Twitter C/D

i agree that its impressive

I am definitely seeing an extinction burst of this “buckle up my cromulent fuckstubbles time for a thread” stuff.

even being a very non genius level programmer working on some dinky lil thing sometimes im like whoa this computer shit is pretty powerful

we are all standing on the shoulders of giant nerds

the weight is too much for them they dont lift haha twitter crashes

Standing on the Shoulders of Nerds was The Four Tops best

crazy that twitter has both an obvious best and worst poster

Even before this Elon was a competitor for one of the all-time wackest posters on this site. A sweaty reply-guy for the worst accounts on here, a joke-thief and a bore, and a relentless, charmless ROFL emoji donkey in every facet. At this point he's clearly the worst poster ever.

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) November 18, 2022

Your moderators can and will commit suicide.

Technological/practical "backward steps" we all just accept now

I am definitely seeing an extinction burst of this “buckle up my cromulent fuckstubbles time for a thread” stuff.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, November 18, 2022 10:48 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

time for some cloud theory

sorry if i think how servers and logistics work is p amazing, remember i correct spelling for a living

― mark s, Friday, 18 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Putting words and facts in the correct order and spelling is more impressive than the stuff in that thread.

you can put words in any order it doesnt matter its called a tweet

letters to the editor are the new tweets

if twitter goes down you can find me in the news paper. you will see what i can do

— Mike F (@DeputyWarlock) November 18, 2022

i love that whenever i say "die in hell twitter you worthless haven for attention-starved sociopaths" ppl are like "you must be bad at twitter, i manicured my feed so expertly that i only saw nice things" good for you, i didn't know that in order to be good at twitter you had to be an obtuse dick oh wait i totally knew that

lol

sorry if i think how servers and logistics work is p amazing, remember i correct spelling for a living

― mark s, Friday, 18 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Putting words and facts in the correct order and spelling is more impressive than the stuff in that thread.

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:01 (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

plainly this is false i myself can do all that words stuff = not impressive

describing a whale in a weirdly cosmic way using written words is impressive tho

call me ishfail

I don't know who needs to hear this but Craigslist has being running for the last 20+ years with a team of ~50 people.

— Chad Hurley (@Chad_Hurley) November 18, 2022

lol xp

I don't know who needs to hear this but

One piece of Twitter language I am not going to miss.

the stuff that thread went into that most people dont seem to be thinking about is the intersection of legal and tech aspects, if youve just thrown a company into chaos by say firing half the workers and alienating most of the rest into quitting both your tech and legal depts are unlikely to be functioning well which makes them really unlikely to be able to coordinate well between each other

― lag∞n, Friday, November 18, 2022 11:09 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm they were dead after the self-certification email

yeah that was real bad, just a terrible idea, they shouldnt have said that

yeah that was real bad, just a terrible idea, they shouldnt have said that

It’s unreal. I assumed that was why they were publicly claiming they froze changes but then they shipped a new feature.

lmao here's another fun problem
https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-payroll-finance-department-resigns-en-masse-under-elon-musk-2022-11

A large portion of Twitter's financial organization, including its payroll department, left the company on Thursday in response to an ultimatum from Elon Musk that has seemingly backfired.

Along with the payroll department resigning, Twitter's US Tax team and its financial reporting team also resigned, two people familiar with the matter said, matching several internal messages seen by Insider. All three segments of the company were part of Twitter's finance and accounting organization.

yikes

i detecting a general no one works there anymore pattern at twitter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDP2rcuc_3A

good luck finding a new ceo for this shit-fire, earlonn

twitter's most senior engineer (who quit in september) says the ranked timeline is broken. (i can't tell. it's always garbage afaict and i have it set to "latest").

btw I think timeline ranking is broken 🤷‍♂️

— Mike Cvet (@mikecvet) November 18, 2022

Look if it’s true that 20% of the people do 80% of the work then it follows that 1% of the people can do 99% of the work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhX4liVtuCc

yeah have found the straight faced eulogising for all these legendary genius twitter workers pretty funny given the user experience has got progressively worse for like a decade

tbf we havent heard much from product, its all engineering

yeah i haven't heard any eulogising for product at all.

it is pretty cool that you can see a goal get scored in the world cup in twitter's monitoring system before you see it on your tv. the product was terrible though.

I've been there for over five years, never known a good user experience.

Nevertheless, if you curate your timeline you will see good things, etc.

reasonable mans twitter debrief

Why I left @twitter or rather why I did not sign up for “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0

🧵

— Peter Clowes (@peterclowes) November 18, 2022

lol was literally just about to post that. Yeah, it's a balanced view and as such it illustrates the idiocy of Musk's approach. That's the kind of guy who was probably looking for good reasons to stay and just ran out of them.

i am elena ferrante

— stasis baby (@HarronWawker) November 18, 2022

that thread also gets at the problem musk's email introduced which was a feedback look that meant that the more people who left, the stronger the argument for leaving *even if you like musk*.

Seeing as everyone’s posting where you can find them if Twitter goes down I just thought I’d say: if you want me I’ll be in the bar.

— Tracey Thorn (@tracey_thorn) November 18, 2022

A friend who works at Harvard says the university has told everyone to pause all Twitter activity. I assume that means official Harvard accounts, not personal accounts. Anyway, this is the lead tweet on the main Harvard feed right now.

Just a reminder of our other social accounts:

Instagram https://t.co/gRberHA3jY
Facebook https://t.co/qLE30Lng6c
LinkedIn https://t.co/KWWcujTzVY
Youtube https://t.co/tKRee9nL1X

And our websites:⁰
Harvard Gazette https://t.co/oFaCjSenng
Website https://t.co/0SI0qxgJXU pic.twitter.com/xNC92qwFc7

— Harvard University (@Harvard) November 18, 2022

Additionally there were rumors the new vision might be radically different. Not just subscription based but possibly having adult content be a core component of subscription offerings. That is a BIG departure and one I wouldn’t get behind. https://t.co/zCXdG5f5nl

— Peter Clowes (@peterclowes) November 18, 2022

"Why promote your OnlyFans on Twitter, when Twitter could be OnlyFans?"

go on mastodon harvard u coward

if there's one mentality I've noticed a lot in right wing circles it's that all these extremely complex things are actually incredibly easy and that 90% of this country gets paid to twiddle their thumbs. Trump ran his whole presidency that way ("who knew health care could be so complicated?"), crypto bros are losing billions by convincing themselves you don't really need banks, and now Elon is starting his takeover of Twitter by cutting like 75% of their employees. whats funny about this to me is I suspect Twitter is kinda where this whole mentality really started to snowball, by letting everyone give dumb, short reactionary takes to every possible subject. and now Elon is running his business by soliciting the opinions of the dumbest people on Earth. sucks it's ruining something I like but also: lmao

yeah

There was no vision shared with us. No 5 year plan like at Tesla. Nothing more than what anyone can see on Twitter. It allegedly is coming for those who stayed but the ask was blind faith and required signing away the severance offer before seeing it. Pure loyalty test.

— Peter Clowes (@peterclowes) November 18, 2022

"Why be the Onlyfans free advertising service when you could just be Onlyfans" is almost a decent business plan, if you hadn't paid $44bn for a service that depended on Disney advertising Pixar and Marvel movies to survive.

Hate to have my experience of watching a double-fisting video ruined by an autoplay Toy Story 5 commercial.

My twitter was hacked pic.twitter.com/9RU5Q85eYj

— Cardi B (@iamcardib) November 18, 2022

That thread from Peter was really interesting. That kinda depoliticised mindset at work ("I won't hate anyone I don't know" or "I'll be exploited to shit for a vision"), but it's someone's reality, and all he knows.