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It happened: April 25, 2022 will go down in the history of the tech world as the day when the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk was made official. The news came three weeks after the richest man in the world became owner of 9,2% of all shares, but before that he had already disclosed what he would do if he became the owner of the social network. 2h6z5k
O showmetech gathered all the ideas already posted by the billionaire on his official profile and now, we can use that famous phrase: “the sky is the limit”. Check out what the changes might be on Twitter right now.
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About a month before the Twitter purchase was made official, Elon Musk made a series of posts citing that freedom of expression within the social network should be greater. The change suggestion was justified by the view that “Twitter serves as a public square”.
It is not yet clear how changes to content moderation will be made (and if they will actually take place) by Elon Musk, but market experts point out that the social network can lose rs who do not feel safe in an environment without moderation.
Such a phenomenon would be similar to what companies like Nike, Coca-Cola e Unilever did in 2020 with the Facebook, when they stopped investing in ads as a way to draw attention to Mark Zuckerberg's social network to act to reduce hate speech.
O Twitter it is not a social network that generates a lot of profit for its shareholders, but it has everything to become more profitable. Between 2021 and 2022, the bluebird website made $1,41 billion in ad revenue alone, up 22,3% year-on-year. However, there was a net income of US$181,6 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, which indicates a decrease of 18,2% compared to the same period in 2020.
If the social network becomes an environment where everything can be posted without moderation, the great concern of activists is that serious issues and populations formed by minorities will be ridiculed by conservatives, who can justify hate attacks as a form of expression. On a TED Talk this month, Musk announced that he prefers a temporary ban and content deletion over a permanent profile lock.
The purchase of Twitter was defined as a new moment for the social network and yesterday, through his profile, the billionaire announced that he has a desire to make Twitter better than ever”, through new implementations.
Combating Cryptocurrency Scams 3l6p1x
Although cryptocurrencies are useful on several occasions, they are also used for the application of scams. Elon Musk showed interest in creating solutions to end these problems in a tweet posted on his on January 21 of this year, when the social network allowed the use of NFTs as a profile picture for Twitter Blue subscribers.
In January 2022, Musk tweeted that “Is Twitter wasting engineering resources while crypto scammers are touting a big party of spambots in every thread?”.
This desire for change has an explanation: the very Musk has already been a victim of scams in which people impersonate him to apply cryptocurrency scams on those who did not have so much knowledge about the subject. The year 2020 was also marked by the moment when Elon's was hacked and, of course, used to generate income for hackers.
Once again, it is still unclear how such a change would be made on the social network to avoid these problems, but this should be an issue that should be addressed soon as a major change on Twitter.
Human authentication to avoid scams 1n1z3w
It is very common for fans and even journalists to create other s and start managing them to do a more professional job instead of posting content on their personal profiles. At the same time, this opens the door for people to also create anonymous s just to attack minorities and even carry out scams.
Four days ago, before the Twitter purchase was made official, Musk tweeted that if his attempt succeeded, "he would fight spam bots or die trying." In addition, he also announced that human authentication would be one of his implementations, although he did not make it clear how this would be done.
Facial recognition — through sending a photo holding a document — is likely to be needed, but it's also unclear how it would be done. An open question is what would happen to pages managed by companies, which have several employees working at the same time to meet demand.
Twitter purchase may bring edit button a4j4s
April Fools' Day 2022 on the blue bird's social network was marked by a joke that was later announced as a future feature. The official of Twitter announced that the edit tweets button would be available soon, despite the distaste of many s.
In the same week, Musk posted a poll and 73,6% of the 4 million participants responded that they find the edit button in the Twitter a very interesting future feature.
These two moments, now with the social network having a new owner, could be an indication that the big change in Twitter finally happens. Many people thought that such a novelty would only be available to subscribers of the TwitterBlue, a benefits package that is not available in Brazil and costs US$3,00 (R$14,88 in direct conversion). But that hasn't happened yet.
The main reason that a large portion of s are against this implementation is that a person can edit a post and change the entire context for those who have liked, retweeted or replied to some content. An alternative would be editing during just the initial 5-10 minutes a tweet is live, but here, we have more questions than answers.
Social network may be open source 284w6b
Sites like Instagram, Facebok e WhatsApp are not in the habit of disclosing their algorithm and especially how their code works. Another possible change in the Twitter is that the social network can become open source so that literally all s know how the site works and what can be improved.
The will to implement this was announced by Elon on his Twitter on March 24 this year and important was given to the billionaire: Jack Dorsey, founder and former CEO of Twitter, quoted Musk's tweet and said that “The choice of which algorithm to use (or not) should be open to everyone”.
Musk has the wish that the open source of the Twitter be posted on Github so that people can look for bugs and suggest changes, so that all s know if a post has been promoted or has been reduced in reach by the algorithm.
Last week, the social network Mastodon saw its number of hits grow due to being exactly what the billionaire mentioned: an open source social network. But Mastodon it is also more than that, as all the management work is done by the s themselves and there is no digital advertising, with the income coming from companies that invest in cryptocurrencies, NFTs and VPNs.
Despite the look that recalls the first versions of Twitter, Mastodon organizes posts by communities on the most diverse subjects and until last week, it had more than 4,4 million s. Content in Portuguese is still quite scarce and the network is far from what Twitter is today, but the alternative exists.
What the experts say 3y1q5e
Although s do not find the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk an action that can bring benefits, experts point out that the action can be beneficial in the long run. That's because Musk may be the missing factor for new products, solutions and functionalities to be implemented in the Twitter. There is a chance that the billionaire will make the company even more profitable by taking it off the New York Stock Exchange.
A purchase of Twitter, which was made official yesterday for R$ 214 billion, can also be good for shareholders, since Musk is practically repaying the damage that the social network may have caused its investors. the owner of Tesla could be essential for the bad image of Twitter to be reversed, since the acquisition allows internal maneuvers to be carried out to renew the management of the social network.
Experts point out that if all the changes announced by Musk are actually implemented, competitors will need to act so they don't fall behind. That's because the Twitter could finally be giving s what they've always wanted, sparking a "big change in the social media industry".
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