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X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts (www.theverge.com)
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X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts::X is rolling out a new terms of service on September 29th, and one adjustment is a single instance of “retweet” to “repost.” There are other changes regarding data scraping and class action lawsuits.

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm still convinced, this all came out because he was butt-hurt about plane tracking and other things, also a convenient dump for Tesla stocks people keep thinking he cares about twitter like the users do, for him, it's prob just Tuesday

[–] Cabrio@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the idea that people at Space X and Tesla dropped Twitter in the corpo baby's lap so that he'd be distracted from the nice toys.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also a lot of left-leaning discourse happened there, from American liberals to actual-left communists. The Arab Spring had a lot of coordination happen there (hence the Saudi’s involvement) and the power-hungry capital owners of the world were probably getting tired of being called out. So Elon took one for the team, probably thinking best case he could get bailed out, worst case he could destroy the “public square” that hated on him so much.

Now the site is just garbage on top of garbage and everyone is looking elsewhere. If he was gonna be forced to buy it, he sure wasn’t just gonna let the above slide…

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

I've been thinking this as well. I mean, at this point I don't see any reason why else he could've reasonably done this. Either he's making no sense, or it's something like this. Twitter stood for many things he's against, and he has just completely ruined it

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

"Hated on him"?

There was definitely a contingent that did that, but for the most part, Musk had been pretty much invulnerable to criticism, with thousands of fanbois ready to jump to his defence. He's brought pretty much all of this on himself since he took it over, he's hurt his own brand way more than Xitter's.