It’s a shame Musk has done what he’s done - aligning himself so closely with Trump was always going to turn people off. He will have a complete free reign on government contracts now involving all his companies, SpaceX, Tesla etc. The money he paid for Twitter is chicken feed to what he’ll get back.
I left X soon after Musk stopped the censoring. Kept going until before the election but not regularly. Glad I left so long ago. Nasty platform for a power mad man.
I go back occasionally. It's like popping into rough 80's pub. Everyone is angry, the beer is watered down, the toilets stink, the heating doesn't work, but everyone loves the landlord because he's 'ard'!
I'm invisible in there because no one hears or listens to anything I say, I'm dead to them.
Elon sees Twitter as the town square where everyone's equal and has an equal voice, then he wants to hand himself a megaphone and while he's at it give people who he agrees with megaphones albeit less powerful than his own. Then he can say, his views are mainstream and you're the fridge weirdo.
End game ? The end game is achieved. Election interference. Job done. Only remaining function is a bull horn for making good news stories for how great he's doing as senior Vice president president...
To get SpaceX contracts off Trump. That's why he was supporting him so vehemently. The SpaceX contracts are obviously worth a hell of a lot more than the devaluation in X / Twitter stock value.
I think it's only the propaganda aspect, previous generations of wealthy people could only afford news papers then the next generation TV stations and now Social Networks.
If Twitter goes into bankruptcy he'll just move his grift to another platform.
He’s the richest man. He bought it to push his ideology and help swing Trump back into office( along with other suspected things) and to help sow division in the UK amongst others. Truth Social merge- maybe. Musk will otherwise crumple up X and throw it in the bin. He won’t care.
It’s going to be the biggest alt-right echo chamber. He’ll have Steve Bannon on board soon enough to make it even crazier, once all the charges against him magically disappear in January.
He just realized his endgame: he helped influence a major election. I think he realized after 2016 that facts are largely irrelevant to the general public. Rather, they will vote with their feelings, and feelings can be easily manipulated.
He’s already achieved it. Trump will be President and millions of people voted for someone who says things that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
I doubt he had a game plan when he bought it (he tried to back out) but saw a business opportunity by backing Trump. Even if he sells Twitter for a massive loss he'll more than recoup that with Government contracts for SpaceX and Starlink
I reckon Twitter will merge with Truth Social then be sold.
That won't be easy .. Totally different protocols Truth is basically Mastodon and twitter is closed source. Maybe he can port Truth users over or build a bridge between both!?
Recently read the book ‘Character Limit’ and very insightful. I was the same as you not understanding his end game and it seems there is none. He like a child and that’s his favourite toy. Money is no object to him and it’s all about control.
Payment solutions (freedom to transact) regardless of central bank/govt tyranny. free thought and speech (against consensus narrative) . Free market of ideas. You know…Basic human rights the thing the left used to champion 🤷🏾♀️
He can’t be US President because he wasn’t born there. So he’s bought a platform he can merge Truth Social into. He uses his algorithm to get Trump elected, then pays Trump $$$$ for access to, and control of, whatever he wants.
to gain more governments contracts. Surely he and his backers well get the +$60bn to buy twitter back and more now that is sitting within the government?
Probably worried about catching his fish. Also a lot of spammy cat pic accounts which I ruthlessly block alongside the cryptocreeps & unbelievably attractive young Asian ladies who have an an unaccountable interest in being my friend.
We've DM'd each other - it's him.
James @mrjamesob.bsky.social ...
How much did #elonmusk pay for #twitter ?
That was Musk's price to buy the Republican Party, President #trump and the next US government.
For a man in his position, it's probably the equivalent of me paying $10
Doesn’t matter to Musk; he’ll get his $44bn back in his first presidency, and the sky’s the limit thereafter, when he’s scored govt subsidies to enable him to pillage the moon, mars etc
It looks inevitable, the bringing together of Truth Social with X given the level and quality of the exodus. Ultimately they will be fighting over the same audience of those who remain.
...hopefully, blocking and bot detection will work and - most importantly, the network is not dominated by a Billy boy with a nasty type of Napoleon-complex and his fascist friends. All for all sorts of normal X users coming over to see if they like it
That was never his plan - it might have become an opportunity. He is not a genius and has no real foresight, he simply had a massive head start and was lucky in some investments, that’s genuinely it. Now, as most insecure billionaires he spends his time trying to convince people he is a god 🤷♂️
I’m not totally convinced it won’t be the other way round. Trumps faculties are in decline: would be too hard for him to be manipulated and just be the front man.
Not lately, but also lots of anti-abortion, anti-trans... anti everything social issue and, of course, anti immigrant. Some became really really nasty and bold with the trump election.
I got booted off x for having an opinion against Isabel Oakeshotts attack against the disabled on Talk TV but funnily I didn't get booted off for my opinion against the Labour party 🤔 let Musk live in his far right world with Trump
If you can't see the article because the link is no longer valid
Go to the FT front page https://www.ft.com/
For me it is on the right hand side under "Editor's Picks"
"Work Watch. Mass X-odus: professionals desert Musk’s network"
It then asks for a subscription. I’m really not going to spend £59 a month on it! I’m one of those types that forget to stop the payment at the end of the discounted one.
I have never rooted for a company’s downfall. But Elon’s Twitter? That is a different story. It is a grotesque parody of its former self, a sad spectacle of a once-great platform.
I think the burden of the story is that lots of people are leaving X not just oiks like us, but real people with important jobs. Er Journalists and such.. this may bring the apocalypse or WWIII. Or just piss off Musk, but many things do that;Schadenfreude is an important currency of online media.
Yes, Some big names, like radio presenter James O'Brien. He alone has 1.5m listeners a week on LBC, and he talks about Bluesky. Lots of others are bailing too, like BBC presenters who pull in even bigger audiences.
And the rub is that when they try it, they like it, so it fiesta look like stopping.
I enjoy it here but sometimes the "echo chamber" is almost too nice if that is possible. I well remember your phone call with the person about Sadiq Khan. You were kind and showed him facts and I sat agreeing with you but the guy just went away believing the same twaddle.
Would like to read it… but too many have done so, so that it has become unfree…. There is some kind of deep truth in there somewhere, if only I could figure it out!
My worry is - this is a reflection on society... "Professionals" represent a small % of the whole. The same in our politics. The masses are being indoctrinated via Twitter / The Sun / Trumpian news - we leave but the sess pit grows. The future isn't bright but we can avoid it for a bit longer..?
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I'm invisible in there because no one hears or listens to anything I say, I'm dead to them.
https://archive.is/WmZ1S
If Twitter goes into bankruptcy he'll just move his grift to another platform.
I reckon Twitter will merge with Truth Social then be sold.
Such wonderful news!!!!
Too many other people have used it to read this article before you."
I think that says a huge amount!!
https://www.ft.com/content/30510160-88d0-4d5f-9882-b79f131d3ada
https://bsky.app/profile/dannyblanchy.bsky.social
We've DM'd each other - it's him.
How much did #elonmusk pay for #twitter ?
That was Musk's price to buy the Republican Party, President #trump and the next US government.
For a man in his position, it's probably the equivalent of me paying $10
Stands to reason being that us professional aren't daft enough to hang around in a toxic wasteland, are we?
Not lefties or the woke or whatever.
‘Professionals’ have left X.
That is until his ego clashes with Trump. That might happen sooner than people think. It will be Cummings "plus-plus-plus".
Keep your eyes on for the next season of The Trolley: US.
no click-thru anymore!! 👍😆
Movement of woke people
Go to the FT front page https://www.ft.com/
For me it is on the right hand side under "Editor's Picks"
"Work Watch. Mass X-odus: professionals desert Musk’s network"
You could try another browser/device and see if that works.
And the rub is that when they try it, they like it, so it fiesta look like stopping.
Signed
Puzzled of Wilmersdorf
It'll just be him and his hareem left soon.
Too many other people have used it to read this article before you."
(Sorry for crappy photo quality)