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I only see this as going well for him/Twitter.
Not really, it’s definitely going to be interesting to watch it go up in flames 🍿
This level of nob gobbling takes focus.
...what the fuck???
So he's run out of engineers that know how to maintain the block feature?
I reckon he's just really really fucking short-sited tbh. He seems to forget that there are people on twitter, or were tbh.
How in the world is that a good idea...
Watching major social media websites actively kill themselves has been nothing if not an experience
Let's be real, he's doing this because he's upset about people blocking Twitter blue accounts, this in no way increases server costs or any bull shit like that
Blocking Twitter Blue users is the only way to make threads make sense again after he decided to weight them higher. Any time you open a tweet there's like 10 Twitter Blue trolls with 3 followers that are sorted above the good comments.
Elon, for all of his smarts, seems to not understand the game theory behind social networks. I get it, we have had the status quo for over a decade, but the fundamental rules are still the same.
Frankly I'm happy to see them falling apart and a return to how social was meant to be on the internet.
So how will they comply with court orders requiring that function? /smh
So what you're saying is, if I have a Twitter account and I start blocking many MANY people it costs Elon money? Interesting.
Battle royale!
The source showed the tweet as an image, so I went into the sewer waters from Fritter. And, yep, it's genuinely there.
It's not even that I believe him unable to have such bad takes: it's not the first time. I have just seen a few fake ones. But the fake ones aren't even needed!