Musk bought Twitter, what hasn't gone wrong?

[Albuquerque]

This is crazy @digitalwanderer but it turns out Elon's posts will show up even for people who blocked him. That's actually what I was poking at

 

[digitalwanderer]

This is crazy @digitalwanderer but it turns out Elon's posts will show up even for people who blocked him. That's actually what I was poking at

I didn't see that exception. Thought it was just that blocked people could see the blockers content but you're saying there is an exception for Elon that makes his posts visible even if blocked?

 

[Albuquerque]

The story goes: Elon was pissed when someone else posted the same thing he did and that someone else got more "upvotes" or retweets or whatever. He told the engineering team to figure out why, and the root cause (as best they could determine) was how so many people had him blocked.

So, now he's not blockable.

 

[Grizzly Teddy]

Elon's a douche. Free edit button, please!

 

[fehu]

"We are child sexual abuse absolutists"

Elon Musk's X fined over $400,000 for failing to address child abuse content on the platform

An Australian court has fined X A$610,500 (approximately $418,000) for failing to comply with regulatory inquiries regarding child abuse content.

www.neowin.net

 

[GhostofWar]

Unfortunately we down here are too small a country to make this tosser give a shit, we need the uk/eu and us onboard. I bet he wont even pay the fine.

 

[fehu]

Go the Brazil way.

 

[Grizzly Teddy]

Forums > X

 

[Florin]

And here we go again with the technical difficulties
Elon Musk cancels X town hall event minutes after it started

I'm not sure what's happening over at Twitter. Is it that there's really just a skeleton crew left? Do the people who are still there simply not care anymore?
How can these tentpole events keep failing?

 

[Mariner]

He'll be blaming the deep state for the ongoing failings before too long, you mark my words.

Either that, or Soros and his Jewish space lasers.

 

[Grizzly Teddy]

X is such a plaintive name for a plaintive site.

 

[Grizzly Teddy]

Why have a blocking feature if the idiots you block can still see your feed?

How stupid is X becoming, in all seriousness?

 

[Davros]

Because the purpose of a blocking feature is to block people posting on your feed and replying to you
not to block them from seeing your feed

 

[Grizzly Teddy]

It's like YouTube in that you can still be stalked. I was stalked yesterday on Fandom.

I last logged in a year ago. Just went to edit a page. The same troll then came back a few hours later, just to be an arsehole. He subscribed to the page to get notifications.

 

[Dominik D]

"We are child sexual abuse absolutists"

Elon Musk's X fined over $400,000 for failing to address child abuse content on the platform

An Australian court has fined X A$610,500 (approximately $418,000) for failing to comply with regulatory inquiries regarding child abuse content.

www.neowin.net

This pairs perfectly with Musk recently calling Bluesky "pedosky". Given that he decimated moderation team and bsky increased theirs fourfold last week this is another example of copium from Elon.

 

[Mariner]

Wait a minute... Surely you aren't claiming that Musk is using twitter to spout unmitigated and, indeed, completely incorrect bullshit once again?!?

Whatever next?

 

[wco81]

BTW the judge, maybe the same one, rejected Musk's new $56 billion pay package.

Tesla said they'd appeal.

 

[fehu]

It went this way:
- the judge declared tesla board to be too much in bed with musk instead of doing the shareholders' interests
- then musk made the shareholders vote in his favor and returned to the judge
- the judge responded something like "are you asking me to break the law and create a precedent just because you were able to blackmail your shareholders?"
- musk responded go fuck yourself, and now he's preparing a final appeal to a higher level knowing that he can use trump to force the judges

so the 4D chess game was:
- buy twitter for 44B
- make it a cesspool to win the elections
- use the leverage to bypass the legal system and get 56B
- profit

 

[Davros]

Why on hell would you give 56B to someone who runs a money losing business ?
edit: thought the money was for X, but its for Tesla but the question still stands
why would you pay someone 400% more than you make

 

[iroboto]

BTW the judge, maybe the same one, rejected Musk's new $56 billion pay package.

Tesla said they'd appeal.

The judge is the same one that when he tried to back out of purchasing Twitter she forced him.