OT Musk/Twitter - The Great Experiment

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  1. julius

    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Follower limit rule wha??
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    NERD!
     
  3. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Yeah I don't understand that. You can only follow so many people?
     
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    Probably within a certain time frame. A lot of spammers follow then unfollow later to get an artificially high follower account.
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    I bet you only have 50 followers and they all wear garbage ass old suburban ass white man shoes!
     
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  6. yankeesince59

    yankeesince59 "Oh Captain, my Captain".

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    lol...even though my post may have seemed ""nerdy", I'm far from it. :bgrin:
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    I think it’s time you embrace your inner dorkness like the rest of these guys and girl.
     
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    I can happily and proudly say I've never used twitter nor felt the need to have it around my life for anything...facebook I dumped 15 years or so ago....it's one thing to have friends but then "they" have friends and their friends have friends and pretty soon non of them are friends anymore....fuck that! I have a phone is I need to talk with a friend. Twitter was fake news, fake president and fake govt for 4 years....that didn't end well.
     
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    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    The douchebag, I mean musk, put up a poll asking if he should step down as CEO of Twitter (and says he will abide by the results, which we know he won't)

    As of this posting: 57% yes, 43% no. Based on 8 million+ votes.

    He's a fucking idiot.
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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  11. julius

    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    am I nuts in thinking that somehow Elon will end up dead well before his natural timeline should be?
     
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    This type of opinion on social media always kind of cracks me up. I don’t follow one political person or account on Twitter at all. Or Instagram. So I never see any political ads or read anything political. I use Twitter for sports, movies, pop culture, that type of thing. That’s it.
    If it wasn’t for Twitter, or Instagram, it would’ve been a lot harder for my daughter to get recruited to play college soccer. So I just look at it as a tool. Instagram I use for photography. I follow so many amazing photographers on Instagram. I love it. Have never seen political ads on there either.
    As far as Facebook goes, my family uses it to stay in touch all over the world. I get to see my cousins kids and aunts and uncles. It’s fantastic. Never once have read a political ad on Facebook.

    So when people look down or say things like, thank god I’m not on social media or you’d never catch me on there…..I just don’t quite get it.
     
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    That would be a real shame
     
  14. julius

    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    You get out of facebook/social media, what you put into it.
     
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    There is a Mrs HCP joke I could post in reply that would probably get me punched by @THE HCP.

    After he gets done crying.
     
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    People hate social media not because the people who use it the right way. They hate it because of half the country of fucking idiots who buy into fake bullshit QAnon crap that has ruined the country
     
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    Yeah but 80% of drivers are shit…. That doesn’t mean we should hate cars.
     
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    you cut and paste these, right? You do you bro....I'm old school...my son got to college pretty much without using either Facebook or Twitterverse! I believe he was using that ancient thing called the post office or that new fangled email thingy.... I think it's ok for a phone to be a phone too so, there's that you young whippersnapper! I don't need to "follow" anybody. I can understand your job on the road how it helps
     
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    No but we hate car accidents. And Twitter as a stand-alone is great. But the lies and hate - those are car accidents.
     

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