yeah it is an essential broadcast/networking service for a lot of people
― lag∞n, Sunday, 6 November 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
" The moonlight on the bayou A creole tune that fills the air I dream about Magnolias in June And soon I'm wishing that I was there"
― | (Latham Green), Sunday, 6 November 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
Also lol
pic.twitter.com/BM1tksiMA0— Rochelle (@rochdowdenlordy) November 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 November 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
twitter wouldn't load for me for over a minute a little while ago; first time I've seen that in years and year. may have been on my end, I guess, but my gut says no
― akm, Sunday, 6 November 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, November 5, 2022 8:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I think the bigger thing was the twitter post which came off as less of a “slice of like” thing and more as a demonstrative gesture
― mh, Sunday, 6 November 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
tbf if youre going to sleep on the floor you better make sure the boss knows
― lag∞n, Sunday, 6 November 2022 22:24 (one year ago) link
Twitter used to be more fun before half the tweets were about Twitter.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 7 November 2022 01:30 (one year ago) link
same applies to ilx these days. it's all twitter all hours
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 7 November 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
Fair point.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 7 November 2022 02:55 (one year ago) link
at least on a forum you can just not click on the threads discussing something rather than having it interleaved all over your feed
― ciderpress, Monday, 7 November 2022 04:44 (one year ago) link
So good
Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 November 2022 07:21 (one year ago) link
Remember:
Elon Musk does not have a Twitter account, anyone who claims to be the "real" Elon Musk is a fraud.— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 30, 2009
― Alba, Monday, 7 November 2022 08:07 (one year ago) link
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 7 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink
Here is a tik tok for you.
pic.twitter.com/UGXOunqA1C— xooset (@xooset) November 4, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 November 2022 08:54 (one year ago) link
And every August we call for the army to be loosed on rioters, just like 2011! https://t.co/sKbHAyC8L7— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) November 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 November 2022 09:48 (one year ago) link
Mastodon seems to completely misunderstand the value-proposition of Twitter - a global audience, people to yell at, people to yell at you. Livejournal didn’t get a moron to buy it for $44bn.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 7 November 2022 10:37 (one year ago) link
Mastodon is more like a message board where you can engage in self-promotion?
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 7 November 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
Is the What's Happening bit of Twitter curated rather than automated?
Mine currently has 'live' England beating New Zealand in the T20 World Cup, a match that finished almost a week ago
― groovypanda, Monday, 7 November 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
What's Happening will usually show me the same story for a week or so. Not sure what the point of it is.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 7 November 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
It was curated. I expect the people doing it were laid off.
― Alba, Monday, 7 November 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
Curated pretty awfully. It was invariably:* Fans wish [vanishingly obscure celebrity] happy birthday!* [Newsworthy event which happened 6 days ago]* [Piece of shit magazine does puff piece on dipshit]
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 7 November 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
I think the celebrity birthdays were meaningful to millions of English-speaking South Asians.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 7 November 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
The ones I saw were unlikely to fall into that category.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 7 November 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
Musk spent 44Billion and I can still Block him... lol... I'll probably get Banned for that Tweet.— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) November 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 7 November 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
I know nothing about this thread is really surprising, but it did kinda hammer home to me that I just don't want Elon having his hands on that much info. I deleted the app from my phone and deleted my personal account (which I basically never used anyway). Still have a professional account that I can use from the website, but it felt good to pull back just a little.
With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.🧵— Steve Krenzel (@stevekrenzel) November 7, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:33 (one year ago) link
Was classique. May be dudded. Only manageable for me via Tweetdeck.
Also, hello again.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:37 (one year ago) link
I finally deleted the app from my phone today. I asked myself, what would I do if Trump bought Twitter? And that made the choice even easier.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 03:34 (one year ago) link
https://www.platformer.news/p/musk-discusses-putting-all-of-twitter
Lots of good stuff in here, including musings about paywalling the whole site, but this is my favorite.
Meanwhile, the health team was told to listen to Musk adviser David Sacks’ podcast for insights into why they had just lost half their colleagues, according to a former employee. Sacks, a venture capitalist who has been helping to manage the Musk transition, co-hosts the “All-In” podcast with fellow Twitter adviser Jason Calacanis and VC Chamath Palihapitiya.
“The most recent podcast covers the current layoffs happening across tech and provides some insight into why this is happening/necessary,” a vice president told employees. “I think it is worth listening to in order to understand the macro environment we are operating in."
He told his new employees that they should listen to his podcast. Amazing.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:31 (one year ago) link
honestly thats grounds for mob justice
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:32 (one year ago) link
Looool
Other employees have warned about a secondary feature of the new Blue that Musk added at the last minute: reducing ad load in the Twitter app by half. Estimates showed that Twitter will lose about $6 in ad revenue per user per month in the United States by making that change, sources said. Factoring in Apple and Google’s share of the $8 monthly subscription, Twitter would likely lose money on Blue if the ad-light plan is enacted.
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 10:03 (one year ago) link
Unable to change your Twitter display name like @evacide? Seeing weird manual RTs? Replies not loading? Twitter is breaking. For @techreview, I spoke to an engineer still employed about how the platform is failing - not with a bang, but with a whimper https://t.co/WST1QKQMba— Chris Stokel-Walker ~ @sto✧✧✧@info✧✧✧.excha✧✧✧ (@stokel) November 8, 2022
One thing that interests me, is how difficult it is to maintain a service as superficially simple as Twitter at scale. I feel like I could probably write out its basic features quite quickly and simply on a single piece of paper (at least as regards users - I realise the advertising side is more complex). I know that scalability is the issue, but as someone who isn't an IT professional, that's all somewhat shrouded in mystery for me.
― Alba, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 10:31 (one year ago) link
The Onion went on a tear in the last 12 hours and then this happened pic.twitter.com/SkDgYmpiB3— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) November 8, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 12:09 (one year ago) link
It might turn ok in the end.
Emma Kennedy has had her Twitter account suspended after being mistaken for parody. pic.twitter.com/OnQEqU2Apn— Jon Mao (Not Parody) (@JonMao___) November 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link
the system works
― dogdick solanke (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
― Alba, Tuesday, November 8, 2022 5:31 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
basically its just hard cause millions of computers both servers where the data is stored and most of the computation happens and users phones or whatever have to communicate and remain synchronized "in real time", and twitters been around for a while so the way all that happens isnt as ideal as if you were to build it new today, but yeah it is crazy how hard it is, computers are bad
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
So only 100,000 people were paying for Twitter Premium (or whatever)? And minus verification that premium becomes even less appealing. What a knucklehead. A few people on here have suggested Tesla or Rockets, Inc. or Tunnelpeople are OK places to work because Musk is barely involved. Is this what it's like when he *is* involved? What a hilarious mess.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
there was an interesting recent new yorker piece on the guy who did the foundation work on this synchronisation everywhere in real time, and how he's old now and -- iirc -- the groundwork allowing this to happen is somewhat crumbling, but its upkeep runs through a sequence of ancient technician beefs (the guy is super-cranky and getting worse, which doesn't help) and office-political disputes
anyway i can't remember his name so this has been more helpful participation and content by me, yes
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link
link?
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:37 (one year ago) link
my "can't remember his name" post has people asking a lot of questions about links already answered by my post
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s TimeAn obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running?Nate HopperSeptember 30, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
The link is through Google so I'd need to clean it up.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
thank u
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
u yung ppl w/yr non-failing memories, it's a scandal
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
look it's true that Elon has a lot of really dumb ideas that might actually kill Twitter on the spot, but its also true that he fired all the people who would actually be responsible for implementing them, so who knows maybe it'll be fine :)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
Another thoughtful thread on twitter.
Before returning to my Twitter asceticism, which is not prompted by the Musk takeover but by a need for mental focus, a couple of thoughts on the platform and its fate. I am more ambivalent than many about cheering its end: it's been very important and useful for me.— James B (@piercepenniless) November 8, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
idk if it will mostly go audio-visual. Staying on ilx and twitter -- which is a really good at aggregating so much web content -- means I've never really been that out there.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
Good piece, about right imo.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
Alongside the minor malfunctions, the Twitter engineer believes that there’ll be significant outages on the horizon, thanks in part to Musk’s drive to reduce Twitter’s cloud computing server load in an attempt to claw back up to $3 million a day in infrastructure costs. Reuters reports that this project, which came from Musk’s war room, is called the “Deep Cuts Plan.”
lol what an appealing name
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
Hope they pulled the plug on the data centre in Ireland, if that was one of them!
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
please enjoy THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF TWIDDOR’S RAPID DESCENT INTO CHAOS THANKS TO INEPT MANAGEMENT FROM A MANBABY EDGELORD POUNDS ME IN THE BUTT out now https://t.co/yy8yHvIVXd or on patreon https://t.co/mls9h13YK1 pic.twitter.com/TnSXLLgfaN— Chuck Tingle (@ChuckTingle) November 8, 2022
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link