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Old 07-10-2023, 07:10 AM   #651
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Cloudflare CEO has Twitter's traffic completely tanking in July. That seems by design with the limits put out, but also in my personal experience with my timeline being light on content. Meanwhile Threads has hit 100 million users and counting.
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Old 07-10-2023, 07:30 AM   #652
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I really want the cage match to happen.

If I was Zuck, I'd be prepared to make him suffer. A long buildup in pain and humiliation.
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Old 07-10-2023, 08:33 AM   #653
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Cloudflare CEO has Twitter's traffic completely tanking in July. That seems by design with the limits put out,

For all that people shit on the idea of Elon as owner/CEO of a social media company since he had no experience in that area, the one argument you could make in his favor is that he's a tech genius so at least the physical nuts and bolts of twitter--the actual tech side of it--should improve under his leadership.

And instead he's had to throttle his own website because it cannot handle too much traffic.

Any vestigial idea I had post-Trump that wealth has any correlation with competence is pretty much gone at this point.
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Old 07-10-2023, 08:36 AM   #654
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I really want the cage match to happen.

If I was Zuck, I'd be prepared to make him suffer. A long buildup in pain and humiliation.

He's never entering a cage with Zuck.

He'll demand some unattainable condition for the fight, and when it cannot be met, he'll drop out and his fanboys will blame everyone but him.
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Old 07-10-2023, 11:34 AM   #655
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Probably true.

It would be great if they reoriented this towards a charity thing. A friendly exhibition match, like Adonis v Drago . Donate all their proceeds to the Gates Foundation or like.
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Old 07-10-2023, 11:37 AM   #656
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Gates Foundation? I don't think Elon can do that without drawing the ire of his fanboys. Would you want him to fund the next experiment in mind control or whatever the fuck it is these trolls believe Gates is doing to the world?
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Old 07-10-2023, 01:33 PM   #657
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Cloudflare CEO has Twitter's traffic completely tanking in July. That seems by design with the limits put out, but also in my personal experience with my timeline being light on content. Meanwhile Threads has hit 100 million users and counting.

They also cut off Google from indexing their site. That's probably a lot of outside traffic they are missing out on.
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Old 07-10-2023, 07:08 PM   #658
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ElonJet lands on Threads after Twitter suspended it for tracking Elon Musk's jet : NPR

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there was a twitter user that tracked musk's jet. It got banned...but now it's on threads hahahaha
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Old 07-10-2023, 09:06 PM   #659
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He's never entering a cage with Zuck.

He'll demand some unattainable condition for the fight, and when it cannot be met, he'll drop out and his fanboys will blame everyone but him.

The only way it'll happen is if there is a lawsuit forcing him to get into the cage, similar to his purchase of Twitter.
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Old 07-11-2023, 11:08 AM   #660
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Lead developer for Threads said regarding this week the chronological timeline, follower only feed, hashtags and search function should all be added. Once that is done, I'm not seeing an advantage to Twitter beyond an abundance of white nationalist with blue checkmarks and porn. I'm not underestimating how long porn might keep Twitter propped up.

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Old 07-11-2023, 03:16 PM   #661
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Conspiracy Theorists (and Elon Musk) Falsely Accuse Student of Being ‘Fed’ Posing as Neo-Nazi
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Old 07-11-2023, 05:28 PM   #662
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I like how they try to brag about the size of their movement while also disavowing the existence of the movement whenever it's pointed out they exist.
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Old 07-11-2023, 05:32 PM   #663
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There's something about the way the writer casually - and irrelevantly - mentions the outcome of the game that made me laugh.

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Old 07-11-2023, 06:03 PM   #664
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There's something about the way the writer casually - and irrelevantly - mentions the outcome of the game that made me laugh.

...as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos...
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Old 07-12-2023, 06:06 AM   #665
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Team Zuck.

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Old 07-12-2023, 08:28 AM   #666
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As dumb as this is, it would be pretty satisfying to see Musk get the shit beaten out of him.
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Old 07-13-2023, 06:09 AM   #667
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As dumb as this is, it would be pretty satisfying to see Musk get the shit beaten out of him.

I wouldn't want it that "physical", happy enough with humiliation ending with a submission. Sometimes you just need to respond to internet bullies who talk smack, insult you etc. and stand up to them.
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Old 07-13-2023, 06:14 AM   #668
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Eagerly waiting for more details this Fri. Sounds interesting but his most recent track record hasn't been great.

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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of Twitter, on Wednesday announced the debut of a new AI company, xAI, with the goal to “understand the true nature of the universe.”
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Old 07-23-2023, 02:48 PM   #669
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Not going to be twitter any longer:
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Old 07-23-2023, 03:34 PM   #670
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It's unimaginable how bad Elon Musk is at nearly everything.
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Old 07-23-2023, 04:26 PM   #671
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Isn't the whole "X" thing like a 20 year old marketing ploy? What's next, Matthew Perry as the new X spokesperson?
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Old 07-23-2023, 05:26 PM   #672
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Can this be anymore x-citing?

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Old 07-23-2023, 05:44 PM   #673
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I saw XVideos trending on Twitter.
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Old 07-24-2023, 07:42 AM   #674
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This new name is perfect for all the "x"-Twitter users who have abandoned that app to use something that works.
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Old 07-24-2023, 08:49 AM   #675
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He basically bought it on order to shut it down. Shut it down as it existed. He still has the infrastructure but he's killed most everything else.
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Old 07-24-2023, 09:52 AM   #676
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Old 07-24-2023, 10:38 AM   #677
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I wonder how much he paid for x.com
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Old 07-24-2023, 10:42 AM   #678
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Xxx dot com would be three times better
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Old 07-24-2023, 10:45 AM   #679
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I wonder how much he paid for x.com

Probably not much since he's owned it since before the turn of the century
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Old 07-24-2023, 10:45 AM   #680
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I saw XVideos trending on Twitter.

Seems like a good time to advise the innocent NOT to search for that term on their work computer.
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Old 07-24-2023, 11:00 AM   #681
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I saw XVideos trending on Twitter.

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Old 07-24-2023, 11:02 AM   #682
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Probably not much since he's owned it since before the turn of the century

From a 2017 article. He owned it, then PayPal had it, and then he (re)bought it from PayPal.

Elon Musk buys his old X.com domain from PayPal | Engadget
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Elon Musk is without a doubt the most famous single-letter domain owner ever, as his company X.com eventually became PayPal. Unfortunately, when Musk was pushed out, the domain (with its aught-tastic logo, above) stayed behind with PayPal. However, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO has bought it back for an unknown sum, according to Domain Investing and a tweet by Musk. Nobody's saying how much he paid, but as a term of reference, Z.com sold for around $6.8 million three years ago.
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Old 07-24-2023, 11:12 AM   #683
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Old 07-24-2023, 11:26 AM   #684
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The X looks like a common strip club trying to sell itself as premium.
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Old 07-24-2023, 02:18 PM   #685
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Old 07-24-2023, 02:40 PM   #686
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Old 07-24-2023, 04:14 PM   #687
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This history behind Musk and X is humorous. Apparently he tried to change Paypal to X-Paypal and PP people were pissed because Paypal was starting to be used like a verb and adding the X was problematic, and then there was the focus groups which thought it signified something pornographic. Yet, he continues to push X on everything.

Is Musk basically the billionaire version of Gronk? He chuckles every time he sees the X or something?
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Old 07-24-2023, 04:16 PM   #688
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Also, this:

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Old 07-24-2023, 04:18 PM   #689
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I think he's just really dumb and surrounded by people who will not tell him that his ideas are dumb.

He also got booted from Paypal because he gave credit cards with high limits out to anyone with a pulse and it almost bankrupted the company.
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Old 07-24-2023, 08:17 PM   #690
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Meta owns "X" from a social media perspective, having bought Mixer from Microsoft.
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Old 07-25-2023, 04:10 PM   #691
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A fool with daddy's money and connections who could use daddy's money can get pretty far in America. Even to the Oval Office.
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Old 07-25-2023, 04:24 PM   #692
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A fool with daddy's money and connections who could use daddy's money can get pretty far in America. Even to the Oval Office.

Heh.

Elizabeth Warren should hold a hearing on raising the inheritance tax. And the entire hearing is her just putting up a picture of Trump and a picture of Musk and making everyone stare at them for two hours.
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Old 07-26-2023, 09:53 AM   #693
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Nice brand you got there, be a shame if something happened to it ...



(From a WSJ article)
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Old 07-26-2023, 10:02 AM   #694
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I love how every major tech mogul except Elon apparently has some trademarkable claim to "X"
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Old 07-26-2023, 05:39 PM   #695
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Advertisers can't wait to have their ads next to literal child porn.
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Old 07-27-2023, 08:15 PM   #696
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They really getting rid of light mode for dark mode only? Not that I matter, but white letters on a black background gives me some sort of dizziness/maybe motion sickness? I don’t know why either, it’s just a thing that happens and I can’t do it so that literally would be the end of me visiting X or Twitter or whatever it is at this point.
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Old 07-27-2023, 08:38 PM   #697
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They really getting rid of light mode for dark mode only? Not that I matter, but white letters on a black background gives me some sort of dizziness/maybe motion sickness? I don’t know why either, it’s just a thing that happens and I can’t do it so that literally would be the end of me visiting X or Twitter or whatever it is at this point.

He's such a smart guy, he knows what you want better than you do.
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Old 07-29-2023, 04:38 PM   #698
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It's like a cartoon at this point.
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Old 07-29-2023, 05:01 PM   #699
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First thing that came to mind was Kramer and Kenny Rogers Roasters.
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