Feel the magic
Much chatter is focused on whether or not Donald Trump is going to be allowed back on the platform as Musk has promised. Here’s Trump on the issue:
Lol. That would be sad if it was anyone but him. He had over ten times the followers on twitter than he has on his sad little knock off. I’m sure he enjoys it more because it’s almost 100% worshipful memes about him. The cult is very into memes. But it’s a pathetic platform and he knows it.
I think he will return to twitter if he runs for president. He loves the action too much.
Meanwhile, everyone waits with bated breath to see what Musk has in mind. It’s almost assured that he will be inviting all the Russian bots and propaganda back on since he agrees with it. And I imagine the community will be overrun with right wing assholes before too long and eventually that will take a toll on the whole thing and it will fade.
Maybe it was inevitable anyway. There seems to be a shelf life for all the platforms. (Look at the demise of blogging! lol…) But Facebook is quickly losing altitude while TikTok is becoming the phenomenon of the young. It’s just the way it works.
Pro tip for those of you who like twitter: download tweetdeck. It spares you all the ads and the porn and allows you to easily create your own timelines which saves a lot of time. It makes twitter much more manageable. At least until Elon decides to take it down…
Update — Here we go. From the Washington Post:
A wide range of anonymous Twitter accounts celebrated Musk’s takeover and argued it meant the old rules against bigotry no longer applied.
“Elon now controls twitter. Unleash the racial slurs. K—S AND N—–S,” said one account, using slurs for Jews and Black people. “I can freely express how much I hate n—–s … now, thank you elon,” another said. […]
One account, created this month, included a Nazi swastika as its profile picture and retweeted quotes from Musk alongside antisemitic memes. Another tweet, showing a video montage glorifying Nazi Germany with the comment, “I hear that there have been some changes around here,” was liked more than 400 times.
Racial slurs were posted rampantly overnight. One single-word tweet, showing a single racial slur in all capital letters, was retweeted more than 500 times and liked more than 4,000 times. It was tweeted at 9 p.m. Thursday night and remained online nearly 12 hours later.
Yeah …