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Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse | Siva Vaidhyanathan(www.theguardian.com)

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Arotrios@kbin.social
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The money quote:

While Musk tried his best to distract critics by blaming artificial intelligence companies allegedly scraping Twitter, a glitch in Twitter itself meant its computers were demanding data from its servers in an infinite loop.

So Twitter was killing itself. It seems to be a mercy killing.

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Raphael@lemmy.world
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Good.

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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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Can’t tank fast enough, imo.

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rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
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It just baffles me why he would buy Twitter in the first place and even more so why he paid what he did for it. PayPal -> Tesla -> SpaceX -> Twitter. How does that make any sense in any way. So there’s that from the start, but then why is he firing a torpedo into it. Was his secret plan to bulldoze Twitter from the start? That’s a lot to pay for revenge.

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popemichael@lemmy.world
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The short of it:

He made an offhand comment about buying twitter as a sort of “joke” but was then forced to go through with it thanks to the legal ramifications of said joke.

sauce

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Chessmasterrex@lemmy.world
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Good article.

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