New ownership for Twitter

[hbelkins]

Thoughts on the change in ownership?

[abefroman329]

None that comply with the various forum rules, no.

[bandit957]

Twitter couldn't be any worse than it already was.

[Stephane Dumas]

That served as a good source of inspirations for memes.
https://knowyourmeme.com/news/elon-musk-took-another-meme-irl-by-bringing-a-sink-to-twitter-hq
https://www.opindia.com/2022/10/twitter-memes-after-elon-musk-acquires-the-social-media-platform/
https://twitter.com/NautPoso/status/1585796654875250695
https://twitter.com/VickyShegzy/status/1585884740238049280

[NWI_Irish96]

Twitter is what you make of it. I use it more or less as a news source. 50% of what I follow is sports-related, 30% is local news/weather/traffic, the other 20% is people I actually know personally. Anybody who's posting mostly political stuff gets edited out of my feed pretty quickly. 99% of political opinions on Twitter or any other social media are pretty much boilerplate left-wing or right-wing.

[abefroman329]

Twitter couldn't be any worse than it already was.

I agree that it's a cesspool and has been for quite some time, but it could absolutely get worse.

[kphoger]

Never used it.

[skluth]

Twitter couldn't be any worse than it already was.

I agree that it's a cesspool and has been for quite some time, but it could absolutely get worse.

Yes, it could get worse. But I honestly don't know anyone who would care. It's a self-contained bubble that is of huge importance to those in the bubble and mostly irrelevant to most everyone else. If Twitter disappeared, people would notice for about a week, then those displaced would soon find another bubble.

[Alps]

I rarely tweet and even less often check responses. No change for me.

[kphoger]

Twitter is for twits, isn't it?

Tweeter, on the other hand, was a boy scout before she went to Vietnam.

[JoePCool14]

I think that Twitter will become a more "Wild West"-type of website that the major social media platforms have turned away from since their inceptions. I think it's overall a good thing. Walking on egg shells while writing on public forums is lame.

Twitter has been incredibly shady with their methods of banning and the way they distribute verification. (i.e., journalists with a couple thousand followers have the blue check, while YouTubers with hundreds of thousands of subscribers don't). I hope to see Elon Musk make the platform more fun again.

[Big John]

I opened a twitter account more than 10 years ago.  Never sent a tweet.

[JayhawkCO]

Social media is terrible in general, but I use Twitter as a sort of chronological recap of the day's events and reactions to it. I don't use the Twitter app but rather a client instead so it's actually chronological vs. promoted nonsense that is the normal app. Now that it's going to turn into Truth Social II presented by Ye and Blood Emeralds, I'll have to find something else I suppose.

[Max Rockatansky]

Never used it.

Ditto, I don't understand the appeal of the platform.

[oscar]

Twitter is for twits, isn't it?

My take exactly. Too many twits on Twitter. I doubt that will change, except maybe some twits will leave and be replaced by new ones, since twits with no lives have to do something with their time.

I get some indirect exposure to Twitter from political websites I frequent. Otherwise, I have no interest in participating.

[Bruce]

Twitter is fantastic for breaking news and alerts (to the point that many public institutions use it as their alerts system, since email isn't reliable and texts are annoying). I can get traffic alerts, transit alerts, notices from my power company and ISP, and just general news without having to check each website individually.

It's also great for cutting through customer service bullshit; if you have a problem, you tweet publicly at a company's support line and they'll try to move you along to the correct part of the support tree much faster than any other text-based method.

I hope it isn't destroyed under the new ownership, as there's no good alternative that offers a restrained text-focused social media experience.

[hotdogPi]

Fun fact: Muskmelon is one key away from Musk,elon.

Twitter couldn't be any worse than it already was.

I agree that it's a cesspool and has been for quite some time, but it could absolutely get worse.

Would that make it a deadpool?

[kkt]

I made a Twitter account so I could see the Mt. Rainier road opening status... which the park posts on Twitter but not their own web page.  I have yet to actually tweet anything.

[dlsterner]

Twitter is for twits, isn't it?

Tweeter, on the other hand, was a boy scout before she went to Vietnam.

For reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man.

[zachary_amaryllis]

I haven't seen any changes among the group I run with.

[Scott5114]

Elon Musk is a bitch.

[Takumi]

Twitter and Elon deserve each other.

[Max Rockatansky]

It occurred to me the other day that I had no idea what Elon Musk even sounded like when I saw him pop up in a cameo in Iron Man 2.  I saw the movie when it was new, but that was back in 2010.  I guess that I've never heard the guy speak in those intervening years or never noticed.

[bing101]

Twitter couldn't be any worse than it already was.

True and politics escalate on Twitter.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Would that make it a deadpool?

A dead pool is where people pick celebrities they think will die within the next year. Our local classic rock station used to do one around New Year's.