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Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History
From New York Times bestselling author Ben the book Elon Musk doesn’t want you to read.
BREAKING TWITTER takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time—Elon Musk—and the company that represents our culture’s dearest hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the mission-driven team Musk surrounded himself with, this is the full story from all sides. Can Musk miraculously succeed or will he spectacularly fail? What will that mean to the global town hall that is Twitter? What, really, is Elon’s end goal? The whole world is watching. BREAKING TWITTER will provide ringside seats.
Elon Musk didn't break Twitter. Twitter broke Elon Musk.
BREAKING TWITTER takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time—Elon Musk—and the company that represents our culture’s dearest hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the mission-driven team Musk surrounded himself with, this is the full story from all sides. Can Musk miraculously succeed or will he spectacularly fail? What will that mean to the global town hall that is Twitter? What, really, is Elon’s end goal? The whole world is watching. BREAKING TWITTER will provide ringside seats.
Elon Musk didn't break Twitter. Twitter broke Elon Musk.
337 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 7, 2023
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Ben Mezrich
55 books1,456 followersBen Mezrich has created his own highly addictive genre of nonfiction, chronicling the amazing stories of young geniuses making tons of money on the edge of impossibility, ethics, and morality.
With his newest non-fiction book, Once Upon a Time in Russia, Mezrich tells his most incredible story yet: A true drama of obscene wealth, crime, rivalry, and betrayal from deep inside the world of billionaire Russian Oligarchs.
Mezrich has authored sixteen books, with a combined printing of over four million copies, including the wildly successful Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, which spent sixty-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and sold over 2 million copies in fifteen languages. His book, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal – debuted at #4 on the New York Times list and spent 18 weeks in hardcover and paperback, as well as hit bestseller lists in over a dozen countries. The book was adapted into the movie The Social Network –written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher – and was #1 at the box office for two weeks, won Golden Globes for best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay, best score, and was nominated for 8 Oscars, winning 3 including best Adapted Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin. Mezrich and Aaron Sorkin shared a prestigious Scripter Award for best adapted screenplay as well.
With his newest non-fiction book, Once Upon a Time in Russia, Mezrich tells his most incredible story yet: A true drama of obscene wealth, crime, rivalry, and betrayal from deep inside the world of billionaire Russian Oligarchs.
Mezrich has authored sixteen books, with a combined printing of over four million copies, including the wildly successful Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, which spent sixty-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and sold over 2 million copies in fifteen languages. His book, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal – debuted at #4 on the New York Times list and spent 18 weeks in hardcover and paperback, as well as hit bestseller lists in over a dozen countries. The book was adapted into the movie The Social Network –written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher – and was #1 at the box office for two weeks, won Golden Globes for best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay, best score, and was nominated for 8 Oscars, winning 3 including best Adapted Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin. Mezrich and Aaron Sorkin shared a prestigious Scripter Award for best adapted screenplay as well.
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April 27, 2024
Grab a front row seat, buckle in tightly, and experience the ride of a lifetime! Ben Mezrich takes the reader deep inside of Twitter with several key leaders’ experiences and points of view regarding Elon Musk’s role as CEO of Twitter.
Most of us have experienced CEO changes, upper management changes, business strategy pivots, layoffs, restructurings, closing businesses, selling businesses, and decisions/policies regarding remote work. Breaking Twitter highlights primarily the first 90 days of Musk as CEO and much of it left me gasping.
There are many challenging topics that are addressed: free speech vs offensive, hate-filled rhetoric; Nancy Pelosi’s husband’s attack by an intruder and Musk’s tweet about it; massive layoffs via email vs Musk’s deep sense of betrayal when key people resign; and the safety of loved ones when personal data is available and shared.
Elon Musk is highly accomplished and shares similar traits as other incredibly successful leaders: drive, passion, vision, clarity, high expectations, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. When he joined Twitter, staffing was bloated and smoothie bars were more top-of-mind than pursuing excellence. Musk took draconian steps to try to change the culture immediately.
The key question at the end of the book is whether Elon Musk broke Twitter….or did Twitter break Elon Musk?
Highly, highly recommend.
Most of us have experienced CEO changes, upper management changes, business strategy pivots, layoffs, restructurings, closing businesses, selling businesses, and decisions/policies regarding remote work. Breaking Twitter highlights primarily the first 90 days of Musk as CEO and much of it left me gasping.
There are many challenging topics that are addressed: free speech vs offensive, hate-filled rhetoric; Nancy Pelosi’s husband’s attack by an intruder and Musk’s tweet about it; massive layoffs via email vs Musk’s deep sense of betrayal when key people resign; and the safety of loved ones when personal data is available and shared.
Elon Musk is highly accomplished and shares similar traits as other incredibly successful leaders: drive, passion, vision, clarity, high expectations, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. When he joined Twitter, staffing was bloated and smoothie bars were more top-of-mind than pursuing excellence. Musk took draconian steps to try to change the culture immediately.
The key question at the end of the book is whether Elon Musk broke Twitter….or did Twitter break Elon Musk?
Highly, highly recommend.
February 9, 2024
One too many “perhaps’s” for me.
The author has to rely on employee accounts, news reports and tweets as his sources which results in a superficial account of events and Musk. There is a lot of speculation and gap filling. “Perhaps Elon….felt/decided/thought…”permeate the accounts of events in this book, in relation to Musk taking over Twitter.
Having read Isaacson’s biography of Musk, I was keen to read more about the man. However, this is full of bias, poor segues in places and stilted writing. It is informative and employee accounts of events clearly depict Musk’s behaviours (as others have made remarkably similar comments) and decision making during the period covered (from their perspective).
A time-filling read, but not necessarily one that needs to be on the top of any lists.
The author has to rely on employee accounts, news reports and tweets as his sources which results in a superficial account of events and Musk. There is a lot of speculation and gap filling. “Perhaps Elon….felt/decided/thought…”permeate the accounts of events in this book, in relation to Musk taking over Twitter.
Having read Isaacson’s biography of Musk, I was keen to read more about the man. However, this is full of bias, poor segues in places and stilted writing. It is informative and employee accounts of events clearly depict Musk’s behaviours (as others have made remarkably similar comments) and decision making during the period covered (from their perspective).
A time-filling read, but not necessarily one that needs to be on the top of any lists.
November 16, 2023
This is such a page turner, and so wildly entertaining it's forcing me to write my first proper review on here. I'm giving it 5 stars even though the writing (which some might argue is the most important part of a book) is at times poor/annoying/too extravagant. But for entertainment value, I haven't read anything this fun in a good while.
It's a fun and good read about recent history that I knew most of, but seeing it written in a book gives it bigger scope and meaning. Some dark stuff in here. And Twitter is only getting worse by the day still!
It's a fun and good read about recent history that I knew most of, but seeing it written in a book gives it bigger scope and meaning. Some dark stuff in here. And Twitter is only getting worse by the day still!
July 9, 2024
Interesting read and audiobook. It's good to know more about the end of Twitter. This book talks about Elon Musk's willingness and unwillingness exchanges before, during, and after takeover and the Twitter employees fighting for their jobs. It also talks about the owners before Elon and the ex-CEO. It talks about employees working at all hours to keep Twitter afloat and the demanding of Elon's projects. This book mentioned the mass layoffs, sell off of Twitter furniture and decorations, and the tweets. Elon's tweets. Everyone's tweets. A strong focus on Esther, the employee who slept at work during the transition period to keep up with the demand of the new Twitter owner. Her pessimistic attitude was a bit annoying at times. It's interesting that she would want to tell Elon what to do. He paid so much money for Twitter, he should do as he pleases. There's the harassment on the employee who quit. I googled that he was the one who banned Trump.
I was familiar with the heated battle surrounding Twitter but didn't follow closely. This book gives a good glimpse into what went on at work for Elon and employees. Employees getting locked out of their work laptop as a way to know that they have been fired was interesting. I now know what is needed to build Twitter aka X... Engineers! I enjoyed the audiobook and I have since started posting more books on X.
Thank you Grandcentralpub for the opportunity to read and review. I listened to an audiobook via Hachette Audio and Libby App.
I was familiar with the heated battle surrounding Twitter but didn't follow closely. This book gives a good glimpse into what went on at work for Elon and employees. Employees getting locked out of their work laptop as a way to know that they have been fired was interesting. I now know what is needed to build Twitter aka X... Engineers! I enjoyed the audiobook and I have since started posting more books on X.
Thank you Grandcentralpub for the opportunity to read and review. I listened to an audiobook via Hachette Audio and Libby App.
November 17, 2023
This was disappointing. I read it as a follow up to the Isaacson biography.
I found it bitty, no flow in the narrative. Repeated images of phone messages etc., made it feel like it had been written in a hurry. The writing style was not engaging and it was hard to get a good picture of the various characters.
I’m sure a better account of the Twitter takeover will be written in time.
I found it bitty, no flow in the narrative. Repeated images of phone messages etc., made it feel like it had been written in a hurry. The writing style was not engaging and it was hard to get a good picture of the various characters.
I’m sure a better account of the Twitter takeover will be written in time.
December 2, 2023
Stinks.
August 28, 2024
After reading Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk bio, is this book necessary?
Ehhh not really.
“Breaking Twitter” goes into more detail about the social media platform’s history and “other side” stories that Isaacson doesn’t cover … but those items are either readily available on a Wikipedia page OR aren’t key to the broader understanding of how Musk took a broken company and (very) quickly made it a lot worse.
That said, there are some minor/armchair psychologist insights and observations about Musk as a business personality. For example, through SpaceX, Tesla and other ventures, he surrounded himself with highly dedicated, intense people who were aligned with his broader vision. When Musk took over Twitter, the building wasn’t exactly filled with acolytes who were down with licking his boots, no matter if they were as supposedly hardcore as the new Chief Twit. That the company became an extension of his polarizing personality, and that people no longer used the same glowing terms to describe him, made an apparently more-brittle-than-we-thought GeNiUs torpedo himself into one colossally short-sighted decision after another …
… at least, according to Ben Mezrich. He’s covered other phenomena such as the rise of Facebook, the GameStop short squeeze and MIT card counters who conquered Vegas. Like the latter book, at least, Mezrich admits at the start that “Breaking Twitter” is creative narrative nonfiction in which he employs reimagined dialogue and composite characters.
Which, to me, means this book isn’t really nonfiction. It’s glorified speculation informed by semi-secondary reporting, littered with overwrought descriptions and annoyingly repetitious references to “the billionaire.” Just say Elon or Musk, FFS.
Wrapping up this “creative narrative” before current X CEO Linda Yaccarino officially took over from Musk, Mezrich’s book is hardly a comprehensive story of the disastrous Twitter takeover.
So, for now, stick with Isaacson’s take and wait for credibility to arrive in a year or two when another author gives this story the proper treatment.
Ehhh not really.
“Breaking Twitter” goes into more detail about the social media platform’s history and “other side” stories that Isaacson doesn’t cover … but those items are either readily available on a Wikipedia page OR aren’t key to the broader understanding of how Musk took a broken company and (very) quickly made it a lot worse.
That said, there are some minor/armchair psychologist insights and observations about Musk as a business personality. For example, through SpaceX, Tesla and other ventures, he surrounded himself with highly dedicated, intense people who were aligned with his broader vision. When Musk took over Twitter, the building wasn’t exactly filled with acolytes who were down with licking his boots, no matter if they were as supposedly hardcore as the new Chief Twit. That the company became an extension of his polarizing personality, and that people no longer used the same glowing terms to describe him, made an apparently more-brittle-than-we-thought GeNiUs torpedo himself into one colossally short-sighted decision after another …
… at least, according to Ben Mezrich. He’s covered other phenomena such as the rise of Facebook, the GameStop short squeeze and MIT card counters who conquered Vegas. Like the latter book, at least, Mezrich admits at the start that “Breaking Twitter” is creative narrative nonfiction in which he employs reimagined dialogue and composite characters.
Which, to me, means this book isn’t really nonfiction. It’s glorified speculation informed by semi-secondary reporting, littered with overwrought descriptions and annoyingly repetitious references to “the billionaire.” Just say Elon or Musk, FFS.
Wrapping up this “creative narrative” before current X CEO Linda Yaccarino officially took over from Musk, Mezrich’s book is hardly a comprehensive story of the disastrous Twitter takeover.
So, for now, stick with Isaacson’s take and wait for credibility to arrive in a year or two when another author gives this story the proper treatment.
June 8, 2024
Certainly this book was more fiction than non-fiction, considering all the details and emotions described from people who weren’t even interviewed in making this book. But knowing this from the beginning, I could successfully get immersed in this story, and be interested in the insanity that is Elon Musk’s personality.
His paranoia, insane expectations from others and childlike attitude stood out the most, and even if I take the stories of the book with a grain of salt, there is still some truth behind them.
I was only interested in Twitter’s events because honestly, I’m not big on social media (I have never used Instagram or Tik-Tok in my life), but besides Goodreads the only other platform where I spend time is Twitter. It’s quite interesting to read about the behind-the-scenes of such a company, and how one man can take over everything so completely.
His paranoia, insane expectations from others and childlike attitude stood out the most, and even if I take the stories of the book with a grain of salt, there is still some truth behind them.
I was only interested in Twitter’s events because honestly, I’m not big on social media (I have never used Instagram or Tik-Tok in my life), but besides Goodreads the only other platform where I spend time is Twitter. It’s quite interesting to read about the behind-the-scenes of such a company, and how one man can take over everything so completely.
April 7, 2024
If you paid attention to the Twitter->X saga at all, you won’t learn anything new here. If you want a definitive book on this topic, read Zoe Schiffer’s book instead.
Focuses far too much on the unimportant people in the saga, presumably because the author could only get access to them while Isaacson was hanging out with Elon daily, though that book is problematic in its own way as an overcooked puff piece.
The writing here is awkward and dramatically stilted. It reads like Dan Brown (or whatever mediocre fiction author you’d like) trying to make bad decisions being made in a social media platform seem like a heist to steal the Crown Jewels.
Focuses far too much on the unimportant people in the saga, presumably because the author could only get access to them while Isaacson was hanging out with Elon daily, though that book is problematic in its own way as an overcooked puff piece.
The writing here is awkward and dramatically stilted. It reads like Dan Brown (or whatever mediocre fiction author you’d like) trying to make bad decisions being made in a social media platform seem like a heist to steal the Crown Jewels.
June 25, 2024
Omg omg omg he needs to stop using the word acolyte. This felt overwritten.
February 9, 2025
seemed like a dramatized retelling of events, entertaining at least
January 9, 2024
The story of how Elon broke Twitter and how Twitter broke Elon. Good in parts and is fast paced but at times feels like the author / his sources are trying to stereotype the richest man in the world as "lonely and sad" to explain his random decisions.
March 28, 2024
A really good insight into Elon Musk and his destruction of twitter, told from the point of view of the ones who built it.
A really interesting read that shows his mental and his demanding nature of those around him
A really interesting read that shows his mental and his demanding nature of those around him
December 7, 2023
Elon Musk is the living breathing embodiment of a centralized disease, and the only cure is decentralization.
This book describes the absolute hypocrisy of Elon Musk to perfection, and proves that once Elon took Twitter over that it was instantly doomed to fail.
All centralized products are corrupt, but what Elon did to Twitter seemed almost intentional.
As if he wanted to destroy the platform, or at least, just wanted to use it for himself, make everyone listen to him, agree with him, and if you didn't... he'll just delete you.
I guess this is why he pretty much threw away the only part of the business that still had value, the little blue bird and its original name Twitter, and replaced it with, wait for it... X!
Which coincidentally, happens to also be his sons name... poor kid.
One of the most telling parts in the book about the sadness that is Elon Musk, is the part where the president got more engagement on his tweet than him, so he had the engineers modify his account so that his reach is multiplied by 1,000... this is some really sad crap right here.
Anyway, if you ever wanted a reason to delete your Twitter / X account, this book will do the trick.
This book describes the absolute hypocrisy of Elon Musk to perfection, and proves that once Elon took Twitter over that it was instantly doomed to fail.
All centralized products are corrupt, but what Elon did to Twitter seemed almost intentional.
As if he wanted to destroy the platform, or at least, just wanted to use it for himself, make everyone listen to him, agree with him, and if you didn't... he'll just delete you.
I guess this is why he pretty much threw away the only part of the business that still had value, the little blue bird and its original name Twitter, and replaced it with, wait for it... X!
Which coincidentally, happens to also be his sons name... poor kid.
One of the most telling parts in the book about the sadness that is Elon Musk, is the part where the president got more engagement on his tweet than him, so he had the engineers modify his account so that his reach is multiplied by 1,000... this is some really sad crap right here.
Anyway, if you ever wanted a reason to delete your Twitter / X account, this book will do the trick.
August 18, 2024
This book should be tagged as "current affairs fiction" rather than non-fiction.
I borrowed this in the hopes of reading about the business, financial, labor and layoff aspects of the takeover. But this book gave none of that.
Instead it follows several vaguely unlikeable characters. Many of them who in the end add nothing to the story itself and serve as mere character/cinematic gotchas.
I was also hoping to see at least one character of color appear when Twitter itself was built and held up mostly by Asian Engineers.
Again no, it follows only White people at the management levels and their terribly large compensation packages that they get left with.
A lot of negatives, and as a tech journalist myself, this made me shake my head at all the missed opportunities.
The one positive is that it was a fast read and it was a relief to see the author go from fan-boying over Elon to showing him as a bully and a terrible boss.
I borrowed this in the hopes of reading about the business, financial, labor and layoff aspects of the takeover. But this book gave none of that.
Instead it follows several vaguely unlikeable characters. Many of them who in the end add nothing to the story itself and serve as mere character/cinematic gotchas.
I was also hoping to see at least one character of color appear when Twitter itself was built and held up mostly by Asian Engineers.
Again no, it follows only White people at the management levels and their terribly large compensation packages that they get left with.
A lot of negatives, and as a tech journalist myself, this made me shake my head at all the missed opportunities.
The one positive is that it was a fast read and it was a relief to see the author go from fan-boying over Elon to showing him as a bully and a terrible boss.
May 6, 2024
Dnf 25%
Wait, why am I reading this? Just a lot of dubious speculation and unsubstantiated claims. The notes section at the end was truly pathetic: most chapters had fewer than 5 sources period. And most sources were just regular journalism from the time... I read way too much of that online while all this was going down
I was interested in Mezrich's pitch in the authors note that he had conducted numerous interviews to gain an inside perspective, but he is not transparent about what elements in this book are are from these interviews, what elements from these interviews he verified, and what has been "dramatized."
Wait, why am I reading this? Just a lot of dubious speculation and unsubstantiated claims. The notes section at the end was truly pathetic: most chapters had fewer than 5 sources period. And most sources were just regular journalism from the time... I read way too much of that online while all this was going down
I was interested in Mezrich's pitch in the authors note that he had conducted numerous interviews to gain an inside perspective, but he is not transparent about what elements in this book are are from these interviews, what elements from these interviews he verified, and what has been "dramatized."
November 14, 2023
This is a book mostly about people who worked at Twitter before and during the Musk period.
The author laces his own thoughts and opinions quite a lot as well.
Good in parts but reads like an extended opinion piece far too much.
I would like to think if he had more access this book would have been better.
The author laces his own thoughts and opinions quite a lot as well.
Good in parts but reads like an extended opinion piece far too much.
I would like to think if he had more access this book would have been better.
May 17, 2024
Obviously everything in the book has to be taken with a grain of salt because it is a dramatised retelling. But I really enjoyed it.
As a long time Twitter user, I vividly remember living through these tumultuous changes online. It was devastating to me because I had found a place in the game developer community on the platform, but Elon’s takeover led to a mass exodus. I watched this community crumble into rubble around me, but I did not have the energy to rebuild with the diaspora on other new platforms like mastodon, bluesky and countless others. There was no longer a central place where this communicate congregated and that was really disheartening.
I think this whole debacle for me has ruptured the illusion of permanence/persistence and collective ownership of social media platforms. We’ve never seen something like this at a scale like this. But as long as an online platform is privately owned, one very rich person can just decide to buy it and turn it upside down, with those who congregate there powerless to stop it.
I have remained on Twitter to keep up with industry news, but it does feel like a shell of itself.
This book was a cathartic revisitation of the takeover period, helping me to process the grief of losing what Twitter was by gaining a deeper understanding of how it was lost.
As a long time Twitter user, I vividly remember living through these tumultuous changes online. It was devastating to me because I had found a place in the game developer community on the platform, but Elon’s takeover led to a mass exodus. I watched this community crumble into rubble around me, but I did not have the energy to rebuild with the diaspora on other new platforms like mastodon, bluesky and countless others. There was no longer a central place where this communicate congregated and that was really disheartening.
I think this whole debacle for me has ruptured the illusion of permanence/persistence and collective ownership of social media platforms. We’ve never seen something like this at a scale like this. But as long as an online platform is privately owned, one very rich person can just decide to buy it and turn it upside down, with those who congregate there powerless to stop it.
I have remained on Twitter to keep up with industry news, but it does feel like a shell of itself.
This book was a cathartic revisitation of the takeover period, helping me to process the grief of losing what Twitter was by gaining a deeper understanding of how it was lost.
October 6, 2024
This was a great read especially as it debunks the Teflon like image that Elon Musk had before taking over Twitter without it appears any real plan other than to reduce costs at any price! This is an absolute roller coaster of a narrative laid out in a great style with a balanced view as possible considering the circumstances. I don’t think anyone is any the wiser as to what the plans are for X other than Elon and after reading this I am not sure if he does either! A great read.
October 14, 2024
I’m not quite sure what to make of this style of writing. It’s certainly not journalism, but does seem to be grounded in some research and interviews. I think I came away with some more more understanding of what happened, which is why I picked it up in the first place, so that’s a win I guess?!
December 29, 2023
Felt pretty lightweight - but an easy read. I think I've read too much other detailed & analytical reporting on this.
Read
March 19, 2024fuckin clown lmao
May 23, 2024
Reads like a very long Atlantic article, published too soon
April 14, 2025
The disclaimer at the beginning says it all, “This is a work of creative, narrative nonfiction…” with creative being the operative word.
Want to read
October 18, 2025Przetłumaczcie to na polski natychmiast bo desperacko muszę się dowiedzieć jak dokładnie odebrano mi mojego ukochanego twittera
April 2, 2025
The back cover claims that the book would "keep even an unmedicated narcoleptic awake", so as an unmedicated narcoleptic I felt challenged to test this. To my surprise, it turned out to be accurate, and I read (and in parts skimmed) the book in one go and without falling asleep, except for the mandatory after-lunch nap. The book comes with constant plot twists, and whenever it lost a bit of pace it quickly managed to grasp my attention again, for example, by unexpectedly introducing philosopher William MacAskill, and later Nancy Pelosi's husband, who is featured in an insane true crime side story.
On the other hand, the back cover also promoises a story "replete with sex, skulduggery, and plot twists," but to my disappointment I must report that the book actually contains neither pornographic nor romantic scenes. (Sadly, after re-checking the back cover it turns out that both statements – about sex and about narcolepsy – do not even refer to this particular book but to other books by Ben Mezrich, that's a bit of a marketing scam.)
The readability of the book is of course related to the fact that the story is relatively superficial; usually well-narrated, but in a few chapters also just stitching some tweets together; usually this would be super annoying in a book, but, to be fair, this is a book about Twitter, so I won't complain.
More interesting is the analysis of the problems that Twitter is struggling with throughout the story: On the one hand there is the soft problem of a leadership style that is first too lax and then too authoritarian. On the other hand there are three "hard problems" of the social network: Moderation, authentication, and funding.
Moderation (detection and censoring of bad content): This is addressed to some extent by Musk's mantra "free speech, but not free reach" – which means that anyone should be able to shout the most ugly insults and falsehoods on the platform, but the platform does not need to amplify this content. Another solution (not mentioned in this book) are clarifying community notes, where the quality of the community note is determined by its acceptance across the political spectrum (a mechanism that we know from Taiwan's Polis network).
Authentication (distinguishing between bots and real humans): It is assumed that some number of Twitter users are just manually or automatically operated fake accounts, though the actual number of bot accounts is subject to a large debate. Musk tries to solve the problem by using payments as a subsitute for authentication, which works to some degree – operating a bot army will now be expensive –, but is not a good solution, as the main character vehemently points out, since payment systems do not necessarily reveal the true identity of persons.
(To add some nuance to the book's account, the methodology of bot detection is also subject to debate, and may have been over-estimated in the past; but with the rise of AI, I expect that this will now become an increasing problem, even if it hadn't been in the past already.)
Funding (making money without getting dependent): Musk identifies the problem that Twitter is fully dependent on money from advertising, which makes its moderation efforts vulnerable to intervention by the advertisers, and, in his opinion, this can never truly enable "free speech". This is the reason why he, perhaps rightly, pushes for a subscription system to diversify the revenue and to be less dependent on advertisers; but his idea to tie this subscription model to the "Blue Check" "authentication" system is arguably a very stupid one, since Twitter does not have the resources to perform actual authentication for all users. And the real problem is of course not the influence of Twitter's advertisers, but the influence of its new owner Musk. – That is finally apparent when he demands that a 1000x boost is applied to power users, where only the individual "Elon Musk" falls into the category of power users.
This is, so far, the analysis that Musk and the other protagonists of the book provide. But I think this lacks a fundamental perspective that is crucial for moving forward.
All three services that Twitter struggles with – funding, moderation, and authentication – are all traditionally provided by the state. But providing these services online looks different than providing them in the analog world, so our states have completely missed out on providing them, leaving us in the difficult social media terrain of hate speech, censorship, and manipulated elections.
Moderation consists of agreeing on a set of rules about what is acceptable to be said, and of enforcing these rules. States already have sophisticated systems for both processes in the real world. Rules are agreed in a legislative process that is ideally democratic. They are then enforced by the police; and when one disagrees with the police, one can appeal (and re-appeal) to have the issue resolved via the judicial system, where it can be considered more in-depth. The judicial system uses precedents or case law to efficiently deal with a large number of cases without the need to bring every one of these cases up to the supreme court.
Social networks, weirdly, try to do the same thing that the state typically does. For coming up with rules, Twitter used to have a diversely staffed moderation council that was supposed to ensure democratic legitimacy. And social networks have their own systems of flagging, fining, and appealing, at least to some extent. These systems are in part even prescribed by the regulator, such as the EU – rather than that the regulator would realize that this is naturally his own responsibility.
Authentication is one of the core competences of a state, which even radical libertarians would probably not want to remove. The state exercises it by issuing IDs, records of residence, social security databases, registers of criminal offences, and the like. Blockchain has attempted to create systems without a central authority, and its overwhelming failure is also due to the fact that a central authority is often the simplest solution and, in the case of democratic states, does not have many drawbacks. There are a few identity providers on the internet these days, and with an account by Google, Apple, Twitter or Github one can log in to many different sites that have – apart from the authentication – no relation to these authentication-providing companies; there is a standard protocol for providing such authentication services.
Yet our nation states, the gatekeepers of physical identity, are completely absent from the world map of digital identity providers. My country, Germany, has developed an obscure app that I can use to connect my physical ID to my smartphone, then connect my smartphone via a secure Wifi network with my laptop, and then use an app on my laptop to access government websites (which typically provide services such as viewing the scans of typewriter-printed letters, and I'm not kidding) – the whole process takes at least 10 minutes, and I do not know a single person other than myself who has ever used it. The Netherlands are a positive example in this regard, they have a simple DigiD app that is relatively straightforward to use – but even with DigiD, I cannot login into Twitter to confirm my identity. Instead, Twitter currently uses payments as a means of verification, which is a very unreliable method.
Funding is also a problem for traditional media, that are often influenced by either their owners or their advertisers. There are two models that work around this: (a) subscriptions and (b) state funding. Subscriptions are problematic because they exclude non-subscribers; the only fully subscription-based newspaper without a paywall that I know of is the Guardian. State-funding is of course problematic in autocracies, but does work surprisingly well, for example, in Germany: There, the state sponsors independent media outlets that compete with the private market. They are lightly supervised by political councils that ought to represent society, and with some exceptions this works well. An alternative to state-funding, especially in a world of chain-saw state reforms, may be unconditional philanthropic funding.
So, should the state take back these functions – moderation, authentication, funding – to itself? In principle yes, and especially for authentication I don't see how any other actor could reliable provide it. (Nowadays there are video authentication services, but with advanced video AI they will soon break down.)
But the state is super inefficient. Traditional police using paper forms (or the digital equivalent of paper forms) to process flagged tweets does not make sense. The timespan that a national administration would take to roll out a new authentication system is probably in the decades rather than years, and we would end up with a globally fragmented landscape of incompatible systems. And state funding can also go wrong in many ways without producing the actually desired result.
To some extent, social media can also enhance democracy, and the democratic regulation of social media itself. Taiwan's Polis deliberation system is some sort of social network where ideas that are supported by all ends of the political spectrum are promoted and eventually used as input for legislative processes. Community notes, now also integrated into Twitter, have adapted this idea: Controversial tweets and fake news can be annotated, and the annotation process favours notes that are consensus-building in the sense of including the whole political spectrum.
Community notes create some sort of democratic legitimacy without requiring the involvement of our traditional democratic institutions. This fixes one important part of the problem, and leaves other parts unsolved. To solve them, we probably need to pressure our democratic institutions to take back control of authentication, moderation and funding. And we need to pressure them to do it in a globally coordinated way, with digital processes, and within months rather than decades.
On the other hand, the back cover also promoises a story "replete with sex, skulduggery, and plot twists," but to my disappointment I must report that the book actually contains neither pornographic nor romantic scenes. (Sadly, after re-checking the back cover it turns out that both statements – about sex and about narcolepsy – do not even refer to this particular book but to other books by Ben Mezrich, that's a bit of a marketing scam.)
The readability of the book is of course related to the fact that the story is relatively superficial; usually well-narrated, but in a few chapters also just stitching some tweets together; usually this would be super annoying in a book, but, to be fair, this is a book about Twitter, so I won't complain.
More interesting is the analysis of the problems that Twitter is struggling with throughout the story: On the one hand there is the soft problem of a leadership style that is first too lax and then too authoritarian. On the other hand there are three "hard problems" of the social network: Moderation, authentication, and funding.
Moderation (detection and censoring of bad content): This is addressed to some extent by Musk's mantra "free speech, but not free reach" – which means that anyone should be able to shout the most ugly insults and falsehoods on the platform, but the platform does not need to amplify this content. Another solution (not mentioned in this book) are clarifying community notes, where the quality of the community note is determined by its acceptance across the political spectrum (a mechanism that we know from Taiwan's Polis network).
Authentication (distinguishing between bots and real humans): It is assumed that some number of Twitter users are just manually or automatically operated fake accounts, though the actual number of bot accounts is subject to a large debate. Musk tries to solve the problem by using payments as a subsitute for authentication, which works to some degree – operating a bot army will now be expensive –, but is not a good solution, as the main character vehemently points out, since payment systems do not necessarily reveal the true identity of persons.
(To add some nuance to the book's account, the methodology of bot detection is also subject to debate, and may have been over-estimated in the past; but with the rise of AI, I expect that this will now become an increasing problem, even if it hadn't been in the past already.)
Funding (making money without getting dependent): Musk identifies the problem that Twitter is fully dependent on money from advertising, which makes its moderation efforts vulnerable to intervention by the advertisers, and, in his opinion, this can never truly enable "free speech". This is the reason why he, perhaps rightly, pushes for a subscription system to diversify the revenue and to be less dependent on advertisers; but his idea to tie this subscription model to the "Blue Check" "authentication" system is arguably a very stupid one, since Twitter does not have the resources to perform actual authentication for all users. And the real problem is of course not the influence of Twitter's advertisers, but the influence of its new owner Musk. – That is finally apparent when he demands that a 1000x boost is applied to power users, where only the individual "Elon Musk" falls into the category of power users.
This is, so far, the analysis that Musk and the other protagonists of the book provide. But I think this lacks a fundamental perspective that is crucial for moving forward.
All three services that Twitter struggles with – funding, moderation, and authentication – are all traditionally provided by the state. But providing these services online looks different than providing them in the analog world, so our states have completely missed out on providing them, leaving us in the difficult social media terrain of hate speech, censorship, and manipulated elections.
Moderation consists of agreeing on a set of rules about what is acceptable to be said, and of enforcing these rules. States already have sophisticated systems for both processes in the real world. Rules are agreed in a legislative process that is ideally democratic. They are then enforced by the police; and when one disagrees with the police, one can appeal (and re-appeal) to have the issue resolved via the judicial system, where it can be considered more in-depth. The judicial system uses precedents or case law to efficiently deal with a large number of cases without the need to bring every one of these cases up to the supreme court.
Social networks, weirdly, try to do the same thing that the state typically does. For coming up with rules, Twitter used to have a diversely staffed moderation council that was supposed to ensure democratic legitimacy. And social networks have their own systems of flagging, fining, and appealing, at least to some extent. These systems are in part even prescribed by the regulator, such as the EU – rather than that the regulator would realize that this is naturally his own responsibility.
Authentication is one of the core competences of a state, which even radical libertarians would probably not want to remove. The state exercises it by issuing IDs, records of residence, social security databases, registers of criminal offences, and the like. Blockchain has attempted to create systems without a central authority, and its overwhelming failure is also due to the fact that a central authority is often the simplest solution and, in the case of democratic states, does not have many drawbacks. There are a few identity providers on the internet these days, and with an account by Google, Apple, Twitter or Github one can log in to many different sites that have – apart from the authentication – no relation to these authentication-providing companies; there is a standard protocol for providing such authentication services.
Yet our nation states, the gatekeepers of physical identity, are completely absent from the world map of digital identity providers. My country, Germany, has developed an obscure app that I can use to connect my physical ID to my smartphone, then connect my smartphone via a secure Wifi network with my laptop, and then use an app on my laptop to access government websites (which typically provide services such as viewing the scans of typewriter-printed letters, and I'm not kidding) – the whole process takes at least 10 minutes, and I do not know a single person other than myself who has ever used it. The Netherlands are a positive example in this regard, they have a simple DigiD app that is relatively straightforward to use – but even with DigiD, I cannot login into Twitter to confirm my identity. Instead, Twitter currently uses payments as a means of verification, which is a very unreliable method.
Funding is also a problem for traditional media, that are often influenced by either their owners or their advertisers. There are two models that work around this: (a) subscriptions and (b) state funding. Subscriptions are problematic because they exclude non-subscribers; the only fully subscription-based newspaper without a paywall that I know of is the Guardian. State-funding is of course problematic in autocracies, but does work surprisingly well, for example, in Germany: There, the state sponsors independent media outlets that compete with the private market. They are lightly supervised by political councils that ought to represent society, and with some exceptions this works well. An alternative to state-funding, especially in a world of chain-saw state reforms, may be unconditional philanthropic funding.
So, should the state take back these functions – moderation, authentication, funding – to itself? In principle yes, and especially for authentication I don't see how any other actor could reliable provide it. (Nowadays there are video authentication services, but with advanced video AI they will soon break down.)
But the state is super inefficient. Traditional police using paper forms (or the digital equivalent of paper forms) to process flagged tweets does not make sense. The timespan that a national administration would take to roll out a new authentication system is probably in the decades rather than years, and we would end up with a globally fragmented landscape of incompatible systems. And state funding can also go wrong in many ways without producing the actually desired result.
To some extent, social media can also enhance democracy, and the democratic regulation of social media itself. Taiwan's Polis deliberation system is some sort of social network where ideas that are supported by all ends of the political spectrum are promoted and eventually used as input for legislative processes. Community notes, now also integrated into Twitter, have adapted this idea: Controversial tweets and fake news can be annotated, and the annotation process favours notes that are consensus-building in the sense of including the whole political spectrum.
Community notes create some sort of democratic legitimacy without requiring the involvement of our traditional democratic institutions. This fixes one important part of the problem, and leaves other parts unsolved. To solve them, we probably need to pressure our democratic institutions to take back control of authentication, moderation and funding. And we need to pressure them to do it in a globally coordinated way, with digital processes, and within months rather than decades.
May 27, 2024
enjoyed all his books!
November 25, 2023
No Great Fan of Elon but…
It’s kind of a tell-all without the receipts. Sure, Elon accelerated the decline of an already faltering Twitter but if you’re looking for insights or insider info, this is a disappointment. Like Mezrich but this isn’t up in his top tier.
It’s kind of a tell-all without the receipts. Sure, Elon accelerated the decline of an already faltering Twitter but if you’re looking for insights or insider info, this is a disappointment. Like Mezrich but this isn’t up in his top tier.
Read
November 21, 2023Nonfiction. Musk not interviewed for this book, but rather, told by those who work(ed) at twitter when he took over.
December 9, 2023
Trong thời đại công nghệ ngày nay, điện thoại di động không chỉ là công cụ liên lạc mà còn là máy ảnh di động đa chức năng. Đối với những người đam mê nhiếp ảnh, việc lựa chọn một chiếc điện thoại phù hợp không chỉ giúp gọi điện mà còn mang lại trải nghiệm chụp ảnh đỉnh cao. Bài viết này sẽ hướng dẫn bạn làm thế nào để chọn mua điện thoại phù hợp với nhiếp ảnh, từ những tiêu chí quan trọng đến các tính năng đặc biệt.
Nếu bạn đang tìm kiếm chiếc điện thoại phù hợp và muốn kiểm tra nhanh chóng các mô hình mới, đừng quên ghé qua các cửa hàng điện thoại gần đây. Những địa điểm này không chỉ cung cấp sự đa dạng về sản phẩm mà còn cho phép bạn trải nghiệm trực tiếp trước khi quyết định mua. Bạn sẽ có cơ hội so sánh giữa các dòng sản phẩm và nhận tư vấn chuyên nghiệp từ nhân viên. Điều này giúp đảm bảo rằng bạn sẽ chọn được chiếc điện thoại không chỉ đáp ứng nhu cầu nhiếp ảnh của bạn mà còn phù hợp với mong muốn và ngân sách cá nhân.
Tiêu Chí Quan Trọng khi Chọn Mua
2.1 Camera và Độ Phân Giải
Khi tìm kiếm chiếc điện thoại phù hợp cho nhu cầu nhiếp ảnh, camera và độ phân giải là một trong những yếu tố quyết định. Độ phân giải của camera ảnh được đo bằng đơn vị megapixel (MP), và nó trực tiếp ảnh hưởng đến chất lượng và chi tiết của bức ảnh. Đối với những người chuyên nghiệp hoặc yêu thích in ảnh lớn, nên chọn các mô hình có độ phân giải cao, ít nhất là 12 MP trở lên.
Ngoài độ phân giải, kích thước của cảm biến cũng đóng vai trò quan trọng. Cảm biến lớn hơn có khả năng thu sáng tốt hơn, giúp bắt lấy màu sắc và chi tiết ảnh đặc sắc, đặc biệt là trong điều kiện ánh sáng yếu. Đồng thời, ống kính chất lượng cũng đóng góp quan trọng vào việc tạo ra những bức ảnh sắc nét và rõ ràng.
Đối với người chụp ảnh chuyên nghiệp hoặc yêu thích nhiếp ảnh, việc lựa chọn điện thoại có camera có độ phân giải và kích thước cảm biến tốt sẽ mang lại trải nghiệm chụp ảnh đỉnh cao, nơi mọi chi tiết được nâng lên, màu sắc trở nên sống động, và khả năng sáng tốt trong mọi tình huống.
2.2 Kích Thước Cảm Biến và Ống Kính
Trong thế giới nhiếp ảnh di động, kích thước của cảm biến và chất lượng của ống kính đóng vai trò quan trọng đối với khả năng chụp ảnh của chiếc điện thoại. Kích thước cảm biến ảnh là yếu tố quyết định khả năng thu sáng, đặc biệt là trong điều kiện ánh sáng yếu. Cảm biến lớn hơn có khả năng thu được nhiều ánh sáng hơn, giúp tăng cường chi tiết và màu sắc trong ảnh.
Ngoài ra, để tối ưu hóa trải nghiệm mua sắm của bạn, không thể không nhắc đến sự đa dạng về cửa hàng điện thoại xách tay. Đây là những địa điểm độc đáo, nơi bạn có thể tìm thấy những mẫu điện thoại hiện đại, độc đáo và chất lượng cao, mang đến sự phong cách và sáng tạo cho cuộc sống di động của bạn. Điều này không chỉ là việc mua sắm, mà còn là cơ hội để thưởng thức những sản phẩm công nghệ tiên tiến và độc đáo từ các thương hiệu hàng đầu trên thị trường quốc tế.
Ống kính chất lượng cao cũng đóng vai trò quan trọng trong quá trình chụp ảnh. Một ống kính tốt không chỉ cung cấp hình ảnh sắc nét mà còn giảm thiểu hiện tượng méo ảnh và nhiễu, đảm bảo bức ảnh cuối cùng là một tác phẩm nghệ thuật số hoàn hảo.
Người dùng nhiếp ảnh cần lựa chọn điện thoại với cảm biến lớn, ít nhất là 1/2.3 inch, và ống kính có độ sáng cao, đặc biệt là trong việc chụp ảnh ở điều kiện ánh sáng thấp. Đối với những người chuyên nghiệp, việc chọn mua điện thoại với các tính năng như khẩu độ rộng, ống kính chống rung, và đặc biệt là chức năng chụp ảnh RAW sẽ giúp họ tối ưu hóa khả năng sáng tạo và chỉnh sửa sau khi chụp.
2.3 Stabilization (Ổn Định Hình Ảnh)
Trong thế giới chụp ảnh di động ngày nay, chức năng ổn định hình ảnh (IS hoặc OIS) trở thành một trong những yếu tố quyết định đối với chất lượng của bức ảnh. Ổn định hình ảnh giúp giảm thiểu hiện tượng rung và mờ trong khi chụp, đặc biệt là khi sử dụng zoom hoặc chụp ảnh ở điều kiện ánh sáng yếu.
Chức năng này có thể được thực hiện theo hai cách chính: ổn định hình ảnh quang học (OIS) và ổn định hình ảnh điện tử (EIS). OIS sử dụng cơ cấu vật lý trong ống kính hoặc cảm biến để giảm rung, trong khi EIS sử dụng phần mềm để điều chỉnh hình ảnh sau khi chụp.
Đối với người dùng đam mê nhiếp ảnh di động, tính năng ổn định hình ảnh là quan trọng để đảm bảo rằng mọi bức ảnh đều sắc nét và không bị méo mó. Đặc biệt, khi quay video, tính năng này trở nên thiết yếu để tạo ra những đoạn phim mượt mà và chất lượng.
Khi chọn mua điện thoại với mục đích chụp ảnh, việc tìm kiếm mô hình có tính năng ổn định hình ảnh đáng tin cậy sẽ làm tăng trải nghiệm nhiếp ảnh và video của bạn, đặc biệt là trong các tình huống khó khăn như di chuyển nhanh, zoom xa, hoặc ánh sáng yếu.
Các Tính Năng Đặc Biệt Cho Nhiếp Ảnh
3.1 Chế Độ Chụp Ảnh Chuyên Nghiệp
Một số điện thoại đi kèm với các chế độ chụp ảnh chuyên nghiệp như chế độ chụp RAW, điều này mang lại khả năng chỉnh sửa và tối ưu hóa ảnh sau khi chụp.
3.2 Khả Năng Chụp Ảnh Ban Đêm
Đối với những người yêu thích chụp ảnh vào ban đêm, tính năng chụp ảnh trong điều kiện ánh sáng yếu hoặc chế độ Night Mode là quan trọng để bắt lấy chi tiết và màu sắc tốt nhất.
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3.3 Chức Năng Chỉnh Ảnh Tự Động
Các tính năng tự động như nhận diện khuôn mặt, chụp ảnh nhanh, và tự động lấy nét giúp đơn giản hóa quá trình chụp ảnh và tạo nên những bức ảnh đẹp tự nhiên.
Kết Luận
Chọn mua điện thoại phù hợp với nhiếp ảnh không chỉ dựa vào việc đánh giá số liệu kỹ thuật mà còn là sự kết hợp tinh tế giữa phần cứng và phần mềm. Bạn có thể tận dụng các đánh giá từ người dùng, thử nghiệm trực tiếp tại cửa hàng, và tìm hiểu kỹ về tính năng nhiếp ảnh đặc biệt của từng mô hình để đảm bảo rằng chiếc điện thoại bạn chọn sẽ là đối tác lý tưởng cho hành trình nhiếp ảnh của bạn. Nếu bạn muốn trải nghiệm tất cả những tính năng nổi bật này trực tiếp, hãy đến các cửa hàng điện thoại Chính hãng, nơi bạn có thể nhìn ngắm và kiểm tra sản phẩm trước khi quyết định mua. Điều này đặc biệt quan trọng để đảm bảo rằng bạn đang chọn một chiếc điện thoại chính hãng đáng tin cậy, mang lại trải nghiệm nhiếp ảnh tốt nhất cho bạn.
Nếu bạn đang tìm kiếm chiếc điện thoại phù hợp và muốn kiểm tra nhanh chóng các mô hình mới, đừng quên ghé qua các cửa hàng điện thoại gần đây. Những địa điểm này không chỉ cung cấp sự đa dạng về sản phẩm mà còn cho phép bạn trải nghiệm trực tiếp trước khi quyết định mua. Bạn sẽ có cơ hội so sánh giữa các dòng sản phẩm và nhận tư vấn chuyên nghiệp từ nhân viên. Điều này giúp đảm bảo rằng bạn sẽ chọn được chiếc điện thoại không chỉ đáp ứng nhu cầu nhiếp ảnh của bạn mà còn phù hợp với mong muốn và ngân sách cá nhân.
Tiêu Chí Quan Trọng khi Chọn Mua
2.1 Camera và Độ Phân Giải
Khi tìm kiếm chiếc điện thoại phù hợp cho nhu cầu nhiếp ảnh, camera và độ phân giải là một trong những yếu tố quyết định. Độ phân giải của camera ảnh được đo bằng đơn vị megapixel (MP), và nó trực tiếp ảnh hưởng đến chất lượng và chi tiết của bức ảnh. Đối với những người chuyên nghiệp hoặc yêu thích in ảnh lớn, nên chọn các mô hình có độ phân giải cao, ít nhất là 12 MP trở lên.
Ngoài độ phân giải, kích thước của cảm biến cũng đóng vai trò quan trọng. Cảm biến lớn hơn có khả năng thu sáng tốt hơn, giúp bắt lấy màu sắc và chi tiết ảnh đặc sắc, đặc biệt là trong điều kiện ánh sáng yếu. Đồng thời, ống kính chất lượng cũng đóng góp quan trọng vào việc tạo ra những bức ảnh sắc nét và rõ ràng.
Đối với người chụp ảnh chuyên nghiệp hoặc yêu thích nhiếp ảnh, việc lựa chọn điện thoại có camera có độ phân giải và kích thước cảm biến tốt sẽ mang lại trải nghiệm chụp ảnh đỉnh cao, nơi mọi chi tiết được nâng lên, màu sắc trở nên sống động, và khả năng sáng tốt trong mọi tình huống.
2.2 Kích Thước Cảm Biến và Ống Kính
Trong thế giới nhiếp ảnh di động, kích thước của cảm biến và chất lượng của ống kính đóng vai trò quan trọng đối với khả năng chụp ảnh của chiếc điện thoại. Kích thước cảm biến ảnh là yếu tố quyết định khả năng thu sáng, đặc biệt là trong điều kiện ánh sáng yếu. Cảm biến lớn hơn có khả năng thu được nhiều ánh sáng hơn, giúp tăng cường chi tiết và màu sắc trong ảnh.
Ngoài ra, để tối ưu hóa trải nghiệm mua sắm của bạn, không thể không nhắc đến sự đa dạng về cửa hàng điện thoại xách tay. Đây là những địa điểm độc đáo, nơi bạn có thể tìm thấy những mẫu điện thoại hiện đại, độc đáo và chất lượng cao, mang đến sự phong cách và sáng tạo cho cuộc sống di động của bạn. Điều này không chỉ là việc mua sắm, mà còn là cơ hội để thưởng thức những sản phẩm công nghệ tiên tiến và độc đáo từ các thương hiệu hàng đầu trên thị trường quốc tế.
Ống kính chất lượng cao cũng đóng vai trò quan trọng trong quá trình chụp ảnh. Một ống kính tốt không chỉ cung cấp hình ảnh sắc nét mà còn giảm thiểu hiện tượng méo ảnh và nhiễu, đảm bảo bức ảnh cuối cùng là một tác phẩm nghệ thuật số hoàn hảo.
Người dùng nhiếp ảnh cần lựa chọn điện thoại với cảm biến lớn, ít nhất là 1/2.3 inch, và ống kính có độ sáng cao, đặc biệt là trong việc chụp ảnh ở điều kiện ánh sáng thấp. Đối với những người chuyên nghiệp, việc chọn mua điện thoại với các tính năng như khẩu độ rộng, ống kính chống rung, và đặc biệt là chức năng chụp ảnh RAW sẽ giúp họ tối ưu hóa khả năng sáng tạo và chỉnh sửa sau khi chụp.
2.3 Stabilization (Ổn Định Hình Ảnh)
Trong thế giới chụp ảnh di động ngày nay, chức năng ổn định hình ảnh (IS hoặc OIS) trở thành một trong những yếu tố quyết định đối với chất lượng của bức ảnh. Ổn định hình ảnh giúp giảm thiểu hiện tượng rung và mờ trong khi chụp, đặc biệt là khi sử dụng zoom hoặc chụp ảnh ở điều kiện ánh sáng yếu.
Chức năng này có thể được thực hiện theo hai cách chính: ổn định hình ảnh quang học (OIS) và ổn định hình ảnh điện tử (EIS). OIS sử dụng cơ cấu vật lý trong ống kính hoặc cảm biến để giảm rung, trong khi EIS sử dụng phần mềm để điều chỉnh hình ảnh sau khi chụp.
Đối với người dùng đam mê nhiếp ảnh di động, tính năng ổn định hình ảnh là quan trọng để đảm bảo rằng mọi bức ảnh đều sắc nét và không bị méo mó. Đặc biệt, khi quay video, tính năng này trở nên thiết yếu để tạo ra những đoạn phim mượt mà và chất lượng.
Khi chọn mua điện thoại với mục đích chụp ảnh, việc tìm kiếm mô hình có tính năng ổn định hình ảnh đáng tin cậy sẽ làm tăng trải nghiệm nhiếp ảnh và video của bạn, đặc biệt là trong các tình huống khó khăn như di chuyển nhanh, zoom xa, hoặc ánh sáng yếu.
Các Tính Năng Đặc Biệt Cho Nhiếp Ảnh
3.1 Chế Độ Chụp Ảnh Chuyên Nghiệp
Một số điện thoại đi kèm với các chế độ chụp ảnh chuyên nghiệp như chế độ chụp RAW, điều này mang lại khả năng chỉnh sửa và tối ưu hóa ảnh sau khi chụp.
3.2 Khả Năng Chụp Ảnh Ban Đêm
Đối với những người yêu thích chụp ảnh vào ban đêm, tính năng chụp ảnh trong điều kiện ánh sáng yếu hoặc chế độ Night Mode là quan trọng để bắt lấy chi tiết và màu sắc tốt nhất.
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3.3 Chức Năng Chỉnh Ảnh Tự Động
Các tính năng tự động như nhận diện khuôn mặt, chụp ảnh nhanh, và tự động lấy nét giúp đơn giản hóa quá trình chụp ảnh và tạo nên những bức ảnh đẹp tự nhiên.
Kết Luận
Chọn mua điện thoại phù hợp với nhiếp ảnh không chỉ dựa vào việc đánh giá số liệu kỹ thuật mà còn là sự kết hợp tinh tế giữa phần cứng và phần mềm. Bạn có thể tận dụng các đánh giá từ người dùng, thử nghiệm trực tiếp tại cửa hàng, và tìm hiểu kỹ về tính năng nhiếp ảnh đặc biệt của từng mô hình để đảm bảo rằng chiếc điện thoại bạn chọn sẽ là đối tác lý tưởng cho hành trình nhiếp ảnh của bạn. Nếu bạn muốn trải nghiệm tất cả những tính năng nổi bật này trực tiếp, hãy đến các cửa hàng điện thoại Chính hãng, nơi bạn có thể nhìn ngắm và kiểm tra sản phẩm trước khi quyết định mua. Điều này đặc biệt quan trọng để đảm bảo rằng bạn đang chọn một chiếc điện thoại chính hãng đáng tin cậy, mang lại trải nghiệm nhiếp ảnh tốt nhất cho bạn.
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