Twitter C/D

The only commentator I trust

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/22/dril-musk-twitter-future/

dont' make me read a taylor lorentz article

its pretty funny tbf

One of my tweets didn’t get any likes in 30 minutes, I declare twtr broken

I’m not sure that we’ve hit advertising bedrock just yet, but we’re like inches away at this point. pic.twitter.com/RbBqO0kD8q

— Garry Shambling (@alex_navarro) November 24, 2022

Without Twitter I’d never be exposed to the Life Dinner Mindset

Business Morons Invent Date Night pic.twitter.com/ON8EfMemaB

— DEI coordinator for sinaloa cartel (@Forever_Wario) November 23, 2022

Closure of Twitter Brussels office prompts online safety fears

Twitter has disbanded its entire Brussels office, sparking concerns among EU officials about whether the social media platform will abide by the bloc’s stringent new rules on policing online content.

Julia Mozer and Dario La Nasa, who were in charge of Twitter’s digital policy in Europe, left the company last week, according to five people with knowledge of the departures.

The executives had led the company’s effort to comply with the EU’s disinformation code and the bloc’s landmark Digital Services Act, which came into force last week and sets new rules on how Big Tech should keep users safe online.

Other Twitter executives in the small but vital Brussels office, seen as a crucial conduit to European policymakers, had left at the start of the month during company-wide cuts that removed around half of its 7,500-strong workforce.

Mozer and La Nasa survived the initial cull, but no longer work there after the company’s new owner Elon Musk issued an ultimatum last week for staff to commit to a “hardcore working culture”. It is unclear whether the pair resigned or were made redundant.

Mozer and La Nasa declined to comment. Twitter did not respond to requests for comment.

Musk supposedly fired Ikuhiro Ihara after a code review! Bizarre. I hope he enjoys the insane compensation he’ll inevitably receive from Google or Meta.

It’s true and he’s dishing:

MLエンジニアは元々そんなにガンガンコードコミットする職種じゃないし、買収前の社風だとテックリードになっちゃうとプランニングとかミーティングで手一杯になりがち。単純にコードのコミット行数を見てるという噂もあって、だとするとさもありなんという気もするな

— nabokov♹ (@nabokov7) November 24, 2022

ML engineers are not originally a type of job that commits so much code, and if you become a tech lead in the company culture before the acquisition, you tend to be full of planning and meetings. There is also a rumor that it simply looks at the number of committed lines of code, so if that's the case, I don't think so

When I thought that, I suddenly got a notice of dismissal!
You wrote that you were found to be incompetent as a result of recent code reviews, but you've never had a code review? w
I was planning to go back to Japan next week and work from Japan, but it turned into a complete winter vacation. Isn't the timing too much

It seems that several other people have been hit, so maybe Mr. Mask finally realized that the timeline should only be in the latest order? There is also a rumor that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXbLyi5wgeg

^don’t know if I remarked on the Written on the Wind reference before#onethread

Latest Tweets is way better than the algorithm feed but if Twitter really ditches the latter user engagement is gonna plummet.

The lines of code thing is stupid for many reasons but the fact that it leads you to fire every IC at staff or above who is doing their job well is my favorite.

It’s fucking real

amazing product sir but i'm slightly concerned about my car randomly slamming the brakes on the highway pic.twitter.com/iH7Hyj6FcN

— SᴡᴇᴇᴘTʜᴇLᴇɢ (@CobraKeiser) November 24, 2022

RW twitter is just a sea of snivelling hentchmen searching for their Bond villain

Ugh why do Elmo stans always have to call him sir, it is so simpy and weird.

In this guy's defense...

weird how just taking screencaps and dropping no @'s keep space karen's simps outta the replies lol

— SᴡᴇᴇᴘTʜᴇLᴇɢ (@CobraKeiser) November 25, 2022

The fact that if I see someone doing targeted harassment now I know there's 100% no point in trying to report does give me pause. I know that doing so previously rarely brought results but still.

Ugh why do Elmo stans always have to call him sir, it is so simpy and weird.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-22/twitter-restores-anti-trans-accounts-and-fuels-hate-groups-say

Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is restoring a string of accounts previously suspended for harassing transgender people, rolling back protections for the LGBTQ community as the country confronts the aftermath of a shooting in a Colorado gay club that left five people dead and dozens wounded.

he is an evil man

Can we pls skip to the part where they're fishing his body out of the lake and it turns out everything he accused other people of doing he was actually doing himself?

Musk said verified accounts under the new system would carry a blue tick – or checkmark – for individuals, a grey tick for “government” and a gold tick for companies.

I'm told the grey tick will also be a 5mb jpg file to further underline the cumbersome nature of government.

Companies who pull advertising or display symptoms of wokebranery could find their gold ticks turn to a desaturated brown with animated flies around it.

I'll come back if I can have an official ❄️ or 🦠 (woke mind virus) next to my name

I just noticed that I have a Verified notifications tab now, despite not having a verified account.

The recommended/trending section is useless as ever but now if I tell it something is spammy or uninteresting (“Fang Fang” specifically) it doesn’t go away.

someone I reported for racial slurs got banned, about two weeks later. this used to take like a few days. i'm amazed it happened at all tbh

Same. Of course, now people Musk has restored are happily posting the footage of the Christchurch massacre, so it’s a drop in the ocean of blood.

this is low-grade on the scale of things to fear or be annoyed at but my (very intermittent) email alerts for tweets now entirely consist of
(a) my OWN TWEETS (very bad, do not read) and
(b) those of a publisher i tried without success to get hold of on twitter to send me a review copy (in the end i bought my own copy)

The algorithm must have changed because last week I posted an innocuous response tweet that ended up getting more likes than I’ve ever gotten before. This is not a humblebrag, I’m saying my tweet was completely stupid and yet outperformed any tweet of mine in 10 years. And then today, kind of the opposite, where someone replying to me with a perfectly boring tweet has so far gotten over 10 likes.

Over 20 likes now

Over 30 likes now. And I stress it is not the slightest bit clever

probably fine. things are goin great pic.twitter.com/a6MbsGJQQ0

— BAKOON (@BAKKOOONN) November 28, 2022

noticed i can no longer paste directly from photos on the mac to the compose tweet box

It's pretty hilarious that they keep hemming about free speech when the bots they have that suspend people are clearly still operating.

I got a week timeout for telling a MAGA politician that I hoped they died in a car accident.

It's really just the human modding that's slowed down

if they made it a "free speech" platform it would be useless to advertisers, which is where they get their revenue. this was always the flaw in elon's masterplan.

It wasn't as bad last night, but the first few dozen results for any city name I search are now escort spam https://t.co/0n9UyWa1YU

— Brendan O'Kane (@bokane) November 27, 2022

sad!

https://t.co/tUChf5Yfkt is creating fake/placeholder accounts for publishers to try to entice them to move there? pic.twitter.com/qlOQr5TFy8

— Laura Hazard Owen (@laurahazardowen) November 28, 2022

Calling Tim Apple a libcuck for not wanting to commit to a nine figure ad campaign when there isn't even anyone to set it up pic.twitter.com/EoOfUmi9sE

— nil nil enjoyer (@lib_crusher) November 28, 2022

Is Twitter going badly, and likely to decline, break down or finish?

Or is whatever happens all what Musk and his political allies want?

I think his political allies are probably happy with what's happening, bar total collapse it's still a big platform for them.

Musk himself I imagine is less happy.

I think his political allies are probably happy with what's happening, bar total collapse it's still a big platform for them.

High-profile Republican members of Congress gained tens of thousands of Twitter followers in the first few weeks of Elon Musk’s reign over the social media network, while their Democratic counterparts experienced a decline, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/27/musk-followers-bernie-cruz/

Lot of people don't know that Bernie Cruz had a couple of Top 5 hits on the Adult Contemporary chart back in the late 70s.

Don't know if this was already mentioned

https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/covid19.html#2021-jul-dec

Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy.

In 2020 Apple deleted Fortnite, which was literally paying them billions a year in IAP. They’d delete Twitter without blinking.

— Daniel Feldman dfeld✧✧✧@hachyd✧✧✧.i✧ (@d_feldman) November 28, 2022

this is true enough, but it's a riskier move than blocking a video game. under a republican congress tim cook will be in front of the commerce committee and live on fox news etc. immediately if apple does anything to twitter.

I just imagined them expanding the "sensitive content hidden, click to view" filter to a much broader set of criteria and then started giggling as I thought of a timeline that's 90% hidden content

yeah i dont think apple wld ban twitter without blinking but i do think they would do it

the thing about apple is that no one company should have that ability to unilaterally change things in the market, but half the time it's super funny when they do

Yeah lol

They should allow porno tho