Musk & Twitter
-
@mariner4life said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@Stockcar86 Well the other side is Apple is now advertising again on Twitter (second largest advertiser).
Also got to announce that Apple isn't banning Twitter like they did Parler, etc.
Big wins for Elon IMO.
you are to Elon Musk what stargazer is to David havili
It's cute
One big difference, I admit my bias.
-
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@mariner4life said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@Stockcar86 Well the other side is Apple is now advertising again on Twitter (second largest advertiser).
Also got to announce that Apple isn't banning Twitter like they did Parler, etc.
Big wins for Elon IMO.
you are to Elon Musk what stargazer is to David havili
It's cute
One big difference, I admit my bias.
fair point!
-
Personally I find it highly amusing that so many people who haven't run a successful company are telling someone has has obviously run a successful company how to run a successful company.
Especially when that company's users and traffic has increased since he bought it.
Elon's also made it clear that he didn't buy Twitter as a money making venture, yes I'm sure he didn't buy it with the intent of it loosing money but the primary driver for the purchase wasn't financial gain.
It's kinda like me giving goal kicking tips to Dan Carter...
A lot of the criticism seems simply contrived or illogical at best.
Sure if you wanted to keep Twitter as basically a woke, far left safe space and are upset about "others" been let back in just say that. But to attack the mans business nouse just seems rather silly and petty?
Still it provides good entertainment for a middle of the road no-one like me
-
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@mariner4life said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@Stockcar86 Well the other side is Apple is now advertising again on Twitter (second largest advertiser).
Also got to announce that Apple isn't banning Twitter like they did Parler, etc.
Big wins for Elon IMO.
you are to Elon Musk what stargazer is to David havili
It's cute
One big difference, I admit my bias.
The other big difference is that Musk is somewhat more successful than what DH is...
-
@Windows97 said in Musk & Twitter:
But to attack the richest man in the world's mans business nouse just seems rather silly and petty?
fixed that for ya,
yeah, it's weird. He appears to be a colossal arsehole, but has driven step changes in rocketry, electric cars and internet/satellite coverage. Whatever else he does, very few people make that much of a difference.
-
@Kiwiwomble said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan law firms have had the for decades
Yup, I remember Clifford Chance in 2005 had their own currency, chef and sleep pods - literally no need for a senior associate to go home
-
@No-Quarter said in Musk & Twitter:
Nah, fibre is a much better option if you can get it, much more stable/reliable and won't be interfered with by atmospheric conditions.
Definitely, but the gap is getting smaller. Latency is/was the big issue for satellite broadband but with LEO satellites it's way less of an issue (probably about 20ms v 15ms for fibre). Weather is def an issue, but that can be alleviated if Musk throws up enough satellites.
At the end of the day, as ever, I suspect it will come down to price and marketing.
-
What I'm finding good with Musk's ownership of Twitter is the increase in transparency, particularly around why people were being banned and how moderation was implemented.
From what we've seen, the previous management were less than open and ethical in their handing of the issue and we now have Dorsey admitting what he said in 2021 (even to to a congressional committee) was actually wrong.
It's a start, but there's a long way to go and the problem of the free-speech v harms still exists, but this seems a better way of doing things.
-
@Victor-Meldrew said in Musk & Twitter:
What I'm finding good with Musk's ownership of Twitter is the increase in transparency, particularly around why people were being banned and how moderation was implemented.
From what we've seen, the previous management were less than open and ethical in their handing of the issue and we now have Dorsey admitting what he said in 2021 (even to to a congressional committee) was actually wrong.
It's a start, but there's a long way to go and the problem of the free-speech v harms still exists, but this seems a better way of doing things.
First rule of tsf club. Don't talk about moderation.
-
@Bones said in Musk & Twitter:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Musk & Twitter:
What I'm finding good with Musk's ownership of Twitter is the increase in transparency, particularly around why people were being banned and how moderation was implemented.
From what we've seen, the previous management were less than open and ethical in their handing of the issue and we now have Dorsey admitting what he said in 2021 (even to to a congressional committee) was actually wrong.
It's a start, but there's a long way to go and the problem of the free-speech v harms still exists, but this seems a better way of doing things.
First rule of tsf club. Don't talk about moderation.
this place is moderated?
-
@Victor-Meldrew said in Musk & Twitter:
What I'm finding good with Musk's ownership of Twitter is the increase in transparency, particularly around why people were being banned and how moderation was implemented.
From what we've seen, the previous management were less than open and ethical in their handing of the issue and we now have Dorsey admitting what he said in 2021 (even to to a congressional committee) was actually wrong.
It's a start, but there's a long way to go and the problem of the free-speech v harms still exists, but this seems a better way of doing things.
Some of the most shocking stuff I've read has nothing to do with politics - it's the complete lack of IT controls Twitter has had in place over the years. Apparently there was no controls over what staff could do with their computers, e.g. install whatever they want, and access to the Production environment was not locked down at all - something like 5000 staff had full access to it! Which is just bananas.
-
@No-Quarter said in Musk & Twitter:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Musk & Twitter:
What I'm finding good with Musk's ownership of Twitter is the increase in transparency, particularly around why people were being banned and how moderation was implemented.
From what we've seen, the previous management were less than open and ethical in their handing of the issue and we now have Dorsey admitting what he said in 2021 (even to to a congressional committee) was actually wrong.
It's a start, but there's a long way to go and the problem of the free-speech v harms still exists, but this seems a better way of doing things.
Some of the most shocking stuff I've read has nothing to do with politics - it's the complete lack of IT controls Twitter has had in place over the years. Apparently there was no controls over what staff could do with their computers, e.g. install whatever they want, and access to the Production environment was not locked down at all - something like 5000 staff had full access to it! Which is just bananas.
No Dev/Production separation, so they were just flinging shit live directly to production. Those 5000 people (not all IT roles) had direct access to sensitive data - including DMs.
So that's just incompetent. Means they couldn't lock down production when they were worried about (right wing of course) activist employees on Jan 6.
Best bit is they had spies embedded in their staff with all that access. Ones we know about so far were Indian. So think about all those arab spring type revolutions and government officials having access to DMs to organise that sort of stuff. Would have got people locked up/killed/disappeared...
-
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
No Dev/Production separation, so they were just flinging shit live directly to production.
i call that agile^2
-
@antipodean lol, what backlog!