Twitter C/D

Tweetdeck still works but I guess that's because Twitter owns it?

Yup. (That was always the client I used, FWIW.)

https://www.ft.com/content/3cb1c98d-2f83-4838-9370-3f6817de6278

article about esther crawford - not really much here i think, other than that she comes from a family of christian cultists, which totally makes sense

I grew up in a cult. We had lots of rules (can’t cut hair, no makeup, no pants, no tv, no secular music, etc) and hierarchical leadership. We believed it was the “end times” so I lived in fear of doing anything wrong & being left behind. I exited on my own when I was 19. https://t.co/t6u7VlJE0T pic.twitter.com/0EzfqBICbA

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) April 16, 2022

Replacing one cult with another.

one cult
or another
they're gonna find you

Meet the new cult, same as the old cult

Cult
Gonna give it up
Or they'll take your life away

Her ideas have not always been welcomed. Crawford was among the proponents for Twitter’s controversial and now-halted plan to introduce a feature that would allow users to offer videos of adult content behind a paywall similar to that posted on subscriptions site OnlyFans, according to two people familiar with the matter.

lol chickened out on Elon's only idea that would actually make money

only took 15 years to use a font that wont let you play the replace lowercase l with uppercase i trick

https://i.imgur.com/vyh6D1Z.png

Replacing one cult with another.

when i click on a notification now for who likes my tweets, it takes me to my tweet where i have click on the likes to see the full list. 2 clicks where before it was 1 click.

more clicking = more hardcore

see like this is a potential twitter killer tho it will prob be terrible but still you cant just copy

Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are back with a new company. I talked to Systrom about their first app: Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text https://t.co/oYmMNQPLew pic.twitter.com/yKwKy5VnqI

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) January 31, 2023

btw i invented that idea ten years ago https://web.archive.org/web/20140910184737/https://joe-sch.kinja.com/i-fixed-twitter-totally-algorithmic-twitter-1631099310

I predict a social media site where users can only post symbols/emojis etc, no text. Maybe it already exists!

xp that’s what I call good kinja

tyvm

I predict a social media site where users can only post symbols/emojis etc, no text. Maybe it already exists!

― a mix between aphex twin and nirvana with the swagger of count basie (Matt #2), Tuesday, January 31, 2023 3:50 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

remember yo

i was gonna cite yo

did anyone ever use it? i've never heard from anyone who signed up

i had it i sent some yos

i always thought how that one came together was "hey - what if when you're outside someone's apartment you could just send them a 'yo' with an app? there's probably a million other ways it could be used like that too!"

but then it turned out that there was only one use case, and they had already thought of it

xpost did you ever use it in a situation that wasn't letting someone know you were at their apartment?

i just did it for fun, iirc obvs it started as a joke but then they came up with the more serious use case of having accounts that were called like "its going to rain in cleveland today" and when that was true they would send you a yo, not sure if that ever happened tho

I've come round to really wanting something like Yo now but only if 'Yo' was just the default and you could choose your own one word with different individuals.

there was also wens the social network ilx made up with a ten character limit

So the big innovation for the Twitter killer is not having a chronological timeline of people you follow, in favor of an entirely “for you” generated timeline, the thing everyone hates about Twitter’s recent changes and that made everyone under the age of 50 stop using Facebook a half decade ago?

yes except now that tiktok is popular they are trying it again

Can’t wait for the text version of 20 million Xennials doing the Wednesday dance with dead eyes to drive engagement.

lmfao

Artifact — the name represents the merging of articles, facts, and artificial intelligence

its so funny when media ppl decide the world doesnt have enough facts

tho tbf it seems like its more of an algo rss feed, tries to find you articles you will like, which maybe could be good idk i dont think most people suffer from not enough articles to read

lol

Systrom also told me Artifact will take seriously the job of serving readers with high-quality news and information. That means an effort to include only publishers who adhere to editorial standards of quality

...

Both left- and right-leaning publishers were included; you’ll find Fox News there, for example.

they should hire noted herb jim spanfeller

rip bots the best part of twitter

Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵

— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) February 2, 2023

wait does that mean all my lovely artbots and so on? ffs twitter has been good not mad the last six weeks bcz my bots just ploughed on regardless giving my RANDOM CONTENT (algebra, astrology, art, vids of ppl falling over in funny ways on CCTV)

if i have to engage with PEOPLE i might as well be reading AI generated scripts, ppl suck and are dumb

good not mad

dont say in the paper that i was good not mad

I never got to make my bot that would correct people who still call the Willis Tower the Sears Tower.

they are devaluing corporate naming rights

theyre gonna fire more people lol

Elon Musk sent an email to Twitter employees telling them to write a one pager on what they accomplished in January, what they plan to accomplish in February, and "any ideas you have for improving Twitter." Twitter has also implemented another change freeze.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) February 2, 2023

is this the end of restaurants bot?

idk might put it on lol mastodon or mb try to figure out a way to automate posting via browser tho thats one of those things that tend to break a lot and you have to keep messing with which doesnt appeal to me that much

maybe ill start a newsletter that sends an email every half hour

once they get rid of bots, it's going to make those scientific vox populi polls even more accurate

Every SpongeBob Frame In Order also signing off sadly

The people who get to senior positions in companies like Twitter will have imbibed large quantities of "leadership" training, digital change management whitepapers etc and then Elon comes in and is like, what is your favorite color, okay great right answer i'm putting you in charge of global marketing

its so silly all the funny lil bots obviously add value to twitter, they already charge for programs that suck up a lot of twitters data, dont see the value in charging ppl just to post whos going to pay for that

KEEP TWITTER WEIRD

amen brother

come on lag00n just pony up

oh my god this pricing lol pic.twitter.com/wFjzefO3vm

— Paul Tassi (@PaulTassi) February 2, 2023

i will miss the @NYT_first_said bot. always an unexpected delight