Twitter C/D

Bullying...is good

Lol pic.twitter.com/B3u1c8O8OP

— j (@jrc1921) November 12, 2022

https://status.twitter.com/ is still down

― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, November 11, 2022 9:49 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol the twimg.com cert is being applied to the site. someone screwed up their proxy settings, sounds like

Scoop from within Twitter: small things are breaking, not enough engineers to fix them.

Noticed that notification counts are not showing? The BE service powering it is down since Thursday. A bug was filed, but the team that would fix it is full on with verification work.

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 12, 2022

This thread makes the point that the World Cup is coming. The site used to break every time someone scored a goal in the World Cup.

it's up to the goalkeepers to keep twitter up, this year

shame this tweet did numbers. They’ll fix it now.

*gets popcorn* pic.twitter.com/h6hWQbbtzZ

— Andrew Z¡gler (@✧✧✧@coolsoc✧✧✧.c✧✧✧) (@andrewzigler) November 11, 2022

me refusing to leave twitter until it blows up: pic.twitter.com/jsJa3mgzVP

— JRR Jokien (Parody) 🗡️🏹🪓 (@joshcarlosjosh) November 11, 2022

so i saw this on blind - this is what the goons think of tweeps pic.twitter.com/Fwtt7MyBL5

— 🫡 jun✧✧✧@ma✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧ (@junosz) November 12, 2022

congrats luke you're famous

There’s a new main character on this Site every 15 minutes now

Ugh!

So, word around is, @elonmusk has ordered his Ireland workforce back to Dublin by Monday Or Else.

There is litterally not enough housing in Dublin for them to do so. pic.twitter.com/vkvwSeX9wd

— Balinares (@balinares) November 12, 2022

https://i.imgur.com/y32kmcE.png

One manager just posted in Slack:"one of my contractors just got deactivated without notice in the middle of making critical changes to our child safety workflows"

Working to learn more, email me for my Signal.

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 13, 2022

This whole situation of all these little things on Twitter breaking reminds me of the hypothetical about how long our energy grid would continue to work without human involvement

(Nobody I follow.)

Here's the most awkward custom search function I've ever created: everyone you follow, who's also paid Elon $8 for a dodgy tick

The Search Of Shamehttps://t.co/T4vGwtpjgh

— Ketan Joshi (@KetanJ0) November 12, 2022

my only hit is choire, and i'm willing to give him the benefit of the lolz

My only hit is a crypto-bro relative who may have lost a shitload of money in FTX. Unsurprised by any of it.

my only hit is choire, and i'm willing to give him the benefit of the lolz

basically only valid excuses are tanking Eli Lilly's share price or introducing fascinating new Mr Bean canon

some people just have them who previously subscribed to twitter blue

is that a porno thing or

big time porno

last night my top three were "fucked up looking food", "cats with jobs" and 'CCTV IDIOTS"

but today the "HOW THINGS WORK" account is muscling in, which seems a pity

yeah all the ones in mine were gimmick accounts, assume theyre doing it cause twitter blue offers you tools handy for managing big accounts

Everyone keeps posting shit like “don’t say there isn’t a Twitter alternative! You’re ignoring Grunchly, Sporple, yesTalk, Twang, openTwang, Clash of Honor: Twang’s Revenge, pNissy, Gubble, hank’s house, WhoChat, nnk3.0, KniFi, Twango Unchained, PornHub Live Chat, CyberForum, Twa

— Sam Winkler (@ThatSamWinkler) November 14, 2022

"bloop your friends, and blorp them back"
― the late great, Monday, April 9, 2012

wens

like 5 substacks i'm subscribed to have emailed me in the past week that their substack chat is now open

someone with a lil bread needs just need to bite the bullet and make a twitter clone, except without all the weird cruft, therell be plenty of time for that

send twitter to ilx, they'll love it here

truth social would seem to be a twitter clone, but with extra weird shit going on

I made my own Twitter clone at https://jklol.net/posts.html it contains only my posts and you cannot like or RT them but you can email me if you like any of my posts!

ok im calling some vcs

social media apps are like bars, you can open another one exactly like the popular one and still have no guarantee anyone will show up. the crowd goes where it goes.

its true but i do feel like theres a market for the one overwhelming cascade of trash that none of the supposed twitter successors are meeting

in truth twitter will probably meet that need but someone could be ready to take over if it totally crashes and burns

We will not see its like again, the posting era is closing

i'm on mastodon and finally getting the hang of it and it's just nowhere near disgusting enough unfortunately.

its "federated" when the real sickos want everything in one nasty waterfall

We will not see its like again, the posting era is closing

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, November 14, 2022 11:40 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i generally agree but i think theres still a market for posting, its just smaller than for watching youtubes, i mean what are journalists going to do write newsletters lol

RSS and forums are going to make a big comeback in 2023, it’s time to advertise ILX to your followers

Nobody wants the headache of being Twitter at this point probably

It costs a lot of money and isn’t profitable

i think you could make a nice business out of it if you just focused on the core product, obvs couldnt be a public company since the demand for growth is too much, and couldnt be a vc company since the demand for growth is too much, but it does need to be big to work, so yeah lol

Is Kanye still buying that right wing social network? Anyway, Musk should buy all of those, too.

i mean im sure on some level musk is right that theres tons of expensive extraneous stuff at twitter but thats the growth mindset baby

eh. public TWTR was a good business. insanely inefficient but that was fixable. not by jack or anyone he chose, and it would have been a rough couple of years. but revenue was good.

If they had started charging for features/ad-free/pointless icons like 11 years ago it would’ve worked pretty well imo

pic.twitter.com/FDj2txqS9w

— cityafreaks (@cityafreaks) November 12, 2022

send twitter to ilx, they'll love it here

This happened with Digg didn’t it?

Was this posted here yet?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/14/twitter-fake-eli-lilly/

Inside the real Eli Lilly, the fake sparked a panic, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. Company officials scrambled to contact Twitter representatives and demanded they kill the viral spoof, worried it could undermine their brand’s reputation or push false claims about people’s medicine. Twitter, its staffing cut in half, didn’t react for hours.

The aftermath of that $8 spoof offers a potentially costly lesson for Musk, who has long treated Twitter as a playground for bawdy jokes and trolls but now must find a way to operate as a business following his $44 billion takeover.

By Friday morning, Eli Lilly executives had ordered a halt to all Twitter ad campaigns — a potentially serious blow, given that the $330 billion company controls the kind of massive advertising budget that Musk says the company needs to avoid bankruptcy. They also paused their Twitter publishing plan for all corporate accounts around the world.

“For $8, they’re potentially losing out on millions of dollars in ad revenue,” said Amy O’Connor, a former senior communications official at Eli Lilly who now works at a trade association. “What’s the benefit to a company … of staying on Twitter? It’s not worth the risk when patient trust and health are on the line.”

"patient trust and health" would also be benefitted if you stopped charging outrageous amounts for life-saving pharmaceuticals, but yknow, apples and oranges.

I wouldn't be surprised if Google wound up buying what's left of twitter for pennies on the dollar, a year from now. Google never got Buzz off the ground. Google can afford it as well.

twitter tried to get google etc. to buy it in like 2015 and none of the companies that could get past their antitrust concerns based on public reporting.