He just gave Kanye West is Twitter account back. Kanye West’s Twitter Account Reactivated After Elon Musk Takes Control | HuffPost Latest News
Let the slide to 4chan begin!
Deleted my account. I never used it much, except for during weather or fire situations here in California, then its features really work well. Quick realtime updates from various agencies etc.
The site seems poorly designed, and increasingly flooded with advertising etc. I left Facebook years ago for similar reasons.
I still will read things on those 2 platforms that interest me, but thats about it.
Predicting the obvious: quite a lot of people will delete accounts, Musk will claim the drop of numbers is entirely due to a high-tech bot-cleanup operation.
Musk fired a few of the top execs. I wish I could get fired in this fashion.
Doesn’t matter now, he can’t use that as an excuse to back out of the sale.
Now he can just use it as an excuse to himself and his investors as to why he is losing tons of money.
Yep, exactly. Musk claimed that Twitter has vastly underrepresented the number of active bots, and now that he’s been forced to go through with the sale, he’s on the hook to do something about it.
Quick, real-time updates from the various services I follow is exactly why I use Twitter. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a real alternative, so I need to keep my account.
I tried to unsubscribe to my twitter emails I get every morning, but it wouldn’t allow it. I have grown to hate twitter and all it stands for. Musk just makes it worse.
Well, here’s one change Elon has implemented so far;
I’m not sure I’ll be able to hang in there now that he’s given Kanye back his account. It’s a very bad sign of things to come.
God Dammit.
Do you really need a Twitter account for this? When there’s police activity or something involving the fire department, I check their twitter accounts without having one of my own.
That’s not exactly what I mean. I follow musical artists and venues so I know right away when tours are announced and when tickets go on sale. I follow travel websites, airlines, and airports, so I know if my travel plans need to be adjusted. That’s a total of about a hundred accounts I follow. It would take way too long to check each website daily to see if there’s news, when I just get it instantly and easily on Twitter.
I also follow a bunch of local news reporters whose stories never get into the newspaper.
Just noting that the article linked there has a pseudo-retraction now:
CORRECTION:
A previous version of this story said that Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, regained control of his Twitter account Friday after it was suspended following antisemitic remarks he made on several social media accounts.
However, it remains unclear if the rapper has access to post on the platform, or if the account was ever listed as “suspended” (meaning the tweets were not visible).
As of Friday afternoon, there had been no new posts on the account since Oct. 8.
Well, things are different. Someone tweeted Rachel Levine is a man. And got 13,000 likes. Is that free speech?
I did see Musk claim somewhere that there would be a “board of standards,” as it were, making decisions like high profile bannings, and that no major reinstatements would happen until that board convened.
Me thinks that Elon just learned that a lot of the demand for “standards” comes from the advertisers, not from liberal activists.
The Verge has some advice for the billionaire man-baby;
Having been off Twitter since the deal was first announced this makes it very unlikely I’ll ever return. I stopped checking in in part because it was getting to be too much of an obsession, and I have missed it, but I have a (very slim) hope that this will be enough of a bump in the road to get more high profile accounts active on mastodon instances (other than the bad ones).
I think one of Elon’s biggest problems going forward is going to be that even on the internet the police aren’t what keeps crime down. The vast majority of potential issues are prevented by people refraining from problematic activity because they themselves realize it is problematic or that society considers it problematic. There’s a wave of increased abuse on Twitter right now, despite content policies not having changed, because assholes are often also morons, and that’s going to strain Twitter’s content moderation capabilities, but long term the bigger issue is that Elon has signaled that being terrible should be allowed, which prompts some people to stop self-policing, which makes the place worse, which prompts more people to stop self-policing and more reasonable people to leave, which makes the place worse, which …
Which ends up with a Nazi bar.
As much as the far-right spent on putting pro-Putin ads on the World Series, Musk may be able to tap into the revenue stream that approves of the hate and fascism that he is encouraging.
Probably a lot less lucrative than Adidas and Skechers and such, but then, the platform will probably cost less to run with the significantly reduced userbase.