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News Elon Musk and the End of Twitter

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Razgriz said:
I don't think Big Tech would want to buy Twitter (and neither would the Saudis; the Saudis want a finger in the pie with social media for political gain, but can't actually run it since that'd piss off the US government, with whom they have a shaky relationship.)

Big Tech wants grassroots businesses that they can sell to their investors as being The Next Big Thing, competitors that are small enough to buy without upsetting antitrust agencies or corporations that are filled with so much talent that they can sunset the product. Twitter has none of those; they're an established business (not grassroots), are a sizable competitor in their sphere still (look at your average social media share modal) and there's no talent left at Twitter (Musk fired half of it, the other half wasn't down for Musks insane work ethic. The only people left working at Twitter are foreigners who can't easily leave Twitter for another company, since the US deports them back to their home country when they resign if they don't have another job lined up; yes that's dystopian and ironic, considering Musk was an illegal in the US back in 2000 for a year.)
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valid reasoning, but at the same time, they may still see value in acquiring Twitter due to its existing userbase which can be utilized heavily for shit such as marketing which would be extremely useful for companies such as Big Tech who would want to have more widespread reach.
 
Don't think Twitter will be unbanned in Brazil anytime soon

We're going to be here for a long time. The Elon vs. Xandão feud is still going on, the madman made an exposed account Follow Alexandre Files there:

bsky.app

Cortinas ao Contrário (@snaihtniroccccc.bsky.social)

É galera, a gente vai ficar aqui por um bom tempo A treta Elon x Xandão vai longe ainda, maluco fez conta de exposed Segue o Alexandre Files aí:
bsky.app bsky.app

 
sagadego20 said:
Don't think Twitter will be unbanned in Brazil anytime soon

We're going to be here for a long time. The Elon vs. Xandão feud is still going on, the madman made an exposed account Follow Alexandre Files there:

bsky.app

Cortinas ao Contrário (@snaihtniroccccc.bsky.social)

É galera, a gente vai ficar aqui por um bom tempo A treta Elon x Xandão vai longe ainda, maluco fez conta de exposed Segue o Alexandre Files aí:
bsky.app bsky.app

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Wait, what does this mean? What's "Alexandre Files?" Is that an Elon alt or something?
 
chocolate_supra said:
Wait, what does this mean? What's "Alexandre Files?" Is that an Elon alt or something?
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Alexandre de Moraes (aka Xandão) is the judge on the Supreme Court that was responsible for the case against Xitter here in Brazil. So Musk is exposing everything he believes is illegal that was asked of him. Such as taking down accounts only made for spreading fake news, people that were part of the invasion on January 8th, nazis, pedophiles, etc
 
sagadego20 said:
Don't think Twitter will be unbanned in Brazil anytime soon

We're going to be here for a long time. The Elon vs. Xandão feud is still going on, the madman made an exposed account Follow Alexandre Files there:

bsky.app

Cortinas ao Contrário (@snaihtniroccccc.bsky.social)

É galera, a gente vai ficar aqui por um bom tempo A treta Elon x Xandão vai longe ainda, maluco fez conta de exposed Segue o Alexandre Files aí:
bsky.app bsky.app

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lmao, what a dumb mf... he really thinks he knows better than a whole country legislation.

chocolate_supra said:
Wait, what does this mean? What's "Alexandre Files?" Is that an Elon alt or something?
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Apparently he's trying to expose the judge that suspended Twitter in Brazil, like a teenager that created as alt to does anonymously, yeah.

even though nothing in the proccess of suspension was illegal;
 
Green_Meeple said:
Alexandre de Moraes (aka Xandão) is the judge on the Supreme Court that was responsible for the case against Xitter here in Brazil. So Musk is exposing everything he believes is illegal that was asked of him. Such as taking down accounts only made for spreading fake news, people that were part of the invasion on January 8th, nazis, pedophiles, etc
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CyberWolfBia said:
lmao, what a dumb mf... he really thinks he knows better than a whole country legislation.


Apparently he's trying to expose the judge that suspended Twitter in Brazil, like a teenager that created as alt to does anonymously, yeah.

even though nothing in the proccess of suspension was illegal;
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Oh okay so that account is Elon. That's what was confusing me, gotcha.
 
ZephyrPhoenix said:
valid reasoning, but at the same time, they may still see value in acquiring Twitter due to its existing userbase which can be utilized heavily for shit such as marketing which would be extremely useful for companies such as Big Tech who would want to have more widespread reach.
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Not really.

Of the main big tech companies (GAFAM), Google and Facebook have their own massive data collection engines where Twitter is of remarkably little value unless they pour a ton of infrastructure into it (Twitter is notoriously mediocre at actual ad targeting/conversions, it's why advertisers abandoning it en-masse isn't such a major event for advertiseres). Amazon doesn't need marketing to profile users at it's scale (it can just do that by looking at what their users buy; they're the only big tech company actively selling people products so profiling is remarkably easy since people generally want what they buy), Microsoft's business model mostly isn't in tracking users (it's selling stuff to other businesses) and Apple relies on selling lots of products on a premium with the promise of privacy.

The twitter userbase is functionally about as valuable to a marketer as the userbase of a site like Reddit, which is to say, barely worth the servers it costs to host them on. They'd need to set up a lot of stuff before that becomes appealing and for none of them, that's a worthwhile thing to work on.
 
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Lmao, by publishing the documents Elon actually doxxed the people behind the accounts?

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Mr Doggo said:
More in point, the person is mentioning that with all that info you can buy stuff in the person's name, effectively ruining their credit.
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You can even affiliate them to a political party.
And now it seems Musk is going scorched earth on Brazil by citing former Twitter employees and accusing them of frauding the Brazilian elections.
He is talking only to the tinfoil hat crowd and they're eating his shit as if it was a Michelin starred meal.
 
7threst said:
Lmao, by publishing the documents Elon actually doxxed the people behind the accounts?

Twittah-Brazil.png
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Pretty much! Although CPFs are not suuuper secretive, it's what usually allows people to do a lot of things. Given the right info alongside the CPF you can even ask for loans on other people's name in certain cases. Quite funny they published it all... Plus the CPF can be used to gather a whole of other personal info too, so it was a bad idea regardless haha
 
CyberWolfBia said:
uuh... you know... Twitter doesn't work...
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Oh, right. Embeds in Brazil.

It's just a dunk on Elon after he posted a meme to express how not mad he is Twitter is banned in Brazil in which Elon calls it Twitter and not X.

Brilliant rebrand. Obviously going very well. (Also, Elon is definitely mad.)
 
I wish Elon Musk all the worst in his endeavors. A subsidized billionaire idiot given far too much say in how an entire nation develops its transportation, infrastructure, communications, and space exploration.
 
One of our supreme judges on the X ban, referring to Musk trying to be above our national law:

"Therefore, the national legal order cannot be ignored or overrun by any other 'normative source', however powerful it may imagine or wish to be."
 
Green_Meeple said:
You can even affiliate them to a political party.
And now it seems Musk is going scorched earth on Brazil by citing former Twitter employees and accusing them of frauding the Brazilian elections.
He is talking only to the tinfoil hat crowd and they're eating his shit as if it was a Michelin starred meal.
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I didn't know our elections were run via Twitter, the more you know.
 
Here in Brazil, a right-wing party that likes to pretend they are moderate businesspeople but always ends up bending the knee to the far-right has filed a motion in the supreme court asking X to be unblocked. They basically argue the block goes against freedom of speech, once again showing they are nothing but far-right assholes masquerading as moderates.

Anyway, via a random assignment process, the motion is now in the hands of a judge who was appointed by Bolsonaro, which means there's a chance he reverts the block. Local media, however, is reporting he's unlikely to do so given that just yesterday the block, originally issued by only Moraes, has been further validated by other judges.

Let's see how that'll play out.
 
Twitter is not loading my timeline on the mobile app. Wonder what button Clyde sat on this time.
 
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www.nytimes.com

Elon Musk’s Starlink Agrees to Block the X Social Network in Brazil

Brazilian regulators had said Sunday that Starlink planned to defy government orders to block X in the country. On Tuesday, the satellite-internet service said it would comply.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

fortune.com

Brazil’s president says Elon Musk’s wealth doesn’t mean world has to accept his ‘far-right ideology’

"Just because the guy has a lot of money doesn't mean he can disrespect this [country]."
fortune.com fortune.com

This is going great for Elon.
 
7threst said:
Another exodus of advertisers on Twitter incoming:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/05/business/advertisers-x-withdrawal/index.html
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A global survey by market research firm Kantar found that a net 26% of marketers plan to decrease their spending on X in 2025, the biggest recorded pullback from any major global ad platform. Only 4% of marketers overall think X ads provide “brand safety” — certainty that their ads won’t appear alongside extreme content — compared with 39% for Google ads, Kantar said in a report Thursday.
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Damn !
 
Trump says he's going to make a "government efficiency commission" and have Musk lead it.

So, do like both of them do and just ignore any outstanding bills.

apnews.com

Trump says he'd create a government efficiency commission led by Elon Musk

Trump says he would create a government efficiency commission to audit the entire federal government, an idea suggested by billionaire Elon Musk, who would lead it.
apnews.com apnews.com
 
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Semi Lazy Gamer said:
Trump says he's going to make a "government efficiency commission" and have Musk lead it.

So, do like both of them do and just ignore any outstanding bills.

apnews.com

Trump says he'd create a government efficiency commission led by Elon Musk

Trump says he would create a government efficiency commission to audit the entire federal government, an idea suggested by billionaire Elon Musk, who would lead it.
apnews.com apnews.com
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The X business model: Cutting essential workers and downgrading services but still not gathering enough revenue to pay anything more off of loans than the interest and racking up late payment interests, collection costs, and legal fees, except now it's for the world's biggest economy. Honestly, in terms of accelerationist Marxist ideology, it's a genius idea.

/s
 
Semi Lazy Gamer said:
Trump says he's going to make a "government efficiency commission" and have Musk lead it.

So, do like both of them do and just ignore any outstanding bills.

apnews.com

Trump says he'd create a government efficiency commission led by Elon Musk

Trump says he would create a government efficiency commission to audit the entire federal government, an idea suggested by billionaire Elon Musk, who would lead it.
apnews.com apnews.com
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Well, you do have to admit Musk is pretty efficient when it comes to setting his reputation and the value of his companies on fire.
 
Chaotic Neutral said:
The X business model: Cutting essential workers and downgrading services but still not gathering enough revenue to pay anything more off of loans than the interest and racking up late payment interests, collection costs, and legal fees, except now it's for the world's biggest economy. Honestly, in terms of accelerationist Marxist ideology, it's a genius idea.

/s
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On the flipside to an old addage: "Gotta save money to lose money."
 
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