maybe I can subscribe to a "best of twitter" substack, I do miss the rare good jokes
― rob, Friday, 4 November 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
1/ There is some pretty substantial context about Twitter's 2023 revenue and advertisers that I think partly help explains why Musk is really losing it...And it involves upfront ad sales. Let me explain...— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) November 5, 2022
― stet, Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
Nice threads about what was good about twitter and why the likes of tik tok won't work.
What I like(d) about Twitter, and what I’ll look for from whatever comes next: I joined Twitter in 08 or 09. The thing that mattered in those early days was that ties were unidirectional (following), not bidirectional (friending). (1/x)— dave karpf (@davekarpf) November 5, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link
Won't quite work for me though I will give it a go at some point.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:52 (one year ago) link
Chuck Tingle to the rescue
https://www.twiddor.com/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 5 November 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
Seems bad
OK, this is worrying ... decided to download my Twitter archive as there are several scholarly points I have bookmarked over the years. Used to be a case you just entered your password ... not any more ... they want a scan of either my driving licence or passport ... As if ...— Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy (@dramdarcy) November 5, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Saturday, 5 November 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
I downloaded my archive last week and have tweeted less than a dozen times since. I don't really give a fuck about my old tweets, which are preserved in a gigantic javascript file, though. I'll probably just toss it.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
Downloaded mine last weekend as well. Takes up a small space on my hard drive -- could probably back it up elsewhere too, so I'll likely do that. It may not be of specific use but good to have it regardless.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
Grimes NEVER said I had a "weird dick" and "smelled like nachos" and if you repost this you will be arrested— Elon Musk (@jephjacques) November 5, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
caek I just really need to know that you didn’t refer to yourself as a “tweep” ever
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
crossposted but read this, seems bad:https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
Xp I did not but lots of people do. Someone should write a list of all the names for tech company employees. Tweep might be the worst though.
Mailchimp employees call themselves peeps as seen in this deranged memo from the ceo
One month before Mailchimp CEO Ben Chestnut stepped down as CEO, he sent a 1,400-word email to employees about the use of preferred pronouns internally. He told workers (he calls them "peeps,") the practice was harmful — even coercive. Read it in full: https://t.co/DryNxqQzrR— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) October 20, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
a chestnut blight
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
that usage of the word 'peeps' is just colloquial and short for 'people', I don't believe it's how mailchip employees referred to themselves.
― akm, Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
well, reading more, maybe not, because he keeps using the word over and over. but he also sounds demented.
― akm, Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
If you search twitter for mailchimp peeps then I get the impression it really is their internal name for employees, but who knows.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
pretty brave of him to talk about pronouns while referring to everyone as peeps
― mh, Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
mailchimp is a really gross name for a company horrible logo too
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
whoa whoa think of the peeps
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
MailPeeps
― akm, Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
MailPeeps (he/hers/thems)
― akm, Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022
― k3vin k., Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
attitudes like this are completely incomprehensible to me, "I joined the Branch Davidians because I liked David Koresh's guitar playing" would make more sense
I was at work once for close to 92 hours straight. I went home twice over the course of that time to shower and change and had to be back at the office within the hour. We even took turns napping. It sucked so bad but was possibly the most gratifying project in my entire career.— ShutTheFrunkDoor (@ShutTheFrnkDoor) November 2, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link
some people get off on that shit its like alcoholism but for work
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
esther crawford lives in my town, I will have to avoid her although I suspect she makes much more money than I do and therefore our paths do not cross
― akm, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
workaholics are real
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
it's wild the sheer breadth of activities we can turn to for self obliteration
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
anyway lately i'm feeling like twitter is dud
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
mailchimp ceo and his cofounder are psychotic, so many employees were fleeced
― 龜, Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link
I was in a dept once where people routinely bragged about hours worked and giving up their PTO and letting it expire, it was like "weird flex but go off"
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
i can totally understand working super hard and being gratified, after it was over, that you helped build something
i understand it much less when the task at hand is basically 'destroying the product because a billionaire says so'
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
More Esther Crawford
Having a nightly standup is bad enough, but imagine holding one while everyone around you is being unceremoniously fired pic.twitter.com/aumYS2LW1V— Shantini Vyas (@shantinix) November 4, 2022
To illustrate the chaos: some employees working on Twitter Blue, Musk’s revamped subscription service, were asked to join a video call as colleagues were being laid off last night. During that call, one person lost access, presumably because they were cut. https://t.co/za9DZtjFOY pic.twitter.com/dfZaGIwfgw— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) November 4, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:21 (one year ago) link
I don’t get the impression she’s especially bad relative to the other managers who are staying, all of whom are classic rise and grind types. She’s getting a lot of attention because she happens to be responsible for the first thing they’re trying to ship.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 6 November 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
Desperately screenshotting Dril tweets like I'm trying to save scrolls from the Library of Alexandria as it burns.— Richy Craven (@RichyCraven) November 4, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 November 2022 10:38 (one year ago) link
9:30pm standup? lol
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 6 November 2022 11:23 (one year ago) link
I was previously unfamiliar with the term "standup" in this context, and thought you were talking about a comedian doing a routine on a stage while sacked employees carried their boxes out.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 6 November 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
What is the deal with layoffs?
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 November 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
Better to be laid off by Elon than laid on by him, amirite? *rimshot*
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 6 November 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
I'll be here all week folks! oh hang on
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 6 November 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
Straight up now tell me did you really think you'd work here forever
No no no
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 November 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
tesla got u in a hit and run
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Sunday, 6 November 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
i truly believe that i will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity when i get every single post on hthis fucking website deleted by 2022— wint (@dril) August 24, 2017
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 6 November 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
Feeling sorry for good people who got to show something on the app and get opportunities through it.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 November 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
Not to be overly sincere on main about Twitter, but I think if it does go down something that will be lost is something it offered to me. I started tweeting in my late teens, at a time when I was not in a great place mentally and didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) November 6, 2022
yeah it is an essential broadcast/networking service for a lot of people
― lag∞n, Sunday, 6 November 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
" The moonlight on the bayou A creole tune that fills the air I dream about Magnolias in June And soon I'm wishing that I was there"
― | (Latham Green), Sunday, 6 November 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
Also lol
pic.twitter.com/BM1tksiMA0— Rochelle (@rochdowdenlordy) November 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 November 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
twitter wouldn't load for me for over a minute a little while ago; first time I've seen that in years and year. may have been on my end, I guess, but my gut says no
― akm, Sunday, 6 November 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, November 5, 2022 8:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I think the bigger thing was the twitter post which came off as less of a “slice of like” thing and more as a demonstrative gesture
― mh, Sunday, 6 November 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
tbf if youre going to sleep on the floor you better make sure the boss knows
― lag∞n, Sunday, 6 November 2022 22:24 (one year ago) link