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.
― akm, Monday, 21 November 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 November 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 November 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
I didn’t realize you could block the ad accounts until a couple of weeks ago. Seems like something Elon will get rid of.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 21 November 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
every time someone reminds elon third-party apps exist I mumble "stfu snitch"
― mh, Monday, 21 November 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 21 November 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
no ads on twitter's own tweetdeck as well
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Monday, 21 November 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
I’ve blocked so many ads that the only ads I see in my feed now are for Freedent Gum and Velamints.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 21 November 2022 23:06 (one year ago) link
has nobody told you about the evil Freedent empire?
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 November 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 03:36 (one year ago) link
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
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link
So she.... continues to post on Twitter, which has no problematic ownership and never has.
Ooooook.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
Is twitter a bit slower today?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
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.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
I joined Hive but it seems pretty glitchy and slapdash.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 13:52 (one year ago) link
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.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
no translate button on the web client
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
someone on twitter compared all of this to standing in the parking lot arguing re: which Denny's we were going to go to
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
And then someone suggests ihop
every promoted tweet I get now is really weird
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
Yeah, me too. It's starting to feel just junkier all around.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
I thought the World Cup was supposed to bring twitter down
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
Maybe people are finally over soccer
saw some but not a lot of world cup tweets, might not be the right demo tho (american)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
interesting posts from an ex-twitter engineer
https://www.metafilter.com/196970/Dear-Twitter-Advertisers#8316204
― 龜, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
seems like a cool account https://quitter.online/@friend
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
i mean its him but they are just messing around
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
thats what its all about baby
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
dereks been doing the 'new forum bit' for a while even before all this
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
yeah i remember he had some other new twitter that was just a message board
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
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
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
nice
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
lol, topic of interest: "Basketball"
https://i.imgur.com/VgbAuhU.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/vkXlA4j.png
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
extracting from comments on the bad VC-backed news site
There are currently three data centers, hosting all of the real-time and most of the batch production load. Ad-hoc load and some production batch load was migrating to GCP, but this was being significantly curtailed in the months before the acquisition closed because it turned out to be very expensive, much more so than anticipated and more than the equivalent workloads had cost in the data centers.
*nods sagely*
― mh, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
Such genius:
Before Elon Musk bought Twitter last month, the company’s executives had racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel invoices that the social media service planned to pay.But once Mr. Musk took over the company, he refused to reimburse travel vendors for those bills, current and former Twitter employees said. Mr. Musk’s staff said the services were authorized by the company’s former management and not by him. His staff have since avoided the calls of the travel vendors, the people said.
But once Mr. Musk took over the company, he refused to reimburse travel vendors for those bills, current and former Twitter employees said. Mr. Musk’s staff said the services were authorized by the company’s former management and not by him. His staff have since avoided the calls of the travel vendors, the people said.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
not paying your bills and then settling when a lawsuit is raised for a lesser amount is a tried and true tactic of another notable former chief executive
― mh, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
In Twitter’s New York office on Monday, the cafeteria, which once had items like grilled shrimp, served two types of macaroni and cheese, along with a salad bar, one person said.
― 龜, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
pretty good mac n cheese selection tbf
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
shrimp to mac and cheese sounds like an upgrade tbh
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
anyone who has actually eaten the food available in offices like this knows that this is like, exciting for a few weeks and then you realize everything basically tastes the same and has been sitting under heating lamps for hours and you may as well be eating at the salad and soup bar of a Ruby Tuesday's.
― akm, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
correct, but it sounds so good when you're being recruited!
― 龜, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
At age like 23
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
we had free food for years at my company and they got rid of it in 2006 (I started late 2004). prior to that, everybody made jokes about how disgusting the food was (they served imitation Krab, had a taco bar, etc). one of my managers created a fake menu that advertised "Bird Flu soup".
the moment the food went away, suddenly it was Ruth's Chris level food and people rage quit.
granted, let's be real - when you don't have to worry about paying for five meals a week, and the beverages you imbibe all day/snacks are all free, that's...a pretty good deal. but it was funny watching the perspective change.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
I once contracted at Sky for a couple of months and you could have fish cooked to order in front of you. which was nice.
― ledge, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
would kill for that now, love fish and I cook like shit
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Tuesday, November 22, 2022 12:10 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ya I think that's pretty spot on. so much IT work is just asking "why is this so complicated?" and then spending the next two weeks finding out exactly why. In my job there are probably like 5-6 little corners of the system for which I am "the guy". A couple of them are fairly important, where a few people know the mainframe side but only I really know the midtier side. Others are like little data access things, graphing programs, and what not. Yes we have documentation but I feel like that only takes you so far sometimes. We had someone on a pretty critical application die of Covid and I was the one tasked with figuring it out - I spent weeks trying to understand the data structures, why the tables were set up a certain way, which parts of the system had been migrated and which weren't, where all the fucking batch jobs were, what all the workarounds and testing tools were, etc. etc., all of which would've been a hell of a lot easier if I just had someone to ask fairly simple questions to. Well Twitter just got rid of thousands of people who probably each had their own specialized understanding of something, one can imagine the magnitude of headaches the "Twitter hardcore" are in for now
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
otm
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link