Twitter likely to take idiots offer to buy them for $43 billion

[TomC]

but on Yahoo News

There's still a Yahoo?

I stopped bothering 10 years ago. How did it remain?

Tom

 

[lpetrich]

Post News, a Twitter alternative, gets funding from a16z | TechCrunch - Nov 28

As of Monday, Post News has about 335,000 users on its waitlist, according to Bardin, while about 65,000 accounts have been activated. (Users are being let in slowly as to not overload the platform’s operations and moderation capabilities). The platform has already secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), as well as Scott Galloway, an NYU professor and tech commentator. Silicon Valley journalist Kara Swisher said she is an advisor to the company but is not an investor.

a16z = Andreessen Horowitz: a + 16 letters + z. Like internationalization = i18n, localization = l10n

Also mentioned its pay-per-article feature, an alternative to subscriptions.

Explained: What is Post.news, the emerging easy-to-use Twitter alternative | Business Standard News - Nov 23

The Post.news is currently accepting sign-up applications. As of Wednesday morning, there is a long waitlist of 180,000 people, out of which 20,000 are invited by other users. There are currently 16,000 active users on Post, said Bardin in a post that he tweeted on Twitter.

In the same post, Bardin wrote that users must carefully select their account handles, while signing up, as they will not be able to change it for a while, since the platform is understaffed. Further, he said that users must practice self-help by checking out the FAQ's section, if they face any issue, because it will take several days for Post.news to address the issue raised through emails.

"The initial users set the tone, so we are prioritising people based on the date they have signed up, what they shared about themselves, content creators and content consumers, age, gender, etc. to make the platform as diverse as possible within our rules" tweeted Bardin.

Seems like a slow start.

 

[lpetrich]

but on Yahoo News

There's still a Yahoo?

Yes, and I like it for its non-paywalled news articles.

 

[lpetrich]

Leaving Twitter? Hive, Mastodon and Post are alternatives seeing new users : NPR - Nov 24

• Mastodon - iOS, Android, webpages
• Hive Social - only an iOS app and a beta Android one
• Post - only webpages
• Legacy social media networks: Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Tumblr

11 of the Best Social Media Posting Apps for 2023 - apps for posting in social-media apps and managing one's social-media content - Brandwatch (Formerly Falcon.io), Loomly, Sendible, PromoRepublic, AgoraPulse, Hootsuite, CoSchedule, Sprout Social, Buffer, SocialPilot, Meet Edgar

 

[Shadowy Man]

And the final results;



More than 15% difference in favour.

Even Lauren Boebert was more popular in her district than Elon is on Twitter. Yikes.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

We don't need Twitter, we don't need a replacement for Twitter.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

You'll have to get over it. Musk didn't want to buy Twitter, he tried to get out of it, but the elites at the top of Twitter forced his hand.

Yeah, because he was a moron that actually ended up held accountable when he bid way too high.

 

[Metaphor]

You'll have to get over it. Musk didn't want to buy Twitter, he tried to get out of it, but the elites at the top of Twitter forced his hand.

Yeah, because he was a moron that actually ended up held accountable when he bid way too high.

Yes, he bid too high, he tried to get out of it, and all of the leftists plebs working at Twitter who were horrified by the prospect of Musk taking over were not saved by the leftist elite C-suite, who sued Elon to buy, and who left with multi million dollar golden parachutes.

Leftist elites wanted Musk to buy Twitter and they got what they wanted.

 

[Jayjay]

You'll have to get over it. Musk didn't want to buy Twitter, he tried to get out of it, but the elites at the top of Twitter forced his hand.

Yeah, because he was a moron that actually ended up held accountable when he bid way too high.

Yes, he bid too high, he tried to get out of it, and all of the leftists plebs working at Twitter who were horrified by the prospect of Musk taking over were not saved by the leftist elite C-suite, who sued Elon to buy, and who left with multi million dollar golden parachutes.

Leftist elites wanted Musk to buy Twitter and they got what they wanted.

Just like this scene from Suicide Squad:

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

You'll have to get over it. Musk didn't want to buy Twitter, he tried to get out of it, but the elites at the top of Twitter forced his hand.

Yeah, because he was a moron that actually ended up held accountable when he bid way too high.

Yes, he bid too high, he tried to get out of it, and all of the leftists plebs working at Twitter who were horrified by the prospect of Musk taking over were not saved by the leftist elite C-suite, who sued Elon to buy, and who left with multi million dollar golden parachutes.

Leftist elites wanted Musk to buy Twitter and they got what they wanted.

Today on Wealthy Businessmen Liberal Elites...

 

[Metaphor]

You'll have to get over it. Musk didn't want to buy Twitter, he tried to get out of it, but the elites at the top of Twitter forced his hand.

Yeah, because he was a moron that actually ended up held accountable when he bid way too high.

Yes, he bid too high, he tried to get out of it, and all of the leftists plebs working at Twitter who were horrified by the prospect of Musk taking over were not saved by the leftist elite C-suite, who sued Elon to buy, and who left with multi million dollar golden parachutes.

Leftist elites wanted Musk to buy Twitter and they got what they wanted.

Today on Wealthy Businessmen Liberal Elites...

The senior executives at Twitter, immediately before Musk bought Twitter, are the leftist elites who I am talking about here. I don't know that I'd call them 'businessmen'.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

*snip*

 

[Loren Pechtel]

That isn't hypocritical. Being pro free speech does not mean you have to provide your personal resources to advertise commercial competitors. It just doesn't.

But he's going farther than that, suspending accounts that merely mention other services. The EU isn't happy.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

What does it say about someone’s intellect that they decided to post this poll about their job? WTF?

He doesn’t lose ownership and control; just an exit from the hubbub.

He bought it... he put himself in control. He destabilized the company. He had no solutions to problems Twitter had, or the ones he would create himself.

He's a right winger. All they do these days is create problems and blame others for not solving them.

 

[scombrid]

You'll have to get over it. Musk didn't want to buy Twitter, he tried to get out of it, but the elites at the top of Twitter forced his hand.

Yeah, because he was a moron that actually ended up held accountable when he bid way too high.

Yes, he bid too high, he tried to get out of it, and all of the leftists plebs working at Twitter who were horrified by the prospect of Musk taking over were not saved by the leftist elite C-suite, who sued Elon to buy, and who left with multi million dollar golden parachutes.

Leftist elites wanted Musk to buy Twitter and they got what they wanted.

Today on Wealthy Businessmen Liberal Elites...

The senior executives at Twitter, immediately before Musk bought Twitter, are the leftist elites who I am talking about here. I don't know that I'd call them 'businessmen'.

Musk is a genius. Apparently he got pwned by elite libtard non-businessmen.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

What does it say about someone’s intellect that they decided to post this poll about their job? WTF?

He doesn’t lose ownership and control; just an exit from the hubbub.

He bought it... he put himself in control. He destabilized the company. He had no solutions to problems Twitter had, or the ones he would create himself.

He's a right winger. All they do these days is create problems and blame others for not solving them.

Up to now, I haven't seen Musk be particularly partisan. Like Trump, he seems to be too into himself to care about politics.

 

[Worldtraveller]

What does it say about someone’s intellect that they decided to post this poll about their job? WTF?

He doesn’t lose ownership and control; just an exit from the hubbub.

He bought it... he put himself in control. He destabilized the company. He had no solutions to problems Twitter had, or the ones he would create himself.

He's a right winger. All they do these days is create problems and blame others for not solving them.

Up to now, I haven't seen Musk be particularly partisan. Like Trump, he seems to be too into himself to care about politics.

He's become rightwing though. I think narcissistic types are attracted to right wing pitics because the plebs tend to be much more cult like and very non critical.


There's a good reason being left in the political spectrum, like being athiest (large overlap) is often likened to herding cats.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I'd see Musk being more like a fascist than a conservative, like Trump.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

What does it say about someone’s intellect that they decided to post this poll about their job? WTF?

He doesn’t lose ownership and control; just an exit from the hubbub.

He bought it... he put himself in control. He destabilized the company. He had no solutions to problems Twitter had, or the ones he would create himself.

He cut like half the employees and it works just fine. He also suspected many accounts associated with child exploitation (which Twitter 1.0 was well aware of). That’s probably why the left hates him.

Works just fine?!?!

What he removed was mostly the ability to respond to problems. At this point Twitter is a trainwreck looking for a place to happen.

And what's with the child exploitation garbage? Claiming such stuff was removed doesn't make it so. What he's actually done is removed most of the ability to respond to such stuff.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

You'll have to get over it. Musk didn't want to buy Twitter, he tried to get out of it, but the elites at the top of Twitter forced his hand.

Yeah, because he was a moron that actually ended up held accountable when he bid way too high.

Yes, he bid too high, he tried to get out of it, and all of the leftists plebs working at Twitter who were horrified by the prospect of Musk taking over were not saved by the leftist elite C-suite, who sued Elon to buy, and who left with multi million dollar golden parachutes.

Leftist elites wanted Musk to buy Twitter and they got what they wanted.

This has nothing to do with leftists or elites, simply good business sense. Somebody offers you way above actual value for something you have, why would you not sell? Twitter was losing money and had no real path to profitability--that makes it's real value something like $0. They're offered $43B for it--taking the offer is a no-brainer.