Twitter 2.0

[Herman Cain]

Under new management

[Uncle Rico]

Is there still a block feature?  A feature to mute words or accounts?  If so, well, business as usual.  I'm sure some nutjob accounts will get reinstated and some current nutjob accounts will remain but you control your feed, like you do on most social media platforms.  Your choice how you use them or if you use them 🤷🏼‍♂️

[MU82]

"Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences!"

-- Elon Musk, owner of Twitter and Tesla ... and a hater of freedom of speech?

[withoutbias]

Under new management

This thread should go well.

"Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences!"

-- Elon Musk, owner of Twitter and Tesla ... and a hater of freedom of speech?

Hey look, it's going great!

[The Sultan]

Is there still a block feature?  A feature to mute words or accounts?  If so, well, business as usual.  I'm sure some nutjob accounts will get reinstated and some current nutjob accounts will remain but you control your feed, like you do on most social media platforms.  Your choice how you use them or if you use them 🤷🏼‍♂️

My guess is that you will see more advertising. He has to monetize it better somehow.

[Uncle Rico]

My guess is that you will see more advertising. He has to monetize it better somehow.

The ads are pretty bad right now. 

I've read he wants to add some video chat features like WeChat has.  I'm sure there will be some things people hate and like.  That's the nature of things.

Also, 3.5 pages O/U before this gets locked

[MUBurrow]

Elon Musk, like, a couple weeks from now probably - "No no I said de facto town square. The de facto means I can still moderate it however I want."

[MU82]

The ads are pretty bad right now. 

I've read he wants to add some video chat features like WeChat has.  I'm sure there will be some things people hate and like.  That's the nature of things.

Also, 3.5 pages O/U before this gets locked

I like you, Unk. You're an optimist!

[withoutbias]

Truth Social is where I'll be.

[jficke13]

I bet he tries to drive the ad business somehow. Spins and sells data to companies like Palantir in ways that nobody really notices but that is probably generally kinda bad unless you like police states. Adds a big loud feature or two that are generally harmless but that the weird internet nerds that love Elon will say is transformative and everyone else will say is asinine and ignore, and otherwise stay hands off. He's leveraged to buy a thing that he paid way too much to buy. He doesn't want Goldman and company making him hurt, so he's not gonna drive this thing into the ground.

Besides, this will be his shiny new toy for about 6 months and then he'll get distracted and do something else. He doesn't want to run a social media company, come on.

[rocky_warrior]

Haven't really cared about twitter...ever.  Probably not gonna start.

[Uncle Rico]

I bet he tries to drive the ad business somehow. Spins and sells data to companies like Palantir in ways that nobody really notices but that is probably generally kinda bad unless you like police states. Adds a big loud feature or two that are generally harmless but that the weird internet nerds that love Elon will say is transformative and everyone else will say is asinine and ignore, and otherwise stay hands off. He's leveraged to buy a thing that he paid way too much to buy. He doesn't want Goldman and company making him hurt, so he's not gonna drive this thing into the ground.

Besides, this will be his shiny new toy for about 6 months and then he'll get distracted and do something else. He doesn't want to run a social media company, come on.

This is a feasible outcome

[MU82]

I bet he tries to drive the ad business somehow. Spins and sells data to companies like Palantir in ways that nobody really notices but that is probably generally kinda bad unless you like police states. Adds a big loud feature or two that are generally harmless but that the weird internet nerds that love Elon will say is transformative and everyone else will say is asinine and ignore, and otherwise stay hands off. He's leveraged to buy a thing that he paid way too much to buy. He doesn't want Goldman and company making him hurt, so he's not gonna drive this thing into the ground.

Besides, this will be his shiny new toy for about 6 months and then he'll get distracted and do something else. He doesn't want to run a social media company, come on.

One of the best takes on this that I've seen.

[Jockey]

This thread should go well.

Hey look, it's going great!

Yes it will get locked.

Also yes that what the owner of Twitter says is relevant in a thread about Twitter.

[Boozemon Barro]

Hopefully the top priority is to ban all K-pop content.

[muwarrior69]

Haven't really cared about twitter...ever.  Probably not gonna start.

So you don't follow the MU basketball twitter account?

[rocky_warrior]

So you don't follow the MU basketball twitter account?

No.  Not sure I could have been more clear.

[JWags85]

No.  Not sure I could have been more clear.

So you don't follow Paint Touches either?

[rocky_warrior]

So you don't follow Paint Touches either?

Who? On what? 

[Skatastrophy]

Anything of importance to MUBB gets posted here eventually. I appreciate you brave twitter users for curating the loads of crap into something consumable for us all.

[Uncle Rico]

Who? On what? 

You'd probably get blocked if you followed Anonymous Eagle

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Jack launching a competitor to Twitter.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/twitter-founder-jack-dorsey-web3-social-network

Ooooooo, Elon gunna be mad at his bro!

Will Jack pay any more attention to Bluesky than he did to Twitter?

[TallTitan34]

Haven't really cared about twitter...ever.  Probably not gonna start.

I hear http://www.twitter.com/muoverload is a good place to start.

[JWags85]

Jack launching a competitor to Twitter.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/twitter-founder-jack-dorsey-web3-social-network

Ooooooo, Elon gunna be mad at his bro!

Will Jack pay any more attention to Bluesky than he did to Twitter?

No.  He'll continue trying to do too many things, while running Block, and spread himself too thin.  All while being a weirdo who only eats 7 meals a week and meditates for hours a day.

[forgetful]

No.  He'll continue trying to do too many things, while running Block, and spread himself too thin.  All while being a weirdo who only eats 7 meals a week and meditates for hours a day.

Somehow this glowing endorsement somehow still makes him sound more sane, rational, and intelligent than Musk.