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OK, which one of Enron's exes came up with "unregretted user-seconds"?

I feel like I have seen this but it's totally accurate...anyone can sound smart until they step into your area of expertise.

So I guess no “freedom from speech” over on Brand X.

"unregretted user-seconds" mfer is high on his own farts (as well as his usual pharmacopeia)

Every hour I spend on twitter is 3.6k regretted user-seconds.

"(not bots)"... lol suuuuuuure all those blue checks that flood replies with the same word or emoji aren't bots.

Does verified here mean payind user or has 2fa?

Something tells me “Live by the spam, die by the spam” is a phrase that’s really going to come back to haunt him.

Little racist tyrant

the newspeak here is pretty sinister. blocking or muting someone for a bad post or harassment is "spamming" now.

“That said, ignore everything I wrote until this moment. Starting. Now. I mean, now.”

He thinks he is cooking something great, but actually just boiling down same nasty stock

I am perpetually trying to maximize unregretted user-seconds - I will grant him that.

My theory is these guys are used to lying to their toadies who are forced to pretend they’re being fooled since they’re economically dependent on them. So they come to decide they’re actually really smart and persuasive liars.

What the hell, he used to claim it was bots

Elon is ..... a fucktard.

Musk got the fresh batch of ketamine. Look out.

X isn’t a social media platform. It’s a cage fight for MAGAS. @chrislhayes.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social

Talk about how Bluesky doesn't suck

Less than 2 hours between the tweets. Makes you wonder if he fully thought it through. Or rather, thought it through for the right, but then realised the left could use it to their advantage too (if they had the numbers), so tweaked the "algorithm" again.

This guy lies when he opens his mouth. Usually the opposite is true.

Wait Blocking elon is now spam? Lmao

…x… come for the spam… stay for the crushing boredom…

Get. Off. X. Stop supporting Musk.

The past Twitter management was more transparent about it though, when they banned people for hate speech they told people that they banned them for hate speech

What the f is an “Unregretted user second??? “

I guess the algorithm worked, because my regretted user-seconds on twitter is down to zero. Right there with my total user-seconds.

Him being laughed at while attending school is really showing...

I bet there’s a simple rule in the algorithm: if ($account == “ElonMusk@“) Return ignore(); And move onto the next cretin… Why would anyone still use that shitty platform where the rules are: censorship for others but not for me. Complete trash owner. Any other service would be shutdown.

Can you imagine if people just stopped using Twitter altogether? Being on Twitter is like being in a toxic relationship at this point.

This guy truly has nothing better to do? What a waste

Is there a place I can go on X to complain about my regretted user seconds? So. Many. Regrets.

"Maximize unregulated user-seconds" sounds like something Vontra from the Wild Robot would say as she kidnaps and tries to brainwash Roz.

I can only translate it as "we know users on our platform are miserable, the best we can offer you are a few seconds that aren't quite regretworthy, maybe"

I mean, “unregretted user seconds” is why I left Twitter.

‘More credible’ is doing a lot of work there.

JFC what a wanker he is.

Yes.

Muskerade - For when you're all out of juice!

He's threatening to shadow ban accounts who block his right wing add spammers that keep showing up in people's timelines. So if you block fascists, you get shadow banned. Free speech indeed.

No, no—it’s just “the algorithm … trying to maximize unregretted user-seconds,” as the totally normal human explained in his earlier tweet

It’s really the whole point of an algorithm that’s shows you what you’re interested in. To make sure your time on the site is not a “regret”, thus you’re more likely to stay and pay.

Unregretted user seconds? wtf is that

Yeah, because Elon implemented a really stupid "feature". bsky.app/profile/qhst...

it’s all haggling over the price

Drive too fast? Jail. Drive too slow, believe it or not, also jail.

The algorithm was successful in reducing my regretted user seconds to zero

Meanwhile actual spam thrives because you fired all the people and they know how to evade your algorithms.

Or "hateful conduct": bsky.app/profile/scie...

"Coordinated mute/block attacks are spam" what does this even mean?

Watching the dead bird app try to fly has been sad and depressing AF.

I totally agree with you! Elon Musk telling us he was buying Twitter to save free speech: a biblical hypocrisy! 😖 I was kicked out of X on my first criticizing of Donald Trump and his bunch of billionaires. I have made a little research and apparently, I was not the only one. 😞

Well done Sir!

wait, really?

Well said

I’ve been laughing at Elon's “...far more credible, verified subscriber accounts...” line from the moment I saw it. Just amazing stuff.

Getting hard to keep all his rules aligned. Soon you will just be a ghost account. No one sees you.

“Spamming with mutes” is an interesting concept

Deleted my account, sooo…

Or no government regulation... 🙄 #libertarians

I mean, the other question is what you do about Nazis. That's why Kara Swisher's question to Zuck about Holocaust deniers was so telling. Zuck had not actually thought about the question. I think the requirement for owning a social media company is an explicit plan for dealing with Nazis.

I agree that some harms cannot be mitigated by user-managed moderation. But the ones that I can think of aren't particularly well mitigated by platform level moderation either. They often reflect society-level disputes that shouldn't be resolved by the preference of a single enterprise.

I can't think of a time in the history of computing when so much processing power has been, literally, in the hands of the user and yet been doing so little for the user, and so much for somebody else. I want *my* devices to work for *me*.

My go to when people start "We should debate all viewpoints, it's how you get a well rounded discussion" used to be pretending I was a Nigerian prince who wanted to make their penis three inches bigger

“Except it’s not” — reminds me a bit how way back when I used to wonder how people who actually worked on the viagra account ever manage to use email. They had legit emails about viagra to send and receive. 😆

nobody asked but when I was a young lad some dude made an unmoderated board for like a dozen of us to post on and the bit was we were anti-oppression the idea that you can run an actual biz like this unmoderated is just the actually dumbest and most juvenile idea imaginable

And the spam classification Twitter displays is a good example of this, almost none of the labeled tweets appear to actually be spam.

Kinda had a different “S” word in mind for the people who uncritically believe him.

I also really, really love that he's explicitly stating that they can tell the difference trivially between bots and real users. SURE you can buddy. With perfect fidelity. Of course this is entirely a silly justification system for a way to throttle accounts he doesn't like.

@mmasnick.bsky.social beyond illegal stuff, unwanted tagging (including hashtag pollution) is where you draw the line. that handles spam and harassment. on fedi, servers that refuse to police for that (or welcome people who bother those on other servers) should be blocked for the good of the […]

"slightly differently"

what i find fascinating about elon is that he is a very bright person yet he persists with the "us vs them" tactics as well as open bullying - I really can't work out how someone so smart avert to these types of tactics all the time

I mean, he reduces visibility on all posts using the word "cisgender"? Freedom of speech my fabulous tushie!

Sad little man. 🤷🏻

I should also note that I think I got this framing of "Do you think we should ban spam? / Okay, we've now established you believe in content moderation, we're just haggling over where to draw the lines" from @dwillner.bsky.social who is the best there is at explaining trust & safety.

“Unregretted user-seconds” is a hell of a phrase. 🤣

Some MAGA are finally seeing through his phony "free speech absolutist" PR campaign.

“verified” = Elon fan accounts, willing to pay a multibillionaire for a free web site, primarily to signal their support for everything he supports. Anything those people don’t like will be algorithmically buried.

It’s only free speech if it fits musk’s narrative.

Hello lost and found. Did anyone turn in a mind?

Making you see things you would mute or block is even funnier when in the same tweet as "unregretted user-seconds".

What's that even supposed to mean? What's a coordinated attack to spam target accounts with mute/blocks?

I've had zero regretted user seconds since making the switch to bluesky.

This can't be good for the cash flow. I keep wondering what will happen when all of the people/corporations who backed Elon's takeover of Twitter finally decide that they would like their profits.

Of course we also have to factor in the fact that where Elon uses the word “bots”, he really means “people who won’t pay me money”. And when he uses the words “credible, verified subscriber accounts”, he really means “a group of users which includes bots that pay me money”.

So sayeth St. Elmo, patron saint of unctuous hypocrisy.

Bottom line Democrats figured out Trump dividing our country is not worth destroying the country; it's better to let Trump win, decades of him destroying his own multiple companies, bankruptcies instead of causing chaos with mayhem with his delusional Maga followers; "let him hang his own noose"!

Most spam posts include the word "cisgender". Few people realize this.

Skin so thin you can see his organs and the little Man who lives in his enormous gut.

It’s hilariously transparent and reflects Musk’s thin skin

Narcissistic to the nth degree!

It doesn't matter because I'm never going back to Twittex

“Unregretted user seconds”? So masturbation doesn’t count?

He sounds more & more irrelevant