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October 27th of this year was the day when Elon Musk finally closed the deal and became the owner of the social network company Twitter. The 51-year-old businessman who is the CEO of the companies SpaceX and Tesla spent $44 billion on the site, after taking some time to try to get out of the deal. It was revealed that this matter had to be settled in trial after Twitter sued him for breaching the deal, but none of this was needed as the now “Chief Twit” agreed to go ahead with the plan and buy the company. Once Musk became the owner of the site, he didn’t waste any time and already implemented some novelties that sparked a discussion among Twitter users.

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One of the first things implemented by Musk that many users online noticed was the change in Twitter’s homepage. The “old” Twitter homepage would request those who are logged out or not signed in to do so to be able to see any content. The new change allows people who are not Twitter users to see news and posts without being logged in or having to set up an account. Even though there was no clear explanation as to why the business owner decided to do it, it was clear that things are going to change at a fast pace with the new person behind the wheel. 

A few more changes were also made when Twitter’s “Super Follows” subscription, which allows users to access additional paid content, was changed to “Subscriptions”. The man also revealed plans to use his SpaceX resources to make Twitter available to areas where it’s not yet accessible.

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Don Keideck
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3 years ago

Excuse me, can I speak to the manager please? Hello manager, you're fired. Get the Hell out of here

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    TotallyNOTaFox
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    3 years ago (edited)

    Written on a plattform that has several doxxing posts, death threats towards "unpopular" persons and calls for violence. Oh I forgot, those things are only bad if it comes from the "wrong" side... (Not taking sides here, just pointing out the hypocrisy)

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    Don Keideck
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    3 years ago

    Washington Post.

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    Phobrek Taz
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I just blocked Musk on twitter. It was instant gratification. It would be a riot if everyone on twitter just blocked him.

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    Serial pacifist
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    3 years ago

    Just bring back Trump and rename it to Twater.

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    Hoodoo
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    3 years ago

    Thank you!

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    Screen_Addict
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    3 years ago

    Elon:"Not really, but hey, they can just go find different jobs."

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    Serial pacifist
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    For a person who names a child like an absolete model of a Star Wars robot, I don’t think there is such a thing as reputation risk. The only reputation at risk is the one of those around him.

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    Kathryn Baylis
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    3 years ago

    People—-and I hope advertisers—-will leave Twitter in droves. It will either crash and burn or become the new 4chan for right wing extremists. Either way, the FBI should keep an eye on it for domestic terror plots, all condoned by Musk.

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    Leo Domitrix
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    3 years ago

    Leave Twitter. It goes underr financially. Elon suffers. Win! (Note: never went on Twitter in my life, BP is the onlly time I see these things.)

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    3 years ago

    The bird is about to lay an egg out of stress. Elon would name the little birdie 1Y 0-lk + e2G WHy t

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    James016
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    3 years ago

    As bad as Trump is, there are worse people on Twitter, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei being a prime example

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    3 years ago

    Yep, that sounds good

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    Queen Jackson.
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    3 years ago

    He’s trying not to laugh too, thinking about what he put in that burger.

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    3 years ago

    Twitter and Musk, the scariest Halloween story in decades

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    Tash
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    3 years ago

    why is he using ! instead of i?

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    JRequiem
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    3 years ago

    Facebook is s**t too, Ive only EVER been banned because I called some racist White trash or said Stupid white people and As a White man its my right to talk s**t about my fellow whites. And every single time Facebook protected racists comments on news posts because "hurt feelings" You Literally cant be racist towards white people and thats what Facebook is trying to say.

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    Saxophone
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    3 years ago

    I want to see this. Will they actually do this?

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    girlsrock4ever
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    3 years ago

    Maybe... can't think of one, never mind.

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    Tabitha Frost
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    3 years ago

    Yes! Save our planet! 🌍💚

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    Leo Domitrix
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    3 years ago

    How bad is it? Tomi has an actual point.

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    Vicki Cunningham
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    3 years ago

    He means free hate, racism and prejudice.

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    CP
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    3 years ago

    The former president was not raided. It was an executed search warrant not a raid.

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    Black Pearl
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Firing the CEO as a first move is not the best sign. He's clearly wanting to make big changes that probably won't be the best. Then again, who knows.

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    Eva Sawyer
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    3 years ago

    LOL, this isn't even accurate.... the charge for a blue check will be around $8. And heaven forbid that there be a system to make sure people are really who they say they are....

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    Vicki Cunningham
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    3 years ago

    Left last year. I realized people don't care what anyone else thinks anyway.

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    Craig Reynolds
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Everything you post everywhere including all your SMS, emails, voice calls, zoom calls, etc, all belong to the government. I'm not really concerned about my tweets being accessible to someone that spent millions to put a Tesla in orbit, sells flamethrowers, and now has a cologne called b******e!

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    3 years ago

    Who dis?

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    Frank Ropen
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    3 years ago

    Baby? Twitter is a sixteen year old teenager.

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    N Miller
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    3 years ago

    Totally not the point but "Musk Buck" sounds like a tongue twister. Say it five times fast!

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    3 years ago

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    Elon is putting together a committee to determine who can return. This isn't just about Trump despite how f*****g obsessed you people are with him. Good grief. Get a new topic.

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    SerumSeven
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    3 years ago

    God, that woman is an embarrassment to Arizona, and to the human race as a whole.

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    Mary Rogers
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    3 years ago

    Yes, now Russia and every other country that wants to interfere with our elections can do so with impunity. Putin must be very happy.

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    3 years ago

    If you listen closely, you can here MAGAts angry f*****g their sisters.

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    Aisling Raye
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Well twitter has been hemorrhaging money for the last 8 years and with this acquisition musk added about 13 billion to the debt, skyrocketing the company's interest expenses from 50 million to 1 billion per year. Per NY Times musk plans to catch up financially by firing about half of the employees. Getting rid of employees in sales and marketing in an effort to cut costs likely means losing relationships with current advertisers that will be hard to replace. Since twitter makes about 90% of its revenue from advertising, that's an incredibly risky move. He is also likely to make cuts from R&D as well but somehow also wants to hire expensive engineers to replace cut employees. If the nose dive that Tesla stock has had can be used as an indicator of how twitter will be performing under musk, I think it's not far fetched that the only place it's headed is to it's grave. I am in no way a financial analyst so these are just my super not an expert observations based on what I've read recently

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    Adagar
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    3 years ago

    Boot lickers.

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    Powerful Katrinka
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    3 years ago

    And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why the number of Republicans who died from Covid is so much higher than the Democrats. Strange strategy, but I guess they're sticking to it https://ncpolicywatch.com/2022/10/04/study-more-republicans-than-democrats-likely-died-of-covid/

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    3 years ago

    He's not goat, just a donkey.

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    ggus44
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    3 years ago

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH yeah right

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