Twitter C/D

i bet elon is trolling there but if not, lol

3 the whole thing is extremely low effort on everyones part

this is key. the whole event has a "shit we did when we had a substitute teacher" vibe

elon is good again for the very first time

BREAKING: @elonmusk let @Krassenstein and I back on Twitter!
BOOM!
RETWEET! pic.twitter.com/OxyaPW6JAF

— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) December 11, 2022

lmao

THIS IS NOT HAPPENING pic.twitter.com/5JBRFCSOKV

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 11, 2022

https://i.imgur.com/stYgt9Y.png

oops didnt see it was already posted

when Elon buys ILX you'll be able to post the same image 4000 times per post

again, sincere thank you to those of you following along with what’s going on there but pleeeease also consider adding like alt text of something for quote tweets and tw*tter img posts b/c fuck all if i’m clicking on any links going to that site anymore.

Yeah I'm feeling like I need to stop watching the circus.

There's a part of me still fascinated with all this shit but yeah, I've stopped actually visiting twitter myself.

its still good for sports talk but yeah not only has it gotten a more boring and irritating but the site also seems broken a lot of the time

pleeeease also consider adding like alt text of something for quote tweets and tw*tter img posts b/c fuck all if i’m clicking on any links going to that site anymore.

img posts and even embedded twitter posts on ILX don't require you to click on them to see them though?

ahh...the screenshots aren't loading on my phone. but the embedded quote tweets use don't have enough context to know what's going on.

but, really, the problem is me. i shouldn't be trying to peak out the window at this train wreck in the first place.

well, well

I'm over it

This is getting dragged out too long and dropped at the worst times

It's one thing to slow roll, it's another to do a Saturday night drop. This is usually done when companies want to kill the story https://t.co/IzHaN3f0BF

— Tim Pool (@Timcast) December 11, 2022

big miscalculation to do this whole writers talking about dull documents thing, shouldve just made up one insane conspiracy "hunter blackmailed jack into banning trump" or whatever and hit it over and over, thats what the audience wants

release a few emails that kind of seem like they vaguely relate and call it a day

once youve been exposed to crazy cinematic conspiracy theory real life is too boring, and even by the standards of real life the twitter files are just boring

the bar was set with the cambridge analytica crap and none of the twitter shenanigans rise above the level of "execs debate moderation strategy and get email messages begging the mods to do something"

so if we're intellectually honest, none of this should be surprising https://t.co/zUhgnmFgp9 pic.twitter.com/LyO8Xgi5we

— The Chancery Daily and 99 others (@chancery_daily) December 12, 2022

A Ryan Seacrest Type

post-election this is funnier

blake masters was just too fucking weird to vote for

elon failing to heed the message of the election, that this weirdo accusing everyone of being pedos shit is unpopular

Ad traffic at #Twitter.

(via @DoubleLJSquared) @scottlincicome @WSJ https://t.co/zPGT6U0Quk pic.twitter.com/IZCrL03zC6

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) December 12, 2022

wow thats bad

Especially when you consider that the previous average was already below where it needed to be

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

no wait ads are good now

(idk anything about Puck but this is a nice headline on a Monday morning)

i've seen ppl say there are like 5x more ads than ever but i hardly see any any more -- i have blocked a lot down the years (a LOT) but i can't have blocked them all. i do normally see them like second post down if i click on someone's account but i just tried blocking the first one i say doing that and now i'n no longer getting them that way either!

Especially when you consider that the previous average was already below where it needed to be

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, December 12, 2022 12:39 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

fwiw it was only below where it needed to be since musk tried to destroy the company during 2022. net income was positive in every quarter since 2017 except Q2 2020 and the last two. it was a profitable business! except for one quarter when the world stopped, and two quarters when the business was paralyzed by musk. room to improve? sure. but it wasn't a loss-making business until he started fucking with it.

Former top Twitter official forced to leave home due to threats amid ‘Twitter Files’ release
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-files-yoel-roth

if musk is suggesting dude might be a pedo, and he's getting death threats over it... i feel like that is pretty actionable?

Probably

Twitter has dissolved the Trust & Safety Council pic.twitter.com/R2wS9BsqA2

— Anthony DeRosa (@Anthony) December 13, 2022

if musk is suggesting dude might be a pedo, and he's getting death threats over it... i feel like that is pretty actionable?

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, December 12, 2022 8:35 PM (fourteen minutes ago)

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/06/unsworth-vs-musk-pedo-guy-defamation-trial-verdict.html

kind of surprised that people just don’t call elon “pedo guy” as an affectionate nickname

Maybe worth noting Vernon Unsworth's lawyer against Musk was Lin Wood?

Forgot that dude existed. Tbf 2021 was ten years ago

we had such an amazing celebrity lawyer run that’ll make for great podcasts. Wood, Avenatti, a handful of misfits and returns like Giuliani. just a great run of complete wacko degenerates in the news

The second post here, about Platformer deplatforming itself from Twitter (not entirely, but mostly) seems pretty otm to me. (The War on Bots post also good and telling.)

https://www.platformer.news/p/how-elon-botched-his-war-on-bots

Meanwhile, Musk’s full-throated embrace of the conservative mainstream has actively degraded Twitter as a news source. Because he is the platform’s CEO, its most-followed user, and topic No. 1 nearly every day there now, opinions about Musk now dominate the timeline. (Candidly, Zoe and I have both contributed to and benefited from this phenomenon.)

I imagine all this is a lot of fun for Musk, and maybe even worth the $44 billion he overpaid for it. But it can be hell for anyone who showed up to talk sports, tech, entertainment, or anything else.

... Now, awaiting Musk’s latest tweets, I find myself anxious that one of his former employees could be physically assaulted or worse over what the CEO is posting. I don’t know how, in that environment, to make little jokes about Google’s latest failed messaging app, or bad PR pitches, or any of the other bits I have been doing on Twitter forever. I don’t know how to pretend that what is happening is not actually happening. I don’t want to provide, even in the smallest of ways, a respectable backdrop against which hate speech against my fellow LGBTQ people, or Black or Jewish or any other people, can flourish.

god the way he handled getting booed was so fucking pathetic. first banning anyone who posted the video on Twitter, then claiming that 90% of the people there were actually cheering, then having Bari Weiss drop "the Twitter files part 5" in the middle of the day, then deleting the 90% tweet, then claiming he actually couldn't talk because there was a fight in the audience, even though Chappelle was talking the entire time

Popehat is out — and when you've lost Popehat ...

https://popehat.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter

Numbers off a cliff for someone with 30k followers.

Uh-huh yeah these are the good signs of engagement pic.twitter.com/J0sWpwBu2R

— Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) December 13, 2022

The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" but it's much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.

— Avid Halaby (@AvidHalaby) December 12, 2022

he said "branch covidians" yesterday and about 500,000 people indicated that they liked that

making it even lamer that originally was a nickname for antivaxers

what... what is it a nickname for now?

People who believe in Covid?

For real it's a name for someone like me, who is wearing a mask, as I write this.

it seems like a "fake news" thing where there was a 7-10 day period in which it referred to totally made up stories, and then soon afterward referred to any truthful story

NEW: Twitter currently does not have admin access to some of its GitHub repos. These repos contain Twitter source code (much of it is open source; some is not). This includes code for companies Twitter acquired, like Smyte. 1/

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) December 13, 2022

is that good