April 10, 20232 yr i keep refreshing my twitter to see if the name is updated yet, but sadly it still says twitter....
April 13, 20232 yr "Roughly breaking even" means continuing to take a bath and "most advertisers have returned" means a small fraction from those that have continued to depart when translated from Musk weasel word terms.
April 13, 20232 yr Musk will never get $44 billion back, that he spent to buy it. If he gets half that, he would be lucky.
April 13, 20232 yr 17 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: "Roughly breaking even" means continuing to take a bath and "most advertisers have returned" means a small fraction from those that have continued to depart when translated from Musk weasel word terms. And now NPR and PBS have left which I'm sure will open the floodgates for others to realize it's not worth it anymore.
April 18, 20232 yr If this isn't winning, I don't know what is... By the numbers: A new March 2023 forecast from Insider Intelligence suggests Twitter will bring in roughly $2.9 billion in ad revenue for 2023, after initially forecasting in October 2022 that it would earn $4.74 billion. Another estimate from Sensor Tower suggests that Twitter's top 50 advertisers have slowed spending in the first two months of this year by nearly $20 million collectively, compared to the same time period in 2022. Other data from Sensor Tower suggests Musk's attempt to charge users for verification hasn't led to huge revenue gains so far on mobile. https://www.axios.com/2023/04/18/musk-twitter-advertisers-media-blitz
April 24, 20232 yr Microsoft dumps Twitter, Musk threatens lawsuit https://boingboing.net/2023/04/20/microsoft-dumps-twitter-musk-threatens-lawsuit.html Quote Microsoft has recently announced that Twitter will no longer be included in its ad-planning service. The company's Smart Campaigns service, which advertisers use to place ads on social media, has refused to pay for Twitter's API, which was previously free. This decision has not been well-received by Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, who has claimed that Microsoft had been using Twitter's data illegally and is considering suing Microsoft. I cannot figure out WTF Musk is trying to do, if it is not killing the thing he paid billions for.
April 24, 20232 yr 16 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Microsoft dumps Twitter, Musk threatens lawsuit https://boingboing.net/2023/04/20/microsoft-dumps-twitter-musk-threatens-lawsuit.html I cannot figure out WTF Musk is trying to do, if it is not killing the thing he paid billions for. More winning
April 24, 20232 yr ok so.. basically Musk does away with the "old" way of "blue checkmarking" which required that people confirm they are who they are claiming they are as a way to have more confidence in tweets are coming from who they're purporting to be, moving to a subscription based approach where any ish-hole can claim to be whatever they want and be "verified" this leads to a free market response where no reliable accounts are now sporting a blue checkmark. so now they're giving out checkmarks for free to accounts that I guess maybe were verified before, and doing so against their wishes in a manner that cannot be opted-out of or cancelled? the winning never stops.
April 24, 20232 yr 37 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: ok so.. basically Musk does away with the "old" way of "blue checkmarking" which required that people confirm they are who they are claiming they are as a way to have more confidence in tweets are coming from who they're purporting to be, moving to a subscription based approach where any ish-hole can claim to be whatever they want and be "verified" this leads to a free market response where no reliable accounts are now sporting a blue checkmark. so now they're giving out checkmarks for free to accounts that I guess maybe were verified before, and doing so against their wishes in a manner that cannot be opted-out of or cancelled? the winning never stops. WTF is his plan? I am so lost. His moves seems dopey to the extreme.
April 24, 20232 yr 8 minutes ago, Toastrel said: WTF is his plan? I am so lost. His moves seems dopey to the extreme. another stable genius.
April 24, 20232 yr 11 minutes ago, Toastrel said: WTF is his plan? I am so lost. His moves seems dopey to the extreme. This was the ONLY way to stop the bots! Why can't anyone understand this? The bots were running rampant and something had to be done!
April 25, 20232 yr "Paging the FTC": Experts warn Musk's misleading celebrity Twitter blue checks are violation https://www.salon.com/2023/04/24/paging-the-ftc-experts-warn-musks-misleading-celebrity-twitter-blue-are-violation_partner/ Apparently, forcing blue checks on people isn't legal. He really is a nutball.
April 25, 20232 yr I'm not sure why it would be illegal. That seems like a weird place for the FTC to be able to regulate.
April 25, 20232 yr 37 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: I'm not sure why it would be illegal. That seems like a weird place for the FTC to be able to regulate. Quote "Musk has 'gifted' checks to celebrity Twitter accounts and other influencers without first seeking permission," said Karr. But because the blue checks "act like endorsements of Twitter Blue," the new paid program that charges $8 for premium access and status on the platform, this is where the violation comes in. I think because it comes with the tag line that the user has subscribed to the feature.
April 25, 20232 yr Whoops! Elon Musk may have accidentally leaked his burner account Elon Musk tweeted a photo on Monday night that shows him logged into his Twitter account, advertising to content creators how they can activate monetization features on Twitter. Unfortunately for Musk, people weren’t paying much attention to the fact that he has 24.7K paid subscribers — instead, some users realized that he appeared to be logged into another account. And upon deeper investigation, it looked like the account belonged to @ErmnMusk, a now-deleted account with the display name "Elon Test,” which used a photo of Musk’s three-year-old son as its avatar. Is this really Elon Musk’s burner account? We’re hesitant to make that definitive claim (and if we tried to ask for comment from Twitter or Musk himself, we would simply receive a poop emoji in response). But there is evidence that makes this theory seem more plausible than not. Many of the tweets on this possible burner account were quite mundane, including tweets about having no followers (last we saw before the account was deleted, it had since been followed by over 27,000 people. Whoops!). But some posts get a bit uncomfortable. When Bitcoin promoter Michael Saylor tweeted about Satoshi — the pseudonymous figure who developed Bitcoin — @ErmnMusk replied, "Do you like Japanese girls?” In another tweet, @ErmnMusk replied to a post making fun of former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison, who dated FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. She pled guilty to billions of dollars in wire fraud amid the FTX collapse, prompting one user to make fun of Ellison’s appearance while crudely implying that Bankman-Fried risked his billionaire status for sex. @ErmnMusk replied, "I 💜 librarians.” In some other tweets, it seemed like @ErmnMusk was pretending to be X, Musk’s two-year-old son X Æ A-XII, who he calls X. During the FTX collapse, Airbnb founder Brian Chesky tweeted, "It feels like we were in a nightclub and the lights just turned on.” @ErmnMusk replied, "I wish I was old enough to go to nightclubs. They sound so fun.” In another tweet, @ErmnMusk posted, "I will finally turn 3 on May 4th!”, which is consistent with X’s actual birth date. Could Musk just be trolling everyone? Sure. But beyond the fact that these tweets very much echo Musk’s general online demeanor, there’s more evidence that this could be Musk’s burner account. The account was created soon after Musk purchased Twitter, and per VICE’s reporting, the image of X — uploaded on November 29, 2022 — doesn’t seem to have appeared anywhere else online before this (in a few short hours, it has since proliferated across Twitter, where many users are impersonating the now-deleted account). Programmer Travis Brown pulled 99 "profile snapshots” of the account, which show that it has used the name "Elon Test” for most of its existence, except for when it used the name "Star Sapphire.”
April 25, 20232 yr 28 minutes ago, Tweek said: Whoops! Elon Musk may have accidentally leaked his burner account Elon Musk tweeted a photo on Monday night that shows him logged into his Twitter account, advertising to content creators how they can activate monetization features on Twitter. Unfortunately for Musk, people weren’t paying much attention to the fact that he has 24.7K paid subscribers — instead, some users realized that he appeared to be logged into another account. And upon deeper investigation, it looked like the account belonged to @ErmnMusk, a now-deleted account with the display name "Elon Test,” which used a photo of Musk’s three-year-old son as its avatar. Is this really Elon Musk’s burner account? We’re hesitant to make that definitive claim (and if we tried to ask for comment from Twitter or Musk himself, we would simply receive a poop emoji in response). But there is evidence that makes this theory seem more plausible than not. Many of the tweets on this possible burner account were quite mundane, including tweets about having no followers (last we saw before the account was deleted, it had since been followed by over 27,000 people. Whoops!). But some posts get a bit uncomfortable. When Bitcoin promoter Michael Saylor tweeted about Satoshi — the pseudonymous figure who developed Bitcoin — @ErmnMusk replied, "Do you like Japanese girls?” In another tweet, @ErmnMusk replied to a post making fun of former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison, who dated FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. She pled guilty to billions of dollars in wire fraud amid the FTX collapse, prompting one user to make fun of Ellison’s appearance while crudely implying that Bankman-Fried risked his billionaire status for sex. @ErmnMusk replied, "I 💜 librarians.” In some other tweets, it seemed like @ErmnMusk was pretending to be X, Musk’s two-year-old son X Æ A-XII, who he calls X. During the FTX collapse, Airbnb founder Brian Chesky tweeted, "It feels like we were in a nightclub and the lights just turned on.” @ErmnMusk replied, "I wish I was old enough to go to nightclubs. They sound so fun.” In another tweet, @ErmnMusk posted, "I will finally turn 3 on May 4th!”, which is consistent with X’s actual birth date. Could Musk just be trolling everyone? Sure. But beyond the fact that these tweets very much echo Musk’s general online demeanor, there’s more evidence that this could be Musk’s burner account. The account was created soon after Musk purchased Twitter, and per VICE’s reporting, the image of X — uploaded on November 29, 2022 — doesn’t seem to have appeared anywhere else online before this (in a few short hours, it has since proliferated across Twitter, where many users are impersonating the now-deleted account). Programmer Travis Brown pulled 99 "profile snapshots” of the account, which show that it has used the name "Elon Test” for most of its existence, except for when it used the name "Star Sapphire.” somebody say burner account ?
May 3, 20232 yr This guy.... Musk Threatens to Give Away NPR’s Twitter Handle Unless It Tweets Again Elon Musk suggested he would re-assign NPR’s Twitter account because the company had stopped tweeting, NPR claimed on Tuesday. In a series of emails to an NPR reporter, the billionaire reportedly threatened to transfer the @npr handle to "another company.” "So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company?” the organization claimed the billionaire wrote in an email. "Our policy is to recycle handles that are definitively dormant,” Musk wrote in a follow-up email, per the report. "Same policy applies to all accounts. No special treatment for NPR.” In April, the public broadcaster quit the social media platform after Twitter added a "state-affiliated media” label to NPR’s main account. The decision made NPR — a private, non-profit company that maintains editorial independence from the U.S. government — the first major news outlet to stop publishing new content on Twitter. That tag was later revised to "government-funded media,” though NPR has said both are false and misleading. Musk also took the label off government-backed outlets including Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua News Agency. Musk previously suspended the accounts of prominent journalists who were critical of his management and policy decisions following his takeover of Twitter last year. Although the self-avowed free speech enthusiast later reinstated the accounts, his recent decision to remove Twitter’s free identity-verification system has unleashed a torrent of impersonation, misinformation, and general anarchy.
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