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yeah at the very least I would recommend that anyone who has a no-longer-actively-used unlocked account on twitter should preemptively lock it
just went in and locked mine, and also changed the name to "weasel can be found on other websites now" - and it immediately demanded that i authenticate to prove i wasn't a bot.
The site has been circling the drain for a while but holy shit it really feels like the real final nail.
I'm guessing he removes the block button but forgets to actually wipe out existing blocks and the lack of a block button means there's also no unblock button
It's either that or his staff realizes this is SUCH a bad idea that they talk him down to "Blocks are gone... also mute works exactly like a block now"
but probably the first thing because it seems like he doesn't get talked down from anything anymore
Elon Musk is basically a toddler contemplating a handful of poop. You can't just go 'oh, I'm sure the toddler has a clever plan, and eating poop is a component of that'. You have to take the indicators of likely poop-eating at face value.
I appreciate the constant encouragement from that monstrous idiot to get his users to leave permanently.
Lmao, the only way I was ever able to make Twitter remotely usable was to block every single account that advertised to me. Wonder how much that motivates this decision.
Yeah that's probably it, I block all checks, all promoted tweets etc
thoughts in sequence
I'm kind of 50-50 on this one. I don't think app store TOSs (which he's already violating 8 ways to Sunday anyhow) or any other reasonable concerns will stop him, but a lot of his right-wing blue-check buddies are against it and that might.
If I were to guess, it's going to be either totally forgotten or some compromise like "it's not called block anymore," but who knows, I also thought he wouldn't really go through with naming it X
I came back to edit this because I didn't want it to read like "you're foolish to believe it'll happen" because regardless of whether he goes through with it immediately or 6 months from now, or "instead of blocking, which was unnecessary, we have a new feature called 'silencing' which only works on non-subscriber accounts, for up to one week at a time. it's not a block tho", it still sucks that he thinks his website works that way
Deactivating doesn't seem to be the same thing as deleting would be, do I have to manually delete all of my tweets first if I want them truly gone?
no, if you deactivate it will also delete all tweets/account data if you don't reactivate within 30 days (or at least until he breaks that too)
Deleting them will not guarantee that they're truly gone; there's no knowing what Twitter 𝕏 does behind the scenes.
My general view is that trying to delete or deactivate the account will lead to the service extracting more time, effort and data from you; my approach has always been to simply log out and not log back in. (This also means that you keep the username "active" to potentially add friction to impersonation, which may or may not get you anything.)
Or they'll copy Discord's move and let people take over other users' usernames.
I have no idea. I used a third-party service to delete my tweets when Musk first announced he wanted to buy.
X feels increasingly like an attempt to tank this thing so he can stop having to do it. If Elon had a shred of self awareness or shame, he'd have to want this to end, right?
No way the man at this point isnt pulling some sort of Producers bullshit where the company goes under, he files for bankruptcy to get out of all his twitter debt and then pops up the next month still #2 or #4 most rich asshole in the world.
yeah I mean he doesn't even really need to pull any bullshit to emerge unscathed; the total value of the company when he bought it was $45 billion, which would've only been about 20% of his net worth, and he got banks and the saudi government to foot 3/4 of that for him
The only consequence I can see coming out of it is he ends up on a Saudi hitlist.
just wait for the tinfoil theories that the saudis bankrolled him to destroy it because of its role in the arab spring or something
I guarantee this happened because he found out what % of people have him blocked
yep! absolutely (iirc it's something like 0.5-1% of all of the people on the site)
What Elon's trying to do here is apparently illegal. Which, I mean, if I were Elon, I'd be doing everything I possibly can to not land myself into MORE legal trouble, but what do I know.
If you were doing everything you could to avoid legal trouble, Elon Musk you would not be!
