $43bn could have been better spent - since it's not all his own.

As for "Capitalism at work, what's not to like?"

What P&O did was capitalism at work. So was the financial crash.

Capitalism works; but when it's abused by greedy cunts who don't give a shit about the law, or people's lives - as it frequently is - there's plenty not to like.

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