mods asleep, hijack celebrity accounts

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

Eliza Bleu’s Own Friends Aren’t Buying Her Trafficking Story

Elon Musk’s favorite anti-trafficking advocate has set off a war in right-wing circles after Twitter banned some of her critics—and her own friends are poking holes in her story.

The Daily Beast

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

Scientists Say Elon Musk's 'Nano' Claims Don't Make Any Sense

The SpaceX and Tesla founder is having a very public meltdown right now, and making some weird claims about a prefix used in some sciences.

Live Science
he already did that and eli lily got mad so he backpedaled i guess he's just gonna do it again
tweet boosting seems to not be included in the 1000
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!

lmao poor little elon all the mean adults yelling at him
One weird trick

He literally got owned by a cat lmao.

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

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

The Information

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/

Musk beats fraud charges; jury rejects investor claims in “funding secured” case

Musk lawyer claimed investors were "gambling and looking for lawsuits as insurance."

Ars Technica

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
Elon Musk Is Running Scared From Mastodon; Cuts Off The Best Tool For Finding Your Twitter Followers There

People keep claiming that Mastodon isn’t scaring Elon Musk, but it’s pretty clear that he’s worried about the exodus of people from Twitter. With his bizarrely short-sighted decis…

Techdirt

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
Musk's a bought and paid for disinfo agent. A fucking traitor.

Everything he says he's done, he's done the opposite

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/technology/twitter-child-sex-abuse.html

Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content. Is It Working?

Child sexual abuse imagery spreads on Twitter even after the company is notified: One video drew 120,000 views. “Sewer rats,” as one regulator described bad actors, remain.

Eliza Bleu’s Own Friends Aren’t Buying Her Trafficking Story

Elon Musk’s favorite anti-trafficking advocate has set off a war in right-wing circles after Twitter banned some of her critics—and her own friends are poking holes in her story.

The Daily Beast

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
I'm on Team Ian Miles Cheong
Elon gonna enforce this broad acceptance by banning anyone who is mean to his nazi buddies or grifter pals like Eliza
thank you dril
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/

Twitter Limits Tweet Frequency, Impacting Business and User Accounts

The company said it will now limit users to a maximum of 2,400 tweets a day, but users reported being prevented from tweeting far below that limit.

The Hollywood Reporter

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

Xfinity Support (@XfinitySupport) / Twitter

Hi! 👋 Welcome to your official support team @Xfinity. Need to connect? Our experts are here for you live 24/7/365.

Twitter

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

YouTube

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

Republicans Bow Down to Twitter Chief at Hearing: ‘God Bless Elon Musk’

“I’m so glad you've lost your jobs,” MTG told several former Twitter officials on Wednesday. “Thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter.”

The Daily Beast
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

Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count

Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max

Platformer

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/

Extremist influencers are generating millions for Twitter, report says

The report attempted to estimate the dollar-value to Twitter of Musk's restoration of formerly suspended accounts.

The Washington Post
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.
My dopamine factory has everyone hooked! Surely nobody will run to another dopamine factory if I start charging
I'm gonna guess that the view counter is broken in that it counts of a bunch of backend processes that are scanning content for various reasons as "views"

"Just yesterday, Twitter experienced a mass outage...

Apparently, an employee unintentionally deleted data for the “internal service that sets rate limits for using Twitter,” the outlet wrote. The team of people that used to manage the rate limit service haven’t been employed at Twitter since November.

“As the adage goes, ‘you ship your org chart,’” one current employee told Platformer. “It’s chaos here right now, so we’re shipping chaos.”"

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-engineers-shadowban-engagement-1850096392

Elon Musk Seems to Think His Own Employees Are Shadowbanning Him

Musk reportedly sacked one of Twitter's engineers after they suggested his lower-than-normal engagement might be because people aren't interested in him.

Gizmodo

it usually doesn’t not go well when a female assault victim changes their story. juries get very skeptical, and a lot of assholes become extremely hostile against the victim.

perhaps she should have taken advice from a victim’s advocate before deciding to do this, or just watched an episode of law & order: svu

if she was sane she'd have enough of a Simp Surplus to get people to defend her music video days.

She made the mistake of CANCELING right wingers, by reporting them on YouTube for posting the video. They got banned or suspended or something which made them lose their shit and that's when things started crashing down on her.

and the grift comes tumbling down
Holy shit he's pathetic

elon musk has figured out the one weird trick for not having to pay the employees you fired: make them sign arbitration agreements, then don't select arbitrators or pay the arbitration firms

"the company is refusing to pay its share of filing fees to the arbitration company... in cases where the arbitration agreement does not specify a particular arbitration firm, Twitter will not agree on selecting an arbitrator, simply ignoring her emails to Twitter’s own lawyers."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2023/02/10/ex-employees-suing-twitter-say-its-not-cooperating-on-arbitration-asks-to-keep-case-in-court/

Ex-Employees Suing Twitter Say It's Not Cooperating On Arbitration, Asks To Keep Case In Court

An attorney who says she represents approximately one-third of all Twitter employees that were fired since Elon Musk bought the company late last year, told a federal court in a new filing that the company is not serious in its attempts to resolve worker disputes through private arbitration and i...

Forbes

bah! who needs ads when that sweet sweet $8/mo subscription revenue is flowing in?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/tech/twitter-top-advertiser-decline

They didn't
Watching them try to launch all these new idiotic features completely live and untested and then rapidly change their mind is a bit like watching a Tesla try to repeatedly try and fail to auto-park. And noticing that it really, really wants to put itself across a nearby set of train tracks...
and another thing: im not a paid bootlicker. please dont put in the newspaper that i am a paid bootlicker

lmao, "we found out your epic posts were overloading the mainframe sir"

Some engineer did a fantastic job of saving probably their entire team's jobs by pulling that whopper of a lie out of their ass

lmao he probably thinks ddos is when normal people aren't being force-fed catturd2 posts

Good to know me #BlockTheBlue'ing is killing Musk's site

This is the Roko's basilisk Elon fears, a chat program that says “trans rights”
@cspam Elon’s solution will be to remove blocking as a feature.

@cspam people don't want to see you or your friends?

That has to stop. It messes up the presumption that everyone wants to see my posts.

@cspam the clear fix is to stop honoring blocks

@cspam how does a group of accounts blocking other accounts have anything to do with DDoS?

It's some 30 Rock show with Alec Baldwin screaming synergistic word salads at Tina Fey.

@cspam wow.. he's gotta be shitting himself  what a joke
@cspam "Your posts are only visible to super smart people. Dumb people can't see them. You can see them, can't you sire?" -The Emperor's New Social Media Platform
@cspam @Tupp_ed That’s spectacular. And also, he bought it, so it may confirm (admittedly apocryphal) stories about how management at Tesla operates, which is to construct an alternate reality for the CEO in which he’s the smartest person there.
@cspam someone is >< this close to telling him that the problem is with the outdated ID-10 "T" authentication service
@cspam
You're so awesome, Sir, your awesomeness broke the boundaries of space and time!

@cspam

⬆️

I love this! My ass just clean fell off I laughed so hard.

@cspam that he believes this... wow...
@cspam holy shit did he kill hybrid delivery in the name of cost cutting? generally it’s inefficient to do mailbox delivery like that for large users, and i know at one point at least twitter didn’t do that. hoist by his own petard

@cspam

Hmm, the pervasive stench of quick and dirty bullshit.

@cspam I wonder if they're going to update the data in the DB with a trigger for Musk now.

Just to be sure he's happy.

@cspam

I'm seriously concerned with the level of talent being dissipated merely to keep Elon thinking he's a deity.

Granted, it's masterful work and not many people can do it. But I'd rather that effort be spent on good things, tho.

#elon

@cspam I guess if you want a promotion arrive at your desk with a ski mask so Elon thinks you are a hacker genius :)
@cspam pat musk on the head give him a bottle he'll be fine
@cspam gigagenius elon musk has finally solved the biggest problem on twitter, "not enough people seeing posts from gigagenius elon musk"
@cspam Reducing him to 5% of his tweets is the first improvement to #twitter since he bought it.

@cspam

🥵👨‍🚒👩‍🚒🔥🥵👨‍🚒👩‍🚒🔥🚒🧨🔥📛🧯

@cspam

The best (worst?) part?

He believed it.

@cspam This shit weasel has no shame. The difference between he and the orange version is nonexistent.
@cspam
LOL "You're just too damned awesome for twitter, sir"
@cspam hope the team at least goes in on a gift card for that engineer, they deserve it!!!
@cspam
He's going to pull a Myspace Tom, isn't he? Everyone will autofollow Elon to boost his viewcount, so his ego can be stroked.
@cspam the fault, as always, would be everyone else's
@cspam reminds me of early days bulletin boards. We would try things and have hits and misses. BUT we were all pretty new to it, didn’t pay a bazillion dollars for it, and were not arrogant af.
@cspam Ol’ Gil hasn’t made a sale in some time now
jordan on Twitter

“This was me, my 6.5-year stint at Twitter comes to an end today. Proud of the work we did and have full confidence the three or four people left will be able to honor Elon’s requests to artificially inflate his view counts (and view counts for advertisers). Not me though 🫡”

Twitter
@cspam Say Elon doesn't understand a single thing about the platform he bought without saying Elon doesn't understand a single thing about the platform he bought.
@cspam Nole is just foolish enough to try it.
@cspam
so happy I no longer Care about that place to Honestly any group/person/entity depending on that platform should really ask themselves why?