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/

"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

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.

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/

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

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

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

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

Finally, twitter is fixed

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/13/23598514/twitter-algorithm-elon-musk-tweets

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

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

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.

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