Clutching pearls ... Musk buys Twitter

There sure are a lot of panic articles about what Musk will do with Twitter ... a platform I seldom use. Twitter is oriented to following personalities, not following technical content. If you guess right on someone's technical focus ... good. If not and especially the ads, it becomes just so much noise ... not worth the time.

One Musk goal is to limit the bots which I throughly agree with. Bots substitute quantify with little or no content. Again, I don't use current Twitter as the only twits I infrequently follow are Elon Musk and Robert Llewellyn. Musk because of my TSLA stock and Robert Llewellyn because he bring credible content.

Bob Wilson

 

Musk and Tesla have been the personal target of lying short sellers whom the SEC has failed to reign-in. Twitter may give an answer since Musk wants his enemies to post on Twitter.

Bob Wilson

 

I suspect he'll make sure the 'shorts' are answered. See:
Elon Musk tweets that he confronted Bill Gates about shorting Tesla

Elon Musk has accused Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates of shorting Tesla.

In a tweet on Friday, the Tesla CEO admitted that he asked Gates if he was short-selling shares of the electric carmaker. When investors short a stock, they are betting that the price of the asset will fall.
“I heard from multiple people at TED that Gates still had half billion short against Tesla, which is why I asked him, so it’s not exactly top secret,” Musk said in the tweet.

He was responding to a Twitter user’s question on whether a screengrab of a supposed text conversation between the two billionaires was real. The Tesla chief’s response was: “Yeah, but I didn’t leak it to NYT. They must have got it through friends of friends.”

The account that inquired about the text messages, @wholemarsblog, heavily promotes Tesla and Elon Musk, and is among the few handles that Musk most interacts with on Twitter.
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All he has to do is cite the facts and data about how poorly the short sellers have done. Then emphasize the lies and ask, 'Why does the SEC ignore these false attempts to move the price of TSLA?'

Bob Wilson

 

I'm patient to see how things change. Regardless, he'll be blamed whether right or wrong. Today, there is a lot 'what if' fear as if Twitter had been a paragon of facts and data. If Musk:

• brings subject or topic following
• stops the bots that flood everyone with crap

Twitter might actually be something I might use. Today, following two individuals has worked for me. Otherwise, no interest.

Bob Wilson

 

Source: US and over 55 other countries commit to democratic internet governance - CNN

Washington (CNN Business)More than 55 countries and the United States announced their commitment Thursday to defending a free and open internet, agreeing to uphold digital human rights in response to rising authoritarianism in cyberspace.

The agreement, known as the Declaration for the Future of the Internet, aims to forestall an emerging "splinternet" characterized by the growing repression of internet users in closed regimes such as Russia and China — and the divergence of those countries from the internet's founding principles of universal access and unfettered information flow.
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Russia's information war, including its campaigns of online disinformation and propaganda, is just one of many examples of illiberal behavior the declaration is designed to counter, the US officials said.
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Somewhat expected given how much time they spent fixing old Twitter and old Facebook. Then there is the festering sore called Murdoch.

Perhaps it is time to bring back the 'Fairness' policy that requires media to give time to critics on the same platform?

Bob Wilson