Twitter now owned by xAI - company founded by Elon Musk

[kitler53]

CNN: Elon Musk, Twitter's new owner, tweets conspiracy theory about attack on Paul Pelosi.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/business/musk-tweet-pelosi-conspiracy

[the-pi-guy]

Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification https://t.co/yImdvSIjQt pic.twitter.com/gBflFODwH2

— The Verge (@verge) October 31, 2022

The directive is to change Twitter Blue, the company's optional, $4.99 a month subscription that unlocks additional features, into a more expensive subscription that also verifies users, according to people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence seen by The Verge. Twitter is planning to charge $19.99 for the new Twitter Blue subscription, though that price is subject to change. Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired.

[kitler53]

cesspool incoming. 

[kitler53]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-owned-twitter-under-week-175842621.html

That followed the Network Contagion Research Institute—a social media research firm—reporting that use of the N-word spiked 500% on Twitter in the 12 hours after Musk took control.

Anti-Semitic memes also jumped, and so did the word "plandemic"—shorthand for a conspiracy theory in which elites are using the pandemic to gain power and profit off vaccines—according to Dataminr, which also analyzes social media, Bloomberg reported.

Of course, many conservative pundits and lawmakers are delighted that Democratic lawmakers and Hollywood elites are upset with Musk's Twitter takeover, having long believed—like Musk himself—that the social network was overly strict and suppressive.

[the-pi-guy]

The Verge: Nibel is leaving Twitter

He’s leaving Patreon, too. pic.twitter.com/UYTYjn11AX

— Nabil #BlackLivesMatter #StopAsianHate (@Neoxon619) October 31, 2022

[the-pi-guy]

Twitter to lay off 25% of workers

[Legend]

Twitter to lay off 25% of workers

Lots of recent twitter news was false but that seems likely.

Things are changing at a pretty fast pace.

CNN: Elon Musk, Twitter's new owner, tweets conspiracy theory about attack on Paul Pelosi.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/business/musk-tweet-pelosi-conspiracy

Gross

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-owned-twitter-under-week-175842621.html

Hopefully just temporary from the media hyping this up. Rules haven't even changed at twitter.

[Legend]

Our primary success measure for content moderation is impressions: how many times harmful content is seen by our users. The changes we’ve made have almost entirely eliminated impressions on this content in search and elsewhere across Twitter. pic.twitter.com/AnJuIu2CT6

— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) October 31, 2022

Impressions don’t tell the whole story. These issues aren’t new, and the people targeted by hateful conduct aren’t numbers or data points. We’re going to continue investing in policy and technology to make things better.

— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) October 31, 2022

To try to understand the context behind potentially harmful Tweets, we treat first-person and bystander reports differently.

First person: This hateful interaction is happening to or targeting me.

Bystander: This is happening to someone else.

— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) October 31, 2022

We’re changing how we enforce these policies, but not the policies themselves, to address the gaps here.

You’ll hear more from me and our teams in the days to come as we make progress. Talk is cheap; expect the data that proves we’re making meaningful improvements.

— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) October 31, 2022

[the-pi-guy]

Glad there seems to be good work going on

[nnodley]

That's why people need to stop jumping to conclusions way too early.  And lets hope what he's tweeting is actually gonna stick and continue.

[the-pi-guy]

Elon Musk set to fire half of the staff

This website will not exist in two years pic.twitter.com/1vPswMN7Rg

— Eliot (@EliotETC) November 4, 2022

You tweeted a conspiracy theory from a website less credible than the National Enquirer like four days ago. We all need to look inward as well as outward.

— Hank Green ???? (@hankgreen) November 4, 2022

Of course not! It's just...it's too simple to attribute this to "activists" when advertisers (who have lots of incentives to be cautious) are given reasons to be cautious. You wield a lot of power, and (IMO) it would be very good for Twitter for you to do it more thoughtfully.

— Hank Green ???? (@hankgreen) November 4, 2022

Ooof

[kitler53]

I don't know Hank green but he burned the shame out of musk.  

[the-pi-guy]

I don't know Hank green but he burned the shame out of musk. 

He's a science communicator, entrepreneur, author, youtuber.

[Legend]

I’ve been meaning to post the graphs of the usage spike over the past week. But the best part is we don’t need to, because the data is all public and people like @AlexMahadevan can do an even deeper analysis!???? https://t.co/zGkO8UpDor

— Keith Coleman ???????????? (@kcoleman) November 5, 2022

I've been loving the increased use of birdwatch.

[kitler53]

is birdwatch a competitor to Twitter?