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Quote from: Hispo on October 06, 2023, 05:21:45 AM

Sadly, I believe his ego would not allow him to either sell the company to anyone or even go public (he knows the value per share will be way lower than when he bought them). To me, for now the best option for the future of Twitter would be if he ditched his pride and stepped down as CEO of Twitter and put someone who knows what they are doing, he being then just an observer.

Well technically he is not CEO. It's Linda Yaccarino now, who is claiming that advertisers are coming back. Which is most likely a lie. But she is paper ceo anyway as musk definiltely wants to control everything. That's why he bought it.

Quote from: Hispo on October 06, 2023, 05:21:45 AM

Hopefully, after a year or two, he could get back the valuation back where it used to be.

I see no way that he would like to be out of spotlight. That's all he ever wanted, attention and acceptance. Now there's a crowd that accepts and adores him. And i am thinking that's why he bought it with overvalued price, so he could tap on that without any rules he don't like.

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Twitter is the most used social media application worldwide. By buying this platform, Elon Musk did not buy a social media app. Elon Musk bought the data of millions of users. He also bought the ability to manipulate millions of users. This is the equivalent of godlike power. I think it's priceless to have that power. And I think behind closed doors there is the possibility of monetizing that power.

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Quote from: CODE200 on October 06, 2023, 06:43:32 AM

Quote from: terrific on October 06, 2023, 05:35:22 AM

It can change over time but it seems that many people hated Elon for such actions about the instant laying off of his employees.
This is like the protest and backlash that he's getting from that action that he did back before.
It's not surprising when many users of the great Twitter have stopped using it and also about the verified badge monthly subscription, many just didn't like it too.

Personally, X or twitter is my favorite application of all the platforms because of its feature and services that it provides. But the time when Elon took over, a lot of things has changed, and just like the other users of the platform, I did not like the changes he made on the app. And it is not surprising to see a gradual loss in terms of the percentage of the users. One of the best features of twitter is its accessibility to news and trends, and it is not favorable for its users to be required to have monthly subscriptions just to use the application. And this is clearly evident as a lot of users had leave the platform. There are also a lot of changes that contributed on the backlash of people such as paying just for your account to be verified and its rebranding as "X". But again, we still cannot tell about the future of 'X'. It's either these changes can bring success or downfall of the platform.

Yeah, many didn't really like when Elon acquired it and then became involved with most of its changes.
If he just let it all go and let all the current staff do their thing and just get his hands off the platform, there can still be a lot of good things that he might receive for being the management.
But being an actual guy to does all of these changes, that's when many didn't liked it and even the name replacement.

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Quote from: CODE200 on October 06, 2023, 06:43:32 AM

Quote from: terrific on October 06, 2023, 05:35:22 AM

Quote from: FinneysTrueVision on October 06, 2023, 01:24:25 AM

I was wondering if all these reports of Twitter losing users and being a total failure thanks to Musk might be exaggerated but I looked at the numbers on SimilarWeb, which is a pretty reliable source of website traffic, and it does indeed show a sharp drop. Some of it might be bot traffic but if Musk was doing such a great job you would see an increase in genuine users and the drop off wouldn't be so dramatic.

It can change over time but it seems that many people hated Elon for such actions about the instant laying off of his employees.
This is like the protest and backlash that he's getting from that action that he did back before.
It's not surprising when many users of the great Twitter have stopped using it and also about the verified badge monthly subscription, many just didn't like it too.

Personally, X or twitter is my favorite application of all the platforms because of its feature and services that it provides. But the time when Elon took over, a lot of things has changed, and just like the other users of the platform, I did not like the changes he made on the app. And it is not surprising to see a gradual loss in terms of the percentage of the users. One of the best features of twitter is its accessibility to news and trends, and it is not favorable for its users to be required to have monthly subscriptions just to use the application. And this is clearly evident as a lot of users had leave the platform. There are also a lot of changes that contributed on the backlash of people such as paying just for your account to be verified and its rebranding as "X". But again, we still cannot tell about the future of 'X'. It's either these changes can bring success or downfall of the platform.

I agree with you as much like you I am also a fan of Twitter back then. I use Twitter on a daily basis and use the platform to ensure I am updated by news and current events while also keeping connections to various communities I am a part of. However, when these changes applied by Elon Musk happened, more and more users that I used to interact with started to leave, and I have also noticed that my feed is full of random tweets from users I don't follow which makes it hard for me to see the tweets I wanna see. Lastly, the amounts of advertising tweets are too much.

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Quote from: terrific on October 06, 2023, 05:35:22 AM

Quote from: FinneysTrueVision on October 06, 2023, 01:24:25 AM

I was wondering if all these reports of Twitter losing users and being a total failure thanks to Musk might be exaggerated but I looked at the numbers on SimilarWeb, which is a pretty reliable source of website traffic, and it does indeed show a sharp drop. Some of it might be bot traffic but if Musk was doing such a great job you would see an increase in genuine users and the drop off wouldn't be so dramatic.

It can change over time but it seems that many people hated Elon for such actions about the instant laying off of his employees.
This is like the protest and backlash that he's getting from that action that he did back before.
It's not surprising when many users of the great Twitter have stopped using it and also about the verified badge monthly subscription, many just didn't like it too.

Elon Musk is acting like an authoritarian leader, his actions of terminating his employees will be a ticking time bomb for Twitter's future. He tries to replace employees by relying on Bots, he seems to forget something that there are certain parts that can only be completed by humans and cannot be completed by Bots.
Many Twitter users are starting to get bored with the appearance of the Twitter application after it was acquired by Elon Musk, so they are slowly starting to rarely use the platform which is now known as X. I'm starting to assume there will be new competitors who can bring down X if Elon Musk is still too authoritarian, Moreover, I heard news about Elon Musk's intention to charge fees to users of the platform.

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Quote from: Hispo on October 06, 2023, 05:21:45 AM

Sadly, I believe his ego would not allow him to either sell the company to anyone or even go public (he knows the value per share will be way lower than when he bought them). To me, for now the best option for the future of Twitter would be if he ditched his pride and stepped down as CEO of Twitter and put someone who knows what they are doing, he being then just an observer.

Hopefully, after a year or two, he could get back the valuation back where it used to be.

I think even he has seen the writing on the wall and just had to put his pride aside if he wanted still valued the app. He has appointed Linda Yaccarino to be CEO for some months now. But apparently, stepping down as CEO didn’t make him just an observer. He’s still very active it’s almost like Linda is more or less a figure head as Elon still feels very much in charge and actively involved in the activities and running of the app.

His constant interactions with posts and with certain individuals on the app could hinder to an extent, whatever his visions may have for the app when he bought it.

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Quote from: terrific on October 06, 2023, 05:35:22 AM

Quote from: FinneysTrueVision on October 06, 2023, 01:24:25 AM

I was wondering if all these reports of Twitter losing users and being a total failure thanks to Musk might be exaggerated but I looked at the numbers on SimilarWeb, which is a pretty reliable source of website traffic, and it does indeed show a sharp drop. Some of it might be bot traffic but if Musk was doing such a great job you would see an increase in genuine users and the drop off wouldn't be so dramatic.

It can change over time but it seems that many people hated Elon for such actions about the instant laying off of his employees.
This is like the protest and backlash that he's getting from that action that he did back before.
It's not surprising when many users of the great Twitter have stopped using it and also about the verified badge monthly subscription, many just didn't like it too.

Personally, X or twitter is my favorite application of all the platforms because of its feature and services that it provides. But the time when Elon took over, a lot of things has changed, and just like the other users of the platform, I did not like the changes he made on the app. And it is not surprising to see a gradual loss in terms of the percentage of the users. One of the best features of twitter is its accessibility to news and trends, and it is not favorable for its users to be required to have monthly subscriptions just to use the application. And this is clearly evident as a lot of users had leave the platform. There are also a lot of changes that contributed on the backlash of people such as paying just for your account to be verified and its rebranding as "X". But again, we still cannot tell about the future of 'X'. It's either these changes can bring success or downfall of the platform.

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Quote from: FinneysTrueVision on October 06, 2023, 01:24:25 AM

I was wondering if all these reports of Twitter losing users and being a total failure thanks to Musk might be exaggerated but I looked at the numbers on SimilarWeb, which is a pretty reliable source of website traffic, and it does indeed show a sharp drop. Some of it might be bot traffic but if Musk was doing such a great job you would see an increase in genuine users and the drop off wouldn't be so dramatic.

It can change over time but it seems that many people hated Elon for such actions about the instant laying off of his employees.
This is like the protest and backlash that he's getting from that action that he did back before.
It's not surprising when many users of the great Twitter have stopped using it and also about the verified badge monthly subscription, many just didn't like it too.

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Quote from: o48o on October 05, 2023, 04:56:43 PM

Quote from: harapan on October 05, 2023, 11:41:52 AM

Elon Musk is Top-notch in his abilities and moves.
I think there is a target behind every actions and he might come up with a big hints someday.

I know it has been a big challenge to many users.
Mostly he might be scared of defeat so he's taking it so lightly like nothing is wrong but he should come up with good inputs to all of this as it's not helping.

That made me chuckle. What abilities and moves are those? Ability for hostal takeover? He most likely just destroyed twitter, and frankly that makes me sad as i started to like it before all this.

I am just hoping that someone with half a brain buys that from him. At this point i would even welcome CZ to buy it. At least then we knew what we get.

Imagine if elon the felon took twitter from private to public again. Marketcap would dump so low it would be embarassment next to any company, or elmo would just manipulate the price, and later get sued by it.

Good read:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/elon-musk-killed-twitter-one-year-1234840622/

Sadly, I believe his ego would not allow him to either sell the company to anyone or even go public (he knows the value per share will be way lower than when he bought them). To me, for now the best option for the future of Twitter would be if he ditched his pride and stepped down as CEO of Twitter and put someone who knows what they are doing, he being then just an observer.

Hopefully, after a year or two, he could get back the valuation back where it used to be.

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I was wondering if all these reports of Twitter losing users and being a total failure thanks to Musk might be exaggerated but I looked at the numbers on SimilarWeb, which is a pretty reliable source of website traffic, and it does indeed show a sharp drop. Some of it might be bot traffic but if Musk was doing such a great job you would see an increase in genuine users and the drop off wouldn't be so dramatic.

Quote from: Captain Corporate on October 05, 2023, 11:58:31 AM

As someone who uses twitter every single day for work, I have to say it is getting even worse nowadays. I keep tab on whats going on in the crypto world and the amount of irrelevant posts I see on the home page grows bigger and bigger. In fact, I am sure that irrelevant posts are a lot more than relevant ones. You can always go pick "following" if you want to, but that only limits to who you follow and what they posted, "for you" should be regarding what I am interested in, and as a person who has over a thousand people I follow, its obvious that all of them are crypto and I should be seeing more finance and crypto related stuff, not some highlights of a football game, certainly not a small one neither, I get that if its like world cup finals then yeah show it to everyone, but why am I seeing bottom table serie A game goal highlights. Its getting more and more broken every single day.

The For You feed is awful and the Following feed only sorts tweets in chronological order so if you follow lots of people you will miss out on important tweets if you don't scroll down far enough. The reason why there are so many irrelevant posts showing up in people's feeds is because they are trying to disguise ads as organic posts. Even while using an ad blocker and using the web version I started seeing posts for electric vehicles even though I have no interest in them whatsoever. Unlabeled ads go against FTC regulation so we will see if they decide to take action.

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Quote from: harapan on October 05, 2023, 11:41:52 AM

Elon Musk is Top-notch in his abilities and moves.
I think there is a target behind every actions and he might come up with a big hints someday.

I know it has been a big challenge to many users.
Mostly he might be scared of defeat so he's taking it so lightly like nothing is wrong but he should come up with good inputs to all of this as it's not helping.

That made me chuckle. What abilities and moves are those? Ability for hostal takeover? He most likely just destroyed twitter, and frankly that makes me sad as i started to like it before all this.

I am just hoping that someone with half a brain buys that from him. At this point i would even welcome CZ to buy it. At least then we knew what we get.

Imagine if elon the felon took twitter from private to public again. Marketcap would dump so low it would be embarassment next to any company, or elmo would just manipulate the price, and later get sued by it.

Good read:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/elon-musk-killed-twitter-one-year-1234840622/

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As someone who uses twitter every single day for work, I have to say it is getting even worse nowadays. I keep tab on whats going on in the crypto world and the amount of irrelevant posts I see on the home page grows bigger and bigger. In fact, I am sure that irrelevant posts are a lot more than relevant ones. You can always go pick "following" if you want to, but that only limits to who you follow and what they posted, "for you" should be regarding what I am interested in, and as a person who has over a thousand people I follow, its obvious that all of them are crypto and I should be seeing more finance and crypto related stuff, not some highlights of a football game, certainly not a small one neither, I get that if its like world cup finals then yeah show it to everyone, but why am I seeing bottom table serie A game goal highlights. Its getting more and more broken every single day.

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Elon Musk is Top-notch in his abilities and moves.
I think there is a target behind every actions and he might come up with a big hints someday.

I know it has been a big challenge to many users.
Mostly he might be scared of defeat so he's taking it so lightly like nothing is wrong but he should come up with good inputs to all of this as it's not helping.

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Quote from: Blowon on October 05, 2023, 10:30:12 AM

the last news I heard was that Elon Musk is going to make a paid version of twitter because the current version contains a lot of bots that he can't even handle so he decided to make a paid version. I'm sure many people will leave Twitter if that really happens. I would prefer not to use Twitter again if that happens. I hope Elon Musk will think again about the worse impacts of making Twitter paid.

Yes, that's also the most recent news I heard regarding Twitter (now called X). Although I get where he's coming from since bots have been a long-term issue with that social media platform for such a long time now. Recently tho, it has been causing more problems as more and more users are being victimized by these bots regarding bad promotions and negative campaigns. However, I don't think turning the free social media platform into a paid one is the best action here since, much like you have stated, users will most likely leave the platform and opt for a different one. Personally, I wouldn't choose to pay to have access to it especially since I know it will only grant me the basic features of the platform that I have enjoyed freely for years.

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the last news I heard was that Elon Musk is going to make a paid version of twitter because the current version contains a lot of bots that he can't even handle so he decided to make a paid version. I'm sure many people will leave Twitter if that really happens. I would prefer not to use Twitter again if that happens. I hope Elon Musk will think again about the worse impacts of making Twitter paid.

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Well now Elon Musk has now made another change to Twitter. He is removing headlines because he thinks it will make posts look better.

Now we will only see the main image and the domain link. I do not think this is a bad change and it does make it look nice when I scroll on my phone.

There is a article that is very negative about Elon Musk and his twitter purchase. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/elon-musk-killed-twitter-one-year-1234840622/

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Quote from: bitmover on March 26, 2023, 06:43:04 AM

Quote from: Rabata on March 26, 2023, 05:00:35 AM

Although he is financially one of the richest businessmen in the world, it is also worth noting that the share prices of his other companies could fall through losses on his Twitter purchase. In my opinion his main mistake was disregarding public sentiment. What is your concern?

He is a genius and he will certainly surprise you and everyone.

Maybe not all his companies will skyrocket, but most of them are

Let's not confuse Elon's eccentric personality with his abilities and virtues, which he clearly has.

It is not rocket science to understand the obvious on X (twitter). The approach Elon has on twitter is not much helpful, irrespective of the fact that he decided to monetize certain features into looking like a web3 platform, he is enjoying the OG status twitter has, if he had setup a social network himself and started from the scratch, it won't be easy to achieve this feat.

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LOL.. when Elon took over Twitter and fired more than 90% of the staff, there were a lot of posts in social media claiming that Twitter is going to collapse and they need the "experienced" employees to make sure that everything is in order. Many months have passed and I haven't noticed any major change in my user experience with Twitter. All the doomsday predictions seems to have failed! I just hope that my own employer doesn't follow the example set by Elon and fire majority of the workforce. BTW, Google and Facebook also took steps to reduce workforce strength in recent months.

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Quote from: L4rs_ on October 02, 2023, 12:53:35 AM

Twitter or X is as active as never before. I don't think Elon Musk can fck it up that hard that people start seriously switching to another platform. Even if they gonna implement a subscription model, most people will just pay.

YouTube has more of a monopoly than Twitter and has taken aggressive measures to try and force people into subscribing to YouTube Premium and yet only about 3% of users have actually subscribed.

Quote from: laurenB7742 on October 03, 2023, 02:23:21 AM

We don't know exactly who owns that account, but I think if Elon is really a fan of bitcoin then he should delete that account because it will cause a lot of misunderstanding in the bitcoin community. I also saw this news and people are discussing this issue a lot, there is even a topic discussing this fake account on our forum. What's more worth mentioning is that this fake account even bought Twitter's blue checkmark, which will make many people easily mistake this as really the real Satoshi.

When Jack Dorsey was running Twitter they did suspend the @Satoshi account soon after it was suspected that Craig Wright had taken over. With Musk reversing all the previous suspensions it has given scammers an opportunity to spread disinformation. They have already set a precedent of suspending parody accounts and this isn’t any different. If Craig can’t prove he’s Satoshi, the account is in violation of rules regarding impersonation and should be suspended.

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Quote from: bakasabo on October 03, 2023, 01:19:04 AM

Wow. Never thought that after purchasing Twitter, Elon Musk would get access to accounts database and use old or inactive accounts for his own profit.

He's the owner of it so that makes sense that he's got access to it whenever he want to access it. But if he ever does that, that loses his credibility for what the service is all about and what he advocates of having free speech.

Quote from: bakasabo on October 03, 2023, 01:19:04 AM

It wasnt mentioned that he has done it personally, nor it was done under his command or it was somehow proved that he was involved. But just imagine what hype and resonance would be created, if such accounts as Satoshi Nakamoto or other famous cryptocurrency related people would start shilling meme-coins or similar. And it all would happen under the sauce «cases when youtube channels were stolen, Elon Musk live conferences were aired, with BTC and ETH address in description with sign send me 1 BTC, I will send you 2 BTC back».

I didn't even know if he has done that but if he really done that for real then that would make a lot of users leave their accounts there and go somewhere else.

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