Twitter C/D

what if you renamed it to xpress

AdBlock browser worked on Twitter ads for like a day or two, now seeing ads again :(

more grist for this stupid mill: logging into tweetdeck and its called "XPro" now, my god what in the name of winamp skins and netscape navigator is this

I'm taking down my business account. I never posted much on it anyway, mostly used it to follow people. Sometimes nice when somebody tags us or something, but it's not a big part of our self-promotion or anything. But now I just don't even want to be affiliated. I've created a burner account to keep following politicos and so forth but I don't even want to be there in any official capacity. It's too dumb and gross.

So is threads a bust? I've kind of been enjoying it since deleting Twitter a week ago; between it and Mastadon I felt like I was achieving some kind of overlap that was almost twitter-like. but I just saw threads lost 50% of it's users in one month, which I'm going to partially attribute to it's lack of a web UI. Siloing it to a phone app only was a bizarre choice. People like to waste time on these things while they're working, and not have to open up their phone to do it.

why's everyone quitting all of a sudden?

lots of die-hard tweeters seem to be finally logging off for good this week and last, was the X thing the last straw? I mean I hate it too, but there's been a lot worse.

i logged off right before the X change. feels good tbh

thing with threads is they got a ton of people to try it, the most ever iirc, using their existing instagram account so losing 50% of them doesnt actually seem that bad

everyone quit threads when they found out i dont use it

the problem with all of these new apps is that actually we all hate social media, but are just in the habit of using it.

Everyone posting the dril tweet about never logging off and then logging off after an X is posted? Wtf?!

I think the difference/last straw with X is how coercive it feels. You signed up for Twitter however many years ago and now against your will you are on something stupidly called "X" constantly hectored by a racist blowhard.

and then the more people who log off the less reason there is to not do the same yourself

Well that and the fact the site is buggy as hell now and can be down for days at a time.

the worst thing that musks done to twitter imho by far is boost blue checks to the top of replies, its made looking at replies of any popular tweet completely useless and a terrible experience in fact

Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks. If you enable this then nobody can tell "this mf paid for Twitter" anymore 🥲 https://t.co/M7BQNBTumN

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) August 2, 2023

If you are a terf/racist/climate denier/landlord I am going to assume you paid.

Siloing it to a phone app only was a bizarre choice. People like to waste time on these things while they're working, and not have to open up their phone to do it.

This doesn't seem that bizarre to me. A study from 2016 found that about 80% of all time spent on social media in the U.S. is on mobile rather than desktop. I wouldn't be surprised if a) that's now higher because of TikTok, b) the global rate is also higher given the dominance of mobile in developing countries. Not everyone has a desk job, obv.

insta was phone only for ages

is threads still doing the 'algorithmic feed only' thing? (or was that mis-reported?)

(actually, i think *posting* on insta was phone-only for ages)

insta was even iphone only at first

makes sense for a photo based app as yr phone is yr camera tho

Yeah aren’t the main users of web/desktop Instagram professional photographers you’d imagine? Prestige accounts probably pushed for it but it’s not their bread and butter.

I don't think the lack of Threads use is due to the lack of web embedding/UI, just the completely confusing and underwhelming experience

Had a great opportunity to just throw it out there and let people auto-follow their instagram follows, then kind of organically let it cook for a while. Instead, I signed up immediately like many others, and the first three things I saw were two influencers I've never heard of posting boring shit and Wendy's conversing with Kum & Go

brands and influencers oh hell yeah

Yeah, Threads is a virtual mall

AlthoughThreads also gave us “stuffed crustussy” so it wasn’t a total loss

https://www.readtpa.com/p/are-the-brands-ok

Threads has a chronological following timeline now but I haven’t logged in since it launched. Ironically I use the Instagram account I had to create to join threads more than I use threads itself.

the evolution of the blue check into something people actively want to hide is one of the most incredible things

Gotta say I really kinda enjoy Twitter becoming virtually unreadable for me now

Funny thing is "L-I-R-R" is only one less syllable than "Long Island Railroad," and "L-I-double-R" is the same number of syllables. Might as well say the name.

(www is a great example of that)

Easier to say George Walker Bush, if you have to say the fool's name at all.

Like koogs said..

lol oops sorry for posting that on the wrong thread — I should've remembered the LIRR discussion goes on the Trump thread, not the Twitter thread

trump is spiritually a long islander, as well as technically, tho not formally

fwiw this is what I posted to our readers about taking down our corporate account:

A small note: If any of you followed us on what used to be Twitter, you might notice that our account is no longer there. We decided to delete it because of the ongoing degradation of Twitter/X as a useful space for the exchange of information. Its current owner has made clear that he is actively hostile to the practice of journalism and has personally harassed several news organizations that use the platform. Moreover, he has shown a brazen disregard for the privacy and security of information exchanged on the platform. To put it plainly, we don't trust the platform and do not wish to have a formal presence there.

Because many of the people and organizations we cover do still have a presence, we will continue to monitor activity on X via other accounts. So don't think that if you post something we won't see it. :)

Well, it's been 35 days or so since Twitter said that Tweetdeck would be available to verified users only in 30 days, and it still works fine for unchecked me, so that's good I guess.

and I can still view over 600 tweets a day without hitting the rate limit

Still voting in polls too, two or three months after Musk said similar about those xp

sssshhhhh.... nobody tell him that the macOS app icon still shows the bird

no one tell him the site url is still twitter.com

given his approach to the physical X sign i'm surprised he didn't login to twitter's DNS manager himself and just start changing A NAME records, why not

Siloing it to a phone app only was a bizarre choice. People like to waste time on these things while they're working, and not have to open up their phone to do it.

This doesn't seem that bizarre to me. A study from 2016 found that about 80% of all time spent on social media in the U.S. is on mobile rather than desktop. I wouldn't be surprised if a) that's now higher because of TikTok, b) the global rate is also higher given the dominance of mobile in developing countries. Not everyone has a desk job, obv.

― jaymc, Wednesday, August 2, 2023 9:32 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

twitter is a small share of social media tho, and much nerdier than the rest of social media. i reckon desktop share is much higher

honestly it doesn't seem like meta tried that hard to make threads a thing? i use ig (but not threads) and haven't been reminded of it once

I can totally see him doing "twitter.com will redirect to x.com for one week, then only x.com will work"

Narrator: x.com did not work.

Oops etc

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/09/special-counsel-obtained-search-warrant-for-donald-trumps-twitter-account-00110484

Just noticed it's now Post and Repost instead of Tweet and Retweet smh

outrageous they didnt go with x and rex what the point of changing the name even

xps just aces all around:

The opinion describes the Justice Department’s “difficulties” in initially making contact with Twitter — which had only recently been taken over by Musk — to serve the search warrant. Prosecutors first attempted to contact the company on Jan. 17 via its website for legal requests but found the page to be inoperative. On Jan. 19, the company finally connected with prosecutors but did not immediately comply with the warrant. On Jan. 25, when prosecutors prodded Twitter again, the company’s counsel claimed she “had not heard anything about the warrant.”

Finally, on Feb. 1, four days after the production deadline, Twitter raised a legal objection to the nondisclosure order.

“Although the company did not question the validity of the search warrant, it asserted that the nondisclosure order was facially invalid under the First Amendment,” Pan noted. “Twitter informed the government that it would not comply with the warrant until the district court assessed the legality of the nondisclosure order.”

nondisclosure orders are an everyday part of criminal subpoenas. no court this side of Aileen Cannon is going to throw one out on a specious first amendment claim.