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TWITTER NEWS 2022

Here is recent news but pasted here in plain text for more privacy, including pictures attached (no need visit news website).

Yuk now I have to clean my computer from visiting such links so hope you're happy I did that for you. :) Won't happy often! Just assume it's all a shitshow!

" Elon Musk finalizes deal to buy Twitter, starts firing top execs:

Elon Musk became Twitter's new owner on Thursday, firing top executives he had accused of misleading him and providing little clarity over how he plans to achieve the lofty ambitions he has outlined for the influential social media platform.

The CEO of electric car maker Tesla has said he wants to "defeat" spam bots on Twitter, make the algorithms that determine how content is presented to its users publicly available, and prevent the platform from becoming an echo chamber for hate and division, even as he limits censorship.

Yet Musk has not offered details on how he will achieve all this and who will run the company. He has said he plans to cut jobs, leaving Twitter's approximately 7,500 employees fretting about their future.

He also said on Thursday he did not buy Twitter to make more money but "to try to help humanity, whom I love."

Musk terminated Twitter Chief Executive Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal and legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde, according to people familiar with the matter. He had accused them of misleading him and Twitter investors over the number of fake accounts on the social media platform.

Agrawal and Segal were in Twitter's San Francisco headquarters when the deal closed and were escorted out, the sources said.

Twitter, Musk and the executives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Doubt over deal

The $44-billion acquisition is the culmination of a remarkable saga, full of twists and turns, that sowed doubt over whether Musk would complete the deal.

It began on April 4, when Musk disclosed a 9.2 per cent stake in the San Francisco company, making him its largest shareholder.

Elon Musk tells investors he plans to fire 75% of Twitter employees: report

Majority of Twitter shareholders vote in favour of sale to Elon Musk

The world's richest person then agreed to join Twitter's board, only to balk at the last minute and offer to buy the company instead for $54.20 US per share, an offer that Twitter was unsure whether to interpret as another of Musk's cannabis jokes.

Musk's offer was real, and just one weekend later in April, the two sides reached a deal at the price he suggested. This happened without Musk carrying out any due diligence on the company's confidential information, as is customary in an acquisition.
Soon after the deal was reported as complete, Musk began firing top executives, including the social media company's CEO and CFO. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)

In the weeks that followed, Musk had second thoughts.

He complained publicly that he believed Twitter's spam accounts were significantly higher than Twitter's estimate, published in regulatory filings, of less than five per cent of its monetizable daily active users. His lawyers then accused Twitter of not complying with his requests for information on the subject.

The acrimony resulted in Musk giving notice to Twitter on July 8 that he was terminating their deal on the grounds that Twitter misled him on the bots and did not co-operate with him.
Twitter sues

Four days later, Twitter sued Musk in Delaware, where the company is incorporated, to force him to complete the deal.

By then, shares of social media companies and the broader stock market had plunged over concerns that the U.S. Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes, as it seeks to fight inflation, will push the U.S. economy into recession.

Twitter accused Musk of buyer's remorse, arguing he wanted to get out of the deal because he thought he had overpaid.

Twitter sues Elon Musk to keep $44B takeover on track

Elon Musk cites whistleblower as new reason to exit Twitter deal

Most legal analysts said Twitter had the strongest arguments and would likely prevail in court.

Their view did not change even after Twitter's former security chief Peiter Zatko stepped forward as a whistleblower in August to allege that the company failed to disclose weaknesses in its security and data privacy.

On Oct. 4, just as Musk was set to be deposed by Twitter's lawyers ahead of the start of their trial later in the month, he performed another u-turn and offered to complete the deal as promised.

The Delaware judge gave him an Oct. 28 deadline to close the transaction and avoid the trial.
'Chief Twit'

Since then, Musk has indulged the deal hype. He walked into Twitter's headquarters on Wednesday with a big grin and carrying a porcelain sink, subsequently tweeting "let that sink in." He changed his description in his Twitter profile to "Chief Twit."

He also tried to calm fears among employees that major layoffs are coming and assured advertisers that his past criticism of Twitter's content moderation rules would not harm its appeal.

"Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences!" Musk said in an open letter to advertisers on Thursday.

Musk has indicated he sees Twitter as a foundation for creating a "super app" that offers everything from money transfers to shopping and ride hailing.

Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences!
- Elon Musk in open letter to Twitter advertisers

"The long-term potential for Twitter in my view is an order of magnitude greater than its current value," Musk said on Tesla's call with analysts on Oct. 19.

But Twitter is struggling to engage its most active users who are vital to the business. These "heavy tweeters" account for less than 10 per cent of monthly overall users but generate 90 per cent of all tweets and half of global revenue.

Musk said in May he would reverse the ban on Donald Trump, who was removed after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, although the former U.S. president has said he won't return to the platform.

Trump has instead launched his own social media app, Truth Social.

Twitter shares ended trading on Thursday in New York up 0.3 per cent at $53.86 US, a small discount to the $54.20 per share deal price. The stock will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.

#Twitter #Shitshow
#News filter = #Nitter.it
#Mastodon #Welcome

@stux
'HELP' AFRICA, 'HELP' INDIA,
ETC.... WITH MONEY?

I saw this post, and I like this person a lot, but whenever I see western world try and help 3rd world country, I'm like whoa - stop - WAIT A MINUTE - don't 'help' ***there is more to this***...

(So I really wonder about the help and the 'Help' they already did and still doing arming people, even by educating them - everything weaponised / for self interest)

THAT'S THE TL;DR
NO NEED OFFEND YOURSELF IF DETAILS OFFEND YOU.

MORE DETAILED LONGER VERSION FOLLOWS... (REALITY IS NOT TL;DR BUT COLONIALISM IS RELIABLY THE ABOVE)

So I ask for help in understand this (but not from Stux because xyz reasons - we tried before about understanding money itself as not a neutral tool by banks and couldn't manage to solve it )

So no hating. This is just so we end up applying the same 'help' ( exactly the same) in the kind of double-speak from western world... "oh yeah I've got a new idea!.... let's call it help, off we go"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-speak

I ask the people what the hell do our pirate countries want to really help with... isn't it the same old thing of:

- supply water ==> take over the water pump / supply

- give education ==> buy microsoft laptops / control education

- buy clothes ==> re-brand the people with you logos on the advertising it gets you

- re-populate desertified areas and create export for food production

- send doctors for free from our own plaguing them and what we left behind

- regeneration of land simply for making way for hotels and mansions

Nigeria, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Vietnam, India, Thailand... just all of it and past templates of history (still under rule / paying back / owned by Queen or whoever has the idea to go there first again)

What the fricken hell do you people want pay for others to do there?

*** Buy a ticket go yourself ****
and make $ure the money is $pent

and see the army bases they installed there / installing

OR go with doctors without borders go help with skills
^
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EVEN THOUGH I'VE SEEN CONTRACT MYSELF WHEN APPLYING ***ASKING DOCTORS TO DO ABORTIONS*** IN AFRICA

BASICALLY we see what's happening on our front doorstep with all the components of financial fascism and the people in 1st world not able pay for heating themselves from oppression / bank debts etc...

DON'T SPREAD IT THERE - IT SEEMS HARSH BUT THEY CHECKMATED AND LOCKED THE GAMES, SPREADING IT (WHICH IS WHAT MONEY DOES) DOES NOT HELP! THEY WILL JUST OVER-FISH ETC THOSE PLACES TOO IN NAME OF HELPING MAYBE 5 RESIDENTS AND THEN ALLOWING EMPIRES INSIDE TO CASH-IN *EVERYTHING*

WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY ARE NOT JUST HUNTING FOR NEW GROUND (AGAIN) OR WHY ARE THEY NOT TRYING THE SAME THINGS ELSEWHERE -
DON'T BE SO NAIVE.

GIVE MONEY TO STUX BECAUSE AT LEAST IF HE THINK BANKS ARE NEUTRAL AND MONEY IS OK - NOT OPPRESSION THEN AT LEAST HIS IGNORANCE PRODUCES BETTER MORAL CONVERSION FROM LACK OF KNOWING AND HELPING US TRY AND FIGURE OUT ROOT COLONIAL HABITS.

1st world is root of problems.
1st sort 1st world AND THEN go elsewhere when we have a better template to impose on them (because that's what we do and IF YOU EVERY VISITED you know those people say "YES SIR" TO EVERYTHING

Before anyone converts them out of their culture back to our French or what language (yeah you France, Eng, Italy, Neth, and pretty much National Fronts going on expeditions there ) we need to get the mentality and whole banking extraction sorted... not extend anymore anywhere else as a new death / debt.

You will just end up subsidising / paying for people to *pay themselves* to 'help' others...

PAY STUX NOW - I WILL BE FOREVER HAPPIER THAT WAY
(HISTORY IS STILL PROOF TODAY OF THE REAL PROGRAM AND 'BUSINE$$' PEOPLE DO )

It's not that I'm a fan-boy of Stux necessarily or the fear of real professional bastards - it's the measured hardcore matrix approach you money enables them -

DON'T 💀 REPEAT HISTORY 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧 AGAIN

#colonialism #queen #jewels
#warlords #landlords

@james
MASTODON SUGGESTION
- JUMP TO 1ST MESSAGE BUTTON OR LINK?

(OR SOMETHING BETTER THAN NOTHING!)

Ah I did enjoy the ?min_id=0

but more than that seems we are missing features like pagination or numbered pages... or something to go to beginning of people's posts.... :(

which this change only highlights (click post, but in general the URL haD parameters that allowed jumping to first post on any profile!)...

URL parameters are cool (probably have downsides but not sure compared to how many happy users... now wondering if there is something that can relpace it.... ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

'#mastodon #suggestion

@privacyint TERMS AND CONDITIONS
(ANYTHING GOES ONCE ACCEPTED?)

Basically "Free" makes you the product... apart from a few good technologies and places like:

Mastodon, XMPP, Torrent, Tor type stuff,,,"

ABOUT SELLING ON PEOPLE'S FACES TO GOVERNMENT / OTHER DATA:

I guess the selling doesn't need additional consent because initially accepting the contract involves open-ended clauses effectively making the user to agree to further sub-scenarios of that stuff which starts by saying stuff like:
- "We reserve the right to" and
- "By click 'Agree' you agree that we can..."
everywhere in the T's and C's
apart from these technologies WHICH MAY HAVE ALSO ISSUE BUT MUCH LESS:

Mastodon, XMPP, Torrent, Tor type stuff,,,

FOR NOW THEY ARE BEST I KNOW OF... BUT STILL DON'T UPLOAD LIKE IT'S OK!