Elon Musk to make Twitter a free speech platform

[wayneL]

Musk's loan Interest payments on twitter per year over a $bil, don't think the business makes that much.

Mouthing off about free speech that's not commercially viable major mistake.

It will be interesting where it all goes.

Rubbish and a profound disregard as to the meaning of free speech.

One must always consider the consequences of their speech. There are still terms and conditions for using the site, just like any public forum. Contravene those and expect to be excluded.

As long as those terms are reasonable, then all good

 

[Knobby22]

You have to give it to Elon Musk.

His ambition for Twitter is admirable and he is putting everything into redeveloping the business in not ideal circumstances.

I truly hope he succeeds.

 

[IFocus]

 

[IFocus]

Rubbish and a profound disregard as to the meaning of free speech.

One must always consider the consequences of their speech. There are still terms and conditions for using the site, just like any public forum. Contravene those and expect to be excluded.

As long as those terms are reasonable, then all good

Didn't Elon fire the mob who looked after standards etc you know get rid of all those woke censors.

Not sure of the veracity of the below but good example perhaps.

 

[wayneL]

Didn't Elon fire the mob who looked after standards etc you know get rid of all those woke censors.

Not sure of the veracity of the below but good example perhaps.

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So what? The market moves every single day on bs and rumours.... and that account was banned.

 

[IFocus]

Professor Scott Galloway on Musk's folly.

Hubris | No Mercy / No Malice

The rich get richer. Data supports it. In the past three decades, the share of U.S. wealth held by the top 1% has gone from 24% to 32%. Like most cliches, “the rich get richer” became a cliche because it’s true… of money, and power. The powerful tend to aggregate more power, incumbents get...

www.profgalloway.com

 

[moXJO]

Twitter will take time to break it down and rebuild. Doesn't help you have a bunch of airhead leftists whinging misinformation loudly.
But he would of been aware of the issue before he bought.

Apparently he told one manager to fire a bunch of people and that manager vomited into a bin at his feet. Even the "diversity hires" weren't safe. They also cut free lunches.

He isn't playing around, twitter I think may have turned a profit for only 1-2 years. If he didn't take over twitter would have ended up broke

 

[sptrawler]

He isn't playing around, twitter I think may have turned a profit for only 1-2 years. If he didn't take over twitter would have ended up broke

It does indicate that there was some serious problems, when the seller takes the buyer to court, to make them buy it. ?

 

[moXJO]

This is the guy that started an ev car company and mass produced them, which has never been done.

Built a space flight company and landed rockets on the back of a boat multiple times, which has never been done.

He built an online payment system which had never been done.

But twitter he already has a target and it's weibo or wechat that the Chinese use for everything (social,video, payments etc)
Elon shouldn't have too much trouble aside from the populist dcks crowding.

 

[DB008]

 

[IFocus]

Explains how politics wasn't the driver of twitter pre Musk and why.

Elon Musk Would Have Done Better With Twitter If He’d Read Noam Chomsky


Except Musk immediately discovered that advertisers hate freewheeling, raucous political debate. Josh Marshall, the founder of Talking Points Memo, explained this cogently in a recent article about his experience running an outlet devoted to politics:

Advertisers don’t want to be near controversy. Indeed, they don’t even want to be near things that are upsetting or agitating. This is why all political and political news media face an inverse premium in advertising because the content is inherently polarizing. You can show the same ad to the same people the same amount of times and you’ll get more money if the content is fashion or parenthood or entertainment than if it’s politics. It’s a bedrock rule of the world of advertising.

Elon Musk Would Have Done Better With Twitter If He’d Read Noam Chomsky

Elon Musk is impaled on the horns of a corporate dilemma described in radical critiques of the media.

theintercept.com

 

[wayneL]

Explains how politics wasn't the driver of twitter pre Musk and why.

Elon Musk Would Have Done Better With Twitter If He’d Read Noam Chomsky


Except Musk immediately discovered that advertisers hate freewheeling, raucous political debate. Josh Marshall, the founder of Talking Points Memo, explained this cogently in a recent article about his experience running an outlet devoted to politics:

Advertisers don’t want to be near controversy. Indeed, they don’t even want to be near things that are upsetting or agitating. This is why all political and political news media face an inverse premium in advertising because the content is inherently polarizing. You can show the same ad to the same people the same amount of times and you’ll get more money if the content is fashion or parenthood or entertainment than if it’s politics. It’s a bedrock rule of the world of advertising.

Elon Musk Would Have Done Better With Twitter If He’d Read Noam Chomsky

Elon Musk is impaled on the horns of a corporate dilemma described in radical critiques of the media.

theintercept.com

Yeah, let's just susu

Explains how politics wasn't the driver of twitter pre Musk and why.

Elon Musk Would Have Done Better With Twitter If He’d Read Noam Chomsky


Except Musk immediately discovered that advertisers hate freewheeling, raucous political debate. Josh Marshall, the founder of Talking Points Memo, explained this cogently in a recent article about his experience running an outlet devoted to politics:

Advertisers don’t want to be near controversy. Indeed, they don’t even want to be near things that are upsetting or agitating. This is why all political and political news media face an inverse premium in advertising because the content is inherently polarizing. You can show the same ad to the same people the same amount of times and you’ll get more money if the content is fashion or parenthood or entertainment than if it’s politics. It’s a bedrock rule of the world of advertising.

Elon Musk Would Have Done Better With Twitter If He’d Read Noam Chomsky

Elon Musk is impaled on the horns of a corporate dilemma described in radical critiques of the media.

theintercept.com

Yeah, let's just silence the conservatives, so there's no debate with communists and gender fanatics.

The bias of these clowns is astonishing

 

[IFocus]

Hard to say who the conservatives are or what they stand for other than cultural wars these days.

 

[DB008]

Anyone Surprised?

4 hour work weeks
Take days/weeks/months off at a time

Work four hours a week. Makes sense why Elon is firing Twitter employees left and right.

 

[SirRumpole]

Twitter may be on the verge of collapse after mass staff walkouts.

Twitter users think the site will shut down amid mass employee exit

thenewdaily.com.au

 

[wayneL]

Twitter may be on the verge of collapse after mass staff walkouts.

Twitter users think the site will shut down amid mass employee exit

thenewdaily.com.au

 

[SirRumpole]

He would say that wouldn't he ?

 

[wayneL]

He would say that wouldn't he ?

As opposed to all the salty leftists having little hissy fits?

 

[The Triangle]

Twitter may be on the verge of collapse after mass staff walkouts.

Twitter users think the site will shut down amid mass employee exit

thenewdaily.com.au

Not surprising the company was loss making when they employ the kind of people who were also buying crypto last year...Actually, I'd say twitters fortunes are looking pretty good. As I've said before, this era of endless money - and jobs for 'tech' is at an end. Wonder if anyone told these kiddies that all the other big tech firms are getting rid of people too?

And I would suggest twitter can continue to function with a whole lot fewer employees as well.

 

[DB008]

Twitter poll - should Trump be reinstated?

Why was Trump banned in the first place?

Vote count so far....