Ryan WildJul 4, 2023

Well now Twitter have utterly fucked Tweetdeck meaning accessing a lot of my company accounts is now impossible, it's time to finally re-create them here and switch to this as the primary source of truth for all of them.

It's super disappointing to see Twitter ultimately fuck over what used to be a third party app that has been one of the best ways to interact with a rapidly declining site for years.

Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Jul 4, 2023
@wild1145 Still trying to work out whether it's incompetence ("we sacked all the clever people"), or malice ("yeah I was forced to buy this after I said stupid stuff, si now I'm gonna crap all over it and leave"), or deliberate sabotage ("fuck it, I never liked twatter anyway"), or something else entirely.
Show threadConnelJul 4, 2023
@bytebro @wild1145 I think he paid too much due to his arrogance/stupidity and is now doing his best to make an impossible situation (of his own accord) work. No one wins from Twitter dying (a part from some authoritarian govs I guess).
Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱
@connelhooley @wild1145 Yeah but a) not paying the rent, and b) getting rid of exactly the people who could have told him that dicking with the rate-limiting was a very bad idea, are not really leading me to think of this as an inadvertant screw-up.
Jul 4, 2023 at 6:28pmWeb
Show threadConnelJul 4, 2023

@bytebro @wild1145 he's desperate to save cash and that is driving everything he's doing, he's just doing it in lots of bad ways that lead to further bad ways.

E.g. cutting Google's cloud bill to save cash led to him limiting people's access as he no longer has the capacity.

Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Jul 4, 2023
@connelhooley @wild1145 He friggin DOSd his own business. That is up there in the stupidity stakes.
Show threadConnelJul 4, 2023
@bytebro @wild1145 I never said he wasn't stupid, just don't think it's malice or anything more complicated than a fool who did a really bad business transaction by buying it in the first place which left him with an impossible mountain to climb.
Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Jul 4, 2023
@connelhooley @wild1145 It only became impossible because he sacked the clever people, and stopped paying rent on buildings and cloud. The man's a cretin.
Show threadConnelJul 4, 2023
@bytebro @wild1145 yeah but my point is he did those stupid things to save money. That's all there is to it.
Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Jul 4, 2023
@connelhooley @wild1145 Penny-wise, pound-foolish (as my grandma would have put it)
Show threadConnelJul 4, 2023

@bytebro @wild1145 exactly that

He knew it wasn't going to work and that's why he tried to pull out the deal before it was finalised but couldn't.