The Twitter thread

[Mars]

@Mars don't worry, the new Threads app has taken off like a rocket and is giving TwitterX a kicking.

Threads has been created as a competitor by Meta, the company behind the Warm&Cuddly(tm) Facebook, bless.

ahhh, nice to know, I hope he gets a licking. Mind you, you won't see me on either twitter or FB, I just do not like the man, therefore happy to hear he gets a good old kick in the behind.

 

[Tiffany]

@aussiefooty

@Mars, you made me laugh.

@Retro Thanks for the update that Threads is kicking twitterX.

I didn't like the way "X" did business with one of their member who actually had the @X for their twitter handle for years. I did see the member took it well and seems to be a good guy, but wow. Just took it away, no sorry or nothing.

Twitter abruptly took the @x username from the guy who originally had it. Read the email he was sent offering an 'exclusive visit' to Elon Musk's rebranded X HQ.

Gene X Hwang, a photographer who held the @x username on Twitter, said he'd prefer merch with the original bird-logo branding — not the X rebranding.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Geffers]

This really should be merged with the main Twitter thread, to keep the discussion neatly in one place, but I don't wanna rain on your parade so perhaps will leave it like this. Waddya think, @Geffers?

The Twitter thread

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the scandals just keep on coming and it's not gonna get any better. I therefore think it's now time to have a general discussion thread about Twitter. You know how Musk claims to be all for free speech and has reinstated Trump among other unsavoury figures in...

nerdzone.uk

Yes Retro, by all means merge the thread.

Geffers

 

[Retro]

Thanks @Geffers will do.

 

[Retro]

Now, this is funny lol.

Giant glowing ‘X’ sign atop Twitter office in San Francisco removed

The city building department had logged 24 complaints after the new logo went up, with neighbors upset over its intrusive lights

www.theguardian.com

 

[Retro]

This ridiculous fight is still on, apparently.

Zuckerberg 'not holding breath' over Musk cage fight

The tech billionaires have also been going head to head over their rival platforms, X and Threads.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Geffers]

This ridiculous fight is still on, apparently.

Zuckerberg 'not holding breath' over Musk cage fight

The tech billionaires have also been going head to head over their rival platforms, X and Threads.

www.bbc.co.uk

Two businessmen raising awareness of their organisations.

Bit like the old Ali Frazier fights. Mind you, they did go at it hammer and tongs.

Geffers

 

[aussiefooty]

Which app's better? Threads or twitter?

I use both. I'd say threads is better just by a bees dick!

 

[Retro]

The rats are abandoning the sinking ship. Musk has really ruined Twitter.

The ABC is shutting down almost all of its official accounts on Twitter – now known as X under Elon Musk’s ownership – citing “toxic interactions”, cost and better interaction with ABC content on other social media platforms.

There will only be four remaining official accounts for Australia’s public broadcaster: @abcnews, @abcsport, @abcchinese and the master @abcaustralia account. ABC Chinese reaches Chinese-speaking audiences on X.

“Starting from today, other ABC accounts will be discontinued,” the ABC managing director, David Anderson, has told staff.

ABC exiting Twitter: Australia’s national broadcaster shuts down almost all accounts on Elon Musk’s X

The public broadcaster says interactions on the platform are ‘toxic’ as it closes almost all its Twitter accounts

uk.yahoo.com

 

[Retro]

Looks like Zuckerberg and Musk wanna beat each other up in Italy for charity.

Italy could host Musk v Zuckerberg cage fight

The culture minister says he has spoken to the X boss about hosting the showdown as a charity event.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Tiffany]

Looks like Zuckerberg and Musk wanna beat each other up in Italy for charity.

Italy could host Musk v Zuckerberg cage fight

The culture minister says he has spoken to the X boss about hosting the showdown as a charity event.

www.bbc.co.uk

It's a mistake for both of them to do this; but obviously for charity so I'd say "fighter's ready" and duke it out. Musk is clearly out of shape, and Zuck has an amateur understanding of jiu jitsu. I'm envisioning The Way of the Dragon effect in Italy, but neither are Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris, but the landscape will be nice. I read Dana White is involved, so maybe there's a cooler head in the room to make this right so the rules prevent either of them to cause harm, but I would predict it's going to be like two girls slapping each other with wide swiping swings instead of pro tight spring back punches, a few falls and if one takes the other to ground, it won't last long with a tap-out pretty immediate. I'm looking forward to the inevitable stare down after they make weight....oh wait a minute, neither will make weight and aren't even matched up right with weight in mind. Naw, I'll watch the Ultimate Fighter instead....which is real MMA.

 

[Retro]

I think it will be an embarrassment to watch, in that entertaining way. I'm not gonna pay for the privilege though, even if it's ostensibly for charity. I never quite trust these things and I bet it will cost top dollar.

 

[Tiffany]

I wouldn't pay for it either. This is a stunt not worth watching. I don't like Zuck and Musk's motives in anything keeps me on guard.

 

[Crims]

I'm undecided on whether it's a good thing that Twitter is being treated with the level of respect imho it should've had at the beginning. News will probably be reposted by Twitter users anyway as it's influential.

 

[Retro]

This is getting totally ridiculous.

Zuckerberg says Musk 'not serious' about cage fight

Doubt hangs over the billionaires' fight plans, but Musk suggests he is open to a bout on Monday.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Tiffany]

This is getting totally ridiculous.

Zuckerberg says Musk 'not serious' about cage fight

Doubt hangs over the billionaires' fight plans, but Musk suggests he is open to a bout on Monday.

www.bbc.co.uk

Musk is not fit, his weight is the only thing he has going for him against Zuck, IMHO.

This reminds me of how celebrities act like they hate each other (eg. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope) but in real life have a friendship of some sort but they keep themselves in the news media over their verbal brawls.

Musk still talking about neck surgery....I agree, I don't think he's serious either. This appears as just a social media stunt.

Elon Musk bragged about lifting '45 lb weights' on Friday. Now he says he has to get an MRI on his neck and back and may need surgery before his cage match with Zuck.

The billionaire previously touted the training he's gone through for the fight, ranging from workouts with a UFC fighter and "a kettle bell workout."

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Tiffany]

I'm undecided on whether it's a good thing that Twitter is being treated with the level of respect imho it should've had at the beginning. News will probably be reposted by Twitter users anyway as it's influential.

Influential, agree, for the purpose of being "the other platform" now.

 

[Retro]

Now Musk removes a critical feature. Funny how every change he makes to Twitter is a bad one, isn't it?

Twitter, now X, to remove blocking feature - Musk

Elon Musk says the feature "makes no sense", but users are concerned about protection from abuse.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Tiffany]

Now Musk removes a critical feature. Funny how every change he makes to Twitter is a bad one, isn't it?

Twitter, now X, to remove blocking feature - Musk

Elon Musk says the feature "makes no sense", but users are concerned about protection from abuse.

www.bbc.co.uk

I think that removing "blocking" is insane. Sometimes there are creepy people you just don't want to have access to you.

The X boss said users will still be able to block people from directly messaging them, however.
But many people on social media said it will make it hard for people to remove abusive posts from their timeline.

 

[Retro]

Insane - exactly, Tiffs.

 

[Tiffany]

Musk is now blocking the people complaining about blocking. Good grief!

MSN

"Pretty fun blocking people who complain that blocking is going away," Musk wrote. "How does the medicine taste?"

 

[Retro]

Yet another screwup from Musk:

Elon Musk, the owner of X – the company formerly known as Twitter – said on Saturday that the social media platform “may fail” as a new glitch wiped out most pictures tweeted before December 2014.

“The sad truth is that there are no great ‘social networks’ right now. We may fail, as so many have predicted, but we will try our best to make there be at least one,” Mr Musk posted on X.

Oh dear.

Musk admits X may be doomed to fail as new glitch wipes out pictures from former Twitter platform

Glitch comes after Mr Musk’s X slowed down access to the sites of rival social media platforms

uk.finance.yahoo.com

 

[Mars]

Yet another screwup from Musk:



Oh dear.

Musk admits X may be doomed to fail as new glitch wipes out pictures from former Twitter platform

Glitch comes after Mr Musk’s X slowed down access to the sites of rival social media platforms

uk.finance.yahoo.com

Good. He deserves to fail.

 

[Retro]

Musk is slowly killing Twitter, not least because of that stupid rebrand to X. Hopefully, he'll eventually be forced to sell it and someone that knows what they're doing will reverse those changes and bring it back to its former glory. Here's hoping, anyway.

Elon Musk wrote within hours of buying Twitter that he “didn’t do it because it would be easy”.

That statement has proven to be one of the few certainties about his ownership of the influential social media platform, which has tipped the business into a state of constant flux, with advertisers slashing spending, user numbers down, regulators circling and the staff at less than 50% of what it used to be.

‘Let that sink in!’ The 13 tweets that tell the story of Elon Musk’s turbulent first year at Twitter (or X)
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From dumping a world-renowned brand to attempting to overhaul the company’s business model, Musk has changed Twitter more in the past year than any other executive in the 16 years prior.

‘Musk destroyed all that’: Twitter’s business is flailing after a year of Elon

Advertisers are spending less, regulators are circling, staff is at less than 50% of what it used to be and user numbers are down

www.theguardian.com

 

[Tiffany]

Yet another screwup from Musk:



Oh dear.

Musk admits X may be doomed to fail as new glitch wipes out pictures from former Twitter platform

Glitch comes after Mr Musk’s X slowed down access to the sites of rival social media platforms

uk.finance.yahoo.com

How does that even happen...the brightest of the brightest, serious IT and dev's and experienced techs. Good grief! Wth?

Good. He deserves to fail.

Agreed, ya don't mess with the mojo.

Musk is slowly killing Twitter, not least because of that stupid rebrand to X. Hopefully, he'll eventually be forced to sell it and someone that knows what they're doing will reverse those changes and bring it back to its former glory. Here's hoping, anyway.

‘Musk destroyed all that’: Twitter’s business is flailing after a year of Elon

Advertisers are spending less, regulators are circling, staff is at less than 50% of what it used to be and user numbers are down

www.theguardian.com

If it will ever recover, Twitter (not calling it X) needs Musk out of it and not even that Linda Yaccarion he appointed as CEO can fix it. She's just as much kryptonite as Musk in my humble opinion.

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