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The 560-pound Twitter sign met a fiery end in a Nevada desert (engadget.com)

Earlier this year, the 12-foot tall, 560-pound Twitter logo that used to sit atop the company's San Francisco headquarters was auctioned off for $34,000. Now, we know who bought it and what became of the sign: it was blown up in the Nevada desert as part of an elaborate stunt to promote an online marketplace app.

Add the fiery death of Larry the Twitter Logo sign to the list of silly and ineffective tech marketing gimmicks. They didn't even give Larry a suitable pyre, opting instead, perhaps, to spend those funds on Cybertrucks to tow him to his presumed final resting place. Ah, yes, tech marketing continues to be...stupid.

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posted by matt in Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Elon Musk’s false and misleading election claims have been viewed 2 billion times on X | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

An analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit that tracks misinformation, found that Elon Musk posted at least 87 claims this year about the U.S. election on X that fact-checkers have rated as false or misleading. 
Those false and misleading posts have generated more than 2 billion views, and not just because Musk is an influential person. He has also been found to tweak X’s algorithms so his own posts reach everyone on the platform because apparently, having 203 million followers just isn’t enough.

Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter, so I guess that works out to $22 per view of his false and misleading posts. Hopefully by the end of today, he’ll realize how shitty of an investment that was.

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posted by matt in Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Elon Musk's X is the 'home of social media piracy,' sports leagues say (mashable.com)

In the letter, these organizations specifically call out X for its "persistent failings" in moderating unlawful distribution of copyrighted material. The letter makes it clear that this problem is unique to the platform since Musk's acquisition.

Copyright infringement is the dark side of the Twitter/X dumpster fire. Extremism and disinformation have garnered most of the spotlight since Musk's arrival, but copyright infringement has burned steadily the whole time. Maybe copyright law will force him to make some changes.

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posted by matt in Saturday, August 3, 2024

Super Mario Bros. Movie Uploaded to Twitter for Hours, Now Pulled (gizmodo.com)

[C]hecking their account, they’re not only tweeting like nothing’s happened, they’ve just started to upload Bee Movie onto their account. And honestly, that may just be the most Twitter thing to happen out of this whole ordeal.

Twitter took down the boosts with the Mario Bros movie, but apparently didn't lock or limit the poster's account, allowing them to post another movie. I checked the account right after reading this article and, sure enough, the two most recent tweets included The Bee Movie, split into two parts.

Apparently lack of consequences for copyright infringement is another perk of a Twitter Blue subscription.

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posted by matt in Sunday, April 30, 2023