Twitter Death Cult"snailbrook" looks and sounds like a richard scarry re-imagining of a dickensian prison
What if the tent factory was just the place you lived?
the absolute paucity of vision on display here is just pathetic
imagine having effectively unlimited funds, the best drugs on earth, access to real estate, two artists and the world's richest man, no one to tell you no, and this is the shit you come up with.
like, at minimum, i would expect some fucking alejandro jodorowsky shit, burning man as a town, or something. instead we get some boring ass texas suburb with a concentration camp sign over the entrance
Every day this man loves using the stupid site he overpaid for by billions of dollars to show off his incredible lack of critical thinking. No reflection, just immediate acceptance of what gets tweeted at him.
If anything, it's illustrative as to how there can be people who think that real life 'NPCs' are a thing - they have no critical understanding of anything. They're as thick as pigshit and twice as repellent.
https://deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490
How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers In Trump's War On The Media
Earlier this month, CNN’s Brian Stelter broke the news that Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner or operator of nearly 200 television stations in the U.S., would be forcing its news anchors to record a promo about “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country.” The script, which parrots…
twitter's press strategy is already paying dividends
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64989720
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3akzaw/antisemitism-doubled-on-twitter-after-elon-musk
Elon fiddling with the beads on the Slur Abacus to find the perfectly mathematically optimal slur intermix ratio
Search function has been broken for about 24 hours at this point meaning that the one thing Twitter was still good for, searching for news, is currently dead
Zitron’s newsletter rocks if you want to get riled up about morons running tech etc. some real infuriating stuff and he writes real good.
Lol what? Just shut off his subsidies and tax credits and he'll be a bankrupt nobody in like a year lol
so hold on
people pay for a status symbol, which causes them to get bullied so hard they want to hide it.
why not just... not pay?
I can't wait to see how excited advertisers are about having their verified checkmarks taken away and needing to pay one thousand US dollars every month to get them back
I for one don't foresee any problems with trying to charge your hypothetical advertising clients $12k/year for a gif, under threat of not having any way to disambiguate them from imposters after you've nuked your support and trust & safety
1.3 million people signed up at $8/ month? oh wait, that’s over three months. so just under a half million people paying for it.
musk really overestimated his ability to make people pay him money for no reason. I means, that’s still an insane number of people paying $8 for literally nothing but it’s naught a drop in the bucket against how much it cost by scaring away advertising
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/24/twitter-blue-subscriptions-spendings-mobile-users/
This is why this is so funny. Musk seriously thought it was some elitist title and then ended up making it so.
lol he is such a bitter little boer
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai
"..Musk proposed a possible solution: He would take control of OpenAI and run it himself.
Altman and OpenAI’s other founders rejected Musk’s proposal. Musk, in turn, walked away from the company — and reneged on a massive planned donation. The fallout from that conflict, culminating in the announcement of Musk’s departure on Feb 20, 2018.
..An OpenAI announcement said Musk would continue to fund the organization, but Musk did not.."
he desperately wants to be seen as a pioneer pushing the field of AI forward
I'm sure he's extremely bitter that chatgpt is way more popular than his firetruck-hunters
congratulations to the twitter employees now holding the hottest ticket in town: twitter stock
whats the inverse of "start up" 🤔
What's funny to me is that Elon saw the respect that blue check people got and came to exactly the wrong conclusion.
He thought those people were well respected because they had a blue check mark. That the "cathedral" of Twitter had minted them into the cool kids.
In reality, the correlation between the blue check and their popularity was because they had already established themselves as an important resource worthy of respect.
The check was a result of their importance. It didn't make them important.
Elon thought that his new plaything of a company was a kingmaker, and that by giving everyone a blue check he could make everyone important. But if everyone is special then no one is special, and the cache of the check was instantly lost.
He's got the same brain problem as Trump where recognition is success unto itself, with no ability to comprehend why things were popular or appreciated in the first place
reminds of the TJ Miller Musk story:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-valley-nails-silicon-valley
“Some Valley big shots have no idea how to react to the show,” Miller told me. “They can’t decide whether to be offended or flattered. And they’re mystified by the fact that actors have a kind of celebrity that they will never have—there’s no rhyme or reason to it, but that’s the way it is, and it kills them.”
Miller met Musk at the after-party in Redwood City.
“I think he was thrown by the fact that I wasn’t being sycophantic — which I couldn’t be, because I didn’t realize who he was at the time. He said, ‘I have some advice for your show,’ and I went, ‘No thanks, we don’t need any advice,’ which threw him even more. And then, while we’re talking, some woman comes up and says ‘Can I have a picture?’ and he starts to pose — it was kinda sad, honestly — and instead she hands the camera to him and starts to pose with me.
It was, like, Sorry, dude, I know you’re a big deal — and, in his case, he actually is a big deal — but I’m the guy from ‘Yogi Bear 3-D,’ and apparently that’s who she wants a picture with.”
Yes TJ Miller is a sex predator and abuser, and that's just one more thing Elon is jealous of him for
Even Ian is dumping on Elon's changes to Twitter lol
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-rights-new-viral-video-fixation
Apparently this is working. One of my friends who was permabanned from Twitter like 3 years ago for telling a nazi to kill themselves just got his account unbanned that way lol
This is lower than the stock ever got when he announced he was pulling out of the deal. Lol
https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-offers-new-equity-grants-to-staff-938ee7f8
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musk-puts-20-billion-value-on-twitter
Twitter algos open sourced and way ahead of schedule! lol
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/twitter-source-code-leak.html
And of course by "news" we mean "all the disinfo and misinfo amplification you could possibly want"
Also lmao that elon is supposed to be the handsome bearded chad meme face, but even his most slobbering bootlickers realize that it is impossible to produce anything that is both aesthetically pleasant and recognizably elon musk
"hello i am a free speech absolutionist"
https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-amritpal-singh-sandhu/
Yeah, that's his thing now. Weaponize community notes and then pretend it's unbiased.
He's also still really mad that Biden's Super Bowl tweet did better lol
Lol that's so obviously fake and satire. It shows Trump running ffs.
Better hope they don't see this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Uy0Uznw4E
It's Mueller Time! Trump Administration Season Ending
lol this rules
he shifted the focus of his destructive efforts back on the userbase.
great idea sir. very good business brain. social media has been around for 20 years, and until now no one was smart enough to paywall it.
hopefully he learns from lowtax's lessons.
especially that final one
lol reading between the lines here he's planning to store entire credit card numbers in their database. when he does and they get breached visa and mc are going to take a chunk out of him
Lmao that @Catturd2 is literally on the same level of "high public interest" account promotion as the owner of Twitter, the President of the United States, and Lebron James.
I'd wager this is part of a devops sanity check and not just a VIP list. The mix of accounts is too weird to be ideological boosting. These accounts are probably part of a test suite used to show the idiot king that the changes he wants are mind breakingly stupid.
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-secret-list-of-twitter-vips-getting
The for you tab is now people who paid to have their posts in your face and also some people you follow...
Verification does not mean any kind of verification, it just means subscriber.
People who aren’t subscribed become invisible, so their reach is going to drop precipitously.
This means anyone who posts for followers will get verified, while those who post quality content will be drowned out and probably stop posting. Congrats elon, you invented an influencer site like instagram or TikTok
lol getting huuuuuge Lowtax vibes from these replies, exactly the kind of petulant posts he'd make when not everyone was onboard with his ideas
pretty funny that he's doing the whole "$8" retorts that his followers loved again, but this time it's because he desperately wants people to know that it's only $7 now (not through app store) (when you buy a year) (Best Value!)
he's pissed that he's getting so much of a negative response to this change
It's almost stunning just how internet-poisoned he is to the point he genuinely believes that the site he overpaid billions for is truly a cornerstone for civilization, and everything will collapse if catturd doesn't get enough engagement or whatever the fuck.
I wonder what he means by civilisation failing? I'm guessing..
Black people having movies roles
Women working in medicine
Trans people existing
Haha, my god, those numbers are paltry. Well that's one big partial reason as to why he's trying to move people towards verified accounts by basically breaking the user experience for those who don't pay.
But again, that wasn't supposed to be the point of the verified accounts, the users aren't the customers, and my god, for a man so utterly obsessed with the site he just misunderstands it on such a basic level.
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-blue-half-of-subscribers-have-less-than-1000-followers
I never even thought about this. In most cases wouldn't paying for twitter blue just be boosting your tweets out to people who don't give a fuck about them? Which may be useful for content creators trying to get their name and their work out there, I guess, but in a lot of cases is just gonna be paying to have tomatoes thrown at you.
....which is kind of a perfect microcosm of Elon buying twitter.
Okay, nevermind, I understand it now.
They’re open to return but a lot won’t because Musk completely broke Twitter, there’s no support staff and the support staff keeps getting laid off, and actual engagement on Twitter was already dogshit before Musk wrecked discoverability even further.
Musk will never be a Martian. His legacy will be being a rich prick and fucking up twitter.
Whatever happened to @jack and the other execs after Elon bought out Twitter and fired everyone?
https://hindenburgresearch.com/block/
Jack Dorsey's the CEO of Block (formerly Square), Yoel Roth's teaching at UC-Berkeley now, Parag Agrawal hasn't said anything since October and is presumably just quietly enjoying his golden parachute and proceeds from the sale of Twitter stock, Vijaya Gadde's gotten subpoenaed by the House but she's also probably just sitting on her new stack of cash too
Block: How Inflated User Metrics and “Frictionless” Fraud Facilitation Enabled Insiders To Cash Out Over $1 Billion
Block Inc., formerly known as Square Inc., is a $44 billion market cap company that claims to have developed a “frictionless” and “magical” financial technology with a mission to empower the “unban…
you gotta be a real weird selfish asshole to have that much money, it's strange seeing a dude throw 44 billion into the gutter for twitter, when you could like spend 50 million to replace a towns lead pipes or 500 million to shore up a state pension fund. But they never do that shit and try to build the metaverse or try to get aoc to like them on twitter
So that's 2/2 (well 3/3 with King) celebs that have told Musk to ram it up his ass. Not a good sign for Musk-rat, huh?
Amazingly on brand that a tech bro would buy a free app and immediately try to figure out how to get rent from the users. Uber and AirBnB getting those huge valuations really just broke the brains of every money guy in Silicon Valley to the point where the only way they think you can run a company is by getting cash for doing nothing but providing a connection between people.
Every day his employees work harder to make Twitter into a giant hug box for one man and his crippling need for other peoples approval
There’s a total of 5 idiots still working at twitter, including musk, and he’s gonna claim again he has no idea what this is about
https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punjab-amritpal-singh/
Still the king of Twitter
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659842/twitter-boost-elon-musk-dril-mrbeast-algorithm-accounts
Wealthy South African entrepreneur is the new Nigerian prince
https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-principal-scammed-elon-musk/43446499
"was repeatedly told she was speaking to a scammer, according to other administrators at the meeting. School staff members also pointed out other issues they have with McGee and accused her of fostering a toxic work environment"
Transparently that Type Of Person who refuses to be told they're wrong, and just reflexively assumes that everyone else is stupid and doesn't know what they're talking about
Fucking lol at comparing twitter blue to Spotify or Netflix.
In Musk's broken brain, it makes sense because to him Twitter is valuable content.
Twitter is now part of this mind. It’s a part of him. He’s outsourced much of his thinking to the noise of Twitter. He doesn’t understand “stealing tweets” because the tweets are already an extension of himself. There’s the illusion of connecting to something greater than his corporeal form. This is a lie. Nothing is better. Instead the network supplies the tools to hide and excuse the diminishment of the self. Virtual McKinsey consultants to enact neoliberal austerity on your humanity.
Businesses are going to have to pay the $1000 a month toll not to get Eli Lilly'd. It's extortion.
Looks like Billy G is correct here, giving Musk money fuels the fossil fuel industry
https://ketanjoshi.co/2023/03/28/musk-is-remaking-twitter-into-a-climate-denier-sanctuary/
lol that they're serving this to legacy blue checks
i wonder what % of them bite, maybe 5-10%?
i hope those academia tiers are affordable so that someone can document the death of twitter
Is it still $42,000 a month for the next tier? lol fucking elon is so dumb
Tier 1: 50 million tweets, 42 000 dollars.
Tier 2: 100 million tweets, 125 000 dollars. 2x increase in Tweets, 2,9x increase in price.
Tier 3: 200 million tweets, 210 000 dollars, 2x increase in Tweets, 1,68x increase in price. Or compared with Tier 1, 4x increase in Tweets, 5x increase in price.
What a well thought out and logical pricing structure.
Roo_44Ego is a terrible mistress. In fact I know one guy was willing who pissed away $44 billion to serve that lover. Similarly, I suspect a surprising higher percentage of Twitter blue checker will find themselves struggling letting it go.
Half Cocked Law@cspam I'd say it's closer to contributory infringement.
OldHound@cspam I wonder what litigation will arise from this change and the inevitable fallout of impersonation?
Noah Mittman 
Usagi B aka rancorIt’s like high school all over, Musk really wants to be in the cool kids clique but they’re telling him to F-OFF.
John@cspam I mean, probably, but also shatner is a nazi. So fuck him, no matter what his complaints are. He gets no cred, no matter how angry he is at the OTHER nerdboy nazi.
Dr. Guillermo Power 
@cspam it’s a f**king blue tick! 8 dollars for a blue tick!
Coach Pāṇini ®@cspam his brain has turned to mush
John Baker (El Padrino)@cspam Even if it were really Elon Musk, you shouldn't be writing $100k checks because he's a fraud too
Brian Orce 
@cspam really wish he would come over here
Elliott@cspam “leftist politician” is understating it a bit. He’s the leader of a major national party whose support is required for the governing party to retain power.
Boomer@cspam wait, this is real? Jaspreet. He is one of the few politicians I actually trust.
sneedy maccreedy@cspam i keep thinking about dorsey saying his big mistake was taking twitter public, which seems like the wrong lesson: his big mistake was not making it a worker-owned co-op. a 'public benefit' corp ain't it.
@cspam Dipshit Death Spiral
Old Man Mike@cspam I think advertising could have a big future on Twitter but only for products like guns, moonshine, lynching ropes, and family secret sistermom abortion kits
Simon ZerafaIf these numbers are accurate then Twitter isn't long for this world
Even with all the pain and suffering that Phoney Stark is causing employees, former employees and users 🫤🤦♂️