Twitter Death CultFucking 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.
catturd2 losing his shit (lol) but elon is still desperate for his attention. he has such obviously pathetic daddy issues
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
lebron famously uses the free tier of pandora, but no one wants to pay for that fake verification bullshit
"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.
I see that the April Fools removing all real checks and making only paid checks visible worked out exactly as everyone thought it would
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/
Looks like, in addition to non-monetized verification being removed, Twitter is now deboosting some words in tweets, as indicated by previews of those tweets being removed in DMs.
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.
As a raging narcissist, I feel bad when Joe Biden's tweets do better than mine and I want mine to always be the best so that I get the good brain chemicals. Therefore, make my number bigger.
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.
From what analytics are public, I'm pretty sure Apple News and other apps are way bigger drivers of traffic than Twitter, but it's an outlet with a huge journalist sphere and raised importance to their minds because of it. Going viral there is very visible, and more importantly it's visible to that *everyone*. LeBron James might see a journalists viral story there, whereas he probably wouldn't if it hit the top page of reddit.
Well Tim, you may not have noticed but twitter wasn't selling verification before so it wasn't weird at all.
Musk and Sweeney should simply walk into the ocean, there's no coming back from being rinsed by Derek fucking Smart.
musk is in the middle of a $250 billion lawsuit about dogecoin so this seems like an extremely good idea
https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musk-seeks-end-258-billion-dogecoin-lawsuit-2023-04-01/
Really starting to think its more than just Elon being stupid he may actually have brain damage from being pushed down the stairs.
of course he stole it.
times sure have changed. 20 years ago that would have been fiesta cat.
lowtax was funnier than elon though
lmfao the CEO finding out about the legal problems facing his company via rando tweeting
Big "Jeffrey finding out Something Awful is being sued because someone found the lawsuit filing and posted a thread about it" energy from Elon
I guess Catturd sent Elon a link to some NPR piece that was mildly neutral on trans people
The reference to NPR has been quietly removed from that page since, but not all of them, as this link hasn't been changed:
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/state-affiliated-china
About government and state-affiliated media account labels on X
Labels on state-affiliated media accounts provide additional context about accounts that are controlled by certain official representatives of governments, state-affiliated media entities and individuals closely associated with those entities.
Local public radio stations (not NPR) get government grants to pay for basic expenses and keep the transmitter running so people in Unclefuckers Corner, IA have one station that isn't right wing talk or christian evangelical. This drives chuds crazy and they're convinced that they get their propaganda marching orders from Brandon himself.
Which is ridiculous because they get their propaganda talking points from corporate neolib think-tanks just like the NYT and WaPo do.
Twitter Adds ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label To NPR Account Putting It On Par With Russia Today
Twitter added a warning to NPR’s Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” a label that’s typically been reserved for foreign media outlets that represent the official views of the government, like Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua.
Free Speech Absolutist Musk bends over for fascists
"And with that looming threat of verification removal gone at least for the time being, Twitter only saw around 67 of those legacy verified accounts subscribe to Twitter Blue in the days after April 1. If Musk's moves were meant to result in a big uptick of legacy verified Twitter Blue subscribers, it just didn't work."
lmao he got less than 3% to subscribe
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-legacy-verified-account-twitter-blue-subscribers
"By receipt of this agreement, you hereby agree to publicly affirm that Elon is the bestest boy with the freshest memes"
Good luck upholding that with no legal team.
He literally put a plastic bag over the sign 🙄
Still, it's highly appropriate, I guess. Edong hasn't had a W since he bought Twitter so it's only right he was forced to remove it from the company name too.
lmao twitter blue costing more in customer support man hours than what it brings in if they have to manually verify, tag and untag people
The end of API Access means the end of Twitter accessibility
Concerning. Looking into it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/elon-musk-twitter-far-right-activist/672436/
"If I just close my office in germany then I don't have to follow german laws, and I can promote nazis all I want!"
"What do you mean the EU exists?"
ol' musky's lawyer - "fuck this, im out of here"
He's going to pull lawyers from Tesla
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7046879153458999296/
I'm old enough to remember when musky was putting out a public call for people to join teslas totally hardcore legal team
useful idiot stage 2:
Substack is taibbi's main income. with tens of thousands of subscribers, he probably makes more there than he did in real journalism, and substack themselves probably paid him a fair bit to get him there
MW Elon is way too cheap to be paying him for this Twitter Files shit, and "Twitter as a payments platform" is a fantasy
trying to force Taibbi to choose between the two was a hilariously short-sighted idea. no matter how much he sucked up to Musk, it was only to drive viewers to his substack
You can (or could) post Substack links but replying/retweeting/liking tweets with them gives an error saying "Some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter." and rejects it
lol holy fuck if someone @S Substack's account you can't interact with the tweet
he is so mad
He's banned links before, and he's doing it again
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/04/07/dc-circuit-upholds-18-usc-1512c2-sort-of/
DC Circuit Upholds 18 USC 1512(c)(2), Sort Of - emptywheel
In a Florence Pan opinion that Justin Walker largely joined, the DC Circuit rejected an interpretation of 18 USC 1512(c)(2) that Carl Nichols had singularly adopted on January 6 cases. But even where Walker and Pan differ, both would uphold the majority of obstruction cases currently or potentially charged.
Half Cocked Law@cspam Maybe he'll go full lowtax
bluerootsradio@cspam If Trump didn't have Truth Social, I'd say Elon is the Trump of social media but sadly that job has already been taken.
eaglesfanintn@cspam As always, Medhi gets right to the point of it.
⚡️ axeshun ⚡️ 
@cspam watch ambulance chaser, jeffrey fieger step up or some shit...
Wu Evar 🇪🇺🇺🇦
Old Man Mike@cspam the Musk, the. In German.
lazy_comet@cspam love it fuck Nazi lover Elon
Stephanie 🎀@cspam get him, Germany! 🇩🇪
LAUREN@cspam
Toxic garbage
Toxic garbage
Bynkii@cspam if musk is a centrist, so was Hitler
Robert Stribley@cspam Some details on the death blows to Twitter’s accessibility over here
https://uxdesign.cc/another-death-knell-for-accessibility-on-twitter-2ac459be6d71
Underten Over@cspam I lost access to bird app when muskrat bought it. I couldn't in good conscience use a tool owned by a fascist. So while it's sad that blind people can't use this fascist app, they shouldn't be using it regardless, no one should.
And while people put a lot of value in bird app. It has always been largely trash. The first couple years it was fun.
David Fowler@cspam why is anyone still on that platform of dishonesty?
sverx🗩@cspam I see troughroughly planned features! 😂
Karl Morant 🇨🇦 
🖖Users can just leave twitter at anytime.
The bird cage is cramped, there's no food and no water, the door is wide open, and yet people stay.
PhDog 🇮🇪... holy Christmas... what a bozo...
David 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️NB they/themHe was never allowed to be a kid and now he’s regressing to the tune of $44 billion.
Chance The Lawyer ⚡︎@cspam what the fuck is wrong with him
Mike Masnick ✅@chancerydaily @cspam anything to entertain a group of dumb 15 year olds who idolize him.
Fuck Elon 
@mmasnick @chancerydaily @cspam
8 year olds
@FuckElon @chancerydaily @cspam disagree. i have two boys who are around the age of 8 and they're nothing like this.
@mmasnick @chancerydaily @cspam
honestly, kids these days seems to be a little more ... aware. But I would concede 11-12 year olds from my days of yore.
How much time do you have?
Jim ParsonsSo, um, saying things like:
“the entire place started smelling like dog shit on December 1, 2022”
can get ex-Twit-workers into trouble?
Cool 👍
Jay Thoden van Velzen ☁️🛡️
@cspam Elon knows nothing - utterly unenforceable in California
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5@cspam An oldie from bash.org
#577451 +(10402)- [X]
<DmncAtrny> I will write on a huge cement block "BY ACCEPTING THIS BRICK THROUGH YOUR WINDOW, YOU ACCEPT IT AS IS AND AGREE TO MY DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS WELL AS DISCLAIMERS OF ALL LIABILITY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL, THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE INSTALLATION OF THIS BRICK INTO YOUR BUILDING."
<DmncAtrny> And then hurl it through the window of a Sony officer
<DmncAtrny> and run like hell
Random Participation@cspam That’s exactly the kind of legal advice you get when you don’t pay your lawyers.
lachlan slowly taming rust@cspam Huh. I know I'm a mere former Australian lawyer, but I seem to recall that contracts require consideration.
Dear L. Ron - you don't get to just unilaterally apply terms to old contracts!
Dear L. Ron - you don't get to just unilaterally apply terms to old contracts!
skua@cspam
Seems as enforceable as the secret and unagreed clause that any Twitter employee wrote down that they will be paid $100 million if they aren't given 6 months notice of termination.
Seems as enforceable as the secret and unagreed clause that any Twitter employee wrote down that they will be paid $100 million if they aren't given 6 months notice of termination.
Alan Buxey@cspam 'separation agreement' - apart from the cringe-worth title when its being done against your will, these are usually undertaken to protect the company from future legal action from the employee. If they have an issue with disparagement - well, libel/slander laws exist. also, unsigned = not agreed thus un-enforceable.
@cspam I didn't know what this post referred to until I looked it up.
https://www.upworthy.com/bartender-explains-why-he-swiftly-kicks-nazis-out-of-his-punk-bar-even-if-theyre-not-bothering-anyone
https://www.upworthy.com/bartender-explains-why-he-swiftly-kicks-nazis-out-of-his-punk-bar-even-if-theyre-not-bothering-anyone
Harry Beard
Todd Smith
Sarah T. Roberts, Ph.D.@cspam My God, this guy couldn’t suck any harder at being a genius if he tried.
Daniel AJ Sokolov@cspam
He still does not understand what business he got into.
Social Networks are about trust. He's killing it.
OK, some users don't care about trust. They want to be loved, or respected, or seen as cool. Outside the crazy would of stinking rich heirs, these are not things you can buy with money, or not with money alone. If you can buy it, it's not cool, respectable, or love.
(To wit, airlines rarely sell their status. You have to pay *and* fly a lot.)
He still does not understand what business he got into.
Social Networks are about trust. He's killing it.
OK, some users don't care about trust. They want to be loved, or respected, or seen as cool. Outside the crazy would of stinking rich heirs, these are not things you can buy with money, or not with money alone. If you can buy it, it's not cool, respectable, or love.
(To wit, airlines rarely sell their status. You have to pay *and* fly a lot.)
Joelsef@cspam @ubiquity75 🤣😂😅😆🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mori@cspam Only thing to be said is 🤣
Goodie@cspam Turns out firing/laying of entire swathes of your company has some negative side effects
Steve@cspam elno this is what happens when you fire the lawyers