Twitter C/D

I was thinking about the Sneetches the other day too, but the big difference is that the huckster in the Sneetches — Sylvester McMonkey McBean — knows the stars he's selling (and later removing) are worthless, and he makes a ton of money off of them. Elon thinks most people are as blue-check-obsessed as he and his sad fanboys are, and he is losing cash hand over fist because he misunderstands what's actually valuable about Twitter. Or what was, anyway. Should've called McBean.

feel like this mad man might actually have destroyed twitter with $8 tweets at the top of replies.

yeah, it was fun blocking them, but there are just too many dummies

thinking back to before elon owned twitter watching him and his cronies convince each other that a subscription service was a no brainer "id pay $5 month for twitter" theyd say to each other

Show me a Shakespeare play that had lewdness or sexual behavior. I'll wait.

— Xxarna Z (@xxenna66) April 24, 2023

honestly it’s very funny to me that tweets like this are getting promoted now

why did I read the vile responses to that thread, jfc.

I mean he appears to literally be logged into it in that screenshot so I don't think it's a 'conspiracy theory' per se

also this is exactly the kind of shit he posts under his main account so why wouldn't it be

i've never had a twitter account, but i sometimes read certain accounts, and click through from ILX twitter embeds sometimes. just clicking around a teeny bit today, this thing of the blue-check people getting bumped to the top of the replies means every single post is just instantly encrusted with hateful right-wing garbage. like, that was always there, but now it's pushed up past any kind of response that even had the potential to be worthwhile.

and then those awful replies, being more visible, seem to attract more replies (and thus, i think, algorithmic juice) from people trying to argue against them. which maybe comes from a good place, but it means that almost all of the energy being put into the site is either trolling or engaging with trolls. like, great. great job. great website. the only question is how long it takes for its status as horrendously unpleasant right-wing cesspool to really proliferate in the public consciousness and displace whatever conception folks already have when they hear the word "Twitter." but it'll happen.

tbf most tweets on my tl even ones from pretty big accounts still dont have any blue check replies, but then the ones that do yeah its real bad

maybe i'm rate limited or something but on a musk post it's not possible to scroll to the non-verified (i.e. actually funny) replies. the infinite scroll site breaks before you get there.

yeah, there are certain types of posts that attract the blue checks-- the Kevin Bacon one is a prime example. Hillary tweeted her support for Biden and I don't know if it's possible to scroll past the blue check replies.

Doc otm, it's incredible how Elon took the one aspect of social media that everyone hates - the nonstop bickering over idiotic right wing disinfo - and made it the main feature of the site.

Particularly sucks to be a woman working for a company that was bought by a guy on a post-divorce woman-hating binge.

New: Twitter used to offer employees 20 weeks of paid parental leave. That’s being changed to whatever is required by law in the region where the employees work, along with a “top up” of two weeks of leave, per internal docs.

— kate conger (@kateconger) April 25, 2023

Or a guy, for that matter, assuming "parental leave" means either parent. Still feels overtly "fuck women" tho.

tbf most tweets on my tl even ones from pretty big accounts still dont have any blue check replies
Same.

i mean the breakup was kind of divorce-like with the weird two kids angle but they weren’t married

xps but surely the kid's going to be with the nanny from 2 weeks on anyway?

If books exist 20 years from now, I want to read Grimes’s kids’ tell-all.

Right sorry, post-breakup woman-hating binge.

I don’t think there’s many women left. Not one of the women I worked with survived the layoffs the first week after he took over. There’s a class action (among many) asserting those were discriminatory, which seems self-evident.

yesssssss

Bluesky’s first main character incident is currently happening:

4/27/23 - “dril, who cannot get the username ‘dril’ on Bluesky for some reason, is anti-sex worker because of the #BlockTheBlue hashtag” pic.twitter.com/iEE6kYebce

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) April 27, 2023

hmm looks promising, run by jack just the incompetent weird to make it work

its happening pic.twitter.com/bmYvcH4mQU

— 🕳⚰️💨 (@hedlike_a_hole) April 27, 2023

deepfake

new platform aside, this kind of clumsy dialogue happens when you enter a discussion regarding a clear example of intersectionality, and instead of actually wanting to discuss it, instantly imprint your hot take and indicate that those who don't accept it as canon statement are bad people.

man dril leaving is awesome. want more hi profile twitter celebs to bounce now too.

are they replacing twitter with twitter

The invite only thing feels like a real Google+ throwback.

pretty normal for new services ramping up just dont want to overheat the servers and so forth

yeah to be fair i don't think this is a marketing thing. running a twitter-like service is hard operationally. they've set up invites so they will double in users every two weeks, which is already pretty fast.

wild to release a site without dms the one thing all sites need

to be clear bluesky doesn't have dms or a way to block people yet, so it's not actually ready for primetime

— your himbo boyfriend (@swolecialism) April 27, 2023

i'm in @mlw.bsky.social

plz send me invite

like 10 bots already follow me wtf

i don't have one yet but you will get my first i promise u. i think poster 龜 is in too (via simping to the same poster as me).

this is the one dril post so far (nsfw)

https://cdn.bsky.social/imgproxy/98ORHULVqkGefqHmDO2Dmkc3z5rRfxFIHEu82vh_m9Q/rs:fit:2000:2000:1:0/plain/bafkreicm7dn4m766jbnt4fo3dhzpxb24vsokoc6zmqbdwq5lrxsxlgo43y@jpeg

i’m @smashedmcdouble.bsky.social

i am kirkcameronofficial.bsky.social

https://media.tenor.com/bHGUqVIKzhoAAAAC/let-me-in-eric-andre.gif

lmao first post the algorithm recommended to me was "thoughts on 9/11" and a picture of the twin towers on fire.

They're gonna have to change a bunch of this if they don't want to get dragged to hell and back through the regulatory ringer in Europe. https://t.co/Kiz02LHKXg

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 27, 2023

They're gonna have to change a bunch of this if they don't want to get dragged to hell and back through the regulatory ringer in Europe. https://t.co/Kiz02LHKXg

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 27, 2023

not falling for this again no ones gonna take my @ early anyway

i don't have one yet but you will get my first i promise u

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, April 27, 2023 4:03 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

thanking u friend

You can’t screenshot it? What kinda bullshit is that? (Also, can apps disable screenshot?)

ok bluesky is good pic.twitter.com/FFtXP5073n

— timothy 💀 faust (@crulge) April 28, 2023

Got twitter embeds turned off but knew what that would be before I clicked through. They’re being so mean to him! There’s so much more.

been enjoying the ‘for you’ tab lately, a lot of accounts i dont follow but i’m rollin with it

i dont look at it much but when i do its just all accounts i follow idk what the deal is

elon unbanned weed hitler whoa

nice

I’m not joining another fuckin app that shit is over