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

  • 14-04-2022 10:29pm
    #1
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,293 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    If Elon Musk buys Twitter that Clown Trump will be back on it as Elon Musk is a supporter of him. That is not good.

    I will admit Elon Musk has done some great things like Tesla and Space X but am not a fan of how he goes about things or that he supports that Clown Trump.

    I really hope for all out sakes that Twitter do not sell to him but with the offer he has made them it's likely the loss making platform will sell to him.

    What does everyone here think of this?

    Are you a supporter of Musk?

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.

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  • #2
    sam t smith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭sam t smith


    Twitter is toxic.

    Far worse than The Facebuke. I’d love to see Twitter disappear.



  • #3
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,293 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118928821#Comment_118928821

    Agreed totally. I have tried it three times and failed twice the third time I am still on it but never even use it. It makes no sense. It is a mess.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #4
    sam t smith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭sam t smith


    You are better off away from it.

    My opinion of Musk has improved in the last few years. He is an Uber troll. His pump and dump schemes in crypto are funny to watch as a bystander.

    Still comes out with a lot of crap.



  • #5
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,558 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Usually one might say "I'm not buying what he is selling".

    In this case "I'm not buying what he is buying".

    Twitter is full of people who couldn't sustain an argument if you paid them.

    A haven for hit and run merchants.

    (I'm not on it but I look at links from here sometimes)



  • #6
    brokenangel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭brokenangel


    Musk has a desperate need to be in the press…this is just the latest in a long line

    Cant have a war on the front pages so Musk comes up with this to get himself back into the media

    i am still waiting for him to get arrested for the messing with crypto currency



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  • #7
    Still stihl waters 3
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    You're not being forced to use it, musk has zero bearing on anything that happens in my life, apart from commenting on this thread



  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058241791/so-elon-musk-wants-to-buy-twitter-i-hope-he-does-not-succeed-but-its-likely-he-will

    You started a thread to get peoples opinion about Twitter because you don't use Twitter and you don't want someone to buy Twitter because another person you don't like will be allowed back on Twitter.

    Seems like you think too much about Twitter.



  • #9
    joseywhales
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,078 ✭✭✭joseywhales


    It's nonsense. He hasn't detailed how he will fund it and he's come straight out the blocks with a final and best offer. As things stand he can't change the board until 2023. It's a publicity stunt, he is just going to pump and dump his stock like the charlatan that he is. And if he was serious about charging for the service, they would lose their vast network of users(which is the only asset the company really has) at an exponential rate.



  • #10
    brokenangel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭brokenangel


    I thought he was recently solving world hunger? How he get on with that?



  • #11
    Amadan Dubh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭Amadan Dubh


    Twitter and Facebook are two cheeks of the same arse. If this move alienates the wokerati then I support it (in the same way I support the terminal decline of Facebook with a its right wing and conspiracy theory/fake news nonsense).

    Twitter is a private company anyway, it is not a media publication so I don't see why people would get so antsy about Musk unless they themselves are fearful of losing their platform.



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  • #12
    BruteStock
    Registered Users Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭BruteStock


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118928945#Comment_118928945

    He wasn't serious. The $3 a month charge so everybody can have a blue checkmark was a joke.



  • #13
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,293 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118928894#Comment_118928894

    Actually I think about it very little and I never asked for anyone's opinion on Twitter. I asked what do they think about Elon Musk buying it. I even forget I have it on my phone lol unless a link comes up here in some of the forums I am following or it's in the news like today.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929054#Comment_118929054

    Might have read you wrong so mate. No offense intended but it just seems an odd thing to start a thread about if you don't use it.



  • #15
    NSAman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭NSAman


    Twitter: people who love to hear themselves speak, giving advice to the rest of the world who don’t care.



  • #16
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,293 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929088#Comment_118929088

    I just do not want that Orange Baffoon Trump getting back into power in America ever again and if Elon Musk does buy Twitter it might just happen which should worry us all.

    Once with that Clown was enough.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #17
    Ha Long Bay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,318 ✭✭✭✭Ha Long Bay


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929088#Comment_118929088


    Can I start a thread on heroin? I have never used it but I should be allowed start a thread if I wanted to.



  • #18
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    Twitter is fine if you only interact with people you know well. Replying to strangers especially about controversial topics can be a recipe for disaster and I never do it.

    I think one of Twitter's biggest problems for user experience is contextualising the results of trending words. For example, 'luas' sometimes trends in Ireland but when I click it from the trending page, I often see posts from another language (I think from India) because 'luas' is a common word in that language. That's obviously is not why that word was trending in Ireland.

    Another more severe example recently is when I clicked 'circle k' which was trending in Ireland because of the fuel prices and was shown a clip of some disgusting creep licking the toilet seat in a circle k bathroom.



  • #19
    sam t smith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭sam t smith


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929120#Comment_118929120

    Go for it. You have my blessing for what it is worth.



  • #20
    Ha Long Bay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,318 ✭✭✭✭Ha Long Bay


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929126#Comment_118929126

    So you agree you don't need to have first hand experience to start or comment on a thread?

    Why did you not direct your reply at the poster who said this?



  • #21
    sam t smith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭sam t smith


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929142#Comment_118929142

    Correct.

    The poster doesn’t need to be told, they clearly know since the poster created the thread… they didn’t need to ask could they create the thread. They just went ahead and did it.

    But you seemed to be unclear on it, so I tried to assist you.



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  • #22
    bennyineire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭bennyineire


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118928950#Comment_118928950

    I'm not a fan boy but I have to correct you on that, he called out the UN for saying $6 billion would solve it, oh yeah and by the way he donated 5.7 billion shortly after https://fortune.com/2022/02/15/elon-musk-5-7-billion-donation-weeks-after-asking-un-world-hunger/



  • #23
    sam t smith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭sam t smith


    Why would any charity want to ‘solve’ the issue they were setup to address? It would be like turkeys voting for Christmas.

    Charity is an industry. It is in their interest to keep the issue ‘ticking over’ so they can continue to exist and employ the charity staff which is they reason for a charity to exist.



  • #24
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,193 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929099#Comment_118929099

    Whatever







    😉



  • #25
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,193 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118929107#Comment_118929107


    Once with that Clown was enough.


    Is that you Melania?



  • #26
    animalinside
    Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭animalinside


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058241791/so-elon-musk-wants-to-buy-twitter-i-hope-he-does-not-succeed-but-its-likely-he-will

    I have exactly the inverse opinion of you - I think Musk has promised far more than he has ever delivered, lost many millions of investors' money and runs on a kind of culty basis.

    On the other hand, I think allowing Trump back on would be a great step in the right direction - note that I don't like Trump, I just don't think it's reasonable for him to be banned.

    A lot more importantly is how it would make Twitter a lot more relevant again. Twitter has been declining for years and there was a time not long ago when it looked like it might fall off a cliff and be completely abandoned by the mainstream, thankfully that did not happen. I love twitter and hope it to continue in the future, Musk would breathe a lot of new life into it.



  • #27
    Suckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    $43 Billion is f*cking vulgar.

    Far too much money. Whatever about the platform and the people that use it, for that money they should be able to police it properly.

    Getting away with something because somebody used their platform as a tool should not be an excuse, they should be held to account and not allowed any protections from liability. They should also have to pay for any licences similar to the link tax, although I am not sure I agree with that actual one, but for special exceptions, and itself policed also.

    Plagiarism. For God sake....... I'm not even referring to actual plagiarism. I know very little about twitter, but the links I get sent in groups from that or Tiktok seems to be people stealing other peoples jokes or skits and again and again... We get it! We thought it was funny too, and got it the first time, but I don't want to make a video of me miming to it, or type out the same joke and pretend it's mine... 😡

    There are so many charges they should be facing if something like that is worth $43 Billion.



  • #28
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,025 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Relevant to remind folks, why a company that sells no product and doesn't take a penny of your money, makes such ludicrous amounts of money on Wall Street.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA




  • #29
    MakersMark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 648 ✭✭✭MakersMark


    Op...you're in favour of free speech then, except when you're not?



  • #30
    MakersMark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 648 ✭✭✭MakersMark


    Putins account still active apparently, just limited

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/technology-60992373.amp




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  • #31
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,928 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    So this thread is more about the OP not liking Trump than anything to do with Musk or Twitter.

    What is it in this country with the obsession over these 3 things? We don't live in America, Trump - like him or loathe him - isn't president anymore and Musk just strikes me as another overpaid celeb with a gimmick.

    As for Twitter itself, if it shut down in the morning I think society as a whole would be better off, but I generally ignore all 3 so who cares. If Musk wants to spend a ridiculous amount of money on it that's his business.

    The one thing I do take issue with is the OPs concern that someone they don't like doesn't get back on the platform. That sort of control of a narrative is dangerous for the concept of free speech and democracy.



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