Elon Musk said the account of right-wing extremist Alex Jones would be reinstated on X, formerly known as Twitter, reversing a 2018 decision by the company’s previous management to deplatform the notorious conspiracy theorist after he repeatedly broke rules prohibiting harassment and hate.
On Saturday morning, Musk posted an unscientific poll to his account asking users of the platform if Jones should be reinstated. By Saturday evening when the poll closed, about 70% of nearly 2 million respondents had voted “yes.”
When Elton responded initially it had 450,000 votes at 92-8 or something… then it had 1.2 million this morning, and was running 72-28. Then supposedly another 400,000 people voted, and it was 70-30. Then ANOTHER 400,000 votes were recorded and the ratio didn’t budge at all, and it closed at 70-30. Seems suspicious to me. Of course Elron would just have it say whatever he wanted, there’s no doubt.
I just don't get it. If Twitter was ever good, I still don't think I could go back if I had to.
But it was NEVER FUCKING GOOD.
Some of the worst UI ever, the snarkiest, most narcissistic dweebs, lurking in every thread. Fuck Twitter. Fuck Twitter on every single day since it's existed. I tried it. Zero good moments there. It's fucking cancer that should be nuked from orbit.
Part of it is FOMO, but unfortunately, a lot of news is still broken on Twitter and it is still sometimes useful (I don't use it myself, but others do) as a real-time source of news as it unfolds. There are also a lot of governments that use Twitter to post announcements.
Like I said, I don't use it myself, but I think all of those things contribute.
So, what? Musk ran his Xitter botnet to "vote" for Jones' return, both because Musk himself is a conspiracy theorist and because he wants Jones' traffic? Idiocy and greed will be the death of humanity ...
A dollar bill weighs about a gram. So 44 billion dollars is 44 million kg of paper. This would release about 16 MJ/kg upon combustion, so a total of 700 TJ of energy. This is about the same as an 150 kiloton nuclear bomb.
So Elon Musk is destroying Xitter with the equivalent energy of a strategic nuclear warhead. This is some real creative destruction.