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Twitter becomes Truth Social over night.

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Is Twitter really worth anything if everyone left of center abandons the platform and it becomes populated by Marjorie Taylor Greene fans? I mean... isn't that just Truth Social? The reason right-wing platforms fail is because liberals and progressives don't use it, thus there's no one to troll.

44 billion dollars... LOL.

This could be delicious on many levels.


 
I find it curious how many well known conservative Twitter accounts suddenly almost overnight have had millions of new followers added. What this seems to suggest is that Twitter just now decided to stop with their "shadow banning" of people whom the company disagreed with, alowing the metrics to open up and stop pushing the content aside which the liberal company disagrees with. And this is why liberals in the media are losing their minds. The probability that Twitter will no longer be able to shadow ban their opposition.
 
It's not gonna change much. Hell, conservatives and far right nut jobs tweet constantly.
 
I find it curious how many well known conservative Twitter accounts suddenly almost overnight have had millions of new followers added. What this seems to suggest is that Twitter just now decided to stop with their "shadow banning" of people whom the company disagreed with, alowing the metrics to open up and stop pushing the content aside which the liberal company disagrees with. And this is why liberals in the media are losing their minds. The probability that Twitter will no longer be able to shadow ban their opposition.
On top of that, Hollywood celebs, progressives and democratic politicians have been losing 10's of thousands (if not millions) of followers at the same time sparking many to wonder wtf is going on over there. Some speculate that the numbers for left leaning accounts have been artificially inflated and the company is scrambling to get it cleaned up before Musk's people take over.

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I find it curious how many well known conservative Twitter accounts suddenly almost overnight have had millions of new followers added. What this seems to suggest is that Twitter just now decided to stop with their "shadow banning" of people whom the company disagreed with, alowing the metrics to open up and stop pushing the content aside which the liberal company disagrees with. And this is why liberals in the media are losing their minds. The probability that Twitter will no longer be able to shadow ban their opposition.
Twitter is now musk and he can do whatever he sees fit with the platform, no longer be able to shadow ban, lol. It is the new gop outrage phrase, we're being shadow banned. Millions more stable geniuses on twitter overnight, oh boy.
 
On top of that, Hollywood celebs, progressives and democratic politicians have been losing 10's of thousands (if not millions) of followers at the same time sparking many to wonder wtf is going on over there. Some speculate that the numbers for left leaning accounts have been artificially inflated and the company is scrambling to get it cleaned up before Musk's people take over.

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I think it's been tens of millions, by tomorrow there won't be any democrats left in america. Some speculate? Who would that be? Musk immediately fired the executive branch as soon as he bought twitter so I don't think it was them.

From what I've heard, musk just bought himself a billion a year loser.
 
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I think 90% of the takes, left and right, are wayyyyyy overblown.

The right was never politically targeted on that platform, and the realities of the mechanisms that make Twitter work are going to prevent any transition to a dystopia in which Neonazis troll libs like they're livestock (which of course is specifically the right wing fantasy -- they're not subtle about it).

And something that both sides aren't really taking into account is that if right wing trolls become too annoying, you just spray them with water like you would to an annoying cat (it's called a block filter).
 
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I think 90% of the takes, left and right, are wayyyyyy overblown.

The right was never politically targeted on that platform, and the realities of the mechanisms that make Twitter work are going to prevent any transition to a dystopia in which Neonazis troll libs like they're livestock (which of course is specifically the right wing fantasy -- they're not subtle about it).
so you think that millions of people, over night, just collectively decided to join twitter and follow conservative accounts because they heard Elon Musk was buying twitter?

The fact that left wing accounts lost followers, and conservatives gained so much, over night, suggests there was manipulation of the algorithms. We also know this isn't beyond twitter, because now we found out they misrepresented their daily active users. We're finding out about a lot of dirty stuff about them now.
 
so you think that millions of people, over night, just collectively decided to join twitter and follow conservative accounts because they heard Elon Musk was buying twitter?

Huh, you got that from what I said? Do you usually see and hear things that aren't there? (That's a rhetorical question -- you don't need to answer that).

The fact that left wing accounts lost followers, and conservatives gained so much, over night, suggests there was manipulation of the algorithms. We also know this isn't beyond twitter, because now we found out they misrepresented their daily active users. We're finding out about a lot of dirty stuff about them now.

I have no idea what's going on at Twitter and I can definitely say that neither do you.
 
Musk may have paid 44 billion for a media platform motivated to become the next 8Chan. How this thing going to make money? From My Pillow ads and consumer data from Marjorie Taylor Greene fans?

I am here for it.
 
Huh, you got that from what I said? Do you usually see and hear things that aren't there? (That's a rhetorical question -- you don't need to answer that).
You said that the right was never politically targeted. So how else do you explain all these accounts gaining 90,000 followers over night, other than all these people just collectively decided to join twitter on the same day?
I have no idea what's going on at Twitter and I can definitely say that neither do you.
not my fault you don't pay attention.
 
so you think that millions of people, over night, just collectively decided to join twitter and follow conservative accounts because they heard Elon Musk was buying twitter?

Who knows, but that's basically the word from Twitter itself. They said that people are 'organically' closing accounts and signing up.
 
I find it curious how many well known conservative Twitter accounts suddenly almost overnight have had millions of new followers added. What this seems to suggest is that Twitter just now decided to stop with their "shadow banning" of people whom the company disagreed with, alowing the metrics to open up and stop pushing the content aside which the liberal company disagrees with. And this is why liberals in the media are losing their minds. The probability that Twitter will no longer be able to shadow ban their opposition.
They're just singing to the choir. Pandering to the conservative base. I could care less about Twitter. Never joined and never will.
 
You said that the right was never politically targeted. So how else do you explain all these accounts gaining 90,000 followers over night, other than all these people just collectively decided to join twitter on the same day?

Answer your own question, then provide evidence for your answer.

not my fault you don't pay attention.

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I think it's been tens of millions, by tomorrow there won't be any democrats left in america. Some speculate? Who would that be?
My God... Are you capable of having a reasonable, honest, common sense discussion or is everything a political and ideological endeavor?



Musk immediately fired the executive branch as soon as he bought twitter so I don't think it was them.
What? How can he fire anyone when the takeover hasn't been completed?

 
I think 90% of the takes, left and right, are wayyyyyy overblown.

The right was never politically targeted on that platform, and the realities of the mechanisms that make Twitter work are going to prevent any transition to a dystopia in which Neonazis troll libs like they're livestock (which of course is specifically the right wing fantasy -- they're not subtle about it).
Like one guy flat out asked, when do we get to start shooting the democrats?
 
Like one guy flat out asked, when do we get to start shooting the democrats?
Poor dears. They’ve had trolling withdrawal for the last year and a half. This issue makes them feel like they have some of those old glory days back.
 
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On top of that, Hollywood celebs, progressives and democratic politicians have been losing 10's of thousands (if not millions) of followers at the same time sparking many to wonder wtf is going on over there. Some speculate that the numbers for left leaning accounts have been artificially inflated and the company is scrambling to get it cleaned up before Musk's people take over.

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Fox told you this.
 
This is the death knell for Truth Social. Too bad TFG isn't as rich as he claims he is. He could have bought Twitter and voila! millions of instant followers.
 
Is Twitter really worth anything if everyone left of center abandons the platform and it becomes populated by Marjorie Taylor Greene fans? I mean... isn't that just Truth Social? The reason right-wing platforms fail is because liberals and progressives don't use it, thus there's no one to troll.

44 billion dollars... LOL.

This could be delicious on many levels.



I have absolutely no irons in this fire. I don't tweet and I don't follow any tweeters.
 
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