Twitter C/D

i personally only see occasional spam on there

I think it's definitely mostly trying to get people to pay. "Overrun by bots" has been his excuse for almost everything with Twitter.

A "it's all bots!"

B "only i can defeat bots!"

C "only YOU can prevent bots-- PAY ME!"

don't see nearly as many bot accounts on twitter as i do ig

not sure the above is even as dumb as today’s change making RT’d replies render as discrete OPs

lol dril on there

New: For months, Twitter has maintained a list of VIP users, including LeBron James, Glenn Greenwald, Ben Shapiro, AOC, and Marc Andreessen, that it monitors and gives increased visibility to on the platform. 1/ https://t.co/PnXhb6dvth

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 28, 2023

i've def noticed more bots since elon took over, if you tweet the word "shrooms" you will get several replies trying to sell you drugs. for a while if you tweeted certain curse words bots would offer you "cheap glokks 4 sale."

yeah the bots are out there but they target specific things. I'm definitely getting more DMs from bots.

i wonder if he actually believes that or its just an excuse to pull another lever to get people to pay

Elon's brain seems like it's been completely devoured by worms by this point so "what he actually believes" may be basically nothing however the idea that "Twitter polls" mean anything seems like it may have came from Trump 'retruthing' some catturd Twitter poll

speaking of this loser said he was gonna abide by the results of a Twitter poll asking if he should resign

I hate this dipshit so naturally I think everything he does is dumb but it's really astonishing how bad every single idea he has is. not only is he making the site much worse he's hemmoraging money and also proving himself as one of the worst bosses in human history

its really something

if it sheds the scales from people's eyes regarding the titans of silicon valley being brilliant leaders of men deserving of our adulation then it will all have (not) been worth it

the funny thing about all this is you only really notice the bots when you actually click on the tweets of Elon or any of his sycophants which means whoever's designing them is specifically targeting those people thinking they're easy marks. once you block Elon, catturd, and anyone with a doge avatar you don't really see them at all.

Otm

i've been covering a hacker take over multiple celeb accounts on here for weeks

the hacker hasn't spent a dime on here to scam. they've already stolen thousands at least

Twitter has barely done a thing about it & paid verification will make it even worse

this man is clueless pic.twitter.com/ucpiyEULnO

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) March 27, 2023

I guess requiring verification for polls is going to kill the people's pop polls etc

He just doesn't know wtf he's doing. There's not a plan. He's just running it into the ground.

Or maybe it's more that he's making his own version of the Metaverse, with himself at the center surrounded by bootlicks and lackeys.

Looks like this is working now. I was getting error messages when I tried to block all the paid blues earlier but now it seems ok.

https://twitter.com/BlockTheBlue

You tell 'em, Emmet Peppers.

It’s a privilege to be on Twitter and to have a blue check mark, not a right nor an inheritance.

— Emmet Peppers (@EmmetPeppers) March 27, 2023

Interests: Investing, Tesla, New Tech, Ketosis, Podcasts

Tim Ferriss's cum crusted gym sock gained sentience

Emmet Peppers lonely hearts Musk fan

I guess requiring verification for polls is going to kill the people's pop polls etc

the groke has been working on migrating the polls to a dedicated site for several months now, should be kicking in within weeks

Not once have I seen anything in the sidebar that I'd willingly click on.

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

Emmet Peppers lonely hearts Musk fan

...nicely done...

...should've said "stan" but I thought of it too late

excellent work tm

This is good: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/twitter-is-dying/

The simple truth is that building something valuable — whether that’s knowledge, experience or a network worth participating in — is really, really hard. But tearing it all down is piss easy.

Yep

lol

We are also launching a new Basic (v2) access for hobbyists with 10,000 GET/month and 50,000 POST/month, 2 app IDs, and Login with Twitter for $100/month.

Subscribe now: https://t.co/AQci4FeIWf

— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) March 29, 2023

Lmao

And for the Ultra Diamond Platinum account (a one-time payment of $44,000,000) we'll push all of your tweets to every user!

Sorry, $44,000,000,000.

there's a free layer as well, 1,500 tweets a month, ~50 a day. unfortunately that kills Cheap Bots Done Quick which is what my bots use and which hosts thousands of others.

(mm, i wonder if i can cobble together an aws lambda that does the same?)

i dont feel like switching my bots to the new free tier theyre all on v1 hopefully it just keeps working

lol

New: The New York Times says it is not planning to pay for Twitter verification:

"We aren't planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts," a spokesperson tells me.

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 30, 2023

He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas Day
When the New York Times said, "Biden's dead!
And ten laptops are free!"

The Los Angeles Times also says it will not pay for Twitter Blue, noting "verification no longer establishes authority or credibility."

Here's an internal note from managing editor Sara Yasin that went out to staff. pic.twitter.com/DK8c2iAHpJ

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 30, 2023

awww did constantly calling the MSM liars and scumbags not work out for you

curious which direction he's gonna go with this he's either gonna dramatically reduce the cost and get mad when they still don't pay or call everyone a bunch of pedos

once famous people are sick of being impersonated, I think their only option is to shut down their account and let everyone know (on Instagram) that any tweets you see are not theirs

imo musk won't reduce the cost because changing it would be an admission of failure. He won't call everyone a pedo for not paying up, because that would call attention to his failure, too. instead he'll defect attention away from the fiasco as best he can by churning out more attention-grabbing chaotic garbage in heroic quantities until he explodes or no one cares any more and the world stops looking. Or both.

accounts ive unfollowed in the last couple days are still showing up in my following feed

is this good

"From September to October of last year, the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent $71 million on ads, according to estimates from Pathmatics. In the past two months, that figure dropped to just $7.6 million, a decline of 89%, the research firm said."https://t.co/9R7gWkPAXS

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) March 30, 2023

I assume he was going for 69% and over-delivered

dogshit MSM orgs not paying seems pretty bad for them, feel like most big companies are probably gonna folow suit because Elon's made the very idea of paying for Twitter such a radioactive & desperate thing. obviously Nazi rags like Stormfront and Daily Wire might swoop in but I kinda feel they can't afford it.

Never mind also all the local governments and non profit organizations absolutely can not and will not pay $120,000 a year for a blue check mark.

And again, the reason Twitter had verification was because they got sued over verification.

Sued over celebrity impersonators, that is .

yea I mean I suspect most big companies are sorta looking at each other like "we doing this er nah?" and if a few go "no because the checkmark is meaningless" I can't imagine any of them will