hell yeah bucket of free pets, thanks twitter advertisers
I'd guess every feature they've rolled out since he took over is something they've previously tried and discarded

[taking a giant huff of paint]

"yeah all three novels were about a woke mind virus"

"pronouns suck"

"if you redact them, sure, release them unredacted"

narrator: the u.s. government did not ask them to remove the accounts

imagine the us government and various agencies of it taking an interest in a communication platform that can be trivially exploited by practically anyone. Imagine that!

the whole thing can be summed up as "twitter gets asked to do stuff and sometimes says yes and sometimes says no, but had a process in place", but seeing as elon fired everyone involved in that process I guess it's all just fine now!

lol, lmao. I'm sure that'll rake in the dough
I was time person of the year in 2006, they let anyone be a person of the year
Going well I see
Musk made it so the algorithm rids of bad posting. But his tweets don’t appear. Interesting.
Hackers leak email addresses tied to 235 million Twitter accounts

Researchers say the information was assembled by unknown actors who exploited a previously disclosed flaw in Twitter's system for verifying account ownership.

The Washington Post
imagine getting roasted by catturd2
Becoming increasingly convinced that he's planning to rip the copper wire out of the walls and then declare bankruptcy
Twitter hacked, 200 million user email addresses leaked, researcher says

Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said Wednesday.

Reuters
Why not done?
The woke mind virus already won
Social Media Platforms Are Failing Brazil's Voters

The stakes could not be higher in Brazil’s election. Yet tech platforms are predictably failing to meet the moment. More than 120 million Brazilians voted in the first round of elections on October 2. A second round on October 30 will determine Brazil’s next president.

Human Rights Watch
Musk Has Reduced Twitter’s Ability to Spot Foreign Disinformation, a Former Data Scientist Says

Staff layoffs are just one way the new CEO has undermined the platform’s three-legged approach to the problem.

Defense One
Come to the ‘war cry party’: How social media helped drive mayhem in Brazil

Just like with Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, supporters of Jair Bolsanaro used social media, particularly Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, to fuel the anger that exploded on Sunday in Brasília.

The Washington Post

Lmao, and he demands they only say nice things about Elon for life

Elon bro you’re subject to Warn and the CA equivalent bro what are you doing you’re just gonna send these folks to the plaintiff attorneys

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1612517929593229312.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-employee-severance-agreements-2023-1

Thread by @LisaBloom on Thread Reader App

@LisaBloom: Twitter workers, many of whom I represent, were FINALLY given their "severance agreements" on Saturday. They are really settlement agreements which SILENCE WORKERS FOR LIFE and and require them to give u...…

you hate to see families feud

Don't even need to do any digging to know that every person here is a lying moron

Note that Gregory Eady, the guy who published this paper (and apparently another that's almost exactly the same two years ago?) has his personal twitter covered in "SILENCED!!!!" and "SHADOWBANNED" garbage and quietly boosting Elon Musk supporters. The paper's co-author is Joshua Tucker, a quasi-Russian apologist (or at least neutralist) mouthpiece

deadbeat billionaire

lmao he's really gonna do it? blue only votes so he can win all of his own dumb polls, in a bald-faced sop to his own ego. all because a bunch of people told him to get fucked and he can't handle it?

my god, the corn cobbing here is astronomical

Discover a new world of cringe by digging into Elon's "likes"

ELON: I… try? Not to uhhhh pick? Fights? But I do erm finish. Them *manages to unsheathe sword on the third try*

If you thought the Tesla folks who were transferred over to Twitter were safe, lol, lmao
This is the only way he could have shut down twitter. I mean it would have been great if he had some kind of John Galt speech and then shut the whole thing down, but there would have been all this infrastructure lying around. But by destroying any legitimacy and then letting it all fall apart slowly, that's more natural.

"Amir Shevat, who managed Twitter’s developer platform and had led large teams at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, was perplexed. Every company did stack ranking differently. Should they sort workers by seniority? Impact? Revenue generated? No one had an answer. “They said, ‘We don’t know. Elon wants a stack rank,’” Shevat says."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-twitter-takeover.html

"The project succeeded in generating large lists of names, but because different managers had ranked employees according to their own methods, the results were incoherent. “If I were to get that list, I would probably throw it in the garbage because it’s completely useless,” Shevat says."
elon did ask for stack ranking, he just didn't specify what to rank on lol
weird how excess mortality is so much higher than reported covid deaths if we're overcounting

look, people are dying of a lot of things, all the time, moreso than usual even.

doesn't mean it's covid. could be anything killing those people

sometimes people just die. none of my business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXvDGRvX70

Repo Man: Sometimes people just explode

YouTube
there's nothing in the article that isn't in the headline, but lmao:

"i see that you blocked some nazis, here's more nazis for you to see going forward"

thanks Elon, this makes total sense 🙄

lol we've been trying to tell people this is how the internet works for a decade while the social media companies did everything in their power to hide it

and he just tweeted it out

lol
god i wish biden was even a tenth as effective as idiots think he is

lmao that the richest man on the planet for some reason burned billions of dollars to please a misanthropic sixty year old Florida man

and he’s failing

Elon has no friends
Hmm that must mean this Edelman guy is the one that speaks only truths then
I thought this was withering sarcasm until I checked the user name lol
the worlds greatest source of truth is tiny wikipedia articles created by reddit upvotes, taped to the bottom of 240 character posts that no one will ever look at only a day later
It’s the same old same old because every social media company finds out the same thing: the most profits they can get involved breaking peoples brains and the right wing are the easiest to break the brains of... Since then every social media space becomes a warehouse of drooling idiots clapping as their feed fills up with the secrets they don’t want you to know about vaccines or which Jew families have secret ties to ancient aliens who want to enslave the earth or whatever.

There’s a reason Twitter finally stopped burning money when they let Trump take off and let his shadow spawn an ecosystem of Nazi fungus in its shade.

See also: The History Channel and Ancient Aliens / Nazi Super Weapons. The conspiracy loving fash seem to be the most reliable audience to cater for if you want to make money.

can’t decide if this is “oh dear” or “yes…hahaHA YES”
a once in a life time opportunity. Elon missed the point!
lmao yeah okay elon. left-wing encyclopedia

seems like maybe no one told elon that traffic numbers are collapsing and he’s about to find out...

and it'll get worse as a knock-on effect of kicking off 3rd party apps where most of the users that say anything worth seeing post

lol at catturd2

damn he’s got the king mad at him

Musk vs. Royal Landlord might be the ultimate letthemfight.jpeg

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/01/23/twitter-sued-crown-estate-unpaid-london-rent/

Twitter sued by Crown Estate over alleged unpaid London rent

Court proceedings issued in dispute over company’s West End headquarters

The Telegraph
Yep

free speech??
no, censorship!

— ancient elon muskian creed

https://theintercept.com/2023/01/24/twitter-elon-musk-modi-india-bbc/

Elon Musk Caves to Pressure From India to Remove BBC Doc Critical of Modi

Officials from India’s ruling right-wing party said American tech companies like Twitter and YouTube complied with demands to remove the documentary.

The Intercept
Waiting for the Taibbi drop on the Modi censorship
There Is Nothing “Neo” About These Nazis

They never went away

MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy
Elon trying to save face unbanning another antisemite to have them immediately be antisemitic because this is now a pattern and he's in trouble with his trial and his boards

I guess it's their equivalent of Red Hammer Week...

The Twitter 2.0 experiment has failed. As ever one need only look as far as SA for guidance in uncertain times.

He's not even going to pretend to do anything about the Modi censorship because Modi ~asked~ him personally and he approved it himself, so instead he has to play "poor little me I'm so busy with all these companies I'm CEO of"

Interesting thread speculating what is going on with twitter falling apart, basically a lot of interactions especially with high follower accounts are just being dumped because elon is cutting back on resources so much lol

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1614639421176926209.html

Thread by @rahaeli on Thread Reader App

@rahaeli: The Twitter mentions tab has never been truly reliable, but like the embedded tweet Archane is quoting says, it's gotten much worse lately. From checking my tweets directly I'd estimate I'm seeing less than...…

lmao just seeking approval from ANYONE

"Do you like me?"

"Please say you like me and validate me."

"It's fine, no really, it's fine!..."

https://nitter.net/cb_doge/status/1618114400514375680

Doing the bidding of his debt daddies

older tweets are even funnier (and sadder) with Elon's name change

also replies are ever stranger with elon's new breed of psychotic right wing nutjob fanbase

impossible to know what his politics are
@cspam what makes us think he isn’t being paid to suppress opposition to fascist leaders and dictators abroad?
@cspam Elon Musk has absolutely no business being a CEO of a publicly traded company.
@cspam BIG BRAIN IDEA: we should start a left-wing conspiracy to grift off these trogs while gradually re-educating them — i know supplements fit in there somewhere
@cspam you can almost always tell when he’s just done a bonghit