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i would not.
Elon Musk makes $43 Billion offer for private buyout of Twitter (2 Viewers)
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if you were a journalist or something similar ( writer, public figure etc ) then i would say yeah.
But you arent ( that i know of ) and would want to keep anonymity, just in case. Shoot you may have associates/clients etc that may read your SM posts and take issue with something, anything, which would cause undue strife.
I know i have been quite careful here ( mainly political talk ) - i dont know who im talking to/with and may be a client that im disagreeing with and dont want to sour that relationship ( in VERY rare cases, i dont actually care if they find out and decide to no longer want my representation if my views differ from theirs because they are REALLY well opposite of me - i can live with that )
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Yeah, I think it's a bad idea. Lots of people get snippy about people not using your real name but I'd rather that then getting stalked or doxed by some weirdo.
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I didn't use my name when I named my account...
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The only social media account that i use my real name is on Facebook. But I also have a seperate Facebook account that i use to sell all my stuff on Facebook MarketPlace. When i did have a Twitter Account, and with all other Social Media apps i use the same name as here, Email address also. I have been using BigDaddySaints since i got my first Yahoo Email account in like 98 or 99...
Not sure why Elon Musk didn't just create a copy-cat twitter company?!?! Probably would of been less, than a quarter of the cost of buying Twitter, plus, he renamed it X anyways.
I understand why he bought it, but I don't understand why not just create a better version of it. Facebook overcame My Space.
I understand why he bought it, but I don't understand why not just create a better version of it. Facebook overcame My Space.
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He wanted to make a worse version. It’s far easier to take something existing and make it crappier than it is to build something crappy from the ground up.
But seriously, it’s easy to forget the history as we move away from it - but Musk didn’t actually want to buy Twitter. It was basically a gag gone bad and he ended up with a court ruling that he had indeed made an enforceable offer to buy it. He then tried to get out again on alleged misrepresentation by the company but that failed too. So he put together a package that included his own money and investors and financing to buy it - because he had to.
But he also embraced it - his efforts in buying stock and taking an interest in the company weren’t all in jest. I think a big part of it for him was dismantling what Twitter was. We talked about this a lot back in the earlier pages of this thread but Musk was part of a specific view of Twitter that was basically “who do they think they are??” They viewed Twitter’s legitimate ecosystem of blue-checks and moderation as a structure of liberal American politics. He also found himself on the outside of that ecosystem - because his political views were different and mainstream twitter didn’t find him as funny and entertaining as he thought they should have.
So stuck with having to buy it, he decided to dismantle what he and his ilk rejected about it and open it up to be their own playground. He also sees it as possibly being a platform for something else in the future and he justifies its dramatic loss of revenue as an expense in having it for possible reimagination - but for now, his jokes land, his allies and their viewpoints have a platform, and the Elon-bros love him for it.
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Never had a twitter account, never gonna have a bluesky or threads account... but im all for the death of twitter.
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Because he is an impulsive tantrum laden autist. But if he had made a clone no one would have switched from twitter.
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No doubt. I mean, we already saw it attempted by a couple of other apps I refuse to name, and they didn't come close to Twitter/X, Threads and such.
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I don't see any reason to unless your name is a brand that you're working on in that space.
When I joined twitter years ago, 2009, I used something that was basically my name because that's just how you did social media back then. After a while, I realized that there was no reason at all to have that account associated with me personally. I changed it to a more generic name and profile that reflected my personality sort of, but wasn't me and couldn't be identified as me without some real forensics. Not because I was talking sheet or being bad, but because there was no reason or upside to it and potential risk.
I think it depends on what the platform is and how it's used. Facebook is friends, family, and interest groups - it makes sense to be you. Something like LinkedIn obviously needs to be you (though I wouldn't know I"m not on it). But the twitter style of communicating and interacting with the broader world about ideas, sports, jokes, etc. has no reason to be you - unless you need to be identified with it as a brand for whatever you're using it for.
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