Just stop permanently.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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Stop X permanently. The lawsuits are massing up, and the value of the business has nearly dropped such that the $13bn debt is bigger than it. They had little hope of paying even the interest before Musk started intentionally tanking their revenue. He knows that the business will never have to pay up, hell they're not even paying rent on their offices, and he'll get away with the crime Scott free because it's a limited liability company.
And make no mistake, that was the plan all along. Destroy a private business cum public forum that served the public good, and on the way out see what controversial actions they can get away with. That way any site that comes to fill the void can do the same. His old mate Peter Thiel will likely be pleased, along with a bunch of other unscrupulous people.
Destroy a private business cum public forum that served the public
It's amazing to me how much people have rewritten history since musk took over. Twitter was always shit. It's worse now, yeah. A lot worse. But it's like taking a shit on a smaller pile of shit. All this talk about how it was a real boon for humanity and so important it should be regulated as a utility is equal parts idiotic and hilarious.
It's shit, but it had significant uses. Namely, getting breaking news from trusted journalists, and speaking directly to businesses for consumer support when other methods typically went unanswered.
That's not to mention the Arab Spring. Sure, significant change that people had hoped for didn't follow through, but it still spooked them enough that one of the incumbent leaders helped buy the website to undermine it.
Also, when you compare it to Facebook it certainly was better. Even reddit was better, then followed it down the drain.
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I 100% agree it was shit. Sometimes though, that shit fertilized real growth.
That said, lesson shouldn't be, "we need twitter." It should be, let's populate similar platforms so we can have this resource in the future.
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served the public good
Yeah, nah. For a start, if one website could be singled out for bringing Trump into power, it wasn't any of those icky extremist places such as 4chan, 8chan, r/trump - it was Twitter where he posted his garbage for literal years with no interruption and thus gained a massive following. The site practically lived off his controversial diarrhea.
You could say the same about reddit in a large part. 4chan was a free home, Twitter was a megaphone, but reddit really encouraged the infestation to gestate.
Also it wasn't r/trump, but r/the_Donald, as well as all the spin off astroturfed subs.
I don't disagree this is a possibility, but I have yet to hear someone clearly articulate why poopoobrain over there would do something so dumb intentionally.
I find it so much more compelling that he's just a divorce-brained middle-aged dumbass with a megaphone and billions to dig his own grave. That he was forced to buy Twitter after waving his dick around in public and has been trying to save his reputation ever since by pretending that it's all a part of his plan to amplify the right voices to 'save humanity'.
I'm not saying he isn't brain-broken enough to believe it himself, but I don't think he ever really had a plan. I think he's a sad, lonely billionaire going through the worlds biggest mid-life crisis.
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yeah but money
Why does anyone still use this pile of crap anyway since the kid took over?
Pretty sure users have mostly left.
Companies and public figures keep using it, because for most of them it's just some intern or bot that was posting.
It takes a while for social media to finally die because of that. They'll just stumble on like a zombie for like a decade.
The only way it'll happen faster, is if people loudly boycott anyone that's still using it. But with 99% of social media sucking ass, there's not really a place to do it from where companies and public figures will hear it.
Don't insult children like that, kids would have made way better and funnier decisions lmao
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I'm still there because I like to know what the crazies think about stuff. It's still entertaining in its own way. For example, did you know there are business experts on Twitter even smarter than Tim Cook? It's true...
Scott Adams needs to hide away in his Dilbert shaped house, never to be heard from again.
Tim Cook must be on vacation! I know this because The Sacred Man Himself could never do such horrible thing!
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The only part I hate is that real people have and will lose their jobs due to 1 person that treats this entire situation like a kids game.
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The problem I see that it is "pause", not "quit".
"Wait until it dies down, then go back to selling Macbooks to the Nazis."
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Why just pause
So they can start advertising on it again in two weeks when people aren't paying as much attention again, duh. Just like when all those corporations stopped donating to insurrectionist Republicans, for about three seconds.
Why not remove the app from their app store?
"Exclusive", at least the forth version of this story I've seen today.
Better late than never I guess
They could remove the app from their app store if they cared.
This is practically nothing compared to doing that.
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"pause"
the surprising part is that they were still advertising on it until now
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Musk being an utter waste of skin isn't an exclusive.
The worst thing is reading news with X in the middle of the sentences, it looks like a math problem.
To solve for X we must cancel it out.
When will any of these companies realize that they need to leave forever?
If Apple really wanted to send a message, they would suspend the Twitter App (I can’t bring myself to call it by the stupid CyberTruck name) from the App Store.
Maybe after another 11 months of this…
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What was the original tweet that he said he agreed with? I'd prefer to judge for myself.
Okay.
Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.
I'm deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much.
You want truth said to your face, there it is.
I have no idea what he's on about. Jews have been pushing "dialectical hatred"? Does he even know what "dialectic" means?
I was about to defend the usage of the word dialectical here but then remembered nazis can get fucked
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About bloody time.
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