Now that Elon will own twitter on Friday or Monday..

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In reply to chazzed • 2:36p, 6/5/23
chazzed said:
I'll let you look that up. Anyway, between Musk's recent clam that the company is nearly breaking even and you asking the relevant questions, Twitter's future looks rosy. I'm sure the company will be viable and respected for years to come.


Musk claimed in March that he cut non-debt expenditures 3 billion dollars.
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In reply to oski003 • 8:01a, 6/6/23
Elon makes a lot of claims. Occasionally they end up being true. Other times, not so true.

What does your Elon Fanboy Decoder Ring tell you about this one?
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- (maybe) Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain
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8:13a, 6/6/23
He cut personnel by 80%, this is definitely going to mitigate the politically-motivated reduction in ad sales.

The amount of HR fat in that organization before Musk came in must have been staggering, that's not an uncommon situation among large well-funded internet leaders.

Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Near Profit After 80% Staff Cuts.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/elon-musk-twitter-tesla-cuts-profit-532dc0e3
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In reply to chazzed • 11:18a, 6/6/23
chazzed said:
Twitter's U.S. Ad Sales Down 59% Despite Musk's 'Breaking Even' Claims, Report Says:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/06/05/twitters-us-ad-sales-down-59-despite-musks-breaking-even-claims-report-says/
Even worse, he lost all that sweet sweet money from the government from running their censorship operations
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In reply to Cal88 • 11:19a, 6/6/23
Good news for Twitter. Unfortunately they're tied into long-term contracts for servers (expensive), and the government tentacles are complex.

Dorsey couldn't even cut 10%.
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In reply to Goldener Bar • 11:21a, 6/6/23
The departments involved, personnel, and wasted time is mind boggling.
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12:59p, 6/7/23
That's the difference between Twitter today and Zuckerborg's Insta/FB platforms:

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In reply to AunBear89 • 1:19p, 6/7/23
AunBear89 said:
Elon makes a lot of claims. Occasionally they end up being true. Other times, not so true.

What does your Elon Fanboy Decoder Ring tell you about this one?
Like the government censorship claims and twitter files?




Right before he censored substack and had a falling out with his fellow sufferers of the anti-woke mind virus.

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In reply to Unit2Sucks • 4:00p, 6/7/23
Unit2Sucks said:
AunBear89 said:
Elon makes a lot of claims. Occasionally they end up being true. Other times, not so true.

What does your Elon Fanboy Decoder Ring tell you about this one?
Like the government censorship claims and twitter files?




Right before he censored substack and had a falling out with his fellow sufferers of the anti-woke mind virus.

Hey, it FEELS to them like Twitter was censoring MAGA, Vaxxine conspiracy "facts" and the "truth" about the war in Ukraine, so it must have been government censorship.

Of course, it was happening under Trump's watch too, but let's not get caught up in trivial details.
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In reply to Eastern Oregon Bear • 4:32p, 6/7/23
Did anyone ever say it didn't happen under Trump's presidency?

The levers of the DOJ, FBI, CIA, State Department, ODNI and NSA are now largely Progressive idealogues. Its a Deep State Swamp. Former sharp DOJ attorney ShipwreckedCrew says the dept was non partisan before Holder (Obama) hired staunch partisans.
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In reply to movielover • 4:40p, 6/7/23
movielover said:
Did anyone ever say it didn't happen under Trump's presidency?

The levers of the DOJ, FBI, CIA, State Department, ODNI and NSA are now largely Progressive idealogues. Its a Deep State Swamp. Former sharp DOJ attorney ShipwreckedCrew says the dept was non partisan before Holder (Obama) hired staunch partisans.
I've never heard of the Honorable Mr. ShipwreckedCrew, Esq. I can't find him in the bar records either. Are you sure he's real and not another BS artist with a cheaply purchased blue check mark?
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In reply to Eastern Oregon Bear • 4:52p, 6/7/23
I believe his name is Bill Shipley, he's had some good J6 "wins". UCLA undergrad.

https://hawaiifederalcriminaldefense.com/about/
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In reply to Unit2Sucks • 11:48p, 6/10/23
Unit2Sucks said:
AunBear89 said:
Elon makes a lot of claims. Occasionally they end up being true. Other times, not so true.

What does your Elon Fanboy Decoder Ring tell you about this one?
Like the government censorship claims and twitter files?




Right before he censored substack and had a falling out with his fellow sufferers of the anti-woke mind virus.


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In reply to Unit2Sucks • 12:54p, 6/12/23
Unit2Sucks said:
AunBear89 said:
Elon makes a lot of claims. Occasionally they end up being true. Other times, not so true.

What does your Elon Fanboy Decoder Ring tell you about this one?
Like the government censorship claims and twitter files?




Right before he censored substack and had a falling out with his fellow sufferers of the anti-woke mind virus.

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In reply to Goldener Bar • 12:57p, 6/12/23
Rather convenient. Take the $$$ and run.
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8:15p, 6/19/23
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In reply to chazzed • 8:36p, 6/19/23
Literally anybody can listen to RFK Jr, he says what he says with studies and facts, he also says he's willing to admit he's wrong because there is no "THE SCIENCE". It's constantly changing with knowledge. He'll also debate anybody. So not sure what you think you're accomplishing here.
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8:45p, 6/19/23
This is the Twitter header of this Karl Bode character, definitely not a cultural ret@rd.


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In reply to James Patmont • 5:16p, 6/29/23
U And An Actual Crane said:
MinotStateBeav said:
Rep. Jeffries and Rep. Nadler were involved in sending threat of Prison to Matt Taibbi over an acronym mistake about CISA and CIS which turned out to not be a mistake at all via Mehdi Hassan trying to gotcha Taibbi and they used House Rep. Stacy Plaskett to send the threat. Long story short..our government is trying to arrest journalists for acronym mistakes. When's the last time they threatened arrest of a an american journalist? Does this actually concern any of you dems or are you just going to party line this?

They probably should block Plaskett (D-VI) from voting on anything until this gets fully investigated.
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In reply to Eastern Oregon Bear • 5:19p, 6/29/23
Eastern Oregon Bear said:
U And An Actual Crane said:
MinotStateBeav said:
Rep. Jeffries and Rep. Nadler were involved in sending threat of Prison to Matt Taibbi over an acronym mistake about CISA and CIS which turned out to not be a mistake at all via Mehdi Hassan trying to gotcha Taibbi and they used House Rep. Stacy Plaskett to send the threat. Long story short..our government is trying to arrest journalists for acronym mistakes. When's the last time they threatened arrest of a an american journalist? Does this actually concern any of you dems or are you just going to party line this?

They probably should block Plaskett (D-VI) from voting on anything until this gets fully investigated.
Yikes.
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In reply to okaydo • 12:33p, 7/1/23
Does Brian Steinberg still hate Musk but can't stop using his Twitter?
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In reply to okaydo • 12:53p, 7/1/23
okaydo said:

Our office twitter account, which is verified, is still unusable. I'm not sure how we would have accessed 6000 tweets, though we do retweet stuff from other accounts. So, we (or any of our other offices around the country) can't use Twitter to get messages out to the public.

It seems exceptionally foolish to implement a major change like this on the Saturday of a holiday weekend without any advance notice. If this new policy holds, I imagine we will work out some way to limit our reading of tweets, but it won't happen until after July 4th.
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1:13p, 7/1/23
Tell me, is it a smart business model for Twitter to prevent people from using Twitter? Asking for a friend.
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2:37p, 7/1/23
They've fired 80% of your workforce and we've barely noticed. It's not like other platforms don't have downtime.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043211171/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-outage-business-impact
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In reply to BearHunter • 2:54p, 7/1/23
BearHunter said:
Does Brian Steinberg still hate Musk but can't stop using his Twitter?

He's a longtime journalist who covers media, TV and advertising. He's known Twitters new CEO for years. He isn't some anti-Musk rando.
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In reply to Cal88 • 2:58p, 7/1/23
Cal88 said:
They've fired 80% of your workforce and we've barely noticed. It's not like other platforms don't have downtime.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043211171/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-outage-business-impact

Outages are one thing, deliberate policy decisions to restrict all use are quite another.

Your support of wealthy bosses firing workers is noted, though.
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3:20p, 7/1/23
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They've fired 80% of your workforce and we've barely noticed. It's not like other platforms don't have downtime.
Hopefully, Musk fired the FBI.
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In reply to sycasey • 3:26p, 7/1/23
sycasey said:
Tell me, is it a smart business model for Twitter to prevent people from using Twitter? Asking for a friend.


Twitter is doing just fine but if problems continue to persist, there are other options like Gettr and Truth Social.
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3:27p, 7/1/23

I can't read tweets any more. That's not a big deal to me but what is the policy change? I missed that if it was discussed here.

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In reply to sycasey • 3:54p, 7/1/23
sycasey said:
Cal88 said:
They've fired 80% of your workforce and we've barely noticed. It's not like other platforms don't have downtime.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043211171/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-outage-business-impact

Outages are one thing, deliberate policy decisions to restrict all use are quite another.

Your support of wealthy bosses firing workers is noted, though.

Please don't report me to the Central Committee comrade, I will buy several cases of Bud Light.
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4:19p, 7/1/23
It looks like Musk has actually blocked AI-driven scraping by the alphabet agencies, which they use in order to censor and throttle millions of tweets and accounts. Benz asserts that Musk is destroying the "censorship death star".

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In reply to Cal88 • 4:53p, 7/1/23
Cal88 said:
It looks like Musk has actually blocked AI-driven scraping by the alphabet agencies, which they use in order to censor and throttle millions of tweets and accounts. Benz asserts that Musk is destroying the "censorship death star".

How do outside agencies "censor and throttle millions of tweets and accounts" without the assistance of Twitter?
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In reply to Cal88 • 4:59p, 7/1/23
Scraping included to help start new sites being developed by FakeBook and Dorsey?
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