Elon / Twitter Thread

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  1. chuckmasterflex

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  2. Clown Baby

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    The NYT is dogshit because of passive voice headlines and reprehensible opinion writers but it’s still the “paper of record” in the United States.
     
  3. bro

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    Ya, however we may feel about it at any given time, the Washington post, NYT, and to a lesser extent the WSJ and LA Times are significant and important aspects of American life
     
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  4. Clown Baby

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    I don’t think Elon understands (because he’s an idiot) that his punitive removal of the NYT’s verification doesn’t hurt the entity itself but the 50+ million people who deserve to know that the information being beamed directly into their phones is not misinformation.
     
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  5. Clown Baby

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    Side bar: It’s absolutely hilarious when Elon pretends to know how to code.
     
  6. bwi2

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    Elon and the people funding this acquisition want nothing more than to call into question whether anything you read is reliable
     
  7. Redav

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    He benefits greatly from people being misinformed. The only organizations that would go after an Elon Musk's business practices is someone like a NYT. It's very convenient.
     
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  8. Clown Baby

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    Has there ever been a more precipitous fall from grace than Elon? A couple years ago this guy was still hailed as a genius (albeit a meme thief) and now, well, y’all know.
     
  9. chuckmasterflex

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  10. BudKilmer

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  11. Where Eagles Dare

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    So he took away NYT blue check and left everyone else's as is :laugh:
     
  12. NineteenNine

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    Can an adult please take over for this dolt so I can doom scroll again?
     
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  13. Sub-Zero

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    Ok but what about the for you tab.
     
  14. yesman

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    fuck the For Elon tab
     
  15. steamengine

    steamengine I don’t want to press one for English!
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    Concerning
     
  16. BudKilmer

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  17. Drown ‘Em

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    Funniest thing Musk has likely done ever. It probably wasn’t intentional.
     
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  18. BudKilmer

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  19. EdmondDantes

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    "The moderator of a forum cannot be a troll poster."

    boy this doesn't help devine chances at getting his modship back :roll:
     
  20. electronic

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    No doubt in my mind that Elon Musk’s intelligence is closer to Poweshow’s than Stephen Hawking’s.
     
  21. NCHusker

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    It seems clear to me that it's closer to Poweshow's than Stephen A. Smith's
     
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  22. Redav

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    Didn't know poweshow had a 300 IQ
     
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  23. Clown Baby

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    I liked this movie

     
  24. skiedfrillet

    skiedfrillet It's not a lie if you believe it.
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    i love how every 3rd tweet i get when i click on this is an advertisement for Astrology Daily
     
  25. laxjoe

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  26. kezarmyaj

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  27. bro

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    who cares
     
  28. Redav

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    The business acumen is dripping all over that.
     
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  29. HoosDaMan

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    True. Incompetence meets stupidity
     
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  30. Lyrtch

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    hey guys remember this decade old meme
     
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  31. Lyrtch

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    they also removed the thing showing a tweet was retweeted into your feed

    so it just looks like random people are showing up in your feed
     
  32. Redav

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    Can't believe people legitimately thought this guy was a genius and this is the random crap he's come up with to save twitter.
     
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  33. jrmy

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  34. bro

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    ya already went to unfollow someone and saw I didn't follow them. once I clicked on the tweet, I saw it say it was RT'd
     
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  35. Handcuffed

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    they even did this for lists

    brutal. unusable.
     
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  36. Truman

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    Yawn. Someone wake me up when we get Rick Roll'd
     
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  37. timo

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    the funniest thing is seeing something trending, clicking on it to see why it's trending, and only to be fed tweets from a week ago from just random accounts at the top of the page.
     
  38. wes tegg

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    He’s so painfully lame.
     
  39. Lyrtch

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    Trending has never been useful. It's kind of crazy how bad it is and always was.
     
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  40. Papa

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    Elon's meme game is strong
     
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  41. laxjoe

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    Oh I just noticed this. That’s awful
     
  42. WC

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  43. Redav

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    It seems like most of the "changes" under Musk have been rolled out, been met with immediately backlash and subsequently reverted back to the way it was originally. You know, efficient business practices.
     
  44. Whammy Business

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    I can’t imagine what the staff morale is like. It’s gotta be miserable.
     
  45. kezarmyaj

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    Ive been pretty good about curating my timeline and limited any affect some of the other changes have to my scrolling enjoyment, but the retweet thing is awful
     
  46. chuckmasterflex

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  47. Bruce Bowen

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    Dogecoin up 30% today :facepalm:
     
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  48. ned's head

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    6 months ago I would have thought there was no way someone could go from a hundred billionaire to complete collapse, absent an ftx type fraud. Business boy elon is trying so hard to change my mind.
     
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  49. ~ taylor ~

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    The top tweets on my For You page are from Don Jr., Kari Lake, Rand Paul, Richard Grenell, Lara Logan, Dave Portnoy, Ted Cruz, Ron DeSantis, MGT, Jason Whitlock and an Athletic tweet promoting an article about a player I have never heard of playing in a city I've never been to.