Twitter C/D

the unholy emulsion

One of the first ads I've seen on Twitter in the last few days is from the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia saying, "Saudi Arabia is transforming. Follow us to learn how."

The band playing as the Twitter ship goes down pic.twitter.com/Rb2JNIZ3QK

— Will Sebag-Montefiore (@wsebag) November 21, 2022

I’m writing stuff in a notebook and adding likes, one of my posts has gone viral

An advertiser explains why they’re pausing their Twitter ads campaigns: pic.twitter.com/jc0hBGzO4P

— Peter Yang (@petergyang) November 21, 2022

yeesh if that's typical it's p much doomed. the bit about turning discontinued campaigns back on is esp bad

randomly turning on paused ad campaigns from the last six years seems like a good revenue stream for twitter #billinghacks

xp I’ve been getting Limmy clips from his Twitch stream and they are excellent

(On my TikTok. Oof. Just woke up!)

It’s fun seeing the complaints about Mastodon’s lack of an algorithmic feed. I agree, for what it’s worth. But I hope people understand Twitter has been, despite their size and resources, the champion of RecSys for the past decade. I write “was” because I believe Musk canned all of these people.

spotted weird right wing scam type stuff in sponsored posts lately

Nice gleeful chat
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/inside-twitters-soul-104904759/

^ downloadable version

I think algorithms are fine as long as they are transparent and refusable

i try to only use twitter via a web browser with adblock extensions so I only ever see ads when on my phone using the app, and then I block basically every single company that serves me an ad; at this point, the only ads I am seeing are for fucking dumb gizmos, but I did see an amusing one for Snoop on a Stoop, a new elf-on-the-shelf alternative with Snoop Dog and a blunt.

ive been blocking all twitter ads that arent for junk food and booze for years i figured theyd start serving me just those after a while but no they dont care

yeah i've been blocking any account i see an ad from as a rule. twas a sad day when i had to block the nba but i can't be soft on this

I didn’t realize you could block the ad accounts until a couple of weeks ago. Seems like something Elon will get rid of.

every time someone reminds elon third-party apps exist I mumble "stfu snitch"

I can’t believe it’s lasted this long, it has to render Twitter ads even more worthless than online ads in general.

For a while I was getting ads targeted at doctors treating HIV patients.

no ads on twitter's own tweetdeck as well

I’ve blocked so many ads that the only ads I see in my feed now are for Freedent Gum and Velamints.

has nobody told you about the evil Freedent empire?

OK I got an account on Post and it seems just as dorky and awkward as you'd expect. The interface is clunky and feels half-formed, maybe it'll get better. It has confusing system of "points" and "payments," although content is free unless people paywall it. I'll keep an eye on it, but I wouldn't be sweating it if I were Elon.

PSA: please don’t use Hive as an alternative to Twitter. Their developer is an ableist, and the other a Tr*mp supporter. People already considered the app as an alternative two years ago. I know it’s the same app, because i found an account i made back then that i forgot about.

— Lucia misses choerry🧃(deukae D-2) (@MOZZALU) November 22, 2022

So she.... continues to post on Twitter, which has no problematic ownership and never has.

Ooooook.

Is twitter a bit slower today?

Xpost I am pretty sure that the OP is confusing Hive Social with the unrelated company Hive re: the Trump supporter accusation. The latter offered to provide TruthSocial

Ableist part seems to be accurate on other hand.

I joined Hive but it seems pretty glitchy and slapdash.

I gave up and deactivated my Twitter. I hope it continues to go down like a clown car on fire, but I don't want to watch anymore.

no translate button on the web client

someone on twitter compared all of this to standing in the parking lot arguing re: which Denny's we were going to go to

And then someone suggests ihop

every promoted tweet I get now is really weird

Yeah, me too. It's starting to feel just junkier all around.

I thought the World Cup was supposed to bring twitter down

Maybe people are finally over soccer

saw some but not a lot of world cup tweets, might not be the right demo tho (american)

interesting posts from an ex-twitter engineer

https://www.metafilter.com/196970/Dear-Twitter-Advertisers#8316204

https://quitter.online/@dril

could be real since quitter is the mastodon of derek https://quitter.online/@admin https://twitter.com/derek8185338254 the guy who had the web show with dril

seems like a cool account https://quitter.online/@friend

i mean its him but they are just messing around

thats what its all about baby

dereks been doing the 'new forum bit' for a while even before all this

yeah i remember he had some other new twitter that was just a message board

idk how likely it was that the WC was gonna take Twitter out, I would assume they spent a long time beefing up their infrastructure to handle it

tbh if my company had suddenly cut 2/3rds of their IT workers I think we could probably coast by for a while, but there is just so much entropy in complex systems like this, impossible to know if they'll run into major problems in two months or in two hours

I've never worked for an organization of more than a few thousand people, but even at that scale, the wrong IT person being out sick can be a problem. I find it hard to believe losing half or more of your tech people at a tech company is sustainable for long.

we outright lost the ability to do a specific type of call center build at my company *permanently* once because one person resigned and nobody had documented the process lol

nice

lol, topic of interest: "Basketball"

https://i.imgur.com/VgbAuhU.png
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