Twitter C/D

I've been able to find a few of the people I follow on Twitter on Threads, and now my feed is mostly the people I have followed. On Bluesky I'm not able to find anyone because I'm on a wait list.

How many apes must a man have liquidated via loan protocols
Before you call him a man?

Bananaman Begins wins this one for me, A+

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0Wq1AzXoAAKEhS?format=jpg&name=large

Remove Bookmark from This Threads

i think it's time to abandon social media

i'm going back to ICQ

I'll happily accept a Bluesky invitation now that they're the old new thing now

hmm I do still remember my six digit ICQ account number

Bluesky was so next week

the only way social media will work anymore is if you're required to change your username and avatar for each post

RIP Twitter

micro blogging business drama

Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Thread, @maxwelltani reports (also he's on Thread, same handle) https://t.co/IVVZsCwyrf pic.twitter.com/89rZPTU9it

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 6, 2023

he's saying that zuck has been reading ("scraping") my good tweets

Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”

lol maybe dont fire everyone

got something for u to scrape, Elon

lmao what trade secrets would they need? this is the Instagram comments section.

also pre musk employees are not subject to NDA.

they hold the ancient knowledge of how to craft a microblog post

He really did set 44bn on fire. Parag the greatest CEO of all time for shareholders.

Meta execs rebutting twitters claims in its legal threat over on threads https://t.co/nf6WrZLb17 pic.twitter.com/AlBp35cAoY

— rat king 🐀 (@MikeIsaac) July 6, 2023

"Quit poaching the employees that I said were completely useless "

This is something I enjoyed reading, correctly focussing on the point where "you're talking to the world" became the thing. "Everyone is a columnist" was a mistake.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/

Also the fact that Threads doesn't have a website is a bit of a dealbreaker for me.

poaching 'former' twitter employees.... that would be unemployed engineers looking for work, no poaching

kind of like Ronaldo celebrating a goal he didn't actually score

do non-compete clauses carry any weight in this case?

not that this isn't just mini-Facebook or text-instagram, is not like they weren't already doing similar things at scale

Every time I think I’m out they pull me back in

Children conceived when the mother didn't have a climax, are not ensouled btw. When it dies, its spirit neither goes to heaven or hell, it is just destroyed, like that of animals.

— Anna Komnene ☩❤️‍🔥 (@Baezantium) July 6, 2023

damn did not know that

time to ask my parents some uncomfortable questions

Ron DeSantis makes more sense now

LOL mh

so you can only search for accounts, not content? hmm

i wanted to see what people were saying about wimbledon on threads but i couldn’t really

threads thing is very dumb, everyone knows you start with a linear timeline then rug pull to a sponcon heavy "algorithmic" timeline once your users are locked in. impressive that zuck managed to fuck even this up

weird that we think he’s in charge of product design and not just trusting an upper executive level who trusts a product manager level and whatever

like either he’s completely engaged in the groupthink that decided their recent ventures are good (unlikely) or he’s just going hmm yeah looks good

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7dbe81ad-aa36-40a3-b8ec-5a21de79565f_1000x788.jpeg

:)

predict all these people go back to instagram by next week

Zuck has a real "Pair of fun gals prove kiddie pools aren't just for kiddies anymore!" vibe to him

lol otm

this kind of dad joke from Zuck seems relatively benign when compared with Elon's attempts meme humour on twitter

awfully low bar

I saw of photo the other day that Zuck posted to instagram of him and family celebrating the 4th of July where he was wearing a comedy stars and stripes hat and shorts, and I wonder if he's intentionally trying to portray himself as an endearingly corny suburban dad to improve his image

ya prob

weird that we think he’s in charge of product design and not just trusting an upper executive level who trusts a product manager level and whatever

like either he’s completely engaged in the groupthink that decided their recent ventures are good (unlikely) or he’s just going hmm yeah looks good

― mh, Friday, 7 July 2023 01:05 (nineteen hours ago) link

He frequently attends product and technical meetings for products he’s interested in and regularly commits code.

we had a boss that would commit code. one monday nothing would run because he'd been in over the weekend and renamed database columns from 'copyright' to 'copywrite' (and multiple similar changes)

lol

regularly commits code

what's "regularly" here? once a day, once a month?

perhaps Threads can be both a social media site and the UK movie at the same time

friend who worked at fb also told that zuck is a l33t coder

Elon Musk made a bad $44 billion investment after a lifetime of free rides and it made him so angry he’s spent the last year going “let’s kill trans 😭😭😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡!!” Zuckerberg meanwhile vaporized trillions and all his posts are still like “TV is awesome to watch :)”

— iPad Expert (@ByYourLogic) July 6, 2023

Views for "Tucker Carlson on Twitter" posts (assume the number of people who actually viewed the videos is much much lower).

Announcement: 137.1M
Ep. 1: 120M
Ep. 2: 60.6M
Ep. 3 (Trump indicted): 104.1M
Ep. 4: 32.4M
Ep. 5: 17.3M
Ep. 6: 32M
Ep. 7: 15.4M
Ep. 8: 8.6M

😬😬😬 pic.twitter.com/qd9Ox2WiFx

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 7, 2023

better to have fox news doing the work for you