Twitter C/D

Lloyd Blankfein wins this week's "you have to give Hitler credit..." prize.

He hasn't deleted it yet, impressive

Worth noting even Hitler didn’t permit his military to use chemical weapons, though he had them. https://t.co/jG25woB8kl

— Lloyd Blankfein (@lloydblankfein) March 24, 2022

yeah hitler totally didnt use chemicals against people gotta give him that

Wtf. Twitter just asked me if I want to turn my profile pic into an NFT.

hay can i buy your profile pic for 1.2301323 gasdlfawrop3$

join the discord to decide what i mean

Now that Musk owns 9% maybe I willfinally break my addiction.

Just abuse him each day until he gets you cut off, go out with style.

what if Rambo was named Crambo? not so cool now

— cullen 'swamp trash' crawford (@HelloCullen) April 16, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/19/libs-of-tiktok-right-wing-media/?

ngl being the sponsor of the lgbt+ club at my hs feels a lil higher stakes these days but we don’t have many rw chuds in my school community thankfully

Still crying pic.twitter.com/htTYaJ35an

— ⚜️ Todd Dillerson ⚜️ (@ImTooMuch) April 17, 2022

lol

The Onion has been banned from Twitter. Help us send a strong message to Big Tech by changing your profile picture and tweeting #UnbanTheOnion pic.twitter.com/BSMKZrywIs

— The Onion (@TheOnion) April 21, 2022

bump

lol

It should be publicly owned but that's never going to happen unless communism.

In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.

— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 26, 2022

https://i.ibb.co/NjRb0tP/Reading-Article.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmHEG4CWytM

Jack is, without a doubt, the stupidest person I’ve ever worked for.

you need to step into the light of consciousness brother

I demand that the first 100k twitter users get super mod powers

(just checked and I was one of the first 31k users)

he sold his first tweet to someone even dumber

Maybe something has changed but I cannot for the life of me understand people reasoning that Twitter is an essential platform. Twitter isn’t a platform. It’s a website. It has been proved time and time again that people, on the web, will readily move on and the stickiness (or even monopolization) Berkman researcher after Berkman researcher claims to exist, doesn’t.

I'm an addict.

― Allen, Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:04 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Maybe not. 😂

i need to see this attempted, as a fan of engineering disasters

I am curious too. However, everyone I know at Tesla and SpaceX agrees that Musk is a great leader for engineering companies because he is unorganized, has no idea what is going on in engineering, and is way too occupied with other things (i.e., himself) to think about any issue deeply and get invested. Meanwhile, Zuck is still submitting pull requests.

xxpost Twitter and Facebook have been pretty much the standard platforms for more than a decade. Sure, the kids are always finding a new place to hang out, but the olds are not going to move anytime soon.

Zuck is still submitting pull requests.

― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:21 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol is this literally true

Twitter and Facebook have been pretty much the standard platforms for more than a decade. Sure, the kids are always finding a new place to hang out, but the olds are not going to move anytime soon.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRMddWWWUAEkFqA?format=jpg&name=900x900

Sure, the kids are always finding a new place to hang out, but the olds are not going to move anytime soon.

― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, April 26, 2022 9:22 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Or the standard platforms are buying out the new places (see Epic and Bandcamp)

It's like the A&R guy shopping for acts at a gig

Yeah, we haven't seen a real friendster->myspace->facebook churn in years, although outside the US, other sites have dominance (especially in Russia/China)

when it comes to valuation, twitter's a user base, but there isn't an upstart that has made significant inroads into peeling off even a single demographic/group from that user base in a long time. despite all of the right-wing attempts, they've only created small user bases that spend most of their time complaining about what's going on on twitter

i do think twitter has more staying power than other sites because its not just a general purpose social network like those other places its for power users, like every journalist is on there where they gonna go

newslr

at least in the usa facebook is looking pretty dead i went on there the other day to see what people were saying about a particular news story and it was a ghost town, like there might not be another facebook/myspace type site on the way up but maybe people dont want that

I mean, their greatest strength (that it's an uncategorized mess with everyone shouting into the void) is also the greatest weakness. There's absolutely no way to suggest new people to follow, or any sort of "topics," outside of aggregation and algorithmic recommendations. Or employees hand-picking popular tweets and manually creating trending topics, which they also do afaict

lol remember hashtags

the old days where the twitter front page was every single tweet? that's the sauce

obvs facebook the company has more on its books than just the social network facebook tho, and popularity of its various properties varies worldwide

at least in the usa facebook is looking pretty dead

I look occasionally and feel embarrassed for people I know that are posting who aren't just sharing pictures of kids for the grandparents

i only use it to recruit people for my MLM

Azealia Banks has returned to Twitter. pic.twitter.com/LL4knbfDnS

— Pop Base (@PopBase) April 26, 2022

lol zero tweets, 23k followers

I look occasionally and feel embarrassed for people I know that are posting who aren't just sharing pictures of kids for the grandparents

yeah, that was the saving grace of twitter. You didn't have to explain all your jokes to your relatives.

With FB you have to remember how much algorithmic crap scrambles what you see (unless you are actively going to specific people’s walls to see what’s up)

I worked at Twitter in 2010 during @jack’s hostile return. Some fun memories:

For one of my interview panels the interviewers didn’t show up, but I was still hired…

👇🏽👇🏽

— Nate Nate (@n8agrin) April 26, 2022

ha ha yeah I recently discovered that my friend has a kid the same age as mine, but Facebook hadn't been showing us each other's posts for years

I think fb still pretty massive with older, more conservative types?

exactly

Facebook hadn't been showing us each other's posts for years

I split from Facebook when I found out that a friend of mine committed suicide, only I didn't know about it because FB's algorithm had suppressed his posts because he had stopped posting.

yeah, facebook definitely stops showing anything for people you haven’t engaged with

this is good fun if you like that stuff.

truly deranged origin story.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/P/1591847087.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg

aren't they doing a movie of that i thought i heard