• @[email protected]
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    He told Benjamin Netanyahu?.. He just decided to tell the prime minister of Israel? Of all people?

    Not like a press announcement, a notification to people using the site? Just to some politician he was talking to while on some rich wankers holiday?

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    “[We’re] moving to a small monthly payment for use of the X system,” he just told Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it’s [the] only way to stamp out bots actual human users .

    FTFY

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    We’re finally reaching the true death throes of Twitter! I’m so happy.

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      I sincerely hope his management team applies their best judgment and deliver exactly what their boss requested of them. It’s the right thing to do according to their employment contracts.

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      I shit you not, the board member whose idea was Unity pay per install is Musk’s friend, they were both executives at PayPal.

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        Lol. These motherfuckers at the top must be all acquinted.

        “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”

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        And /u/spez is tight with that crowd too, so you can guess where the API monetization idea came from

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        He was also the CEO of EA when it was voted Worst Company in the World. Off the top of my head, I believe it was the second time they won the Golden Poo award, during the height of their SimCity fiasco.

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      I’m gonna keep deadnaming his company for as long as he keeps deadnaming his daughter.

      • Flying SquidOP
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        Well put. I just say I don’t cater to the whims of billionaires, but that’s an even better argument.

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          He has donated sperm to the production of a truly terrifying number of children.

          I can’t say he has “fathered” any because that motherfucker isn’t a father by any reasonable definition. He’s a greebly little sperm donor.

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          He has 11 children and believes it’s his duty to repopulate the planet and save the human race. Not joking.

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      Anyone else picturing a Minecraft subway from the beta era? No? Just me? Okay…

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    I want to charge Elon Musk for helping russian terrorists in their genocide of Ukrainian children.

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    Please let it die. It will be nice to force media outlets to actually put effort into stories again, instead of just reporting on what is being tweeted by the usual gaggle of assholes.

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        There’s already a concerning number of articles that just pull sources from Reddit…which then get posted onto Reddit for more discussion.

        Hopefully Lemmy doesn’t end up like that.

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    There will be singing, and dancing, in Jerusalem when this happens! Can’t wait for Twitter to disappear!

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      DON’T YOURS MEAN , IT CAN DO EVERYTHING AND DRIVE YOUR CAR TO YOUR PERFECT SUBURBTOPIA

      ^(no, you’re screaming, I’m just being sarcastic)

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      very unexpected place to find a TMG reference but I’m not complaining

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      There will be singing, and dancing, in Jerusalem when this happens! Can’t wait for Twitter to disappear!

      Is Jerusalem some kind of dogwhistle about “greedy Jews”??? Who even brought up Jerusalem?

      Looks like the alt-right infiltrated lemmyworld too

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        It’s a Mountain Goats reference, bozo. But I’d expect nothing more intelligent to come from someone who calls themselves “King Capitalist”

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          I’m not acquainted with C-tier millenial pop trash.

          Even then, I think you made a subconscious relation between charging money - Jews - Jerusalem, which caused you to connect with the symbol of that song and make the reference. Thankfully, you’re still crypto at worst.

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              millenial

              published 2005

              C-tier

              garbage instrumentals, dead nasally voice, banal lyrics, painfully repetitive rhythm and progression, complete lack of development.

              pop

              Okay, let’s say hipstercore or “indie folk” or whatever you people without taste call it. In my lexicon, pop means nasty slop.

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        It’s a fucking song reference. Also, it’s a particularly popular song, especially in lieu of the recent pandemic and such. It’s been on the late show with Colbert.

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      No, inertia is a thing and Twitter was one of the biggest brands on the planet when Musk bought it. If anything, he speedruns its demise.

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        Twitter was never a particularly big brand. Even in just the space of social media it was an also-ran.

        At its peak (and it’s nowhere near its peak now!) Twitter had ~400 million monthly active users. Reddit has ~500 million. Snapchat ~750. Telegram ~800. LinkedIn ~930 (!). Messenger and TikTok ~1 billion each. Instagram and Whatsapp ~2 each. Youtube ~2.5. And Facebook ~3 billion.

        Twitter at its peak is just barely outside of rounding error territory compared to Facebook and Youtube.

        And here I’ve compared Twitter against its “peers”: international social media sites. There are regional social media sites that are bigger than Twitter was at its peak. QZone is ~500 million. QQ and Weibo are ~575. Kuaishou is ~650. Douyin (Tiktok’s origin) is ~725. WeChat is 1.3 billion. These six sites are in one country only … and each of them are larger than Twitter’s highest ever count. (And note that in China Weibo is considered largely a joke. At 550 million. Larger, again I stress, than Twitter was at its peak.)

        The only reason Twitter has ever been treated as anything but a loser’s game is because lazy-assed reporters found reading sound bites on Twitter was easier than doing actual reportage. As a result Twitter has had outsized visibility for its rather pathetic actual participation.

        The same reporters who report on China by looking in on Weibo (the “joke”).