Musk basically discards posts by Democrats & those who love democracy. I'm forced to switch to THREADS. I might post on other sites.
I began using Twitter 15 years ago.
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All the news of the Iranian Revolution was coming from the then new platform Twitter.
Twitter seemed democratic.
Twitter was sort of a 21st Century version of Thomas Paine’s 1776 Common Sense
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Iranian Government and Journalism.
It looks like a big change is coming in Iran and a new journalism is rising from the old journalism that did not show up in Tehran to cover the election.
I come on to Twitter a few months ago. I didn't know what to with it. I couldn't figure out Twitter. I still can't But, give me a break; I was born in the early 1940s.
We already know, or at least think we know that paper based journalism is on it's way out.
Anybody wondering what journalism will look like in ten years? Twitter is the primary source of news from Iran. It looks like Twitter can be a news source with libretto, photos and video. A sort of Google UPI.
Government by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may be near its end. And Twitter is showing it happening.
New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/world/middleeast/16cleric.html?_r=1&hp
Posted by James Pitcherella at 1:02 AM
Labels: Journalism, Photo
X has seen a dramatic exodus of users since Musk took over in 2022, according to independent analysts such as Edison Research, which said in March that X’s usage in the United States had dropped 30 percent since last year. The investment firm Fidelity this month estimated that X’s value has plunged by about 80 percent since Musk’s takeover.
But the viewers that have stayed on X now largely see posts that skew toward the political bent of Musk himself, an avid booster of former president Donald Trump who has jumped onstage with him at rallies, donated $118 million toward his bid for a second term and launched a daily $1 million giveaway for registered voters in swing states. Musk, the world’s richest man, paid $44 billion to buy X and has since become its biggest user, with 200 million followers...
Under Musk, the platform has secretly throttled traffic to the New York Times and other sites Musk has vilified; reinstated previously banned political accounts; and launched a payment system for influencers whose first beneficiaries skewed hard right.
Musk also has a history of bending the platform to his whims. After a Super Bowl tweet of his underperformed President Joe Biden’s, Musk directed X engineers to boost his posts higher in people’s feeds to maximize global attention to himself. In August, he devoted X’s most premium real estate to a two-hour chat with Trump, who later endorsed a plan to give Musk a leadership role in reducing government spending.
Despite X’s declining engagement, the platform has regularly depicted itself as near the peak of its influence. X said this month it was seeing “all-time highs in usage,” with 547 million monthly active users spending 363 billion “user-seconds” a day. And in August, the company said its platform had more Democrats than Republicans, adding, “There’s a place for everyone in the global town square.”
X’s changing policies and conversations have driven some users off the platform and to a small but growing group of social media competitors. After X recently redrew its rules to allow blocked users to see a user’s tweets, the social network Bluesky said it gained half a million new users in a single day.
But the company has found one potentially lucrative niche: right-wing political advertising. A Post analysis earlier this month found that the backers of Republican candidates were outspending Democrats on the platform three to one."
On Elon Musk’s X, Republicans go viral as Democrats disappear
October 29, 2024 at 6:10 a.m. EDT
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Sunday, October 27, 2024
Just when you thought it can’t get any worse-ELON MUSK MIGHT BE A RUSSIAN SPY. MUSK IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. IF IT IS PROVEN HE IS A RUSSIAN SPY MUSK COULD GET THE DEATH PENALTY
October surprise? If Musk is tried as a Russian spy this is an October bombshell.
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