Twitter on its last legs?

To be honest , I think he got a bit egotistic with all the success of his other businesses and thought his ideas would rejuvenate twitter .

To be honest , he is obviously an extremely intelligent man . He isn’t a genius though . Personal favourite of mine was when he advocated nuking mars to aid in terraforming it . I mean we have **** tons of fossil fuels that are killing this planet we could use on mars to heat the place up instead , but no , lefts nuke it haha . As if cosmic radiation isn’t already a problem there
 
Boroboyyo said:
To be honest , I think he got a bit egotistic with all the success of his other businesses and thought his ideas would rejuvenate twitter .

To be honest , he is obviously an extremely intelligent man . He isn’t a genius though . Personal favourite of mine was when he advocated nuking mars to aid in terraforming it . I mean we have **** tons of fossil fuels that are killing this planet we could use on mars to heat the place up instead , but no , lefts nuke it haha . As if cosmic radiation isn’t already a problem there
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He doesn't come across as a clever bloke to me. Not even on par with Dyson for me.. who was another complete blag. Give me Trevor Baylis over those two Walt Disney Walter Mitty characters!
 
festa5 said:
He's an absolute lunatic.

Obviously extremely intelligent on some topics but an absolute idiot on others.

Common sense and emotional intelligence practically non existent. So will probably end up as president at some point.
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:ROFLMAO: I would say there's a good chance of that.
 
koo

not there yet, growing from its Indian base with Indian languages (only 20% is English based), but they are pushing into the English speaking markets, and targeting disgruntled twitter users.

Let's see .....
 
All these things end. Think back a few years and Facebook was the dominant social media platform, so much so that it was impossible to imagine a landscape without it. It wasn’t that long ago that politicians and the like could shout ‘fake news’ and cause a stir. That all stems from Facebook and the radicalisation and exploitation of certain groups and sub-groups of society(mainly angry young men). It was a tool for manipulation and disinformation.

Facebook now been completely hollowed out and replaced by other platforms, which themselves are coming towards the end of their lifespan. Facebook is now just middle-aged tabloid readers swapping racist memes and fake statistics. It’s done.

Twitter’s demise has been speeded up by this complete lunatic but it was going to come at some point. The shopping habits of its users, created by aggressive advertising and sinister/sophisticated algorithms, will keep Instagram going but even that will go at some point as people migrate from Twitter. They always do collapse. Once you sell up and become a PLC you need to generate cash and the idea of perpetual growth is completely absurd. They’re completely unstable entities.

Bit of a tangent but I stopped using Twitter a while back. I felt better for it. I logged in a few weeks back and did some casual scrolling but I noticed each time I logged in, it was a tweet from Darren Grimes, Farage, Tom Harwood, Nick Ferrari et al at the top of my feed. I don’t follow any of those people and actively avoid their nonsense. But I wondered who pays for them to be at the top of feeds, who’s paying them to pollute discourse and generate responses and clicks, why we’re engaging with them. We think we’re engaging with people but it’s a completely polluted landscape full of bots, disinformation, fake accounts and fake statistics, extremism and propaganda.

It’s really sinister IMO. It’s precisely what happened to Facebook. It’s disinformation on an industrial scale.

Which is why it will disappear soon rather than later and things will shift to the next thing.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
All these things end. Think back a few years and Facebook was the dominant social media platform, so much so that it was impossible to imagine a landscape without it. It wasn’t that long ago that politicians and the like could shout ‘fake news’ and cause a stir. That all stems from Facebook and the radicalisation and exploitation of certain groups and sub-groups of society(mainly angry young men). It was a tool for manipulation and disinformation.

Facebook now been completely hollowed out and replaced by other platforms, which themselves are coming towards the end of their lifespan. Facebook is now just middle-aged tabloid readers swapping racist memes and fake statistics. It’s done.

Twitter’s demise has been speeded up by this complete lunatic but it was going to come at some point. The shopping habits of its users, created by aggressive advertising and sinister/sophisticated algorithms, will keep Instagram going but even that will go at some point as people migrate from Twitter. They always do collapse. Once you sell up and become a PLC you need to generate cash and the idea of perpetual growth is completely absurd. They’re completely unstable entities.

Bit of a tangent but I stopped using Twitter a while back. I felt better for it. I logged in a few weeks back and did some casual scrolling but I noticed each time I logged in, it was a tweet from Darren Grimes, Farage, Tom Harwood, Nick Ferrari et al at the top of my feed. I don’t follow any of those people and actively avoid their nonsense. But I wondered who pays for them to be at the top of feeds, who’s paying them to pollute discourse and generate responses and clicks, why we’re engaging with them. We think we’re engaging with people but it’s a completely polluted landscape full of bots, disinformation, fake accounts and fake statistics, extremism and propaganda.

It’s really sinister IMO. It’s precisely what happened to Facebook. It’s disinformation on an industrial scale.

Which is why it will disappear soon rather than later and things will shift to the next thing.
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Grimes, Farage, Harwood, Tice and Dan Hodges all very recently popping up far too frequently on my Twitter.....never really thought much of it, just scrolled past. But you are indeed correct, who is putting them there? 🤬🤬
 
Currently trying to work through my followers and trying to pick up bands on Bandcamp, friends on Facebook anyhow and then see what’s left.

Need to think where to follow various football teams if not on there.

No @SimpsonsQOTD no party.
 
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Twitter os dreadful if you use the Twitter app. I use a much basic version from Tweetbot and you get no ads, no Farage, no promoted tweets etc - you just see stuff from who you follow in the order it was tweeted. Great for following news and sport which is the only reason I have it still.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Is he though?

For example he wasn't even the brains behind Tesla, and it's not like he worked his way up from nothing - his parents gave him a significant leg up.

He's just a less orange version of Trump.
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Agreed, he joined Tesla as a major investor about 5 years after had been going. He was born into wealth go a great education, was driven to make more money, but he isn't the brains behind any of the businesses he owns. He's a money and marketing man with a slice of PR thrown in. Rides on the coat tails of others, he's a million miles away from say Bill Gates who was technical first and had to learn to be a business man
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
Bit of a tangent but I stopped using Twitter a while back. I felt better for it. I logged in a few weeks back and did some casual scrolling but I noticed each time I logged in, it was a tweet from Darren Grimes, Farage, Tom Harwood, Nick Ferrari et al at the top of my feed. I don’t follow any of those people and actively avoid their nonsense.
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I just block all those people now, they make any inline experience unpleasant
 
Viv makes some very good points and I do wonder if social media in general can continue as we know it.
We as a species seem capable of, if not wilfully intent on, destroying or corrupting everything on the internet.
Policing such platforms is almost impossible and the bigger they are the harder they are to regulate.
Could anyone honestly say the world would be a worse place without platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Because he was playing Billy Big b***ks, got caught up in the moment and couldn't get out of it.
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Yeah, I think it was billionaire d*ck-waving of the highest order, a bit like Conor McGregor buying the pub he got barred from.

Odd kid Elon, what a fascinating character. Like a real life Bond villain. Obviously a very, very gifted salesperson. Tesla and his “futurism” has always been like a cult, it amazes me in some ways that his products actually work and are in their way, genius. 150 years ago he’d be a travelling snake oil salesman, but the snake oil would actually be quite good and quite revolutionary.

Re Twitter, I hope it does die a death. Always hated it, the most toxic echo chamber of all social media. Journalist obsessed medium, so got way more coverage and has a perceived relevance way outside of its actual relevance. It’s the worst, the very definition of screaming into a void and extreme voices echo the loudest on there. It’s not done much good for humanity, at least Insta has some art to it.
 
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