Musk and Twitter

[Alan]

Here's a list of everyone taken down and the presumed reasons. Feel free to find the tweets where they supposedly posted his location. (hint - several of them didn't)

Aaron Rupar: Substack author and popular Twitter presence whose account was taken down for reasons unknown.

Drew Harwell: Washington Post technology reporter. Reason unknown.

Ryan Mac: New York Times technology reporter. Recently posted concerning the ElonJet story.

Donie O’Sullivan: CNN reporter. Last post was a story about Elon’s claim that a “crazy stalker” had followed a car in which his son was a passenger.

Matt Binder: Mashable reporter. Final post was noting O’Sullivan’s suspension.

Tony Webster: independent journalist.

Micah Lee: Intercept reporter.

Steve Herman: Voice of America reporter.

Keith Olbermann: former MSNBC host and sports journalist. Last post was retweeting those of suspended journalists.

And the original article where that list came from.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...s-from-Twitter

As I understand it, the majority of those people were either reporting on real time location information of Elon Musk, or providing links for people to find real time information on his location. It was reported that this information was used by someone who then attacked a car containing Musk's son.
Others were suspended for other violations of current terms of service.

Again, I'll ask, do you think it's wrong?

[jp1]

As I understand it, the majority of those people were either reporting on real time location information of Elon Musk, or providing links for people to find real time information on his location. It was reported that this information was used by someone who then attacked a car containing Musk's son.
Others were suspended for other violations of current terms of service.

Again, I'll ask, do you think it's wrong?

At the risk of repeating myself, no, not all of the banned journalists had done that.

[jp1]

I believe you're talking about those who use Twitter to promote other sites. We have a rule about that here too which I enforce, especially once our regular members start reporting those posts. Do you think it's wrong?

Everyone who uses social media for the purpose of promoting themselves cross promotes on multiple sites. And given twitter’s strict limit on the length of posts the main point has always been to post links to elsewhere. But I suppose if Elon wants to further drive his product away from the site that’s his choice.

[herbgeek]

As I understand it, the majority of those people were either reporting on real time location information of Elon Musk, or providing links for people to find real time information on his location. It was reported that this information was used by someone who then attacked a car containing Musk's son.

From today's Washington Post:

A confrontation between a member of Elon Musk’s security team and an alleged stalker that Musk blamed on a Twitter account that tracked his jet took place at a gas station 26 miles from Los Angeles International Airport and 23 hours after the @ElonJet account had last located the jet’s whereabouts.

The timing and location of the confrontation cast doubt on Musk’s assertion that the account had posted real-time “assassination coordinates” that threatened his family and led to the confrontation. Police have said little about the incident but say they’ve yet to find a link between the confrontation and the jet-tracking account.

[Rogar]

It seems to me that Twitter has little real value and is a time sink for people who have cell phone addictions. It's popularity is odd to me, but I'm not of that generation I guess.

[LDAHL]

It seems to me that Twitter has little real value and is a time sink for people who have cell phone addictions. It's popularity is odd to me, but I'm not of that generation I guess.

I tend to agree with you. It seems like the argument is over what kind of echo chamber a private organization wants to maintain. I do think that if the guy wants to keep people from using his own platform to dox him, he should be free to do so. I also think it creepy that a platform would meet weekly with the FBI about which stories to promote or suppress.

[jp1]

I see that now both the "mean journalists ban" and the "don't link to my competitors" ban have been lifted. I imagine that business schools in years to come will be teaching their students about the brilliance of using a Calvinball style of management.

[iris lilies]

It seems to me that Twitter has little real value and is a time sink for people who have cell phone addictions. It's popularity is odd to me, but I'm not of that generation I guess.

I signed up for Twitter years ago but never ever looked at it until Musk took over. I thought it might get interesting. I’m reading Bari Weiss’ posts but that’s about it.

[iris lilies]

I tend to agree with you. It seems like the argument is over what kind of echo chamber a private organization wants to maintain. I do think that if the guy wants to keep people from using his own platform to dox him, he should be free to do so. I also think it creepy that a platform would meet weekly with the FBI about which stories to promote or suppress.

The FBI stories are the real meat of the Twitter news stories. Journalists trying to divert attention from that with their Elon doxing and whining seems deliberate, and seems that they are well aware of that first Amendment problem.

[Tradd]

Twitter really has varied uses. Good for breaking news. Some airlines use it for addressing immediate customer service issues (travelers have reported that’s the quickest way to get an airline to respond). Local Tv/radio stations use it for important traffic news for the daily commute.

I generally like FB a lot better and have only ever followed some people and never posted anything, but even a comment, I don’t think.

Demonizing social media as the refuge of those with smartphone addictions is ridiculous.