TIME magazine? I wonder what their readership is compared to Elon's twitter feed. And I mean just Elon's alone. Not all of twitter. Just keep following that Department of Motor Vehicles business model that you love.
Don't like Time? Well you will dislike the New York Times even more. Twitter Is Broken. Thanks, Elon https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/opinion/elon-musk-twitter.html About six months ago, Elon Musk bought your favorite neighborhood bar. Then he fired veteran bouncers and bartenders, tried to stiff the landlord and at least one vendor, and demanded that regulars pay a cover charge. He’s frequently struggled to serve his customers, yet he’s penalized them for mentioning the competition. He’s tamped down the revelry in general, really — a lot of conversation at his watering hole has been drowned out by Musk’s own never-ending stage act, which consists mainly of him yelling dad jokes at customers through a bullhorn. Pour one out for Twitter, then. I’d been open to Musk’s purchase of the social network, but half a year in, it’s been an unmitigated disaster. Musk moved fast and broke nearly everything — the speed and totality with which he’s ruined the site has been almost impressive. By Musk’s own reckoning, the company is now worth less than half of what he paid for it. It has lost many large advertisers, most of its employees and, with them, much of its functionality. More than that, Twitter under Musk appears to have lost the thing that made it impossible to quit: Its centrality. The site was once the most consequential place online, not just a disseminator of breaking news and commentary, but something like an arbiter. At its cultural peak, from about 2015 to perhaps 2020, what people talked about on Twitter seemed to set the agenda for discussions elsewhere. Even last year, it still mattered: After years of mismanagement and glacial innovation, Twitter, on the eve of Musk’s reign, was still the one place to visit when anything big happened anywhere. Whatever Twitter is now, it is no longer that venue. Cultural relevance is difficult to quantify, but you know it when you feel it. And now, when something’s going down, Twitter rarely feels like the place where everyone is gathering to watch. I noticed this when Donald Trump was arraigned. Trump, the most powerful tweeter the world has ever known, a man whose every typo could send Twitter into paroxysms of easy dunks, appeared in court and Twitter was, as Vox’s Shirin Ghaffary put it, “a snoozefest.” There could be many reasons for the snooze, including that people care less about Trump than they used to — or that even after Musk reinstated Trump’s suspended Twitter account, the former president has stuck to using the platform he founded, Truth Social, for his ad hoc missives. But I’d bet much of the problem stems from changes Musk has made to Twitter’s news feed. These days it’s often difficult to know what’s happening on Twitter. Musk’s self-serving changes to the site’s ranking algorithm have significantly reduced its usability: Where Twitter was once pleasantly varied, serving up ordinary people’s tweets pretty evenly with those of celebrities and politicians, now it seems to highlight the same few users all the time. (I love your tweets, Matt Yglesias, but I wish you weren’t always at the top of my feed!) Other signs of Twitter’s declining relevancy: Several news organizations, including The New York Times, have said they won’t pay for Twitter Blue, Musk’s subscription service for acquiring a verified user badge on the site. NPR said it would stop posting to its official Twitter accounts because Twitter labeled it as “state-affiliated media,” then as “government-funded media.” PBS, which has also been labeled “government-funded,” said that it, too, would stop tweeting in protest of the label. (NPR is a nonprofit that receives very little funding from the government; the label, it says, undermines its credibility.) Musk doesn’t like the news media — Twitter’s public relations email address auto-responds with a poop emoji — but I can’t see how fighting with the media can help his site. At the risk of blowing my own horn, media organizations are vital to Twitter because the news is at the core of the site’s utility. Musk has said that Twitter’s algorithms won’t recommend unverified users in its “For You” section, and that the free verification badges — the simultaneously coveted and maligned blue checks — that many journalists have will soon be removed. The change will further reduce Twitter’s usefulness: If many journalists are removed from the site’s primary feeds, why would people continue to see it as their go-to news source? As a longtime tweeter, Musk’s trashing of the service saddens and angers me. Twitter’s employees and users didn’t deserve this fate. In the hands of a less volatile, more thoughtful leader, Twitter could have been so much more than the raggedy fiefdom of a thin-skinned billionaire it has become. But as a person who wants to live in a just world with friendly people and nice things, I’m not altogether broken up about Twitter’s decline. As I’ve argued before, Twitter has been a font of misinformation, an accelerant to polarization and a contributor to cultural groupthink. Just before Musk’s takeover, my colleague Michelle Goldberg, worrying about similar problems, hoped for a quick, spectacular flameout: “If Musk makes Twitter awful enough,” she wrote, “users will flee, and it will become less relevant.” Well, it looks like Michelle got her wish. Stick a fork in it, Elon: Twitter is done.
Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk have you right by the balls. Whatever is going on with them determines how your day is going. Get a life mate.
You can't face the reality that Musk is a narcissist with no ethics who is driving Twitter into the ground. And DeSantis is an authoritarian dictator wannabe. As every day goes by, and the reality becomes more apparent the sadder you get... and the more you re-direct while failing to address the facts.
Yeh sure. Everyone should cancel their life to focus on Elon and Ron DeSantis full them, as you have done.
You really need to get back to kissing the posters of Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis that you have hanging on your wall. Don't let me slow down your personal lovefest.
Elon speaking clearly. Elon Musk says any parent or doctor who 'sterilizes' children 'should go to prison for life' WASHINGTON (TND) — In response to an argument that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is "destroying an entire state" with his GOP-favored policies, which include the banning of sex change surgeries for kids, billionaire Elon Musk said that those facilitating the sterilization of children should be harshly punished. https://ktxs.com/news/nation-world/...ichael-cohen-sex-change-gender-affirming-care
Some of the soy-centric members of the forum will be breathing into the paper bag next week when this happens. Should be good. Elon Musk to sit with Fox’s Tucker Carlson for exclusive interview During the interview, which will span two nights on Monday and Tuesday, Musk will “discuss the controversy surrounding artificial intelligence and how it could change the planet forever,” Fox said in its announcement. “He will also share the inside story on Twitter and the drastic changes he is making to the social media platform, as well as the future of Tesla and the latest SpaceX launch,” the network said. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...-foxs-tucker-carlson-for-exclusive-interview/
Just Musk screwing over public safety -- not allow weather alerts, police alerts, etc. Elon Musk just shut down potentially life-saving public safety Twitter accounts Twitter's new API rules just blocked numerous National Weather Service alert accounts and others from working. https://mashable.com/article/twitter-api-removal-public-safety-twitter-accounts
Elon just loves Russia and China. Elon Musk's Twitter is still making changes that weaken democracy and boost propaganda