Elon Musk officially buys Twitter, DONE DEAL !

[alasdairm]

i know what i think you think "the left" is

i don't know what you think my team is but i never had control of twitter.

anyhoo, glad to see you're back to reading my messages

alasdair

 

[Electrum1]

Yeah I just read all of your replies on Twitter back to late 2023 so far, but you are poking fun at me about what the "Left" is, lol

 

[alasdairm]

i'm not poking fun at you.

i am saying that i don't believe there's a giant monolithic thing that is "the left".

alasdair

 

[brokedownpalace10]

it's about winning,

There it is. and, always has been (well, for years). And, yes, I see it from both sides now (still moreso on the right, but ne'mind). But... "They started it, mom!". And that really is hard to argue.

Like I say, I can never remember if I'm a whiny, ineffectual, snowflake or an evil Machiavelli. The very labels used to paint the left over the last years are telling.

 

[phenethylo J]

 

[alasdairm]

remember this from a few months back? elon musk telling advertisers to "go fuck yourself"



now this: Elon Musk’s X sues advertisers over alleged ‘massive advertiser boycott’ after Twitter takeover

tl;dr elon muck tells advertisers to go fuck themselves then sues them for not advertising on his platform.

alasdair

 

[Electrum1]

Pretty funny he turned twitter into an accurate representation of the real political balance/ratio of the nation, and we're supposed to believe twitter is worth half of what he paid? It wasn't a financial investment

 

[alasdairm]

time to set aside the k.

he's lost it.

alasdair

 

[JahBeeuS]

time to set aside the k.

he's lost it.

alasdair

Did he ever have it?

 

[alasdairm]

yeah, i think he really did.

i mean people say there's a bit of madness in genius, or something like that but he's gone totally insane.

alasdair

 

[Electrum1]

 

[alasdairm]

he turned twitter into a pro-trump echo chamber and blew 70% of its value doing so.

maybe he'll cast the same magic spell on the tiktok...



alasdair

 

[brokedownpalace10]

Well, China has government controlled capitalism and Musk is ushering in capitalist controlled government in america, so that might work.

 

[Electrum1]

he turned twitter into a pro-trump echo chamber

Wrong. If almost all of your posts are replies to pro-trump accounts (yours are) then the algorithm will show you more posts/accounts like that, but in reality it's actually more politically balanced than it was before Elon Musk bought it

Demographic profiles and party identification of regular social media news consumers in the U.S. (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X (Twitter), Reddit)

www.pewresearch.org

 

[tryptakid]

Wrong. If almost all of your posts are replies to pro-trump accounts (yours are) then the algorithm will show you more posts/accounts like that, but in reality it's actually more politically balanced than it was before Elon Musk bought it

Demographic profiles and party identification of regular social media news consumers in the U.S. (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X (Twitter), Reddit)

www.pewresearch.org

It's crazy to me that 70% of US Adults use facebook. I wonder whether my wife's facebook, which is technically active but was last used over a year ago when I purchased a bike off of marketplace, would have been counted here. I haven't had an account since 2016, and have never been a twitter user.

Interesting to see that Reddit does in fact have more of a liberal bias, something that I've seen claimed in discussions, while also catering to a higher amount of college graduates than other platforms. Twitter seems to be built around the individual poster as a brand, whereas Reddit is ultimately more collaborative. I wonder if that speaks to individualist vs. collectivist mindsets.

Forums, like this, seem to be the only place to get a mixture of both, and the ability to share ideas back and forth across ideological lines. It's what I appreciate most about this place.

 

[jasperkent]

It's crazy to me that 70% of US Adults use facebook. I wonder whether my wife's facebook, which is technically active but was last used over a year ago when I purchased a bike off of marketplace, would have been counted here.

Good question. I assume that I still have a FB account, but I rarely ever used it and I haven't looked at it at all in 3 or 4 years.

I used Twitter briefly a few years back, but got sick of it very quickly. I don't think I ever had a TikTok account. I might glance at Reddit or Quora once or twice a month.

Life's too short.

 

[tryptakid]

Good question. I assume that I still have a FB account, but I rarely ever used it and I haven't looked at it at all in 3 or 4 years.

I used Twitter briefly a few years back, but got sick of it very quickly. I don't think I ever had a TikTok account. I might glance at Reddit or Quora once or twice a month.

Life's too short.

I was listening to a professor being interviewed yesterday and they were discussing AI generated content that was spreading fake information about the wildfires. It lead into a discussion about AI manipulation of social media in general and the researcher very bluntly says: "If you're on social media, get off of it." Just point blank on a national radio show. I appreciated that sentiment.

 

[jasperkent]

I appreciated that sentiment.

Me too.

I've read that a sizable chunk of people (& a majority of those under 30) get "most or all" of their news from X or TikTok.

No wonder everybody's angry all the time and tribalism is worse than ever. People literally exist in different realities, all dictated by algorithms.

 

[tryptakid]

Me too.

I've read that a sizable chunk of people (& a majority of those under 30) get "most or all" of their news from X or TikTok.

No wonder everybody's angry all the time and tribalism is worse than ever. People literally exist in different realities, all dictated by algorithms.

Remember when the 'information superhighway' was going to allow for democratization of society. Eternal September is fucking lame.

 

[alasdairm]

Wrong. If almost all of your posts are replies to pro-trump accounts (yours are) then the algorithm will show you more posts/accounts like that

lol. smart algorithm not so smart...

how's ignoring me going?

in reality it's actually more politically balanced than it was before Elon Musk bought it

ok.

alasdair