So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121861831#Comment_121861831

Most of the pundits/talking heads/commentators that push the anti elite narrative aren’t exactly on the minimum wage either.

Penn

https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1765631817548440017?s=20

As others mention in the replies, he's likely doing it because of how few likes and retweets he gets compared to views, and because of how often he gets ratio'ed by people's replies to him.

Either way, another example of removing the things that make Twitter stand out, and just making everything incredibly bland.

Quin_Dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121865514#Comment_121865514

Have they put forward any "reasoning" behind the decision ?

What awesome new paradigm is this supposed to unleash?

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121865933#Comment_121865933

I'm guessing their reasoning is to do with trying to focus on View Count, which means people who saw the tweet on their feed, because retweets and likes etc are dropping or showing up as such a small percentage of view counts that it just clearly demonstrates how engagement is falling.

A quick scan of Musks own feed shows that for many of his tweets, he gets about 0.5-1% of the total view count as actual engagement (retweets, likes or replies). His tweets can get (as a rough estimate/average from some of his tweets) 20m views, and only about 5k replies, 20k retweets and 200k likes/favourites. And that's him as one of if not the most followed account on the platform.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121865933#Comment_121865933

It's to stop the blue ticks having their lickle feelings hurt by everyone seeing how unpopular their posts are.

VinLieger

If there's one thing advertisers love its removing engagement features......

ohnonotgmail

Please tell me this screenshot is fake. Even Elon can't be this dumb

Flaneur OBrien

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121874136#Comment_121874136

I ain't gonna register to find out. It's really amazing how sh*t twitter is these days. Login to read an othwise publicly viewable thread? Sure... 👍👍

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121866463#Comment_121866463

Much is talked about of the development and moderation brain drain; but if the managerial tier also saw its own exodus then Twitter's possibly lacking that critical pathfinding in product, sales, marketing etc that might have dictated direction. worse still if it's coming directly from the CEO without that managerial diligence telling him to STFU.

fullstop

I see Elon is tweeting a photoshopped fake of Biden giving some medal or other to an immigrant who was accused (and cleared) of attacking police officers in NYC with an inflammatory caption about a free trip to California. Post was flagged by community notes and the scumbag removed them. He really is a wretched PoS.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121874136#Comment_121874136

Gotta get me some ketamine.

AndrewJRenko

Free speech absolutist strikes again

https://twitter.com/bradmossesq/status/1767955448068481502?s=46&t=3l1OhjvjsuAh4w9RMjlH8g

Harika

What a snowflake

hoodie6029

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121889118#Comment_121889118

‘Contract terminated’. By text.

Presume this guy took the job knowing that there was a very high probability he’d be fired quickly if he displeased Musk. I doubt he thought it’d be this quick though.

pixelburp

Don Lemon probably couldn't have asked for more publicity for his interview: now everyone will want to know what was said or asked that made Musk throw such a huff?

Billionaires, guys. They're insane.

kowloon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121889692#Comment_121889692

It's some real Streisand Effect territory. Ideal publicity when you're looking for work after being fired from CNN on the same day Tucker got the boot from Fox.

Penn

Some of the things Lemon asked Musk about in the interview was his use of ketamine and his recent meeting with Donald Trump.

Twitter also released a statement saying Lemon's interview was practically just a CNN interview but on social media, so they decided to not do a deal with Lemon.

What was funnier though, was this part of the statement:

"However, like any enterprise, we reserve the right to make decisions about our business partnerships, and after careful consideration, X decided not to enter into a commercial partnership with the show."

So Twitter has the right to make decisions about business partnerships, but when other companies decide to not deal with Twitter....

pixelburp

Well the hour interview with Lemmon is out; not sure I have the patience to sit through it but I await the summaries about what exactly was said that made Musk throw his toys out the pram.

Timberrrrrrrr

Musk won't be receiving the RBG award after all.

https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1769848183428186218?t=xAzuB5fFOKXc4UG4J2mi8w&s=19

Harika

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121909863#Comment_121909863

That's hilarious as the first oopsie by Musk was to agree that he shaped his opinion of Lemon, and we can assume everyone else, by watching clips of him and not full segments.

Next throwing random stats at Lemon to proof that Twitter was far left.

Lemon doing a very strong interview and cornering Musk at the DEI issue.

Timberrrrrrrr

Musk sharing this kind of propaganda is extremely dangerous.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1770030227390914624?t=TqDT3kIv2p_CHcfK4I1V2w&s=19

Kevrano

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4hHok0uc7N/?igsh=MTliNHpvMjQzaGJtMw== - extract from the Lemon interview courtesy of the Daily Show. Musk is such a snowflake

Kevrano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121913806#Comment_121913806

My god, that’s crazy ****…

silliussoddius

He's a walking anti-drug advertisement.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121914758#Comment_121914758

As the Daily Show presenter noted, all these right adjacent public figures appear to be the whiniest, thin skinned snowflakes who like to sneer and snipe at liberals and the left, yet get immediately flustered and outraged at the smallest little prod.

briany

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121913806#Comment_121913806

It's an extraordinary morass of racist dogwhistles, with the overarching one being that this immigrant group would be mindlessly loyal because of handouts, which implies that they have no agency of their own and are lazy. Who is working the backbreaking jobs throughout the agricultural and construction sectors throughout those US states which are situated near the border, and for a pittance? Would be mightily surprising if it wasn't a huge amount of undocumented migrants.

But the other thing is that this trope of bussing in migrants to vote Democrat is awfully vague on what the process is to actually make them legal voters. Don't you have to be an American citizen to vote? How long does it take to become one? A quick google suggests at least a couple of years.

In short, if the Democrats weren't parachuting in all these brown people, the Republican party wouldn't be under threat as an electoral force, so we gotta keep them out, is the message, and makes me ask the question who the Republican party is supposed to represent.

MisterAnarchy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121889692#Comment_121889692

Billionaires arent insane, far from it.

Lemon is a talentless racist hack, a race baiting clown who CNN booted out the door because he stank the place out.

Musk extends an olive branch to the leper Lemon and Lemon tries to **** all over him.

Musk showed extreme composure and patience in dealing with an extremely biased interviewer.

I hope this will be the end of Lemons career, I never want to see or hear from such a diva again.

Rjd2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121915245#Comment_121915245

Just a mess really. Lemon is awful, truly clueless on free speech which is grim considering how long he has been in the media.

Fav part was " I was fired you don't believe in Freeze peach" ....eh neither you do Don lol.

However Elon shouldn't talk about free speech either, he has laid down for numerous authoritarian regimes for censorship and some of the stuff been sugessted for Israel is horrific. Jack wasn't perfect, but I do think he truly believed in free speech considering how hostile he was to foreign nations when it comes to censorship and how he pushed back on Dems/Republican attempts to censor when he was in charge.

briany

The concept that Don Lemon is any worse than Tucker "wow! coin trolleys in Russia!" Carlson is laughable, yet we can see a fairly clear difference in attitude from Musk to the both of them.

Obviously, Musk is not a free speech absolutist. At best, he's someone seeking to redress an imbalance (as he sees it) between right wing and left wing voices in the media beyond Twitter.

At worst, he's about 3 WKDs away from posting some spicy Pepe-as-Hitler memes.

PopePalpatine

And here was me thinking his chumminess with Austrian neo-Nazi Martin Sellner was bad.