Twitter C/D

quit, quit, quit, quit, quit, quit, quit, quit!!!

ok everyone close your eyes, spin in a circle 10 times, then we'll count down from 3 and everyone say the word you're thinking of

....PAUSE!

oh fuck nm

I shouldn't have looked but fuck, all the quote tweets of that CBC tweet from blue tick grifters/tin foil hatters are depressing

Also I see we're past 15 April now and I can still vote in twitter polls.

For the coders on this thread, would it be fairly straightforward to limit voting to Blue subscribers only?

not if you fired all your programmers haha

serious answer is who knows depends on how the program is structured, guessing that the answer is no tho considering that twitter is a very complicated program and twitter blue is a new thing thats grafted onto it, also they fired all their programmers

probably yes, if there was functionality to limit who can vote on a poll cross referenced with some TwitterUser class

alas something we're seeing is that Elon's ideas are so dumb that the people who built the software would've never anticipated implementing them, so theoretically simple tasks require some extensive refactoring. this happens a lot with the software I work on, people come up with bad ideas that are "easy" but break the rules and we have to come back and say no, the system wasn't designed to work like this, we can't do it without a lot of work, and usually that's that. Elon of course doesn't take no for an answer.

depends if you want to ship it without introducing other bugs, or if you're ok with e.g. breaking all image links for users in europe and south america.

difficult to overstate the operational burden of shipping and observing new features in a system as complex as twitter. implementing the behavior is the easy part, relative to putting it in prod. which is why the changes he's made to the core timeline product have been incremental and have often been accompanied by downtime because shipping them broke something else.

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— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) April 18, 2023

Looks like a respected journalist is taking on Musk’s Twitter for totally unbiased reasons

haa

BREAKING: Twitter just sent out this email to business users announcing their official re-naming to X Corp. pic.twitter.com/U9zMbaTIBM

— WOLF (@WOLF_Financial) April 18, 2023

damn that's a cool name

easily the coolest letter

Tomorrow: "Please note that with immediate effect our Tax ID number has been changed to 80085"

Lots of kids destroy their toys in the process of playing with them.

honestly X Corp is a more fitting name for the kind of company they apparently want to be. it sounds vaguely supervillain-like.
also i think if you could go back to the day before twitter existed and just said "X or Twitter", most people would pick X. "most people" not in the good way but in the "the average of collective taste is something that is often very blandly acceptable" way

next fun thing -- Elon shaves head or wears a bald cap and calls it LeXCorp for a day or 2

I honestly thought X Corp was Hank Scorpio’s business name.

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Disney lawsuit in 3...2...1...

I think they have their hands full with another man-troll currently.

Fun fact: This is the very same rule that was used to block distribution of the New York Post story about Hunter Biden, the greatest First Amendment violation in American history. https://t.co/q1P4bTCSDG

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 19, 2023

The worst. Just the worst management style.

Tomorrow, 4/20, we are removing legacy verified checkmarks. To remain verified on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://t.co/gzpCcwOXAX

Organizations can sign up for Verified Organizations here: https://t.co/YtPVNYypHU

— Twitter Verified (@verified) April 19, 2023

ya an impulsive authoritarian with zany jokes its the pits

wow lawsuit time

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuHINVOaIAErkmd?format=jpg&name=large

*taps wrist where my watch would be but i forgot to put it on because i smoked so much drugs*

lawsuit time

Microsoft can afford all the lawyers they need to tie Twitter in knots for as long as they want.

do I dare ask what "trained illegally" means?

he must be talking about microsoft using twitter data to train an ai which idk if they did that or if it violated twitters terms of use def not illegal tho lol

xp - He seems to be implying there's some kind of data proprietary to Twitter that MS used without permission. He's probably full of shit and he can afford the best shit, too.

he's playing 7D Chutes and Ladders now

except his version is all Chutes

elon really thought all these pro social media management apps were just going to give them half a million dollars a year

There probably would’ve been a way to get those customers to swallow that pill…like a decade ago…if Elon weren’t involved…

Shites and Losers

He just consistently overestimates how important Twitter is to its power users, media companies in particular — when the power users are actually the ones who are important to Twitter.

Musk really missed an opportunity to charge money to watch him repeatedly hit himself in the balls. You won't buy the cow if you can get the milk for free.

so far, blue checks are still there today

they have to go through and remove each one individually from the spreadsheet

and then he fires that guy doing that mid-day and asks one of his staffers why the blue check removal isn't done and the dude responds "you fired the guy working on it" so he fires that guy for mouthing off and then

Normally I'd predict blue checks will still be there by the end of the day, but 4/20 is a sacred date for Musk. Even more so than 6/9.

Seems appropriate that today is also the news this breaks:

NEWS: BuzzFeed News is being shut down.

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 20, 2023

the checks are gone

ok now everybody impersonate all of the celebs who aren't blue checks

so ridiculous

Musk's management approach to Twitter:

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuLbmqfWAA4aX4B?format=jpg&name=small

legacy verified blue checks are gone

'Verified' notifications are now a spam filter! feel free to block everyone in there pic.twitter.com/WpWiKCNXLw

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) April 20, 2023

The only users I’m seeing with blue checks are Glenn Greenwald, BJG, Nina Turner and…Jeff Weiss

uh oh

I’m Tony LaRussa

— Tony LaRussa (@chknpuppetmk5) April 20, 2023