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1-Jul-23 10:30

Twitter is such a mess. Dead | X|

"Rate limit exceeded"

Elon Musk is a real brain genius.

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fgs19631-Jul-23 12:02

1-Jul-23 12:02

Go outside - take a walk. Maybe read a book… D'Oh! | :doh:

You know… things people have been doing for centuries to entertain themselves.

honey the codewitch1-Jul-23 12:55

1-Jul-23 12:55

I don't even use twitter. I just enjoy schadenfreude.

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fgs19631-Jul-23 14:48

1-Jul-23 14:48

How contemptuous. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

honey the codewitch1-Jul-23 15:09

1-Jul-23 15:09

I'm sure he'll survive me pointing and laughing at him. If he doesn't want to be laughed at he shouldn't do and say things that evoke laughter at his expense.

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Richard Andrew x641-Jul-23 13:27

Richard Andrew x64

1-Jul-23 13:27

Mr. Musk didn't write the thing, he only purchased it.

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honey the codewitch1-Jul-23 14:19

1-Jul-23 14:19

Pretty sure it was his decision to lock it down though. This happened in the wake of that.

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Gerry Schmitz1-Jul-23 14:35

Gerry Schmitz

1-Jul-23 14:35

"Only purchased it"? He gives them their marching orders.

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Richard Andrew x641-Jul-23 14:55

Richard Andrew x64

1-Jul-23 14:55

I did not know that the OP was saying that he locked down the website.

I thought OP was saying that Musk was responsible for a server error.

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Slacker0071-Jul-23 14:50

Slacker007

1-Jul-23 14:50

honey the codewitch wrote:
Twitter is such a mess.

Twitter was a mess long before Elon purchased the company.

If you want to hate on Elon, just hate on him. Don't hide behind the Twitter talking point that every liberal outlet uses.

honey the codewitch1-Jul-23 15:04

1-Jul-23 15:04

I had no reason to point and laugh at Elon until he gave me a reason.

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Vikram A Punathambekar2-Jul-23 6:04

Vikram A Punathambekar

2-Jul-23 6:04

Slacker007 wrote:
Twitter was a mess long before Elon purchased the company.

But it's undeniably much, much worse now.

Cheers,
Vikram.

fgs19632-Jul-23 6:48

2-Jul-23 6:48

How? Because it’s not a woke echo chamber? Because the White House, FBI, DOJ and NSA aren’t censoring “certain” accounts? Because there are not thousands of gender studies and DEI graduates roaming the company gyms and coffee bars waiting for their next meeting?

What EXACTLY is much, much worse in your opinion?

jan larsen2-Jul-23 20:39

jan larsen

2-Jul-23 20:39

Well, in my opinion: I'm now getting spammed with various ads that are ridiculous far from anything that could ever have my interest.
Also, my feed is suddenly filled with horrible posts from horrible people, and Elons are often among those. We are not talking differences in politics that could sway the opinion in either way, but plain and simple racism and fascism.
There was even a period where my feed would contain porn ads, and weird suggestions from lonely eastern european "women".
I assure you, if Twitter had been like that when I finally tried it, I wouldn't have signed up. If this goes on, I guess Twitter ends like Facebook. A mostly useless platform for ads and hateful comments. At least Facebook is a platform where I can share stuff with my family, and arrange plans with friends. Twitter will be so much easier to dump.

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fgs19633-Jul-23 3:02

3-Jul-23 3:02

Interesting. Normally I’d ask for contextual examples of racist and fascist posts from Musk but I fear we’ve strayed beyond the limits of discussion here in the Lounge. It would have been a great discussion for the Soapbox.

I’ll leave you with this to consider. You obviously prefer the old Twitter… the Twitter where a group of elitists (often guided by government) tightly controlled the allowed subject matter and discourse and censored or outright banned anyone who dared to voice a different opinion or even speak against the gatekeepers. That sounds like fascism to me…

jschell3-Jul-23 5:47

jschell

3-Jul-23 5:47

fgs1963 wrote:
the Twitter where a group of elitists (often guided by government) tightly controlled the allowed subject matter and discourse

It is a company. And companies, in the United States, are allowed to do exactly that.

If you want free speech then go stand on a public (government owned) sidewalk and wave your sign. That is what the constitution specifically allows.

But for many other people twitter had nothing to do with what you said. It was for entertainment (news about music, movies, etc), fashion, business, etc. They didn't go there for politics.

But since the owner of the company changed then now that new owner can run it the way he wants.

Vikram A Punathambekar4-Jul-23 6:22

Vikram A Punathambekar

4-Jul-23 6:22

jschell wrote:
But since the owner of the company changed then now that new owner can run it the way he wants.

I misread that as below and like it better Big Grin | :-D

But since the owner of the company changed then now that new owner can ruin it the way he wants.

Cheers,
Vikram.

jschell5-Jul-23 5:16

jschell

5-Jul-23 5:16

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
that new owner can ruin it the way he wants.

Seems like he is doing a bang up job then!

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David O'Neil3-Jul-23 16:26

David O'Neil

3-Jul-23 16:26

fgs1963 wrote:
Normally I’d ask for contextual examples of racist and fascist posts from Musk

Why not just google for yourself? It isn't that hard: "Elon Musk racist rhetoric" or "Elon Musk fascist post" bring up things like Did Elon Musk Unleash Racist Dog Whistles to Woo Tucker Carlson? – Mother Jones and https://nickcohen.substack.com/p/the-proto-fasicsm-of-elon-musk. I doubt it will make a dent in your beliefs, but items like those are worth being aware of.

fgs19634-Jul-23 4:58

4-Jul-23 4:58

I’m well aware of the few actual quotes referenced. None are even remotely racist or fascist. If they had been you might have quoted them directly instead of linking to them where the reader is required to sort through the authors rhetoric.

Which was my point in asking for the quotes in the first place. When people “separate the wheat from the chaff” and form their own opinions instead of relying on others - sometimes opinions evolve.

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David O'Neil4-Jul-23 8:22

David O'Neil

4-Jul-23 8:22

Unfortunately I haven't seen a whole lot of evolution lately. People like hating more it seems.

Vikram A Punathambekar4-Jul-23 6:25

Vikram A Punathambekar

4-Jul-23 6:25

Without even getting into the political aspects that you are ranting about, it just... doesn't... work.

I load a tweet from my timeline, I can't view any replies, I get a "Failed to load tweet" error.
I try to see who I'm following so I can follow them on other platforms, when I click on my "264 following", it says "You are not following anybody".
And of course, people are leaving in huge numbers.

It's objectively worse, without even getting into your woke vs. alt-right argument, which I couldn't care less about as I am not American.

Cheers,
Vikram.