Twitter C/D

so if we're intellectually honest, none of this should be surprising https://t.co/zUhgnmFgp9 pic.twitter.com/LyO8Xgi5we

— The Chancery Daily and 99 others (@chancery_daily) December 12, 2022

A Ryan Seacrest Type

post-election this is funnier

blake masters was just too fucking weird to vote for

elon failing to heed the message of the election, that this weirdo accusing everyone of being pedos shit is unpopular

Ad traffic at #Twitter.

(via @DoubleLJSquared) @scottlincicome @WSJ https://t.co/zPGT6U0Quk pic.twitter.com/IZCrL03zC6

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) December 12, 2022

wow thats bad

Especially when you consider that the previous average was already below where it needed to be

https://i.imgur.com/VGoposM.png

no wait ads are good now

(idk anything about Puck but this is a nice headline on a Monday morning)

i've seen ppl say there are like 5x more ads than ever but i hardly see any any more -- i have blocked a lot down the years (a LOT) but i can't have blocked them all. i do normally see them like second post down if i click on someone's account but i just tried blocking the first one i say doing that and now i'n no longer getting them that way either!

Especially when you consider that the previous average was already below where it needed to be

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, December 12, 2022 12:39 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

fwiw it was only below where it needed to be since musk tried to destroy the company during 2022. net income was positive in every quarter since 2017 except Q2 2020 and the last two. it was a profitable business! except for one quarter when the world stopped, and two quarters when the business was paralyzed by musk. room to improve? sure. but it wasn't a loss-making business until he started fucking with it.

Former top Twitter official forced to leave home due to threats amid ‘Twitter Files’ release
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-files-yoel-roth

if musk is suggesting dude might be a pedo, and he's getting death threats over it... i feel like that is pretty actionable?

Probably

Twitter has dissolved the Trust & Safety Council pic.twitter.com/R2wS9BsqA2

— Anthony DeRosa (@Anthony) December 13, 2022

if musk is suggesting dude might be a pedo, and he's getting death threats over it... i feel like that is pretty actionable?

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, December 12, 2022 8:35 PM (fourteen minutes ago)

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/06/unsworth-vs-musk-pedo-guy-defamation-trial-verdict.html

kind of surprised that people just don’t call elon “pedo guy” as an affectionate nickname

Maybe worth noting Vernon Unsworth's lawyer against Musk was Lin Wood?

Forgot that dude existed. Tbf 2021 was ten years ago

we had such an amazing celebrity lawyer run that’ll make for great podcasts. Wood, Avenatti, a handful of misfits and returns like Giuliani. just a great run of complete wacko degenerates in the news

The second post here, about Platformer deplatforming itself from Twitter (not entirely, but mostly) seems pretty otm to me. (The War on Bots post also good and telling.)

https://www.platformer.news/p/how-elon-botched-his-war-on-bots

Meanwhile, Musk’s full-throated embrace of the conservative mainstream has actively degraded Twitter as a news source. Because he is the platform’s CEO, its most-followed user, and topic No. 1 nearly every day there now, opinions about Musk now dominate the timeline. (Candidly, Zoe and I have both contributed to and benefited from this phenomenon.)

I imagine all this is a lot of fun for Musk, and maybe even worth the $44 billion he overpaid for it. But it can be hell for anyone who showed up to talk sports, tech, entertainment, or anything else.

... Now, awaiting Musk’s latest tweets, I find myself anxious that one of his former employees could be physically assaulted or worse over what the CEO is posting. I don’t know how, in that environment, to make little jokes about Google’s latest failed messaging app, or bad PR pitches, or any of the other bits I have been doing on Twitter forever. I don’t know how to pretend that what is happening is not actually happening. I don’t want to provide, even in the smallest of ways, a respectable backdrop against which hate speech against my fellow LGBTQ people, or Black or Jewish or any other people, can flourish.

god the way he handled getting booed was so fucking pathetic. first banning anyone who posted the video on Twitter, then claiming that 90% of the people there were actually cheering, then having Bari Weiss drop "the Twitter files part 5" in the middle of the day, then deleting the 90% tweet, then claiming he actually couldn't talk because there was a fight in the audience, even though Chappelle was talking the entire time

Popehat is out — and when you've lost Popehat ...

https://popehat.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter

Numbers off a cliff for someone with 30k followers.

Uh-huh yeah these are the good signs of engagement pic.twitter.com/J0sWpwBu2R

— Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) December 13, 2022

The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" but it's much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.

— Avid Halaby (@AvidHalaby) December 12, 2022

he said "branch covidians" yesterday and about 500,000 people indicated that they liked that

making it even lamer that originally was a nickname for antivaxers

what... what is it a nickname for now?

People who believe in Covid?

For real it's a name for someone like me, who is wearing a mask, as I write this.

it seems like a "fake news" thing where there was a 7-10 day period in which it referred to totally made up stories, and then soon afterward referred to any truthful story

NEW: Twitter currently does not have admin access to some of its GitHub repos. These repos contain Twitter source code (much of it is open source; some is not). This includes code for companies Twitter acquired, like Smyte. 1/

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) December 13, 2022

is that good

Numbers off a cliff for someone with 30k followers.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, December 13, 2022 3:44 AM (nine hours ago)

in my mind i demarcate old twitter and current twitter by when tweets started getting way more retweets/favs than 1k. in the old days, having a 1k retweet / 1k liked tweet was a pretty big deal. tweets just didn't do numbers, everybody had a chronological timeline, everybody was pretty silo'd to only the accounts they followed and only got exposure to new accounts through retweets. i think you could check for the most popular tweets on favstar, and there weren't really very many tweets that were able to do 10k plus engagements.

at some point twitter introduced the algorithmic timeline and also started putting tweets liked by the people you follow into your timeline randomly. i kind of hated it but no question that seemed to exponentiate user engagement and i associate twitter's current iteration with all the stuff they've done to increase engagement, make sure you're looking at stuff outside your bubble.

anyway hopefully all those engagement stims are breaking and twitter will itself collapse and sink into the ocean.

That platformer quote is good on how sour the whole thing feels now.

yeah theres some idea that people will quit on principle when really the more likely scenario is they just stop coming back because they dont like it anymore

like i never quit facebook i just stopped looking at it

there's something very satisfying about deleting, but I've only done it with FB and twitter

yeah theres some idea that people will quit on principle when really the more likely scenario is they just stop coming back because they dont like it anymore

― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 13, 2022 11:33 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

seems like people are posting less and some solid peeps i follow arent posting anymore? idk the feed feels different of late.

Like I’ve been saying the posting era is over as a mass phenomenon, it’s all niche posts from hereon out

posters returning to the essence

back to basics, just four posters in a room

It's pretty amazing how thoroughly he's broken the thing so quickly. I think we (or I, anyway) underestimated his need to be the main character — it's like if David Zaslav's whole goal was to make and star in his own HBO show.

Yeah I’m not gonna “deactivate” I’m just gonna lose interest because Twitter is way less fun now. So many of the good accounts have just…stopped

Like, this is getting promoted into my timeline. And I don't even follow Musk. Just seems pathetic.

Does anyone else get livid when they get on Twitter only to find out people have different opinions? @elonmusk has turned this into a dangerous chamber of free thought, reason and logic. I’m deleting my account next year.

— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) December 13, 2022

Like, this is getting promoted into my timeline. And I don't even follow Musk. Just seems pathetic.

🐦[Does anyone else get livid when they get on Twitter only to find out people have different opinions? @elonmusk🕸 has turned this into a dangerous chamber of free thought, reason and logic. I’m deleting my account next year.
— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) December 13, 2022🕸]🐦

ah, So u persecute Jared Fogle just because he has different beliefs? Do Tell. (girls get mad at me) Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it

— wint (@dril) November 1, 2015

god bless dril

musk being the main character every day is totally missing the point of the main character (new weird guy every day)

this is how you know it's over

BREAKING: Since Many have asked for this, I'm releasing the DRIL ARCHIVES in 4 distinct Flavors. Click for Links https://t.co/9nJ93UKpa4 pic.twitter.com/2689IehZCB

— wint (@dril) December 12, 2022

i wonder which one is best

like i never quit facebook i just stopped looking at it

Yeah this. Don't know if I ever actually "quit" myspace either.

Even when I leave Twitter I'm gonna keep my account active just so no one can zombify it.