After his Sunday tweet asking the public whether he should step down as Twitter's head, Elon Musk was met with an overwhelming response. 17.5 million accounts voted, with 57.5% saying that he should indeed resign from his position. After the results were revealed on Monday, Musk remained silent on the matter until late that evening.
At 11.30 pm, he responded with a simple yet intriguing "Interesting" to Kim Dotcom, the founder of the former popular file-sharing website Megaupload, who had suggested that the poll's results had been distorted by fake accounts.
Then he replied to a Twitter user's suggestion that only blue subscribers should be able to vote in policy-related polls. His response? "Good point. Twitter will make that change."
It's always fascinating to see what Elon Musk is up to and what he has to say. It remains to be seen if Musk will indeed step down.
Twitter's mass suspension of prominent journalists this week has the EU up in arms. After the accounts of Ryan Mac from the New York Times, Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Drew Harwell from The Washington Post, political commentator Keith Olbermann, journalist Tony Webster, Micah Flee from The Intercept, Steve Herman from the Voice of America, journalist Aaron Rupar, and Mashable reporter Matt Binder were suspended temporarily for seven days, EU officials have announced that they are preparing to take action.
The cause of the suspension was initially a mystery, but Twitter CEO Elon Musk cleared up the confusion with a tweet that explained that doxxing had occurred, resulting in the seven-day ban. Even though the journalists had not engaged in live location sharing, which is against Twitter's safety policy, they seemed to have broken the rules in some other way.
It's been a wild week for Twitter users! On Wednesday, Twitter took the unprecedented step of banning the account @ElonJet, owned by college student Jack Sweeney. The account tracked Elon Musk's private jet using publicly available information. Shortly after, Musk tweeted that a car carrying his son "was followed by crazy stalker" who "blocked [the] car from moving and climbed onto [its] hood." Musk said that he was pursuing legal action against Sweeney.
Fast forward to Thursday night and a flurry of journalists were suspended for tweeting about the ElonJet account suspension and sharing the official LAPD statement regarding the incident connected to Musk's son. It just goes to show that you can't predict when Twitter will come down on an account, or who will be affected by a suspension.
These events have led to Vera Journova, vice president of Values and Transparency in the EU Commission, threatening sanctions against Twitter. She tweeted, "News about arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying. EU's Digital Services Act requires respect of media freedom and fundamental rights. This is reinforced under our #MediaFreedomAct."
It's great to see the EU taking a stance and protecting media freedom, as it is a fundamental right and should be respected globally. It's time for tech giants to be held accountable for their actions and abide by the same laws as the rest of us. We'll have to wait and see how this situation develops and what kind of impact it will have.
If you didn't know, there's a Twitter account called @ElonJet that is tracking the movements of Elon Musk's private jet. Recently, it became harder for people to search for and see that account. And someone found out that Twitter had done this on purpose.
An anonymous employee told a journalist that Twitter's new head of trust and safety asked the engineers to "apply heavy VF to @elonjet immediately."
VF stands for "visibility filtering," a way to hide certain accounts and their posts from other people.
The Twitter account of former President Donald J. Trump has been restored
after Elon Musk held a Twitter poll titled "Reinstate former President Trump" and asked his followers if
they thought the former president's Twitter account should be reinstated. The final
results show 51.8% of respondents said "Yes", and only 48.2% said "No".
If you have been following the recent developments on Twitter, you have probably heard that
Musk's $8 blue check mark policy backfired badly: The trouble began after some online trolls started making "verified" parody accounts of Elon Musk, Tesla, and many
others.
The one that caused the most problems was the parody account of Eli Lilly
which send out a tweet saying "we are excited to announce insulin is free
now". Believe it or not, that single tweet caused Eli Lilly to lose $15
billion in stock market value.
Do you remember when Elon Musk tweeted "power to the people"? I never thought
he would provide this much power to the common people. 🤣🤣🤣
Has Twitter become unfixable? I would say no because I believe Elon Musk can
fix it, but Elon should rethink his approach and do what he did with Tesla and
SpaceX: instead of trying to make the company profitable, he should focus on
making an awesome product.
Dogecoin is climbing in value again, Yay..... some idiots are going to lose
a lot of money, and the scammers are going to make a lot more money,
again.
Please don't "invest" in those sh*t coins. I think I should rephrase that
sentence, "Please don't waste your money on any cryptocurrency, not even
bitcoin".
In the coming months, you will hear stories of people who made millions from
Dogecoin and they will say that you too can make money like that if you "study
the market" and "invest wisely". Trust me, you can't, because nobody can
predict the crypto market.
It's like a pig on LSD, you don't know which way it's going to run (a
famous quote from Jim Chanos when he was talking about the Chinese stock
market, crypto is pretty much the same).
Media outlets are saying that Dogecoin's value rose because Elon Musk bought
Twitter, and they are right. It seems that people are betting on the hope of
Musk making Dogecoin an official currency of Twitter.
You might say that it's delusional, and it's never gonna happen. But we are
talking about Elon Freaking Musk, you never know what he is gonna do next.
That's why I'm not gonna say stupid sh*t like "it won't ever happen". Also,
the cryptocurrency exchange, "Binance" is now an equity investor in Twitter.
So, there is a chance that it might happen, but betting your life savings on
sh*t coins is still a stupid idea.
Do you know, there are more than 12000 cryptocurrencies in the world right
now? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
What do you think most of those coin creators are trying to achieve?
They are trying to make millions of dollars scamming newbies. And, most of
them are very successful at it.
Some of my friends have lost a lot of money through crypto scams, and I
don't want you to be another victim.
Even after reading all this, if you still want to spend your money in the
crypto space, buy a crypto course on Udemy, Coursera, Udacity, or edX. You may
be able to create something valuable for the world.
If you are interested in learning about cryptocurrencies and how they are
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