Twitter C/D

it's just a really lightweight frontend that'll probably get blocked if it gets enough traffic to be noticed, not a whole lot to understand

ah okay

some have already lost them i noticed

All legacy verified accounts will lose their blue tick on 4/20, Elon Musk reveals.

This includes blue ticks belonging to celebrities and other notable figures. pic.twitter.com/NMh2e7fxE0

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) April 11, 2023

🙄

"elon musk reveals" a lot of things. very few of them are true or happen as scheduled.

On 4/20? At 6:09, perhaps?

hehe nice

Every day is April 1st for this creep.

Lucy pulling away the football, but she is holding no football, yet for some reason we are still kicking the air and falling over every time

Doja Cat reacts to temporarily losing her blue verified badge after changing her display name on Twitter:

“Having a blue tick now means theres a higher chance that you're a complete loser and that you're desperate for validation from famous people.” pic.twitter.com/oGSlYUynfb

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) April 11, 2023

amazing how thoroughly he fucked this up

xxxxp or 7:10

lmao how is this scathing critique coming from DOJA CAT of all people

check it out it’s 8 bucks for a blue check? That’s 8 bucks a month I don’t wanna pay I’ll just deal with not having one, it’s cooler

— John Brannon (@RealJohnBrannon) April 12, 2023

<3 JB

It feels like Elon's running his own variation on the Sneetches, except he forgot the part where he's supposed to make money.

well this is interesting news to wake up to

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65247272

“He confessed today that the only reason he went through with buying Twitter was because he believed a judge would force him to go through with the transaction.

"He's never admitted that till now, so it was a very whimsical interview... but he gave us some insight into the strange life of this billionaire."

He also suggested the interview showed he was not always consistent in what he says.

Daisley added: "He seems to be a very enigmatic figure."

o rly

All legacy verified accounts will lose their blue tick on 4/20, Elon Musk reveals.

every time he does something like this or the doge logo thing, it makes me think of this dril tweet

the jduge orders me to take off my anonymous v mask & im wearing the joker makeup underneath it. everyone in the courtroom groans at my shit

— wint (@dril) March 10, 2015

(comparing things to dril tweets is itself probably now in the 420/joker makeup/doge zone but whatever)

trying (and failing) to understand this https://nitter.net/

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 06:47 (yesterday) link

isn’t that site for browsing someone’s feed without being logged in?

― 龜, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 12:36 (yesterday) link

it's just a really lightweight frontend that'll probably get blocked if it gets enough traffic to be noticed, not a whole lot to understand

― mh, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 13:39 (yesterday) link

I used this for about a year pre-Musk to read twitter as they started insisting on being logged in to read, and I aint never doing that. That stopped soon after Musk took over, so lol I guess this motherfucker has improved the usability of the site for me at least

one would think they wont be the last, twitter isnt really good for driving traffic so whats the point of putting up with its bullshit

NPR announces that its 52 accounts “will no longer be active on Twitter,” citing the social media platform's decision to label NPR "state-affiliated media” https://t.co/i19ONf1tlL

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 12, 2023

Taibbi: I'm leaving Twitter because of Elon's decisions

NPR: We're leaving Twitter because of Elon's decisions

Elon: My screen name is Harry Bōlz and my building says Titter on it, also the nonpaying blue checks go away on 4/20 now, haha

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) April 12, 2023

I really want to know what was going to be so embarrasing in that trial for Elon that he bought Twitter.

his entire life

Musk voted for Joe Biden, rather than Donald Trump, in 2021. There has been much speculation over Musk's political allegiances

https://www.theringer.com/tech/2023/4/12/23673003/dril-twitter-interview-profile-identity

Musk voted for Joe Biden, rather than Donald Trump, in 2021.

Someone tell the BBC we don't get to hold elections whenever the fuck we want

the rare case of post-election voter fraud

I really want to know what was going to be so embarrasing in that trial for Elon that he bought Twitter.

A judge telling him that he had to buy Twitter because he'd already agreed to.

Musk acknowledged he "shot himself in the foot with tweets multiple times" and said he would "wear bulletproof shoes" going forward

perfect snapshot of his broke mind virus

"Rather than give up the gun I shall protect my feet."

hopefully he shot himself in the younger foot

“Elon Musk tells BBC that owning Twitter has been quite painful”

being owned by Twitter has been quite painful morelike

long interview with Dril, using his real name

https://www.theringer.com/tech/2023/4/12/23673003/dril-twitter-interview-profile-identity

my main takeaway here is "I'm nearly a decade older than dril. fucks sake."

yeah, I'm actually disappointed dril is not at least 50.

oh wow I somehow forgot about horse_ebooks. anyway I'm pretty sure I actually remember this dude from FYAD, iirc the stuff he posted there would probably just get you banned from Twitter

Great interview. Always wondered how he found those tweets from accounts with no followers.

welly wonka

the kids posting three word descriptions of the oompa loompa for a school lesson on twitter is very funny.

BREAKING: Twitter to partner with eToro to let users access stocks and crypto trading

— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) April 13, 2023

oh great.

a couple of months ago twitter had a popup asking if I wanted to add an nft profile picture, the options were "yes" and "not now" - I looked in vain for the "fuck off" button.

did a twitter search for the last name of the racist oxford tech philosopher guy to see what people were saying about his nytimes oped and there was so much porn in the results cause some low follower porn account has bostrom in its handle

Rocco's Basilisk

...haa

it kinda crazy that what substack is trying to build doesnt already exist a social platform for paying writers, youtube has been paying people for years, medium kinda tried to do it but it was sort of a hybrid model too much blog/media org thought, tho tbf substacks secret sauce is email which is even older than blogs lol, kinda doubt their twitter clone will work but it is cool that you can just roll up a website/newsletter and start getting paid, even if the company sucks and will inevitably screw over the writers

The substackers I follow have almost completely abandoned Twitter and use Notes.

wonder if theyre paying them to do it, wld be smart, notes only hope is for all of the journalists et al to go there, thats twitters draw that a lot of industry people are there

the pay people to write model is pretty obvious for substack at this point but not sure how they can pay people to tweet at scale

other networks that pay people to post are ad based notes is not the money is all coming from newsletter subscriptions, its prob doa

something will be lost if twitter goes and nothing replaces it

I keep waiting for someone else to make this point but it hasn’t happened yet. Or I haven’t seen it yet. Discovery on here sucks now. But there’s a very profound thing that Twitter provides creative industries that isn’t traffic. And when it’s gone, oh boy, are we gonna feel it…

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) April 13, 2023

Well it's less than useless for sharing anything right now because it treats links as spam, so you waste time trying to use it to promote anything you make. Even nothing would be an improvement on that, though of course there will be something, people won't just stop using the internet.