Twitter Death Cult
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
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.
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…
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.
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.
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%?
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.
Oh no, blatantly attempting to extort companies into paying a ridiculous monthly price so they don't get impersonated (impersonation protection not actually guaranteed) didn't work as well as Elon thought? Well that's unexpected!
If it cost the New York Times the standard $7 for their whole organization to get a blue check it would still be a bad investment. It's the mark of a sucker, it should be rejected even if offered for free.
The Mark of the Boer. The Whore of Babylon Bee.
aaand another climbdown
10,000 has to be more organizations that would've ever considered paying it, and the rest are like your local mom & pop stores that won't pay it anyway
tried to meet with the chair of the FTC, got told to fuck off and start complying with investigators' requests
instead he could only get a meeting with the only Republican commissioner in the FTC, who had already announced her resignation at that point
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/technology/elon-musk-ftc-chair.html
"nothing to do with me, stop asking"
author_is_elon is 100% real and there is no way the giant man-child didn't order some poor H1B engineer to do that or else they are deported.
he complained to the engineers about how his account is doing. they fixed it. if he was smart he would have realized how they fixed it.
looks like they were actually giving out checks, not removing them
for the wrong people of course. this is a fan game, for example
he can't even get his indentured servants to come in on the weekend to fix the code to mass remove blue checks and just does it by hand one by hand to accounts that annoy him
no celebrity or athlete that has said they wouldn't pay has lost theirs yet either which really tells you all you need to know about this
Twitter is held together like a tangled ball of twine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/31/twitter-verification-checkmark-ending/
Elon taking the coward's way out
Almost all the actually verified accounts called him out massively on his bluff so this is his petulant payback
Only ads we're going to get now is anti-woke internet browsers and free crypto provided by Mr. Musk.
The world is our focus group but also our beta testers and all suggestions are going into the final product in real time
I believe this will work well for a global product with a userbase in the half billion range
This is a wilder ride than I was prepared to experience
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-releases-algorithm-showing-it-tracks-elon-musk-tweets
Elon still working for Putin and Xi
https://wenhao.substack.com/p/against-its-own-policy-twitter-no
https://news.yahoo.com/analysis-twitter-algorithm-code-reveals-072800540.html
The logic here is sound
*takes away the livelihood of thousands*
"this is where SF politics leads"
Die alone and unloved in a ditch drowning in your own piss, Musk.
lol at this politician answer. be honest you puke.
its so painful, elon clearly has no idea what he's talking about
Mahdi (@mahdi)
I asked Elon Musk why his name is hard coded here in Twitter Algorithm repo; you can listen to the answer yourself… and the Space finished right after that 🤭 https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/decorator/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala#L225
Didn't you fix the botting problem 1st day on the job?
I do enjoy how his take on the bot problem basically shifted from smugly promising to end it by next week to talking about it like it's a skynet-esque army that we are powerless against
"guys the code is bad. i'm going to open source it to prove it.. wait it does what now? that shouldn't be... unfollows by botnets? 1 million dollar bounty!"
"The New York Times gives a shit about how many followers they have" he's projecting like an IMAX
He's calling out the NYT in particular for the same reason Trump did. Years of uncritical coverage followed by some criticism means they're out to get him. Plenty of other publications also said they weren't going to pay for their staff to have Twitter Blue, he's singling them out because they're the top dog and he desperately wants them to like him again. Any attention from papa is good attention.
ketchup71(Every now and then I wonder if people actually get how dystopian those fantasy worlds really are, and that there is no way a sane person actually wants to live in it.)
MugsysRapSheet Blog ☑️@cspam Arguably (and I'm not defending this), boosted posts are similar to paying for "boosted search results" on Google.
I'm a longtime web developer, and one of the biggest hurdles with new clients is promoting their new site. "You don't have to pay for people to find your site using Google, but if you want to come up in the Top 10 results on a vague search, it's going to cost you." 🤔
EchutaHow is this legal?
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Half Cocked Law
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