"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
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.
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/
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
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 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/
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.
musk doesn't give a shit about chuds and their grift beyond how to leverage it for attention.
and anyway at this point he thinks he's got them locked in, and now is fully into the enshittification of Twitter 2.0:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
"surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit."
Twitter first got the chudiverse audience online again by being the place they can be assholes at minorities without getting banned. then they got all the chud "creators" in by charging $8 per month to get their shit shoved in front of everyone. now it is time to milk everyone for maximum returns* by preventing them from redirecting to other platforms.
*not enough to pay the interest on the loans lol.
lol @ "violent or misleading content that could lead to real-world harm"
nobody has ever been more of a baby-backed bitch than elon
Wait...is this suggesting that Elon lied? I find that hard to believe
Elon's claims:
1. I didn't ban substack
2. they were trying to download our entire database so I banned them
3. Matt Taibbi is a sleeper agent for substack
he's just making shit up completely.
he doesn't know, no one has told him anything even remotely like this, he is just typing words that sound like they make sense in his head. these words are only tangentially related to the subject, and have nothing at all to do with what actually happened, is happening, or why.
he’s learned well from trump. the excuse doesn’t need to be true or even make sense, it just has to exist
lmao searching for "from:mtaibbi" now returns no results
watch their already radium-ass codebase end up with load-bearing bans like SA
Let him have his fun and dick around with the office sign! The future is looking bright!
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/elon-musk-twitter-germany-hate-speech-takedowns/
Advertisers are coming back!
"Colgate-Palmolive’s vice president and general manager of consumer experience and growth, Diana Haussling, wrote to the group that she was “both excited for the success of the conference while also mindful of the harmful and often racist rhetoric of Elon Musk."
Good luck Elon!
Twitter Blue subscribers might want to check their financials
lol if you let your bank info get anywhere near twitter
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