Brexit and Trump were initially seen as jokes, but the new owner of the social media giant could pose a serious threat to democracy – and a boon for Vladimir Putin
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/11/07/musks-twitter-buy-makes-no-sense-unless-its-part-of-something-bigger/

“Watching Musk melt down feels like watching Kanye West melt down feels like watching Trump melt down. We are trapped in a Möbius strip of narcissistic autocrat.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/elon-musk-twitter-mastodon

Elon Musk in April: "For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral."

Elon Musk on Monday: "I recommend voting for a Republican Congress."

Elon Musk tells his minions to vote GOP

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-says-vote-republican-2022-midterms-1234625882/

Twitter removes misinformation policies on the same day that Yevgeny Progozhin, Putin’s chef and chief propagandist, admits that he’s actively involved in trying to manipulate the US midterms.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3723094-twitter-confusion-misinformation-policies/

Capt Smirk fired 1/2 his crew. He’s banning comics: shadow banning unverified users, boldly going where no unbridled ego has gone before.
Says, “$8/mo is the price of a latte.” True.
It’s also cheaper than a T-shirt saying “Rob me. I’m a gullible ass!”
BTW Mars mission? FAKE NEWS
Source: Actor Author and Artist Jim Carrey!
https://mastodon.online/@tweeterversity/109310670396427192

Several top security and privacy executives resigned from Twitter on Thursday, citing the rapid rollout of new features without proper security reviews and Elon Musk’s order that employees return to the office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/10/twitter-security-resignations/

Today might be a good day to download your Twitter archive. Just in case.

Elon Musk, in his first address to Twitter employees since purchasing the company for $44 billion, said that bankruptcy was a possibility, according to a person familiar with the matter

Settings and privacy > Your account > Download an archive of your data > Request archive

Just to be clear, Twitter senior secured bank loans- the top of the capital stack- at $0.60 implies that Twitter- for which #elonmusk paid $44 billion - is now worth less than $8 billion.

Elon Musk

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has "continued his rash of brand unsafe actions — including amplifying conspiracy theories, unilaterally reinstating banned accounts such as that of former President Donald Trump, courting and engaging with far-right accounts, and instituting a haphazard verification scheme that allowed extremists and scammers to purchase a blue check."
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-top-advertisers-elon-musk?utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=twitter.com

Elon Musk's fan-base is experience some serious changes those past weeks.
To the good or to the bad?
You decide.
Image is an internet find - creator of that graphic obviously has made up his mind.
https://mastodon.online/@tweeterversity/109421964074314157

Elon Musk’s abrupt suspension of several journalists who cover Twitter widens a growing rift between the social media site and media organizations that have used the platform to build their audiences.

Individual reporters with The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other news agencies saw their accounts go dark Thursday.
https://wwwizzards.com/EMusk

Future Twitter plans - Attention: As of now they are rumors so they could be completely right, a bit off, or even just an idea that was floating around.
Rumored new Twitter rules:
- 200 DM's limit per day (group chats included)
- 20 tweets limit per day (includes retweets, quote tweets and replies)
- 4 photos or 1 video per day (media tweets are counted separately from the general tweets)
Twitter Blue users supposed to have no limits
https://mastodon.online/@tweeterversity/109836744691439853

There is not much to say about that post by #TwitterOwner Elon Musk..
He is full in supporting Russia by limiting his Starlink usage to the Ukrainians and constantly attacks Western support of those people that DEFEND themselves against an unprovoked aggressor
https://mastodon.online/@tweeterversity/109917450290351051

This is the man who will be selling you the air you need to breathe on Mars #ratelimitexceeded
https://mastodon.online/@tweeterversity/110646608369521082

TikTok and Instagram users can scroll with abandon. But Twitter owner Elon Musk has put new curfews on his digital town square, the latest drastic change to the social media platform that could further drive away advertisers and undermine its cultural influence as a trendsetter.
https://apnews.com/article/twitter-elon-musk-rate-limits-04380c0a90528edcd7441d2f0b47549e

Twitter has a very real chance of going bankrupt in the next 12 months, with no obvious path to escaping it. In a way, that might be the company’s best hope – it is probably the only way it will escape its current owner, to be bought out at a bargain-basement price by someone else.

But before that, Musk has done the opposite of everything he promised with the site. Most users will notice that they get more annoyance from bots than they had before, abuse and hate speech is more widespread, and misinformation spreads much more easily without the site’s curation team watching for it and tackling it. Twitter is even more compliant with censorship and user data requests from dictatorships than it ever was before.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-slow-sad-death-of-twitter/

I love the Musk model of just quietly reversing every bad decision because he is physically unable to admit his endless missteps
https://wwwizzards.com/t3E10H

Hahahahahaha, totally funny yet also fact....
We think Elon Musk shot himself in the foot with his latest #RateLimitedExceeded move.
Looks like he is not so smart after all, Visionair? Yeah right, no need to be on to see coming what happen now.
Zuckerberg and Threads app is thriving!!
(Editor here has to admit: I was a fan of that guy..... - We all make mistakes!)

This going to get interesting.....
2 egomaniacal billionaires in a pissing contest
https://mastodon.online/@tweeterversity/110668959495035486