xp: nov 1, feb 1, may 1, aug 1 aka "quitting day at twitter". google pays out stock every month so people can quit year round.
― š šš¢šØ (caek), Thursday, 2 February 2023 22:40 (three years ago)
nice of them
― lagān, Thursday, 2 February 2023 23:14 (three years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoDjX-zWQAAkOaI?format=png&name=small
lol
― lagān, Friday, 3 February 2023 16:46 (three years ago)
thereās like no way they have actually programmed that
― G. DāArcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 3 February 2023 16:48 (three years ago)
yeah tho i guess they couldve already had it ready to go
― lagān, Friday, 3 February 2023 16:50 (three years ago)
Like pre-Elon it was built and then killed? Seems plausible
― G. DāArcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 3 February 2023 16:51 (three years ago)
Does that mean if advertisers spam your replies you get money? What the fuck?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 3 February 2023 23:39 (three years ago)
"advertisers" to twitter are paid advertisements that appear in the feed algorithmically
so if you're tweeting on brand/on trend and the algorithm inserts ads adjoining your tweets you're incentivized
I also thought "oh ads, yeah those people that tweet 'check out this cool combination vibrator/ring light'" but those are just tweets trying to hustle, not ads
― mh, Saturday, 4 February 2023 02:59 (three years ago)
absolutely incredible pic.twitter.com/v8KBYtJXcg— cait (@punished_cait) February 4, 2023
Makes it even better!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 4 February 2023 05:24 (three years ago)
Iām ready for Elon Musk to sunset
― G. DāArcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 4 February 2023 05:37 (three years ago)
Sadly he gets a pass today. https://www.reuters.com/legal/securities-fraud-trial-over-elon-musks-2018-tweets-draws-close-2023-02-03/
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Saturday, 4 February 2023 06:40 (three years ago)
tl;dr Tesla's Elon Musk found not liable in trial over 2018 'funding secured' tweets
ah! well. nevertheless,
― é¾, Saturday, 4 February 2023 20:13 (three years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoS9gJiWAAYdcPX?format=jpg&name=large
― lagān, Monday, 6 February 2023 17:43 (three years ago)
not everything can be turned into a 24 scenario
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 6 February 2023 17:46 (three years ago)
many of the strange behaviors we see in society today - conservatives thinking they can shoot down a balloon that's 11 miles in the air, true crime women keeping scrapbooks out of fear they will be murdered - stem from a condition that i call "thinks movies are real brain"— lauren (@NotABigJerk) February 4, 2023
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 6 February 2023 17:47 (three years ago)
human: please computer just say the n word in order to save the world
computer: no
― lagān, Monday, 6 February 2023 17:48 (three years ago)
the only time isaid the "N word" i said it with perfect frequency/timing to intercept & cancel out the sound waves of another guy saying it,— wint (@dril) April 8, 2021
― frogbs, Monday, 6 February 2023 18:17 (three years ago)
the movie in question being Die Hard 3
― rob, Monday, 6 February 2023 19:06 (three years ago)
When you think about it, isn't "No" the real "N word"?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 6 February 2023 20:53 (three years ago)
Sony headphones canceled
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 05:36 (three years ago)
elon musk? the cunt that got rich thanks to south africa politics and apartheid?
― CerebralCaustic, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 07:25 (three years ago)
"Can I say the n word to stop a murder? What about nuclear armageddon? TELL ME WHEN I CAN SAY IT GODDAMMIT."
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 09:04 (three years ago)
worst ppl i know all otm:
Very grateful -- genuinely! -- to @elonmusk for making this possible. pic.twitter.com/KIDy0lo3RU— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) February 7, 2023
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 10:44 (three years ago)
all my favorite characters in one spot!
― mh, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 15:19 (three years ago)
It's like when the mobs in Minecraft turn on each other
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 15:28 (three years ago)
Oh Elon
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/9/23593099/elon-musk-twitter-fires-engineer-declining-reach-ftc-concerns
On Tuesday, Musk gathered a group of engineers and advisors into a room at Twitterās headquarters looking for answers. Why are his engagement numbers tanking?āThis is ridiculous,ā he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. āI have more than 100 million followers, and Iām only getting tens of thousands of impressions.āOne of the companyās two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Muskās declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning.Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at āpeakā popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of ā100.ā Today, heās at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Muskās reach had somehow been artificially restricted but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.Musk did not take the news well. āYouāre fired, youāre fired,ā Musk told the engineer. (Platformer is withholding the engineerās name in light of the harassment Musk has directed at former Twitter employees.)
āThis is ridiculous,ā he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. āI have more than 100 million followers, and Iām only getting tens of thousands of impressions.ā
One of the companyās two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Muskās declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning.
Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at āpeakā popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of ā100.ā Today, heās at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Muskās reach had somehow been artificially restricted but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.
Musk did not take the news well.
āYouāre fired, youāre fired,ā Musk told the engineer. (Platformer is withholding the engineerās name in light of the harassment Musk has directed at former Twitter employees.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:37 (three years ago)
i feel bad for this poor fired Twitter engineer but on the whole this story is so funny https://t.co/FhKNufNS6n pic.twitter.com/NTwF9zfz14— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) February 9, 2023
The disarray makes it less likely that Musk will ever recoup the $44 billion he spent to buy Twitter, and may hasten its decline into insolvency.
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:37 (three years ago)
man, elon musk sucks badly
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:40 (three years ago)
Another victim of the tweep state.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:40 (three years ago)
Oh this too.. I'm sure the orders came from Lord Musk:
The president of SpaceX revealed the company has taken active steps to prevent Ukrainian forces from using the critical Starlink satellite technology with Ukrainian drones that are a key component of their fight against Russia.
āThere are things that we can do to limit their ability to do that,ā Gwynne Shotwell told reporters on Wednesday, referencing reports on Starlink and drone use. āThere are things that we can do, and have done.ā
Fuckers
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:40 (three years ago)
now there will be pressure to artificially inflate his impressions while also making musk feel like he totally earned it. the rich dude fantasy
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:41 (three years ago)
this man is like a modern day Hans Christian Andersen fable
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:45 (three years ago)
my god musk throwing a tantrum about people not paying attention to his tweets and firing someone over it hes further gone than i thought
― lagān, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:47 (three years ago)
lmao this is amazing
― rob, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:51 (three years ago)
interview to fill the suddenly open principal engineer position
"now...you're gonna have to kiss some MAJOR ass in order to work here. can you please show us how sycophantic you can possible be? seriously you are going to need to humiliate yourself on a daily basis if you want to earn the honor of writing monthly one-pagers to plead for your job"
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:52 (three years ago)
the hilarious thing is the obvious way to solve this problem for elon is bots
― rob, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:54 (three years ago)
āThereās times heās just awake late at night and says all sorts of things that donāt make sense,ā one employee said. āAnd then heāll come to us and be like, āthis one person says they canāt do this one thing on the platform,ā and then we have to run around chasing some outlier use case for one person. It doesnāt make any sense.ā
musky musky him sad man in his room
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:56 (three years ago)
āYouāre fired, youāre fired"
kinda has a 'hitler's final days in the bunker' vibe, when he was all spun out on speed
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:57 (three years ago)
lol this list
āWe havenāt seen much in the way of longer term, cogent strategy,ā one employee said. āMost of our time is dedicated to three main areas: putting out fires (mostly caused by firing the wrong people and trying to recover from that), performing impossible tasks, and āimproving efficiencyā without clear guidelines of what the expected end results are. We mostly move from dumpster fire to dumpster fire, from my perspective.ā
― lagān, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:57 (three years ago)
I hope the thing that got the guy fired was him finally snapping and yelling "it's because your tweets SUCK!" Like how much "engagement" are you going to get with a daily avalanche of "concerning" or "interesting"
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:57 (three years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/jAfqEgF.png
mr. musk? um, you asked me to let you know when the dilbert guy compliments you. he says you're doing a great job
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:59 (three years ago)
also we cleaned out your piss jars, they're all fresh for the week
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:00 (three years ago)
Balls to the wall there.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:04 (three years ago)
that starlink thing doesnt make any sense. why would you piss off the DoD, the biggest gravy train around?
― micah, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:07 (three years ago)
seems like musk might not be good at business
― lagān, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:10 (three years ago)
i know this is juvenile and also physical assault but it must be really tempting to pants him during meetings
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:13 (three years ago)
the whole thing about 'starlink was never intended to be weaponized' - hello, what about the ENTIRE LAST YEAR it's been weaponized??
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:15 (three years ago)
lol no one tell Elon where the internet came from
― rob, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:24 (three years ago)
Can't wait until the USAF discovers that they invested https://spacenews.com/spacex-gets-1-9-million-air-force-contract-for-starlink-services-in-europe-and-africa/.9 million in something that's not supposed to be weaponized.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:26 (three years ago)