The ongoing X and Elon Musk Transgressions Thread

[Ozy_Flame]

Wonder how that's going to jive when he starts getting everyone to pay per month to read those long-form posts.

[Barnes]

3 billion views / 230 million DAU = 13 views per user a day. Schaaaa right!

[MoneyGuy]

When/if Musk charges me that $2.99 a month, I’m out. Don’t come at me because I’m still on Twitter.

[rubecube]

Disgusting stuff, thanks to the blue checkmarks.

https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2023/9/...r-what-we-know

We’re not going to amplify the accounts that started the most disgusting rumors about Williams, but there were several small accounts, with no history of ever breaking news, who suddenly had detailed information about alleged criminal investigations

These went so far as to allege that former Bears player Charles Tillman, who became an FBI agent prior his retirement from football, was part of the investigating team that raided Williams’ home and the Bears facilities.

If this happened 10 years ago people would look for a verified account to substantiate a piece of news. It wasn’t an infaillible process, and rumors still spread — but there was at least one small safeguard to tell users that someone might not be legitimate.

Now, with verification being tied to an $8 monthly payment it’s become impossible to discern real reporters from any rando with a YouTube channel, which is where these rumors began. This is now compounded with Twitter’s “revenue sharing” model, which incentivizes paid accounts to gain as many interactions as possible in a month in order to get a cash payout. Real or fake, the name of the game is getting as many eyeballs as possible on your tweets — and the best way to do this is breaking news, even if it’s fake.

The key to making the rumors spread was Dov Kleiman, a shameless Twitter aggregator who will promote any, and every bit of news in the NFL world for the purpose of garnering views. Kleiman rarely, if ever, vets the news he’s sharing with his 200K+ followers — and when he’s caught sharing bad info his excuse is routinely “other people did it too.”

So when Kleiman ran with the Alan Williams rumors it gave them credence in the eyes of followers, particularly when paired with Kleiman’s specific brand of aggregation, which involves writing long tweets and only surfacing a source when you click “see more,” an act he knows few users do. So this makes it routinely seem like Kleiman is getting quotes, when in reality he’s just taking other people’s work and obfuscating his attribution.

[GordonBlue]

evil is at it again.

Elon Musk Fires Twitter Election Integrity Team

https://ca.style.yahoo.com/elon-musk...175055280.html

In related but separate news, the site has also quietly removed a feature that allowed users in some locations to report election misinformation.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/m...er-2023-09-27/

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

evil is at it again.

Elon Musk Fires Twitter Election Integrity Team

https://ca.style.yahoo.com/elon-musk...175055280.html

In related but separate news, the site has also quietly removed a feature that allowed users in some locations to report election misinformation.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/m...er-2023-09-27/

This guy is totally playing the long game to run for the republicans in a presidential bid. Book it.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

This guy is totally playing the long game to run for the republicans in a presidential bid. Book it.

Not sure how he'd do that as someone born outside the US.

[edslunch]

Originally Posted by wireframe

There is no way am individual bot account is making that much. Many bots are not seeking profit at all ("like" farming, political interference, etc.) and the ones that are trying to make money by spamming make a miniscule amount of money each, multiplied by a huge number of bots. Charging $5/month would immediately remove the majority of bots. The bots need to go for Twitter to become tolerable. I, for one, welcome the radical change of charging for every account.



Do I think it will make twitter profitable? No. Of course not. But I always love watching a radical direction change.

$5 is nothing for organized government or industry-sponsored disinformation campaigns. 1000 or 10000 bots still adds up to chump change

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Coach

Not sure how he'd do that as someone born outside the US.

Haha oh right, I guess not then. I forgot he came from the land of more modern slavery.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Coach

Not sure how he'd do that as someone born outside the US.

He is Elon....He shall find a way!

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Coach

Not sure how he'd do that as someone born outside the US.

That's what the MSM would like us to believe. - E Musk

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

I forgot he came from the land of more
modern slavery.

He just said he wasn't born in the U.S.

[Jethro Choicebro]

Originally Posted by Locke

He is Elon....He shall find a way!

if Obama can do it....

[Fuzz]

White South African factory owner treats Black employees about how you would expect.

Black employees routinely faced racial slurs, including variations of the n-word, at the Fremont site, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and graffiti depicting nooses, swastikas and more were casually drawn across the facility’s public spaces. Tesla did not immediately respond to request for comment.

The agency added that employees who objected to the hostility were terminated, transferred or had their job duties changed.

Racial misconduct spanned the company’s ranks, with managers, supervisors, line leads, production associates and temporary workers using racial slurs, the agency’s complaint stated. Black employees stated that non-Black workers used variations of the n-word “almost every day.” One employee described the n-word as his White co-workers’ and supervisor’s “preferred pronoun.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...al-harassment/

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

This guy is totally playing the long game to run for the republicans in a presidential bid. Book it.

Long game for sure, weird that others didn't see this while criticizing him. Twitter was always about information control for him and it's working so far. Those that thought that it was to take a successful platform, pay a huge premium way beyond what it was actually worth and make more money off it are oblivious to what he was doing.

[PsYcNeT]

Guess what? Another completely moronic change is coming that completely misses the point. Shocking news, I'm sure.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1710154397513388444

[Ozy_Flame]

That just reads like Elmo's personal gripes with the UI. Nothing based on UX of mass amounts of people who interact with the platform far longer than he has.

[SutterBrother]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

That just reads like Elmo's personal gripes with the UI. Nothing based on UX of mass amounts of people who interact with the platform far longer than he has.

Mass amounts of bots don't need buttons.

[Ozy_Flame]

Agreed, Elmo is a bot.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Guess what? Another completely moronic change is coming that completely misses the point. Shocking news, I'm sure.

Middle-aged man throws toddler-sized tantrum about getting ratio'd.