lol
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fsvnjv7XwAAq2tm?format=jpg&name=small
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
One small difference here is once you subscribe you don’t have to write the news articles yourself
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
he really thought his plan would work cut costs to the bone then make enough from subscriptions to be profitable but it didnt
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
I mean, I really like reading twitter every day, it is kind of addictive honestly and I want it to survive and I like all of the people I follow on it and want to read posts from them every day - in film, literature, gay/trans issues, politics, music, art - so I can see he has a point, and he's saying you will pay for the pleasure of the reading the NYT but not twitter
so I'm not sure
― Dan S, Monday, 3 April 2023 00:42 (one year ago) link
I would’ve paid money to read a different Twitter at a different time in my life but now that I’ve been off of it for months I’m like it’s fine actually I don’t need tweets in my life at all
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 3 April 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link
that's the thing though you can still read it for free, albeit a shittier version where white supremecists automatically get their tweets boosted. Twitter Blue mostly just amplifies your posts, which is a dumb as shit business model since like 90% of the sites users don't really tweet much anyway
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:02 (one year ago) link
the idea of paying for a link-through reading model like apple news or w/e makes sense because, of the few people that click through headlines and read articles, a lot are on twitter!they could have even done an official excerpt thing to preempt screen grabs somehow, kick that traffic upstream and maybe show the highlighted bit in the tweet but you click through and go to the article please don’t implement this, it’s my prior art now
― mh, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:02 (one year ago) link
feel like they maybe were going to get to something like that, could even drive traffic to the official app, but they got yoked
― mh, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
amazing how no one whos ever run twitter including the guy who made it has understood it, maybe no one does
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:04 (one year ago) link
i’ll say it many times, but that is what made googlereader good. you could see the social bit about what your friends were interested in and commenting on and then go right to the article. doing all of that in context and being able to do links to the content would be pretty nice
― mh, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:05 (one year ago) link
no one has broken it like elon has tho they knew enough to not kill the goose
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:05 (one year ago) link
I feel like all this stuff was pitched at jack and he was like hmm I will consider it on my next desert fast while I am meditating and then he got back to a computer only to realize he liked looking for hypebeast clothes more than working (relatable)
― mh, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:06 (one year ago) link
jack was the best ceo cause he just did other things instead of running twitter
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:07 (one year ago) link
btw a short fund just put out a big report on how block is a fraud and also used a lot for crime
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:08 (one year ago) link
Block paid to promote a video for a song called “Cash App” which described paying contract killers through the app. The song’s artist was later arrested for attempted murder.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 3 April 2023 01:23 (one year ago) link
honestly difficult to think of a worse CEO for Twitter than Musk, it would be like making Kyrie the commissioner of the NBA while simultaneously allowing him to play
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:24 (one year ago) link
yeah apparently jack had bragged about the many rap songs cash app was mentioned in as a way to demonstrate how hot it was and in the short report they go through and show how all the lyrics are talking about using it for crime lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 01:26 (one year ago) link
Based on current trends, probably close to zero new advertisers on Twitter by April
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 02:23 (one year ago) link
You mean real companies advertising. Dick pills, crypto scams, supplements, shitty home furnishings will take up the slack I’m sure.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 3 April 2023 02:50 (one year ago) link
lol frogbs
― mookieproof, Monday, 3 April 2023 03:26 (one year ago) link
Jack has good ideas but he is not a good executive.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 3 April 2023 08:49 (one year ago) link
so I can see he has a point, and he's saying you will pay for the pleasure of the reading the NYT but not twitter
your subscription to NYT helps pay the people who write the things you read, none of your twitter blue subscription will go to anyone who writes what you read, seems a p important distinction. though elon's "point" follows the path of other disruptors, like streaming music, illegal downloading, etc, where the people who make the money are the people who design the structure that delivers you the art, while the artist is impoverished.
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 3 April 2023 10:01 (one year ago) link
and obvs a lot of the NYT is terrible but
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 3 April 2023 10:02 (one year ago) link
someone shd start the nytimes for tweets lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 11:40 (one year ago) link
this is not the Succession thread (is it?)
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 3 April 2023 11:45 (one year ago) link
twitter meets nytimes meets ilx on the blockchain
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 11:57 (one year ago) link
When Tweetshelf shut down its free service a few weeks ago, I found myself addictively scrolling Twitter again. Now I'm considering paying for Tweetshelf so I can see the articles people are sharing without feeding my habit. But that's also a feature of Twitter Blue, so it sort of makes me feel like a chump, even tho I wouldn't be giving my money directly to Twitter.
― jaymc, Monday, 3 April 2023 12:39 (one year ago) link
awww, is your 44 billion dollar purchase not going so well?
They should really get rid of that 100 IQ maximum limit for creating an account on Instagram— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2023
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
"the site for people who care what their IQ is" is not the selling point he thinks it is
― mh, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
rotate cube in mind to login
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:48 (one year ago) link
― mh, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
Today's new weirdness: retweets are no longer labeled as such, so it looks like people you don't follow are randomly showing up in your feed.
― Chris L, Monday, 3 April 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
wow (working on web)
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
the site icon/logo has now been replaced by a doge
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 April 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
I swear to God, if this is an April Fools joke that was supposed to happen 2 days ago...
― Chris L, Monday, 3 April 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
Also seeing unlabeled retweets in for you and the shotcoin thing. Good stuff.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 3 April 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
only a business genius can do these kind of things
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
He knows exactly what he’s doing pic.twitter.com/XgBwXcex7E— well, (@eatmyassedhole) April 3, 2023
painful
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 3 April 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
epic
― michel goindry (wins), Monday, 3 April 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
weird
🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk facing $258 BILLION racketeering lawsuit for his role in "running a pyramid scheme" to defraud investors with Dogecoin, an unregistered security.https://t.co/x7NHEzbLnt— LeGate🤠 (@williamlegate) April 3, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 April 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
painful, epic, weird
― ciderpress, Monday, 3 April 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
lol my first instinct was to X out immediately because i thought they'd gotten hacked
doing this 2 days after April Fools is so painfully on brand
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 22:21 (one year ago) link
good call
Can't wait for Elon to change the Twitter logo into a doge or some other equally cringe shit.— SystemFreez ❄️ (@SystemFreez) April 25, 2022
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 02:08 (one year ago) link
theres this too
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fs0ItuRakAAhlGF?format=png&name=small
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 02:13 (one year ago) link
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/twitter-thinks-elon-musk-burying-dogecoin-lawsuit/
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 02:25 (one year ago) link
someone run a poll on the cringiest people of all time
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 02:25 (one year ago) link
"that would sick"?
You never her, Elon.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link
every post on Elon's feed could be replaced with Gal Gadot "Imagine" and it still wouldn't be close
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 02:34 (one year ago) link
ugh I hate that doge icon sitting there, makes we not even want to use the stupid site.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 14:15 (one year ago) link