Twitter Death Cult
tim apple caved and let elon give the shitter app a single-character name
looks legit
He's such a fucking loser lmao
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html
Already deleted, but mirrored forever
https://twitter.com/RobDenBleyker/status/1686101153589698561
The insane amount of plastic surgery, and constantly being on uppers since he was forced to buy Twitter is all hitting at once and we’re watching him decompose in real time
my favorite part is how he's had so much jaw filler injected his smile is permanently upside down
also lol at his nasty beard graying out
*X taking legal action against the Centre for Countering Digital Hate- a non-profit*
“Reporting negatively on us is equivalent to suppression of free speech”, says organization in full control of everything that is posted on their own platform.
I feel like filing a lawsuit against an organization named the "Center for Countering Digital Hate" is one of those things that should make a sane person stop and have an "Are we the baddies?" moment. But, well, Elmo.
Here's the org's reply
https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Letter-to-A.-Spiro-from-R.-Kaplan-re-CCDH.pdf
ElonX literally took people's handles away from them.
What the fuck freedom of speech do you have if you don’t even get to keep your own goddamn name?
Even the people that pay eight dollars a month aren’t buying Elon's shit in the comments lol
Roberta Kaplan is representing them. she's the one who fought pro-bono for gay marriage to be recognized in the us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Windsor (yes I know that Obergefell v Hodges forced its legality but recognition was an important first step)
also the person who bankrupted the people behind the unite the right nazi rally in charlottesville
and most recently won the defamation suit against trump for raping e jean carroll (and yes, the judge specifically ruled that while the legal term was sexual battery, he cannot counter-sue for defamation if someone calls it rape https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-rape-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-jury-judge-2023-7?r=US&IR=T )
so she has a history of taking on pieces of shit and winning, even if they were as powerful as the former president of the us
his entire plan is to just use discovery to find out who the secret cabal of leftists planning his and x's destruction are
this will be fun 🍿🍿🍿
Ai Weiwei is good again
It's like he's screaming continuously to try to drown out his own thoughts telling him he's a cowardly loser, and also all of the other people telling him that.
Zuck should challenge him on top of a staircase. Because it seems the first time didn’t take.
There's something grossly and genuinely wrong about watching a grown man with far too much wealth and power to ever get a genuine comeuppance, delivering a bragging replay of his own childish behavior to his online friends with the sweaty, obvious dishonesty of a nasty little boy of 11 or 12 relaying to the other boys how he totally owned some rival in the playground.
Cringe is too small a word.
Is it just me or is there a 100% chance Trump talked to his advisors about sensitive stuff via DM?
https://politico.com/news/2023/08/15/special-counsel-obtained-trump-twitter-howell-00111410
An analysis of the US vs Twitter case for the subpoena of Trump's tweets - Part 1
An analysis of the US vs Twitter case for the subpoena of Trump's tweets - Part 2 - How obvious Elon's simping for Trump was and just how much Twitter is a dead company walking with no real institutional knowledge left
Note: Fleets were basically Instagram/Snapchat stories
It's absolutely wild that Musk is just consistently going "I'M A NAZI! !! AT THIS WHITE KID BEING BULLIED BY EVIL MINORITIES! I'M A NAZI! HELLO HELLO NAZI HERE!"
Meanwhile the media is like "Damn what are his politics? A true enigma worthy of the Riddler!"
Turns out he's fine with blocking people from viewing the concert they paid for
Extreme “going to your ex girlfriend’s wedding” levels of sad
Block also makes it so they cant see your posts or interact with them in anyway (no QTs) obviously they can just log out or if you are locked into "followers only" mode, make another account to look at your content but it does make it harder to harass someone.
It is funny seeing him reap the consequences of making the site even shittier. People will use the block more when its filled with nazis, scammers, bots, and weird guys who post CP to own the libs.
LOL Elon had them make a bunch of fake accounts to boost his follower count
They changed the setup so that you are required to follow at least one account when you're signing up and Elon is always the first suggested account so every bot on the platform is following him
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-follower-data
Elon continues to make genius moves with Twitter
Think how much space those links took up!
Elon's on a bender again
Holy shit what an incredibly thin skinned baby
He actually managed to piss off the chuds, amazing
Lol at Musk unblocking a guy 3 years later just to make a snarky comment.
Tons of people (correctly) talk absolute shit to Musk on Twitter and he ignores most of it. This is a guy he blocked for being annoying and three years later remembered him and unblocked him just so he could reply to their 3 year old tweet.
The article doesn't contain the original tweet (and honestly why would you want to see it based on the described contents?) But yeah, holocaust denial. Terrific. Very healthy for a platform.
"According to a post on X by the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, it had reported the offensive reply but received a response saying that after viewing the "available information" the platform had decided no rules had been broken."
Ronan Farrow published a long profile on Musk:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
"Tesla for a time included in its vehicles the ability to replace the humming noises that electric cars must emit—since their engines make little sound—with goat bleats, farting, or a sound of the owner’s choice. “We’re, like, ‘No, that’s not compliant with the regulations, don’t be stupid,’ ” Cliff told me. Tesla argued with regulators for more than a year, according to an N.H.T.S.A. safety report."
How does he keep coming up with these genius ideas????
"According to a source with knowledge of the matter, the change is being pushed directly by X owner Elon Musk. The primary objective appears to be to reduce the height of tweets, thus allowing more posts to fit within the portion of the timeline that appears on screen."
Seems like a good way to get news agencies to completely stop posting to your platform.
I love how much Musk begs people to post on X. Just a massive stink of desperation.
He has no idea why people are so unenthused about posting directly on the platform where said idiot owner is destroying a major feature every 2 weeks.
"please post on this platform where i could pay you $200 if i wake up from a ket trip and happen to see your account on my phone, and if it doesn't make me mad or sad, which could be anything (unless it's child exploitation which makes me very happy indeed!!)"
so this past week he's proposed removing blocks, then after a sideshow of blocking everyone who pointed out that's a stupid fucking idea he's now proposing removing link embeds
just insane that at the same time fb is stepping into their own shit by moving away from news on the feed, musk is making yet another huge unforced error that will drive away the people who actually attract users to twitter
"its where i get my news" is literally the only good thing people have to say about twitter
it's weird how all his plans to "improve" twitter revolve around taking away basic QoL features that were massively important to the platform's perception as the social media platform of choice, verified users was removed, tweet length limits removed, banning of nazis who share child porn removed, block button for stalkers and harassers to be removed, link embeds to be removed
soon opening twitter will just redirect to AI spambot generated timecube
he is becoming increasingly isolated
“His life just sucks,” one colleague told The New Yorker. “It’s so stressful. He’s just so dedicated to these companies. He goes to sleep and wakes up answering e-mails. Ninety-nine per cent of people will never know someone that obsessed, and with that high a tolerance for sacrifice in their personal life.”
I wonder if they skipped the flame diverter because Elon is a fucking idiot
There's only two options: He's tweeting as his mother, or he is having his mother defend him on his own platform at 52.
I'd take the Lowtax way out for either of those.
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Thunderstrike@cspam It was obviously too liberal and soft and coddling. The real world is harsh and unsympathetic and will suck the marrow from your bones, so Twitter needed to follow suit.
/sarcasm
Jonathan HendryJust look at the clothes he’s wearing in the “Elon’s McLaren is delivered” interview video.
Him trying to run a social media site is the same as him trying to put together that outfit.
Yorgus (Old white Guy)When did he get rid of the view count on Tweets?
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Roo_44Hey kids, listen up, here is a teachable moment about FAFO.
ThreenotchThat seems staged photos - 1 who took them? 2 if that is indeed a cell and not a janitorial closet, why would there be an outlet on the wall? Seems like a solitary confine,ent cell wouldn’t have power… but like I said I haven’t been there so…
daniel s.Maybe they can't afford the storage anymore.
Simon Willison@selfagency @cspam I showed that the images themselves haven't been deleted but confirmed that the t.co links prior to 2014 are all 404s now, to both images and URLs
Still unclear if it's a bug or a deliberate choice https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1692926763481862438
Catherine is not complacent
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I get the sense he's coked out of his mind some days.
Kenji-sanThis 👆 is the best rationalization of his behavior I have read since last November. Thank you.
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