Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of twitter...update.. will soon be the sole owner as Board of Directors accepts his purchase offer

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fskimospy

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And Elmo has moved from threatening to suing.
My favorite part is how Twitter accuses them of stifling free speech by…speaking.

This seems like a frivolous suit that will go nowhere but I imagine the intimidation is the point.
 

Saylick

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Lmao, now people who paid for the $8/month subscription can now hide their checkmarks...

We've come full circle. First it was about being verified, then you could pay to be verified, and now you can hide being verified, thus eliminating the whole point of having the blue check mark to begin with and highlighting the true reason for charging money for it: to simply milk the Elmo-stans.
 

cytg111

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Lmao, now people who paid for the $8/month subscription can now hide their checkmarks...

We've come full circle. First it was about being verified, then you could pay to be verified, and now you can hide being verified, thus eliminating the whole point of having the blue check mark to begin with and highlighting the true reason for charging money for it: to simply milk the Elmo-stans.
Sometimes I contemplate signing up and pay 8$ just to go trolling.
 

akugami

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Blue checkmarks on Twitter used to be a badge of honor. You were important, or well known enough, that it warranted verification. Now we have users trying to hide the blue checkmark. Good job Elmo!
 
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Rebel_L

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Lmao, now people who paid for the $8/month subscription can now hide their checkmarks...

We've come full circle. First it was about being verified, then you could pay to be verified, and now you can hide being verified, thus eliminating the whole point of having the blue check mark to begin with and highlighting the true reason for charging money for it: to simply milk the Elmo-stans.
It only makes sense, all real supporters of X would naturally spurn a checkmark it being the polar opposite. Coincidentaly of course X always represented the wrong choice... its marketing genius for his clear plan to file for bankruptcy, hes got the subliminal messaging going now to drive people away.
 

VRAMdemon

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Musk, who claimed earlier this year that AI would destroy civilization and all research needed to be stopped immediately, now says his AI is going to scrape every tweet ever twitted to learn how to imitate human speech.


So, will it start churning out pornographic Nazi cat shit posts?
 

akugami

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Musk, who claimed earlier this year that AI would destroy civilization and all research needed to be stopped immediately, now says his AI is going to scrape every tweet ever twitted to learn how to imitate human speech.


So, will it start churning out pornographic Nazi cat shit posts?

Worse, the cats are underage.
 

Dave_5k

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Mf'ers can't even get spaces to work right and they're going to start on trading and financial products. Haha.

However Musk's personal opportunities for securities fraud certainly would expand dramatically...
One typically has to have a credit rating and free cash to market securities and banking products - which "X" certainly doesn't meet (credit ratings all withdrawn for lack of information).

Not that Musk particularly cares about license requirements or regulations...
 

pmv

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Lmao, now people who paid for the $8/month subscription can now hide their checkmarks...

We've come full circle. First it was about being verified, then you could pay to be verified, and now you can hide being verified, thus eliminating the whole point of having the blue check mark to begin with and highlighting the true reason for charging money for it: to simply milk the Elmo-stans.


He's just acting out the story of the Star Bellied Sneetches for real.

At the beginning of the story, Sneetches with stars discriminate against and shun those without. An entrepreneur named Sylvester McMonkey McBean (calling himself the Fix-It-Up Chappie) appears and offers the Sneetches without stars the chance to get them with his Star-On machine, for three dollars. The treatment is instantly popular, but this upsets the original Star-Bellied Sneetches, as they are in danger of losing their special status. McBean then tells them about his Star-Off machine, costing ten dollars, and the Sneetches who originally had stars happily pay the money to have them removed in order to remain special. However, McBean does not share the prejudices of the Sneetches and allows the recently starred Sneetches through this machine as well. Ultimately, this escalates, with the Sneetches running from one machine to the next...

"...until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knewwhether this one was that one... or that one was this one...or which one was what one... or what one was who".
This continues until the Sneetches are penniless and McBean departs as a rich man, amused by their folly.
 
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KMFJD

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i just realised that he is going to get egged on to fight until he gives in, then he get's his ass beat, then everyone laughs at him, then he's going to get mad and close twitter and finally disappear for 20 years
 
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