The Elon Musk rorting continues ...

[rgmwa]

Just what Twitter needs - a makeover.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Transtwitter?

[Jerry_Atrick]

On 21/04/2023 at 11:23 AM, rgmwa said:

Of course there may be different problems on the next flight that they don't know about yet.

Donald Rumsfeld lives on ;-)

[onetrack]

"Threads" is already in trouble. Ghostery sent me a link to a PCMag article pointing out that Zuckerberg is up to his normal scammy tricks - stealing all your data without your approval.

 

"Threads" makes Farcebook look tame when it comes to tracking you without approval, using all your data without your approval, and possibly keeping a lot of information on you that they're not entitled (or legally allowed) to keep. However, none of the regulatory hurdles seem to bother Zuckerberg.

 

https://au.pcmag.com/social-media/100704/is-metas-twitter-alternative-a-privacy-nightmare

[willedoo]

The clown is about to do it again. He wants to ditch one of the world's most successful brands for his decades long obsession with the 24th. letter of the alphabet. He is contemplating getting rid of the Twitter brand name and the bluebird logo and using X instead. His obsession with the letter X is creepily similar to his mate putler's fascination with plastering Z over everything.

 

It goes back to his old company X.com that merged with Confinity, the founders of PayPal. The new merged company went under the name of X.com with Musk returning as CEO until they sacked him (he was sacked as CEO of X.com before the merger). With Musk out of the way, they grew PayPal successfully and sold out to eBay. In 2017, Musk bought the domain name X.Com from eBay and has been itching to use it ever since. Meanwhile, he has SpaceX, a Tesla model X, has just launched a company called xAI, and he also named his son X and his daughter Exa. Now he's plastering X all over Twitter. I doubt anyone could destroy a company as effectively as Musk is doing even if they intentionally tried. The guy is a child. And a fruitloop.

[Jerry_Atrick]

I have signed up to threads. I find it as boring as twitter, and effectively the same as Instascam

 

Edited July 24, 2023 by Jerry_Atrick

[rgmwa]

I still see no reason to sign up to any of those scam merchants. You don't miss what you don't use.

 

[red750]

Only on FB, which supplies most of my silly pictures, silly signs and quckies.

 

There is a mural on Canterbury Road, corner Springvale Road, featuring Mohammad Ali, Danny De Veto, baby Yoda and Elon Musk. I posted a photo a year or more ago. Must photograph it again. Red paint has been splashed over Musk.

[facthunter]

Still Vandalism.   Nev

[spacesailor]

Which is the ' vandalism ' ,  mural or new addition,!

I watched a workman using a spray-can, to put murals on the road.

He said " locating services  "  .i thought ' Vandalism! ',  LoL

spacesailor

[red750]

Saw a story about a workman removing a mural. Next day he came back and found a mural of himself removing the mural.

[facthunter]

That's the Moral of Murals. Topical.  Nev

[red750]

Here is the altered mural I mentioned above.

 

[facthunter]

Defaced  rather than altered.   The contrast of the skill levels couldn't be more Contrasted . Nev

[Marty_d]

On 24/07/2023 at 11:38 PM, willedoo said:

The clown is about to do it again. He wants to ditch one of the world's most successful brands for his decades long obsession with the 24th. letter of the alphabet. He is contemplating getting rid of the Twitter brand name and the bluebird logo and using X instead. His obsession with the letter X is creepily similar to his mate putler's fascination with plastering Z over everything.

 

It goes back to his old company X.com that merged with Confinity, the founders of PayPal. The new merged company went under the name of X.com with Musk returning as CEO until they sacked him (he was sacked as CEO of X.com before the merger). With Musk out of the way, they grew PayPal successfully and sold out to eBay. In 2017, Musk bought the domain name X.Com from eBay and has been itching to use it ever since. Meanwhile, he has SpaceX, a Tesla model X, has just launched a company called xAI, and he also named his son X and his daughter Exa. Now he's plastering X all over Twitter. I doubt anyone could destroy a company as effectively as Musk is doing even if they intentionally tried. The guy is a child. And a fruitloop.

If he keeps this up he'll soon be an X-billionaire 

[facthunter]

I don't think I'd completely write him off.  X marks the spot. . Nev

[Bruce Tuncks]

Is there a real example of a "self made man?"

coming to mind are Bond....  nahhh, fails the test

                                That microsoft guy?  ....  Nahhh, also fails the test

                                 Obama?  closer, but also fails!  He  got the negro vote without really being part of their culture... Obama was actually brought up by a white granny.

                                Trump? He fails too, by more than Obama for sure.

[Bruce Tuncks]

I reckon Obama would be hated by lots of black kids in the US. I can almost hear their ( black ) granny say. " you get off that black ass n do some work...  you could be president! Personally, I would have supported Hilary but Obama was a good president I reckon.

[facthunter]

A lot of effort was put in to make sure HE couldn't do much of what He wanted to.  Nev

[Old Koreelah]

On 26/7/2023 at 7:04 PM, facthunter said:

A lot of effort was put in to make sure HE couldn't do much of what He wanted to.  Nev

[willedoo]

Not being an Apple person, I don't know how accurate this is. I was reading that Musk could change the Twitter logo to X on the iPhone OS app, but not the name, since Apple requires app names to be at least 2 characters.

[Marty_d]

Ecks?  Not quite as stylish 

[willedoo]

The clown has lost his giant flashing X sign that he had erected on top of the X (Twitter) HQ building. In his typical arrogant and obnoxious form, Musk erected the X a few days ago, much to the disgust of local residents in neighbouring apartment buildings. The X sign was illuminated at night, extremely bright and with intermittent periods of strobe flashing. Typical of Musk; he knows nobody likes his X so was determined to rub it in everyone's face. The local council received complaints, so ordered it taken down and will be issuing fines for it's erection without local authority permits and approval.

 

https://abc7news.com/twitter-x-sign-taken-down-bright-light-sf/13578182/

[pmccarthy]

Any erection these days requires approval.

[spacesailor]

I've a Licence for that ! . LoL

spacesailor