• Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOPM
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        3 months ago

        who was playing him and why?

        Though he’s probably never heard of this schmuck, the answer is Elon Musk & for money.

    • TammyTobacco@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      He was an influencer. The more clicks he got the more Twitter/ads would give him a cut.

      He was purely inciting violence to make some money.

  • waz@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Wayne O’Rourke, who had more than 90,000 followers to his X account…

    I don’t know why, but I’m strangely disappointed that people have stopped writing “X, formerly Twitter” and now trust that people know Twitter as X without the added clarification.

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      3 months ago

      Meanwhile i couldnt care less if it was x, twatter, facefuck or tuktuk. “Social media” for all of them would be just fine.

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      3 months ago

      Don’t worry, with the way Elon is driving the company into the ground, XTwitter won’t be a company or a service much longer. It may have another year of life left, maybe two.