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Death warrant? Maybe, but I expect companies (maybe not the EU, but - let’s be frank - probably the EU too) to go back into X as soon as they feel they are done cashing in this virtue signaling.
There were plenty of reasons to leave twitter before this idiotic tweet from Musk (reasons due to twitter’s action as a company, and not just Musk’s drunken posts) and they were all happily tweeting and advertising.
Is this drop that breaks the camel’s back? Maybe, but I wouldn’t be holding my breath.
My chips are also on them coming back, but at the same time it feels like Musk wants to make Twitter’s business harder than it needs to be.
This reaction doesn’t come from the last tweet itself, instead it comes from him not stopping with hot takes and not showing any signs of slowing down.
If he keeps going, I could see companies just accepting “it is what it is” and coming back, but at the same time it also feels like he’s one tweet away from going too far for most companies. And it’s not like Twitter is a strong social media anyway, they are not even in the top 10 social medias in terms of active users count: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/
Maybe these companies may also decide that dealing with Twitter is more trouble than it’s worth. But we’ll see
Well, that was certainly decisive.
I don’t think x’s value is from the number of users. It’s the type of powerful people on it and the headline style format the multiplies it’s impact across the information space. It still sucks though
“cashing in this virtue signaling”
Not wanting to be associated with the Great Replacement theory is “virtue signaling”
Tell me you’re a right wing shill without telling me you’re a right wing shill
He’s right. They don’t care about what’s on X as long as there isn’t negative publicity. It has nothing to do with being right-wing. If anything, it’s quite left-wing to believe that companies only care about the baseline.
“virtue signaling” is a right wing term by which statements of principle are dismissed.
That’s rubbish. It has nothing to do with right wing. Google, Apple, Coca Cola, Microsoft, and many other large companies have been accused of virtue signaling - rightfully so. They pretend to care about social issues for 2 seconds and then go right back to business once the news cycle is over. Is that a right-wing thing to do?
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I have very little faith in businesses to do the right thing for the right reasons. Publicly traded companies in the US literally can’t do that legally if they think it will hurt their bottom line.
X is a shit company that doesn’t need to exist anymore but I’m equally tired of companies virtue signaling behind causes. Like, fuck off, I don’t need you to tell me that you’re “invested” in “human rights” or “causes” when you treat your workers like shit and fail to provide your retail workers a minimum wage for example.
X and these other companies virtue signaling behind causes for profit/marketing goodwill can all go to hell.
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It would be amazing if there were any sort of consequences for this clown, or any other rich clown, honestly.
I think part of the reason bad behavior has been so normalized among the general populace is because they’re seeing such bad behavior from “the elites” that they “look up to” so they think that since those “rich, successful men” act like that without consequence, it must mean that behavior is okay.
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I don’t understand why anyone continues to use that platform, and this latest controversy isnt even strange compared to the others. What does it take for someone to stop using a platform that spreads hate?
Inertia. In the UK, for example, every local government council, the NHS, central government, charities etc use user Twitter//X as a free channel for announcements and publicity. Quite often they manage it though things like Hootsuite that lets the, plan and manage and cross-post to Facebook etc.
Deciding to quit that is quite a major step - especially when there isn’t really a clear single alternative that has similar reach and userbase.
Except that they’ve ruined that too. You now need an account to view anything, so the reach of announcements is greatly diminished.
At this point leaving shouldn’t really be too difficult, since a large portion of your audience already has; because they’ve been shut out, or have quit voluntarily.
And now we’re living in the “that was a bad idea” world.
Many who remain actively want to spread hate
So the radical free speech guy is going to sue someone for what they said? Sounds spot on for Musk.
Wait, I don’t see that in the article. Who’s he suing now?
How cheap does X have to get before it can be bought by a non-profit, turned into a co-op and renamed twitter?
and then federate with Mastodon?
It’s no longer a public company. So it can be bought when Musk chooses to sell. Or if he defaults on his loan then it may go to banks but they really don’t want it and have already written off their loan to him.
Why exactly do normal people with small defaults have ‘collection agents’ sent after them, while billion dollar defaults are written off? Isn’t that supposed to be the other way around?
We can only hope
Musk only buys things that he thinks will keep his name in the news, and he’s always looking for that next bong-hit of attention.
Nobody likes him. Nobody cares about him. And he makes it so obvious WHY with his racist, apartheid bullsh*t.
We’ve yet to see any regulatory actions with real consequences, so yeah I doubt it.
did people stop deadnaming twitter
Right? Twitter hasn’t stopped dead naming Twitter, for fuck’s sake
Good. I hope it goes under.
How would that happen?
It can’t afford its debt. It’s almost guaranteed to happen.
I read about where the money came from and I’m not saying I really understand it, but it seems solid enough for it to never fail unless musk wants it to fail.
Which is, like,…if somebody wants to destroy twitter as fast as possible, but make it look like it’s not intentional, what would they do differently than what is happening right now? :) Jk, musk is just an incompetent bag of shit.
The money used to come from advertisers. Elon has been trying to move it to a subscription model, but few people want to subscribe to a place only right wingers want to be.
Elon wanted Xitter to be a bastion of right wing speech. He just didn’t think about what that would entail.
Haven’t people been saying that since before he even bought it?
Knew he was good for something
Can we please stop posting business news here
Someone of such resource certainly likes to carry and bang an empty pail.
