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

https://mastodon.social/@Tibor/109800904950500383

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/03/elon-musk-is-running-scared-from-mastodon-cuts-off-the-best-tool-for-finding-your-twitter-followers-there/

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

@AGTMADCAT @adamfishercox @complexifire

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.