That’s also what happens when you’re straight-up wrong.If you annoy both the extreme right and extreme left, then you are doing something right - Musk (paraphrased)
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That’s also what happens when you’re straight-up wrong.If you annoy both the extreme right and extreme left, then you are doing something right - Musk (paraphrased)
Fair point.Trump has been dormant on Twitter much longer than NPR. I wonder if Elon is going to give his account to someone else.
I agree, it’s more accurate to say that it has the potential to affect millions of sites because those millions no longer even have the option of automatically posting to Twitter, while 120K sites which use it now are directly affected.Farther down in the article:
“When it comes specifically to Twitter, 120,000 active websites shared over 4.3 million blog posts to Twitter each month via Jetpack Social before the API change was implemented.”
Still not good but 120k sites is far from 43% of all sites. The price hike is too high though.
As far as gone in a few years like Mashable, unlikely. Changes can happen pretty quickly when needed. But we shall see.
What about the whole sunlight disinfection procedure, are we scrapping that, too? /SSo he got suspended again for a post from 2.5 years ago? That moderation team must be really behind.
Or, that person is just plain annoying. — Me (direct quote)If you annoy both the extreme right and extreme left, then you are doing something right - Musk (paraphrased)
Twitter actually suspended an election denying cartoonist.
If you annoy both the extreme right and extreme left, then you are doing something right - Musk (paraphrased)
As it turns out, what upsets people has no first principles, so Musk is utterly unable to act with either precision or accuracy in upsetting people. He's so bad at this that there's no real telling any more what he's actually trying to do.So in the context of that time, it was suggesting (more or less):
1) If you are upset, it's because you are "far left".
2) You should accept that because I'm going to upset the "far right" equally.
Musk is annoying the center and center left more than he is annoying any extremists.
Very astute observation. In the old Twitter, the conservative opinions and voices were muzzled, shadow banned, suspended. The liberals views had unfettered space.
the observed asymmetry could be explained entirely by the tendency of Republicans to share more misinformation.
Zerohedge was suspended for suggesting Covid originated from Chinese labsPeople keep repeating this, and it keeps never having been true.
Anti-Musk idiots: "But twitter is getting worse!"
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It turned out when actual studies were done it wasn't that more republicans got suspended for posting "conservative" things- they got suspended for posting more factually untrue things.
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The study is from around 2020. Not that I have statistics to back that up, but I wouldn't blame republicans in general, just Tump(ism), Qanon, and the Qanon-leaning side of MAGA. Sometimes it seemed like a sport to propagate stuff with too little or no evidence (like climate denial and election denial), highlighted by Steve Bannon's (for some time Trump advisor) infamous quote: "The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with sh**. ”
The central problem is partly visible here... he is thinking of living, breathing, messy humans and partisan hogwash as math. He’s out of his depth in anything “social."Actual quote: "For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally."
And a little later on the same day (April 27, 2022) : "Attacks are coming thick and fast, primarily from the left, which is no surprise, however I should be clear that the right will probably be a little unhappy too. My goal is to maximize area under the curve of total human happiness, which means the ~80% of people in the middle."
So in the context of that time, it was suggesting (more or less):
1) If you are upset, it's because you are "far left".
2) You should accept that because I'm going to upset the "far right" equally.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like (2) was an (almost) empty promise. /s