Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter

[Hamann Pineapple]

He'll start chatrging people to use it now, only way to recoup a huge outlay.

 

[Don Karleone]

 

[urban genie]

That's a lot to spend to stop people taking the piss out of him

 

[denislawsbackheel]

He paid 10 bill in tax not long ago. The most anyone in US history has paid.

And the **** thinks he shouldn’t have to pay a penny.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Interesting. Might be good for free speech.

Has nothing to do with free speech. He might loosen the content rules . . . which also has nothing to do with free speech.

 

[Jim Tolmie's Underpants]

Can’t believe he paid $44 billion for it. I downloaded it free from the App Store. Sucker.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Hmm

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The first was simply incorrect. It didn’t mean shit to “cultural transition”, nor was it especially fascinating either.

 

[Pedestrian]

Good news. Twitter is a cesspool of muppets and bots with about 3 genuine posters. If he allows anything to be twitted without moderation then reasonable level headed folk (the 3) will fuck it off and leave it to the idiots. The way the privileged child of an emerald mine owner operates is chaotic and I anticipate will see his ruin and fall from grace with the joe rogan tough guys given time. MySpace and the gradual demise of facefuck are good examples of popular platforms that folk grow out of. Twatter will go the same way and hopefully burn a huge hole in the muppets wallet.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Do we now own a piece of Twitter, too?

Read Silver Lake were fronting him £10bn against some of his Tesla shares!

 

[Barcon]

It could be owned by Satan for all I care.

 

[Octavian]

Censor-everyone-who-disagrees-with-me crowd seem to be in a right tiz about this, so looks like a good thing.

not that I’ll be back on it any time soon.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Censor-everyone-who-disagrees-with-me crowd seem to be in a right tiz about this, so looks like a good thing.

not that I’ll be back on it any time soon.

Twitter is what you want it to be.

I have a no following dickheads policy. I have to actively seek out these spats and cranks, which I do sparingly.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

Genuinely curious as to what it is that people feel they’ve been censored over. What is it people feel they can’t say?

 

[Octavian]

Twitter is what you want it to be.

I have a no following dickheads policy. I have to actively seek out these spats and cranks, which I do sparingly.

You’re only one comments section away from rags and Scouse lot and the latter are absolutely bonkers. Can’t stand communicating with them in public, never mind online!

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

You’re only one comments section away from rags and Scouse lot and the latter are absolutely bonkers. Can’t stand communicating with them in public, never mind online!

It’s up to you to pick your moments to read those comments though.

It’s no different to nipping to the Caf after another rag defeat.

I‘m not sure if it’s similar to RAWK as I don’t tend to look at that or scouse tweets.

 

[Octavian]

It’s up to you to pick your moments to read those comments though.

It’s no different to nipping to the Caf after another rag defeat.

I‘m not sure if it’s similar to RAWK as I don’t tend to look at that or scouse tweets.

A quick glance there when either have lost is one thing but they gang up on Twitter. Last time I was on there I mentioned Milner’s non 2nd yellow on Sky’s tweet and got hundreds of replies of abuse from them.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

A quick glance there when either have lost is one thing but they gang up on Twitter. Last time I was on there I mentioned Milner’s non 2nd yellow on Sky’s tweet and got hundreds of replies of abuse from them.

I don’t bother actually tweeting. What’s the point?

 

[Octavian]

I don’t bother actually tweeting. What’s the point?

Zero point, which I’ve now learned!

 

[crublue1]

Twitter is what you want it to be.

I have a no following dickheads policy. I have to actively seek out these spats and cranks, which I do sparingly.

Spot on. I follow a few interesting people on there, because I'm genuinely interested in what they're getting up to. They are using it for all the right reasons.
I've strayed in the past and looked at random users, it wasn't particularly enjoyable, but each to there own. Use it to follow people you want to, and ignore the rest.
It's not difficult really.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Spot on. I follow a few interesting people on there, because I'm genuinely interested in what they're getting up to. They are using it for all the right reasons.
I've strayed in the past and looked at random users, it wasn't particularly enjoyable, but each to there own. Use it to follow people you want to, and ignore the rest.
It's not difficult really.

The onus is on you to do that though and people dont like to take personal responsibility for that and want to be outraged and get people cancelled.

There will always be a delicate line to what is acceptable and what isn’t, but that’s down to Twitter to decide. I’m not in those spheres, so don’t really care what Musk does with it.