Twitter C/D

*it's pretty easy = it used to be pretty easy.

looks like tweetdeck is finally down for good.

takes skill to blow up the auth layer so badly you also make it impossible to load images from your CDN

Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!

heh total rewrite should do the trick

“A small API change had massive ramifications,” Musk tweeted later in the day, after Twitter investor Marc Andreessen posted a screenshot showing that the company’s API failures were trending on the site. “The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Will ultimately need a complete rewrite.”

NEW: Twitter went down today because its migration to a paid API has a single site reliability engineer attached to it. Here’s @ZoeSchiffer and me on the high price of cutting costs:https://t.co/yjAHeVkgYl pic.twitter.com/6QVURpHagc

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) March 6, 2023

total rewrite of one of the lowest latency and highest scale consumer tech stacks in human history, sure.

tbf they’ve made it a lot slower recently

there's more power in an office full of cell phones than the computing power it took to run all of twitter at one point. makes you think

good tip https://www.tiktok.com/@pearlmania500/video/7207941159811960106

Someone pointed out that the biggest difference between hiring now and when Circuit City went belly up is that most employers now run their past employment checks through Equifax instead of just calling references.

i follow this guy hes joking but a lot of people dont get it lol

It may surprise people to learn that I am a twitter employee, I make $156,000 a year and have literally done nothing. Check deposits in my bank account, no one seems to know what my job is or who my boss is.

— Anosognosiogenesis (@pookleblinky) March 8, 2023

Top of reddit. You *know* the manbaby has seen it and yet he is entirely too incompetent to actually fire me. pic.twitter.com/lhrEvpjHgP

— Anosognosiogenesis (@pookleblinky) March 9, 2023

^^ Suddenly picturing Big Head on Hooli's rooftop after he got bought out.

lol yea

My ‘For you’ feed is now just showing random accounts. There’s no indication of how they relate to anyone I follow. That’s entirely new since yesterday.

(Not like it’s all Elmo and catturd, it does seem vaguely relevant to my interests.)

so a week ago i applied for reinstatement using the guidance that other twitterer upthread suggested (saying "the libs tried to censor me!") and today they unbanned me.

lol

lol. now try getting off a parking ticket by flashing a badge you got out of a cereal box. at least you'll find out if the parking meter patroller or traffic court judge are smarter than Elon Musk.

i have no intention of tweeting again so i'm going to shitpost at Elon until i'm banned again

welp now i'm timed out for 12 hours. that was fast

hilariously, since it restored all of my previous tweets (from 2021 and earlier), it flagged one of my 2 year old tweets as offensive (which is the one that got me banned in the first place) and temp banned me for it...again.

good system you got there.

ha

I don't think I even have a 'for you' feed on my app? It's just 'Latest' or 'top tweets'. But I swear tweets are showing from people I've never followed, and not as 'promoted' or anything either.

prob just havent updated your app since they made the change

yep, I just started seeing a bunch of tweets popping up on both tabs from folks that I don't follow, aren't being retweeted or even liked by anyone I follow and aren't promoted (at least they aren't being tagged that way). not exclusively, but the vast majority are crypto related or accounts pushing OnlyFans content. cool app.

i can only assume foxeseveryhour has some dirt on Elon himself given how much prominence they have on my feed atm

justice served

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

"My ‘For you’ feed is now just showing random accounts"

yes, that and Jesse Singal who it pushes at me obsessively, I should just fucking mute him

I don't know who Alix Aharon is but she comes across like a 1970's era sex-terrified feminist who thinks penetration=rape and who has never once encountered (admittedly over the top) pornography

Yeah I was trying to use the mute button even more liberally than before their latest downgrade but it’s just pointless, now I’ve given up on “For You” completely.

(I don’t use the app anymore, deleted it a while back likely based on recommendation from this thread.)

Always be blocking anyone who's annoying, stupid or both.

i only use twitter on desktop browser now since they have ruined the mobile web interface in an attempt to force people into the app (where you can't block ads)

Milo Z otm. Or anyone who’s just is too verbose tbh. Guess that qualifies as ‘annoying’ but it’s more just about awareness of social media etiquette imo. (Akm I don’t find the mobile site much worse than the desktop, I don’t really see any ads, have them all blocked.)

The net effect of me completely abandoning ‘For You’ recommendations is that I drill down even deeper into my well of politics because political media accounts post the most consistently (and professionally really), and it’s basically the only thriving media ecosystem left on Twitter.

And I probably would never really have been active on Twitter but for its role in the London pirate radio scene, probably fifteen years ago — and of course when I finally jumped onboard the site I was a decade late.

(I was active on Reddit before that, it did actually have its moments for someone like me. Now it’s completely trash of course as has been noted many times. Still worse than Twitter imo but we are likely approaching shit-singularity there.)

https://i.imgur.com/mLqND5g.png

Congrats y'all, he quit Twitter! pic.twitter.com/gxDOMLBHRb

— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) March 15, 2023

If anyone else is missing context: https://www.intomore.com/impact/gender-clinic-workers-sent-trans-patients-names-to-an-anti-trans-whistleblower/

very weird dude doing bad stuff

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

― mh, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 10:10 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think this is thread-relevant; why is Ben Dreyfuss's Twitter presence so viscerally annoying? I can't figure it out. His opinions are pretty garden-variety. But there's something about him that makes him 100x more irritating than the average poster and I can't figure out what it is. Or is it just me that's allergic to this guy?

no everyone hates him lol

He didn’t use nepotism to become an D-list actor or assistant head coach, he wasted it on being a poster.

Singal's 'explanation' for the Twitter departure (from earlier this morning): https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/time-for-a-twitter-break

Who cares what that guy says

not me, he and Reed and Bari Weiss can all go fuck themselves

probably best not to link to substacks of hatemongers. quoting or paraphrasing should be enough if it's a worthwhile dunking opportunity

every fourth tweet is an ad now. yesterday i blocked my second ad for devices that set up dominoes so you can knock them over. just now i blocked my second panama hat ad. the other day i had one for sink strainers.

oddly, my second account sees no ads at all.

Yeah I dont ever see ads on Twitter? Is it because I never use it/only have 50 follows? Is it my Adblock? idgi.

I use it heaps and never see ads. Whenever I saw them in the past I would always block them on principle.

no doubt this is weak-minded of me but i don't really consider "this account doesn't exist" as any kind of per se admission on singal's part, let alone a defeat or whatever: lots of ppl switch off their accounts for a while when they want or need to take a pause when the Discourse™️ gets too intense or distracting

(i mean he's bad and wrong and he *should* very much log off and shut up on this issue -- does he even write abt other issues now? -- but that is not yet what this is)

idk exposing your source to legal jeopardy is an L is how i break it down to an extent

Is it my Adblock

yes, using twitter via a browser with an adblocker keeps them from showing up and is now the only tolerable way to use it

lmao

Jesse Singal logged off twitter yesterday and then read all your mean tweets about him and wrote about how it made him feel. No, I am not joking. pic.twitter.com/cbIg2DySuZ

— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) March 15, 2023

pretty gross that the entire reason that dude continues to write bad articles on select topics is that it draws clicks and he's taken that particular stance is he has insanely thin skin and doubles down on his slanted perspective and hate every time someone calls him an asshole

the reason he's taken that stance, I mean

his initial work was wrong-headed and bad and it just keeps getting worse