Twitter C/D

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

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/timeline

Best thing Twitter did for the world in general was to allow anyone to yell directly at rich and powerful people, which drove many of them insane, including the richest guy on earth

— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan) November 12, 2022

That’s true we can’t get that back

But we can go to their houses!

you can call their offices and leave a voicemail. it's a great way to yell at ted cruz. boy was he embarrassed!!!

xxxp "more bad than good" - I guess it depends on what your experience was on twitter

I really liked hearing from the people I loved and followed!

Sure, there were a lot examples of "so-and-so you followed liked this tweet" that I found repulsive, or responses to someone evil whose original tweet I wish I'd never seen, but overall it has been a rewarding experience for me

i left twitter in october 2015 and my life has been great except for when people remind me of or direct me to tweets. rest in piss

I enjoyed it for years but it was often horrible and it made the world worse

Hi Brad

i agree with you except i have never enjoyed it. i also fucking loathe the twitterspeak argot that became default conversational tone on ilx during its reign.

no that part is good

You all sound like you were bad at Twitter. I enjoyed my (admittedly highly curated) experience there greatly, made tons of valuable professional connections, and read lots of funny jokes about Danzig and Rob Zombie and interesting articles (and bought books) that people I know wrote that I might not have found out about any other way.

i think the best thing you can say about it is that it made the world a worse place by accident, unlike facebook, which did it deliberately.