Twitter C/D

On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://t.co/gzpCcwOpLp

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— Twitter Verified (@verified) March 23, 2023

They’re really going through with their suicide pact.

they’ll wait a bit and then introduce a dunce cap or something for national newspaper/magazine writers

eh, they were supposed to open source The Algorithm last week. Don’t hold your breath.

I imagine the last remaining person on their security team was like "uh, wait a minute"

cannot get enough of boring people complaining that [wokeness/an agorithm] has robbed them of the attention they are owed

One thing I'm noticing now is that when I click on a trending topic all the 'Top' tweets are often several weeks (and sometimes months or even years) old, usually from a previous time that topic was trending.

The account for sitting California Congresswoman Grace Napolitano got hacked by crypto scammers three days ago. Nobody has bothered to fix it. https://t.co/6aIig1ncQq

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 24, 2023

I, for one, like Twitter a lot more now. I always wanted an app that would show me a fresh video of a man dying immediately upon opening it, then 40 replies from hacked accounts trying to sell me adderall and shrooms. It's what I love about the world wide web.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 24, 2023

lmao

Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to hide their blue checkmarks to avoid the shame https://t.co/DjctZ6WwwD pic.twitter.com/of7zCjaekF

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) March 24, 2023

I always wanted an app that would show me a fresh video of a man dying immediately upon opening it, then 40 replies from hacked accounts trying to sell me adderall and shrooms. It's what I love about the world wide web.

To be fair, this does sound very internet 1.0 - it almost makes me nostalgic.

nostalgia for beheading videos

Some of you never hung out on rotten.com and it shows.

people don't remember finding the faces of death vhs series at the flea market

To make it like the old web, every tweet should take five minutes to load.

I do find it odd that the Twitter algorithm seems to always want to show me videos of people being injured or maimed. I scroll past those as quickly as possible so I don't get to the part where someone gets hurt.

i feel like i spend too much of morning blocking individual sports teams and Eurovision and marvel universe as subjects and then too much of my afternoons blocking the exact same tweets as accounts.

"yeah, we know you said not to show you Eurovision, but have you seen this from Ryland?"

(only a mobile web problem tbh, but then the phone is always just there)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/twitter-source-code-leak.html?te=1&nl=from-the-times&emc=edit_ufn_20230326

sounds like they already open sourced everything

the only twitter alerts i now get sent as emails are tweets by deborah meaden of dragon's den (who i don't and will never follow)

could it be some employee was just looking for help on StackOverflow because everyone he knew got fired

good luck 2 u

Starting April 15th, only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations.

The is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle.

Voting in polls will require verification for same reason.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 27, 2023

What he actually means is that all their methods of hiding promotion of toxic spam aren’t sufficient so now they’re just going to brute force it.

Standard reactionary victim-blaming tactics on his part.

i wonder if he actually believes that or its just an excuse to pull another lever to get people to pay

i personally only see occasional spam on there

I think it's definitely mostly trying to get people to pay. "Overrun by bots" has been his excuse for almost everything with Twitter.

A "it's all bots!"

B "only i can defeat bots!"

C "only YOU can prevent bots-- PAY ME!"

don't see nearly as many bot accounts on twitter as i do ig

not sure the above is even as dumb as today’s change making RT’d replies render as discrete OPs

lol dril on there

New: For months, Twitter has maintained a list of VIP users, including LeBron James, Glenn Greenwald, Ben Shapiro, AOC, and Marc Andreessen, that it monitors and gives increased visibility to on the platform. 1/ https://t.co/PnXhb6dvth

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 28, 2023

i've def noticed more bots since elon took over, if you tweet the word "shrooms" you will get several replies trying to sell you drugs. for a while if you tweeted certain curse words bots would offer you "cheap glokks 4 sale."

yeah the bots are out there but they target specific things. I'm definitely getting more DMs from bots.

i wonder if he actually believes that or its just an excuse to pull another lever to get people to pay

Elon's brain seems like it's been completely devoured by worms by this point so "what he actually believes" may be basically nothing however the idea that "Twitter polls" mean anything seems like it may have came from Trump 'retruthing' some catturd Twitter poll

speaking of this loser said he was gonna abide by the results of a Twitter poll asking if he should resign

I hate this dipshit so naturally I think everything he does is dumb but it's really astonishing how bad every single idea he has is. not only is he making the site much worse he's hemmoraging money and also proving himself as one of the worst bosses in human history

its really something

if it sheds the scales from people's eyes regarding the titans of silicon valley being brilliant leaders of men deserving of our adulation then it will all have (not) been worth it

the funny thing about all this is you only really notice the bots when you actually click on the tweets of Elon or any of his sycophants which means whoever's designing them is specifically targeting those people thinking they're easy marks. once you block Elon, catturd, and anyone with a doge avatar you don't really see them at all.

Otm

i've been covering a hacker take over multiple celeb accounts on here for weeks

the hacker hasn't spent a dime on here to scam. they've already stolen thousands at least

Twitter has barely done a thing about it & paid verification will make it even worse

this man is clueless pic.twitter.com/ucpiyEULnO

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) March 27, 2023

I guess requiring verification for polls is going to kill the people's pop polls etc

He just doesn't know wtf he's doing. There's not a plan. He's just running it into the ground.

Or maybe it's more that he's making his own version of the Metaverse, with himself at the center surrounded by bootlicks and lackeys.

Looks like this is working now. I was getting error messages when I tried to block all the paid blues earlier but now it seems ok.

https://twitter.com/BlockTheBlue

You tell 'em, Emmet Peppers.

It’s a privilege to be on Twitter and to have a blue check mark, not a right nor an inheritance.

— Emmet Peppers (@EmmetPeppers) March 27, 2023

Interests: Investing, Tesla, New Tech, Ketosis, Podcasts

Tim Ferriss's cum crusted gym sock gained sentience

Emmet Peppers lonely hearts Musk fan

I guess requiring verification for polls is going to kill the people's pop polls etc

the groke has been working on migrating the polls to a dedicated site for several months now, should be kicking in within weeks

Not once have I seen anything in the sidebar that I'd willingly click on.

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

Emmet Peppers lonely hearts Musk fan

...nicely done...

...should've said "stan" but I thought of it too late