Twitter C/D

pic.twitter.com/0CfR6YVltQ

— The Classical Conservative (@Xenos_RIFS) March 31, 2023

Pay the $8 for the guys https://t.co/U3Xjg7bpdw

— Marquez V-S (@MVS__11) March 31, 2023

Can’t bro i got kids… https://t.co/dP0DlmVaDl

— Patrick Mahomes II (@PatrickMahomes) March 31, 2023

having the check is going to be confirmation of loser-dom in a few days

the new digital fedora

genuinely baffled by what Elon thinks is going to happen open sourcing all this code. nobody is gonna do shit to improve it and it may lead to a bunch of backdoors being discovered. best case scenario he just finds new ways to embarrass himself.

I’m likely the only one bored enough to still occasionally check the For You tab so this is of limited interest. But they’ve significantly deteriorated the functionality over the past day.

Yesterday there was still a clear indication of why tweets were recommended as “For You” — if you clicked “Not interested” it would bring up a list of options such as “Show fewer follows from [X account you follow]”. That’s all gone now. It’s obvious there’s a lot more random Twitter-selected recommendations in For You since they made the change too.

We’ll see if they really go through with the promised self-defeating termination of legacy blue checks over the coming day.

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

The checkmark apocalypse has begun https://t.co/ayRh2OCSIH

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) April 1, 2023

LMAOOO

God it's going to be funny if this is exactly like last time and the verification policy almost immediately gets walked back. pic.twitter.com/ZgeUJ33BRq

— Velodus✨ (@velodus) April 1, 2023

I do wonder how much of the Twitter userbase actually knows this is happening. I know a lotta people aren't particularly active on it or use it just to follow sports accounts or whatever.

I think I’ve figured out the source of the Mavericks’ incompetence

@elonmusk , question for you. I'm losing about 500 to 1k users a day. To counter this I went Blue² thinking it gave me some preference and would help retain or grow users. Any suggestions ?

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) March 31, 2023

It’s too bad he didn’t stick to playing the hits

pic.twitter.com/SW3TMdjT6d

— Matt Erspamer (@erspamer_matt) March 30, 2023

Can’t help but notice people still have their checks

1) As someone who was (briefly) in charge of the Twitter Media team - the group tasked with getting high profile people onto Twitter, and verification - AND as one of the few ever to voluntarily give up the blue check, I want to try to articulate how risky this policy change is. https://t.co/ABYu2kJIWa

— Nathan Hubbard (@NathanCHubbard) March 31, 2023

2)The reason the Twitter Media team existed was because *almost all* of the engagement on Twitter happens with tweets from high profile people/organizations across government, sports, music, business, news, whatever the Kardashians are, etc. They’re the lifeblood of the platform.

— Nathan Hubbard (@NathanCHubbard) March 31, 2023

eh, they were supposed to open source The Algorithm last week. Don’t hold your breath.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 March 2023 01:49


Looks like caek was otm.

Can’t help but notice people still have their checks

― frogbs, Saturday, April 1, 2023 10:06 AM

"People are still having sex checks"

i've been getting ads for 'STOP JEWISH HATE' which seems . . . poorly phrased

Yeah, as a Jew I see those and every time I'm like WHA'D I DO??

Autocorrect deleted the anti-

Hmm

Removal of verification badges is a largely manual process powered by a system prone to breaking, which draws on a large internal database — similar to an Excel spreadsheet — in which verification data is stored, according to the former employees. Sometimes, an employee would try to remove a badge but the change wouldn’t take, one of the former employees said, prompting workers to explore workarounds. In the past, there was no way to reliably remove badges at a bulk scale — prompting workers tackling spam, for example, to have to remove check marks one-by-one.
“It was all held together with duct tape,” the former employee added.

the whole thing is so amazing, he's not only making Twitter much much worse he's also making it basically impossible for it to ever recruit any new users again. and all for what'll total out to like 10% of the interest payment, which he has to pay because he stupidly offered 300% of what the company was actually worth. and now it turns out to be a massively convoluted switch. this shit's like something out of Arrested Development

Is he just going to keep pouring money down this hole indefinitely? Is he making enough profit from Tesla etc to offset his losses from Twitter?

there's always money in the banana stand.

actually its even funnier than that, I'm guessing verified accounts were designed to have to be added by hand with no thought given to potentially having to remove them, possibly because nobody at Twitter envisioned them actually having a reason to do that

There's no real risk to him when Twitter goes bankrupt aside from getting Khashoggied but he was smart enough to have his World Cup Saudi hangs in front of a camera.

I don't even understand this meme. What is "see, no one cares!" meant to refer to and how does that relate to Musk glee?

One account has lost its verification badge: NYT, for saying it wasn’t going to pay for it pic.twitter.com/FdCdN0YUE9

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) April 2, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WohcOQZBJas

its da algo baby

Twitter revealed its algorithm to the world.

But what does it mean for you?

I spent the evening analyzing it.

Here’s what you need to know:

— Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0) April 1, 2023

1. Likes, then retweets, then replies

Here’s the ranking parameters:

• Each like gets a 30x boost
• Each retweet a 20x
• Each reply only 1x

It’s much more impactful to earn likes and retweets than replies. pic.twitter.com/hwpriLgEXj

— Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0) April 1, 2023

2. Images & videos help

Both images and videos lead to a nice 2x boost. pic.twitter.com/KQgkA2Qj6J

— Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0) April 1, 2023

hey everybody thanks for watching my tweets be sure to like retweet and possibly reply, in descending order, til next time, BYE

its kind of funny thinking through the logic of ranking likes higher than retweets, retweets are what you want other people to see but likes are what you actually like, idk feel like a retweet is just fundamentally a stronger endorsement and should be ranked higher

Well I had the sense that actually linking to Bandcamp was a no-no in terms of tweeting about your new record, there you have it.

ive seen people make a thread with the first or more posts having an image and text then tweet the link in the last post, and it turns out they did in fact crack the code

as someone who mainly uses twitter to post links to my site, this is some bullshit right here

3. Links hurt, unless you have enough engagement

Generally external links get you marked as spam.

Unless you have enough engagement. pic.twitter.com/5BNbb4YvGJ

— Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0) April 1, 2023

just absolutely nowhere you can share your work any more, everything is a closed shop

I never cracked the code. Didn't try very hard and just figured it wasn't worth it. I'd post some silly thing on Facebook and gets a hundred likes and 50 comments of interesting conversation. I'd post something on twitter and crickets. That was all I needed to know.

isn't it kind of weird to post memes of yourself?

what is tiktok if not attempting to make a meme of yourself

i am become meme meme of myself

plus cest meme chose is french for "let the memes choose". they chose you

can’t believe Elon would start behaving weirdly wrt twitter, memes, or himself in April 2023

📹

Ryan Broderick recently wrote about how he'd cracked the Twitter algo:
https://www.garbageday.email/p/i-remembered-how-awful-it-is-to-go

Aaaahhhhhahahaha Elon got mad at people dunking on twitter blue subscribers. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/BhZW7Y5TBc

— ʎǝlpǝH ɐnɥsoſ (@JoshuaHedley) April 2, 2023

As far as I can tell, the meme does not work in that context...

i hadn’t realized how shitty the twitter blue features are.. who in their right mind would pay for any of this lol

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue

I liked what Chrissy Tiegen said, "oh my god just take the checkmark already who cares"

The amount of celebrities straight up saying they don’t want the check and would be embarrassed to have it is astounding, truly an all time marketing failure

Kinda feel Elon ain’t actually gonna go through with it in the end, like he’ll get enough removed to make a mess of things and then just move on to an even dumber idea

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fsvnjv7XwAAq2tm?format=jpg&name=small

One small difference here is once you subscribe you don’t have to write the news articles yourself

he really thought his plan would work cut costs to the bone then make enough from subscriptions to be profitable but it didnt