if they made it a "free speech" platform it would be useless to advertisers, which is where they get their revenue. this was always the flaw in elon's masterplan.
― treeship., Monday, 28 November 2022 01:51 (one year ago) link
It wasn't as bad last night, but the first few dozen results for any city name I search are now escort spam https://t.co/0n9UyWa1YU— Brendan O'Kane (@bokane) November 27, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 November 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
sad!
https://t.co/tUChf5Yfkt is creating fake/placeholder accounts for publishers to try to entice them to move there? pic.twitter.com/qlOQr5TFy8— Laura Hazard Owen (@laurahazardowen) November 28, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 01:26 (one year ago) link
Calling Tim Apple a libcuck for not wanting to commit to a nine figure ad campaign when there isn't even anyone to set it up pic.twitter.com/EoOfUmi9sE— nil nil enjoyer (@lib_crusher) November 28, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 10:09 (one year ago) link
Is Twitter going badly, and likely to decline, break down or finish?
Or is whatever happens all what Musk and his political allies want?
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 10:26 (one year ago) link
I think his political allies are probably happy with what's happening, bar total collapse it's still a big platform for them.
Musk himself I imagine is less happy.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 11:12 (one year ago) link
High-profile Republican members of Congress gained tens of thousands of Twitter followers in the first few weeks of Elon Musk’s reign over the social media network, while their Democratic counterparts experienced a decline, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/27/musk-followers-bernie-cruz/
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
Lot of people don't know that Bernie Cruz had a couple of Top 5 hits on the Adult Contemporary chart back in the late 70s.
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
Don't know if this was already mentioned
https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/covid19.html#2021-jul-dec
Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy.
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
In 2020 Apple deleted Fortnite, which was literally paying them billions a year in IAP. They’d delete Twitter without blinking.— Daniel Feldman dfeld✧✧✧@hachyd✧✧✧.i✧ (@d_feldman) November 28, 2022
this is true enough, but it's a riskier move than blocking a video game. under a republican congress tim cook will be in front of the commerce committee and live on fox news etc. immediately if apple does anything to twitter.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
I just imagined them expanding the "sensitive content hidden, click to view" filter to a much broader set of criteria and then started giggling as I thought of a timeline that's 90% hidden content
― mh, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
yeah i dont think apple wld ban twitter without blinking but i do think they would do it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
the thing about apple is that no one company should have that ability to unilaterally change things in the market, but half the time it's super funny when they do
― mh, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
Yeah lol
They should allow porno tho
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
applefans
― mh, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
interesting dynamic where the hardware company still has it over the software guys
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
does the iphone app just not let you click thru the sensitive content warning. idk how this stuff works ive never had an iphone
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
to help me not be on twitter as much and so i don't get push notifications, i don't have the app, just the mobile web page...generally i haven't seen a lot of the problems people have been talking about, but this morning my notifications were behaving weird, not loading in properly
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
naw u can click on it xp i think what sibly was referring to was porn generally on the app store like a porn app for porn
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
yeah, porn games, what have you
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
the point is makng things available in the app store. you'd still be able to get to twitter via mobile browser (which is an experience that sucks, on purpose, but twitter could make their mobile web interface better)
― akm, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
I use the browser not the app. It’s fine.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
my notifications are fucked now, reset to like a month ago and everything since then is gone
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
(in app and in browser)
Yeah same here. Bemusing.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
Impeach Elon
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, who was booted off Twitter in 2013, has had his account restored. pic.twitter.com/sEv5UDVUw2— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 2, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 2 December 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
Other Neos reinstated today as well. Just about time to leave, as much as I loved helping Robyn Hitchcock this morning when he asked for Dylan covers to play at an upcoming show. It really is the direction interaction with heroes and favorites that keep me stuck on Twitter.
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Friday, 2 December 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
gotta get HItchcock on mastodon
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 2 December 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET!— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
― frogbs, Friday, 2 December 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
hes down bad
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
laptop drop at 5! bring beers
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 December 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
It, uh, might be time to think about leaving Twitter, everyone
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 2 December 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
he's going to undelete all the tweets where people posted nude Hunter cranking hog
― mh, Friday, 2 December 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
I appealed my ban today with just the text "you literally unbanned Nazis today"
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 2 December 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
Keep getting promoted tweets for some pro-Chevron outfit bashing Steven Donziger
― anvil, Friday, 2 December 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
I'm getting dozens promoted ads for shitty "made for TV" style products like every five or six tweets, it's obnoxious.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
Weirdly, I'm getting a ton of ads on my alt where I only follow like 90 accounts, but on my main feed, where I follow several thousand, I haven't seen an ad in weeks (I did not and never have paid for twitter btw). Probably some kind of bug that is working in my favor I suppose.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 2 December 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
I also constantly kept seeing Edward Snowden tweets for a few weeks, then all of a sudden it stopped again
Now he is trending, but his tweets don't appear in my timeline
― anvil, Friday, 2 December 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
he's trending because i swore loyalty to russia and got a passport there
― akm, Friday, 2 December 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
I? not I! He! He! HIM!
wow ok
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
just to be clear, it is he, not I, who is a russian agent, I am not, and will not be, an agent or asset for the country of Russia, who are very very bad people, just so you all know.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 2 December 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
hmmm
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 22:11 (one year ago) link
the famous musk qc in action
We’re double-checking some facts, so probably start live tweeting in about 40 mins— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
lmfao
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 2 December 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
every lawyer in the building screaming at him to not do this
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 December 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
holy fuck he just keeps having dumber and dumber idea
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
"I have just been threatened with a lawsuit by the Biden family. as a result, I have banned the Bidens from Twitter, so the lawsuit will not continue."
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 2 December 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link