Twitter C/D

yeah that was real bad, just a terrible idea, they shouldnt have said that

It’s unreal. I assumed that was why they were publicly claiming they froze changes but then they shipped a new feature.

lmao here's another fun problem
https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-payroll-finance-department-resigns-en-masse-under-elon-musk-2022-11

A large portion of Twitter's financial organization, including its payroll department, left the company on Thursday in response to an ultimatum from Elon Musk that has seemingly backfired.

Along with the payroll department resigning, Twitter's US Tax team and its financial reporting team also resigned, two people familiar with the matter said, matching several internal messages seen by Insider. All three segments of the company were part of Twitter's finance and accounting organization.

yikes

i detecting a general no one works there anymore pattern at twitter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDP2rcuc_3A

good luck finding a new ceo for this shit-fire, earlonn

twitter's most senior engineer (who quit in september) says the ranked timeline is broken. (i can't tell. it's always garbage afaict and i have it set to "latest").

btw I think timeline ranking is broken 🤷‍♂️

— Mike Cvet (@mikecvet) November 18, 2022

Look if it’s true that 20% of the people do 80% of the work then it follows that 1% of the people can do 99% of the work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhX4liVtuCc

yeah have found the straight faced eulogising for all these legendary genius twitter workers pretty funny given the user experience has got progressively worse for like a decade

tbf we havent heard much from product, its all engineering

yeah i haven't heard any eulogising for product at all.

it is pretty cool that you can see a goal get scored in the world cup in twitter's monitoring system before you see it on your tv. the product was terrible though.

I've been there for over five years, never known a good user experience.

Nevertheless, if you curate your timeline you will see good things, etc.

reasonable mans twitter debrief

Why I left @twitter or rather why I did not sign up for “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0

🧵

— Peter Clowes (@peterclowes) November 18, 2022

lol was literally just about to post that. Yeah, it's a balanced view and as such it illustrates the idiocy of Musk's approach. That's the kind of guy who was probably looking for good reasons to stay and just ran out of them.

i am elena ferrante

— stasis baby (@HarronWawker) November 18, 2022

that thread also gets at the problem musk's email introduced which was a feedback look that meant that the more people who left, the stronger the argument for leaving *even if you like musk*.

Seeing as everyone’s posting where you can find them if Twitter goes down I just thought I’d say: if you want me I’ll be in the bar.

— Tracey Thorn (@tracey_thorn) November 18, 2022

A friend who works at Harvard says the university has told everyone to pause all Twitter activity. I assume that means official Harvard accounts, not personal accounts. Anyway, this is the lead tweet on the main Harvard feed right now.

Just a reminder of our other social accounts:

Instagram https://t.co/gRberHA3jY
Facebook https://t.co/qLE30Lng6c
LinkedIn https://t.co/KWWcujTzVY
Youtube https://t.co/tKRee9nL1X

And our websites:⁰
Harvard Gazette https://t.co/oFaCjSenng
Website https://t.co/0SI0qxgJXU pic.twitter.com/xNC92qwFc7

— Harvard University (@Harvard) November 18, 2022

Additionally there were rumors the new vision might be radically different. Not just subscription based but possibly having adult content be a core component of subscription offerings. That is a BIG departure and one I wouldn’t get behind. https://t.co/zCXdG5f5nl

— Peter Clowes (@peterclowes) November 18, 2022

"Why promote your OnlyFans on Twitter, when Twitter could be OnlyFans?"

go on mastodon harvard u coward

if there's one mentality I've noticed a lot in right wing circles it's that all these extremely complex things are actually incredibly easy and that 90% of this country gets paid to twiddle their thumbs. Trump ran his whole presidency that way ("who knew health care could be so complicated?"), crypto bros are losing billions by convincing themselves you don't really need banks, and now Elon is starting his takeover of Twitter by cutting like 75% of their employees. whats funny about this to me is I suspect Twitter is kinda where this whole mentality really started to snowball, by letting everyone give dumb, short reactionary takes to every possible subject. and now Elon is running his business by soliciting the opinions of the dumbest people on Earth. sucks it's ruining something I like but also: lmao

yeah

There was no vision shared with us. No 5 year plan like at Tesla. Nothing more than what anyone can see on Twitter. It allegedly is coming for those who stayed but the ask was blind faith and required signing away the severance offer before seeing it. Pure loyalty test.

— Peter Clowes (@peterclowes) November 18, 2022

"Why be the Onlyfans free advertising service when you could just be Onlyfans" is almost a decent business plan, if you hadn't paid $44bn for a service that depended on Disney advertising Pixar and Marvel movies to survive.

Hate to have my experience of watching a double-fisting video ruined by an autoplay Toy Story 5 commercial.

My twitter was hacked pic.twitter.com/9RU5Q85eYj

— Cardi B (@iamcardib) November 18, 2022

That thread from Peter was really interesting. That kinda depoliticised mindset at work ("I won't hate anyone I don't know" or "I'll be exploited to shit for a vision"), but it's someone's reality, and all he knows.

I put myself on the waitlist for Post (from the guy who did Waze): https://post.news/

I have no real expectations it will turn out better than the last 4 or 5 new-exciting-social-media things I've checked out (lol BeReal), but why not.

"Civil conversations"? Well, that doesn't sound very fun.

this is the thing.. you only get people willing to get “extremely hardcore” if you sell them into a vision but musk has offered nothing

― Tracer Hand, Friday, November 18, 2022 2:33 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

musk spent Thursday in meetings across different divisions of Twitter, making personal appeals to the *many* employees attempting to resign.

His pitch, paraphrased:

“I know how to win. If you want to win, stay and work for me.”

w/@RMac18 https://t.co/GsYVtrtrdU

— rat king 🐀 (@MikeIsaac) November 18, 2022

people who choose to work at twitter (rather than its peers in the tech industry) don't care about "winning", whatever the fuck that means. they care about getting above market rate comp and some of them care about the particular product/eng problems at twitter and some of them are stuck because of their visa. very few of them care about owning the libs or making billions or whatever "winning" means to elon.

he really is pre-adolescent in so many ways

Noam would've been a better name than Post

Noam if you want to
Noam around the world

Definitely a missed trick.

he really is pre-adolescent in so many ways

in all ways afaict

from a security perspective, now is the time to look for areas of few feathers covering tiwtter's mangy sides - I can't imagine trying to man helm's deep in this situation

So by 'hardcore,' he really meant hardcore adult content

the onlyfans thing predates musk fwiw although he seems to be nuts enough to do it https://www.theverge.com/23327809/twitter-onlyfans-child-sexual-content-problem-elon-musk

if Elon somehow breaks the logjam of the mainstream payments industry's aversion to pornography he will have accidentally done something good but I don't think he actually will do that

Hmmmm.

https://player.fm/series/its-complicated-3079902/whats-so-complicated-about-consent-decrees-destroying-twitter-and-ftx

twitter web being a lil buggy now embedded tweets showing up as not available when i click through

Been seeing that too

thread

Other people have already done this, but I’d love to see your favorite funny tweets of all time. I’ll start. pic.twitter.com/KISPWBvceu

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) November 18, 2022

I noticed this as well

incredible indictment that everyone is desperately looking for somewhere to meet and talk to people, and no one has even mentioned Zuckerberg's $70bn metaverse

— Luke Bailey (@imbadatlife) November 18, 2022

hmmm it might be happening

Pushshift is already seeing a larger number of server side errors coming back from Twitter's API. Approximately 25-30% of all API requests are now failing.

Generally we see a failure rate well under 1%. Error rates have been increasing steadily since Nov 16. pic.twitter.com/FXc6K4Geb6

— jasonbaumgart✧✧✧@info✧✧✧.excha✧✧✧ (Mastodon) (@jasonbaumgartne) November 18, 2022

uh oh

BREAKING NEWS: A 6-year-old boy is floating away in a hot air balloon. Watch live: http://www.cnn.com/live

— CNN (@CNN) October 15, 2009

all these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. time to die

Have met that kid, he moved to FL not long after.

hell of a commute

I watched 30-50 feral hogs glitter in the dark near the Tannhoüser gate. All these moments will be lost in time, like tweets in rain

— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) November 18, 2022

CBS News and its owned and operated stations are “pausing” activity on Twitter; blaming “uncertainty” on the platform. pic.twitter.com/Pv1gEQjQJH

— Jim Lokay (@LokayFOX5) November 19, 2022