Elon Musk suggests bringing back Vine, asks MrBeast for ideas | Mashable.
Elon Musk suggests bringing back Vine, asks MrBeast for ideas
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Elon Musk isn't wasting any time changing Twitter.
Not only that, he's taken the role of customer service, he's making fun at the expense of the company's inner processes, and he's discussing grand ideas and massive changes with his Twitter followers.
We knew Musk's era would be interesting times for Twitter, but judging by the Chief Twit's first three days of reign, it will also be intense.
Take, as an example, Musk's latest tweet (at writing time). In a poll, he's asking his followers whether Twitter should bring back Vine, a short video sharing service it acquired in 2012 and shut down in 2016.
YouTuber MrBeast chimes in with a comment. "If you did that and actually competed with tik tok that’d be hilarious," he says. "What could we do to make it better than TikTok," Musk replies.
And there you go: Musk is casually spitballling ideas about bringing back a long-dead video sharing service, a feat that would no doubt cost Twitter a fair amount of money, with random people on the internet.Given the pace Twitter has gone about making certain changes to the site (we're looking at you, edit button), it's almost understandable that Musk wants to move things at a different pace. And he's not stopping at suggestions. As first reported by The Verge, Musk already overrode some internal circuit breakers to make an important change to Twitter's homepage, which now shows trending tweets and news stories for logged-out users, instead of just a big prompt to log into (or sign up for) the service.
Echoing the way he sometimes handles user complaints about Tesla vehicles, Musk also replied to a few users promising he'll help out with their user account issues on Twitter.
In the last 24 hours, Musk has also made fun of an automated, internal email that prompted him to start a management tutorial, hinted at plans to make verification a subscription-only feature while also mentioning the verification process is being "revamped right now," promised to allow for longer videos on the platform, and said character limits, one of Twitter's main traits, would "absolutely" be removed. How's that for three days' work?
With key execs out of the picture and reports of more layouts incoming, it's hard to say how quickly can Musk's ideas (and his followers' ideas) get implemented. But it doesn't appear Musk is willing to wait very long before introducing new features — even if a few things break along the way.
Wouldn't it be boring and endless without a character limit?
ReplyDeleteAnd having 1 in 20 tweets on the same subject isn't worse? It seems like a pain in the backside - plus you can always keep your comments bite size if you like and ignore others long rants.
DeleteTwitter is based on that character limit rule and that's what makes it unique among the other social networks. No one will keep his/her messages short, without a practical limit that stops them from adding more characters / words. It's inevitable that "Tweets" will become bigger paragraphs and they will lose their "short & meaningful" approach.
DeletePolitis for nuanced convos, tweets are not the best way to interrogate ideas.
DeleteI think a lot of people are just misusing the character limit to get attention to an idea without actually having a follow on nuanced discussions.
You really need both. One’s to catch attention and the other to discuss it in a long format. Or maybe people are just so impatient that everyone just gets to the TLDR….
Politis its already boring and endless
DeleteLeo Laporte is the Chief Twit 🙂
ReplyDeleteHe will make it successfully because past is prologue
ReplyDeleteLeaning into that new title then Elon
ReplyDeleteIf Elon wants to get into the short video business then he should have bought Tik Tok.
ReplyDeleteBuying Twitter just to compete with Tik Tok is no different than a bunch of fools creating Truth Social just so they can compete with Twitter.
Chief twit Elon is already tweeting right wing conspiracy theories.
ReplyDeleteJust do a detailed survey, and ask the majority of users or potential users, what they want from Twitter. Then implement the best ideas.
ReplyDeleteCan we stop with all this Ego musk bull crap plz
ReplyDeleteUm seriously should someone tell its already been done ugh… Tick Tock bought Vine
ReplyDeleteOverhaul Twitter? Into a place of lies he pushes?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.axios.com/2022/10/30/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-tweet-rumor?fbclid=IwAR1obJzjVIabdUzpe4Xpavmx4xqUdMDmr6RdKofQjIW36eyY4T7beiiq11M
you my friend are an idiot . And is part of the overall problem in today's society . Have a nice day
DeleteI loved vines
ReplyDeleteY saludos a los botsss
ReplyDeleteHe should worry about not posting conspiracy theories about violent people trying to overthrow democracy first.
ReplyDeleteWhat a twit.
ReplyDeleteBoth blackrock puppets running social experiments. Same thing the US did with s korean culture.
ReplyDeleteMake it no character limit and ad an edit button...and maybe I will stick around.
ReplyDeleteTwitter…. Never again.
ReplyDeleteoh, so your describing the democrat's, gotya
DeleteHey I hear “My Space” is available…he could change it to “My Face” 😂
ReplyDeleteI think now he should buy Tumblr for a gazillion dollars! 😅
ReplyDeleteWell just like musk
ReplyDeleteMashable could be next
ReplyDeleteAlthough Mashable presents itself as receptive to mashing, we all know it needs to be musked.
Deleteit definitely needs something fresh
DeleteIt is not even pretending to be tech news anymore, it is just weak propaganda for the regime.
DeleteAll billionaires are super villains and oligarchs. They are wealth hoarders, stealing the profits generated by their employees. Musk, et al, should be taxed into obscurity
ReplyDeleteHaha you are so bitter! I love it! LMFAO!😂😂😂
ReplyDeleteSo tired of Elon intruding.
ReplyDeletehttps://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-deactivate-twitter-account#deactivating-vs-deleting
ReplyDeleteI hope he fires every one of those morons and they end up flipping burgers.
ReplyDeleteI hope he fires every one of those morons and they end up flipping burgers.
DeleteB14. Awww you sunk my battleship. Too bad Musk doesnt have the funds to K.O FB
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