The new trial, beginning in New Zealand and Philippines, is to combat bots and spammers, says X.
    • Skies5394@lemmy.mlEnglish
      14·
      2 years ago

      Part of me is kind of glad musk is drowning in this pet project. It means hopefully it will keep him and his fucking ego from fucking something up until it actually goes under.

    • ripcord@kbin.social
      7·
      2 years ago

      It won’t. It’s far too valuable just for those purposes.

      I’d be amazed if it wasn’t getting dark money contributions to help it stay afloat. And Elon can always sell more Tesla stock.

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    2 years ago

    Shame they aren’t piloting in the US, now they’ll probably figure out what a colossal mistake it is before it wrecks their company.

  • Fisk400@feddit.nuEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    I wonder what those specific countries did to Elon. My experience is that most of his decisions are spite based.

    • lenathaw@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17·
      2 years ago

      NZ is usually used as a Guinea pig by tech companies, small population, English speaking, etc.

      However I think it might be that the Alll Blacks might face off the Springboks in the Rugby World Cup Final and Elon wants to minimise the shitposting on Twitter. /s

    • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s very specific, isn’t it. Have you considered he may have just thrown three darts at a wall-sized map of the world?

  • Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    So Elon is basically like the “public agent”guy but instead of raising offer, he lowers the demand.

  • r00ty@kbin.life
    5·
    2 years ago

    Hahahahahaha. I never had a twitter account when it was free and not run by that sociopathic representation of the dunning kruger effect. I can’t imagine I’ll suddenly decide to pay money to get one.

  • Raxiel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Smart! Now he only needs every person in those countries to sign up and he’ll have have made his 44 billion back in… About 360 years!

  • Pyr@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    So many people wouldn’t bother just because they don’t want their credit card info In their hands, even if it’s only a dollar.