I agree the issue with Scott Adams is a good enough reason to stop feeding Elon Musk attention. He does not need anymore attention. I guess the more he focuses on the money pit that is Twitter the less he is focusing on his other companies which probably will help those other companies do better in his absence, as he shares memes and doe…
I agree the issue with Scott Adams is a good enough reason to stop feeding Elon Musk attention. He does not need anymore attention. I guess the more he focuses on the money pit that is Twitter the less he is focusing on his other companies which probably will help those other companies do better in his absence, as he shares memes and does his best impression of a 19 year old.
Twitter has been since it's inception likely a net negative. The benefit of celebrities, public figures, aspiring public figures, and semi-famous people having a direct connection to their audiences. Does not outweigh the fact that absolutely horrible people also get a direct connection to their audiences.
Also since the beginning the word count restriction was destine to being the discourse found on Twitter immediately into the gutter. This also seems to make reactionary sentiment much more powerful than anytjing else. It's also nearly impossible to actually moderate the massive site fairly.
Now it seems like it's just a tool for a billionaire who is obsessed with being worshiped by a very particular subset of people.
You are write on the money on all your points. Apart from his bad moral values, Musk is simply bizarrely immature for a man who's been capable of creating such an amazing space company and care company. I used to admire him so much but now no more. His tweeting is just so immature and it totally exposes him.
Yes I want his other companies to succeed, not really Twitter.
I was open to him actually improving Twitter when he bought it and was also open to the idea that maybe he wasn't as immature and attention seeking as I had thought from his previous hijinx...however he has kind of proven to be more immature and more attention seeking than I previously thought.
The sad thing is , with all these public statements and whatnot it's hard from an ego strength perspective to actually admit one is wrong, so it's very likely, just like many people who use Twitter for politics is that he will double and triple down on his current worldview before he ever admits some of the criticism is correct.
That's another problem with social media in general and Twitter in particular. All three public statements continues the trend of conflating ones identity as a person with partisan politics.
I was open to Musk fixing some issues with Twitter. He really hasn't though.
I could care less what people are allowed to say or not say on the internet. I remember how the Internet was before it got all corporate and people found ways to make money off of ads and data collection. It wasn't always a nice place. People can feel free to, not visit sites or read things that they don't like.
The issue with Twitter is that it is a social media platform that is designed to get attention. Everything about it is geared towards pushing a view that is short unexamined and controversial.
You are probably not getting a lot of traction on Twitter because your tweets don't do this.
First off there is a word limit, this alone spurs people into saying short even insulting things to get their point across.
Engagement on Twitter is more likely to happen when someone disagrees with a tweet. So if you say some sort of popular truism in a normal way there isn't going to be many people engaging in what you say. If you say something outlandish insulting or something that simplifies an issue you will get more engagement.
This means that the whole platform prioritizes attention grabbing toxic posts above normal human interaction. That's how they get people on the site, that's how they get engagement and money. Because of the word limit it's difficult to actually get an intelligent point across unless you are linking your tweets to some other site that actually has an article or a more intelligently phrased statement.
Twitter was never intended to be "leftist" or anything like that. It was initially a "free speech" platform like what Elon apparently wants. However over time things like "Oh ISIS has a big presence on the site, people are blaming Twitter for the rise of ISIS" then "Oh that school shooter had lots of tweets no one read about how he was going to shoot up that school then he did...why didn't anyone notice?" And "Foreign governments are spreading disinformation on Twitter, how can this be?" And "People on Twitter are undermining the pandemic response with disinformation tweets."
And slowly through all these concerns Twitter developed a very specific moderation algorithm that tried to make everyone happy. It didn't.
Twitter through it's entire history has not been able to turn much of a profit and had been a money loser this entire time.
What Elon Musk did was kind of reset Twitter and change it's biases. As soon as there is another racist terrorist attack or terrorist group, or some sort of real life event that can be partially traced back to Twitter Musk will get a ton of pressure from advertisers and interest groups to change the moderation.
What he seems to be doing is trying to run the site on a skeleton crew and find other ways to make revenue so that he doesn't have to be as beholden to advertisers to prevent this, so far this hasn't exactly worked.
On top of that Musk himself is weighing in on things like Scott Adams. No one asked Musk to ban Adams from Twitter. Musk is contesting news papers from "canceling" the comic artist. These are other businesses, they can do what they like. I wouldn't want to pay Adams for his comics if I were a likely fledgling newspaper either.
On top of that Twitter is just inherently at it's core a net negative because of what it naturally encourages. So I think it's always the right time to "boycott Twitter." The Adams incident is a good a reason as any, but there are many reasons.
I agree the issue with Scott Adams is a good enough reason to stop feeding Elon Musk attention. He does not need anymore attention. I guess the more he focuses on the money pit that is Twitter the less he is focusing on his other companies which probably will help those other companies do better in his absence, as he shares memes and does his best impression of a 19 year old.
Twitter has been since it's inception likely a net negative. The benefit of celebrities, public figures, aspiring public figures, and semi-famous people having a direct connection to their audiences. Does not outweigh the fact that absolutely horrible people also get a direct connection to their audiences.
Also since the beginning the word count restriction was destine to being the discourse found on Twitter immediately into the gutter. This also seems to make reactionary sentiment much more powerful than anytjing else. It's also nearly impossible to actually moderate the massive site fairly.
Now it seems like it's just a tool for a billionaire who is obsessed with being worshiped by a very particular subset of people.
You are write on the money on all your points. Apart from his bad moral values, Musk is simply bizarrely immature for a man who's been capable of creating such an amazing space company and care company. I used to admire him so much but now no more. His tweeting is just so immature and it totally exposes him.
Yes I want his other companies to succeed, not really Twitter.
I was open to him actually improving Twitter when he bought it and was also open to the idea that maybe he wasn't as immature and attention seeking as I had thought from his previous hijinx...however he has kind of proven to be more immature and more attention seeking than I previously thought.
The sad thing is , with all these public statements and whatnot it's hard from an ego strength perspective to actually admit one is wrong, so it's very likely, just like many people who use Twitter for politics is that he will double and triple down on his current worldview before he ever admits some of the criticism is correct.
That's another problem with social media in general and Twitter in particular. All three public statements continues the trend of conflating ones identity as a person with partisan politics.
I was open to Musk fixing some issues with Twitter. He really hasn't though.
I could care less what people are allowed to say or not say on the internet. I remember how the Internet was before it got all corporate and people found ways to make money off of ads and data collection. It wasn't always a nice place. People can feel free to, not visit sites or read things that they don't like.
The issue with Twitter is that it is a social media platform that is designed to get attention. Everything about it is geared towards pushing a view that is short unexamined and controversial.
You are probably not getting a lot of traction on Twitter because your tweets don't do this.
First off there is a word limit, this alone spurs people into saying short even insulting things to get their point across.
Engagement on Twitter is more likely to happen when someone disagrees with a tweet. So if you say some sort of popular truism in a normal way there isn't going to be many people engaging in what you say. If you say something outlandish insulting or something that simplifies an issue you will get more engagement.
This means that the whole platform prioritizes attention grabbing toxic posts above normal human interaction. That's how they get people on the site, that's how they get engagement and money. Because of the word limit it's difficult to actually get an intelligent point across unless you are linking your tweets to some other site that actually has an article or a more intelligently phrased statement.
Twitter was never intended to be "leftist" or anything like that. It was initially a "free speech" platform like what Elon apparently wants. However over time things like "Oh ISIS has a big presence on the site, people are blaming Twitter for the rise of ISIS" then "Oh that school shooter had lots of tweets no one read about how he was going to shoot up that school then he did...why didn't anyone notice?" And "Foreign governments are spreading disinformation on Twitter, how can this be?" And "People on Twitter are undermining the pandemic response with disinformation tweets."
And slowly through all these concerns Twitter developed a very specific moderation algorithm that tried to make everyone happy. It didn't.
Twitter through it's entire history has not been able to turn much of a profit and had been a money loser this entire time.
What Elon Musk did was kind of reset Twitter and change it's biases. As soon as there is another racist terrorist attack or terrorist group, or some sort of real life event that can be partially traced back to Twitter Musk will get a ton of pressure from advertisers and interest groups to change the moderation.
What he seems to be doing is trying to run the site on a skeleton crew and find other ways to make revenue so that he doesn't have to be as beholden to advertisers to prevent this, so far this hasn't exactly worked.
On top of that Musk himself is weighing in on things like Scott Adams. No one asked Musk to ban Adams from Twitter. Musk is contesting news papers from "canceling" the comic artist. These are other businesses, they can do what they like. I wouldn't want to pay Adams for his comics if I were a likely fledgling newspaper either.
On top of that Twitter is just inherently at it's core a net negative because of what it naturally encourages. So I think it's always the right time to "boycott Twitter." The Adams incident is a good a reason as any, but there are many reasons.