Twitter C/D

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

applefans

interesting dynamic where the hardware company still has it over the software guys

does the iphone app just not let you click thru the sensitive content warning. idk how this stuff works ive never had an iphone

to help me not be on twitter as much and so i don't get push notifications, i don't have the app, just the mobile web page...generally i haven't seen a lot of the problems people have been talking about, but this morning my notifications were behaving weird, not loading in properly

naw u can click on it xp i think what sibly was referring to was porn generally on the app store like a porn app for porn

yeah, porn games, what have you

the point is makng things available in the app store. you'd still be able to get to twitter via mobile browser (which is an experience that sucks, on purpose, but twitter could make their mobile web interface better)

I use the browser not the app. It’s fine.

my notifications are fucked now, reset to like a month ago and everything since then is gone

(in app and in browser)

Yeah same here. Bemusing.

Impeach Elon

Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, who was booted off Twitter in 2013, has had his account restored. pic.twitter.com/sEv5UDVUw2

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 2, 2022

Other Neos reinstated today as well. Just about time to leave, as much as I loved helping Robyn Hitchcock this morning when he asked for Dylan covers to play at an upcoming show. It really is the direction interaction with heroes and favorites that keep me stuck on Twitter.

gotta get HItchcock on mastodon

What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022

hes down bad

laptop drop at 5! bring beers

It, uh, might be time to think about leaving Twitter, everyone

he's going to undelete all the tweets where people posted nude Hunter cranking hog