The Cellar / Twitter "under new mgmt" (Elon Musk)

**Posted by griff** 7/26/2023 5:59 am

Anon wrote:
There are numerous articles online about Elon Musk wanting to use "X" as a brand name going back to his days at PayPal. There are even pictures of him and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel holding corporate credit cards with a big "X" on them. Musk has for a long time said that he wants the "X" brand to represent multiple services under one roof and that he likes the letter "X" because it represents the unknown variable (as in an equation). I expect he's planning to diversify the old Twitter under the "X" brand and that there may be projects of both short and long market duration. It would allow him to make more use of his eye for opportunity.

Yeah, I think he wants to compete with meta in that. Social media is a shit-show in part because of scale and reach. They can create the illusion of community using groups with manipulating people moving from art to science, as is often said, you are the product.

**Posted by Happy Monkey** 7/26/2023 10:17 am

A nice summary of the ex-twitter situation.

**Posted by tw** 7/26/2023 10:57 am

griff wrote:
Yeah, I think he wants to compete with meta in that. Social media is a shit-show in part because of scale and reach.

Compete with Facebook? Or stake out a new market? Avoid competing with Facebook. A consistent and coherent strategy is not apparent. His latest statements imply he wants to change Twitter into something that is nothing like the many Metas. As if changing names (Twitter to X, Facebook to Meta, etc) does anything useful - other than make people feel top management is thinking.

**Posted by griff** 5/07/2024 6:19 am

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/

Twitter Files, a blast from the past.

The errors that Hasan highlights matter a lot. A key one is Taibbi’s claim that the Election Integrity Partnership flagged 22 million tweets for Twitter to take down in partnership with the government. This is flat out wrong. The EIP, which was focused on studying election interference, flagged less than 3,000 tweets for Twitter to review (2,890 to be exact).

And they were quite clear in their report on how all this worked. EIP was an academic project to track election interference information and how it flowed across social media. The 22 million figure shows up in the report, but it was just a count of how many tweets they tracked in trying to follow how this information spread, not seeking to remove it. And the vast majority of those tweets weren’t even related to the ones they did explicitly create tickets on.

Last edited by griff (5/07/2024 6:20 am)

**Posted by Flint** 5/07/2024 12:27 pm

wasn't "twitter files" that time when nothing happened, then a rich guy lied about it?

**Posted by griff** 5/08/2024 6:00 am

Verified. Do we still need Elmo on the job?