Twitter under Musk....

[CXRAndy]

Listen to the episode, there is a lot lot more to it than that and failing to recognise that means you'll fail to understand the issues and why it happened.

IAn

If you can give a brief of the podcast much appreciated 👍

 

[Psamathe]

If you can give a brief of the podcast much appreciated 👍

It's a lot of events, no way to "summarise" (it would take forever, quicker for you to listen to it).

Ian

 

[icowden]

Twitter was a heavily moderated left wing social platform

No, twitter was a moderated chat platform where users could rely (to a degree) on the veracity of the content and validity of the posters. It worked with Governments and with online safety platforms to ensure that harmful content was removed. It was used by a huge amount of the world and was very successful

Now it's X right wing social platform with little no moderation

FTFY. It is now a dying right wing social platform as advertisers quit in their droves due to the unvalidated unrestrained content. Users cannot rely on X as a source of truth and are moving to moderated and controlled platforms such as BlueSky. Anarchy is unhelpful*.

*Addendum: The USA is piloting a study into Anarchy, starting by appointing a dictator with dementia / narcissistic personality disorder and an autistic billionaire. Initial results suggest that it isn't working terribly well, and "people who are experts in stuff" have historically done a better job than "people who sit in an armchair and *think* that they are experts in stuff".

 

[CXRAndy]

It is now a dying right wing social platform as advertisers quit in their droves due to the unvalidated unrestrained content

Hardly dying, has 611 million users, 245 million regular daily users
Users aged 25-35 so not overly exposed to the teen fickleness

The advertiser's quit trying to control content, Musk politely said

"Go fūck yourselves"

I think the initial discoveries by DOGE over waste, fraud are extremely popular with the US people, have the democrats crapping themselves.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Listen to the episode, there is a lot lot more to it than that and failing to recognise that means you'll fail to understand the issues and why it happened.

IAn

No chance. Unless you can precis it in 280 characters or put it in a meme he won't bother.

 

[CXRAndy]

Interesting podcast running through the events and Musk's takeover and subsequent handling of Twitter.

About 1 hr long and contains ads (unless you are a contributer in which case you'll already have seen the episode). I thought I was moderately aware of the farce but this highlights some stuff that beggars belief. Presenters are authors and columnists.

It's available through all mainstream podcast sources (Apple, Spotify, etc.) but a couple of web player places (without subscription, without registration):
https://www.bestpodcasts.co.uk/podcast/origin-story/#e1920-5K675btlqKU4tEMUDE5aha
or
https://www.podmasters.co.uk/origin-story (Elon Musk and the Death of Twitter episode)

Ian

Two blokes bitching about Musk

Listened, told me nothing new about his buying of Twitter.

They acknowledge, it's done no real harm to Musk in the end, more wealth, more influence

 

[Psamathe]

They acknowledge, it's done no real harm to Musk in the end, more wealth, more influence

Pay US$44 bn for someting and turn it into US$19 bn is not an increase in wealth. Basic math.

Ian

 

[icowden]

Pay US$44 bn for someting and turn it into US$19 bn is not an increase in wealth. Basic math.

Ian

It's not worth that much. Latest estimates are £9.4bn and falling. It's lost £3bn in the last month alone.
Of the 245 million active accounts it is estimated that 147 million are bots.

It is losing European members fast. It's mostly American users now.

 

[Ian H]

It's not worth that much. Latest estimates are £9.4bn and falling. It's lost £3bn in the last month alone.
Of the 245 million active accounts it is estimated that 147 million are bots.

It is losing European members fast. It's mostly American users now.

And weird wannabee Yanks.

 

[multitool]

 

[CXRAndy]

Pay US$44 bn for someting and turn it into US$19 bn is not an increase in wealth. Basic math.

Ian

They acknowledge, it's done no real harm to Musk in the end, more wealth, more influence

You do know he owns many other companies as well as X

 

[AndyRM]

You do know he owns many other companies as well as X

Yep. And they're losing money too.

 

[CXRAndy]

Yep. And they're losing money too.

I doubt he will be too concerned, but you can be on his behalf. 😄

 

[AndyRM]

I doubt he will be too concerned, but you can be on his behalf. 😄

I'm not. Although I suspect he is.

 

[dutchguylivingintheuk]

No, twitter was a moderated chat platform where users could rely (to a degree) on the veracity of the content and validity of the posters. It worked with Governments and with online safety platforms to ensure that harmful content was removed. It was used by a huge amount of the world and was very successful

You forgot to add they had a dedicated hotline for both democrats and republicans to meddle with election results. The democrats used that for Hunter Biden who now escaped prosecution.