Topic: One Man's Mission to X $44 billion Goodbye

[Rob K]

https://mashable.com/article/thread-people-you-follow-feed

Convoluted and not chronological, but at least you can do it.

Smashing, ta 👍

[WhereAngelsPlay]

Massively. Zuck will be using it to generate data to train the Meta AI too. I see Musk is threatening to sue, which he should. It's criminal they keep stealing from other apps the way they did with Snapchat for Instagram.

Musk can get to fuck, sue   

Like he bought the rights to all social media when he showed his arse to the Saudis.

(I say this as a non user)

[TepidT2O]

Massively. Zuck will be using it to generate data to train the Meta AI too. I see Musk is threatening to sue, which he should. It's criminal they keep stealing from other apps the way they did with Snapchat for Instagram.

im not sure I believe that letter.

It doesn’t read like a lawyers written it.

I’d wait until it’s actuary confirmed

Edit: scratch that, Musk has pretty much confirmed it in his replies

Incredibly stupid

[GreatEx]

You guys who are signing up to Threads deserve Brexit, there I said it.

[LiamG]

The fact they aren't launching in the EU should be setting off alarm bells.

it was only ever all about data harvesting

[BarryCrocker]

it was only ever all about data harvesting

As of 5 hours ago they had 55m new users to get that from. If they get around to resolve the EU issues they'll literally turn Twitter into a modern day MySpace.

[thejbs]

im not sure I believe that letter.

It doesn’t read like a lawyers written it.

I’d wait until it’s actuary confirmed

Edit: scratch that, Musk has pretty much confirmed it in his replies

Incredibly stupid

Surprised it contained no memes or poop emojis.

I’ve actually been using Twitter more in the past 24 hours. The fallout is hilarious - weird Elon nerds are so enraged and defiant. Total Everton vibes at the minute.

Also noticed man city have more threads followers than us or Utd, so it would seem bots have migrated too.

[Jiminy Cricket]

im not sure I believe that letter.

Does anyone have a link to a copy of the letter. All I can find are various truncated quotes.

[Trada]

For me personally Threads really needs a people you are following tab that where you build up your community knowing that accounts they repost or reply would be more than likely be someone you should follow.

With just the one thread to much stuff I have no interest in and you can't escape it.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

For me personally Threads really needs a people you are following tab that where you build up your community knowing that accounts they repost or reply would be more than likely be someone you should follow.

With just the one thread to much stuff I have no interest in and you can't escape it.

I'm sure they have all the updates ready to go, it's great that that twat is having a fit, x-corp ? what a twat.

[Red Beret]

Apparently, Musk is suing the law firm that successfully stopped him walking away from his twitter takeover

[Jiminy Cricket]

Apparently, Musk is suing the law firm that successfully stopped him walking away from his twitter takeover

https://fortune.com/2023/07/07/elon-musk-sues-law-firm-that-led-fight-to-make-him-complete-twitter-takeover-and-charged-90-million/

[Samie]

Look like the "Rate Limit" bullshit is coming back again.   

Users have reported same issues like previosly.

[SamLad]

sorry Mr Musk - what's that?  you've fucked Twitter good and proper, and lied about its financial health??

Elon Musk disclosed on Twitter Saturday that, due to a 50% drop in advertising revenue and a “heavy debt load,” the platform still has a negative cash flow.

The billionaire owner tweeted Saturday, in response to business advice from a follower, “Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else.”

The tweet is in stark contrast to his tone in April, when Musk told the BBC the platform is now “roughly breaking even” and that most of its advertisers have returned.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/business/twitter-cash-flow-elon-musk/index.html

[WhereAngelsPlay]

I hope the bastard sinks it.

[SamLad]

I hope the bastard sinks it.

wash your mouth out.  the man is a genius!!!

[Red Beret]

It's already sinking. Twittertanic hit a Musk shaped iceberg on April 14 2022. It's just a question of when.


*and yes, I know the takeover went through in the October, but the process started in the April.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

This is the most Musk thing he has ever done,the racist c*nt that he is.

Twitter 'ghosted' Africa employees without severance pay or benefits: report

Employees of Twitter Africa who were laid off after cost-cutting measures went into effect after Elon Musk took over the platform have not received any severance pay over seven months, CNN reported.

“They literally ghosted us,” one former Twitter Africa employee said. “Although Twitter has eventually settled former staff in other locations, Africa staff have still been left in the lurch despite us eventually agreeing to specific negotiated terms.”

The employees, who were based in the Ghanaian capital Accra, reluctantly accepted an offer of three months' severance pay without benefits.

“Twitter was non-responsive until we agreed to the three months because we were all so stressed and exhausted and tired of the uncertainty, reluctant to take on the extra burdens of a court case so we felt we had no choice but to settle,” another former employee told CNN.

When CNN reached out to Twitter for comment, it received an automated response in the form of a poop emoji -- which Musk tweeted in March would be the standard response to all press inquiries.

“Unfortunately, it appears that after having unethically implemented their terminations in violation of their own promises and Ghana’s laws, dragging the negotiation process out for over half a year, now that we have come to the point of almost settlement, there has been complete silence from them for several weeks,” said Carla Olympio, who is an attorney who is representing the former employees.

[SamLad]

This is the most Musk thing he has ever done,the racist c*nt that he is.

and he doesn't even try to hide it any more.

[TepidT2O]

Twitter is no more….

He’s changing the name to something with an X in it…

That will sort it….sigh

[SamLad]

Or is it just the letter X?

[Zlen]

That’s the end of it really. Once the brand is gone - it will disintegrate much like Musk’s image.

[Chakan]

Fucking hell he can seriously write a book on how to kill and investment.

[Trada]

[WhereAngelsPlay]

[Samie]

In 40 minutes it's going to be called X. 


This platform is finished. 

[Schmidt]

Can't wait to send some xeets.

[Chakan]

[Samie]

By the way its' not called tweets any more but called "An X". 

[Flaccido Dongingo]

Musk has lost the plot, isn't he pegged as some kind of visionary?, when in reality all of his endeavours were funded using his fathers wealth from mining emeralds in Apartheid South Africa, what a lovely family they must be.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

Musk has lost the plot, isn't he pegged as some kind of visionary?, when in reality all of his endeavours were funded using his fathers wealth from mining emeralds in Apartheid South Africa, what a lovely family they must be.

Saudi money paid for twitter.

[Sheer Magnetism]

Musk has lost the plot, isn't he pegged as some kind of visionary?, when in reality all of his endeavours were funded using his fathers wealth from mining emeralds in Apartheid South Africa, what a lovely family they must be.

Musk is someone who's brilliant at running hardware-based companies while being completely incapable of running a social platform like Twitter, particularly now his ego (and possibly his drug use) has skyrocketed out of control. The flattering appearances in shows like the Simpsons and Rick and Morty seem a long way away, it feels like he's going through the longest midlife crisis in history.

Say what you want about Zuckerberg, but at least he had the intelligence and self control to go by the data and get other smart people to handle the nuts and bolts of his social media platforms. The last time he went with his gut was the metaverse idea and it lost the company billions.

[Jiminy Cricket]

I can't help but feel that he will turn around and claim, 'it was joke and you all fell for it'. This was was my view yesterday - and it could still turn out that way (even if it is a false face-saving claim to provide him with an 'out' to reverse course). Irrespective, if he has really rebranded Twitter as 'X', he's a fucking idiot. If it turns out to be some kind of (claimed) joke, he's fucking idiot. In short, he's fucking idiot.

[Trada]

The bird has now gone, replaced with the X.

Nothing else seems to have changed.

Oddly the bird is gone if you log in, in a browser but the bird is still there on the App

[[new username under construction]]

Good design choice that. Doesn't look anything like the close window x

[Elmo!]

Annoyingly they seem to have "fixed" the For You tab for me. For ages it hasn't worked and just showed the exact same as the Following tab, which is great for me as I have no interest in tweets from random people I don't follow being inserted into my feed and meant I didn't have to keep switching back to Following every time I opened the app. Now its full of random shite tweets again.

[I've been a good boy]

The app has gone to shit anyway, every five tweets is followed by an ad. He's no visionary, he's a c*nt.

[Schmidt]

It has to be a joke, literally nothing has changed apart from the logo!

[Musketeer Gripweed]

By the way its' not called tweets any more but called "An X". 

Like Crimea?

[In the Name of Klopp]

here I'm thinking he's only changing the name so he can claim that he "founded" Twitter/X in a few years time. That's what the fraud is good at.