#twitter acquisition

[sleepy-bebby]

I thought comedy and free speech was now legal? Unless it’s a tweet about Elon then I guess jail for 1000 years!!1!!1! >:(

[mrsbeef]

Now THIS is the kind of inter-platform cultural transfer I can get behind

[quackmaster24]

Watching Twitter users migrate to Tumblr is like watching the clowns exit the clown car one by one, just to get into an even smaller clown car.

[hanniballecterkinnie]

TWITTER USERS STAY BACK. STAY BACK I SAY.

[techfeeddata]

From acquisition to exit: Everything that happened after Elon Musk's Twitter deal

From acquisition to exit: Everything that happened after Elon Musk’s Twitter deal

Elon Musk on Friday announced the end of a $44 billion bid to buy the microblogging site Twitter, citing a failure to provide adequate information about the number of fake accounts. According to AFP, Musk’s lawyer Mike Ringler took to Twitter to complain that his client (Musk) had been waiting nearly two months to find data on “fake or spam” accounts on the social media platform. Today we look at…

[reportwire]

Elon Musk had eight and ninth children with top executive last year: report

Elon Musk had eight and ninth children with top executive last year: report

Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly had twins with a top executive at one of his companies last year, his eighth and ninth known children. Court documents obtained by Business Insider on Wednesday showed that Musk and the children’s mother, Shivon Zilis, filed a petition to change the twins’ names in order to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle…

[confidant]

(via Elon Musk Wants to Authenticate Every Twitter User. Crypto Twitter Should Take Notice) It sounds like what he's saying Is goodbye to all the spambots with secondary authentication with whatever type he decides on.

[cumulus-catto]

back at it again with this shit

[official-linguistics-post]

Opinions on wugs ?

must one have an opinion on wugs

[soumic]

About once a day I go through the mental gymnastics of going "god I should probably make an art insta, for ~professional purposes~ and ~networking~ and ~cultivating an audience~"

And then I scrunch my face up so hard my features cave inside my skull thinking about conceding to using an algorithmic social media platform in 2023, let alone a facebook product

(please don't take this as a call to suggest alternative social medias to me sdlkfjs I mega super promise you I am aware of them)

[pensiveabstraction]

oh twitter is down down

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

There’s never quite an end to legal maneuvering in Trumpworld, and the latest issue involves the ex-president’s social media company.

Trump, already embattled by damning testimony in hearings before the Jan. 6 Select Committee and criminal and civil investigations in New York and Georgia, might also have to worry about his Twitter knockoff, Truth Social. USA Today reports that Trump and several others close to him, including his son Donald Trump Jr. and a former White House aide, all removed themselves from Truth Social’s board shortly before subpoenas were handed down from the Securities and Exchange Commission and a federal grand jury in New York seeking information about the company’s operations.

Trump started Truth Social last year as an alternative to Twitter, from which he was banned for repeatedly breaking the platform’s policy on spreading false information, specifically about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 insurrection. But that’s not why the SEC and potentially federal prosecutors are interested in the company.

From USA Today:

The investigations appear to be related to a proposed merger between Trump’s media company and a blank-check company called Digital World Acquisitions Corp., according to a recent regulatory filing.

Digital World is a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. Companies such as these raise money to go public with the intent of finding a company to merge with. SPACs are prohibited from finding a partner before going public, but the SEC is investigating potential talks between the two companies that were possibly premature, according to a filing.

The merger between the two companies could reportedly mean $1.3 billion in capital and a listing on the stock exchange for the new company, according to the New York Times.

Truth Social was promoted by Trump as a Twitter alternative for those who didn’t want their content filtered and moderated—in other words, Twitter with even fewer pesky rules to keep trolls in line. A recent article in Forbes described it in less flattering terms, calling it “a political ad campaign in the guise of an open platform for discussion.” The platform has a reported roughly 2 million users, compared with Twitter’s 300 million active accounts.

[shwoo]

I was able to make a Bluesky account a couple of days ago! I can't even remember when I requested an invite, but it was months ago. Got around to setting it up just now, and hope to make posts and stuff! Got the Shwoo name, too. Didn't have to replace the 00s with zeroes like on Twitter! Probably because there weren't like ten million usernames already taken. Just two million.

Actually, I looked it up, and Twitter already had over twenty million users by the time I joined. Can't find consistent numbers for how many it has at the moment, but it's between 300 and 500 million. That's more than most countries. Except China and India and maybe the US if the numbers are on the lower side.

[origami10]

I don’t think I ever actually posted the original gift I made for this year’s #ajinss22 on tumblr?!

Nativity scenes for @ derois02 over on twitter! Half the fun of a nativity is arranging it in silly poses!

[reportwire]

Twitter cofounder Evan Williams on Tesla CEO Elon Musk, free speech, and armchair quarterbacks

Twitter cofounder Evan Williams on Tesla CEO Elon Musk, free speech, and armchair quarterbacks

Twitter cofounder Evan Williams on Tesla CEO Elon Musk, free speech, and armchair quarterbacks | Fortune You need to enable JavaScript to view this site. Source link

[transhuman-priestess]

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