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
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 26 March 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
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)
― mark s, Monday, 27 March 2023 12:05 (one year ago) link
could it be some employee was just looking for help on StackOverflow because everyone he knew got fired
― frogbs, Monday, 27 March 2023 13:02 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 00:52 (one year ago) link
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.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:28 (one year ago) link
i wonder if he actually believes that or its just an excuse to pull another lever to get people to pay
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link
i personally only see occasional spam on there
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:36 (one year ago) link
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 man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:37 (one year ago) link
A "it's all bots!"
B "only i can defeat bots!"
C "only YOU can prevent bots-- PAY ME!"
― liberal with a capital LIE (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:40 (one year ago) link
don't see nearly as many bot accounts on twitter as i do ig
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:49 (one year ago) link
not sure the above is even as dumb as today’s change making RT’d replies render as discrete OPs
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:51 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:57 (one year ago) link
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."
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 02:15 (one year ago) link
yeah the bots are out there but they target specific things. I'm definitely getting more DMs from bots.
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 02:23 (one year ago) link
speaking of this loser said he was gonna abide by the results of a Twitter poll asking if he should resign
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 02:24 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 02:56 (one year ago) link
its really something
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 03:05 (one year ago) link
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
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 12:51 (one year ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 13:31 (one year ago) link
Otm
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 13:32 (one year ago) link
i've been covering a hacker take over multiple celeb accounts on here for weeksthe hacker hasn't spent a dime on here to scam. they've already stolen thousands at leastTwitter has barely done a thing about it & paid verification will make it even worsethis man is clueless pic.twitter.com/ucpiyEULnO— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) March 27, 2023
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 13:44 (one year ago) link
I guess requiring verification for polls is going to kill the people's pop polls etc
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 02:46 (one year ago) link
He just doesn't know wtf he's doing. There's not a plan. He's just running it into the ground.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:17 (one year ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:20 (one year ago) link
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
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:27 (one year ago) link
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
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:44 (one year ago) link
Interests: Investing, Tesla, New Tech, Ketosis, Podcasts
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 04:50 (one year ago) link
Tim Ferriss's cum crusted gym sock gained sentience
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 04:51 (one year ago) link
Emmet Peppers lonely hearts Musk fan
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 05:17 (one year ago) link
the groke has been working on migrating the polls to a dedicated site for several months now, should be kicking in within weeks
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 05:37 (one year ago) link
Not once have I seen anything in the sidebar that I'd willingly click on.
https://i.imgur.com/gbClYJS.png
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 07:00 (one year ago) link
...nicely done...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 12:14 (one year ago) link
...should've said "stan" but I thought of it too late
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 12:53 (one year ago) link
excellent work tm
― nxd, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 13:16 (one year ago) link
This is good: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/twitter-is-dying/
The simple truth is that building something valuable — whether that’s knowledge, experience or a network worth participating in — is really, really hard. But tearing it all down is piss easy.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 23:35 (one year ago) link
Yep
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link
lol
We are also launching a new Basic (v2) access for hobbyists with 10,000 GET/month and 50,000 POST/month, 2 app IDs, and Login with Twitter for $100/month. Subscribe now: https://t.co/AQci4FeIWf— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) March 29, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 March 2023 02:21 (one year ago) link
Lmao
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 30 March 2023 05:16 (one year ago) link
And for the Ultra Diamond Platinum account (a one-time payment of $44,000,000) we'll push all of your tweets to every user!
― nickn, Thursday, 30 March 2023 05:43 (one year ago) link
Sorry, $44,000,000,000.
there's a free layer as well, 1,500 tweets a month, ~50 a day. unfortunately that kills Cheap Bots Done Quick which is what my bots use and which hosts thousands of others.
(mm, i wonder if i can cobble together an aws lambda that does the same?)
― koogs, Thursday, 30 March 2023 11:28 (one year ago) link
i dont feel like switching my bots to the new free tier theyre all on v1 hopefully it just keeps working
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 March 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
New: The New York Times says it is not planning to pay for Twitter verification:"We aren't planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts," a spokesperson tells me.— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 30, 2023
He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas DayWhen the New York Times said, "Biden's dead!And ten laptops are free!"
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 March 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
The Los Angeles Times also says it will not pay for Twitter Blue, noting "verification no longer establishes authority or credibility." Here's an internal note from managing editor Sara Yasin that went out to staff. pic.twitter.com/DK8c2iAHpJ— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 30, 2023
awww did constantly calling the MSM liars and scumbags not work out for you
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2023 18:37 (one year ago) link
curious which direction he's gonna go with this he's either gonna dramatically reduce the cost and get mad when they still don't pay or call everyone a bunch of pedos
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
once famous people are sick of being impersonated, I think their only option is to shut down their account and let everyone know (on Instagram) that any tweets you see are not theirs
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 March 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link
imo musk won't reduce the cost because changing it would be an admission of failure. He won't call everyone a pedo for not paying up, because that would call attention to his failure, too. instead he'll defect attention away from the fiasco as best he can by churning out more attention-grabbing chaotic garbage in heroic quantities until he explodes or no one cares any more and the world stops looking. Or both.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 30 March 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
accounts ive unfollowed in the last couple days are still showing up in my following feed
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:04 (one year ago) link
is this good
"From September to October of last year, the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent $71 million on ads, according to estimates from Pathmatics. In the past two months, that figure dropped to just $7.6 million, a decline of 89%, the research firm said."https://t.co/9R7gWkPAXS— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) March 30, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link