Elon Musk buying Twitter

[-james-]

Seems a bit odd. :cab:

[Giggles]

That’ll be the Donald and all back to it now. And hopefully an edit button.

[Spikey M]

Pre-Tesla his whole career was taking over failing brands and making them profitable. Buying Twitter makes sense from that perspective. Especially as he's a fond user.

No idea how Twitter are making a loss each year at the moment.

[Lewis]

Elon Musk is the most cringe man alive, but people seem weirdly enraged by this takeover so lol good for him.

[Ben]

Both his followers and his detractors are basically both cults at this point.

[Kikó]

He's a prat. Twitter will be even shitter

[Yevrah]

Even shitter? Have a day off.

[Kikó]

Fuck off you boring cunt.

[Yevrah]

Surprised there wasn't a link with a 10,000 word study accompanying that reply.

[Kikó]

Derp.

[Pepe]

Don't use it so don't care.

[Pepe]

Why I don't use Twitter, a thread...

[Kikó]

And to clarify why I think it's crap (while I actively use it) is the deep underlayer of misinformation, trolls and racist bile that influences and reinforces shitty opinions. There's a reason why places like Gab is a hate filled shitpit because free speech just ends up being 4chan.

[Yevrah]

I agree completely that it's a dreadful, dreadful platform. Musk would be doing a solid for mankind if he just shut it and spent the rest of his days buying up and burning any imitations that popped up in its place.

[Ben]

I deleted all my social media in January mainly because of Twitter. I’d just get angry at shit every time I opened it/them. Coincidentally that gave me some extra free time which I utilised to search for Albanian Mafia and end up back here via Baz’s DMs.

[Giggles]

How do people manage to see things they don’t want to on Twitter?

[Jimmy Floyd]

How do people manage to see things they don’t want to on Twitter?

Retweeted/liked into your timeline by people you follow for other reasons.

[Lewis]

You can still build yourself a nice little lol chamber. Like Facebook, it's as good as you want it to be.

[Giggles]

Retweeted/liked into your timeline by people you follow for other reasons.

I can understand a couple of occasions but if an account is retweeting shite but you just unfollow it at that stage. Problem solved, very easily too.

[Kikó]

It's always good to go into the comments on anything Sadiq khan posts.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think it's actually quite healthy to have different people in your timeline. Some are in total echo chambers and never hear the opposition. I also enjoy following the odd person who gives a little window into twitter microspheres, e.g. on my timeline I get Sri Lankan twitter kicking off at 6am every morning, beaten down UK police twitter at lunchtime, sanctimonious/half-cut journo twitter in the afternoon, and about this time of night it's American golf twitter which starts to get tasty.

[wullie]

Most new accounts are people who've just been banned so he might not want to go too mad with the free speech.

[Lewis]

I follow some rugby stuff, lol accounts, some history and military stuff, a load of cartoon avatar racists, and Jamie Carragher. Whatever political wank I see I see through their curation and I trust them to keep the crap out of my life.

[Baz]

You can still build yourself a nice little lol chamber. Like Facebook, it's as good as you want it to be.Disagree. Far easier to make Twitter good. Facebook is the pits.

[Shindig]

I don't really take either seriously enough to manage them. I give it like 5 minutes a day unless I'm in the office. Then it's no attention whatsoever.