Elon f*cks Twitter

[Govi]

 

[Free]

X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account

X user quits paying for Twitter Blue to protest X commandeering his account.

arstechnica.com

About a week after X commandeered the popular @X account from longtime Twitter user Gene X Hwang, another user has reported that X has taken over his popular account, @music.

"16 years ago, I created @music and have been running it ever since," Jeremy Vaught, director of engineering at the nonprofit Life Happens, posted on X. "Just now, Twitter/X just ripped it away. Super pissed."

Vaught told Ars that he created the @music Twitter account in 2007 as a way to promote independent music being performed live in Second Life.

Elon is now fucking with Second Life. He'll pay dearly.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

OMG he's still supporting the Musk:

Vaught is mostly a Musk fan, as he's interested in Musk's electric cars and space developments. He said that this experience with X hasn't tainted his opinion of Musk or his relationship too much with X as a platform. He's holding out hope that Musk has a long-term plan for where Musk is taking X, but like many users, he's struggling to adjust to the rebranding. Vaught still refers to the platform by its original name.

 

[Clara D.]

"hope that Musk has a long-term plan for where Musk is taking X "

I lol'd.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

X has quite the opportunities! So let Trump return to X, formerly known as Twitter. Trump then will become Xitler.

X is also the Greek letter for Chi, so Trump would become the Shitler.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Either the platform formerly know as Twitter is shedding users rather rapidly or something's broken.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Why not both?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Elon Musk Will Make Twitter Better, Most Believe - Rasmussen Reports®

www.rasmussenreports.com

2022

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Either the platform formerly know as Twitter is shedding users rather rapidly or something's broken.

It's really disgusting to hear so many right wingers talk about "speech" while making it so clear they don't understand how this works legally at all...

 

[Clara D.]

It's really disgusting to hear so many right wingers talk about "speech" while making it so clear they don't understand how this works legally at all...

But everyone should listen to them winge and foam and all those pesky people that aren't them should just STFU. For FREEDOM!

 

[Noodles]

I stopped using Threads already, but I am getting more and more notifications of "You are following so and so, who just joined."

So there is possibly some merrit to the idea that Twitter is shedding more and more users.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

But everyone should listen to them winge and foam and all those pesky people that aren't them should just STFU. For FREEDOM!

It's adorable how many feel like other people using their speech to criticize them is violating their own freedom of speech.... "I'm being silenced!"

 

[Innula Zenovka]

It's adorable how many feel like other people using their speech to criticize them is violating their own freedom of speech.... "I'm being silenced!"

Wilhoit's Law:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Two brands suspend advertising on X after their ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content

At least two brands have said they will suspend advertising on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after their ads and those of other companies were run on an account promoting fascism. The issue came less than a week after X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly affirmed the company’s commitment to brand safety for advertisers.

The nonprofit news watchdog Media Matters for America documented in a report published Wednesday that ads for a host of mainstream brands have been run on the account, which has shared content celebrating Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Ads for brands including Adobe, Gilead Sciences, the University of Maryland’s football team, New York University Langone Hospital and NCTA-The Internet and Television Association were run alongside tweets from the account that had garnered hundreds of thousands of views, CNN observed.

 

[Noodles]

So I had a dumb thought.

What of they just add some sort of filter for key words, so ads don't appear next to Nazi content.

THEN, people game the shit out of it, but just, appending something like "Heil Hitler" to every tweet, so ads can't run anywhere.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Elon's next genius level idea for Twitter arrived: the removal of the blocking feature aside DMs! This means that in the future you cannot block accounts from following you any longer. Even Twitter's former CEO Jack Dorsey agrees with that, saying that there should be a mute option for DMs only!

Well actually since this was easy to bypass with a new account/reading Twitter unlocked its probably just getting rid of a bad idea, who knows.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Auschwitz museum bashes Elon Musk for severely curbing ‘block’ feature on X

Memorial warns that inability to block antisemitic comments and Holocaust denial 'would be a disservice' to the victims of the Nazi death camp

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[Free]

More twitfoolery from the boss.

 

[WolfEyes]

Fuck Musk.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Just found this - Anonymous dislikes Musk.