Max KennerlyThey're not even trying to have a coherent vision for Twitter. You can't be "the world's most accurate real-time information source" if the content is "unfiltered." It's not possible. It can't even happen by accident.
miketcope@maxkennerly the “do your own research” crowd sure isn’t very good at “thinking things through”
Luca Hammer@maxkennerly As the 'X - everything app', they can. All visions. Moving in all directions. Only to end up down.
OpenDNA⚙️@luca @maxkennerly It will never not be funny to me that The PayPal Guy who pumped crypto bought a website with 450 million global users and fumbled the bag by pure force of personality. He could have made it a micro/payment system, eclipsed PayPal on day one, and dominated fintech for a generation.
Jonathan HendryMusk calls everything X because it's hard to type a swastika.
John Gordon@maxkennerly Only a deeply cynical or very dim bulb would take the job under Elon. Probably she’s both.
Sal De Gusto@maxkennerly “Have you ever been talking to someone and thought, ‘this person is a Nazi and they should not be granted permission to waste everyone’s time barking their obvious bullshit? That’s Twitter 2.0.”
Scott Matter@maxkennerly it’s like they have some assumption that the mathematical average of all statements creates the closest approximation to objective truth. Which is, like, 17 kinds of wrong.
Havyhh2@maxkennerly ....she seems like a lunatic as well....
Jesse@maxkennerly Did she even draft this or was this all off the dome?
Bret Carmichael@maxkennerly It’s high minded philosophy in words and nihilism in practice.
Abandoned America@bretcarmichael @maxkennerly it's always such a relief when you're working to internally pry apart how you feel about something and someone else already has put the exact phrasing into words for you
Catmama 🐈It sounds like Linda is just parroting Elon's word salads.
Andrew Eades@maxkennerly Good luck with that, new Twitter CEO. A town square full of nazis shouting at you is nowhere anybody sensible wants to go. TBH a town square that has Elon Musk talking shite loudly is not where I want to go either.
Nandor 🏳️🌈@matadan @maxkennerly That last sentence you said is exactly what I'm thinking. Any social network with Elon's voice in it unfiltered, let alone with his voice amplified, is nowhere I want to be.
Dr. Sam Wein@maxkennerly "Have you ever been talking with someone particularly insightful and thought, you should have the freedom to speak your mind" isn't so much a dog whistle, as an entire damn dog orchestra, complete with dog timpani drums and dog cannons.
@samweingamgee @maxkennerly that is such a wonderful mental image, at least
Dan@maxkennerly she is going to have a very, very bad day sometime in the next few weeks that will result in her going home at 2:00 am and speaking to herself in the mirror “so that is why they did that!”
But in reality, and based on Platformer’s recent article, this is just them getting ahead of the complete shutdown of automatic moderation tools when Google turns off their service at the end of the month and then somehow pretending it is a good thing.
Nobody wants to visit a bar that refuses to toss out the horrible people who trash the place.
The internet is the same. A refusal to moderate is not engaging in all ideas. It is just telling all of the trolls “have fun! I won’t do anything to stop you!” And drive away everyone.
@maxkennerly it looks like when she started her job she did not bother to learn anything from Musk’s previous lessons learned and she is starting @mmasnick content moderation learning curve from level 1.
Shame because by my track, Twitter 2.0 was already at Level 10.
Jim E-H 🇺🇦@maxkennerly Any platform with no mechanism for promoting truth will inevitably slide toward bullshit.
John McChesney-Young@Redshift42 @maxkennerly Gresham's Law isn't just applicable to money. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law
iamBullivant@maxkennerly This is an advertising person from a media company put in charge of a technology company. She is utterly clueless.
🥥 Tucker Carlson's Nuts 🥥@bullivant @maxkennerly 🥥 Only an advertising person would spout this level of bullshit and still be in the C-suite. 🥥
@JStatePost @maxkennerly Yes. It's absolute garbage. What does the "world's most accurate real-time information source" even mean? Does "unfiltered" mean zero content moderation? If it does good luck with the EU. And what about all the censorship conducted by Twitter on behalf of India, Turkey and so on? She really hasn't though it through. I give her six months.
Steve Williams@bullivant @JStatePost @maxkennerly 6 Momths? She’s going for the ‘longest surviving executive’ Carriage Clock. Bless.
Is that drivel the best she could come up with?
Or did it go through Elmo’s wankel rotary translation engine?
@blabberlicious @JStatePost @maxkennerly Yes. It's got a definite please Elmo vibe going on. No evidence of independent thought.
@blabberlicious @bullivant @maxkennerly 🥥 #LindaYaccarino's tenure at #Twitter likely to be measured in #Scaramuccis. 🥥
@bullivant @maxkennerly 🥥#Twitter's sock-puppet Musk replacement #LindaYaccarino sounds like someone trained an AI chat app using dialogue from Succession. 🥥
Not My Job@JStatePost @bullivant @maxkennerly She's going to have to reverse everything Leon has done. Good luck with that...
@JStatePost @bullivant @maxkennerly
Not even word soup. More like a gruel made from the outer scrapings of the corporate bullcrap barrel.
That’s OUR reality.
One she’s not familiar with.
Not even word soup. More like a gruel made from the outer scrapings of the corporate bullcrap barrel.
That’s OUR reality.
One she’s not familiar with.
LexiGirl@LexiGirl @bullivant @maxkennerly 🥥 #LindaYaccarino: Move quickly and ignore logic, meaning, and reality. And always be selling. 🥥
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@maxkennerly
#LindaYaccarino is #ElonMusk's 'Pain Sponge'
She doesn't have to make sense, just be the Sponge.
#LindaYaccarino is #ElonMusk's 'Pain Sponge'
She doesn't have to make sense, just be the Sponge.
FoolishOwl@maxkennerly The second statement:
"Have you ever been talking with someone particularly insightful and thought, you should have the freedom to speak your mind. We all should. Enter Twitter 2.0."
This gestures at elitism with, "particularly insightful", implies the "particularly insightful" do not have the freedom to "speak their mind" (despite the premise being that we've talked to them), and then gestures at egalitarianism with, "We all should".
It's a mess of contradictions.
aardvark@foolishowl @maxkennerly “so I was talking to Henry Reardon…”
@foolishowl @maxkennerly 🥥 "A mess of contradictions." I give you #ElonMusk, #LindaYaccarino, and #Twitter. 🥥
➡ @maxkennerly that's the core problem with the centrist brain. they really don't understand that truth is different from averaging everyone's voice. it's not even close to the average.
NoctisEqui 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇹🏳️🌈Real-time information source on growing power, influence and plans of the Neo-Nazis!
It’s definitely that!
Kalo@maxkennerly That thread read like a creepy cult chant. It is logically incoherent, and makes me question her grip on reality. I have to assume NBC is thrilled to be rid of her.
@Kalo18 @maxkennerly 🥥 #LindaYaccarino: Proof that an advertising person doesn't need a grip on reality to succeed. 🥥
Phil Rees@maxkennerly I'm hoping to hear a journalist asking her about platform manipulation bring up NBCUniversal's use of TheSocialArchitects and their Hashtag Trending service. I guess we're going to find out what happens when a poacher turns gamekeeper.
TC Won't Give In To Lies@maxkennerly
Twitter is only going to get worse, just Musk's hand hidden (barely)
We must move our audiences to safer sites. It's only a question of when
#TwitterMigration
bubbajet@maxkennerly Sounds like she’s fresh out of business school and armed with a thesaurus.
Derek Powazek 🐐@maxkennerly that whole thread was meaningless word salad.
JerameeIt cannot happen because she's blinded by her own neo-lib propaganda.
Twitter was shadow banning, throttling, and discriminating against lefty's long before the Muskrat made it a white supremacist's haven.
Now, we can all be forced to see his idiotic fash takes, but cannot see anything useful on his site anymore.
But that's okay. I'm popping another bowl of popcorn for the second act of this $hit show.
Sean Cocca@maxkennerly TikTok has already cornered the market on this, at least as far as social media is concerned. I've found far more relevant and accurate information from grassroots activists and reporters on that platform than I ever did on Twitter.
BenAveling@maxkennerly War Unfiltered Is Accuracy. War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.
These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.
Mercurius Goldstein@maxkennerly
Filters? Those things that keep the shit out of your drinking water? It’s filters they want to get rid of?
Filters? Those things that keep the shit out of your drinking water? It’s filters they want to get rid of?
Grumble@maxkennerly Twitter is trying to plug the hole in their leaking ship with word salad.
From my distant experience in shipboard damage control training, I can state that salad is not a recommended technique.
Nicole ParsonsWhat's the over/under for how long Linda Yaccarino lasts before Musk fires her?
Are folks laying bets yet?
She's working for men who despise women.
Larry Ellison. Jamie Dimon. Musk. Mohammed bin Salman. Alwaleed bin Talman. Putin.
Hope she has ironclad golden parachute severance clauses in her employment contract.
Glass cliff...
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-linda-yaccarino-glass-cliff/
https://apnews.com/article/twitter-musk-yaccarino-ceo-women-glass-cliff-233e5eada047694aa743af2e310875e7
https://fortune.com/2023/05/12/twitter-ceo-linda-yaccarino-elon-musk-glass-cliff-female-leaders/
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-twitter-ceo-linda-yaccarino-elon-musk-glass-cliff-2023-5
Jonah Stein@Npars01 @maxkennerly Certainly less than 12 months.
Rufus J. Cooter
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦Her recent twitter thread tells me that she's clueless or thinks we are
Orc@Npars01 @maxkennerly I'd say 9 months if she can't teach the horse to sing, less than that if she can start digging it out of the pit electric car trump drove it into (all those asshole men you mentioned will cheerfully stab her in the back so they can get the credit for the job.)
Cykonot@maxkennerly the xans were kicking in bro, give her a break
blterrible@maxkennerly It depends on how you define "accurate". If you don't care whether accurate separates wheat from chaff, you're GTG. It's like circling the entire page in a Where's Waldo book. You have indeed found Waldo.