Twitter C/D

elon not understanding twitter once again

people were good at posting back then

tree bro & utility limb will absolutely get nuked

going through and liking and replying to all their tweets in an attempt to register activity

even his blue check toadies don't like this move based on the replies to that tweet so I hope he will walk it back like he has consistently done for many, but not all, of his moronic decisions with this site.

hope he nukes me

it's going to be funny when the dead celebrities who got an involuntary blue check then get their accounts deleted

it's probably just elon looking to cut costs and choosing the absolutely wrong place to do it

it's not a cost cutting measure. he's trying to force people to play with him.

otm

the old inactive accounts likely existed before you could really post video, so even if they're image-heavy they're probably shifted off to cheaper storage by this point. there's little savings there, I'd think

On the bright side of Twitter, @JayCuda has been killing it lately with his bizarre (but factual) baseball statistics/infographics

search seems increasingly useless, I was trying to find some tweets I posted in 2018 and advanced search couldn't locate them

xyz is like i only shop at the sunglass hut

― ꙮ (map), Monday, 8 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink

That's right

I’m sure you still see good stuff on there. You will do as long as people keep giving musk free content that he uses to maintain a platform he uses to promote white nationalism very openly.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink

As opposed to the other guys who owned twitter pre-Musk, who were being given free content in a platform which ended up promoting Donald Trump and his gang?

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xp.

sure. i think there's a difference between building a product nazis "end up" using and personally boosting posts by nazis, unbanning nazis, and then writing nazi posts yourself as owner.

let's go back to the mall metaphor for a second. blue checks are previously ignorable mall walkers who now aggressively harass everyone. bot accounts are fountains... and they're all drying up ;_;

musk's tweets are shrim, dril is Jeffrey

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvnwbmDWYAED_Fn?format=jpg&name=medium

purging accounts is good now

musk is basically the dog from this comic

http://nedroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2008-01-03-1217-buddycomics01.gif

except he's a billionaire nazi

im not endorsing this but i am enjoying it

Will take a long time for historians to prove this but I think you can explain a lot of US politics and discourse 2015-2020 if you understand that on here a clique of Bernie-adjacent millennials was simply better than everyone else at making fun of people https://t.co/vdAHD1E5gO

— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) May 8, 2023

It seems like a tiny and irrelevant thing (it is, it should be) but it drove a lot of establishment figures absolutely fucking nuts. A kind of post-"weird twitter" (lol) leftism had some degree of hegemony on the website they inhabited and it killed them

— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) May 8, 2023

sure. i think there's a difference between building a product nazis "end up" using and personally boosting posts by nazis, unbanning nazis, and then writing nazi posts yourself as owner.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I don't.

Yes, this is why reading the LRB and Unherd is the same thing.

Twitter is not a publication. Glad to help.

Yes, that's why it's an analogy mate.

Colour me skeptical that social media sites, unlike publications, are platonically perfect bastions of neutrality and uninfluenced by the agendas of their owners.

Mate, Elon Musk does not shape the content in anyway so all I'm seeing is right-wing content.

I hate Twitter but am with xyzzz on this— there’s still plenty of stuff on the site that is fine, even helpful to some people. Maybe instead of chastising people who still use it, it would be better to continue documenting its problems and downfall? just feels like a useless pile-up.

All tech bro CEOs are Randian creeps, pass it on.

For whatever reason I still see a timeline that’s remarkably close to how things looked Before Elmo.

time to go imo. Not that I have an account anyway, but definitely trying to ignore twitter links etc now. Which is going to make me out of touch with the discourse but that's a price I'm prepared to pay lol

For everyone who's like 'who care about the ownership, they're all assholes' I feel like Muskrat is inevitably gonna just keep upping the ante here, so if you're not at breaking point yet you will be in a couple weeks when Golly faces replace the bird logo for 72 hours

by the looks of it Elon is pretty close to responding "Interesting!" to holocaust denial stuff so yeah maybe time to jump ship

I mean my timeline is close to what it looked like before, except half the people have either stopped posting or have throttled way back. the Lakers/Warriors game last night would've been pandemonium on my TL last year, because all that energy kind of feeds off each other, now most of the people I like just don't care to share their thoughts on Twitter anymore

I also don't think caek was saying you should leave because your timeline will be less good, as some people seem to be implying. I read his comment to be that you should leave because staying helps keep the lights on for a platform that is aggressively pushing nazi voices and ideology. I don't completely agree, I think it is still good to boost the good on there and refuse to give attention to the bad, but I'm not unsympathetic to his POV.

Yep.

Here’s a fun new tweet from the owner btw. It’s about soros and Zuckerberg (wonder what those guys have in common, does anyone know?)

Strange that election officials from pivotal regions attended a far left conference when they’re supposed to be impartial

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2023

Replying to Laura "They called the police on me" Loomer

crazy to think years ago she handcuffed herself to twitter hq and now shes inside the building so to speak

Activism works!

the blue check boost really has swathed twitter with the unmistakable stank of facebook

i mean it was always there, or had been for the last 5-6 years, but it now suffuses almost everything

I read his comment to be that you should leave because staying helps keep the lights on for a platform that is aggressively pushing nazi voices and ideology. I don't completely agree, I think it is still good to boost the good on there and refuse to give attention to the bad, but I'm not unsympathetic to his POV.

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, May 9, 2023 10:00 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

If someone tried to convince me there was good content amidst the bad on Truth Social or w/e I would be like lol come on. So I think it's a question of when is Twitter *essentially* a right-wing platform. The CEO boosting Laura fucking Loomer is enough for me (maybe 'cause I'm in Canada?), but I get that it's not that stark for everyone

xp that handcuffing bit was some amazing physical humor

the moment it became clear she just handcuffed herself to one door handle and it didn't actually block the door and people could just open the other side was *chef's kiss*

I have a sinking feeling elmo's going to boost election denialism next year

the blue check boost really has swathed twitter with the unmistakable stank of facebook

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, May 9, 2023 10:26 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its wild how like 90% of blue check replies seem barely literate or even sentient, just the worst possible posters lifted for all to enjoy

he's gonna run a Twitter poll that only blue checks can vote in and then find it very interesting when Trump does not actually get 85% of the vote

sure. i think there's a difference between building a product nazis "end up" using and personally boosting posts by nazis, unbanning nazis, and then writing nazi posts yourself as owner.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I don't.

― xyzzzz

i do. also twitter is a publication

He didn't get rid of dril after he humiliated him.

that's because he didn't want to make his friend stephen king mad

he reinstated all of the covid deniers who were banned after torturing the victim's families

that's one way he directly affected the content that is published on twitter

Giving the blue checks back to dril and Binder was Elon's only good troll