Twitter C/D

John Deorean:cocaine::Elon Musk:Twitter.

Ha, fucked up my own DeLorean joke.

And if he had just delivered an affordable, reliable personal submarine we'd all be singing his praises

part of that's unavoidable given how interest rates have moved higher since the financing papers were signed in april, but part of that definitely reflects the chaos and uncertainty that elon is bringing lol xp

It's like Musk highjacked the Titanic just so he could steer it into the iceberg.

so he does have a plan

currently an emergency twitter all-hands going on with Elon Musk answering employee Q's

Elon was asked: "How are you going to deal with the expected attrition and align everyone on a shared vision?"

Elon Answer: "I don't know....we all need to be more hardcore."

— rat king 🐀 (@MikeIsaac) November 10, 2022

Twitter should start a Patreon

The Posting Era is coming to an end in the funniest and most spectacular way…soon all will be scattered to the forums and there will only be a smoking crater where they spent over a decade posting through it

it should be noted that any sentence that includes the words "how are you going to..." and "...align everyone on a shared vision?" was actually a big slow softball question

what are the projects you're most excited about and what are the big things we should all be looking forward to together as we work together in complete harmony?

uuuuuh.....fuck autotune

twitter has wild revenue fluctuations, but even some of its worst quarters only had negative cash flows in the low nine figures, so if this is true Elon has blown a multi-billion dollar hole in their finances already https://t.co/CThkrFtqEl

— Law Boy, Esq. (@The_Law_Boy) November 10, 2022

Was going to ask how long until this guy ends up in a stupid reality show, but then I realized we are already getting it.

Elon Answer: "I don't know....we all need to be more hardcore."

Bloomberg is reporting that Harley Flanagan has been tapped to replace Yoel Roth as Twitter's Head of Trust and Safety. Flanagan brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the company from his previous stints in Cro-Mags and jail.

ok now I'm wondering if Esther is ok, after crapping all over her earlier in this thread

her activity today has been limited to retweeting this

proud of the spaces team (current and former) for building a service resilient enough to handle ~100k concurrent listeners for an hour with no issues. https://t.co/snfe7Nt3oV

— Kayvon Beykpour (@kayvz) November 10, 2022

i'm barely following but even i recognize that the host of the flawless conference call (which, heavy respect) was a person who resigned today

big kendall roy energy here

"hey so i just wanted to drop in and say..... y'know... Yo"

*Writing my Twitter self-eval*

Consistent with the stated corporate strategy of “being more hardcore”, in Q42022 I turned it up to 11 in the following areas:
- Fucks given: 0
- Headbutts: +35% from Q3
- Fingerless Glove Fridays: 100% team participation
- Longer guitar solos

— Jeff Rivers (@jeffrivers) November 10, 2022

making a speech to my employees about how we’re all in this together pic.twitter.com/EG3cBDHAvM

— Italien Feeld (@julianfeeld) November 11, 2022

Feel like Elon is entering "let's just do it and be legends" territory.

site already seems to have broken. scrolling down replies keeps jumping back to the top of the page

The chaos continues. Twitter pulls the plug on Twitter Blue, subscriptions and paid-for verification blue checkmark no longer available.

— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) November 11, 2022

Huh interesting anyway anyone want to fuck the moon? https://t.co/SrBoVDEer3

— SpaceX (@SpaceXOfficiall) November 11, 2022

Incredible 1-2

is it really scrapped? too funny

I don’t even care if this is true

Twitter Blue has been permanently disabled after a verified Nintendo Macedonia account posted a picture of pregnant Luigi showing his prolapsed butthole to Waluigi. It was viewed 8 million times.

— Nude Gingrich (official) (@JarJarFan69) November 11, 2022

lol pic.twitter.com/E6zfEDTbs6

— Arbeitology (@Arbeit_Fish) November 11, 2022

lmao pic.twitter.com/eAlWNGKeP1

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) November 11, 2022

I changed my stance on paid verification, I like it now pic.twitter.com/GSFJLMFZbV

— Stanzi ❤️‍🔥 (@stanzipotenza) November 10, 2022

I'm enjoying how the What's Happening? list is carrying on, ignoring with grim determination the main reason most people (?) are even looking at twitter

This NYT article…

In case you’re in any doubt about who got to stay:

At Goldbird, Twitter’s revenue division, the company had to bring back those who ran key money-generating products that “no one else knows how to operate,” people with knowledge of the business said. One manager agreed to try rehiring some laid-off workers, but expressed concerns that they were “weak, lazy, unmotivated and they may even be against an Elon Twitter,” two people familiar with the matter said.

Last week, Ms. Crawford shared a photo of herself sleeping at Twitter’s San Francisco offices in a sleeping bag and an eye mask, with the hashtag #SleepWhereYouWork.

Her message rubbed some colleagues the wrong way. They wondered in private chats why they should commit long working hours to a man who could fire them, according to five people and messages seen by The Times. On Twitter, Ms. Crawford responded to what she called “hecklers” by saying she had received supportive messages from other entrepreneurs and “builders of all types.”

On Wednesday, workers in Twitter’s New York office were unable to use the Wi-Fi after a server room overheated and knocked it offline, two people said.

One manager agreed to try rehiring some laid-off workers, but expressed concerns that they were “weak, lazy, unmotivated and they may even be against an Elon Twitter,” two people familiar with the matter said.

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ffs the verified accounts were going great

just noticed they changed the blue check icon to actually be blue in dark mode on web twitter important work

https://status.twitter.com/ is still down

its up theres just some issue with the certificate getting that chrome danger warning but its there when i clicked through, kinda worse than being down tho

once clicked through it does show https as working so idk weird

App's working fine on my phone

It’s still in the App Store in Canada. But what the heck are all those other subscriptions? pic.twitter.com/4a5nowOXDO

— Bridget (@organikx) November 11, 2022

an angle i hadn't thought of, willing to bet Twitter in Germany is trending with lederhosen and oktoberfest

Musk’s Twitter purge has created all kinds of bizarre ripple effects across the whole world which are both interesting and confounding. For instance, Japanese Twitter users have noticed that the site’s Trending Topics in the country no longer have any news in them and have filled up with topics like anime and video games. The tweet above from Business Insider Japan reporter Ikuko Takeshita who explains that media outlets in the country were making Twitter Moments to promote their stories, which were then boosted by the Twitter’s curation team, which no longer exists.

lmao

Did Twitter Blue tweet just cost Eli Lilly $LLY billions?

Yes. pic.twitter.com/w4RtJwgCVK

— Rafael Shimunov is on Mastodon (@rafaelshimunov) November 11, 2022

ho lee shit

too good, twitters getting sued lol

never thought when I was a kid that if I was clever and made a burner account on a website that I could tank a multi-billion dollar global company. I didn't dream big enough.

i'm glad that eli lilly lost some stock value but is this going to be the kind of thing where they've miraculously recovered all of the lost value by next wednesday?

they'll argue that they'd have earned trillons more in that time!

twitter will not get sued because they are protected by Section 230

If Kissinger outlives Twitter pic.twitter.com/9bUaCx7rjX

— lil pom poko jerk (@rajandelman) November 11, 2022

Thursday evening, another blue-checkmark account posing as Eli Lilly with the handle LiIlyPadCo, tweeted a parody of the drug maker's apology, writing: "We apologize to those who were have been served a misleading message from a fake Lilly account about the cost of diabetic care. Humalog is now $400. We can do this whenever we want and there's nothing you can do about it. Suck it. Our official Twitter account is @LiIlyPadCo." Amid replies, the account responded, "$500 now. You want to keep going?" The account has since been suspended.

Eli Lilly lost billions in its stock valuation, probably on a very temporary basis. The real losses weren't to the company, but to all the stockholders who panic-sold at far below the market price prior to the tweet. Some of those will be very large pension funds, hedge funds and mutual funds, who will be pissed off as hell.