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Feb 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
While it’s perhaps fun to dunk on #TruthSocial, the new Twitter clone from Trump for sign up glitches, it’s not uncommon for there to be tech jams when there is a lot of interest in an app. But I’m still signing up with my burner phone initially as I did with TikTok, because …
1. Possible security issues. 2. Possible privacy issues 3. Annoying marketing issues and 4. Anything this cloaked in secrecy (techies who are running it do not ID themselves?) gives me the willies.
Will be interesting to see how long the waitlist lasts, which is a either a marketing feint or a sign of tech incompetence. Either way with all Trump products so far, buyer beware.
Oh and I would be nervous to give up too much info and any credit info. Again:
Btw one would assume Apple, at least, did extensive look-see at the app and is monitoring it.

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@PalmerLuckey @GrapefruitGals @stevewoz The first “receipt” was a link to a verge roundup including a daily beast story in which you were directly quoted about funding “shitposters,” so there was zip wrong with me retweeting it and asking if this is where your $ went to. Hardly controversial: thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-…
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Oct 29, 2021
And they asked such tough questions like: Cool skeleton avatar, dude! When can I get one?
When I got to Silicon Valley, I was struck by the dudefest tone of reporting in which reporters (all male) ran after gadgets thrown by the tech moguls with the enthusiasm of dogs chasing tennis balls at the park. Some things never change.
This VR stuff might be cool, but it’s kind of besides the point in our currently stressed real world where there is also a pretty significant dumpster fire going on that seems invisible to some.
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Oct 4, 2021
This is from 2018, which is when FB stopped engaging with me after more than a decade of reporting. They deserved every word, none of which was meant to be mean. It was a plea for them to change: nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opi…
“The arms race metaphor is a good one, but not for the reasons Facebook intended. Here’s how I see it: Facebook, as well as Twitter and Google’s YouTube, have become the digital arms dealers of the modern age. All these companies began with a gauzy credo to change the world.”
But they have done that in ways they did not imagine — by weaponizing pretty much everything that could be weaponized. They have mutated human communication, so that connecting people has too often become about pitting them against one another …
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Oct 4, 2021
Again ⁦@nickclegg⁩ is making a false assertion that few do, which is that Facebook is responsible for Jan. 6: “The responsibility for the violence on Jan. 6 & the insurrection on that day lies squarely with the people who inflicted the violence … washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
… and those who encouraged them, including then-President Trump and candidly many other people in the media who were encouraging the assertion that the election was stolen.” Yes, Trump and the rioters, as well as Fox News, are all also responsible. Oh yeah, humanity sucks too.
But Facebook and it’s sloppy management and obsession with growth needs to belly up to the bar and admit its own culpability — as do many in tech — in all this. As I wrote in 2018x they have amplified, weaponized and then largely fake apologized.
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Oct 3, 2021
Clever Clegg, but no one thinks FB is the PRIMARY cause, tho size creates an amplifier of unprecedented power: “What evidence there is simply does not support the idea that Facebook, or social media more generally, is the primary cause of polarization.” nytimes.com/2021/10/02/tec…
These verbal gymnastics illuminate nothing, which is why I would love to have @nickclegg on for a substantive full hour discussion on Sway at this important moment. Unfortunately, we get persistent declines from FB, even as they book on press with less experience in this arena.
Come on, Nick!! If you can convince me, you’d benefit. You would only not come on if you thought you had a losing argument. Here are some folks who somehow survived me this week.
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My tips for a former President who wants to start a social network! You’re welcome, Donald! First, naming: Avoid MeinSpace and InstaGraft, for obvious reasons nytimes.com/2021/03/25/opi…
Also learn to love Section 230 and your fellow tech moguls. Yes, even Jeff Bezos. Hug it out.
Also, you should think about having a fresh kombucha station at HQ.
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