Twitter Death CultYeah, everyone knew this. Fuck Musk, Chad is great.
Musk is now trying to make the Twitter Files into videos using horribly bad memes:
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.
funnily enough I remember actual journalists asking him similar questions and him throwing a pissy fit and shutting down twitter spaces and shit
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.
people were developing "businesses" on top of twitter which was dumb but people did it anyways and got angry and left twitter when this happen. it got to the point where after jack came back to be ceo around 2015, he "apologized" for the way they handled it.. and then proceeded to kinda fuck developers again over that time.
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%
i missed the part today where elon privated his own twitter either because he's a moron or because he's desperate to be one of the boys. lmao..
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
All those "cute animal every hour" accounts are going to be killed by the API charges. The last reason for anyone to be on the site is gone.
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.
Elno has to kill the random Virginia Wolfe quotes account and the remind-me bots and all the puppy/kitten rater bots because a bunch of people voted him off the island and that can't be a real thing, he's Elno Msuk the genius special boy who's gonna save the world! It must be those Evil Librul Bots who made him feel sad!
"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
he already did that and eli lily got mad so he backpedaled i guess he's just gonna do it again
ok sure "hey who's the current least successful person in the social media space, famously fucking up their unprofitable website? musk, right? let's do what he's doing"
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
Twitter Considers Charging Brands $1000 Per Month to Stay Verified
Twitter is likely to charge brands $1000 a month to keep their gold verification badge, plus $50 a month for each affiliated account, according to internal messages viewed by The Information. The pricing structure, which according to the messages is being finalized and could still change, would add another chapter to the Twitter Blue saga, which alienated advertisers after the initial
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
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.
They recalled the ~woke DA~ that they blamed for all the crime and crime went up lol
movetodon got banned by twitter
losing my ass at the blackjack tables and sputteringly explaining to my MEAN spouse that if they'll just LISTEN, I'm actually trending to breakeven. I've got a system!
had to save twitter from bankruptcy (that I put it on the path to)
would not wish the pain of running multiple companies on anyone (no I will not step down and let anyone else run a single one of these companies)
Lol "Trending to breakeven" aka "even if i cherrypick a bunch of extremely favourable data points and ignore all surrounding data, the best picture I can fabricate is we'll stop losing money at some undefined point in the future, maybe"
Then again he probably didn't actually bother to do even that and is just lying so that he keeps his story straight to anyone still funneling money to him
Matt Walsh's filthy pedo face popping up in my feed like the hobo from Mulholland Drive
"Elon, I showed my bad posts to everyone and barely anyone liked them!"
"For some unknown reason nobody likes any of the weird freaks I keep shoving into everyone's timeline!"
I do have to give elon credit, making the tweet view metrics public is starting to cause a lot of petty people who are addicted to validation either feeling bad about it or pointing fingers at elon because these numbers can't possibly be right everyone loves my posts
Absolutely unstoppable juggernaut of humor and plagiarism, this Musk fellow
Everything he says he's done, he's done the opposite
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/technology/twitter-child-sex-abuse.html
All grifters, all liars, all the time
https://www.thedailybeast.com/eliza-bleus-own-friends-arent-buying-her-trafficking-story
People don't ask me "where moon" but then again I haven't promised anyone we're living on Mars in 10 years 10 years ago
also probably safe to assume that a doge name or avatar means that the person is one of elon's paid lackies
Trump has probably a dozen excuses like Musk just being a loser or Musk not fully committed to proving the 2020 election was fake so he is just going to stay on Truth
Elon gonna enforce this broad acceptance by banning anyone who is mean to his nazi buddies or grifter pals like Eliza
Is Musk actually doing this because he started ripping out servers and is trying to get people to stop tweeting as much by limiting overall numbers? What a genius!!
I really wanna know the turnaround time from Elon dictating the terms and the code being deployed.
Also isn't that really going to fuck over companies that offer user support via Twitter? Of course they'll soon offer an option to bypass those limits for $11 a day or something.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/twitter-limits-tweet-frequency-1235320995/
Scoop: the staff is sized such that the company needs to choose between future growth or maintenance to stop their core product from collapsing
elon just constantly disconnecting/re-connecting the sacramento data center even after they left a big sign saying, "vital to maintaining twitter"
Website workin' real good
I also keep getting a rate limit error on my notifications and if literally just refreshing counts, people are gonna be pissed
Chrissy Teigen was right about trump being a pussy ass bitch. lol
"Anika Collier Navaroli, a company whistleblower, brought forward new testimony alleging that conservatives influenced the social network. The company changed its policies to accommodate former president Donald Trump’s rule-breaking tweet, according to Navaroli, and the Trump White House asked Twitter to remove an insulting tweet about the president, posted by the television personality Chrissy Teigen."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/08/house-republicans-twitter-files-collusion/
An example of how stupid this is. To DM Xfinity Support, you need to follow each other since so many accounts have closed DMs. But Xfinity Support can't follow any new accounts until they unfollow 133,000 accounts. So they won't be able to interact with customers.
https://twitter.com/xfinitysupport
lol
guys the superbowl is this week. nobody is going home.
or perhaps people will be going home... they just won't be coming back
JUST ANOTHER DAY Vivian Ann Romero, Ernesto J Bautista & Rodney Alejandro
she's so fuckin dumb she doesn't know they're also pretty goddamn happy that dude bought them out for 44 billion
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-bow-down-to-twitter-chief-at-hearing-god-bless-elon-musk
Since he overpaid so much he needs to pay off the loans he took out for his purchase but twitter is not profitable as a company so the only thing he knows to do is to monetize every possible aspect. The result is that the platform is a goner and it is going to ruin a lot of people's livelihoods
he vastly, vastly overestimates the amount of blood he can squeeze from the stone that is twitter and he'll end up killing it trying to get the last drop, like lmao why the HELL would you fuck with the ability to SOCIALIZE on a SOCIAL NETWORK, then have the audacity to charge for it???
they're gonna do all this bullshit tweaking and pissing off everyone by limiting follows or whatever then check the balance sheet at the end of the month and see only 0.01% of users forked over cash
I imagine he is getting blocked by a lot of people right now, driving down even accidental engagement.
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer
This is a combination of sad and hilarious, because:
1) Those estimates are annualized figures based on the advertisers Twitter had at the beginning of the year and tons of major ad supporters bailed on Twitter in the first few months. So, even that figure of $19 million is likely way lower.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/09/twitter-ads-revenue-suspended-account/
2) That the Twitter algorithm really did massively push anti-vax and nazi accounts that made them the most profitable accounts for Musk on Twitter and he likely unbanned them right away in a desperate move to max out potential revenue.
Janet@cspam
Are you still allowed to block him?
Are you still allowed to block him?
It's Just Jenn 🏳️⚧️@cspam Ewww. Hearing that waste of space praise Musk re-enforces my plan to never go back.
Dr. Lola Politicka@cspam I am wondering about the big accounts. How are they going to be affected? Accounts like United Nations, President Biden? Is that for EVERYONE or just people who are not the close buddies of Elon?
🌲🧿 "Max"t💽d🏵️n 🔎🍄@cspam lol. What the fuck?
so the “x every hour” accounts will be fine, but on-demand ones that are even remotely popular are done. no one’s gonna pay to run their hobby bot
fyi companies (massive, massive ones, like fortune 50 companies) are asking if these API issues affect them going forward and literally no one at twitter would answer them
Barry Schwartz 🫖@cspam Yes, of course.
Pam Gardens@cspam wow. Imagine the names I’d be called now. For no reason.
¡a!n
Ed G.@cspam I'm on Team Bring The Chaos
xian@cspam i think it’s more that truth goes bust if he returns to twitter and makes it gabparlergettrchan central
podkaynelives@cspam I don't know who she is, but she reminds me of those AI faces bot accounts use.
