Twitter C/D

this (literally) kicks off in a few days 😉

I've seen people literally say "If you post about the world cup I'm cutting you" - I think this is going to be a quiet one (though people will argue about whether that's this world cup or the death of Twitter)

twitter rn feels like early modern europe with everyone waiting around for the apocalypse and wondering what’s taking so long

— katie kadue (@kukukadoo) November 15, 2022

[seinfeld A and B plots colliding] pic.twitter.com/KxSLEAGWku

— Tetrahedron (@greenTetra_) November 16, 2022

lool

ahhhhh

As an engineer at Twitter, I can confirm that Elon Musk doesn’t understand anything about our website, or coding in general. Not gonna lie, we laugh REALLY hard about it behind his back. We’ve been calling him “the CEO,” but it stands for Code Efficiency 0.

— diana thirst (@rlycalm) November 15, 2022

read replies to feel good

really do think the World Cup is gonna take this place down

Hope there's lots of goals

I have noticed a lot more timeouts and 500s in the past week or so than I had in the preceding, say, several months. It's already struggling but it's not attracting widespread notice probably because it's a bit subtle and people are used to all software being kind of broken all of the time

yeah i mostly use the website and its always been a lil buggy, fantom notifications, failing to load replies etc, havent noticed it being worse yet

I had a friend who was locked out yesterday because Twitter forgot how to send the SMS with the login code.

uh oh

https://www.inforisktoday.com/twitter-two-factor-authentication-has-vulnerability-a-20475

tl;dr you can turn off SMS 2FA for any account whose phone number you know

lol

is that bad?

eh, apologies, the details of how twitter does sms 2fa mean it's difficult to spoof a number, i.e. this is bad but it's not very bad.

Ok, it's been pointed out to me that using short codes for this should make it much harder to spoof - they're routed inside the carrier, and the carrier already knows your number

— Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) November 16, 2022

signed back in to read this :| but also lol

What’s a random tweet that pop up in your head and have you dead every time??

— 🍀 (@Wh0IsHim) November 8, 2022

guys hear me out

now that Musk has driven the value of Twitter into the dumper, what if Twitter users did a massive global GoFundMe and bought him out and ran it as a cooperative, like, I dunno, the Green Bay Packers

or Barcelona

'MORE THAN A FEED!'

it could be a pioneer in a new way of running a business, where users and customers are literally in charge of it, and the staff would be represented at board and exec level too

i think what i'm asking is.... "what is to be done?"

down! down! to goblin town
we go! my lad!

think of the mods tho

i will never think of the mods

:-(

Still the best.

quite a good 48hrs or so:
- "I don't ever shower bc I have adhd"
- "cooking food for people is a violation of consent"
- "poor people should stop doing so much dry cleaning and Peloton"
- "If you invite me to an event with food I'm calling the police"

— stuart (@punished_stu) November 17, 2022

non-showering ADHD person is really missing out, hot showers are pretty much the only time my brain quits spinning around

Just FYI, since it seems like Ragnarok is a-comin':

All right, I’m out before the ceiling caves in. Subscribe to my newsletter.https://t.co/McvxexBGlE

— burning ambulance (NOW A RECORD LABEL!) (@burn_amb) November 18, 2022

Yeah there’s a real scrambling for the lifeboats vibe rn

Time for RSS to make a big comeback

Just can’t turn away from the trainwreck. If only NYT had a Twitter collapse meter I could watch to know pseudo-objectively how close we’re getting to impact. Are bookies taking odds on when it will happen? I guess “website total collapse” would have to be very clearly defined if so.

RSS would be awesome if A) anyone websites still used it and B) there were options for shitposting (I am recovering to be clear). I still was regularly using the Netvibes RSS client within the past couple of years but it seems like even over that span the popularity of RSS has seriously waned.

what's great is that in the free marketplace of ideas, the competition to replace twitter is inevitably going to lead to innovation and a better communications product for us all

ilx will lose at least 25% of its content when Twitter goes down for good

Thank god I was tired of people pasting tweets

There should be an ILX template to just post our own posts as tweets. For the sake of nostalgia.

Is there a bet available in betting markets for predicting times of system disruption/ length of downtime during World Cup?

That seems plausible?

I think in terms of broader discourse Twitter served its purpose. Everything is so siloed now, maybe it won’t be so bad for some other less granular wannabe public forum to replace it.

Unless the replacement really is some chimera of WeChat, Instagram and Parler.

Tons of places still use RSS, I am drowning in articles lol. Including tumblr for your shitpost-reading needs.

Instagram is terminal, aiui

CampusKiss.com eyeing a triumphant return

really appreciate that twitter didn't really *want* to sell to him, but had a fiduciary duty to its shareholders to accept such a wildly overpriced bid, resulting in the destruction of everything. capitalism!

Bring back Makeoutclub!

twitter going down is a bad thing

It’s funny tho

live by the lulz, die by the lulz

Wherever will we get our fake news now

twitter going down is a bad thing

In the short term yes no argument. But does social media have to be so market-oriented? Is that just a completely naive framework?

it's going to be hard to build something up like that again that everyone buys into to be heard.

Sadly otm

People don’t need to be heard rly it was more bad than good