Just waiting for Muskcoin and the "buy an NFT to keep yoru blue check" nightmare
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
I would like to catfish Elon
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
Just stunning how this is playing out in full public view: 'We don't know what the fuck we're doing, what would you do smart ass??'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
Meaning I'd like to fry him and have five to ten people eat him
My meemaw has a great recipe hold on a sec
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
When it's going great
Since taking over a week ago, Musk has not even officially told his new staff that he is in charge. Or that he fired their CEO and other top leaders. Staff have to follow his tweets to learn about major changes in company direction. "We're all working for the Trump White House." pic.twitter.com/Mmq3dASoXF— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) November 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
https://collectiveaction.tech/2022/a-layoff-guide-for-tweeps/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
it makes sense tho because the company is twitter
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
At Twitter, Twitter is Microsoft Teams.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
I think it would be a great idea to have a Twitter tier just for militias and domestic terrorists and folks like that. Elon, hit me up at @Christopher Wray
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
"Why is this not done? I tweeted about it three days ago."
"Oh, I didn't know boss. I've got you blocked."
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
Yeah, funny enough I was trying to figure out why my modest feed was not stuffed with Musk shit, and then I remembered that I blocked or muted him long ago.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
How long until he removes the block or mute features
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
he just fired the guy that knows how to do that
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
Twitter's new staff being shown around the place:
https://www.siasat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/robort-scaled.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
"Elon Musk: Business Pioneer or Huckleberry Finn's Duke and Dauphin?"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-business-pionee_b_12353902
https://www.huckfinnsrestaurant.com/menu/
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
not only does this idea seem horrible but I'm pretty sure that Reddit already tried this and pulled the plug within 2 weeks
Elon Musk Told Twitter Advertisers He Plans to Offer Tiers of Content Moderation Similar to Movie Age Ratings https://t.co/gPp0fhuygT— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) November 3, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
apparently he's laying off 90% of the machine learning org.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
giving an individual content rating for every tweet seems pretty easy to do, why waste the money on staff?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
Wait wait Elon’s big pitch is that if I DON’T pay money he will STOP amplifying my tweets to people outside my usual circle???SIGN ME UP FOR THE $0 PLAN— Courtney Milan 🦖 (@courtneymilan) November 1, 2022
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link
Actually,
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
this is all so crazy there are ways to reduce headcount that dont get strip clubs talking about it lol
PSA from Las Vegas: pic.twitter.com/gFwlzsROtY— dev 🫧 (@bummermaid) November 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
caek quit too early
― mh, Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
its a different kind of amazon right fellas
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
Seems weird how chaotic our society is.
― treeship., Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
the last bigco without a hiring freeze announced a hiring freeze this morning, so i think i quit just right tyvm.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
its nice how the fed and big business are working together on this recession
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
Riding giantess
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:54 (one year ago) link
Time for ILX to hire
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:54 (one year ago) link
Twitter is basically the main platform used by corporations, media organizations, prominent individuals, and even nation states to communicate directly with the public. About half of what people talk about on cable news are responses to tweets. Should be treated like a utility.
― treeship., Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:54 (one year ago) link
no authentication! he really thinks people just want the check
We saw internal docs with more insight into the new Twitter Blue:-Launch on Nov. 7 but only in current markets (US, CA, Aus, NZ)-Check marks for subscribers, no current ID authentication-Some features announced by Musk won't be ready-Euro launch soonhttps://t.co/K646aQrThi pic.twitter.com/1jToHytXfi— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) November 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
Some features announced by Musk won't be ready
butthe team sleptinthe office
― nashwan, Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
The "pay money to DM" thing is presumably opt-in (like a low rent Cameo) but god what a beautiful scam - you know that when Trump is back his DMs will be open and every guy with Oakleys and a CCW will be spending $8 a pop to send him a DM that will be immediately deleted by Eric Trump.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
lebron james cannot wait to pay $96 a year so twitter can make money letting total freaks racially harass him in the dm’s https://t.co/1Tp5Vk27b0— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:33 (one year ago) link
Finally get to tell Emo Philips what I think about his so-called 'haircut' hrummphh
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:48 (one year ago) link
Should be treated like a utility.
Utilities are regulated, but in return they are usually guaranteed a profit of maybe 7% or 8%. This would be like Elon finding a gold mine while picking his nose.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
das a lotta servers baby
BREAKING: Elon Musk has directed Twitter’s teams to find over $1 billion in annual infrastructure cost savings by cutting cloud services and extra server space, per Reuters.— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) November 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
Being down three days a month should be a boon for revenue
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 November 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
I'll say this much, at this point the reason I haven't left Twitter yet could very well be Elon Musk.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:09 (one year ago) link
his thinking is prob something like i can cut all the stuff that not twitters core functionality various expensive in salary and computation stuff like machine learning moderation and whatnot then those savings + revenue from my new subscription stuff will look good if i can sell twitter before it collapses
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
Lol that is definitely what he is doing. Pretty funny he was forced to buy it.
― treeship., Friday, 4 November 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
couple issues with that is hes doing it in an extremely messy public way that turns users and advertisers off, and if youre trying to sell to private equity or whatever you already did the thing that they like to do ie gut the companies and saddle them with debt so its less interesting to them
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:16 (one year ago) link
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Friday, 4 November 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
its kinda true but also if twitter ceased to exist everything would be ok
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
I see it now.. this is The Producers of social media
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:20 (one year ago) link
I think it's quite possible that the only thing on Musk's mind right now is finding a way to make his money back, future of Twitter be damned, like a one-man private equity group.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:20 (one year ago) link
contrast elon trying to deny people their severance with how stripe is handling its layoffs https://stripe.com/en-gb-nl/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons-email-to-stripe-employees
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
There are roughly 75 million cable subscribers in the US, which is about equal to the numbers of supposed US Twitter users. The argument that something like that should be treated as a utility is absurd.
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Friday, 4 November 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
we can treat it as a utility if we want
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
It’s not about the direct users though, it’s about how many things start there and spread to conventional media. Its influence surpasses its popularity and makes it problematic to have in the hands of a single person.
― treeship., Friday, 4 November 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link