Twitter under Musk....

[Wobblers]

Sorry - I'm late to the Keith Arsewank party.

Quality sig line material there, Claudine...

 

[albion]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/04/techscape-twitter-blue-ticks-elon-musk

Some suckers paid. More than a few no doubt. But it looks like we might never know who is actually paying.

 

[Ian H]

On April 3, 2023, Twitter's bird logo was replaced with an image of Doge for website users, for reasons not explained. Some speculated that it may have been a late-posted April Fools' Day joke [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(meme)]

 

[albion]

No mega grudge there.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/05/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-musk-media/

 

[albion]

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/05/more_twitter_lawsuits/

Sounds bleak.

 

[albion]

https://biz.crast.net/whats-up-with-the-twitter-blue-check-mark-the-associated-press/

Very confusing. None payers are still keeping their blue tick for free which must antagonise anyone paying.
Plus people are registering blue tick accounts under celebrity names.

 

[albion]

'On Friday morning, Twitter began blocking users from retweeting, liking or engaging with posts that contained links to Substack articles. Users also could not pin posts containing links to Substack to the top of their profiles. On Friday evening, Twitter began marking links to Substack as “unsafe.”'

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/twitter-builds-a-wall-substack.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/07/twitter-substack-taibbi-musk-split/

 

[albion]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...after-asking-questions-he-could-have-googled/

Not sure why Musk is trumping lies. The BBC has been none state funded ever since the government regulator removal of pensioners' free licenses.

 

[newfhouse]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...after-asking-questions-he-could-have-googled/

Not sure why Musk is trumping lies. The BBC has been none state funder, never since the government regulator removal of pensioners' free licenses.

State controlled would be more a more accurate description, sadly.

 

[Ian H]

State controlled would be more a more accurate description, sadly.

'Establishment controlled' might be more accurate, though the reins are a little looser than they were in Reith's day.

 

[Deleted member 28]

So the last few days on twitter have been:

Absolutely. F*cking. Batshit. Crazy.

Honestly, vulva woman followed by Keith Arsewank. I feel like I'm having some sort of psychotic episode. At some point I'm going to have to explain this all to my wife and to be frank I don't know where to begin, the Gary Lineker thing was bonkers enough.

And this weekend we supposedly descend into blue tick chaos although I wonder if it's all an April fool. It's all making me go a bit peculiar.

Are you people for real?

 

[newfhouse]

'Establishment controlled' might be more accurate, though the reins are a little looser than they were in Reith's day.

It has always been an establishment tool, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing in some ways. I think the difference now is that it has become openly Tory controlled, and by a particular wing of the Tories at that.

I have always supported the BBC as an institution. It hasn't always done everything right but at its best it is an amazing cultural and social resource that we will all miss when it's gone.

 

[winjim]

Are you people for real?

Go on then. Try and explain the vulva woman story without it sounding like utter lunacy.

 

[Xipe Totec]

Go on then. Try and explain the vulva woman story without it sounding like utter lunacy.

Give him a mo, he's still grappling with a barrage of mental images triggered by trying to understand 'Keith Arsewank'.

 

[newfhouse]