Twitter C/D

Feel like Elon is entering "let's just do it and be legends" territory.

site already seems to have broken. scrolling down replies keeps jumping back to the top of the page

The chaos continues. Twitter pulls the plug on Twitter Blue, subscriptions and paid-for verification blue checkmark no longer available.

— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) November 11, 2022

Huh interesting anyway anyone want to fuck the moon? https://t.co/SrBoVDEer3

— SpaceX (@SpaceXOfficiall) November 11, 2022

Incredible 1-2

is it really scrapped? too funny

I don’t even care if this is true

Twitter Blue has been permanently disabled after a verified Nintendo Macedonia account posted a picture of pregnant Luigi showing his prolapsed butthole to Waluigi. It was viewed 8 million times.

— Nude Gingrich (official) (@JarJarFan69) November 11, 2022

lol pic.twitter.com/E6zfEDTbs6

— Arbeitology (@Arbeit_Fish) November 11, 2022

lmao pic.twitter.com/eAlWNGKeP1

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) November 11, 2022

I changed my stance on paid verification, I like it now pic.twitter.com/GSFJLMFZbV

— Stanzi ❤️‍🔥 (@stanzipotenza) November 10, 2022

I'm enjoying how the What's Happening? list is carrying on, ignoring with grim determination the main reason most people (?) are even looking at twitter

This NYT article…

In case you’re in any doubt about who got to stay:

At Goldbird, Twitter’s revenue division, the company had to bring back those who ran key money-generating products that “no one else knows how to operate,” people with knowledge of the business said. One manager agreed to try rehiring some laid-off workers, but expressed concerns that they were “weak, lazy, unmotivated and they may even be against an Elon Twitter,” two people familiar with the matter said.

Last week, Ms. Crawford shared a photo of herself sleeping at Twitter’s San Francisco offices in a sleeping bag and an eye mask, with the hashtag #SleepWhereYouWork.

Her message rubbed some colleagues the wrong way. They wondered in private chats why they should commit long working hours to a man who could fire them, according to five people and messages seen by The Times. On Twitter, Ms. Crawford responded to what she called “hecklers” by saying she had received supportive messages from other entrepreneurs and “builders of all types.”

On Wednesday, workers in Twitter’s New York office were unable to use the Wi-Fi after a server room overheated and knocked it offline, two people said.

One manager agreed to try rehiring some laid-off workers, but expressed concerns that they were “weak, lazy, unmotivated and they may even be against an Elon Twitter,” two people familiar with the matter said.

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ffs the verified accounts were going great

just noticed they changed the blue check icon to actually be blue in dark mode on web twitter important work

https://status.twitter.com/ is still down

its up theres just some issue with the certificate getting that chrome danger warning but its there when i clicked through, kinda worse than being down tho

once clicked through it does show https as working so idk weird

App's working fine on my phone

It’s still in the App Store in Canada. But what the heck are all those other subscriptions? pic.twitter.com/4a5nowOXDO

— Bridget (@organikx) November 11, 2022

an angle i hadn't thought of, willing to bet Twitter in Germany is trending with lederhosen and oktoberfest

Musk’s Twitter purge has created all kinds of bizarre ripple effects across the whole world which are both interesting and confounding. For instance, Japanese Twitter users have noticed that the site’s Trending Topics in the country no longer have any news in them and have filled up with topics like anime and video games. The tweet above from Business Insider Japan reporter Ikuko Takeshita who explains that media outlets in the country were making Twitter Moments to promote their stories, which were then boosted by the Twitter’s curation team, which no longer exists.

lmao

Did Twitter Blue tweet just cost Eli Lilly $LLY billions?

Yes. pic.twitter.com/w4RtJwgCVK

— Rafael Shimunov is on Mastodon (@rafaelshimunov) November 11, 2022

ho lee shit

too good, twitters getting sued lol

never thought when I was a kid that if I was clever and made a burner account on a website that I could tank a multi-billion dollar global company. I didn't dream big enough.

i'm glad that eli lilly lost some stock value but is this going to be the kind of thing where they've miraculously recovered all of the lost value by next wednesday?

they'll argue that they'd have earned trillons more in that time!

twitter will not get sued because they are protected by Section 230

If Kissinger outlives Twitter pic.twitter.com/9bUaCx7rjX

— lil pom poko jerk (@rajandelman) November 11, 2022

Thursday evening, another blue-checkmark account posing as Eli Lilly with the handle LiIlyPadCo, tweeted a parody of the drug maker's apology, writing: "We apologize to those who were have been served a misleading message from a fake Lilly account about the cost of diabetic care. Humalog is now $400. We can do this whenever we want and there's nothing you can do about it. Suck it. Our official Twitter account is @LiIlyPadCo." Amid replies, the account responded, "$500 now. You want to keep going?" The account has since been suspended.

Eli Lilly lost billions in its stock valuation, probably on a very temporary basis. The real losses weren't to the company, but to all the stockholders who panic-sold at far below the market price prior to the tweet. Some of those will be very large pension funds, hedge funds and mutual funds, who will be pissed off as hell.

Eli Lilly will just jack up the price for insulin, they'll come out okay

Lol

Lol: Twitter sent an HR email to every laid off employee acknowledging it's late getting people their separation agreements and release of claims. But the company messed up the BCC and it has become a reply-all catastrophe.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 11, 2022

twitter will not get sued because they are protected by Section 230

― akm, Friday, November 11, 2022 2:21 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean they have been sued for this before, im not a lawyer but i dont think 230 allows for wanton negligence, and even if it did they could still get sued

(also NAL): the blue check is provided/published by twitter itself not a third party, so 230 might not help them if the argument is that the verification service is the root cause not the tweet's content

Creating a Hobby Lobby account rn brb

twitter will not get sued because they are protected by Section 230

― akm, Friday, November 11, 2022 2:21 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

right but it makes the debate around the _future_ of 230 more salient.

fwiw it seems the eli lilly drop was nothing to do with twitter

Eli Lilly is down 5% because the market for their most profitable drug, a $125k/yr mAb IL-17 inhibitor, fell 5%. This is why Novartis, their major competitor with Cosentyx, is also down the same amount

Not everything is about Twitter! https://t.co/LSe1wzm7Aw pic.twitter.com/gyfOu61E9F

— Quantian (@quantian1) November 11, 2022

Nice to know that, Musk or no Musk, unsupported claims that support people's priors and are attached to a nice-looking graph can still use Twitter to rocket around the internet

what a journey for eli lilly losing billions and the lessons i learned on the way

The first tweet here made me laugh so hard.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhQe9lYUoAAMx2D.jpg

Omnicom, the massive advertising firm that represents McDonald's, Apple, Unilever, and Johnson & Johnson and 5,000 other companies, has now recommended that all its clients pause Twitter ad spending.

— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) November 12, 2022

xp so hideously perfect

The greatest social media app.

So long, @TeslaReal. It was fun while it lasted.
We will never forget your brief run - a 🧵 of SS memories. pic.twitter.com/ZcD3UFECsJ

— PARODY Buffy Summers and Mr. Pointy (@buffyann1998) November 11, 2022

Bullying...is good

Lol pic.twitter.com/B3u1c8O8OP

— j (@jrc1921) November 12, 2022

https://status.twitter.com/ is still down

― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, November 11, 2022 9:49 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol the twimg.com cert is being applied to the site. someone screwed up their proxy settings, sounds like

Scoop from within Twitter: small things are breaking, not enough engineers to fix them.

Noticed that notification counts are not showing? The BE service powering it is down since Thursday. A bug was filed, but the team that would fix it is full on with verification work.

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 12, 2022

This thread makes the point that the World Cup is coming. The site used to break every time someone scored a goal in the World Cup.

it's up to the goalkeepers to keep twitter up, this year

shame this tweet did numbers. They’ll fix it now.

*gets popcorn* pic.twitter.com/h6hWQbbtzZ

— Andrew Z¡gler (@✧✧✧@coolsoc✧✧✧.c✧✧✧) (@andrewzigler) November 11, 2022

me refusing to leave twitter until it blows up: pic.twitter.com/jsJa3mgzVP

— JRR Jokien (Parody) 🗡️🏹🪓 (@joshcarlosjosh) November 11, 2022

so i saw this on blind - this is what the goons think of tweeps pic.twitter.com/Fwtt7MyBL5

— 🫡 jun✧✧✧@ma✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧ (@junosz) November 12, 2022

congrats luke you're famous