Leaked Report: Twitter Showed All Time Record User Growth after Musk Takeover (legal, regular)

[lookingaround12345]

Originally Posted by Winterbeard

According to Musk himself if the account has (parody) in the name, it should be left alone. But several Musk (Parody) accounts have been banned. Poor little snowflake.

When the richest, arguably most influential man on the planet is called a poor little snowflake by some anonymous nobody on the internet. Lol

[notnamed]

Originally Posted by Retroit

I joined a few days ago. I wish they had an ignore feature.

You can mute or block accounts. You can even mute words so that you don't see any posts with that word.

[notnamed]

Originally Posted by AfricanSunset

The owner deactivated them or Twitter is actually doing its job and deactivating bots.

A deactivation is a step you take yourself before deleting the account outright. Different from a suspension/ban.

[MechAndy]

The far left is really upset about this.
This makes me happy.

[johnsonkk]

Best part of new chief Twit Musk is that he won’t lecture us from some pedestal about free speech.

Musk won’t go to some Aspen international cyber security festival to tell us that censorship is bad.

This will be refreshing.

[OpenRider]

As mentioned you can mute anyone you want on there. And that makes it funny when some of the people who were muted by Elon said, "I thought you said Free Speech!!!!" and they started going crazy.

Muting is quite different from silencing or suspending an account. The Leftists on there just didn't get it.

I've used Twitter for many years but I mostly follow news outlets. It presents a handy aggregate of headlines from different sources I can scan quickly, no matter where I am, and then investigate further if I'm interested. Local news, market news, sports news, etc. I find it useful mostly for that.

[Winterbeard]

Originally Posted by lookingaround12345

When the richest, arguably most influential man on the planet is called a poor little snowflake by some anonymous nobody on the internet. Lol

Yep. Better make sure he doesn't ban me on here too!

[Three Wolves In Snow]

Originally Posted by Retroit

I joined a few days ago. I wish they had an ignore feature. The leftist trolls are out of hand. I haven't started replying to any posts yet. It doesn't seem very conducive to conversation like City-Data. Mostly one liners and links to news articles which I have already read since I review the news websites before I go to social media.

You can block them. On each 'tweet', there are 3 dots in the upper right hand corner of the 'tweet'. Click on that, you get a menu. "Block @whatevertheycallthemselves" Done.

[tipsyguam]

Originally Posted by notnamed

Interesting.

MIT reports Twitter lost over 1 million users since Elon Musk’s takeover

bot accounts being deactivated is a good thing.

[notnamed]

Originally Posted by tipsyguam

bot accounts being deactivated is a good thing.

Deactivating and blocking/suspending are different things. Deactivations are user initiated.