how about metered usage. every ilx post you read to cost 1 cent, with 60% going to βcreatorsβ
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 8 May 2022 10:29 (two years ago) link
Basic Twitter remains free, ability to @ anyone - premium tier.
― Alba, Sunday, 8 May 2022 10:32 (two years ago) link
damn just when i was considering rejoining so i could @ megan mcardle
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Sunday, 8 May 2022 11:55 (two years ago) link
How do I contribute to ILX fees?
Have never done this but would gladly do so.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 8 May 2022 12:27 (two years ago) link
if necessary a thread appears every so often soliciting funds
― mh, Sunday, 8 May 2022 13:25 (two years ago) link
It's very wholesome like a telethon
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 9 May 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link
free users only get to see gifs from the Office
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 9 May 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
Using twitter at this point feels like smoking out of a trache hole because smoking is so awesome and cool tbh. But itβll be better once we get Elonβs new Unfiltered Twitter, that pure tweeting satisfaction.
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
there will be more voices in the conversation, fewer bots, more good conversations and global collaborations in the digital town square that we've all come to count on
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
If your town sq is suddenly infested with super predator killer bees, the answer is to let everyone get stung a lot by unfettered bees. If anyone is immune to bee venom, they will survive and breed free of abortions and later repopulate yr town sq. Problem solved. The bees will get bored and go away or die down. Just like covid has.
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
This guy is a Facebook creep but this is admittedly a good thread that breaks it down to an extent
Watching Elon try to openly recreate several decades of trust and safety work by tens of thousands of people from first principles is likely to give me a stroke. https://t.co/QurCunPkrR— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) May 11, 2022
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
Bureaucracies can be maddening, but "Let's let a dumb rich guy make up new rules" is not an optimal solution
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
it worked for the u.s. government!
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
that Stamos thread is v otm, esp the fact that Musk seems not to realize Twitter operates in multiple legal jurisdictions
― rob, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
hes just talking its what hes good at telling people what they want to hear
― lagβn, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
It also sounds totally smart when you just name a round number of jobs you're going to cut
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
Genuinely shocked he didn't got with 69 million users paying $4.20 a month.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
go with
I will buy everyone here a Coke if he actually goes through with the takeover.
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
on the internal chat there's a channel called #stonks full of idiots like me with no inside knowledge but who are watching things very closely for obvious reasons, and sentiment that the deal will close, and that the deal with close at $54.20 in particular, is definitely on the wane.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
reasons include the current tesla stock price (lmao) and https://hindenburgresearch.com/twitter/
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
(this could all be motivated reasoning/wishful thinking)
not sure ive had a reply do numbers like this, wonder if someone posted it somewhere, twitter should have a button that shows you if your tweet is embedded on a website
lmao you losers wouldve been using this picture as proof of a declining society if youd been around back then— brβseph (@on3ness) May 11, 2022
― lagβn, Thursday, 12 May 2022 13:11 (one year ago) link
guy who spends all his waking hours blabbering about what life was like before soy
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 12 May 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
its so crazy and dumb and also bad
― lagβn, Thursday, 12 May 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
I always wonder how much these soy people overlap with creepy white dudes obsessed with Japan.
admittedly this one seems to a slightly more special full-throated british imperialism booster. but anyway, lagoon otm how did we end up with racist psycho "God, King, and Country" imperialists publicly horning for barefoot hippie yanks?
― rob, Thursday, 12 May 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
Check out the RTs and replies thanking him for a feature that's been in place for over three years. https://t.co/w7EpEp4oTQ— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) May 12, 2022
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 May 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
lol
― lagβn, Thursday, 12 May 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
i'd like a version of twitter where elon just provides technical support in this way, building the foundations of relationships
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 May 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
Unfortunately it doesn't work yet. My tweets are still poorly viewed— JanuutGrunn (@JanuutGroningen) May 12, 2022
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 May 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
lmao the ceo just fired the head of product and the head of revenue.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 12 May 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
loving every minute with this damn crew
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 12 May 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
I know. Their heads just rolled past.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 May 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
Devin Nunes has been twisting in the wind, torn between loyalty to the Bossman being back on the Twitter, and his beloved Troof Social, which doesn't care WHO you are, you're welcome to join, PLEASE just join, it's FREE
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
β π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, May 12, 2022 12:53 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
what is going on in escrow seems like a weird time to be doing major housecleaning
― lagβn, Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
ceo pandering to elon to hold onto his job
― lagβn, Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
he gets a yuge payout if he leaves so i'm skeptical, but maybe.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
the two people he fired are two of the three people he promoted when he became ceo 6 months ago lmao.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
cool cool
― lagβn, Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
β π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, May 12, 2022 1:34 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
some people want to be ceo more than they want money
― lagβn, Thursday, 12 May 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
i've seen this guy speak and let's just say he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who was pleased when the ball came his way in PE.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 12 May 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
― lagβn, Thursday, 12 May 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
musk is now setting the stage for canceling the deal over dumb reasons his fanatics will believe.
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 13 May 2022 13:24 (one year ago) link
Second week of this poor deluded bluebird pecking at his own reflection. He will never mate, or nest, or propel his DNA into the next generation nor even have time for an auto fiction about his atrophied life. pic.twitter.com/Ux7XmY5GcK— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) April 30, 2022
Twitter is cool
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 16 May 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
The whole thing about Twitter "spam accounts" reminded me that when I joined Twitter in 2012, I would occasionally get followed by some super-obvious spam account like a Sexy Lady Looking to Chat or a Digital Marketing Business Guru, and at first I was baffled as to why they would bother *following* me, and then I realized that it was essentially just putting an ad in my mentions. Anyway, that hasn't happened in a really long time, and it makes me wonder whether those types of accounts specifically target new users, or whether Twitter just got better at weeding out stuff like that.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 03:33 (one year ago) link
Sounds like an out to me
LONDON (AP) β Musk says deal to buy Twitter canβt go forward unless company can show that less than 5% of accounts are fake or spam.— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) May 17, 2022
― gyac, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
prob not weve talking about it in the Elon Musk thread fwiw
― lagβn, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-17/twitter-loses-three-more-senior-employees-ahead-of-musk-takeover
is that good
― ιΎ, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
I donβt even remember who the hell I was talking about here. https://t.co/okRgSC9y95— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) May 26, 2022
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 26 May 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
Gonna avoid twitter tonight like I avoid the streets the night the local team wins the superbowl
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link