Twitter C/D

why do you guys talk about literary clusterfucks on the twitter thread?

Introducing 4000 character tweets might be the move that actually kills Twitter. There are two dozen people in the world who want that and they all read each others’ 1/89 tweet threads anyway.

tlwittdr

Will be genuinely surprised if they ship that anything like on the schedule he claims. The changes required are enormous.

Is there a running list of things Musk has promised to come and never came through with?

yes, but if you post it on Twitter you will be banned

he's trying to make Twitter a competitor to YouTube and Wordpress (??), which again begs the question of what exactly he thinks Twitter is and why he thinks people use it. what he's doing here is Bad Software Design 101, I'd say "this might actually kill Twitter" but it's Elon so it'll probably just never happen

wonder if the long tweets with have formatting available or if itll just be a really long tweet i hope its just a long tweet thats funnier

also if they just show the whole thing on the timeline

I think once your tweet goes beyond 280 characters you should lose the ability to punctuate or insert line breaks. If you're gonna type 4000 characters it's gonna appear in a solid block of text.

┳┻| _
┻┳| •.•) This will be so tight 4000 characters tall
┳┻|⊂ﾉ https://t.co/vu4i5Ukw9y

— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant) January 8, 2023

Just noticed a load of yellow/gold ticks on official accounts. Are they gonna start trying to charge $80 for those at some point or what?

gold ticks are for official business accounts

(so yes, they may well start charging more)

NYTimes airhead @ezraklein:

"Clean, abundant energy is the foundation on which a more equal, just and humane world can be built."

Two points:

1. Wind power made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible.

2. Modern 'clean' energy has been a disaster. https://t.co/NczKWIrPwG

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) January 9, 2023

When Twitter dies I’m going to miss exposure to this kind of insanity.

lmao

#1 is some galaxy brain shit, just amazing

dude get out from under that car, quick!

sorry but hes more right than ezra here

thinking that the method of energy generation is going to be the foundation of changing politics for the better is pure technocrat ideology

after reading the piece i retract that statement ezra is in fact pretending that politics just dont exist at all

looking at a world in which the 1% use a thousand times more energy than the average person: if we can just a get lil more of this stuff surely everyone will become a yuppie

Clean, abundant energy will be the basis of more bullshit like bitcoin mining, probably.

soothing sounds for baby by ezra klein

https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/neo-wakes-up-640x353.jpg

sails are the reason there were slaves if you really think about it

Cancel boats

I’ve got bad news for this guy about the crew rowing triremes

that was dirty energy tho, they were all sweaty

if it weren't for the sun we wouldn't have to see all this bullshit going on

Everyone though electricity was such a great thing,
until that Frankenstein guy had an idea

i started a tech
which started the whole world crying

of all the things libs, melts, and/or fascists stole from us, i miss a motivational, impossible, idealized future the most. (tbf klein's piece is not quite so bad as i feared

better flying car piece
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit

making twitter awful wont drive people away but making it lame might

Ooh this looks bad. pic.twitter.com/VSb1rMEYLy

— m (@mayavada) January 10, 2023

THANKS FOR THE GOLD

biggest lol

1 Bronze is pretty much a diss

When will F2P Twitter get loot boxes?

Freemium social media.

For $5 a month, you can edit other people's tweets

fwiw if they adapted SomethingAwful's idea of allowing any user to pay $10 to change someone ELSE's profile pic they'd probably make a ton of money

speedrunning the lowtax effect

please use tokens to indicate how tweets make you feel

❤️ 12 😠 3 😕 9 🏄 3 😱 5 🤣 11 🧜 7 🐿 1 🥨 3 🥈 5

would be great if in three months Twitter looks like Friendster after it was turned from a social media site into an incomprehensibly overstuffed gaming platform, or whatever it was by the 2010s.

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Ἰησοῦς rīstóΧρῑστός Θεοῦ óςó Yἱός sōḗ Σωτήρ
дωΣƷΘωḗ
“ስኳር መብላት ማቆም እችላለሁ። በዓለም ላይ በጣም ቀላሉ ነገር ነበር.
┳┻| _┳┻| _┳┻| _

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/12/third-party-twitter-apps-tweetbot-twitterrific-echofon-down/

I’m already experiencing withdrawal.

Killing third party clients would certainly make me quit. Unusable without tweetbot.

My thoughts on this are known and yes

Albatross for Android seems to be, at this point.

hopefully this is a bug

I kept jokingly telling people on Twitter not to mention the third-party apps to Elon because I honestly think he didn’t understand they exist! This might be what happens when someone finally explained to him that they do :(

Tweetdeck still seems to work thank goodness (and my timeline on the iOS client remains chronological.)