Notices tagged with twitter

LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Jul-2022 18:13:22 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-sues-elon-musk-hold-him-44-bln-merger-2022-07-12/ [www reuters com] It is official. #Twitter is suing Elon #Musk to enforce the purchase agreement.
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1. Twitter sues Elon Musk to hold him to $44 billion deal
  
  from Reuters
  
  Twitter Inc sued Elon Musk on Tuesday for violating the $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform and asked a Delaware court to order the world's richest person to complete the merger at the agreed $54.20 per Twitter share, according to a court filing.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Jul-2022 13:26:38 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-terminating-twitter-deal-2022-07-08/ [www reuters com]

Elon #Musk finally backs out of the deal to purchase #Twitter, citing unresolved questions about #bots and #spammers.

> "I'd say Twitter is well-positioned legally to argue that it provided him with all the necessary information and this is a pretext to looking for any excuse to get out of the deal," said Ann Lipton, associate dean for faculty research at Tulane Law School.

Now, I don't know whether this person has expertise in contract law and has read the agreement, so I cannot guess as to the result of the legal battle that will come out of this.

> In a filing, Musk's lawyers said Twitter had failed or refused to respond to multiple requests for information on fake or spam accounts on the platform, which is fundamental to the company's business performance.

> "Twitter is in material breach of multiple provisions of that Agreement, appears to have made false and misleading representations upon which Mr. Musk relied when entering into the Merger Agreement," the filing said.
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1. Twitter vows legal fight after Musk pulls out of $44 billion deal
  
  from Reuters
  
  Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world's richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 06-Jun-2022 16:00:33 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/tech/elon-musk-twitter-spam/index.html [www cnn com]

Musk again threatening to walk away from deal to purchase #Twitter over number of bot accounts.
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1. Elon Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal
  
  from CNN
  
  Elon Musk issued his most direct threat yet to walk away from his purchase of Twitter on Monday, openly accusing the social media company of breaching the merger agreement by not providing the data he has requested on spam and fake accounts.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-2022 11:20:11 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#Twitter investors did not re-elect an ally of Elon Musk to the company’s board. https://www.thestreet.com/technology/twitter-investors-deal-a-big-and-humiliating-blow-to-musk [www thestreet com], company remains committed to purchase deal.
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1. from TheStreet
  
  Twitter did not provide any details about the proposed offer from Elon Musk.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 13-May-2022 13:49:46 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Elon Musk says #Twitter acquisition on hold. https://nu.federati.net/url/286364 [www cnbc com]

CNBC notes he can't just pay the breakup fee and walk away.

He also faces an SEC inquiry over his delayed filing of 5% stock ownersip form.
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1. Elon Musk can't just walk away from his Twitter deal by paying a $1 billion breakup fee
  
  from CNBC
  
  Musk can't just walk away from buying Twitter, despite a $1 billion reverse break fee attached to the deal.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 09-May-2022 12:07:22 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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- simsa04
@geniusmusing @simsa04

I did find less garbage pushed when I tried Tweetdeck, but "50 columns mode" still has unwanted content, while missing some wanted content.

I went to the main #Twitter site recently and spent the whole time cicking "show less of this" (in my case, it was any post someone I follow had 'liked' and also random posts by unknown people). I had the feeling that there is an infinite pool of garbage waiting to be pushed in front of my eyes.

I really hate the site so much because they fill my timeline with so much unrequested garbage that I cannot even judge whether the people I'm following are still worth it.

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 09-May-2022 09:16:08 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Shareholders sue Musk, #Twitter, seek to slow or stop takeover. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/tech/twitter-shareholder-lawsuit-elon-musk/index.html [www cnn com]
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1. Musk's $44 billion Twitter buyout challenged in shareholder lawsuit
  
  from CNN
  
  Elon Musk and Twitter were sued on Friday by a Florida pension fund seeking to stop Musk from quickly completing his planned $44 billion takeover of the social media company.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Apr-2022 19:11:54 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
It would be nice to have a big chunk of the people who are using #corpocentric #socnets like #Twitter and #Facebook and #Instagram move some or all of their presence over to the #OStatus and #ActivityPub branches of the #Fediverse, but I'd much rather they come because they want to try something different instead of coming because they are fleeing some change or impending change over there.

Why? Because these networks will never give them everything that those did. I personally believe that these networks can give some benefits that those cannot, but thus far, we've mostly tried to replicate their functionality ... without the benefit of nearly unlimited VC cash and a centralized model which puts $CentralizedNetwork at the center of its users' communications, where benefits built upon centralized knowledge of users' actions / choices / contacts.

Therefore, in 2-3 weeks, I expect 9 out of 10 new users to have have returned to Twitter ... or to some centralized network that springs up to duplicate Twitter without the Musk factor.

This has happened before. Maybe not on this scale, but it has happened. Multiple times. And always, most of them leave.

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Apr-2022 19:03:05 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Apparently, tens of thousands of panicked #Twitter users have rushed to join the #Fediverse (primarily #Mastodon servers, it sounds like).

There have been reports of employees misusing supposedly private direct messages for years, so it isn't like Elon Musk can suddenly reach into the database and pull up your nude selfies. He hasn't even bought the company and assumed control yet.

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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Apr-2022 18:01:20 EDT Hypolite Petovan

Because I could

I keep thinking about a couple #Twitter threads criticizing #Mastodon (the #Fediverse, really) for being inherently different than closed commercial platforms using far-fetched hypotheticals and extraordinary occurrences; while I do not want to make a useless point-by-point response, instead I'll tell you what I like about federated social media and #Friendica in particular.

After #Facebook froze my account for using a pseudonym (a spottily enforced rule), I started hosting my own #Diaspora pod because I could.

I didn't know anyone so I initially made contacts with other podmins and progressively extended my circle through shared posts. This is how I learned about #Friendica, a platform that was compatible with both #Diaspora and #OStatus (#GNUSocial, #StatusNet ) because it could.

Written in #PHP, liked both the multi-protocol approach and that I could contribute code to it. So I started hosting my #Friendica node and I kept following the same Diaspora accounts, because I could.

When #Mastodon was first released based on OStatus, I started following several accounts on there because I could. When #ActivityPub was released and supported by Mastodon, we followed suite a few months later, because we could.

With popularity came the right-wing trolls and free speech extremists who organized their own federated instances, but they never bothered me much as I blocked their entire instance domains because I could.

None of these are currently possible with commercial platforms. Not all people will end up hosting their own node and it's fine, but the breadth of possibility is what makes federated social network attractive.

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 14:22:27 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-elon-musk-buy-company-b2064819.html [www independent co uk]

#Twitter may be ready to accept #Musk's offer
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1. Twitter to accept Elon Musk’s bid to buy company
  
  from The Independent
  
  Twitter is reportedly prepared to accept Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company for $54.20 per share.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Apr-2022 19:39:52 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#Twitter's #Bluesky describes what they want from a #federation protocol.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a-self-authenticating-social-protocol [blueskyweb xyz]

In light of Elon Musk's purchase offer, this may all be moot.
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1. A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Apr-2022 17:23:00 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Elon #Musk not joining #Twitter's board after all. https://nu.federati.net/url/285820 [www msnbc com]

I suspect it is because they reminded him that as a board member, he would have a fiduciary duty to act in the interests of all shareholders, not just himself, and that he could face restrictions on what he could say & write.

Sure, the 14.9% cap probably also bugs him. I just don't think that was enough to dissuade him. While the fiduciary duty is something he may have had trouble with in the past.
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1. Elon Musk isn't joining Twitter's board after all. This could be why.
  
  from MSNBC.com
  
  There's no telling why he decided not to serve on Twitter's board, but his potential influence is still cause for concern.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Apr-2022 23:20:41 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#Twitter finally tells where they're going with #BlueSky. https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a-self-authenticating-social-protocol [blueskyweb xyz]
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1. A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Mar-2022 20:47:38 EST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I would guess that my #Twitter account has less than 200 tweets. It was over 12,000, but then I started deleting. The earliest tweets and the most recent ones are all that are left.

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Feb-2022 17:49:54 EST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia.html [wwww nytimes com]

NY Times reported in 2017 that a major investor in #Facebook and #Twitter was supported by Kremlin cash.
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1. Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments (Published 2017)
  
  By By Jesse Drucker from The New York Times
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 24-Jan-2022 08:41:35 EST Hypolite Petovan
I just discovered #Twitter is (now?) creating a separate status for retweets, see these two URLs:
- Original: twitter.com/princessxemnas/sta…
- Retweet: twitter.com/InspectorNerd/stat…
Both share activity numbers but only the original status shows the replies. I wonder if comments on the retweet are automatically attached to the original post? I'm not even sure how to access the retweet status URL outside of the API.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jan-2022 15:54:19 EST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Huge #Twitter thread about #COVID-19 long-term impacts. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1478611650760437765.html (I hope I typed that correctly.)

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 20-Dec-2021 13:31:32 EST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
A #VPN provider that I used shut down without much notice (in fact, the only way I found out was that I visited their site months later, trying to figure out why I hadn't been able to connect).

The #hotel I was using had a local provider that blocked #Fediverse instances (including Mastodon.Social), #Diaspora, #XMPP, #IRC, and a certain mail provider that I still use. They did not block: #Facebook, #Twitter, #GMail, or Outlook / #Hotmail

Because I couldn't connect to the VPN, I discovered how many perfectly normal sites were blocked because they weren't on the top 100 list. I went downstairs and informed the front desk that I would be leaving their establishment because of their blocking.

I received a phone call from their networking vendor, who logged into their router and proxy and turned off filtering on a list of about 25 sites they'd blocked.

But the point is, the hotel and its provider cannot be trusted not to fsck with your data. Always use a VPN.

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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 20-Dec-2021 10:31:08 EST Hypolite Petovan

Shameless self-plug: #Friendica does both* with your existing #Twitter account!

*Offer only available in participating nodes with the Twitter addon enabled and configured.

♲ @schratze@todon.nl: Twitter to fedi bridges are OUT
Fedi to twitter bridges are IN

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