Twitter Death Cult"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.
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
”Deleting things from the internet doesn't work" says man who literally today turned off access to Substack. I dunno, Elon, but I'm getting mixed messages here.
Calling it, just a matter of time before Twitter becomes like those message boards where they have a ridiculous amount of badges you can assign yourself\earn, and Tweets starts rolling into your feed like a parade of North Korean generals
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
honestly it’s impressive he’s even got paul fucking graham dunking on him
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
We know this isn't true because a dog could run Twitter a lot better than Musk ever could
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/12/elon-musk-twitter/
"Fuck you, pay me if you want to save lives"
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-exemptions-nws-public-service-safety-weather-accounts
1/3 of the web is WordPress lol
https://mashable.com/article/wordpress-drops-twitter-jetpack-social-sharing
if Microsoft drops then more will follow
https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-drops-twitter-from-advertising-platform
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-advertisers-paid-verification-check-marks-1235590844/
lol i just remembered elon already hates microsoft because he thinks they control chatgpt
Speaking of Musk's adventures in AI...
Musk’s Leader for OpenAI Rival Was Recently Arrested for Domestic Violence
Police in northern California last month arrested Igor Babuschkin, Elon Musk’s first known hire for a new company that aims to compete with artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, for domestic battery, public records show.A representative for the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office, ...
lol when wired stops posting on twitter
it owns that elons father is just the worst person and hates everyone
https://the-sun.com/news/7911051/elon-musks-dad-errol-emerald-business/
Elon Musk’s dad Errol says he can ‘prove’ existence of emerald mine in new bombshell claim revealing its lo...
ELON Musk’s dad Errol claims he bankrolled his billionaire son’s escape from South Africa to America with emeralds from an “under the table” mine in Zambia. The Tesla CEO, 51, last week offered a m…
mods giving out avatars is a crime
elon's making his llm alright
it's funny because the api was already killed
so this is just being extra petty
https://mashable.com/article/block-the-blue-twitter-campaign-dril
removing the screenshots but not the offending posts, big priorities
Reminder that NPC is the term terminally online Nazis use to dehumanize anyone who disagrees with them. Literally "other people are not fully realized people and are just objects for me to interact with as I please"
elon going all in on conspiracy theories about the Dallas shooter, promoting and replying to tweets saying it was a false flag and it doesn’t make sense, the guy’s nazi tattoos aren’t real, etc. this is in addition to his recent stuff about violence, black people, and the media, which was all naked racism.
christ his feed is dire recently. they are really desperate to make that guy seem like hes not a nazi for some reason
anyway there are occasional smartest ceo in the universe comments
its really interesting to watch this guy try to moderate his terrible takes to be whatever he thinks "centrist" is because its always the dumbest shit imaginable
Also yeah looks like he’s straight up deleting the accounts of dead people now
pro tip: if elon had a gun to his head, he could just tell his engineers to update the app so that it sends twitter back a copy of your private keys. by virtue of controlling the client, they can circumvent any security.
also they could easily man-in-the-middle attack any key exchange if they wanted to or if the government forces them to do so.
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66791.html
"This has now launched for a subset of Twitter users. The code that existed to notify users that device identities had changed does not appear to have been enabled - as a result, in its current form, Twitter can absolutely MITM conversations and read your messages"
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-encrypted-dm-signal-whatsapp/
the fun part is you can't tell if it's because twitter is broken or elon is mad
holy fuck, his brain is complete mush
that 10+ seconds of him staring silently into space, eyes darting back and forth as he frantically tries to scrape together enough thoughts to respond to the question, are gonna live rent-free in my head for, like, an hour
https://nitter.net/EoinHiggins_/status/1658608559242768385#m
to continue the joke, the friend he's talking about is jeffrey epstein
Elon spent 44b to be able to say anti semitic shit and not get banned
he certainly looks like he a) spends all his time indoors and b) doesn't sleep, see also: inability to answer questions like a normal human being, brain damage
also I cannot fucking believe he is not getting called out in his "the shooter wasn't actually a Nazi it's all a plot by (((Soros)))" shit I mean jfc
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/16/elon-musk-defends-inflammatory-tweets-ill-say-what-i-want.html
It's patently obvious that their actual beef is that the guy had a Spanish-sounding name, making him too Ethnic to be one of them, but I'm not sure what he's trying to say their pretend beef is. A false flag to paint nazis as bad? The guy was secretly woke? The mind boggles.
Those leaving Community Notes on ads are doing good work, both because it is clear that no one left at Twitter knows how to turn them off, but also because they're costing Twitter millions of dollars in ad revenue.
I don't think I've seen ads from any recognizable brands on Twitter in weeks. In fact, the only two ads I ever see are for yoga pants and adjustable cup holders.
Twitter Lost $40 Million in Advertising Due to Community Notes, Musk Says
Twitter lost $40 million in advertising after two “pretty big” advertisers received crowd-sourced fact-checks appended to their advertisements, Elon Musk said in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday. The fact-checks are part of Twitter’s Community Notes system, which Musk has championed as a way to increase accuracy on Twitter. Volunteers can submit notes adding context or correction to any given
when you were a kid did you ever have that friend who got all the really cool expensive toys like the gi joe aircraft carrier or the at-at then would just treat them like garbage and break them because when you're spoiled nothing is actually important except for your feelings at this exact second? not sure why I'm asking
i.grok@cspam I wish this were regularly a thing everywhere there are ads
...but capitalism
Emily@cspam does... Does he think Jewish is the worst of those two qualities? Because yikes.
Steve@cspam this reminds me so much of eli cash https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj1DZKOeZhI
Eli Cash - Wildcat
podkaynelives@cspam That was genius.
Abandoned America@cspam in case I haven't said so before, I really enjoy your account and check it frequently. Thank you for your posts!
Sam Thurston 
Kevin Leecaster@cspam
Hold on, I've just gotten a call from @HitlerWasRight1488 on the Twitter app.
Hold on, I've just gotten a call from @HitlerWasRight1488 on the Twitter app.
Dr. Guillermo Power 
Chris Coleman
Lunatech@cspam Sounds like he's turning into another Alex Jones.
EyalL@cspam there is a certain irony in Elon's dialog tree there
skua@cspam
They look like chatbot product.
They look like chatbot product.
Jonathan HendryStarting to think Musk's obsession with "X" ("X app", SpaceX, "X.com" the online bank he started that merged with PayPal) is because he knows he couldn't get away with "Swastika"
Sean C.