Twitter C/D

I never experienced any safety problem with Twitter in the past. Today, I had two fairly sophisticated phishing attempts in my DMs. Maybe some of the engineers who got sacked were doing a useful job ...

— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) December 17, 2022

I liked "my brother in Christ' when John Legend used it in some response to some asshole

My brother in Christ, what an asshole

i'll be real, i'm so much more damaged from ilx's constant superiority complex than from anyone's silly adopted vernacular

Lol

lmao

Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 18, 2022

I haven’t even heard of one of those. Thanks for the heads-up on what the competing services are!

Yeah, Tribel and Nostr loving that post....

elon wakes up every day thinking about how he can get sued

So dumb. At this point it's like he's just trying to chase people away.

Also pretty interesting that he didn't include TikTok, which is one of the platforms that gets linked the most.

Such a giant pissbaby.

twitter cannibalizes tiktok content for traffic, no surprise there

yup

doesnt want to anger china re tesla operating there mb and tiktok isnt really a viable twitter replacement

is twitter still trying to do something with onlyfans?

lmao

🐦[Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 18, 2022🕸]🐦

I can't help bu think "burn Twitter burn" but I feel bad for communities that us it and have enjoyed it.

I guess nothing goldble verified) (or can stay

Even linktree is banned now, just a gigantic flailing baby.

no URLs. no usernames without the URL. no bypassing restrictions on URLs (like writing example dot com). no posting images with usernames in them.

free speech! pic.twitter.com/S3ZnwxkvSQ

— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) December 18, 2022

absolutely incredible to see what policies this is grouped with pic.twitter.com/WwBebcAJo7

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) December 18, 2022

I haven’t even heard of one of those. Thanks for the heads-up on what the competing services are!

― mh, Sunday, December 18, 2022 6:00 PM bookmarkflaglink

i've never heard of the last 4 and yet and no mention of cohost, weird because most twitter accounts i follow seem to be moving there

truth social is trumps twitter clone, tribel idk lol, nostr is somehow related to jack dorsey, post is from the waze guy has deep pockets behind it and is overtly trying to become the new twitter "but better"

Lmao, let's see if they've got the stones to ban him:

https://t.co/9nJ93UKpa4 dont you dare click on this illegal list of web sites that are better than twitter

— wint (@dril) December 18, 2022

lol

ITS ACTUALLY EVEN FUNNIER https://t.co/7aVF0Ng7M6 pic.twitter.com/f0CyQ0sDJZ

— kroati ⬋⬋⬋⬋ (@kroati1) December 18, 2022

twitter doesn't generate revenue anymore so there won't be a fine

checkmate libs

Why?

— jack (@jack) December 18, 2022

doesn’t make sense

— jack (@jack) December 18, 2022

didn't realize jack has a nostr link in his profile (what's nostr?)

this is getting quote tweeted all over the place:

The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 6, 2022

do gotta give credit to his captive h-1b engineers for keeping the site running through the most batshit world cup ever, kudos

Jack’s going to be really upset with this until he goes off to a silent retreat for a month and forgets everything again

i didn’t think twitter counted as a gatekeeper under the EU definition

seems like they would

Obligations for Gatekeepers
The DMA only places obligations on “gatekeepers,” which are companies that create bottlenecks between businesses and consumers and have an entrenched position in digital markets. The DMA’s threshold is very high: companies will only be hit by the rules if they have an annual turnover of €7.5 billion within the EU or a worldwide market valuation of €75 billion. Gatekeepers must also have at least 45 million monthly individual end-users and 100,000 business users. Finally, gatekeepers must control one or more “core platform services” such as “marketplaces and app stores, search engines, social networking, cloud services, advertising services, voice assistants and web browsers.” In practice, this will almost certainly include Meta (Facebook), Apple, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, and possibly a few others.

oh actually maybe not missed the within the eu part of "an annual turnover of €7.5 billion within the EU"

right. too small

looooooool when you’ve lost this neoreactionary class ally it really is over

This is the last straw. I give up. You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site.https://t.co/bbmZ4yvAJH

— Paul Graham (@paulg) December 18, 2022

He’s going to say this was a mistake announced without his permission why he was attending the World Cup final isn’t he

*while

Paul Graham acting like he wouldn’t pay $50 million for a huff of Elon’s ballsack

lol

It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.

— Paul Graham (@paulg) November 16, 2022

doesn’t make sense

— jack (@jack) December 18, 2022

he rolled his shares over with elon when he couldve cashed out lol

fun fact, if jack had taken the cash he would have received just under one billion dollars (he owned 18,042,428 shares)

I think we've made this point here, but worth repeating. They don't really want the lefties and progressives to leave, they just want to be able to abuse them without consequence.

Elon Musk is running the left off this app but the gag is the right doesn’t want to be here alone—what they want is to harass us and see what we’re talking about so they can create strawman reactionary arguments. Otherwise they’d have been happy w/ Truth Social but never were

— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) December 18, 2022

not sure, I think they want a space where the right can influence more a passive center and Twitter can be that (more) on this trajectory

they?

They being "the right" in this formulation.

Yeah, I think that is kind of the idea or at least the fantasy — a broad platform where right-wing views can reach a general audience without interference by leftists, fact-checkers, journalists, or anyone who might contest their worldview. The problem with that idea obviously is that to make it a reality you have a create a space so unwelcoming that you're going to drive off a lot of your general audience too.

Hahahaahahahahahhahahhahaha

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042993

Minutes pass, and then

https://mobile.twitter.com/paulg/

🤨

"assassination coordinates" trending, well done

this fn guy

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022