Elon Musk

yeah the ads across fox news are all over priced gold coins and reverse mortgages lol

fwiw even with the efforts of the previous regime twitter still made less money per user than the other comparable sites because of the problem of being a bit of a hell hole

That Verge piece linked about goes into it well.

otm. once I found time to read it, it felt like the author accurately puts his finger upon the many constraints Twitter faces and how little Musk can do about them without ruining Twitter even worse and fucking himself out of billions of dollars. def worth a read.

the most muskian playbook here, considering his history with tesla, would be to manipulate the media into inflating twitters valuation, gonna be a lot harder than just saying full self driving is a year away every year tho

cut costs introduce some new features juice the numbers then take it public with the hope that the fanboys will buy it up

what happens when twitter bursts into flames

🙏🙏🙏

Congratulations to @elonmusk Maybe now I can get @verified pic.twitter.com/nlij2dPnnr

— O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) October 28, 2022

what a lovely welcome

Evidence suggests that bad actors are trying to test the limits on @Twitter. Several posts on 4chan encourage users to amplify derogatory slurs.

For example, over the last 12 hours, the use of the n-word has increased nearly 500% from the previous average. pic.twitter.com/mEqziaWuMF

— Network Contagion Research Institute (@ncri_io) October 28, 2022

I reported someone for the usual shit and had a message saying they’d nuked the account within about an hour, which is as good as unheard of. They’ve obvs been ready for such an onslaught.

Dropping mad N-words to welcome Trump back into the fold

Hey @elonmusk - you now have the power to bring back Vine. Seriously. Vine ruled AND it'll be a TikTok killer. #BringBackVine

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) October 28, 2022

I had forgotten Twitter was the company that bought and shut down Vine.

Vines problem was the videos were too short for the brain to comprehend imo

but many vines live on - on tiktok
sweet vine of grapes

vine was too good for this world

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk says no banned Twitter accounts will be restored before a review by new "content moderation council."

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) October 28, 2022

I reported someone for the usual shit and had a message saying they’d nuked the account within about an hour, which is as good as unheard of. They’ve obvs been ready for such an onslaught.

― piscesx, Friday, October 28, 2022 3:26 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

their policies and their implementation of those policies is not perfect, but it's pretty good, and a lot better than it was 3-4 years ago. unfortunately the person responsible for that was fired yesterday.

Elon Musk says no banned Twitter accounts will be restored before a review by new "content moderation council."

https://cinema1544.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/bill-and-ted-future-dudes.jpg?w=1020&h=446

I have noticed that every trending topic I've seen today is some right wing bullshit. I'm assuming it's conservatives feeling themselves about now.

i find this facebook tankie extremely annoying, but this seems obviously true?

I think @elonmusk has made a huge mistake, making himself the global face of content moderation at a critical moment of struggle with governments, while maintaining massive personal exposure to challenging countries.

— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) October 28, 2022

I guess General Motors has already begun cancelling advertising..?

I know another car company that can take up the slack!

_people on Twitter vastly overrate Twitter's actual importance_

Ha.. In MAU's (monthly active users), it's below platforms I've never even heard of.. it's even below Pinterest!

1. Facebook — 2.9 billion MAUs
2. YouTube — 2.2 billion MAUs
3. WhatsApp — 2 billion MAUs
4. Instagram — 2 billion MAUs
5. Facebook Messenger — 1.3 billion MAUs
6. WeChat — 1.26 billion MAUs
7. TikTok — 1 billion MAUs
8. Sina Weibo — 573 million MAUs
9. QQ — 538.91 million MAUs
10. Telegram — 550 million MAUs
11. Snapchat — 538 million MAUs
12. Kuaishou — 519.8 million MAUs
13. Qzone — 517 million MAUs
14. Pinterest — 444 million MAUs
15. Twitter — 436 million MAUs

https://y.yarn.co/3b2e88cd-9b12-479a-9f9a-ad38603d1e77_text.gif

my suggested topics are always useless garbage - oh you follow AOC and Ilhan Omar, you definitely want to see every attempt at a fascist hashtag!

Ed Zitron:

In short, Musk bought a company with a product that’s somewhat difficult to describe for reasons he has had a great deal of trouble elucidating. He didn’t want Twitter, he wanted to prove he could buy it, and he wanted everybody to think it was cool, which they did not. He has spent $44 billion in an attempt to make people love him only to be left with a very expensive way to make people angry at him every single day for the rest of his life.

https://ez.substack.com/p/the-death-of-the-boy-genius

what a fn dickhole

Here it is: Twitter engineers were told today to *print out* their last 30 to 60 days of code, so they could show it to Elon Musk himself.

Then they were told wait, no, actually, please shred all that code you just printed out.

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— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) October 28, 2022

learn to shred

Here are some examples: you can write as many polite letters to advertisers as you want, but you cannot reasonably expect to collect any meaningful advertising revenue if you do not promise those advertisers “brand safety.” That means you have to ban racism, sexism, transphobia, and all kinds of other speech that is totally legal in the United States but reveals people to be total assholes. So you can make all the promises about “free speech” you want, but the dull reality is that you still have to ban a bunch of legal speech if you want to make money. And when you start doing that, your creepy new right-wing fanboys are going to viciously turn on you, just like they turn on every other social network that realizes the same essential truth.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation

This isn’t the worst strategy to find terrible engineering managers and Twitter is supposedly filled with terrible engineering managers.

Without personal knowledge of Twitter infrastructure, I’d bet Musk is right that it’s a mess and over-staffed. Do I think he can fix that? Nope!

Wiki Foundation, for reference, spends about 100m annually.

Musk doesn’t even know how to read code, as has been shown repeatedly.

Like, he’s had to have people walk him through installing and running stuff off GitHub.

some sort of stunt to keep the troops on their toes type of thing youd see in a movie im sure it went over well in real life and the workers arent say brazenly posting your code to twitter cause they dont give a shit

Happy Friday all. pic.twitter.com/Rk9m1v1hmu

— Leah Culver (@leahculver) October 28, 2022

a social network with constantly shifting functionality would be cool, you always have to figure out whats going on like a game, of course no one would use it and it would fail

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgPXv2mXgAAIlky?format=jpg&name=medium

isnt it already this?

i mean it already fails lol but assuming we're not talking the kinds of multiple outage-dysfunction that accelerated livejournal's shift into the twilight

just had a vision of the revenant failwhale as moorcock's GHANH (aka the key denizen of a sharknado) returned from the chamber of the dead by corum's hideous jewelled eye

elric musk 😔

Can't believe @elonmusk bought Teletext. pic.twitter.com/HPE6EDBY3F

— Mr Biffo (@mrbiffo) October 28, 2022

isnt it already this?

― mark s, Saturday, October 29, 2022 9:39 AM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

to an extent, but change is too slow and iterative, ai will solve this

or blockchain will solve this

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's new Bluesky Social app is now accepting users for beta testing, and is set to launch "soon". https://t.co/e6LUiprjQV

— RELENTLESSLY Gay (@queertardo) October 28, 2022

til jack dorsey was an ilxor viz poster blueski

🐦[Can’t believe @elonmusk🕸 bought Teletext. pic.twitter.com/HPE6EDBY3F🕸
— Mr Biffo (@mrbiffo) October 28, 2022🕸]🐦

Is Elon Musk that much worse than Jack Dorsey? I mean they are both the same ballpark of absolute cunts.

richer = worse is how i break it down to an extent

Is Elon Musk that much worse than Jack Dorsey? I mean they are both the same ballpark of absolute cunts.

― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, October 29, 2022 10:11 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they seem pretty similar even beyond being horrible rich guys tbh, tho musk personally owning twitter is a pretty different set up than jack running it as ceo of a public company, guess well see how it plays out

Musk is imo worse because he's a troll.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation?fbclid=IwAR1SQ1aNpojt6ChZKgHlW1h3qGF5OOZu_oLC4DXMSJZeOccWcxnkPvHMQbw

musk doesn't seem like a genius and the fact that he's operating in bad faith makes him worse/more dangerous than jack. but but jack dorsey is an actual moron. he reminds me of peter sellers in being there.

This isn’t the worst strategy to find terrible engineering managers and Twitter is supposedly filled with terrible engineering managers.

― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, October 28, 2022 10:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i don't think this is true. the average manager of ICs or manager of managers at twitter is not unusually bad. the problem is 1) there are too many of them. the average number of reports for a line manager is low relative to the industry. you could fire half of them and not make much operational difference. 2) there's a culture of incompetence and extreme slowness among *their* managers, right the way to the top. can't imagine where that came from. (it came from jack.)

how do i become this clever?

Ok. It’s hitting me like a rock. Twitter is the social operating system for tesla. Hence tesla engineers already working with the code. It’s the software that can run communication and commerce through the tesla. Ok wow. $twtr $tsla

— Ross Gerber (@GerberKawasaki) October 29, 2022

get hit with a rock?

Nah, it's gonna take at least a falling air conditioner.

it's hard for a disruptive technology, the system is stifling it. it has stuffed this one with middle management and ~feelings~ and shit.

What a guy. @elonmusk is making sure to fire people at Twitter before part of their year-end compensation *kicks in on Tuesday.* https://t.co/sEclZozKV5 pic.twitter.com/inw3vF0kIL

— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) October 29, 2022