Twitter C/D

trump back on twitter is inevitable. especially if/when twitter starts circling the drain, you know elon musk isn't going to be able to avoid the temptation of putting him back on, all the new traffic and reliving the glory days of the angry horrible man screaming via text every couple hours

oh I'm sure elmo will unban him, but at this point it doesn't even seem clear whether or not Twitter will last until the end of the month

Best-case scenario is Elon somehow shakes him down for a lot of money to get access again. Which he absolutely should.

Trump fundraising emails start talking about "Help ME get BACK on TWITTER!"

lmao

12 years ago, Twitter’s office used a Mac Mini to tunnel into the servers. One day, an IT guy found it in the closet.

“Anyone know who owns this?”

“Unplug it. Someone will show up.”

Everyone lost access to servers. Huge crisis. It became known as the “Load Bearing Mac Mini.”

— Ben Sandofsky (@sandofsky) November 14, 2022

they fired the people who manage the service that serves ... tweets. for being rude to him on slack.

this is why they should let me run it i understand twitter is all about tweets

Pretty soon it's going to be Elon alone, in a server room, furiously dictating tweets while trying to keep multiple racks up and running like that one scene with Zach Cherry in Severance.

this is the perfect time to re-introduce fleets

Xpost ....Godfather theme plays

Pretty soon it's going to be Elon alone, in a server room, furiously dictating tweets while trying to keep multiple racks up and running like that one scene with Zach Cherry in Severance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4WrPkKc2Wg

lol

it'll be Elon & Gary

bro what is going on at twitter pic.twitter.com/tmqOUG5Tzv

— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) November 15, 2022

Gary is fired.

“Unplug it. Someone will show up.” hahaah worst advice ever for sevrrers

this (literally) kicks off in a few days 😉

I've seen people literally say "If you post about the world cup I'm cutting you" - I think this is going to be a quiet one (though people will argue about whether that's this world cup or the death of Twitter)

twitter rn feels like early modern europe with everyone waiting around for the apocalypse and wondering what’s taking so long

— katie kadue (@kukukadoo) November 15, 2022

[seinfeld A and B plots colliding] pic.twitter.com/KxSLEAGWku

— Tetrahedron (@greenTetra_) November 16, 2022

lool

ahhhhh

As an engineer at Twitter, I can confirm that Elon Musk doesn’t understand anything about our website, or coding in general. Not gonna lie, we laugh REALLY hard about it behind his back. We’ve been calling him “the CEO,” but it stands for Code Efficiency 0.

— diana thirst (@rlycalm) November 15, 2022

read replies to feel good

really do think the World Cup is gonna take this place down

Hope there's lots of goals

I have noticed a lot more timeouts and 500s in the past week or so than I had in the preceding, say, several months. It's already struggling but it's not attracting widespread notice probably because it's a bit subtle and people are used to all software being kind of broken all of the time

yeah i mostly use the website and its always been a lil buggy, fantom notifications, failing to load replies etc, havent noticed it being worse yet

I had a friend who was locked out yesterday because Twitter forgot how to send the SMS with the login code.

uh oh

https://www.inforisktoday.com/twitter-two-factor-authentication-has-vulnerability-a-20475

tl;dr you can turn off SMS 2FA for any account whose phone number you know

lol

is that bad?

eh, apologies, the details of how twitter does sms 2fa mean it's difficult to spoof a number, i.e. this is bad but it's not very bad.

Ok, it's been pointed out to me that using short codes for this should make it much harder to spoof - they're routed inside the carrier, and the carrier already knows your number

— Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) November 16, 2022

signed back in to read this :| but also lol

What’s a random tweet that pop up in your head and have you dead every time??

— 🍀 (@Wh0IsHim) November 8, 2022

guys hear me out

now that Musk has driven the value of Twitter into the dumper, what if Twitter users did a massive global GoFundMe and bought him out and ran it as a cooperative, like, I dunno, the Green Bay Packers

or Barcelona

'MORE THAN A FEED!'

it could be a pioneer in a new way of running a business, where users and customers are literally in charge of it, and the staff would be represented at board and exec level too

i think what i'm asking is.... "what is to be done?"

down! down! to goblin town
we go! my lad!

think of the mods tho

i will never think of the mods

:-(

Still the best.

quite a good 48hrs or so:
- "I don't ever shower bc I have adhd"
- "cooking food for people is a violation of consent"
- "poor people should stop doing so much dry cleaning and Peloton"
- "If you invite me to an event with food I'm calling the police"

— stuart (@punished_stu) November 17, 2022

non-showering ADHD person is really missing out, hot showers are pretty much the only time my brain quits spinning around

Just FYI, since it seems like Ragnarok is a-comin':

All right, I’m out before the ceiling caves in. Subscribe to my newsletter.https://t.co/McvxexBGlE

— burning ambulance (NOW A RECORD LABEL!) (@burn_amb) November 18, 2022

Yeah there’s a real scrambling for the lifeboats vibe rn

Time for RSS to make a big comeback

Just can’t turn away from the trainwreck. If only NYT had a Twitter collapse meter I could watch to know pseudo-objectively how close we’re getting to impact. Are bookies taking odds on when it will happen? I guess “website total collapse” would have to be very clearly defined if so.

RSS would be awesome if A) anyone websites still used it and B) there were options for shitposting (I am recovering to be clear). I still was regularly using the Netvibes RSS client within the past couple of years but it seems like even over that span the popularity of RSS has seriously waned.

what's great is that in the free marketplace of ideas, the competition to replace twitter is inevitably going to lead to innovation and a better communications product for us all

ilx will lose at least 25% of its content when Twitter goes down for good

Thank god I was tired of people pasting tweets

There should be an ILX template to just post our own posts as tweets. For the sake of nostalgia.