Elon Musk

i do think it would be kind of funny if he destroyed it not by turning it into a right wing hell hole or gutting its workforce but by trying to turn it into x, the everything app

kinda think hes not going to do all that much, tho just letting trump back on would be bad for the world

I like my part of twitter and Elon Musk can fuck off and die in a hole full of raw sewage.

he will change it like 3%, not noticeable to norms, annoying to some journos but THE EXPOSURE. dems will flap their arms without impact. 60% of any remaining left presence that even still plays with it will go someplace else, and GOP/authoritarian majority will become permanent.

jk jk, i feel better now. (gets out tracking sheet for future accuracy evals).

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ff9bDQqXEAE8rdH?format=png&name=small

The question is, how long will you be able to live in ignorance as more and more of the machinery of our culture becomes branches for TikTok

A real culture doesn't shift at the speed at which TikTok memes emerge and are replaced.

Wont kids get bored with TikTok in 5 years and move onto something else like they did with Myspace and Facebook and Livejournal all of which were huge at their peaks? Let em all rot.

Yep, that think piece just panders to FOMO.

I saw an interesting article (on Twitter, lol) claiming that no social media site has yet been able to pull themselves out once they start declining. So good luck Facebook, Twitter, etc.

ive seen some big journalist accounts saying twitter got too aggressive for them, wonder if that was due to the maga influx, not the best people to have around

Kids do use groups chats in regular text messaging a lot I think

the ultimate private social media I suppose

One of these days some rebellious kids are going to want to actually meet irl and hang out

My 14 yo daughter and her friends almost exclusively use Snapchat for messaging.

my daughter (12) uses gchat

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/11/snapchat-layoffs-apple-tiktok/

Snapchat’s active user base surged to 350 million people per day, more than Twitter, Pinterest and Reddit. By 2022 it was the fifth-largest U.S.-based social media platform by active users, behind only Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and Google’s YouTube. An April survey by Pew Research found that 59 percent of American teens use Snapchat, while 15 percent said they use it “almost constantly.”

thats crazy considering snapchats stock is down more than anyones

i guess the problem is teens are poor and they grow up into tiktok users.

what the hell is Snapchat good for that the other apps aren't? blows my mind that that's the one which took off. I remember when it was introduced the founders would do interviews and be unable to explain why exactly disappearing messages were good. outside of **that reason**

product design is like that its mysterious you have to be steve jobs to understand

60% of any remaining left presence that even still plays with it will go someplace else

Can't count the number of thoughtful memorials to Mike Davis I've seen on Twitter today. I don't know if this is regional thing maybe, or we're using different interpretations of "left", or possibly the issue is with the specific content of your feed?

That article quoted about TikTok is just the stupidest. I don't think there's ever been a "cultural" phenomenon so thoroughly manufactured by international neoliberalism, what a myopic and shallow understanding they present there.

yeah left twitter still seems pretty strong havent noticed any mass disappearances, twitters a good place for angry people lol

ha, yeah i think current defs of leftiness are vague in usa after the last 50 yrs, esp in my old age bracket. there i simply meant left-of-lib and strong anti-capitalism. xp

snapchat - the appeal of using a social media app yoru parents are not on

also, one they can't pry into to see what you posted last week

Snapchat’s active user base surged to 350 million people per day, more than Twitter, Pinterest and Reddit.

Pinterest?
What does anyone do on Pinterest? Collect photos and 'pin' them to your wall? Gimme a break.

people, women mostly, seem to use it for shopping reminders/inspo, ask the women in you life if they have a desk/dress/yarn board its a whole hidden world

Their 'sign in NOW!' wall is so fierce that I've never had a chance to peruse it

yeah i always felt like it was more just a centralized bookmarking tool for mood boards than a social network but maybe people use it socially

i think yes but also you look at other peoples boards to find stuff for your boards

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgAtFMhXwAAF7lE?format=png&name=small

some of you are really telling on yourself in this thread

What’s a computer?

(Eat y’self fitter)

who uses

https://pinboard.in/

That is one I actually do use. I started using it after the previous bookmarking service shut down.

i used to follow him on twitter when he was just making fun of silicon valley, then he got super into dem politics, an arrogant man

its cool how he just runs that site himself and keeps everything on a couple servers tho, living the dream

i've met him. he's nice! he's terrible on twitter though.

iirc he's taking the year off. maybe he'll be better when he comes back, or maybe he won't come back.

true old schoolers like to write down their favorite websites and keep the list in the top drawer

"the web drawer"

The site works great. I've been keeping bookmarks there since 2005.

I can't remember what the prior one was called.

delicious

Yes! del.icio.us

jfc

Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in! pic.twitter.com/D68z4K2wq7

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2022

"How's it going, everybody? You're all fired! OK, not all of you. You, you, you, not you. You, you, you, not you."

sounds like it's done. "you'll all hear directly from elon on friday" from current leadership to staff.

have fun making $1.2 billion a year in interest payments

i will fine

no one thinks he will pay $54.20 per share for twtr. no one.

― Yerac, Sunday, May 15, 2022 1:16 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

no, he's just not stupid enough to overpay that much for TWTR.

― Yerac, Sunday, May 15, 2022 4:01 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

shades of George Constanza's house in the Hamptons.. he's gonna ride this out as long as possible: "So, eh, where would my office be if I did go through with the deal?"

xp what’s the point of this