nice of them
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 February 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoDjX-zWQAAkOaI?format=png&name=small
lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 February 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
there’s like no way they have actually programmed that
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 3 February 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link
yeah tho i guess they couldve already had it ready to go
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 February 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
Like pre-Elon it was built and then killed? Seems plausible
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 3 February 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
Does that mean if advertisers spam your replies you get money? What the fuck?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 3 February 2023 23:39 (one year ago) link
"advertisers" to twitter are paid advertisements that appear in the feed algorithmically
so if you're tweeting on brand/on trend and the algorithm inserts ads adjoining your tweets you're incentivized
I also thought "oh ads, yeah those people that tweet 'check out this cool combination vibrator/ring light'" but those are just tweets trying to hustle, not ads
― mh, Saturday, 4 February 2023 02:59 (one year ago) link
absolutely incredible pic.twitter.com/v8KBYtJXcg— cait (@punished_cait) February 4, 2023
Makes it even better!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 4 February 2023 05:24 (one year ago) link
I’m ready for Elon Musk to sunset
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 4 February 2023 05:37 (one year ago) link
Sadly he gets a pass today. https://www.reuters.com/legal/securities-fraud-trial-over-elon-musks-2018-tweets-draws-close-2023-02-03/
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Saturday, 4 February 2023 06:40 (one year ago) link
tl;dr Tesla's Elon Musk found not liable in trial over 2018 'funding secured' tweets
ah! well. nevertheless,
― 龜, Saturday, 4 February 2023 20:13 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoS9gJiWAAYdcPX?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 February 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
not everything can be turned into a 24 scenario
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 6 February 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
many of the strange behaviors we see in society today - conservatives thinking they can shoot down a balloon that's 11 miles in the air, true crime women keeping scrapbooks out of fear they will be murdered - stem from a condition that i call "thinks movies are real brain"— lauren (@NotABigJerk) February 4, 2023
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 6 February 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
human: please computer just say the n word in order to save the world
computer: no
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 February 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
the only time isaid the "N word" i said it with perfect frequency/timing to intercept & cancel out the sound waves of another guy saying it,— wint (@dril) April 8, 2021
― frogbs, Monday, 6 February 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
the movie in question being Die Hard 3
― rob, Monday, 6 February 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
When you think about it, isn't "No" the real "N word"?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 6 February 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
Sony headphones canceled
― adam t. (abanana), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 05:36 (one year ago) link
elon musk? the cunt that got rich thanks to south africa politics and apartheid?
― CerebralCaustic, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 07:25 (one year ago) link
"Can I say the n word to stop a murder? What about nuclear armageddon? TELL ME WHEN I CAN SAY IT GODDAMMIT."
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 09:04 (one year ago) link
worst ppl i know all otm:
Very grateful -- genuinely! -- to @elonmusk for making this possible. pic.twitter.com/KIDy0lo3RU— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) February 7, 2023
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 10:44 (one year ago) link
all my favorite characters in one spot!
― mh, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
It's like when the mobs in Minecraft turn on each other
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 15:28 (one year ago) link
Oh Elon
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/9/23593099/elon-musk-twitter-fires-engineer-declining-reach-ftc-concerns
On Tuesday, Musk gathered a group of engineers and advisors into a room at Twitter’s headquarters looking for answers. Why are his engagement numbers tanking?“This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Musk’s declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning.Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.Musk did not take the news well. “You’re fired, you’re fired,” Musk told the engineer. (Platformer is withholding the engineer’s name in light of the harassment Musk has directed at former Twitter employees.)
“This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”
One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Musk’s declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning.
Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.
Musk did not take the news well.
“You’re fired, you’re fired,” Musk told the engineer. (Platformer is withholding the engineer’s name in light of the harassment Musk has directed at former Twitter employees.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
i feel bad for this poor fired Twitter engineer but on the whole this story is so funny https://t.co/FhKNufNS6n pic.twitter.com/NTwF9zfz14— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) February 9, 2023
The disarray makes it less likely that Musk will ever recoup the $44 billion he spent to buy Twitter, and may hasten its decline into insolvency.
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
man, elon musk sucks badly
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
Another victim of the tweep state.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
Oh this too.. I'm sure the orders came from Lord Musk:
The president of SpaceX revealed the company has taken active steps to prevent Ukrainian forces from using the critical Starlink satellite technology with Ukrainian drones that are a key component of their fight against Russia.
“There are things that we can do to limit their ability to do that,” Gwynne Shotwell told reporters on Wednesday, referencing reports on Starlink and drone use. “There are things that we can do, and have done.”
Fuckers
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
now there will be pressure to artificially inflate his impressions while also making musk feel like he totally earned it. the rich dude fantasy
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
this man is like a modern day Hans Christian Andersen fable
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
my god musk throwing a tantrum about people not paying attention to his tweets and firing someone over it hes further gone than i thought
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:47 (one year ago) link
lmao this is amazing
― rob, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link
interview to fill the suddenly open principal engineer position
"now...you're gonna have to kiss some MAJOR ass in order to work here. can you please show us how sycophantic you can possible be? seriously you are going to need to humiliate yourself on a daily basis if you want to earn the honor of writing monthly one-pagers to plead for your job"
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:52 (one year ago) link
the hilarious thing is the obvious way to solve this problem for elon is bots
― rob, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
“There’s times he’s just awake late at night and says all sorts of things that don’t make sense,” one employee said. “And then he’ll come to us and be like, ‘this one person says they can’t do this one thing on the platform,’ and then we have to run around chasing some outlier use case for one person. It doesn’t make any sense.”
musky musky him sad man in his room
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:56 (one year ago) link
“You’re fired, you’re fired"
kinda has a 'hitler's final days in the bunker' vibe, when he was all spun out on speed
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
lol this list
“We haven’t seen much in the way of longer term, cogent strategy,” one employee said. “Most of our time is dedicated to three main areas: putting out fires (mostly caused by firing the wrong people and trying to recover from that), performing impossible tasks, and ‘improving efficiency’ without clear guidelines of what the expected end results are. We mostly move from dumpster fire to dumpster fire, from my perspective.”
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
I hope the thing that got the guy fired was him finally snapping and yelling "it's because your tweets SUCK!" Like how much "engagement" are you going to get with a daily avalanche of "concerning" or "interesting"
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/jAfqEgF.png
mr. musk? um, you asked me to let you know when the dilbert guy compliments you. he says you're doing a great job
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link
also we cleaned out your piss jars, they're all fresh for the week
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
Balls to the wall there.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
that starlink thing doesnt make any sense. why would you piss off the DoD, the biggest gravy train around?
― micah, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
seems like musk might not be good at business
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
i know this is juvenile and also physical assault but it must be really tempting to pants him during meetings
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
the whole thing about 'starlink was never intended to be weaponized' - hello, what about the ENTIRE LAST YEAR it's been weaponized??
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
lol no one tell Elon where the internet came from
― rob, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
Can't wait until the USAF discovers that they invested https://spacenews.com/spacex-gets-1-9-million-air-force-contract-for-starlink-services-in-europe-and-africa/.9 million in something that's not supposed to be weaponized.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 9 February 2023 21:26 (one year ago) link
Nice interview about how Tesla exists as a stock-promotion/manipulation company first and everything else a distant second:
https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/154_the_tesla_crash_is_only_beginning_w_edward_niedermeyer/
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 9 February 2023 22:40 (one year ago) link