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

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chaos_knight
09/19/2023
06:48 AM
#1
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
09/19/2023
06:48 AM
#2
100%
divot1338
09/19/2023
06:50 AM
#3
Less than the odds that its still operational next year.
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Cheater87
09/19/2023
06:52 AM
#4
99 to 100 percent.
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MabusIncarnate
09/19/2023
06:52 AM
#5
If it makes it to this time next year. It sounds like the new plan is gonna bury the platform.
And as the people bend, The moral fabric dies, Then country can't pretend to ignore its peoples cries.
Dark_Arbron
09/19/2023
07:06 AM
#6
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
09/19/2023
07:11 AM
#7
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.
Sigs are rather pointless, except if it's to showcase animation and images.
Dark_Arbron
09/19/2023
07:12 AM
#8
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
09/19/2023
07:13 AM
#9
He already is
Have you tried thinking rationally?
brestugo
09/19/2023
07:27 AM
#10
Certain.

There are countermeasures being worked out though.
Putin delenda est
chaos_knight
09/19/2023
07:28 AM
#11
brestugo posted...
Certain.

There are countermeasures being worked out though.

Oh?
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WingsOfGood
09/19/2023
07:29 AM
#12
He don't want Bernie to be Potus.
Lordgold666
09/19/2023
09:08 AM
#13
Every social media company is trying to influence every election
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Ruvan22
09/19/2023
09:12 AM
#14
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 ..
havean776
09/19/2023
09:33 AM
#15
If it makes it to next year...
"I will either find a way, or make one."
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ellis123
09/19/2023
09:37 AM
#17
101%. Give or take 1%.
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chaos_knight
09/19/2023
10:16 AM
#18
ImAMarvel posted...
Basically a certainty if it makes it to next year.

It will. Musk is bonded to this company.
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Proto_Spark
09/19/2023
10:21 AM
#19
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.
Bass
09/19/2023
10:21 AM
#20
He'll have to stop yanking servers out of data centers first.
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Pitlord_Special
09/19/2023
10:27 AM
#21
100% - (the chance of him dying in the next year)
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ScazarMeltex
09/19/2023
10:34 AM
#22
That was the whole point of him buying it honestly.
Furthermore, The GOP is a Fascist Organization and must be destroyed
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COVxy
09/19/2023
10:38 AM
#24
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
09/19/2023
10:42 AM
#25
Over 100%
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UnsteadyOwl
09/19/2023
10:42 AM
#26
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
09/19/2023
11:13 AM
#29
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
09/19/2023
11:16 AM
#30
What are the odds the sun comes up tomorrow? Less than Musk using twitter to influence the election.
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KINDERFELD
09/19/2023
11:18 AM
#31
Wasn't this obvious from the time we expressed interest in acquiring twitter?

Thanks captain obvious.
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Red_XIV
09/19/2023
11:22 AM
#32
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
09/19/2023
11:27 AM
#33
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
09/19/2023
11:28 AM
#34
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.
lions and panthers oh my
Solar_Crimson
09/19/2023
11:30 AM
#35
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.
Eat the rich
Destroy the GOP
Questionmarktarius
09/19/2023
11:32 AM
#36
If your vote is actually influenced by twitter shitposts, that's on you.
COVxy
09/19/2023
11:42 AM
#37
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
09/19/2023
12:42 PM
#38
Questionmarktarius posted...
If your vote is actually influenced by twitter shitposts, that's on you.
You could say the same about Ayn Rand.
"A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet! "
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Intro2Logic
09/19/2023
12:52 PM
#39
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.
Have you tried thinking rationally?
Questionmarktarius
09/19/2023
12:59 PM
#40
ellis123 posted...
You could say the same about Ayn Rand.
well, yeah
Ruvan22
09/19/2023
05:54 PM
#41
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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