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[[File:Musk and Rubin.jpg|thumb|NYT bought its Twitter followers to fake influence]]

[[File:Musk and Rubin.jpg|thumb|NYT bought its Twitter followers to fake influence]]

'''Twitter, Inc.''' is a [[Big Tech]] social networking tool, acquired by [[Elon Musk]] on October 27, 2022, after years of [[liberal censorship]] by [[Leftists]] in [[San Francisco]] ([[Twitter#Sale to Elon Musk|see below]]).  Musk immediately fired its top management, and is expected to fire much of its [[liberal]] workforce too.  Musk suspects that he was lied to by underestimates of the number of sham accounts.

'''Twitter, Inc.''' is a [[Big Tech]] social networking tool, acquired by [[Elon Musk]] on October 27, 2022, after years of [[liberal censorship]] by [[Leftists]] in [[San Francisco]] ([[Twitter#Sale to Elon Musk|see below]]).  Musk immediately fired its top management, and is expected to fire much of its [[liberal]] workforce too.  Musk suspects that he was lied to by underestimates of the number of sham accounts.

Twitter was founded in 2006<ref>https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854</ref> and emerged as a new medium of online [[news]] distribution that became infested by [[troll]]s and fake accounts. The claimed numbers of followers of [[liberal]] figures on it are falsely inflated, such that one audit in 2022 concluded that nearly half of [[Joe Biden]]’s Twitter followers are fake.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/18/audit-reveals-almost-half-of-joe-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake/</ref>

Twitter was founded in 2006<ref>https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854</ref> and emerged as a new medium of online [[news]] distribution that became infested by [[troll]]s and fake accounts. The claimed numbers of followers of [[liberal]] figures on it are falsely inflated, such that one audit in 2022 concluded that nearly half of [[Joe Biden]]’s Twitter followers are fake.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/18/audit-reveals-almost-half-of-joe-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake/</ref>

As a free microblogging [[website]], Twitter users can submit messages containing 140 characters or less to their followers, was co-founded by [[Jack Dorsey]] and Evan Williams. ''Twitter'' is a privately funded startup established by Obvious.com in [[San Francisco]], on March 21, 2006.<ref>[http://mashable.com/2009/03/21/happy-birthday-twitter/ Happy Birthday Twitter!] Mashable</ref><ref>[http://cellphones.about.com/od/textmessaging/a/twittertexting.htm Twitter: Free Microblogging Service Perhaps the Perfect Mobile Blogging Tool, About.com, August 16, 2008]</ref>  Under liberal control, official Twitter policy was supportive of anarcho-Marxism, was intolerant of dissidence (see [[liberal censorship]]), and lacked diversity of opinion. As of mid-2020 Twitter has enjoyed [[Section 230]] immunity from prosecution for its election interference and other abuses, as well as [[monopoly]] control. There has been widespread discontent over Twitter's abuses of the public trust under its previous liberal ownership.  It has been characterized as the "Wuhan wet market of ideas."<ref>https://youtu.be/DdYwUdRukV4</ref> Dorsey eventually resigned from running the site, although his replacement was even more radical than him. Dorsey's successor clearly stated that he was against the First Amendment and against freedom of speech.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaJvT1c4XGE Parag Agrawal, Twitter's CEO, is SICK of All These Uncensored Opinions! | Louder With Crowder]</ref>

As a free microblogging [[website]], Twitter users can submit messages containing 140 characters or less to their followers, was co-founded by [[Jack Dorsey]] and Evan Williams. ''Twitter'' is a privately funded startup established by Obvious.com in [[San Francisco]], on March 21, 2006.<ref>[http://mashable.com/2009/03/21/happy-birthday-twitter/ Happy Birthday Twitter!] Mashable</ref><ref>[http://cellphones.about.com/od/textmessaging/a/twittertexting.htm Twitter: Free Microblogging Service Perhaps the Perfect Mobile Blogging Tool, About.com, August 16, 2008]</ref>  Under liberal control, official Twitter policy was supportive of anarcho-Marxism, was intolerant of dissidence (see [[liberal censorship]]), and lacked diversity of opinion. As of mid-2020 Twitter has enjoyed [[Section 230]] immunity from prosecution for its election interference and other abuses, as well as [[monopoly]] control. There has been widespread discontent over Twitter's abuses of the public trust under its previous liberal ownership.  It has been characterized as the "Wuhan wet market of ideas."<ref>https://youtu.be/DdYwUdRukV4</ref>

In 2022, entrepreneur/free speech advocate [[Elon Musk]] attempted to salvage the project which still has a reported liquidating value of $43 billion.

In 2022, entrepreneur/free speech advocate [[Elon Musk]] attempted to salvage the project which still had a reported liquidating value of $44 billion.

==Usage==

==Usage==

Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia published a landmark paper on August 20, 2022 on the activities of bot accounts on [[Twitter]] related to the conflict in Ukraine. The Australian findings were staggering – of 5.2 million tweets on the [[social media]] network from February 23 to March 8, 2022 at the outbreak of the conflict, between 60 to 80% were shared by fake accounts.<ref>https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.07038.pdf</ref>

Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia published a landmark paper on August 20, 2022 on the activities of bot accounts on [[Twitter]] related to the conflict in Ukraine. The Australian findings were staggering – of 5.2 million tweets on the [[social media]] network from February 23 to March 8, 2022 at the outbreak of the conflict, between 60 to 80% were shared by fake accounts.<ref>https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.07038.pdf</ref>

==The Jack Dorsey years==

==The Dorsey/Parag dark ages==

[[File:Jack Dorsey Taliban.PNG|right|200px|thumb|Jack Dorsey refused to ban the [[Taliban]] terrorist organization from Twitter.]]

[[File:Jack Dorsey Taliban.PNG|right|200px|thumb|Jack Dorsey refused to ban the [[Taliban]] terrorist organization from Twitter.]]

Dick Costolo became CEO in 2010.  He was formerly a [[Google]] executive.<ref name=wsj>{{cite news|title=Beyond Tech Geeks and Narcisssists: Twitter Aims to Boost Site's Utility|work=Wall Street Journal|first=Shira|last=Ovide|date=July 24, 2012|page=B1}}</ref>

Dick Costolo became CEO in 2010.  He was formerly a [[Google]] executive.<ref name=wsj>{{cite news|title=Beyond Tech Geeks and Narcisssists: Twitter Aims to Boost Site's Utility|work=Wall Street Journal|first=Shira|last=Ovide|date=July 24, 2012|page=B1}}</ref>

===Loss of immunity in India===

===Loss of immunity in India===

Twitter lost its immunity as an intermediary in [[India]] and became exposed to legal liability for any content published on its platform in June 2021.<ref>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/twitter-loses-legal-shield-in-india-for-3rd-party-content/articleshow/83556056.cms</ref>  Twitter's snubbing of Indian law has been described as "neo-colonialist."

Twitter lost its immunity as an intermediary in [[India]] and became exposed to legal liability for any content published on its platform in June 2021.<ref>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/twitter-loses-legal-shield-in-india-for-3rd-party-content/articleshow/83556056.cms</ref>  Twitter's snubbing of Indian law has been described as "neo-colonialist."

== See also ==

== See also ==