Twitter C/D

as does why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

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NEW: Twitter is planning to unveil a new policy as soon as this afternoon that only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based two-factor authentication, according to company sources.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) February 17, 2023

tbf SMS-based 2FA is bad

its bad and prob almost no one really wants it but it also prob does help keep twitter a lil more secure and spam free which are things that are good for twitter the company

ppl are saying that there could be legal/regulatory problems with this too but idk what they mean

Coming soon: all non-“blue” subscribers must choose a password that rhymes with “password”

"assward"

for non-blue subscribers, if someone else tries to use a password that is already taken, it lets you know who it belongs to as well as their personal contact info so you can let them know that you would like to use their password that rhymes with password

Obviously this is a stupid idea, but I do agree that using an authenticator is more secure so I decided to switch. It logged me out of other sesssions, and I logged back in. It sent me an sms code anyway.

Just opened the app now to be met with "You must remove two-factor authentication by 19 March 2023 to avoid losing access to Twitter"

What a shit show.

the phone app is broken as fuck ime

Haha, yeah it's hit and miss if I'll ever get any more posts, lots of random clicking around until it updates

Gotta say twitter is accidentally been the best it's ever been. I am seeing less news -- it's gone to just about the right amount of news than the sorta overload it might've been -- and more of what some of the ppl I follow tweet. It's slowly becoming a less engaging app in a way, which is good but also surely means I will be surprised if it's left standing by the end of the year.

Like I've seen way less on the earthquake in Turkey and Syria than I would've done six months ago..

i've not had any new pr0n bots follow me now for a couple of weeks.
there was a few months when i had to remove 2 or 3 bots a day from following me.

bragging

yeah they nuked all the old ones too, i made a list of some of them trying to figure out what they were for but none of them even did anything except for post a few pics and follow some people then theyd go dormant, its weird, and now theyre all gone, all my friends gone

i assumed it was due to the API access shutdown.

afaict they havent actually changed anything with the api yet

problem with musks many ideas is he doesnt have anyone to implement them, because he fired everyone

also occurs to me that everything ive seen on social media bots/general manipulation is accompanied by people fucking with rooms full of phones ie theyre not using the api, which makes sense theres a greater verification/setup hurdle to using the api, and its prob easier to detect people fucking around with it

musk is trying to make this about bots but like with sms 2fa its really just him cutting off free services

Just a constant stream of "Cannot retrieve tweets at this time, please try again later" atm

yeah.
i have been trying to respond to a tweet and getting that issue.

Gotta say twitter is accidentally been the best it's ever been. I am seeing less news -- it's gone to just about the right amount of news than the sorta overload it might've been -- and more of what some of the ppl I follow tweet. It's slowly becoming a less engaging app in a way, which is good but also surely means I will be surprised if it's left standing by the end of the year.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, February 18, 2023 8:35 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ya i kinda feel this. no idea if it’s true but i heard the algorithm is deemphasizing tweets with links to outside sites, which while it prob sucks for ppl who rely on twitter for self promotion (and also lol so stupid from a business pov) could be having a positive indirect effect if more tweets are self-contained

Thank u Elon

is this a serious problem? really? speaking for "real women" no one particularly wants to be naked in a locker room or anywhere with strangers or possibly with anyone anywhere at any time naked or not. cannot believe this is an issue in good faith. https://t.co/AeYksQ6hR6

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) February 18, 2023

??? pic.twitter.com/MATiu4712h

— Drew Gooden (@drewisgooden) February 18, 2023

Yeah Karl Malone did it first, well played.

Drew Gooden is the poor man's Karl Malone

jeez, if I had 42.5K likes on my tweet, i'd retire and just get some land, start up a little residency program

thats funny that hes got a basketball player name too, tho i suspect its also his real one

Dr. K

Dr. K

"no one particularly wants to be naked in a locker room or anywhere with strangers or possibly with anyone anywhere at any time naked or not" just a little too long for a display name

Joyce Carol Oates is doing so well on Twitter recently I’m wondering if she’s being subbed for

i hope she gets into it with jesse singal

true! mainstream media seizes upon highly atypical, microscopic samples of an issue that affects virtually no one, amplifies it maniacally, continues to focus upon it as if it were some sort of threat to the commonweal, & not an amplified paranoid-figment of media imagination. https://t.co/NekhibYvRK

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) February 19, 2023

although yeah it might not really be her

the sentiment is good but doesnt have the visionary thought levels of her best work such as complaining about halloween decorations being insinuative to those who have been touched by death or of musing that there must be something good about isis

She tweeted this a year ago, fwiw:

US where millions of voters are roiled to a frenzy by the notion of trans persons existing but seem totally oblivious to political ploys to insure their perpetual servitude in low paying jobs & pathetic health care.

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) April 5, 2022

Halloween decorations tweet deserves Nobel

cracking up because I found these old posts when reading about some movies here on ilxor dot com

lol and btw did i ever tell how american graffiti is abt my dads hs class

― ice cr?m, Monday, December 21, 2009 8:47 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

richard dreyfuss that is basically my dad

― ice cr?m, Monday, December 21, 2009 8:48 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

didn't know that our own ice cr?m is obnoxious twitter personality ben dreyfuss

thats right

he admit it!

I can't believe this stupid insanely stupid bullshit worked. I submitted my appeal and was back inside of one single earth hour. lmao https://t.co/gk2tIzCqsa

— tape is BACK, MOTHERFUCKERS (@tape) February 23, 2023

hahahaha about to get all my accounts unbanned

all my chats gone

Slack is gone, Jira is busted, and other woes inside Elon Musk's Twitter. From @ZoeSchiffer and mehttps://t.co/y4DoJKeGi8 pic.twitter.com/foyQqy3ElG

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) February 24, 2023

Joyce Carol Oates is definitely swinging for the fences. I like following her

I’m frankly amazed at her recent tweets. An old woman pretty much mic dropping on the trans debate.

didn't take long to get back to the era where you'd click a trending topic and it would just be a bunch of random stuff with the same assortment of hashtags which had nothing to do with the post for whatever reason