Twitter C/D

Twitter taught me that there is a person named Kyrie Irving yesterday, and I'm not sure I needed to know that

Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company.

I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia,

— Shannon Raj Singh (@ShannonRSingh) November 4, 2022

Yeah, I got back on yesterday for the first time in weeks just to enjoy watching it implode and ended up spending half an hour hate-reading people defending Kyrie Irving

― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, November 4, 2022 3:00 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

One reason I finally deleted was forcing myself to face how much time I was spending reading replies from UK-based terf nightmare freaks. I don't know anyone in real life who would express those views and had to recognize that "being aware" of this shit isn't any kind of actual politics

Never read the comments section… but it’s all comments section.

LOL at twitter user @MattHelgeson trying to get banned. reminds me of the time i was banned from AOL for copying Steve Case's profile as my own

LMAO ums, that is some amazing work

xp the death of Google Reader was the real apocalypse all along imo

― mh, Friday, November 4, 2022 2:25 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

The death of Google Reader is what prompted me to create my twitter account, which I originally just used as a news aggregation service (I have yet to tweet, I guess I should get around to that before it's too late). I really should go back to rss feeds, it was a much healthier way to get my news.

i created a twitter account purely to talk to rappers, no other reason

I tried to use a Google Reader replacement for a while, but never stuck for some reason.

around the time I'd built enough of a network of people who were sharing articles on google reader and commenting with some good interaction, they killed it

people building a community and interacting by talking about links? who would want that?

Another reason I won't leave this app. pic.twitter.com/y8gGWt3P4A

— Ashley Winter MD || Urologist (@AshleyGWinter) November 4, 2022

ok lol

maybe I can subscribe to a "best of twitter" substack, I do miss the rare good jokes

1/ There is some pretty substantial context about Twitter's 2023 revenue and advertisers that I think partly help explains why Musk is really losing it...

And it involves upfront ad sales. Let me explain...

— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) November 5, 2022

Nice threads about what was good about twitter and why the likes of tik tok won't work.

What I like(d) about Twitter, and what I’ll look for from whatever comes next:

I joined Twitter in 08 or 09. The thing that mattered in those early days was that ties were unidirectional (following), not bidirectional (friending).

(1/x)

— dave karpf (@davekarpf) November 5, 2022

Won't quite work for me though I will give it a go at some point.

Chuck Tingle to the rescue

https://www.twiddor.com/

Seems bad

OK, this is worrying ... decided to download my Twitter archive as there are several scholarly points I have bookmarked over the years. Used to be a case you just entered your password ... not any more ... they want a scan of either my driving licence or passport ... As if ...

— Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy (@dramdarcy) November 5, 2022

I downloaded my archive last week and have tweeted less than a dozen times since. I don't really give a fuck about my old tweets, which are preserved in a gigantic javascript file, though. I'll probably just toss it.

Downloaded mine last weekend as well. Takes up a small space on my hard drive -- could probably back it up elsewhere too, so I'll likely do that. It may not be of specific use but good to have it regardless.

Grimes NEVER said I had a "weird dick" and "smelled like nachos" and if you repost this you will be arrested

— Elon Musk (@jephjacques) November 5, 2022

caek I just really need to know that you didn’t refer to yourself as a “tweep” ever

crossposted but read this, seems bad:

https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d

Xp I did not but lots of people do. Someone should write a list of all the names for tech company employees. Tweep might be the worst though.

Mailchimp employees call themselves peeps as seen in this deranged memo from the ceo

One month before Mailchimp CEO Ben Chestnut stepped down as CEO, he sent a 1,400-word email to employees about the use of preferred pronouns internally. He told workers (he calls them "peeps,") the practice was harmful — even coercive.

Read it in full: https://t.co/DryNxqQzrR

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) October 20, 2022

a chestnut blight

that usage of the word 'peeps' is just colloquial and short for 'people', I don't believe it's how mailchip employees referred to themselves.

well, reading more, maybe not, because he keeps using the word over and over. but he also sounds demented.

If you search twitter for mailchimp peeps then I get the impression it really is their internal name for employees, but who knows.

pretty brave of him to talk about pronouns while referring to everyone as peeps

mailchimp is a really gross name for a company horrible logo too

whoa whoa think of the peeps

MailPeeps

MailPeeps (he/hers/thems)

When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022

attitudes like this are completely incomprehensible to me, "I joined the Branch Davidians because I liked David Koresh's guitar playing" would make more sense

I was at work once for close to 92 hours straight. I went home twice over the course of that time to shower and change and had to be back at the office within the hour. We even took turns napping. It sucked so bad but was possibly the most gratifying project in my entire career.

— ShutTheFrunkDoor (@ShutTheFrnkDoor) November 2, 2022

some people get off on that shit its like alcoholism but for work

esther crawford lives in my town, I will have to avoid her although I suspect she makes much more money than I do and therefore our paths do not cross

workaholics are real

it's wild the sheer breadth of activities we can turn to for self obliteration

anyway lately i'm feeling like twitter is dud

mailchimp ceo and his cofounder are psychotic, so many employees were fleeced

I was in a dept once where people routinely bragged about hours worked and giving up their PTO and letting it expire, it was like "weird flex but go off"

i can totally understand working super hard and being gratified, after it was over, that you helped build something

i understand it much less when the task at hand is basically 'destroying the product because a billionaire says so'

More Esther Crawford

Having a nightly standup is bad enough, but imagine holding one while everyone around you is being unceremoniously fired pic.twitter.com/aumYS2LW1V

— Shantini Vyas (@shantinix) November 4, 2022

To illustrate the chaos: some employees working on Twitter Blue, Musk’s revamped subscription service, were asked to join a video call as colleagues were being laid off last night. During that call, one person lost access, presumably because they were cut. https://t.co/za9DZtjFOY pic.twitter.com/dfZaGIwfgw

— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) November 4, 2022

I don’t get the impression she’s especially bad relative to the other managers who are staying, all of whom are classic rise and grind types. She’s getting a lot of attention because she happens to be responsible for the first thing they’re trying to ship.

Desperately screenshotting Dril tweets like I'm trying to save scrolls from the Library of Alexandria as it burns.

— Richy Craven (@RichyCraven) November 4, 2022

9:30pm standup? lol

I was previously unfamiliar with the term "standup" in this context, and thought you were talking about a comedian doing a routine on a stage while sacked employees carried their boxes out.

What is the deal with layoffs?

Better to be laid off by Elon than laid on by him, amirite? *rimshot*