How to be An Genius:

1. Pay $44bn for a site worth 1/2 that
2. Sack everyone who knows how it works
3. Release far-right troll army
4. Turn genuine validation into a badge of idiocy
5. Kill most of your ad revenue
6. Inflate API price to recoup money
7. Everyone stops using API and scrapes site instead
8. Massively limit the service to end scraping
9. Service is now unusable
10. Remaining advertising value destroyed
11. Kill a cornerstone of the internet
12. Lose $44bn

@RussInCheshire I discovered 🐦 late. It's been a lifeline during Covid. It's taken me a while to master it, but now I've a lovely crowd. I understand not everyone's experience is the same. I've hesitated to come away from it despite everything, bc I didn't want to leave anyone behind. Tbh, I resent that someone who doesn't value any of this, is destroying it. And I think it's rather ironic that while -for no apparent reason- my account is disfunctional, I can still block all advertisers on it.

@TheBossRoss @RussInCheshire
Yes, same here. Currently I can block or retweet, but not like, post or reply.

Just hoping more good people come over here. I know many are going to bluesky, but I've yet to receive an invite, and I've already settled in here, despite not posting as much recently. I don't think I've got the energy to start on another site.

@ClaireCopperman @TheBossRoss @RussInCheshire

I can't do anything at all, it thinks I'm a spambot.