The Golden One - I Was Wrong About Twitter

00:00:00.000 Greetings Laddingtons. This is me checking in. Quick video. I just wanted to say that I was

00:00:14.300 wrong about a year ago when I made a video titled The Decline and Fall of Twitter. Obviously a play

00:00:21.660 on Edward Gibbon's work The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Now I didn't foresee Elon Musk

00:00:29.440 coming in to rescue the whole operation. Earlier this year I made a video where I was cautiously

00:00:36.580 optimistic about the purchase and then when he actually bought Twitter I was still a bit cautious

00:00:43.020 in proclaiming it as a victory for freedom of speech. But now I can only say that he has stuck

00:00:51.020 to his principles of freedom of speech and I can only salute him for it. So Elon Musk if you happen

00:00:56.980 to see this I salute you. Now of course when we're talking about freedom of speech I also

00:01:02.940 want to salute Andrew Torba of Gab who has been taking this fight for many years now and has

00:01:10.560 never backed down. So keep that in mind even though we have a revival of Twitter we shouldn't

00:01:18.300 forget the alt tech that has been with us either. So Gab still a good place to be and it isn't really

00:01:25.820 a competitor or alternative to Twitter but rather a competitor and alternative to Facebook. So Twitter

00:01:33.200 and Gab they aren't really similar at all if you think about it more similar to Facebook. Anyway that

00:01:39.260 is a different topic. Now on to the most interesting thing and this is a great white pill in my book at

00:01:46.100 least and that is as you see before you Elon Musk saying that he will make an alternative phone should

00:01:54.920 Apple and Google boot Twitter from their app stores. Now optimal scenario would actually be that they do

00:02:03.640 boot off Twitter and he makes a new phone. I would be first in line to buy such a phone. Right now I have

00:02:09.520 Samsung and Android and I'm not a fanboy of either Android or Apple so I would definitely buy a Tesla

00:02:19.100 phone would be cool and then can use Twitter from that phone. Perhaps even Gab would be allowed on

00:02:24.840 their app store. Who knows? Who knows? Very interesting timeline indeed we have entered and I would say that

00:02:32.800 this is a great victory for freedom of speech. And another white pill is that I have, I think at least,

00:02:40.620 I am now un-shadow banned on Twitter. There was a while there where I didn't have any reach at all but now

00:02:46.560 I've had a few posts that have gotten some more reach so it doesn't have quite the same feel. So I do believe

00:02:53.200 that a lot of shadow bans are over and of course many older accounts have been reinstated. I saw Sargon of Akkad is back.

00:03:01.380 Welcome back Sargon. Good to have you back. So yeah, good times, good times. And something else I would

00:03:08.520 say that Twitter actually for the first time, for as long as I can remember, is actually more fun than

00:03:14.880 Instagram. I've always thought Instagram is a more fun place to be, more higher vibe, more energy there.

00:03:21.980 But now actually Twitter, it feels like it has a certain vibe, a certain pulse that it feels fun again,

00:03:28.940 which it didn't a year ago, which of course is natural when you have a group of left-wing extremists

00:03:34.400 sitting at the Twitter office to censor people for even being a sensible centrist, to use that

00:03:42.660 terminology. So anyway, I just want to say that I was wrong. I couldn't have predicted that Elon Musk

00:03:49.200 would come in to make Twitter great again. It's too early to say what will happen with Twitter.

00:03:54.880 Maybe it will be, you know, go in a completely different direction. Maybe he won't uphold

00:04:00.340 freedom of speech. I have no idea. I'm just saying, at the moment, it feels like a good place to be and I

00:04:05.380 have started to be a bit more active there. As a result, it does feel more fun. So do check out all the

00:04:11.440 links in the description box below. Do, of course, follow me on Twitter. And yeah, thank you for watching.

00:04:18.160 Phil's absolutely great, mate. XOXO BOOM!

The Golden One - November 27, 2022