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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhX4liVtuCc
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
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
― devvvine, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
tbf we havent heard much from product, its all engineering
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 November 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
i am elena ferrante— stasis baby (@HarronWawker) November 18, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
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*.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
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
― calstars, Friday, 18 November 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
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/KWWcujTzVYYoutube https://t.co/tKRee9nL1X And our websites:⁰Harvard Gazette https://t.co/oFaCjSenng Website https://t.co/0SI0qxgJXU pic.twitter.com/xNC92qwFc7— Harvard University (@Harvard) November 18, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
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?"
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
go on mastodon harvard u coward
― mark s, Friday, 18 November 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 18 November 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
yeah
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 November 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
"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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
Hate to have my experience of watching a double-fisting video ruined by an autoplay Toy Story 5 commercial.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
My twitter was hacked pic.twitter.com/9RU5Q85eYj— Cardi B (@iamcardib) November 18, 2022
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 November 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
"Civil conversations"? Well, that doesn't sound very fun.
― emil.y, Friday, 18 November 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
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
― 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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 November 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
he really is pre-adolescent in so many ways
Noam would've been a better name than Post
― rob, Friday, 18 November 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
Noam if you want toNoam around the world
Definitely a missed trick.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 November 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
in all ways afaict
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 18 November 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
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
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 18 November 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
So by 'hardcore,' he really meant hardcore adult content
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 18 November 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 November 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
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
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
Hmmmm.
https://player.fm/series/its-complicated-3079902/whats-so-complicated-about-consent-decrees-destroying-twitter-and-ftx
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 18 November 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
twitter web being a lil buggy now embedded tweets showing up as not available when i click through
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
Been seeing that too
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 19 November 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 02:40 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Saturday, 19 November 2022 03:39 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Saturday, 19 November 2022 03:42 (one year ago) link
uh oh
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 03:49 (one year ago) link
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
― 龜, Saturday, 19 November 2022 03:55 (one year ago) link
Have met that kid, he moved to FL not long after.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 November 2022 04:56 (one year ago) link
hell of a commute
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 November 2022 05:58 (one year ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 19 November 2022 06:52 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
the feral hogs thing was some all time bad posting, a million people failing to understand that the original post was funnier than any possible riff they could do on it
― ciderpress, Saturday, 19 November 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
That feral hogs patter is fucking dreadful.— twitch.tv/Limmy (@DaftLimmy) August 7, 2019
I think cunts should need a patter licence.— twitch.tv/Limmy (@DaftLimmy) August 7, 2019
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
“I think cunts should need a patter license” pops into my head all the time (for no particular reason ahem)
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, 19 November 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
good mourning!
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 19 November 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
Don't know if this has been posted and it is ukpoly but the point is v good: we need our own twitter.
It doesn't explore whether that could be Mastodon.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/11/when-networks-die
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 19 November 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
ok i will build a new twitter (twitter2)
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 November 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link