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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Dying is the entire point of it. If it dies, it becomes infinitely more difficult for the authorities to subpoena tweet histories of certain orange pieces of shit and his cronies.

It doesn't stop them from getting that history, of course.

But the legal rigamarole of trying to get tweet history from a company that technically doesn't exist anymore (It's X, not twitter), and later on no longer even functions (servers shut down), might just delay things long enough to make a difference in the upcoming shit-show.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They already got Trump's DMs from twitter. Twitter actually fought it and had to pay a $350,000 fine for not turning the DMs over immediately. I think that Musk doesn't like his fellow right wing cultists from being blocked/ignored by regular people and liberals. Hence his recent comment that he was going to remove the ability to block anyone on X. Of course lots of people immediately said that they'd leave because angry right wing stalkers doxxing them and such.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Meta launched its X rival called Threads on July 5 and quickly amassed more than 100 million signups, Time magazine reported, citing data from Sensor Tower.

Musk's efforts to purge the platform of bots and turn it into a "super-app" don't yet appear to be working.

Activist Monica Lewinsky urged him and CEO Linda Yaccarino to "rethink" the move.

as an anti-bullying activist (and target of harassment) i can assure you it’s a critical tool to keep people safe online.- that woman

as an anti-bullying activist (and target of harassment) i can assure you it's a critical tool to keep people safe online.

In May Fidelity wrote down the value of its stake in the company then still known as Twitter, giving it a value of about $15 billion – or just a third of what Musk paid, The Wall Street Journal Reported.X didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.


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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I sense a new dictionary definition of self-fulfilling prophecy coming up....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Gee...who could have guessed?...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

How long does it take to roll some video akin to tiktok and snapchat into it? Weed out all the bots at the same time by demanding fotoID and root out all the dirtbags abusing the app at the same time. Texting and chatting is so last decade anyway just leave it as a remnant of its birdie roots.

If it fails Meta will likely have to be broken up, their monopoly on social media is outrageous these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Weed out all the bots at the same time

They don't want to do that. That would destroy a significant chunk of their userbase and make X look weaker.

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