Current Events > What are the odds that Elon Musk will use Twitter/X to influence 2024 election?

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chaos_knight
09/19/23 6:48:16 AM
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This is something I'm genuinely worried about, as most still use that site for every breaking news story. Everyone keeps saying that whatever stupid policy Elon uses will kill the site but it hasn't at all.

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darkace77450
09/19/23 6:48:33 AM
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100%
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divot1338
09/19/23 6:50:41 AM
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Less than the odds that its still operational next year.

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Cheater87
09/19/23 6:52:13 AM
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99 to 100 percent.

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MabusIncarnate
09/19/23 6:52:35 AM
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If it makes it to this time next year. It sounds like the new plan is gonna bury the platform.

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Dark_Arbron
09/19/23 7:06:58 AM
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If he truly makes it a paid platform say goodbye to its popularity. At that point anyone (well, anyone) can come along and provide an alternative.

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Thompson
09/19/23 7:11:39 AM
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Dark_Arbron posted...
If he truly makes it a paid platform say goodbye to its popularity. At that point anyone (well, anyone) can come along and provide an alternative.
Xitter becoming a "fee speech platform" might just be the best thing that could happen to Mastodon.

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Dark_Arbron
09/19/23 7:12:50 AM
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Thompson posted...
Xitter becoming a "fee speech platform" might just be the best thing that could happen to Mastodon.

Fee speech is a great term.

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Intro2Logic
09/19/23 7:13:27 AM
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He already is

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brestugo
09/19/23 7:27:27 AM
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Certain.

There are countermeasures being worked out though.

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chaos_knight
09/19/23 7:28:50 AM
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brestugo posted...
Certain.

There are countermeasures being worked out though.

Oh?

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WingsOfGood
09/19/23 7:29:23 AM
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He don't want Bernie to be Potus.
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Lordgold666
09/19/23 9:08:49 AM
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Every social media company is trying to influence every election

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Ruvan22
09/19/23 9:12:19 AM
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Lordgold666 posted...
Every social media company is trying to influence every election

Ehh there's a difference between people working in a social media company and the head of the company ..
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havean776
09/19/23 9:33:52 AM
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If it makes it to next year...

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ellis123
09/19/23 9:37:46 AM
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101%. Give or take 1%.

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chaos_knight
09/19/23 10:16:03 AM
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It will. Musk is bonded to this company.

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Proto_Spark
09/19/23 10:21:17 AM
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Twitter/X is kind of at a "too big to fail" moment right now - minor changes like a premium subscription isn't really enough to get people to change their habits enough to bother dropping Twitter. Musk has to really go overboard in order to actually turn people away (like that rumoured plan about a subscription for regular use)

That's not to say it's making money or anything, but unless Musk actively burns everything down, Twitter/X will be sticking around long enough to definitely have an active role in the 2024 election.
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Bass
09/19/23 10:21:54 AM
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He'll have to stop yanking servers out of data centers first.

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Pitlord_Special
09/19/23 10:27:19 AM
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100% - (the chance of him dying in the next year)

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COVxy
09/19/23 10:38:15 AM
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That was the entire reason he bought the service. That's why it's near impossible to avoid right-wing chuddery on their algorithm curated feed now.

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Goldice
09/19/23 10:42:26 AM
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Over 100%

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UnsteadyOwl
09/19/23 10:42:29 AM
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It's a near certainty he will try. Just before the 2022 midterms he made a tweet directly encouraging people to vote Republican.

That seemingly didn't help the Republicans much though, so he might try to be more subtle about it this time around.

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superbot400
09/19/23 11:13:52 AM
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Intro2Logic posted...
He already is
He is, but the good news that twitter was never really that powerful to influence votes in the past. Facebook was closer to the average voter. Thats why Congress spent more time with Facebook.

Young voters are on TikTok ,Snapchat, and instagram.

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SayHeyyShohei
09/19/23 11:16:34 AM
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What are the odds the sun comes up tomorrow? Less than Musk using twitter to influence the election.

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KINDERFELD
09/19/23 11:18:32 AM
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Wasn't this obvious from the time we expressed interest in acquiring twitter?

Thanks captain obvious.

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Red_XIV
09/19/23 11:22:55 AM
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superbot400 posted...
He is, but the good news that twitter was never really that powerful to influence votes in the past. Facebook was closer to the average voter. Thats why Congress spent more time with Facebook.
Twitter has always gotten massively inflated media attention compared to the actual size of its userbase, because for whatever reason it ended up being journalists' preferred social media platform.

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Voidgolem
09/19/23 11:27:08 AM
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Depends on if he manages to burn it down by accident before then

Sorry, "accident".

If it's still around expect stupid shit to occur

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foreverzero212
09/19/23 11:28:31 AM
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All media companies influence elections and all of them are owned by billionaires.

Whatever influence twitter has on elections, it still pales in comparison to the influence fox/msnbc/cnn have on them. We have an ancient voter population that can barely navigate facebook, much less twitter.

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Solar_Crimson
09/19/23 11:30:16 AM
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darkace77450 posted...
100%
This. That was likely the main purpose of him wanting to buy the site and turn it into a far-right echo chamber.

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Questionmarktarius
09/19/23 11:32:40 AM
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If your vote is actually influenced by twitter shitposts, that's on you.
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COVxy
09/19/23 11:42:20 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
If your vote is actually influenced by twitter shitposts, that's on you.

So at this point I feel like you write out these pithy and silly posts just to get attention.

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ellis123
09/19/23 12:42:07 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
If your vote is actually influenced by twitter shitposts, that's on you.
You could say the same about Ayn Rand.

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Intro2Logic
09/19/23 12:52:14 PM
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COVxy posted...
So at this point I feel like you write out these pithy and silly posts just to get attention.
Man finds a way to make a point completely orthogonal to every topic he enters.

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Questionmarktarius
09/19/23 12:59:27 PM
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ellis123 posted...
You could say the same about Ayn Rand.
well, yeah
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Ruvan22
09/19/23 5:54:04 PM
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Intro2Logic posted...
Man finds a way to make a point completely orthogonal to every topic he enters.

And then conveniently fkees...
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