my feed would be empty
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 29 April 2023 22:01 (one year ago) link
The way cinema was meant to be viewed: on a platform too understaffed to quickly remove content that violates intellectual property laws. https://t.co/F6hMIR9tUe— Travis View (@travis_view) April 30, 2023
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Sunday, 30 April 2023 05:08 (one year ago) link
fire all the mods, what could go wrong?
― formerly abanana (dat), Sunday, 30 April 2023 05:19 (one year ago) link
Not The Super Mario Bros Movie 1/2 pic.twitter.com/nb2AtRKUm4— Twilight Sparkle (@OMGitssAshley) April 28, 2023
― formerly abanana (dat), Sunday, 30 April 2023 05:22 (one year ago) link
itâs from a verified account so it has to be legit
― k3vin k., Sunday, 30 April 2023 05:37 (one year ago) link
Maybe James Cameron can win Twitter in a lawsuit
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 30 April 2023 05:49 (one year ago) link
I watched the entire Mario movie from those tweets this morning lol
― mh, Monday, 1 May 2023 01:25 (one year ago) link
lmao apparently there's this thing going around where if you put "former blue check" in your bio it'll give you the check back if you lost it. but now people are thinking it happens if you just modify your bio at all
― frogbs, Monday, 1 May 2023 04:10 (one year ago) link
I have some suspicions about why that would work and they all involve the reuse of existing account flags while changing functionality and doing some really sketchy boolean logic so yeah probably that
― mh, Monday, 1 May 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link
updating your profile in certain ways probably does something with the check, since updating your name causes it to have to get re-verified or something right? god, what a mess. lmao
― frogbs, Monday, 1 May 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
my login cookie stopped working yesterday for some reason, i can't stay logged in now. probably for the best
― ciderpress, Monday, 1 May 2023 13:57 (one year ago) link
Not interested in this sport.
ok, we won't show you any more of this sport
...refresh. same tweet.
Not interested in this team.
ok, we won't show you any more of this team
Not interested in this player
ok, we won't show you any more of this player
Not interested in this fan account for this player
...
repeat for 3 devices...
― koogs, Monday, 1 May 2023 18:50 (one year ago) link
twitter just logged me out and wonât let me log back in again. its good
― éž, Monday, 1 May 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
Maybe Elon will shut off Twitter on Tuesdays and Thursdays so we can all go get fresh air, like in Ready Player One
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 1 May 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
â éž, Monday, May 1, 2023 12:46 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yah same on desktop on chrome. seems to work on mobile
― Spottie, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
same here
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Monday, 1 May 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link
I got logged out on chrome but was able to log in again after a few tries. Some time later was logged out again, and was eventually able to log in again. Dunno what's going, in the end I guess I don't really care.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
I can no longer log in on Chrome either, and since I work from home I'm rarely on my phone, so that was my primary way of reading Twitter and/or tweeting. This will cut my use down substantially.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 1 May 2023 21:03 (one year ago) link
This happened last week too and it cleared up. I'll gladly take the enforced break.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Monday, 1 May 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
sort of astounded at how much quieter my mind is since being locked out of my account a month ago. also i was obsessed with checking the weather on twitter? now i'm just letting weather happen and it's nice.
― ęŽ (map), Monday, 1 May 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
uhh so there's a small group of twitter users that keep getting logged out of twitter for desktop and when they log back in the only thing they can see is this tweet (not a joke) pic.twitter.com/WizyrEVEMk— paris martineau (@parismartineau) May 1, 2023
― lagân, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:08 (one year ago) link
finally my tweet is getting the engagement it deserves
― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
One of many large customer-facing orgs announcing today that changes to the API mean theyâre binning Twitter as a customer service channel. https://t.co/ubRd76ZCCt— Sharon O'Dea (@sharonodea) May 1, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 May 2023 21:22 (one year ago) link
it's wild how all these wild machinations have yielded basically nothing in new revenue and lost millions. he could have just kept everything the same, not laid anyone off and just signed like a couple big ad deals with big companies and come out ahead.
advertisers did start fleeing as soon as the deal was announced tbf so by the time he took over he had a lot of work to do, and he did it poorly
― lagân, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
i have multiple accounts logged in on mobile web but it's lost the primary one and won't let me switch to it or log in again.
― koogs, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link
lock out all your users is a cool disruptive innovation
― ęŽ (map), Monday, 1 May 2023 21:32 (one year ago) link
pretty funny that advertisers started fleeing immediately upon hearing he was taking over, guess they knew what was up
― lagân, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
management by fire
I remember losing count of the number of fires at Tesla's Fremont factory https://t.co/16X2XApU9I— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) May 2, 2023
― lagân, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
seems clear the writing was on the wall for Twitter even before Elon bought it, I remember a few higher ups saying stuff like "we basically lucked into what Twitter became, but growth has slowed dramatically and we don't know how to turn things around"
so I don't really know what Elon could've done to turn it around, but it sure as shit seems like all his ideas so far have been bad ones. though tbh it is pretty funny that the choice to prioritize his own fans in the replies was the nail in the coffin, I know this ain't how he's gonna see it but it should be clear to Elon that Twitter is awful now because he just sucks so much
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
well theres a difference between being profitable but not growing enough to satisfy wall street and being unprofitable bleeding users and careening wildly towards bankruptcy
― lagân, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
Before Elon it was probably the stuff that made Twitter better than Facebook, etc. that was keeping it from growing fast enough for Wall Street.
With Elon, it's the stink of incel and Nazi that causes money to speedily run away from it
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
Wasnât Twitter losing money before the takeover?
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
it was profitable in 2021
― lagân, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
also its one of those common things where if you had ownership that was willing to focus on the core product and not just blow money out the door chasing growth it easily couldve been a good business just not good enough for wall street
― lagân, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
best case scenario for them prob wouldve been to be mildly profitable but not growing for long enough for the stock price to drop a lot then someone takes it private and runs it as a nice business, basically a fairy tale in todays financialized reality tho
echos of all the new media companies vice etc going bankrupt under the weight of foolish vc debt despite being profitable
― lagân, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
it probably wasn't sustainable with it's ~2022 headcount and ~2022 growth for more than a couple more years, but it was not cash flow emergency musk has portrayed it as.
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link
another genius move rolled back
One of the most important use cases for the Twitter API has always been public utility. Verified gov or publicly owned services who tweet weather alerts, transport updates and emergency notifications may use the API, for these critical purposes, for free.— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) May 2, 2023
― lagân, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 23:45 (one year ago) link
Roffle
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 23:59 (one year ago) link
Publicly owned is right
― G. DâArcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
oopsy daisy
― mh, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
kills me there are people trying to explain twitterâs shifting rules to public organizations in the replies and theyâre all blue checks. imagine being part of a homeownerâs association thatâs supposed to do maintenance and then mowing all the yards in the neighborhood anyway
― mh, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:39 (one year ago) link
NEW: In a series of emails today, Elon threatened to reassign @NPR to "another company" unless the network started tweeting againhttps://t.co/fbrGeggmL8— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) May 3, 2023
link does not resolve.......
― lagân, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link
I love that the reporter just cut and pasted his own story into the replies to get it onto Twitter. So unbelievably lame, he's basically trying to bully them to get back on. Wotta way to run a business.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link
Reeks of desperation tbh
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 04:15 (one year ago) link
(Although in follow-up replies, the reporter noted the broken link was their own fault and posted a working link:
better link https://t.co/ffFIjYhxwX— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) May 3, 2023
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 05:44 (one year ago) link
Where do I subscribe to ILX blue so I can delete my post.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 05:46 (one year ago) link
NPR could just tweet out a middle finger emoji once a day
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 13:45 (one year ago) link
lol musk is freaking out he just emails some random npr reporter to threaten the org
― lagân, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link