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Minor Deity |
It’s all over the news. Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter out and take it private has been accepted by Twitter’s Board. Valuation comes out to around $42+ Billion. 
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity  |
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Truth Social stock tanked. Actually Digital World Acquisition Corp stock, but that’s a nit. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/2...olatile-trading.html
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
I don’t use/read Twitter all that often, but this (musk’s purchase) seems like very bad news. Although maybe twitter’s already bad enough that it won’t change much? Thoughts?
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Beatification Candidate |
Yet to be seen... Interesting piece on NPR yesterday where the panelists thought that limiting content (fact checking) wasn't the solution, what would really make a difference would be: 1. tweaking the platforms to limit sharing/retweeting without at least a copy/paste. 2. Eliminate unknown members - even if the public only saw avatars, make sure the platform could link an avatar back to a real person in a specific country. There were a couple of other simple steps that would change the power of the noise machines. Essentially the data shows that social media discusion is dominated by: 1. A small chunk from the extreme Right and extreme Left - predominantly white and wealthy on both sides 2. Trolls - those that enjoy making trouble 3. International (mostly Russian) political troublemakers. So instead of giving everyone a voice, the structure has created a place where the above three have an oversized voice and the rest of us have less influence.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?
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I wonder if he will boot off that kid who keeps track of his jet.
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From Andy Borowitz: Musk Deletes Every Twitter Account but His In an official statement, Musk said that he deleted everyone else’s accounts to address “the No. 1 problem plaguing Twitter: the relentless flood of voices inferior to mine.”
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Some deal details: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04...n-fee-on-both-sides/
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