Elon Musk koopt Twitter #4

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 09:27 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
Lach me rot als er een nieuw open source twitter opstaat. De interface van het huidige twitter is natuurlijk volkstrekt ruk.

Als dan half de wereld overgaat op dat nieuwe twitter, verwordt het oude twitter tot een parler 2.0

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 09:28 schreef Q. het volgende:

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Er zitten 20 man op Truth Social.

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 09:27 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
Lach me rot als er een nieuw open source twitter opstaat. De interface van het huidige twitter is natuurlijk volkstrekt ruk.

Als dan half de wereld overgaat op dat nieuwe twitter, verwordt het oude twitter tot een parler 2.0

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 09:27 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
Lach me rot als er een nieuw open source twitter opstaat. De interface van het huidige twitter is natuurlijk volkstrekt ruk.

Als dan half de wereld overgaat op dat nieuwe twitter, verwordt het oude twitter tot een parler 2.0

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 09:47 schreef dimmak het volgende:

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Bluesky, verrassend genoeg gestart door Twitter. Jack Dorsey is er ook nog steeds mee bezig.

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 09:49 schreef dimmak het volgende:
Ik ben wel heel benieuwd waar Twitter nu heen gaat. Twitter was gegijzeld door investeerders, dat is ook waarom Jack Dorsey is vertrokken. Elon Musk is een controversieel figuur, maar ik heb daar meer vertrouwen in dan de gemiddelde sillicon valley investeerder.

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 09:51 schreef raptorix het volgende:

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Het lijkt me meer een uitwisselingsprotocol dan een platform

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 09:53 schreef raptorix het volgende:

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Het zou mij niet verbazen als hij Twitter gewoon als een soort van Shell gaat gebruiken voor zijn andere ventures.

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 09:56 schreef dimmak het volgende:

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Zou kunnen, maar het is vrij opvallend dat de spambots als grotendeels verdwenen zijn sinds vandaag.

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 09:49 schreef dimmak het volgende:
Elon Musk is een controversieel figuur, maar ik heb daar meer vertrouwen in dan de gemiddelde sillicon valley investeerder.

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Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius
The world’s richest man has some embarrassing friends.

Yesterday, the world got a look inside Elon Musk’s phone. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is currently in litigation with Twitter and trying to back out of his deal to buy the platform and take it private. As part of the discovery process related to this lawsuit, Delaware’s Court of Chancery released hundreds of text messages and emails sent to and from Musk. The 151-page redacted document is a remarkable, voyeuristic record of a few months in the life of the world’s richest (and most overexposed) man and a rare unvarnished glimpse into the overlapping worlds of Silicon Valley, media, and politics. The texts are juicy, but not because they are lurid, particularly offensive, or offer up some scandalous Muskian master plan—quite the opposite. What is so illuminating about the Musk messages is just how unimpressive, unimaginative, and sycophantic the powerful men in Musk’s contacts appear to be. Whoever said there are no bad ideas in brainstorming never had access to Elon Musk’s phone.

In no time, the texts were the central subject of discussion among tech workers and watchers. “The dominant reaction from all the threads I’m in is Everyone looks fucking dumb,” one former social-media executive, whom I’ve granted anonymity because they have relationships with many of the people in Musk’s texts, told me. “It’s been a general Is this really how business is done? There’s no real strategic thought or analysis. It’s just emotional and done without any real care for consequence.”

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Whatever the case, the intentions are unmistakable: Musk is perceived to have power, and these pillars of the tech industry want to be close to it. “I love your ‘Twitter algorithms should be open source’ tweet,” Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of Palantir, said, before suggesting that he was going to mention the idea to members of Congress at an upcoming GOP policy retreat. Antonio Gracias, the CEO of Valor Partners, cheered on the same tweet, telling the billionaire, “I am 100% with you Elon. To the mattresses no matter what.”

Few in Musk’s phone appeared as excitable as the angel investor Jason Calacanis, who peppered his friend with flattery and random ideas for the service. In the span of 30 minutes, not long after Musk’s bid to take the company private, Calacanis suggested a five-point plan for Twitter that would introduce a membership tier, creator revenue splits, algorithmic transparency, and changes to the company’s operations—including but not limited to moving the company from San Francisco to Austin. After pledging his loyalty (“You have my sword,” he texted Musk), Calacanis pushed new ideas for weeks. “Just had the best idea ever for monetization,” he wrote out of the blue, before suggesting a way that users could pay Twitter in order to spam their followers with promotional DMs.

“Imagine we ask Justin Beaver to come back and let him DM his fans … he could sell 1m in merchandise or tickets instantly. Would be INSANE,” he wrote, apparently adding an unfortunate instance of autocorrect to the historical record. According to the court document, Musk didn’t respond. Later on, Musk chastised Calacanis for trying to whip up public investments to finance Musk’s acquisition. This leads to a string of messages that read straight out of Succession:

Musk:
Morgan Stanley and Jared think you are using our friendship not in a good way
This makes it seem like I’m desperate.
Please stop.

Calacanis:
Only ever want to support you.

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Many of the ideas coming from his peanut gallery were equally poor. Döpfner, who is in charge of numerous media companies, including Insider and Politico, offered to run Twitter for Musk but seemed woefully unprepared for the task. In a novel-length text, Döpfner laid out his “#Gameplan” for the company, which started with the line item: “1.),, Solve Free Speech.” He alluded to vague ideas such as making Twitter censorship resistant via a “decentralized infrastructure” and “open APIs.” He’s similarly nonspecific with his suggestion that Twitter have a “marketplace” of algorithms. “If you’re a snowflake and don’t want content that offends you pick another algorithm,” he wrote Musk.

At one point in early April, Musk appears infatuated with his own idea to replace Twitter with a blockchain-based payment-and-message system. In a string of texts to his brother, the entrepreneur Kimbal Musk, he manages to convince himself that the idea could be huge and a way to crush spam while preserving free speech. In this preposterous scenario, users would have to pay a fractional amount of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin to post or retweet. Roughly 10 days later, Musk sends a different text noting that “blockchain Twitter isn’t possible.”

The texts also cast a harsh light on the investment tactics of Silicon Valley’s best and brightest. There’s Calacanis’s overeager angel-investing pitches, and then you have the more chill tactics of people like Andreessen, who in a tossed-off Twitter DM offered Musk “$250M with no additional work required.” “Thanks!” Musk responded. In a separate exchange, Musk asks Ellison if he’d like to invest in taking Twitter private. “Yes, of course,” Ellison replies. “A billion … or whatever you recommend.” Easy enough.

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Despite all the self-mythologizing and talk of building, the men in these text messages appear mercurial, disorganized, and incapable of solving the kind of societal problems they think they can.

There is a tendency, especially when it comes to the über-rich and powerful, to assume and to fantasize about what we can’t see. We ascribe shadowy brilliance or malevolence, which may very well be unearned or misguided. What’s striking about the Musk messages, then, is the similarity between these men’s behavior behind closed doors and in public on Twitter. Perhaps the real revelation here is that the shallowness you see is the shallowness you get.

https://www.theatlantic.c(...)-jack-dorsey/671619/

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 09:43 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Vreemd, want dat was toch het bastion voor Free Speech?

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 11:38 schreef AchJa het volgende:
Sandertje is mad...

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Gadde earned nearly $17 million in 2021 as Twitter's chief legal officer, and earned roughly $7.3 million in 2020.

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It was reported that Gadde expressed concerns and talked about significant uncertainties about the future of Twitter under the potential leadership of Musk during a virtual meeting with the policy and legal teams

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 11:54 schreef speknek het volgende:
Dus de mondiale social media is nu in handen van Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg en Xi Jinping. Wat is de aantrekkingskracht van social media op psychopaten.