Here’s A Couple Of New Reasons To Dump Twitter ASAP
If you’re one of the few people left on Twitter, you might have noticed that a pop up informing you of a change to the Twitter terms of service is happening.
Now I encourage you to read their blog post on this here. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. For that you have to go to the actual terms of service and scroll down to the section called “Your Rights and Grant of Rights in the Content” you will see this:
The key part of this paragraph is here:
In short, if you post content to Twitter, Elon gets to use it to train his AI models. I’ve read this a few times, along with looking at the Twitter app and it doesn’t seem that there is any way that you can opt out of this. Though I am free to be proven wrong about this via posting a comment below showing me where you can opt out of this. But assuming that I am right about this, this is really inexcusable and Elon has really crossed the line here.
But that’s not all. If you continue to read these terms of service, you’ll also see this.
If you view more than 1 million posts, which includes replies, within 24 hours, you will be charged $15,000 USD per 1 million posts. No human could actually do that. Thus one plausible explanation is that this is there to stop organizations from scraping his site using automated tools. For example organizations that are looking at Twitter to see how racist, homophobic, or whatever else that dumpster fire of a site has become. I say that because this sounds sort of like Elon charging for Twitter API access, and these sorts of organizations finding ways around that. Another plausible explanation is that it would stop people like me from embedding Tweets in their stories. Particularly big news organizations that gets millions of views on something they post so that Elon either gets paid, or he can hid the bad behaviour that is pretty pervasive on Twitter these days. If you have other possible explanations for this, please post them in the comments below.
It wouldn’t surprise me if this drives more signups on platforms like Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon once word of the changes to Twitter’s terms of service start to circulate. Because this is the sort of stuff that upsets people and drives them away. Which if a problem if you’re Elon and you desperately need eyeballs on Twitter to sell advertising. I wonder how he’s going to square that circle?
The new terms of service go into effect on November 15th. But you’re going to see the backlash happen way before then.
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Here’s A Couple Of New Reasons To Dump Twitter ASAP
If you’re one of the few people left on Twitter, you might have noticed that a pop up informing you of a change to the Twitter terms of service is happening.
Now I encourage you to read their blog post on this here. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. For that you have to go to the actual terms of service and scroll down to the section called “Your Rights and Grant of Rights in the Content” you will see this:
The key part of this paragraph is here:
In short, if you post content to Twitter, Elon gets to use it to train his AI models. I’ve read this a few times, along with looking at the Twitter app and it doesn’t seem that there is any way that you can opt out of this. Though I am free to be proven wrong about this via posting a comment below showing me where you can opt out of this. But assuming that I am right about this, this is really inexcusable and Elon has really crossed the line here.
But that’s not all. If you continue to read these terms of service, you’ll also see this.
If you view more than 1 million posts, which includes replies, within 24 hours, you will be charged $15,000 USD per 1 million posts. No human could actually do that. Thus one plausible explanation is that this is there to stop organizations from scraping his site using automated tools. For example organizations that are looking at Twitter to see how racist, homophobic, or whatever else that dumpster fire of a site has become. I say that because this sounds sort of like Elon charging for Twitter API access, and these sorts of organizations finding ways around that. Another plausible explanation is that it would stop people like me from embedding Tweets in their stories. Particularly big news organizations that gets millions of views on something they post so that Elon either gets paid, or he can hid the bad behaviour that is pretty pervasive on Twitter these days. If you have other possible explanations for this, please post them in the comments below.
It wouldn’t surprise me if this drives more signups on platforms like Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon once word of the changes to Twitter’s terms of service start to circulate. Because this is the sort of stuff that upsets people and drives them away. Which if a problem if you’re Elon and you desperately need eyeballs on Twitter to sell advertising. I wonder how he’s going to square that circle?
The new terms of service go into effect on November 15th. But you’re going to see the backlash happen way before then.
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This entry was posted on October 17, 2024 at 8:57 am and is filed under Commentary with tags Twitter. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.