Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 18, 2024, 04:45:00 PMtop advertisers(Disney, comcast, IBM etc) who left X for some odd reason are now returning...weird eyn'a?

Most aren't returning. And observers quoted in articles about those companies you named are merely speculating that the companies might return. And then only to protect their financial interests from the far-too-powerful guy who told them to "go fook themselves" not long ago.

This from Financial Times:

Lou Paskalis, chief executive of marketing consultancy AJL Advisory and a former media executive at Bank of America, said some marketers were likely to reallocate spending back to X as "political leverage", such as if they were seeking government contracts. He added companies would seek to get in the "good graces of Elon" ...

https://www.ft.com/content/34b6fc20-23f7-4e08-9ac4-ef05d5d66c13

Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 18, 2024, 04:45:00 PMDisney, comcast, IBM

Struggling as a business, struggling as a business, and struggling as a business.  Checks out

yo!  GB's reply including a polarizing political figure sure seems political to me. 

viper was banned for less...AGAIN!!

free the viper man!

Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 19, 2024, 07:23:59 AMyo!  GB's reply including a polarizing political figure sure seems political to me. 

viper was banned for less...AGAIN!!

free the viper man!

Narc

Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 19, 2024, 07:23:59 AMyo!  GB's reply including a polarizing political figure sure seems political to me. 

viper was banned for less...AGAIN!!

free the viper man!

Eh. Viper made an overtly political comment. Can't say he, or anyone else, wasn't warned.

Quote from: The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole on November 19, 2024, 08:09:22 AMEh. Viper made an overtly political comment. Can't say he, or anyone else, wasn't warned.

Hope he's back for the Badgers game.  Very interested in his brother-in-law's take on the game

In yet another Twitter failure, searching for someone's username no longer brings up any of their tweets. Only replies to their tweets.

Twitter's functionality gets worse by the day.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/24298669/musk-trump-endorsement-x-boosting-republican-posts-july-algorithm-change

Quote from: jesmu84 on November 22, 2024, 11:03:56 AMhttps://www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/24298669/musk-trump-endorsement-x-boosting-republican-posts-july-algorithm-change

Elon tweaking the algorithm to boost his interactions was obvious from day 1 of him taking over.  It's also why they tweaked the block function because he had been blocked by so many folks.

The tweaking to promote a particular political party isn't a surprise either.  It's certainly not the only social site to do that and it happens on both ends of the spectrum.

It's the natural progression of sites like that.  From user friendly to something the complete opposite of that.  It's the users choice to stay or go.  If you stay and complain about what you're seeing, well, hard to have sympathy for you.  It's clear what you're getting.