Ged MaheuxI just woke to Twitter push notifications on my phone from both TMZ and Elon Musk.
Needless to say I don’t follow these accounts and I don’t have push notifications turned on for either of them. Elon’s getting more and more desperate every day.
Twitter deliberately turned ALL these push notifications back ON, they were most certainly OFF prior. This is on the @Twitterrific account BTW, not on my personal act. I know they were off because Ollie gets too many followers and I didn’t want to be notified each time some one followed. 🤬
Frank@gedeonm It's crazy to imagine one single person can render the platform utterly shit and user-hostile...
Kirk McElhearn@gedeonm Same here. I had all these off previously. This said, since I only have badges on in my iPhone notifications settings, I didn’t see them. To be fair, I didn’t see badges either.
Gordon@gedeonm omg. He did. Recently I’ve been getting so many notifications that I never toggled. That bastard (this is happening in the native app for me)
Joe Muscara/Joe Stone@gedeonm Use a thi… oh. Never mind.
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I found their app so annoying I removed it from all my devices a long time ago. Maybe stick to only using it via a web browser?
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Cedric :toucan:
Nicomo@gedeonm I usually have all notifications turned off from all social media apps - controlled at device level. Haven't looked at the birdsite since joining here.
A. Lee Bennett Jr.
@leebennett Well they were turned off but now they are ALL back on suddenly. Also, this is on the @Twitterrific account, not my personal account. 🤬🤬🤬
@gedeonm Yeah, although I haven’t gotten the pushes you described, in going to get the screenshot I discovered mine were all back on as well. Ugh!
Alex Hoffmann@gedeonm I really hope this is going to cost him all of his money.
Rock Norris@gedeonm I’ve also noticed an extreme uptick in sponsored pro-Elon news items and services in my feed.
Kris@rocknorris @gedeonm what an embarrassing dork
Chris 
@rocknorris @gedeonm “Hey Siri, show me pictures of an deeply-insecure man-child…” “Okay, here’s some photos of Elon Musk…”
@byAndreas🤟😌✨@rocknorris @gedeonm Elon who? Twitter in the Brave browser on ios, there are no ads in my feed... :)
Evey@rocknorris @gedeonm So ridiculous to think of Elon Muskhead is a bright and sharp thinker. He only has money. Otherwise he has none of those attributes in my mind. So many with much much less monetary value are much brighter and sharper.
Michael Klein@gedeonm Happened to me, too. After the he took over, suddenly the app started to send me tons of notifications for posts of people I never followed (and never would)
jbletsch@gedeonm Thanks for the heads up. I checked and mine had been turned on as well despite me having turned them off a long time ago.
@jbletsch Yep. Seems like it was done service-wide.
George Hammerton 
Jacob Tender@gedeonm I noticed this week that some particularly nasty accounts I blocked were not only unblocked without my input, but referred to me in the “people you may know” area on the web.
@Tender wow… just… wow.
James Tinmouth@gedeonm what you want to do is get one of those 3rd party clients like twitterrif.... oh.
Tim Broder
Lady Di@gedeonm Beware! You may be following Musk already. Twice I have had to unfollow him? I NEVER followed him, ever. He has quieted my posts after I complained to him. He has put people in my streams that I want nothing to do with. He has made others disappear. He is beyond messed up. 😡
@DianneLittle Wow and GRRRRRR!! 😡
@gedeonm 😊 Tell me about it. That’s why I’m here. That and @Ivory makes for a smooth transition to Mastodon. 🐘💕
J-P Teti@gedeonm Wouldn’t put anything past them but how sure are you that they did this on purpose and it’s not just another way the service is falling apart thanks to the new owner’s incompetence + firing everyone?
Beth Weigand 🦭@gedeonm I found him in the content you see > interests section of my Twitter information and I MOST CERTAINLY AM NOT interested in Elon 😅 convinced that they snuck that in there for everyone too.
Tyler 👋@gedeonm Twitter ads soon:
Nate Gorby@gedeonm those are suggested posts or ones that are trending. I’m guessing you didn’t use the official app before… it pushes popular tweets to you until it learns from you. Been there long before Elon.
@ngorby Not if you have those items turned off in push settings which they were. Along with all the other type of pushes which were suddenly turned back on without warning. Heard from over a dozen others today same thing happened to them too.
@gedeonm oh shoot. Didn’t know it was stuff turned off. That’s weird. Screw that app!! Lol
ᴿᴵᴷᴿᴵᴾᴾᴱᴿ@gedeonm I was so sick of seeing his tweets in my notifications. And I also do not follow him. Another of the 458 reasons I left Twitter.
Jorg Geerlings@jgeerlings @mark They weren’t turned on at the iOS level, but within the Twitter app itself so yes. This is a server-side setting that is inspect was reset across the board at Twitter.
Gik 
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CapeHeaven🦄@gedeonm After we lost access through Tweetbot, I downloaded the 1st party app, but I hated it so much I deleted it after a couple days. Now, I hardly go on Twitter and use a browser if I do, but even then I can only tolerate it for a short time. I’ll admit, I’m having a bit of bird withdrawal.
Simon Harper@gedeonm this is really not good!!
@simonharper nope it’s not
@gedeonm did you post this on Twitter also? Seems a thing that should to be highlighted there too… i.e. more crappy shenanigans from Twitter’s beloved leader #spacekaren
@simonharper Yes I sure did.
@gedeonm 👍🏼
Sorry don’t follow you there so didn’t see.
Jay Zipursky@gedeonm I deleted the twitter app yesterday. Don’t miss it.