how much twitter sucks now has hit the mainstream lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdA9zej7RM

No one gave a shit about Twitter files and no one will give a shit about this

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/politics/elon-musk-kevin-mccarthy-meeting/index.html

Yeah, everyone knew this. Fuck Musk, Chad is great.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/a-leaked-internal-message-appears-to-show-elon-musk-ordered-twitter-staff-to-suspend-a-left-wing-activist-s-account/ar-AA16NS0X

50 year old men crying to a billionaire because they're not winning a popularity contest

“Believe it or not” lmao

Dave Rubin is so breathtakingly stupid.

"there was no evidence of your bullshit claims but that doesn't mean they are bullshi!"

the reason there was a 2-3 week window was because elon demanded they clear out all the "please show me less of this person's tweets" and people angrily had to readd them over the next 2-3 weeks. then elon forgot he ever made that demand because his attention span is shit. so he's still trying to figure out what caused it all.

the fact that a large amount of their followers/views dropped right after a wave of bots were removed is probably just coincidental too

Their disinfo is that since the Hamilton dashboard was set up to track the flow of disinformation from Russian bots, and since it accuses people of being bots spreading this information who were not bots... Therefore the whole Russian disinformation campaign/election interference is a fraud.

In reality Russia (and others) did spread misinformation through social media and continue to do so and the right wingers spreading it were what they call useful idiots.

well there goes the one remaining use case i had for twitter, which was offloading screenshots and videos from my switch

even more hilarious, i'm pretty sure if they shut off the api, it's gonna break any website that has the "sign in with twitter" option. not sure how many people actually use that, but if you did you're probably out of luck.

he gave a week for people to figure out if they really want to pay money for.. a thing that helps twitter generate content.

btw if you're not aware of twitter developer.. lore... twitter use to have an extremely open API until about 2012 when they slowly started removing features (including third party apps having limited tokens to use for their apps) and developers basically left the platform in droves.

i think before elon acquired twitter they had released a new api and were going to try to do creative new things to attract all the developers that got sick and tired of twitter fucking over developers.

this is the death knell for it (developer wise). imagine making developers pay for an api that is shite after they previously got screwed over by the company. no one is going to build anything useful especially now that the population is slowly creeping over to terminally online chuds.

This move to paid api is kind of expected. Over the course of the last decade a lot of things have been gating off their api because of how much bandwidth they soak up...

Typically you'd just rate limit free accounts... the only reason you'd paywall if bots using APIs were a huge problem and you wanted to take a nuclear approach, right?

Well, that, and for some reason your primary revenue source died up because like two thirds of your advertisers decided to fuck off. Nobody knows why.

And then your amazing plan to sell checkmarks also fell flat on its ass because only around 200,000 people (on a platform of 450 million monthly active users) decided they wanted to stick the "bully me" hat on. Again, nobody knows how that failed....

Remember how desperate for cash Elon got dragged to the world cup final by the saudis in nothing but his t-shirt and pants? People were joking about the lowtax% speedrun but everyone's sleeping on the very real possibility of a khashoggi%

lol at elon and the right wing grift circus in the span of one day mass hallucinating an issue where private accounts boost exposure, and all of them performatively going private for a few hours, insisting it helped, but then going public again because ???

morgelon’s disease

Twitter Blue people still don't have most of the promised features they're paying monthly for yet but instead how about an entirely new feature, out of the blue, that nobody cares about!

I mean co-tweets were absolutely pointless and dumb but this might be dumber. I wonder if this is going to be on top of the suggested 4000 character thing or if this is what the character thing has become. But lol at anyone going to twitter to read essays

To EVERY employee? Jesus Christ, man.

Just imagine Musk staying up to 3 AM reading a one page book report by some random admin assistant in the Twitter Facilities Management Division

There are like 25 twitter files about how Russian troll bots weren't a real thing but also we have to limit API usage because "opinion manipulators" aka libruls...

And just lmao that they announced this change to come in a week with no details and if someone, like a business, wanted to make any sort of planning, the only idea of the pricing they would deal with is from Elon responding to some random tweet.

"Musk, Ben Shapiro... and uh.... I forgot the third one. Oops."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/eliza-bleus-own-friends-arent-buying-her-trafficking-story

reminder that in 2018 musk was having a big public meltdown and decided that anything "nano" was bullshit nonsense and tried attacking a cancer researcher working on nanoparticle treatments who happened to criticize him

https://www.livescience.com/62669-musk-nano-nanotechnology-real.html

Lmao I wonder what the 3 remaining advertisers think about their advert spend being shared with literal nazis because it's in a highly engaged tweet about pro nazi hate speech

Extremely excited for tweetfarming to become a thing, this sort of activity has never caused the death of a platform before!

He literally got owned by a cat lmao.

Love to make huge financial decisions for my company with "I guess..." policies

Give me 12k a year or you can't tweet to Catturd2 and a bunch of nazis

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/twitter-considers-charging-brands-1000-per-month-to-stay-verified

actually, come to think of it, i have a lot of respect for the jurors

they looked at the case that took weeks to present, the stakes, the plaintiffs, and the amount of work they were being asked to do to hand a bunch of rich investors even more money, and they said "fuck it, let's go bowling"

it's a civil case, it's not about justice, and spending your weekend arguing over how much money to take from a billionaire to hand to millionaires isn't really redistribution

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/musk-lawyer-blames-tesla-investors-for-their-losses-as-funding-secured-trial-ends/

Of course people want Musk to eat at least some amount of shit, so it's disappointing when he repeatedly manages to not deal with any repercussions from any of the idiotic scam-and-scam-adjacent services and promises he's come up with, regardless of how transparent they otherwise seem.

It's the primal need for something, anything to matter to this clown as an actual consequence, instead of what seems to keep happening

It's great that nothing he does works, and his veneer of sci-fi nerd messiah is flaking apart so obviously, and all this, but when things go so far as being taken to court for finance manipulation reasons and then they find that he's not trying to defraud or manipulate but is actually just an utter moron, that feels like we missed out on what should have been an easy win.

We do live in a supremely stupid world so we shouldn't be that surprised.