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”

lmfao the replies on that are just garbage ass feature requests, complaints, crypto grifters, billionaire boot lickers and shitty memes

extremely funny that he paid billions to be King Mod and has managed to fuckup his dogshit website so badly that now no one sees his terrible posts

This could be solved incredibly easily by just making “following” a simple chronological feed just like everybody wants, but, no, the Boer must have muh elgerithim

uh oh

Throwing daily jargon updates at the customer is a sign the project is going super well!

he has no idea what any of this means

lmaoooooo

didn't spend ad dollars, just had the intern post a youtube link to their commercial

lol I totally it was supposed to be New API Day
Everything is going swimmingly
Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon Musk’s tweets now

Twitter’s showing an excess of tweets and replies from Elon Musk on some users’ For You feeds. This comes just days after Musk complained about not getting enough views on the platform.

The Verge
Time to block him if you haven't already, so we can see what else he'll fuck up as he worms his way around the blocks
more late night freak shit
Can't wait to read the twitter files about this direct collusion between elected officials and the CEO of twitter
Vanity UN-Fair…get it? Honestly think this is an original Elon. It seems like the sort of thing he would feel was hilarious
Gentlemen

so mad at bluechecks that you end up with a system that is

a: redundant (double badging!) and confusing and

b: looks like the unicode fake verification the lamest goobers used to do

Twitter turning into ‘Elon forcing his terrible boomer ass tweets down everyone’s throats’ is exceeding my wildest expectations

And at least jay stile sold his site at a profit

I mean he hates trans people because he got dumped for a trans woman and he hates black people because his family isn't allowed to enslave them anymore, so Ron "talking about trans people or black people in schools is now illegal" DeSantis is a perfect fit

oh my fucking god this is over his "go eagles" tweet that he deleted by the next morning

he's going to make his last remaining engineer force everyone to like 5 of musk's tweets before they can see one post on their timeline

just hard-code a 2M "like" head start onto every one of his tweets, maybe that'll shut him up

the future is being written entirely by pathetic idiot babymen

https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system

Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first

After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm

Platformer

My man was refreshing his tweet staring at his view count the whole time he was at the Super Bowl and then, instead of going to an after party orgy like a normal billionaire, got right on his private jet to yell at tired engineers who scrambled down to the office on a Sunday night.

Winning!

Imagining him calling an all-hands codeathon session to get this "problem" "fixed", frantically hoping they can do it without anybody outside the company finding out, because that's like the only thing that he really fears, being seen as a pitiful needy dweeb who has to buy his likes

All depends on secrecy. Every aspect of his self-worth hangs on whether they can make this work without anyone finding out.

And like two days later, boom lmao

I mean it wasn’t subtle. Overnight he was literally the only thing that would show up in that “for you” thing. Everyone noticed that twitter was forcing musk tweets to the top of the timeline, and anyone with a greater than baseline capacity for pattern recognition than him immediately connected the dots and figured out what he’d done.

I just didn’t realize the reason was even pettier than even we could imagine

Truly, reality is even more pathetic than the theories we come up with as a joke. The billionaire threw a toddler tantrum because the president of the United States got more engagement than he did. And he even deleted the tweet that started this with, I can only assume, tears of impotent rage in his little eyes.

This might genuinely be the most pathetic thing I have ever seen.

He is the world's largest piss baby lmao

Guess that’s the end of the blocking feature...

I feel like the twitter engineers going to be up for another long day tomorrow

ALL HANDS ON DECK

BABBY HAS A POOPY DIAPEY

Wasn't it only like just a week ago that he was crowing about how he had saved Twitter from bankruptcy?

"trending toward breakeven" or some such nonsense lol

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/elon-musk-aiming-to-appoint-new-twitter-ceo-by-end-of-2023.html

Elon Musk aiming to appoint his successor as Twitter CEO by the end of 2023

Elon Musk said Wednesday that he might be able to appoint his successor as Twitter CEO by the end of 2023.

CNBC

Another expose on twitter internals:

-Elon is on meth 24/7 and running things like a cartoon caricature of steve jobs, making everyone do 80 hour weeks and firing them for cause if they say the wrong word

-Twitter now has 1 principal engineer (he fired the other one for telling him he’s not popular)

-Elon also suggested banning everyone not from the US or Japan to cut costs and make the whole thing a subscription service

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-tesla-crisis-mood-intensity-2023-2

Elon Musk mood, intensity at Twitter worse than in Tesla crisis: staff

Elon Musk has called an earlier stretch at Tesla the "most difficult" of his career. His employees say his time at Twitter is proving worse.

Insider
people's accounts are getting all their likes deleted if they dm someone a link
lol why are likes being visible delayed? lonny must have chewed through enough cables to start breaking things in interesting ways
The one time Colbert has been funny since the Colbert Report:
Doobie-us: Pot ads come to Twitter amid cannabis industry collapse

Weed delivery services could be advertising on Twitter feeds soon.

Ars Technica
I’m building a house but holding 50 tweets in escrow til they finish the carpet

jesus christ he's doing the dril tweet irl

this is all so pathetic

really funny that he's claiming a 'review' proves it's false but not actually posting any data

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/16/elon-musk-twitter/

Elon Musk reinvents Twitter for the benefit of a power user: Himself

Elon Musk has rolled out major changes at Twitter — many of which have targeted his own experience, but not that of millions of regular users of the site.

The Washington Post
surely this will convince the advertisers to return
can’t wait to be shown even more ads for “what is a woman”
Elon Musk Reportedly Woke Up Twitter Engineers at 2AM Because His Super Bowl Tweet Wasn’t Getting Enough Likes

Elon Musk woke up Twitter engineers at 2am because his Super Bowl tweet wasn't getting as many likes as Joe Biden's.

The Chainsaw
@cspam Elon Musk: "this is false because: *gaslights as usual*"
@cspam Ah, so that is why random retweets from 2014 suddenly showed up on my account that I completely emptied back in November?

@cspam
I don't follow this closely but I remember when the first states legalized commercial weed sales there was a big issue with federal laws about accepting cash from such a business, especially sizeable amounts, such that the sellers basically couldn't accept credit cards or use banks (ATM machines had to be off site, worry about holding cash, etc).

Has all this been resolved? If not, how is Twitter going to accept payment from marijuana vendors without violating federal law?

@warren__terra @cspam I'm sure Elon has carefully considered this and not run head first into it.
@cspam it will take a lot more than $8 a month for me to unblock him.
@cspam his writers did such heroic work on the Colbert Report they are now enjoying a well earned early retirement where they get the highest pay in all of TV to phone in recycled jokes from the daily show, kids joke books and old bazooka Joe bubble gum comics.
@cspam
Twitter rules have become so arbitrary
@cspam @mmasnick I’m guessing that’s to keep people from pirating their social graphs to Mastodon
@cspam A few months ago, the only way I could tell a friend in Twitter DMs about my Mastodon address was to give it to her as a PNG. They really donʼt want you sharing links any more!
@cspam this is some very fine software craftsmanship *chef kiss*

@cspam

abandon bad ship twitter .. it's sinking....

@cspam Sounds like a good way to discontinue one's use of the bird site.
@cspam oooooh, I’ve been looking for a way to delete my likes. This is good info!
@cspam Why are people I’ve followed for years still using it like nothing’s wrong? Is it the 6 figure followers? Not wanting to start from scratch? 🤔
@cspam May his baggies be forever filled with fentanyl 💀

@cspam @DemocracyMattersALot Trump became president after running his mouth on a business stunt and got forced to take it. He nearly destroyed our country.
Musk bought Twitter after running his mouth on a business stunt and got forced into buying it. He has nearly destroyed twitter.

How about we stop making crazy people stop going through with threats they make when running their mouths?

@cspam I wonder if it's like a Roman Caligula thing. Flying around in Jets is like drinking lead in your water, it's making all the rich people crazy.
@cspam "Elon" and "stabilize" in the same sentence. 😂 😂 😂
@cspam what happened to vox populi, vox dei?
@cspam lol. "the end of the year". The year just started. What happened with that poll (the one where people said he should not be CEO)?
@cspam lol yeah and a Tesla will drive itself across the country by the end of 2016 too
@cspam an aircraft in a nosedive can be "stable." Maybe that's what Elon means.
@cspam How many of his family members are working there?
@cspam The trick is to block him and not tell everyone. I guess the memo didn’t get out to everyone. I blocked him months ago.

@cspam LOL, completely not surprised that's trending on #Twitter. If the algo is telling you that your act is no longer popular, the fastest way to become even less popular is to force everyone to watch your failing standup routine.

I just dropped in on Twitter yesterday, saw him recommended at the top of my feed and blocked him. I almost never block anyone. Can't even mute b/c then the "Tweet from an account you muted" will keep annoying you. People will start blocking quite liberally.

@sysop408 @cspam - I totally agree and think the next step is either removing blocks/mutes or making the ability to get around those a paid feature.
@cspam He's become one of the vapid mid-level managers in a dilbert comic strip, and the delicious thing is that I think he's smart enough to realize that people see him that way.
@cspam it’s a close toss up for most pathetic with that time he offered to buy that woman a horse if she did a sex act on him and she said no and he paid her to never tell anyone it happened 😬😬😬
@cspam Treat people like dirt and at first they just lose their loyalty. Keep at it, and they will actively work to obstruct you. That leak wasn't driven by love or respect.
@cspam So glad I abandoned Twitter. Muskrat’s account was in my blocked user list, when I stopped using my account. (It’s still there. It’s just choose not to use it and waste their resources by not deleting it.) But I’m sure that wouldn’t matter as naturally the narcissist would have his accounts force whitelisted to boost his ego, er, views…
@cspam I am not pathetic...oh wait...
@cspam Don't forget that Musk also has a trans kid who no longer talks to him. Transphobia is his driving force.