Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without making a series of enormous compromises that will ultimately destroy your reputation and possibly cause grievous damage to your other companies.
Welcome to hell, Elon – Nilay Patel, the Verge
Twitter has been hit by a coordinated trolling campaign in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, with more than 50,000 tweets from 300 accounts bombarding the platform with hateful content.
Twitter trolls bombard platform after Elon Musk takeover, Dan Milmo, The Guardian
This weekend, advertisers, regulators, and Twitter users were all attentively watching Elon Musk’s Twitter feed for any indication of whether the free speech absolutist could be trusted to do things like effectively combat disinformation spread after taking over the site. In what may be considered Musk’s first major misstep as Twitter’s new owner, Musk chose that moment to amplify a far-right conspiracy theory in a now-deleted tweet garnering scrutiny from all sides.
Musk jokes about his deleted tweet sharing misinformation on Pelosi attack, Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica
On Friday, a conservative group named Canada Proud tweeted at Elon Musk, saying, “Now that you own Twitter, will you help fight back against [Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau’s online censorship bill C-11?” Musk, who appears more eager to reply to random tweets than to study the laws that will govern his new acquisition, tweeted back, “First I’ve heard.” Oh.
The Cold Dose of Reality Awaiting Elon Musk, Evelyn Douek, The Atlantic
And it’s only Tuesday!
In light of these and other ridiculousnesses, I’ve erased my twitter content back from July 2022 to 2008 using TweetDelete. I am preparing to take my ball and leave.
While mastodon.social figures out its new capacity, I’m over at @robcee@toot.cafe and trialing @robcee@fosstodon.org which may become my new main. Come on over and say hi!
Wednesday
In response to Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, 40 justice organizations and media watchdog groups on Tuesday sent a letter to top advertisers on the social platform, urging them to push Musk to embrace content moderation or boycott Twitter entirely.
40 justice organizations and media watchdog groups call on top Twitter advertisers to demand Elon Musk adhere to brand-protecting community safety rules or stop advertising on the platform altogether, Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert, Business Insider
Elon Musk plans to cut about 3,700 jobs at Twitter Inc or half of the company’s workforce in a bid to cut costs,
Elon Musk plans to cut half of Twitter jobs – Reuters
tech-savvy users are rallying around Mastodon, a six-year-old social media platform popular among a devoted base of left-leaning niche communities. Mastodon, named after the extinct tusked animal, is decentralized, which means it can’t be controlled by a single corporation or space billionaire. That’s clearly appealing to the flood of users who have signed up since Musk’s Twitter takeover, with more than 70,000 users joining Mastodon on the day after his announcement alone.
Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them, Wilfred Chan, The Guardian
Friday
Twitter is being sued in a class-action lawsuit filed by former employees laid off as part of a mass firing instigated by the company’s new owner, Elon Musk.
Twitter is being sued by former employees for Elon Musk’s mass firing, James Vincent, The Verge
