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nilay patel

@reckless

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(welcome to hell)

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nilay patel

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1 year

It is incredible how many smart people are quietly whispering that Elon has to be destroying Twitter on purpose

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Sorry bro

Welcome to hell, Elon

Owning Twitter means owning a host of impossible political problems. Is Elon ready?

www.theverge.com

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The First Amendment as an all-purpose magic internet law finds itself in a Canadian court, where the judge is not amused

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Oh no not a first-gen iPad that hasn’t gotten software updates for a decade anything but that

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More fallout from Apple's decision to stop selling its products in Russia "Here's our response to American sanctions! We don't fear you! We'll live without your nice 'pretty' things!"

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Aaron Rodgers just said Ivermectin is being used successfully in Indian and Japan, which: India officially pulled it from its protocols because it was ineffective and the Japan thing is pure conspiracy. My dude has an absolutely terrible information diet

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No one is going to boycott any brand for not spending ad dollars on Twitter, this is the saddest little idea in history

Elon Musk

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@mrddmia Thank you. A thermonuclear name & shame is exactly what will happen if this continues.

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Today we’re updating The Verge’s policy on agreeing to “background” from tech companies. We’re doing this publicly to provide cover for other newsrooms covering tech to do the same. It’s getting a little ridiculous out there.

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Looking for a house occasionally offers blunt illustrations of how much we prioritize cars over people

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Honey we need to boycott Audi, they won’t buy ads on the Tesla guy’s website and he tweeted about it

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I agree that this will one day be a business school case study

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nilay patel

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Maybe he is! Or maybe it’s just easier to believe that than the alternative

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SCOOP from @alexeheath : Twitter's chief privacy officer, chief compliance officer, and chief information security officer have all quit. Internal note warns that violating FTC privacy settlement could destroy the company but Elon doesn't seem to care.

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It’s hard to explain but the Quibi energy around Twitter is extremely intense

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nilay patel

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The end state of the First Amendment is a Ted Cruz bill that requires GM to buy ads next to racist tweets

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nilay patel

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2 years

Between Twitter employees unhappy with change, Netflix employees unhappy with new pay leveling, and the amount of money floating around tech... we are maybe 6-8 months away from a huge startup boom

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nilay patel

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Scoop from ⁦ @alexeheath ⁩: it’ll be $20/mo to be verified, and if the team doesn’t ship in a week, they’re fired

Twitter is planning to start charging soon for verification

“The whole verification process is being revamped right now,” Musk tweeted.

www.theverge.com

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Elon got all the way back around to how verification worked before in less than two weeks

Esther Crawford ✨

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1 year

@TwitterBlue Not all previously verified accounts will get the “Official” label and the label is not available for purchase. Accounts that will receive it include government accounts, commercial companies, business partners, major media outlets, publishers and some public figures.

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nilay patel

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Yo @elonmusk how would you say you make decisions

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nilay patel

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"I don't hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy" into RCS, says Tim Cook in response to a question at Code. "I would love to convert you to an iPhone." "I can't send my mom certain videos," says the questioner. "Buy your mom an iPhone," says Tim.

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You cannot “match the law” and then also say you will “authenticate all humans” and block spam bots. The law protects anonymous speech. The law protects commercial speech. Every service that has ever tried this move has quickly retreated for the same obvious reasons

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.

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nilay patel

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owned

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nilay patel

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do i even have to say it

Elon Musk

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1 year

Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.

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Maybe we should splinter the internet; that way local ISPs can put up warnings before users encounter the absolutely nonsensical state of American politics

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nilay patel

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This is objectively some boomer shit. There are entire SaaS companies that exist to manage exactly this!

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nilay patel

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My friend and brother @backlon was the first person I recruited to come work at a fledgling blog called The Verge, and today he's leaving us. I will miss him but I'm very excited for his new role in product at Google, where he has promised to fix RCS.

A heartfelt farewell from Dieter Bohn

I’m going to miss writing and making video for you all.

www.theverge.com

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Scoop from ⁦ @MiaRSato :⁩ Omnicom - one of the largest ad agencies in the world - is recommending clients pause Twitter spending

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nilay patel

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Updates from @alexeheath on the Twitter staff that's all quit: multiple teams that run core services are all gone

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nilay patel

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Just a reminder that there was like a month-long trial about whether the iOS App Store is a monopoly and Apple won; the case is now sitting with the appeals court which has already heard arguments. Just in case you wanted to do any of the reading before acting a fool online

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nilay patel

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Peloton’s CEO placing a story with the WSJ about firing 500 people and being shocked when it wasn’t a puff piece is just incredible

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nilay patel

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There's a whole new Verge today — we've been working on it for two years. I'm so, so excited about it.

Welcome to the new Verge

A complete redesign of The Verge that marries the best of old-school blogging with a modern news feed experience.

www.theverge.com

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nilay patel

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Welcome to hell

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nilay patel

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I just went out to buy spray paint at Home Depot and they checked my ID because they don’t sell spray paint to people under 18

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nilay patel

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The reaction to Netflix having a single bad quarter is a good reminder no one remembers what competitive markets in tech are like anymore

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nilay patel

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I have also decided not to join Twitter’s board

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nilay patel

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Honestly you would think the guy who runs the rocket company funded by massive government contracts would actually be good at compliance issues

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nilay patel

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Managing a social network is harder than rockets because the users of a social network are not a deterministic system as conclusively demonstrated by Twitter’s users over the last few weeks

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In both those companies, people die if the software doesn't work right. Do you really think he's not up to managing a social network?

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Bro that’s a variant on Murphy’s Law how on earth did you pull Grimes with this shit

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The most entertaining outcome is the most likely – my variant on Occam’s Razor

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nilay patel

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2 years

One theory I have about Google is that the company is so relentlessly driven by data that it can only really see the past, and never quite invent the future

Google canceled its next Pixelbook and shut down the team building it

The next Google Chromebook was supposed to come next year — now it’s not coming at all.

www.theverge.com

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nilay patel

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I hope the Packers win the Super Bowl and Aaron hires someone to google shit for him

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nilay patel

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If there's one thing that's true about ISP executives, it's that they understand the internet

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@WholeMarsBlog Starlink is rebuilding the Internet in space, so maybe I know slightly more than some guy who wrote code for a website

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Reminder that terminating a contract requires both parties to agree to terminate, you can’t just declare a contract terminated

Elon Musk officially tries to bail on buying Twitter

He’s officially filed.

www.theverge.com

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nilay patel

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@elonmusk Wait until you try TikTok, that’ll really bake your noodle

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My dad sent me a "please call me when you get a chance" text so I called in a panic. Here is the news: my parents are dropping U-Verse for Spectrum.

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nilay patel

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In a functional market economy, Taylor Swift sees what's happening with Ticketmaster and says "we'll be going with one of your competitors next time." in America's dumb consolidated economy, all she can do is hope they improve next time

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nilay patel

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This conversation between Chris Anderson and Elon Musk about speech regulation is the most depressingly stupid thing I have heard in a long time. Chris really mentioned "fire in a crowded theater," which is like sign number one you have no idea what you're talking about.

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Poor Jack was all “Twitter shouldn’t be a company, only you can save it Elon” and Elon’s immediate response is “what if we charge $420.69 for blue checks”

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help

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nilay patel

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Can you imagine being the richest man on earth and suddenly realizing you are in the ultimate client service business and no one trusts you

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nilay patel

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welcome to hell

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This is the fastest time-to-90 on the Go90 Scale of Doomed Streaming Services ever recorded. Congrats to everyone, a historic achievement. Less than a month.

CNN Plus is shutting down only a month after it launched

Warner Bros. Discovery has different plans for the streaming era.

www.theverge.com

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Iger coming back to Disney is the biggest “roll back the org chart changes” story in business history. We’re going to have to do like a five hour Decoder

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nilay patel

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2 years

This man would not last a day moderating a medium-size neighborhood parents’ Facebook group

Elon Musk

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A social media platform’s policies are good if the most extreme 10% on left and right are equally unhappy

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nilay patel

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7 months

We’ll be fine

@jason

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@brooke @thebenbergman @lindayaX @yoyoel @JBoorstin Good luck ever booking a high profile ceo for code again 🔥 🏠 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Americans are polarized and messy but “don’t tell me how to spend my fucking money” unites us all

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"My preferred management tool is 2700 email status updates a week"

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nilay patel

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Lots of people love our new design and a few people hate it, but you know, we made everyone talk about a open web redesign in 2022 and that makes us all winners in the platform wars. (Also we had 2x our baseline homepage traffic today. Blogging is back, baby.)

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I told you so

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Engineers thinking the legal system works like computers will be the death of us all

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Man got community noted into deleting it lol

Tom Warren

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1 year

and Elon has deleted his tweet. I guess that settles that then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Mr Free Speech just imposed a speech regulation so obviously pathetic it runs right into the SUPREME COURT BRIEF FILED BY THE ONION

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Just taking a moment to consider the Nexus 4, as you do

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Spotify is leaning directly into the comparisons to Facebook and YouTube; it lets them run the “content moderation is an impossible challenge” playbook instead of the “we bought and distribute this media property” playbook

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How many times has Facebook put out almost the exact same statement?

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nilay patel

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Two things: 1. Our quick posts have comments now! 2. Whatever relationship I had with Twitter has come to an end, and you can find me at , where I will be posting much more often, and welcome your comments on my posts.

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Reminder to everyone doing Twitter Blue subscriber and revenue math that Apple takes 30 percent of every subscription for the first year whee

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You all know that “making the algorithm open-source” doesn’t mean anything, right? Twitter can publish the ranking algo code right now, just like a book. “Open source” refers to several copyright licenses that would allow other people to use that code. Which no one’s gonna do.

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Apple Music now putting ads on the Library screen, which is entirely too much. There are 200 other discovery screens in this app, leave the library alone

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It took seven and half hours but I have secured six tickets to Taylor Swift in Chicago for my niece and nephew’s graduation present. Ticketmaster should be illegal or at least send an exec to stand for their crimes on Decoder

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Twitter has 217m worldwide monthly active users. It is not the town square of anything and trying to impose government speech restrictions on it is a stupid idea

Elon Musk

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Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy. What should be done?

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Using the power of the state to punish political speech violates which amendment, I can’t remember

Aaron Rupar

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"When you're trying to impose a woke ideology on our state, we view that as a significant threat. This wokeness will destroy this country" -- on Fox & Friends, Ron DeSantis encourages the Florida legislature to punish Disney over its opposition to the "Don't Say Gay" bill

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Welcome to hell

Elon Musk

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To be super clear, we have not yet made any changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies

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Elon proposes banning spam bots on Twitter which... hey did you know spam is not actually illegal under the First Amendment? So he is writing a speech regulation because he doesn't like the experience of other people's speech.

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welcome to hell

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Advertisers should support:

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welcome! to! hell!

Elon Musk

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Again, to be crystal clear, Twitter’s strong commitment to content moderation remains absolutely unchanged. In fact, we have actually seen hateful speech at times this week decline *below* our prior norms, contrary to what you may read in the press.

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Nothing exposes how badly compressed TV is like the confetti

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It is with great regret that I must announce replying to all criticism with "$8" is extremely fun and rewarding

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Copyright law: no one understands it

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The thing about racists is that they are so _lazy_

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Look I'm not a lawyer anymore but I feel very comfortable saying Twitter employees shouldn't agree to a contract they haven't read and can't read for weeks to come. Scoop from @MiaRSato who got the "hardcore or leave" FAQ out of Twitter ->

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Cybertruck windshield wiper design team waiting for an approval meeting that keeps getting pushed back

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This is so embarrassing

The Verge

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Judge buys Rittenhouse lawyer’s inane argument that Apple’s pinch-to-zoom manipulates footage

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Really cannot stress enough that Twitter has virtually no data to license; tweets copyrights belong to users. Elon would have to radically change the terms of service to resell tweets and there are huge revshare and fair use issues to contend with

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nilay patel

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The beatings will continue until morale improves

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@elonmusk

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Going forward, accounts engaged in parody must include “parody” in their name, not just in bio

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I mean you really have to admire the speed at which he has gone from “all legal speech” to “here are some speech regulations I made up”

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@Casey This is like you whispering candyman in the mirror five times dude

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welcome to hell

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

1 year

Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended

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At this rate Elon will build Twitter into a serious Facebook competitor in just 167 years

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We have reached the “billionaires sending coded messages to their crush by putting songs in their AIM status” stage

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(welcome to hell)

The Verge

@verge

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Twitter Blue signups disappear a day after fakes and mayhem

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Painstaking look at how Facebook allowed the American far-right to amplify and distort the Canadian trucker convoy by ⁦ @broderick ⁩

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Excited for various billionaires to engage with the real free speech problems in America

Annie Gowen

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In Llano County TX, officials gutted the library board, removed books like Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen” from shelves and fired the librarian who opposed them

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This is the funniest evidence of being brain poisoned by Twitter yet. The entire web is bent around Google, which is obvious to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to things like…. headlines

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Japan:

Japan has not abandoned its COVID-19 vaccine rollout in favour of ivermectin

An article online falsely claims Japanese authorities have abandoned the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, instead choosing to rely on ivermectin, an anti-parasitic medication.

www.reuters.com

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welcome to hell.jpg

The Verge

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Elon Musk offloads another $3.9 billion in Tesla shares

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don't get it twisted, the story today is still the thousands of people who were heartlessly fired

Elon Musk tries to distract from Twitter layoffs by claiming advertisers are fleeing the platform

The people in charge of advertising no longer work at Twitter.

www.theverge.com

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“Make it look like an electric beaver”

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In the end, Aaron Rodgers canceled himself

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I love this fantasy world where YouTube has a competitor people will leave for

YouTube co-founder predicts ‘decline’ of the platform following removal of dislikes

“Does YouTube want to become a place where everything is mediocre?”

www.theverge.com

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Some misunderstandings here so I will make it plain: if you think 217m monthly actives makes Twitter a town square you have no idea that Reddit (430m), TikTok (1 billion), and Facebook (2.9 billion) are vastly more popular and should quit Twitter because your brain is poisoned

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Twitter has 217m worldwide monthly active users. It is not the town square of anything and trying to impose government speech restrictions on it is a stupid idea

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nothing about this bezel is "all screen" words have meanings people

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