Elon Musk buys Twitter

[[Dimetrodon]]

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/e ... 022-10-28/

A few days back, Elon Musk has purchased twitter and is slowly making his desired changes to it. While his supporters claim that this is a victory for "free speech" on social media, I expect him to silence his critics on the platform.

[Lumpy Burgertushie]

I hope and believe that he will not.


robert

[[Dimetrodon]]

I hope and believe that he will not.

He has been documented to be a very vindictive individual: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elo ... 02696.html

[ssl]

It's good he bought Twitter, he just has to send it into space so that we don't talk about it anymore.

[warmweer]

I'm not fond of the guy but I appreciate his banning style on Twitter

[ssl]

Former Twitter CEO fired by Musk thought he had $42 million in damages. Only Musk found something in his contract and therefore he would have made him say that he would not receive any compensation.
Musk is likely to reap very quickly what he sows. His management methods are known to be untenable, in this game the good ones will go.

[Mick]

He’s an innovator and as such gets stuff wrong, don’t we all, he also tends to knee-jerk a lot. But, he’s managed to do something NASA still can’t do after 64 years and spending an estimated $650b (I assume that to be a conservative figure) and that is building re-usable first stages for his rockets. The savings in that piece of technology alone is massive.

[[Dimetrodon]]

Him building cheaper and more sophisticated rockets does not mean his vices should be overlooked.

[Mick]

I’ve got vices but it doesn’t make me a bad person.

[[Dimetrodon]]

I’ve got vices but it doesn’t make me a bad person.

I don't think you tried to contact law enforcement with a fake mass shooting threat to get them to go after a whistleblower. Elon Musk did.

[Elias]

Psychopath, if you ask me.

[[Dimetrodon]]

Psychopath, if you ask me.

Indeed. Some of his projects are viable, but I honestly think the man is more of a conman than anything else. His company only existed due to government subsidies and he certainly did not go from rags to riches either. Not to mention that most of his projects are vaporware, with the exception of his rockets.

[Tastenplayer]

Verified Twitter profiles to soon cost money

*On Twitter, verified profiles could cost money in the future.
*That's the word on at least two technology blogs that cite insider knowledge.
*Elon Musk had announced an overhaul of account verification after taking over the short message service.

Previously, it was free: Verifying the authenticity of a Twitter profile, which is marked with a blue tick next to the profile name. This function is mainly available to celebrities, companies, politicians or journalists as well as accounts with many followers.

On Monday night, however, the technology blogs "Platformer" and "The Verge" reported that the verification ticks will in future only be available to customers of the Twitter Blue subscription service. It currently costs just under five dollars a month.

However, "The Verge" also wrote, citing informed persons and internal communication, that verification is to become part of a new, more expensive Blue version. Twitter wants to charge just under 20 dollars a month for it.

Elon Musk himself announced on Twitter that the account verification process would be revised. He took over the short message service a few days ago - for around 44 billion dollars. The money came partly from sales of his shares in electric car manufacturer Tesla, but also from contributions from investors and loans.

SRF 4 News, 31.10.2022, 5 a.m.; sda/dpa/flal;schl https://www.srf.ch/news/international/uebernahme-durch-elon-musk-gepruefte-twitter-profile-sollen-bald-geld-kosten

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[[Dimetrodon]]

If he thinks Twitter is going to be some cash cow, he is certainly mistaken.

[ssl]

Psychopath, if you ask me.

Of course he is too