Twitter Rebrand to 𝕏

[DarkFruitsRam7]

37 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

You do realize you can go into Twitter settings, search "interests" and untick anything you don't want to see?

I shouldn’t have to do that to avoid seeing four tweet notifications in the space of nine minutes from the same bloke. Particularly when it’s clear that said bloke cares about how many people see his tweets.

[Carl Sagan]

16 hours ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

I shouldn’t have to do that to avoid seeing four tweet notifications in the space of nine minutes from the same bloke. Particularly when it’s clear that said bloke cares about how many people see his tweets.

I did actually find this funny. I presume you don't pay for Twitter, so you want a free service? Apologies if wrong. And then you openly admit can't even be bothered to configure it yourself to match your interests, so you expect Twitter to go out of its way to better work out what you might want to see, and deliver that to you in a way you prefer - all free of charge. And, at the same time, aren't you starting your own business or businesses, where you're probably hoping to have paying customers whose money will help keep you going and deliver them a better service? Some would call that cognitive dissonance.

Twitter is a personal broadcasting service - most everyone cares how many people see their tweets. Though I remember when Jack Dorsey was running it, he said the most interesting person who was tweeting was Elon Musk. There are worse people's tweets to look at than those of the person most involved with building a better future for Humanity. It's good that without extra guidance from you as to what you'd prefer to see, this is what the algorithm sends you.

[ariotofmyown]

2 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

I did actually find this funny. I presume you don't pay for Twitter, so you want a free service? Apologies if wrong. And then you openly admit can't even be bothered to configure it yourself to match your interests, so you expect Twitter to go out of its way to better work out what you might want to see, and deliver that to you in a way you prefer - all free of charge. And, at the same time, aren't you starting your own business or businesses, where you're probably hoping to have paying customers whose money will help keep you going and deliver them a better service? Some would call that cognitive dissonance.

Twitter is a personal broadcasting service - most everyone cares how many people see their tweets. Though I remember when Jack Dorsey was running it, he said the most interesting person who was tweeting was Elon Musk. There are worse people's tweets to look at than those of the person most involved with building a better future for Humanity. It's good that without extra guidance from you as to what you'd prefer to see, this is what the algorithm sends you.

Yeah good shout, if @DarkFruitsRam7 wasn't continually looking up weird and vile conspiracy theories, then the algorithm wouldn't be sending him tweets by their chief broadcaster!

[cstand]

On 16/03/2024 at 11:55, ariotofmyown said:

Yeah good shout, if @DarkFruitsRam7 wasn't continually looking up weird and vile conspiracy theories, then the algorithm wouldn't be sending him tweets by their chief broadcaster!

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[Comrade 86]

BBC News:

A US judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk's social media firm X against a group that had claimed that hate speech had risen on the platform since the tech tycoon took over.

X had accused the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) of taking "unlawful" steps to access its data.

The US judge dismissed the case and said it was "evident" Mr Musk's X Corp did not like criticism.

X said it planned to appeal.

Imran Ahmed, founder and chief executive of CCDH, celebrated the win, saying Mr Musk had conducted a "loud, hypocritical campaign" of harassment and abuse against his organisation in an attempt to "avoid taking responsibility for his own decisions".

Full Story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68657840

[Stive Pesley]

11 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:

BBC News:

A US judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk's social media firm X against a group that had claimed that hate speech had risen on the platform since the tech tycoon took over.

X had accused the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) of taking "unlawful" steps to access its data.

The US judge dismissed the case and said it was "evident" Mr Musk's X Corp did not like criticism.

X said it planned to appeal.

Imran Ahmed, founder and chief executive of CCDH, celebrated the win, saying Mr Musk had conducted a "loud, hypocritical campaign" of harassment and abuse against his organisation in an attempt to "avoid taking responsibility for his own decisions".

Full Story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68657840

Oh dear - more salty billionaire tears on the way

Did anyone see the Don Lemon interview? Fascinating to see his petulant reactions to being asked awkward questions about the current state of Twitter

[Highgate]

5 hours ago, Stive Pesley said:

Oh dear - more salty billionaire tears on the way

Did anyone see the Don Lemon interview? Fascinating to see his petulant reactions to being asked awkward questions about the current state of Twitter

At this stage he probably should just stop doing interviews. He doesn't need to do them, and always seems so uncomfortable and unpleasant during them, so why bother? 

[Stive Pesley]

1 hour ago, Highgate said:

At this stage he probably should just stop doing interviews. He doesn't need to do them, and always seems so uncomfortable and unpleasant during them, so why bother? 

He did the Lemon interview because he wanted to try and expand Twitter into a broadcast video platform. Lemon was fired from CNN for making controversial "unwoke" comments about women, so Musk clearly saw him as prime candidate to entice his anti-woke fanboys

Didn't really go as planned 😂

[cstand]

[cstand]

[ariotofmyown]

3 minutes ago, cstand said:

Define "visits"

[ariotofmyown]

2 minutes ago, cstand said:

Define "users" and "app users"

[cstand]

 

3 hours ago, Stive Pesley said:

He did the Lemon interview because he wanted to try and expand Twitter into a broadcast video platform. Lemon was fired from CNN for making controversial "unwoke" comments about women, so Musk clearly saw him as prime candidate to entice his anti-woke fanboys

Didn't really go as planned 😂

Lemon shows going downhill fast

Edited March 26 by cstand

[Comrade 86]

8 hours ago, cstand said:

That's just Elon's stats, no? Can't tear himself away, the poor lad, he's on it 24/7! 

In all seriousness though, is anything on Twitter (apart from Elon) that is actually alive, or is it just a gazillion pesky bots these days? As far as I can see, on the hot topics, it's  just a bunch of folk 'debating' mostly AI generated 'engagement content', all blissfully unaware they're arguing with a software program. We were told that all the Blue Tick stuff was expressly intended to identify accounts actually owned by sentient beings and fund the rooting out of the bot farms, hence the verification fees charged to his loyal human users. What happened to that then?

Sadly for Elon and his followers, advertisers won't be fooled anyway, as they already had compelling reasons for jumping ship and won't return until Twitter is in new ownership.

[cstand]

15 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:

That's just Elon's stats, no? Can't tear himself away, the poor lad, he's on it 24/7! 

In all seriousness though, is anything on Twitter (apart from Elon) that is actually alive, or is it just a gazillion pesky bots these days? As far as I can see, on the hot topics, it's  just a bunch of folk 'debating' mostly AI generated 'engagement content', all blissfully unaware they're arguing with a software program. We were told that all the Blue Tick stuff was expressly intended to identify accounts actually owned by sentient beings and fund the rooting out of the bot farms, hence the verification fees charged to his loyal human users. What happened to that then?

Sadly for Elon and his followers, advertisers won't be fooled anyway, as they already had compelling reasons for jumping ship and won't return until Twitter is in new ownership.

Stats don’t align with your hopes and aspirations?

X overrun by bots and AI?

Advertisers flocking to an ever diminishing audience think again.

https://www.televisual.com/news/ofcom-report-steep-decline-in-broadcast-tv-viewing/#:~:text=The average time that viewers,in 2022 (-12%).

Edited March 27 by cstand

[cstand]

On 25/03/2024 at 22:53, Comrade 86 said:

BBC News:

A US judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk's social media firm X against a group that had claimed that hate speech had risen on the platform since the tech tycoon took over.

X had accused the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) of taking "unlawful" steps to access its data.

The US judge dismissed the case and said it was "evident" Mr Musk's X Corp did not like criticism.

X said it planned to appeal.

Imran Ahmed, founder and chief executive of CCDH, celebrated the win, saying Mr Musk had conducted a "loud, hypocritical campaign" of harassment and abuse against his organisation in an attempt to "avoid taking responsibility for his own decisions".

Full Story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68657840

Everybody takes each other to court in the US all the time it’s part of the American dream.😀

Not looking like a hated figurehead in this video.

Edited March 27 by cstand

[Stive Pesley]

12 hours ago, cstand said:

Everybody takes each other to court in the US all the time it’s part of the American dream.😀

The judge actually ruled that the case was a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) - that's a legal action intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defence until they abandon their criticism or opposition.

Not a good look for the "free speech absolutist"

Ironically the lawyers he used now risk being de-barred because part of the Bar rules in California are that you don't bring frivolous or malicious cases. Doubly so if Elton wants to try and appeal what was a pretty firm judgement

[cstand]

22 hours ago, Stive Pesley said:

The judge actually ruled that the case was a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) - that's a legal action intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defence until they abandon their criticism or opposition.

Not a good look for the "free speech absolutist"

Ironically the lawyers he used now risk being de-barred because part of the Bar rules in California are that you don't bring frivolous or malicious cases. Doubly so if Elton wants to try and appeal what was a pretty firm judgement

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-safety-google-meta-should-start-own-ads-rob-leathern-8mz6c?trk=public_post_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-google-monopolizing-digital-advertising-technologies

https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2518#:~:text=The lawsuit also accuses Meta,million log on each day.

So Google or Meta are better than X 😂 😂

Edited March 29 by cstand

[Comrade 86]

[cstand]

2 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:

Is this a bot or Ai

Edited March 29 by cstand