Whether or not you have a Twitter account, how do you feel about Musk’s takeover of Twitter and the changes he’s made so far. Do you care one way or the other? If you currently are on Twitter, do you plan to continue actively using it?
https://fivedotoh.com/2022/11/09/fandangos-provocative-question-189/
I don’t have a Twitter account, I really can’t be bothered to be constantly checking a mobile phone to see who tweeted what. Anyone who knows me knows that when I am at home my phone is usually on the charger, in my handbag with a flat battery because I forgot to put it on the charger or on my desk because some benighted organisation is forcing me to use two step verification to log in to their site. I like security, I dislike being forced to use a phone when I’m already online on the computer. But I digress.
Initially I was mostly concerned mostly about Elon Musk allowing certain people back on the platform and what it might lead to. He says that he supports freedom of speech but I suspect he means only if he agrees with it.
Then I read about how he was firing his chief executives and having them escorted out of the building and firing employees, including those here in Australia, via email. Regardless of whether it’s a necessary cutback or not I just feel that’s no way to behave. In fact I think it sounds like very arrogant behaviour and the sort of thing that I expect will happen in January 2025 if a certain party gets his way.
I don’t know a great deal about Elon Musk but I don’t like people who are arrogant and don’t treat their employees with respect.. I don’t think he will improve Twitter. I don’t know what would frankly. I don’t care about Twitter as such but I don’t like the idea of it being run by someone like him.
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I have a twitter account but only use it to promote this blog. My posts automatically post to twitter as they do to facebook. I find his arrogance interesting but after that last presidency, and seeing the damage arrogance can do, I do not find arrogance as interesting as I used to.
It seems to me he bought twitter in order to reverse all the positive policies that were put in place after that last presidency. I suppose he thinks he can make it the success that Truth Social never achieved.
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That seems about right.
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I absolutely agree. Musk is a real POS and I hope he loses his shirt on this deal.
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I also just use it to promote the blog, but if I couldn’t, I’ll manage. I have not had good social media experiences. I have done my best to close my FB account but somehow, it keep reopening. I don’t even look at it anymore nor will I follow anyone who “blogs” on Facebook.
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Facebook is not a place to blog. It’s really a place to get into arguments but it is useful for community information I find.
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Firing all of the people who know how to run a company is rarely a good business plan.
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Exactly. He may be good at building electric cars and space ships but that doesn’t make him good at running a social media company and nobody can do it alone without good advice. Hmm, reminds me of someone else again.
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Doesn’t it though!
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