Quote from: Maestro75 on November 18, 2022, 09:30:20 AM

Quote from: Marcellin9 on November 16, 2022, 02:59:32 AM

Elon Musk acquired Twitter about two weeks agao and Twitter has been All the news everywhere. His bold moves of firing a big portion of staff, changing major Twitter features and making more modifications are spurring waves of controversy. His supporters and adversaries are quite in fights. Where will Elon Musk lead Twitter ? Is Twitter heading to a wrong direction ?

What is happening at Twitter now is expected. You do not expect someone like Elon Musk to spend such a huge amount of cash on an app and not dictate what will happen there or fire some people, especially those who he felt prevented free press. Twitter will be in a better position with Elon running its control than it was. More changes are expected in time to come too.

It's almost inevitable for Elon Musk to be a dictator in some way. To be honest, I don't care whether dictatorship is good or not generally. As long as it does work in its own way, I have no problem. If all the changes have continued in a good way, Twitter will be great.

Quote from: MainIbem on November 18, 2022, 10:42:51 AM

Personally I m sensing something not too good about the platform after the takeover of Elon Musk, coupled with the news I had he is also planning to charge $8 per month for checkmark on a users profile and this kept me wondering that what if a user fails to subscribe for the next month checkmark or tag what would then happened to their account?
was it to remove the s/m.timesofindia.com/gadgets-news/what-is-twitter-gray-checkmark-official-badge-that-elon-musk-launched-and-scrapped-in-hours/amp_articleshow/95432071.cms]checkmark or what would happen. The social media is not too pleasing to deal with present and I have not been on it for long now and there are two things involved either he faces to lose more users everyday by day or he also sells back to the previous owner due to mismanagement and poor planning coupled with sacking the previous staffs.

Not sure about the authentic number of users lost every day but your second guess is somehow happening in another way. Couple of days ago after he fired some key management/engineering staff, he rehired Ligma & Johnson saying that he actuallly made a great mistake. I gusss some work has to be done by guys like Ligma & Johnson, huh ?

Quote from: o48o on November 18, 2022, 11:28:39 AM

Quote from: Marcellin9 on November 17, 2022, 03:34:07 AM

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I guess changing staff is normal and layoff 50% is the point why so many people are offended and irritated. Charging blue tick membership is no big deal but for most people, they'd rather throw 5 or 10 dollars for a cup of coffee than spend $8/month for social media membership.I just don't get it. Too bad that their advertisement system failed so Twitter has to be where it is now. If Elon could not save Twitter in the near future, everything would be going to collapse.

Elon already withdrew that idea, because of all the fake accounts. It was stupid idea for many reasons but mainly for that. Others would be: It was free, there would be opening tor competition that would take the users in for free, one that wouldn't have draconian corporate culture, and one that people and advertisers would happily support. If facebook suddenly turned to paid version, there's no way people would use that anymore. Users rather create telegram/discord groups and chat there. I personally wish that people would just use Reddit instead.

But i believe this won't end, Elon is just acting so erratic that he could just cut his losses, and as he won't be getting back advertisements under his command he could even sell twitter forward or something.

Anyway, this train wreck has been hilarious to watch:

https://i.imgur.com/Ru5TCOx.png

Latest tweet probably sums up how this will go:

https://i.imgur.com/3FW7Kli.png

Paid membership is controversial and I can understand this but firing & rehiring staff is so much annoying. I think nobody would ever be willing to get two surprising calls in a day !!