OT Musk/Twitter - The Great Experiment

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  1. yankeesince59

    yankeesince59 "Oh Captain, my Captain".

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    Yup, I've already decided that I'm ditching Starlink a.s.a.p....2 months after I got Starlink they not only raised the monthly rate by $20, my bandwidth went from 300 MBS to about 90 MBS and once Musk created the Twitter shit storm I decided enough is enough. Coincidently, fiber optic internet and TV is supposed to be available in my area next month.

    So, for about $60 LESS than I'm currently paying for Starlink and DISH network, I can get the Conexon fiber optic internet/Direct TV bundle, which will net me 2000 MBS internet and the same TV channels I already have.
     
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  2. stampedehero

    stampedehero Make Your Day, a Doobies Day Staff Member Moderator

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    12/17 I just received a three-day restriction on my ability to follow. The follower limit rule sucks. I found out the mobile and Lap top apps are different, as I was punished on the Lap top account and got slapped with follower limit reached on my mobile. What!!?? Why????.
     
  3. julius

    julius Global Moderator 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!
     
  5. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Yeah I don't understand that. You can only follow so many people?
     
  6. Shogun X

    Shogun X Ex El Presidente

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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.
     
  7. THE HCP

    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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  8. 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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  13. julius

    julius Global Moderator 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
     
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    julius Global Moderator 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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