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Less than three weeks after using Twitter to incite violence, UK 'keyboard warrior' is jailed (www.bbc.com)
submitted 2 months ago by DougHolland@lemmy.world to c/aiop@lemmy.world
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[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

He received 1400 a month in payments for his account.. from whom?

[-] Kushan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah talk about burying the lede, who was playing him and why?

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

User get paid out based on their engagememt

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

who was playing him and why?

Though he's probably never heard of this schmuck, the answer is Elon Musk & for money.

[-] TammyTobacco@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

He was an influencer. The more clicks he got the more Twitter/ads would give him a cut.

He was purely inciting violence to make some money.

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

He's 35?! Hate really does age you

[-] waz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Wayne O’Rourke, who had more than 90,000 followers to his X account...

I don't know why, but I'm strangely disappointed that people have stopped writing "X, formerly Twitter" and now trust that people know Twitter as X without the added clarification.

[-] 0x0@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile i couldnt care less if it was x, twatter, facefuck or tuktuk. "Social media" for all of them would be just fine.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I'm still reading "X" as a porn site

[-] Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Don't worry, with the way Elon is driving the company into the ground, XTwitter won't be a company or a service much longer. It may have another year of life left, maybe two.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Disappointed? I see it as a win, it's twitter.

[-] thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

aaaah.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Thst dude needs a hobby.

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