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[-] [email protected] 404 points 10 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 260 points 10 months ago

Do it. Not doing it is square bro.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Is ~~Twitter~~ X a public service?? It should be at least $25 a month. Just viewing a ~~twat~~ X should cost at least 50 cents.

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[-] [email protected] 151 points 10 months ago

He told Benjamin Netanyahu?... He just decided to tell the prime minister of Israel? Of all people?

Not like a press announcement, a notification to people using the site? Just to some politician he was talking to while on some rich wankers holiday?

[-] [email protected] 107 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Twitter doesn't have a press office anymore. So he can't do that.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago

Yup, because Musk has no ability to plan ahead. He thinks his every idea is perfect and that he should instantly implement whatever nonsense he just came up with.

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[-] [email protected] 110 points 10 months ago

Please god do it. Force the terminally online Xitter users to quit

[-] [email protected] 103 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

“[We’re] moving to a small monthly payment for use of the X system,” he just told Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it’s [the] only way to stamp out ~~bots~~ actual human users .

FTFY

[-] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

It'll remove more humans than bots if Classic WoW has taught me anything.

[-] [email protected] 82 points 10 months ago

We're finally reaching the true death throes of Twitter! I'm so happy.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I sincerely hope his management team applies their best judgment and deliver exactly what their boss requested of them. It's the right thing to do according to their employment contracts.

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[-] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So, he's kinda pulling a Unity.

[-] [email protected] 102 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I shit you not, the board member whose idea was Unity pay per install is Musk's friend, they were both executives at PayPal.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago

Lol. These motherfuckers at the top must be all acquinted.

"It's a big club and you ain't in it."

[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

A big club of well regarded fellows failing upwards

[-] gravitas_deficiency 29 points 10 months ago

And /u/spez is tight with that crowd too, so you can guess where the API monetization idea came from

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago

FFS he actually calls it "the X system." Like it's not still just Twitter.

[-] gravitas_deficiency 39 points 10 months ago

I’m gonna keep deadnaming his company for as long as he keeps deadnaming his daughter.

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago

I want to charge Elon Musk for helping russian terrorists in their genocide of Ukrainian children.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago

Fucking do it. Do it tomorrow. Please.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago

Make it so, please make it so.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago

Please let it die. It will be nice to force media outlets to actually put effort into stories again, instead of just reporting on what is being tweeted by the usual gaggle of assholes.

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago

There will be singing, and dancing, in Jerusalem when this happens! Can't wait for Twitter to disappear!

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago

I'm glad he decided to finally kill it for good.

it's about damn time.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago

I had a momentary panic because it's the end of the month and I'm low on money... but then I remembered I deleted my Twitter account and life has just been absolutely peachy since then.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago

Is anyone else amazed that it's lasted almost a year?

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

No, inertia is a thing and Twitter was one of the biggest brands on the planet when Musk bought it. If anything, he speedruns its demise.

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

I love that he is gradually transforming into a testicle.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think this is the best thing that could happen. The Internet can talk shit but Musk has been playing two-dimensional Chess all along.

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

Every time this asshole is in the news, I'm happier that I deleted my Twitter account.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

Lol. It's like he's in a weird competition to lose 44B as fast as possible.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

That may have worked at the beginning but if they do that now, X is officially dead.
Someone explain to me why I'm wrong please.

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

Somebody convince me he didn't buy this company (with Middle East govs backing him) just to kill it. I'll wait.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

He didn't buy the company with the intent to kill it, he didn't even intend to buy the company at all. He made a joke offer to buy the company and took it to far, so they were able to sue him and force him to buy the company. If anything he hoped to get some trade secrets out of them before withdrawing the offer.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

He's just incredibly, unbelievably incompetent

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

I'm sorry, but after all these articles on lemmy about this bozo, I'm realizing he has a seemingly slappable face

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

Zuck is smarter than Elon.

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

lol do it Muskrat, I dare you.

Mastodon + the Ice Cubes app for iOS is far better than Twitter ever was. Plus the platform comes with the added benefit of a userbase that's openly hostile toward fascist rhetoric.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

This is so dumb. Obviously they need to move to a PPT model (Price Per Tweet).

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Tell him what a good idea it was back when SMS text messages used to be 10 cents each.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

It's a Xitter, Michael - what could it cost? Ten dollars?

Does anyone think it's a good idea for an idiot with effectively unlimited money (though he's working damn hard to change that) to be making pricing decisions?

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago
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[-] jsh 23 points 10 months ago

How do you want to be an everything app with no users?

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