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Elon Musk to remove 1.5 billion Twitter accounts · Elon Musk Podcast

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  When Elon Musk, but Twitter, 445 billion dollars, he had some
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  ideas of what the plum could become.
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  But before he added anything, he thought it was a good idea to do
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  a little bit of housekeeping. And months before he bought
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  Twitter, he was complaining on Twitter about the Bots situation
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  on the platform. What happens when you have an
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  overwhelming audience of bots as opposed to normal people, the
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  normal people will get drowned out by things that don't
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  actually exist or people that are trying to scam you out of
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  crypto or people that are promoting something.
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  Every single one of elon's tweets that he posted.
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  Immediately had a crypto scammer.
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  Pretty much with the same profile as Ilan elon's name
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  similar. Look similar feel to Ilan as the
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  first comment in what they would do is they would say hey if you
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  send us .25 Bitcoin we will send you five Bitcoin.
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  Something like that typical scam.
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  It's the Nigerian prince thing. You know, you have to send us
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  five thousand dollars in order for us to unlock two million
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  dollars in your bank account, and Ilan was getting fed up with
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  it. So when he took over Twitter,
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  one of the first thing that he said he was going to do is
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  delete the Bots, you know? But first there is another thing
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  that he has to get to. That's the old users on the
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  perm. People that don't use their
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  accounts, any basically dead usernames.
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  So Eli. Elon Musk will be removing 1.5
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  billion usernames from Twitter in the coming weeks as well as
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  adding a new feature. And this is an important step
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  for Twitter because those 1.5 billion users aren't actual
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  people. And this is why it's important,
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  those accounts, they may count towards advising.
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  If you can say, you have X amount of billions of users,
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  that the product could reach some advisors Say yeah, that
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  sounds like a great idea. If you inflate, those numbers by
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  1.5 billion used because those users are on the platform but
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  they're not actually active. They have been active in years,
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  then, of course. Elon says that's not right?
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  That's not fair. It doesn't seem like the right
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  thing to do to hold these accounts in the platform and
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  also talking to advertisers telling the amount of people
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  that are on the planet. It's a lie.
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  You know, that's what he's feeling at this point.
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  Point so 1.5 inactive billion users will be deleted from
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  Twitter. Those accounts will be freed up,
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  so those usernames will be available.
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  He also said that he would add a feature that would allow Twitter
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  users to see the number of people that read or wracked with
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  their tweets. If you see a number of people
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  that interact with your tweets, a few, you know, somebody gives
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  you a heart. That's great.
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  How many people see all those stats.
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  Not many at this. Point.
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  But if you can see how many people are you read to your
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  Tweet, that's great. You have some statistics.
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  You have some numbers to go by to see what actually works on
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  the platform. In these kind of Statistics have
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  been available on platforms like YouTube and also podcast
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  platforms, things like that for a very long time.
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  And those kind of metrics are important to sort of shift your
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  focus to your audience because even though you may have a
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  voice, your odds might not be okay with some of the The things
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  that you say they might not be into some of the things that you
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  say I should actually clarify there, so they might not be into
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  it. So, say if say, if I'm talking
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  about cyber truck, cyber trucks were really cool.
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  It's one of the coolest things that I've ever seen, but some of
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  my users, some of the people that listen, some of you out
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  there may not, like, cyber truck and I have to see what kind of
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  Statistics are in the back end to see if actually somebody
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  wants to listen to the episode, I don't know.
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  Who knows what's going to happen with side?
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  Truck in the next six months. Well, if I make a podcast about
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  it, some people might love it but some people might not and I
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  have to see those numbers in order to kind of grow the
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  podcast and grow the platform. So that's what elon's doing with
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  Twitter and it comes back to free speech.
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  What's available are these people real?
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  Do you want to lie to your advertisers?
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  Because I mean hundreds of millions of dollars per month or
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  per year from Apple, you don't want a light Apple.
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  You don't want to lie to Tim Cook about the Amount of users
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  that are on your platform, that's just weird.
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  Ilan tweeted tweets will show view counts in a few weeks just
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  like videos. Do Twitter is much more alive
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  than people think, because think about it when you tweet
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  something, it seems like it's just a static thing.
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  You don't really get all the backend stuff that's going on.
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  You just get to see your Tweet and then who comments and then
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  maybe you can comment on those comments retweets.
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  You get those kind of things or shares, you get those kind of
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  stats, but you don't really get to see how many people have
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  actually viewed your Tweet. Because Could have a million
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  views on your Tweet and that's important because then you can
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  use the platform as a way to earn money.
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  So this is where elon's going with this, right?
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  The YouTube have share profile. The model That You Tube is used
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  is amazing. So say if you get a 70/30 cut,
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  right? So say if you have a million
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  viewers on your Tweet, that's great.
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  You know if you have a million people that watch and see every
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  one of your tweets, that's Great.
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  Because then you can leverage that and say, okay, hey geysers
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  why don't you put an ad as the first tweet, maybe a pinned
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  tweet under my tweet, the first comment is a pinned
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  advertisement or something like that.
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  I'm not sure. I'm just making up ideas here
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  and I thought about this a few little bit, but how could you
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  get a involved? You could do a sponsored post,
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  pretty simple. But you have to have the numbers
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  in order to do that because if you, if you post something and
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  you get a bunch of replies and you get a bunch of people.
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  Retweeting it that's great but you don't know how many people
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  actually saw your post, how many eyeballs have been on your post
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  and Ilan is stripping away, all the Bots and all of the users
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  that don't exist. So those eyeballs that leave
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  you, your post will be real people and not some scamming
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  Bots that are trying to sell you something on their own.
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  So Ilan said, December 9th, 2022, Twitter will soon start.
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  Freeing the namespace of Of 1.5 billion accounts.
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  These are obvious account, deletions with no tweets and no
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  login for years. So if they're not even active,
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  there's no reason to keep them around.
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  Right? People are just sitting as it's
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  kind of, like, the domain squatters, if you get a domain
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  name, say, if you know, you get a domain that somebody wants but
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  you sit on it for 15 years and the wealth that you can learn
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  from that could be astounding, you could sell it for millions
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  of dollars in the future, that's what people did in.
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  Dot-com early days, they just bought the domains of hundreds,
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  thousands of domains, so they could resell them.
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  And that's they still do. That's a huge market and that's
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  what people say or maybe have done with some of these
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  accounts. So there's a lot of people that
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  just signed up and then they're like, well, I don't even like
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  Twitter, I don't know why I have a Twitter account or they don't
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  know how to use the platform or they didn't really get into it.
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  come into place. Now you some of the, some of the
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  moves are being made, Ilan, gutted the company.
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  Absolutely gutted the company half the people are gone now,
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  very slim lined company at this point and also Ilan wants people
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  to work like crazy. He wants people to have startup
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  hours because this is essentially Brand new company
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  under Elon Musk. So the changes come as musk is
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  moving the company away from at and which is regulating the
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  speech of its users for political violence or otherwise
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  it toward a free exchange of ideas in the future.
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  So you wants the people to be able to talk about whatever they
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  want to talk about. But he also wants them to have a
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  reason to do that because right now, what can you what can you
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  really sell on Twitter in? Most people are motivated,
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  motivated by money and And so if you have millions of followers,
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  that's great, but what kind of power do you have on Twitter?
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  If you have millions of views on your Tweet and that really much
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  at this point, like yeah. I mean I mean you do, you do
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  have a voice but how can you leverage that into something
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  where you can monetize it? That's what he loves going for,
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  right? So there's you know there's a
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  few things going on there and Elon is working hard to humanize
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  Twitter at this point you know there's internal diamonds being
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  leaked and we're going to get into that in another podcast
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  because there's a Lot going on with that.
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  So I have to prepare for them, Ilan suspended users and reduced
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  an account of a bunch of these posts accounts with bunch of
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  these weird post going on. It's a it's a really weird time
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  for Twitter but I believe Ilan has the best interest of the
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  user base in mind and elon's been releasing the Twitter files
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  and it is it's coming lewd on Twitter right now.
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  People are going crazy for these things.
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  So what have a little bit more information about that in the
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  future in the next episode. But I want to touch on this
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  first because this is the sort of the work for the future of a
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  Twitter. So thanks for listening.
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  button on your podcast platform. I appreciate your time, I'll see
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  you next time. Take care.