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
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.
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
"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
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
Twitter Death Cult
