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
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/
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
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
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/
@adamfishercox yeah, that’s what Occam says after you learn how the counts work and especially if you replicate the effect yourself with a private, zero-follower alt. I mean, ask me how I know when it increments…
once she’s convinced herself she’s getting all these phantom hits, you think she’s *not* going to keep refreshing in horror?
@adamfishercox did you miss the part where I replicated it myself? who’s working backward from the result they want
the first two were taken about a minute apart after I figured out how it worked. just now, it has 84 hits. if I go back in an hour it will have 85, because that visit will be the 85th view
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If each refresh is counted as a "view" then that just reinforces her point that its a bogus metric. It means anyone leaving the app viewing a tweet is artificially inflating the view count.
For example, if 100 people look at a tweet and then put their phones down for a couple of minutes that will cause the view count to register 1,200+ views.
@complexifire @AGTMADCAT @adamfishercox
That's a distinction without a difference. A metric that doesn't measure what the users of the metric expect it to measure is, by any reasonable definition of the term, bogus.
@Spicewalla what I feel like talking about is definitely about me? I mean if the point is to reach a truth and there’s no way of determining a single truth when people are using different definitions, it’s kind of the only thing worth saying about whether it’s “bogus” or not?
feel free to feel otherwise about it, but we’re done here
Evidently your criticism is all about your personal feelings and nothing about Lorenz's point.
"Elon is dumb for promoting this metric and Lorenz is dumb for demonstrating why its not fit for purpose" is something I'd expect to see on /r/iamverysmart
Literally the next tweet in her thread.
https://nitter.mint.lgbt/TaylorLorenz/status/1623792980946722816
If they’re counting ur own views of ur own tweets toward view counts then that’s hilarious, but also extremely easily gamed, rendering these “view count” totally useless. (Even then Idk how I’d view my tweet every second, other than keeping a tweet live on screen). Total nonsense
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