Technology

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Meta launched its X rival called Threads on July 5 and quickly amassed more than 100 million signups, Time magazine reported, citing data from Sensor Tower.

Musk's efforts to purge the platform of bots and turn it into a "super-app" don't yet appear to be working.

Activist Monica Lewinsky urged him and CEO Linda Yaccarino to "rethink" the move.

as an anti-bullying activist (and target of harassment) i can assure you it’s a critical tool to keep people safe online.- that woman

as an anti-bullying activist (and target of harassment) i can assure you it's a critical tool to keep people safe online.

In May Fidelity wrote down the value of its stake in the company then still known as Twitter, giving it a value of about $15 billion – or just a third of what Musk paid, The Wall Street Journal Reported.X didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.

The original article contains 326 words, the summary contains 158 words. Saved 52%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

How long does it take to roll some video akin to tiktok and snapchat into it? Weed out all the bots at the same time by demanding fotoID and root out all the dirtbags abusing the app at the same time. Texting and chatting is so last decade anyway just leave it as a remnant of its birdie roots.

If it fails Meta will likely have to be broken up, their monopoly on social media is outrageous these days.

Gee...who could have guessed?...

moving the goalpost. twitter was originally developed to be a "news service" not a "social network"

I said this in another post, but I think it bears repeating:

Musk, whether he was paid to do this or not, is acting purposefully. This is all a grand scheme to fully dismantle what was once our global town square. Twitter was once a place where “the people” could hold politicians, corporations, and the generally wealthy accountable for their actions publicly. In the past year, the platform has become unsteady, blue checks are untrustworthy, and even the name has changed to something that causes one to pause.

I dislike the man as much as the next normal person, but all of this nonsense has been planned from the start. He’s not a complete idiot. These actions have been calculated steps to take away the voice of the people and eliminate a single source of truth as things get worse and worse.