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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Nov 18, 2022 15:46:49 GMT -5
I know Moviebob can be a goober but he's got a YouTube vid that nails the phenomenon of people acting like Elon is smart pretty well
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Kalmia
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Post by Kalmia on Nov 18, 2022 16:07:01 GMT -5
Twitter isn't going to fall over and die, but if something goes wrong there simply isn't the staff and engineers to fix it. It's entirely possible that several small things that are easily fixable could break and make the site near impossible to use. The World Cup, traditionally one of the biggest traffic events for Twitter, starts on Sunday and all of the offices are shut.
We need the fail whale back.
Twitter is undoubtedly a cess pool at times, but it's also been the focal point for so many protests and movements. It's allowed ordinary people all over the world to get their story out there when they're usually silenced. It's a lifeline for lots of isolated people.
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
Better have my money when I come-a collect!
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Post by chazraps on Nov 18, 2022 16:08:17 GMT -5
Advance search is already broken and accounts that use two-factor authorization to log in are locked out.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Nov 18, 2022 16:08:18 GMT -5
Anyone remember when Elon was just “that SpaceX guy,” and we didn’t know what a useless f***stick he was? If he'd just acknowledged that what he brought to every company he started was his family's money and then shut up, he could've lain in the cut, collected his share, and generally been thought of as a genius as he also became the richest man in the world. But he HAD to make himself the public face and build a cult of personality around his supposed genius. Worse, he had to cut anyone who appeared smarter or more capable than him off at the knees. He's basically The Homelander ousting the Vought CEO at this point.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Nov 18, 2022 16:08:52 GMT -5
From my perspective, Twitter potentially not being a thing anymore isn’t a net positive at all, I’m aware of the benefits and voices it’s been for many people. Just because I had a terrible time with the platform doesn’t make my stance the gospel truth at all, millions of others enjoyed it. And I know of all the vast information that’s stored there. That’s a lot of exchanges that meant a lot to many people.
But no social media platform’s ever batted .1000. Warning signs were all over the place in how it was being handled. Dorsey never added in any true safeguards to keep someone like Elon from f***ing the whole thing up even worse. So my stance isn’t really “good riddance” as it is “such a shame it hasn’t been managed properly”.
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chrom
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Post by chrom on Nov 18, 2022 16:10:03 GMT -5
If this leads to people like The View and Kathy Griffin leaving it, it's a win.
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Post by Captain Patren Fenderbaum-X on Nov 18, 2022 16:21:30 GMT -5
If this leads to people like The View and Kathy Griffin leaving it, it's a win. He just lifted twitter bans on some people Kathy Griffin being one of them.
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Malcolm
Grimlock
Wanted something done about the color of his ring.
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Post by Malcolm on Nov 18, 2022 18:10:09 GMT -5
Maybe Musk should try joining forces with David Zaslav.
With their combined brain skills, they could buy Stadia.
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Nov 18, 2022 18:22:24 GMT -5
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Nov 18, 2022 19:50:20 GMT -5
At this rate the only employee left would be Scruffy the Janitor:
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Nov 18, 2022 19:56:07 GMT -5
Given the very public animosity between Musk and his trans child, this looks like a particularly targeted, vindictive, personal move on his part.
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Post by Breadville on Nov 19, 2022 7:45:42 GMT -5
In my opinion, the thing to do is just to eradicate all social media.
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Renslayer
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
every time i come around your city...
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Post by Renslayer on Nov 19, 2022 9:53:58 GMT -5
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Chiral
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Post by Chiral on Nov 19, 2022 10:24:04 GMT -5
Big Match John after his first FAN photoshop thread gets 2 responses before getting locked:
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Post by Breadville on Nov 19, 2022 10:34:44 GMT -5
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Sephiroth
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Post by Sephiroth on Nov 19, 2022 12:20:48 GMT -5
Epic Rap Battles of History Elon Musk vs Marcus Crassus! “Yo nerd boy! You think you loaded? You don’t got bank like me! Your tickets, they crash and burn-I bought myself an army!”!
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Spider2024
Patti Mayonnaise
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I believe in Joe Hendry.
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Post by Spider2024 on Nov 19, 2022 12:26:10 GMT -5
He would know about things still existing and being profound even when you can't see them.
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ayumidah
Wade Wilson
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Post by ayumidah on Nov 19, 2022 14:29:25 GMT -5
I don't know, but Twitter is loading very slow for me right now. I've had five different website pages load and it's still cycling.
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Eunös ✈
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Tolerated, just not practically liked.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Nov 19, 2022 16:42:53 GMT -5
Personally I would be gutted to see Twitter go, it's far from perfect and know a lot of scum use it.
But it's a great place for me to follow Artists I like and other things I enjoy.
Stuff has been showing up on my feed lately however where I'm like "If I wanted to see this, I'd be following these pages"..
But yeah, if Twitter goes the Toxic people will just go somewhere else.
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ayumidah
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Post by ayumidah on Nov 19, 2022 20:46:09 GMT -5
Personally I would be gutted to see Twitter go, it's far from perfect and know a lot of scum use it. But it's a great place for me to follow Artists I like and other things I enjoy. Stuff has been showing up on my feed lately however where I'm like "If I wanted to see this, I'd be following these pages".. But yeah, if Twitter goes the Toxic people will just go somewhere else. Sounds like you're on "Home". if you click the little star icon at the top of the page and switch it to "Latest tweets", it'll only show you tweets from those you follow. Home shows you what your followers have liked and such as well. It's annoying.
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