This will be the end of it for me. He’s really outdone himself this time.
Unbelievable, if true.
I guess I should close my account that’s made about two tweets in ten years.
Wait…he doesn’t have my bank details…?
It’s definitely true, this is the video of the interview where he said it.
https://x.com/MentalUnleash/status/1704109637270745394?s=20
I get the logic - bots become impossible if you need a different payment method for each one. But there are other ways to fix that problem. And it looks like it’s a convenient excuse to justify imposing a fee on every user.
Musk has been justifying every bullshit decision he’s made since buying the thing by calling out the fight against bots, and it’s almost always been bullshit. There’s quite a number of third-party bot detection tools for twitter for a long time. Musk could simply … buy one (or two, or three) of them, or fork one of the open source ones, run it over the user base, and do a massive cleanout and bot cull. Instead, he’s actually shut down the API they use so people can’t use them to demonstrate how many of his followers are bots any more.
When Musk talks about bots, assume bad faith.
EFA.
also actually banning bots would drastically drive down engagement metrics
Well, most of the time when Musk talks, I simply assume he’s been hitting the bong with Joe Rogan or someone again. Just talking ■■■■. Some stuff he’s consistently bad faith on though.
Some weird nerd kids weren’t given wedgies in school, and it shows.
I have a bluesky invite code if anyone’s keen
I’m interested… like to stay ahead of the curve for work.
Is BLUESKY a good alternative?
I’ll flick you an invite code next time I get one @Hoffy . It’s not the cesspit of twitter. Probably more of a lefty echo chamber. It’s just nicer at this stage
Twitter deactivated likes on this thread about Musk, dropping it down to 7k likes off 21M views. People noticed and swarmed it, now has 200k+ likes and fresh momentum.
https://x.com/p_kallioniemi/status/1674360288445964288?s=46&t=A5S-z5IJslFoC5SVN0Jodg
I gave it a “like”!
The free speech angle was always a transparent crock.
The banks are considering taking Twitter back off Musk.
A real time tracker of the likes being deleted off the thread shredding Musk.
https://hoblin.eu.ngrok.io/pekka
This MAY just be Twitter saving data, but it’s pretty dodge either way.