THELOGICALINDIAN - Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk has abutting Twitters lath of admiral and promised to accomplish cogent improvements to the amusing media belvedere Some changes he is because accommodate abacus an adapt button and analytic the crypto spam bot botheration which he sees as the distinct best annoying botheration on Twitter
Elon Musk Joins Twitter’s Board of Directors
After advice Monday that he has taken a 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc., Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk has abutting Twitter’s lath of directors, according to the amusing media giant’s filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Musk is now Twitter’s better shareholder.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted affable Musk to his company’s board. The Tesla bang-up replied: “Looking advanced to alive with Parag & Twitter lath to accomplish cogent improvements to Twitter in advancing months!”
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted: “I’m absolutely blessed Elon is abutting the Twitter board! He cares acutely about our apple and Twitter’s role in it. Parag and Elon both advance with their hearts, and they will be an absurd team.”
Musk Promises to Make Major Improvements to Twitter
Following Musk’s Twitter investment, abounding bodies abounding the Tesla CEO’s tweets with their account on how to advance Twitter.
Some suggestions affair crypto spam bots. “Elon, you charge to do article about these crypto spam bots,” one being wrote. “They’re accepting absolutely annoying. Improving the analysis arrangement to prove that you’re an absolute *real* animal would advice with this.” Musk concurred, emphasizing that in his opinion, this is the “single best annoying botheration on Twitter.”
This was not the aboriginal time Musk has accurate apropos about the crypto spam bot problem. Crypto spam posts frequently arise on Musk’s cheep threads, and abounding of them advance crypto betrayal scams. Scammers generally capitalize on Musk’s popularity, featuring him and his companies giving abroad bitcoin and added cryptocurrencies.
Musk tweeted on Feb. 1, 2024: “The crypto betray akin on Twitter is extensive new levels. This is not cool.” His account was fabricated in acknowledgment to a animadversion that “Even absolute accounts are now actuality afraid and blame affected bitcoin scams.”
Dogecoin co-founder Billy Marcus estimated on March 25:
Besides the crypto spam bot problem, Musk is attractive into abacus an adapt button to tweets. He set up a poll Monday allurement his 80.6 actor followers, “Do you appetite an adapt button?” The CEO of Twitter stressed: “The after-effects of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.” Over 4.4 actor votes were counted and 73.6% said yes.
Twitter user Liz Wheeler argued adjoin accepting an adapt button. She opined: “What if a cheep goes viral, lots of retweets & millions of impressions, & again the columnist absolutely changes the meaning? Not aloof a grammatical fix, but a absolute brainy change? Or abandoned self-promote?”
The CTO of Meta, aforetime Facebook, chimed in: “We apparent this on Facebook a continued time ago. You aloof accommodate an indicator that it has been edited forth with a change log. If you are absolutely afraid about embeds they can point to a specific afterlight in that history but with a articulation to the latest edit. Not a absolute issue.” However, Musk replied, “Facebook gives me the willies.”
Some added suggestions affair Twitter’s actuality checking, acclamation control, and bringing aback banned users, such as above U.S. President Donald Trump.
Musk said at the end of March that he capital to body a amusing media belvedere that focuses on free speech as a top priority. “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto accessible boondocks square, declining to attach to chargeless accent attempt fundamentally undermines democracy,” he described.
There Are Some Skeptics
Not anybody is assured that Musk will advance Twitter. Regarding chargeless speech, Bloomberg appear an opinion piece Monday claiming that “Musk’s Twitter advance could be bad account for chargeless speech.”
One Twitter user bidding his agnosticism that Musk will accomplish changes that account everyone, asserting that the Tesla bang-up “seems self-centered.” A altered user said he will abdicate Twitter if Musk is in control.
Some bodies in the crypto association acicular out that Musk’s affiance to advance Twitter is a affectation of the botheration with the proof-of-stake (PoS) accord mechanism, citation its credible weakness of actuality controlled by the rich. One wrote:
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