He picked a good name for himself. He’s certainly a twit.
I never took up Twitter because I thought it would be the downfall of mankind.
Turns out I was right. (but I didn’t want to be)
Elon Musk will be seen as having done mankind a great service: now we will be able to read news stories comprising actual copy instead of a paragraph followed by 30 tweets.
I keep an account entirely to follow certain people; don’t post. If/when they leave for a better platform I’ll go right behind. I suspect within a few months Twitter will either reintroduce some content control or wind up another echo chamber like Parler.
Never been on Twitter. I thought it a place for tweens to follow their current band crush.
And it turned into some sort of political mine/d field of morons I guess.
From what I gather, twitter is a place where people do not say much, but the dearth of verbiage is of great import.
I used to love twitter because I could use those few characters to harass the Fat Orange Baboon. Only in America could I tweet the President and tell him how I really feel!
Once he got banned, I just stopped paying attention. When I learned that King Twit was in charge, I checked my account and it is still open. As I expect that the FOB will be twitting again in a week or less, I plan to enjoy myself again. This will be even better because I can say what I REALLY feel.
Not sure how Musk can walk that fine line of letting trolls do their thing which in turn could scare away more advertisers.
Hopefully the following companies are the next to get scared away by, oh, maybe the ‘n’ word, in caps, repeatedly written:
- Starbucks.
- PlayStation.
- Samsung Mobile US.
- Whole Foods.
- Sony.
- Michael Kors.
- McDonald’s.
- Calvin Klein.
Gee, Old Person, how out of date are you? /s Tweens follow their current band crush on TikTok and Instagram.
Now that GM has announced that they’re suspending their Twitter advertising (and how long will that last?) the right is demanding a boycott of GM.
Almost 150 people die in a Halloween stampede in South Korea.
Dinesh D’Souza:
That has to be one of the stupidest ideas I’ve ever heard in my life, and this from the twit who created 2000 Mules.
Sure, Dinesh. That’s an entirely plausible explanation.
Putz.
I miss the :putz: smiley.
Me too! And our old eeek and smacky.
The one that looked kind of like this 
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I don’t remember. ISTR it was wearing a yarmulke. It was in honour of a later-disgraced Doper who, before SDMB go all polite an’ shite outside of the Pit, was known for calling opponents putzes. He’d make his argument, then end with (usually on a separate line) ‘Putz.’
Yarmulke and Hasidic curls. I think.
Didn’t it also say “Putz!”?
Yes, I forgot the curls. And I think it did have a thought balloon that said ‘Putz.’