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The_Darkprofit t1_iy40ukf wrote

No understanding of the product he is selling at all. No understanding of audience, nuance, or strategy. What a colossal failure he is proving himself to be.

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snowyshards t1_iy56tov wrote

Nah, that's a good thing, but its probably not an Elon idea because previous workers on Twitter already confirmed that solving the problem of character limit was already in the works, Elon just wanted to steal the credit.

The character limit was never a good thing, in fact it used to be worse when posting pictures on tweets would also count as words and the limit was 120 characters I believe.

Seriously, it was never a good thing that one of the most influential means of communication with the literal world leaders on it has a character limit. Twitter user had to make up corny words like oomfie and shit like that in hopes to communicate and almost everyone has to word their tweets in way to use as little words as possible but simultaneously make it so nobody takes their wording the wrong way (this is why the waffle and pancakes meme exist).

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ShadyKnucks t1_iy5gh9t wrote

It’s a platform meant for concise, brief communications. If you want to write a paragraph +, go on Facebook, Reddit, or Medium.

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snowyshards t1_iy5uwdo wrote

That was the original intention until it become the most influentical social media app where all politics take place.

Ultimatums are not going to cut it, I have seen many times people getting cancelled because they worded out badly something important they wanted to say while trying to keep it under 280 characters.

Twitter was being used for things it was never meant for and that become irs main audience, something about the character limit had to be made

And this is no me defending Elon, Twitter's previous staff before his takeover was already considering something like this.

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tuxzilla t1_iy7kvqu wrote

All the limit does is make people post pictures with a paragraph of text that you have to click on to be able to enlarge and read or post your paragraph on https://www.twitlonger.com/ and post a link to it.

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UnkindlyDisagree t1_iy43n5u wrote

Talking about nuance here is pretty ironic.

Edit: The downvotes prove me right lmao

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Geiseric222 t1_iy4mlyq wrote

Do you have any point or are you just going to hide behind nuance to do all the heavy lifting for your point as I assume your crying about people being mean to ok musky

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UnkindlyDisagree t1_iy4nh72 wrote

The fact that you assume that I'm a Musk fan says everything that needs to be said about nuance.

This is the problem with Reddit: you guys can tell good things from bad things in broad strokes, but as soon as someone says something actually nuanced you lose your shit and start othering people.

For example, one might say "This is a good thing, but this is a bad argument for this good thing" and y'all throw a fit and start yelling "Oh so you support bad thing, uh? BAD THING SUPPORTER!". It happens every. fucking. time.

Good enough of a point fro you? Do you see yourself in what I've said? If so, yikes.

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Geiseric222 t1_iy4ns73 wrote

So your going to stick with having no real arguments but just a vague sense of superiority?

Because if that’s what your trying to do, your failing at accomplishing that. You just look dumb

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Geiseric222 t1_iy4pcuf wrote

Ah so when you said buy nuance what you actually meant is you like it and are mad that others think it’s stupid. Why not say that rather than pretending it had anything to do with nuance or any of that crap.

I get it’s because that doesn’t feed your superiority complex but still

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UnkindlyDisagree t1_iy4pvyp wrote

I mean, stop and think before fucking typing. You just said Twitter is for shitposting, do you have an idea of how stupid that is? 90% of news embed tweets. Every politician thinker and institution talks on Twitter first. The trending hashtags are a gauge for what's going on. At least before Musk bought it.

Just because your boogeyman bought it doesn't mean you gotta lose your cools and wet your panties.

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SafemoonTo10Dollahz t1_iy4nko6 wrote

Do you not think it's a little peculiar how many geniuses there are on Reddit who are experts in so many different areas?

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Geiseric222 t1_iy4o0em wrote

I mean this whole topic is about a guy who thinks he’s a genius in many different areas but is just an idiot that was lucky to be born with money,

You don’t need to be an expert to see that

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SafemoonTo10Dollahz t1_iy4okx9 wrote

Ah right so you actually believe the rubbish you read in Reddit comments

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bigthingstuff t1_iy5i8vv wrote

I actually believe all the news stories about the idiot. And books.

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MailyChan2 t1_iy4t5iy wrote

Do they? Do the downvotes prove you right? Make out with a wall socket.

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