Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of twitter...update.. will soon be the sole owner as Board of Directors accepts his purchase offer

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fskimospy

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Between ublock Origin and Minimal Twitter extensions, I'm still having a pretty pleasant experience.
As long as you like it I think that's great! For me it's gotten a worse primarily because several of the accounts I used to follow have either started posting a lot less or have left entirely.
 
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Ajay

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As long as you like it I think that's great! For me it's gotten a worse primarily because several of the accounts I used to follow have either started posting a lot less or have left entirely.
I only follow 45 accounts - everyone is still there. I don't follow politics or news outlets on Twitter. If I make the mistake of reading comments on those sorts of topics - I tent to blow my stack, so, nyet.
 

MrSquished

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This will clearly be the single worst business purchase in the history of the world at 44 billion dollars and it makes me happy that it happened to one of the shittiest people in the country.
 
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hal2kilo

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I don’t see this as a problem - it’s a feature of SpaceX’s development strategy. They iterate by testing in the real world.

Elon Musk is a world class piece of shit but SpaceX is doing good work.
Saturn Five had at least one of those, during development. Wondering if that retro turn move put too much lateral stress right at between the stages.
 

A///

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This will clearly be the single worst business purchase in the history of the world at 44 billion dollars and it makes me happy that it happened to one of the shittiest people in the country.
most agreeable.

I'd go further saying I hope his space x ventures become a money pit from now on with constant failures, even if it means we'll be held back as a species from visiting space further than orbit. I used to like elon years ago until he opened his fucking mouth.
 

Ajay

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most agreeable.

I'd go further saying I hope his space x ventures become a money pit from now on with constant failures, even if it means we'll be held back as a species from visiting space further than orbit. I used to like elon years ago until he opened his fucking mouth.
Uh, no. Don’t care what happens to Twitter. It can burn down for all I care. Tesla, SpaceX these are good for the US - Musk is just another rich dude with an ego the size of his bank account. Nothing new under the sun.
 
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A///

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Uh, no. Don’t care what happens to Twitter. It can burn down for all I care. Tesla, SpaceX these are good for the US - Musk is just another rich dude with an ego the size of his bank account. Nothing new under the sun.
it's only good if he's hands off and the lady who heads spacex keeps her control. once that asshole gets bored with twitter he'll begin fucking around with spacex.
 

Leeea

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Elon is about to level up to thunder wise and beautiful woman. Please stop with the Russian bogeyman?
I am beginning to suspect Musk has suffered a series of strokes. His mind is gone.


fentanyl

You think your just having a harmless high, and some one has added something a bit extra. And then it is just to late.


Who knows, Elon has gone off the deep end. I would feel bad for him, but then his wealth is built off an African slave mine. ( https://web.archive.org/web/2020081...sks-family-came-to-own-an-emerald-mine-2018-2 )
 
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MrSquished

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There is a #bantheblue campaign on twitter for users to block blue check users. their comments get pushed up higher on the list vs unverified users, and users with large accounts and large amounts of replies say their comments and replies are now dominated by the posts of morons and trolls vs productive replies.
 

Red Squirrel

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Twitter is even more unusable than before.

I think they're doing lot of changes in production since every now and then I will run into a glitch. About a week ago I couldn't reply to anything and it seems others were having that issue too, but it was fixed in a few hours. But overall it works fine other than those random incidents.

If you want to use an unusable site, check Facebook. :eek: Holy crap it's so glitchy and it keeps getting worse every time they do an update. I barely go on there anymore because of that. The feed is crap now anyway. Lots of garbage instead of stuff friends post.
 

VRAMdemon

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Accounts with over 1 million subscribers now automatically get a blue check for free.

This is so pathetic.


So ... in other words, we’re back to the same “lords and peasants” system Musk was complaining about when he bought the place? Gotta love this business model of getting people to subscribe to your service by giving it for free to people that don’t want it.

Hey ... Even some dead people got the blue check.

 

K1052

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When the launch of your big idea is going so well that you're repeatedly forcing the product on critics out of sheer spite.
 
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emperus

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I think they're doing lot of changes in production since every now and then I will run into a glitch. About a week ago I couldn't reply to anything and it seems others were having that issue too, but it was fixed in a few hours. But overall it works fine other than those random incidents.

If you want to use an unusable site, check Facebook. :eek: Holy crap it's so glitchy and it keeps getting worse every time they do an update. I barely go on there anymore because of that. The feed is crap now anyway. Lots of garbage instead of stuff friends post.
Unusable as in most of the posts I see now are junk.