Twitter C/D

Lack of editorial oversight can have that effect.

just want to thank all y'all for keeping up w/ all this shit so i can pop in every now and then to kinda sorta know wtf is going on. ~appreciate *you*~

otm

Man, what a wet fart this was. Good that he only hyped it up for a couple of hours instead of days.

the Twitter Files even have Sebastian Gorka going “what? this is it?” pic.twitter.com/XZAgkyrzGB

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 3, 2022

lmao at this and also at the failure to thread tweets

big whop

it wouldve been better if he came back at the end with a "oh by way one last thing" and then tweeted a picture of hunter bidens butthole

yeah wtf I thought comedy was now legal

okay finally reading that uh attempt at a tweet thread and it's so fucking boring

though lmao that the "smoking gun" is literally just Hunter Biden porn

the original egg loved it

https://i.imgur.com/Xz9wovd.png

If he was pitching this as a tv series he'd already have lost the job for taking 16 beats to even start https://t.co/i0MTxEc99v

— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) December 3, 2022

The big reveal is basically that Twitter acted like every other media company in the country (except the New York Post) and sniffed at this thing and said, "Eh, seems sketchy, we need more information."

Some lame shit. Also, for whatever he's getting paid, Taibbi should have had the courtesy to tell Musk you don't drop breaking news on a Friday night unless you're trying to bury it.

On his Substack, Matt Taibbi tells his readers that he "had to agree to certain conditions" to do the Hunter Biden laptop thread for Musk. pic.twitter.com/49i58VbIIX

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) December 3, 2022

Story seems to downgrade the theory of “The FBI told Twitter to suppress the laptop story” to “some libs at Twitter didn’t to help Trump win the election”

Want to help

idk what the funniest thing about this is, the fact that the tweets that were "handled" were literally just leaked nudes or all the idiot chuds forgetting that it actually would've been Trump's government violating the first amendment

or maybe the god awful way the story 'broke', a news dump on a Friday night via a slow tweet thread that stopped working right away, a thread that gets 16 tweets in before revealing anything at all

lol the improper threading made me laugh

the former c suite quietly got their payouts

Form 4s just filed for Ned Segal, Parag Agrawal, and Vijaya Gadde showing the RSU and stock payouts with some footnotes about their severance agreements that seem to be paid—perhaps explains why someone felt the need to try some deep fake revenge porn “news” drop this evening.

— The Chancery Daily (@chancery_daily) December 3, 2022

alwayssunnyconspiracy.jpg

― papal hotwife (milo z)

Everyone knows this is called pepesilvia.jpg cmon now

hardcore

Musk’s transition team has been slowly going through the list of employees who didn’t check "yes” to being hardcore in a Google form and, if they are marked "critical,” calling them to see if they are sure about wanting to leave.

— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) December 3, 2022

Remaining engineering managers are trying to convince their other reports who have left to come back. It has been communicated that basically anyone can come back if they want. They are being encouraged to negotiate for perks like guaranteed remote work.

— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) December 3, 2022

Watch out—Elon is super great at negotiating

He took that Twitter thing down hardcore damn

Out of curiosity I looked at foxnews.com just to see how this is landing over there. Of course it’s the Top Story but most of the article is just re-posts of tweets succinctly pointing out how stupid this thing is.

c suite actually has not been paid yet lol

They have not been paid. https://t.co/G2062fMcV0

— The Chancery Daily (@chancery_daily) December 3, 2022

weird

Interesting: Twitter has posted positions on LinkedIn for both software engineers and - gasp! - product managers. They list salary ranges.

For the Sr PM role, the salary range is $175-259K. For Staff & Sr Staff Sw Eng, $243-$338K. Only New York and SF as locations for all. pic.twitter.com/vxMIsDy73Q

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) December 3, 2022

Twitter currently hiring. Tweet says all jobs are NY or SF only but I checked for myself and there's one in Seattle and one eng position in London too which is maybe surprising?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjHPODiUoAE3bQl?format=jpg&name=medium

dril has nothing on this guy

the algorithmic timeline is as bad as i've ever seen it. i like one tweet by a mutual and my next 20 tweets are from that person

The mobile web version was glitching out, there were like 3 different versions of the page on top of each other but offset slightly

Oh, wow. My notifications are all from Nov. 10 and earlier—can’t see anything after that. This thing really is breaking.

— Miriam Posner (@miriamkp) December 4, 2022

I sort of really want to leave Twitter

Like it really stinks now and is a depressing experience and it seems to be dragging the world to a dark place and I feel complicit as a user.

delete that shit

Especially that Elon is acting like the Editor-in-chiel of Twitter, commissioning stories from substack journos. Everyone writing there now seems to be working for him.

Peter-in-chiel

Essentially left at the start of November and zero regrets. I'll maintain the account so it doesn't get snapped up and will note when I'm tagged or DMs, but that's it. My last 'active' post may be tomorrow with the new By-the-Bywater episode but thinking it'll be fresh start time for that on social media as well in the new year.

however you feel abt twitter getting worse and everything else getting worse it's definitely funny that milo yiannopolis's life is getting worse

He’s in the news again
I’m sure he thinks he’s doing great

turns out he failed to say don't say that

Milo Yiannopoulos has been fired from the Ye / Kanye entourage after a series of disastrous media appearances that saw the candidate praising Hitler. Milo says in an email that there was a “mutual conclusion that I should step away.”

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) December 4, 2022

It's Ernst Röhm all over again.

too much luftwaffling on key decisions

"candidate"

Goosestepping away

I’m going to have to see Kanye’s policy website before I decided

I rarely use twitter but I cant get rid completely when things like this get posted.

It is your holiday duty to make sure everyone you know is aware of the deleted subplot in Love Actually where the little boy is a trained gymnast. pic.twitter.com/Za2pzGVn6H

— Patrick Fisackerly (@fisackerly) December 3, 2022

Like it really stinks now and is a depressing experience and it seems to be dragging the world to a dark place and I feel complicit as a user.

This is the absolutely correct take. Every other take is essentially in the bucket of laziness or enabling abuse; i.e weak af.

Jump ship with no regrets.

love actually is one of those things where you think you know what it is but then you examine that and theres theres absolutely no idea there, like maybe its a ryan gosling romcom it could be a british tv show about really anything