Twitter C/D

no one has broken it like elon has tho they knew enough to not kill the goose

I feel like all this stuff was pitched at jack and he was like hmm I will consider it on my next desert fast while I am meditating and then he got back to a computer only to realize he liked looking for hypebeast clothes more than working (relatable)

jack was the best ceo cause he just did other things instead of running twitter

btw a short fund just put out a big report on how block is a fraud and also used a lot for crime

lol

Block paid to promote a video for a song called “Cash App” which described paying contract killers through the app. The song’s artist was later arrested for attempted murder.

honestly difficult to think of a worse CEO for Twitter than Musk, it would be like making Kyrie the commissioner of the NBA while simultaneously allowing him to play

yeah apparently jack had bragged about the many rap songs cash app was mentioned in as a way to demonstrate how hot it was and in the short report they go through and show how all the lyrics are talking about using it for crime lol

Based on current trends, probably close to zero new advertisers on Twitter by April

You mean real companies advertising. Dick pills, crypto scams, supplements, shitty home furnishings will take up the slack I’m sure.

lol frogbs

Jack has good ideas but he is not a good executive.

so I can see he has a point, and he's saying you will pay for the pleasure of the reading the NYT but not twitter

your subscription to NYT helps pay the people who write the things you read, none of your twitter blue subscription will go to anyone who writes what you read, seems a p important distinction. though elon's "point" follows the path of other disruptors, like streaming music, illegal downloading, etc, where the people who make the money are the people who design the structure that delivers you the art, while the artist is impoverished.

and obvs a lot of the NYT is terrible but

someone shd start the nytimes for tweets lol

this is not the Succession thread (is it?)

twitter meets nytimes meets ilx on the blockchain

When Tweetshelf shut down its free service a few weeks ago, I found myself addictively scrolling Twitter again. Now I'm considering paying for Tweetshelf so I can see the articles people are sharing without feeding my habit. But that's also a feature of Twitter Blue, so it sort of makes me feel like a chump, even tho I wouldn't be giving my money directly to Twitter.

awww, is your 44 billion dollar purchase not going so well?

They should really get rid of that 100 IQ maximum limit for creating an account on Instagram

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2023

"the site for people who care what their IQ is" is not the selling point he thinks it is

rotate cube in mind to login

lol

Today's new weirdness: retweets are no longer labeled as such, so it looks like people you don't follow are randomly showing up in your feed.

wow (working on web)

the site icon/logo has now been replaced by a doge

I swear to God, if this is an April Fools joke that was supposed to happen 2 days ago...

Also seeing unlabeled retweets in for you and the shotcoin thing. Good stuff.

only a business genius can do these kind of things

He knows exactly what he’s doing pic.twitter.com/XgBwXcex7E

— well, (@eatmyassedhole) April 3, 2023

painful

epic

weird

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk facing $258 BILLION racketeering lawsuit for his role in "running a pyramid scheme" to defraud investors with Dogecoin, an unregistered security.https://t.co/x7NHEzbLnt

— LeGate🤠 (@williamlegate) April 3, 2023

painful, epic, weird

lol my first instinct was to X out immediately because i thought they'd gotten hacked

doing this 2 days after April Fools is so painfully on brand

good call

Can't wait for Elon to change the Twitter logo into a doge or some other equally cringe shit.

— SystemFreez ❄️ (@SystemFreez) April 25, 2022

theres this too

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fs0ItuRakAAhlGF?format=png&name=small

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/twitter-thinks-elon-musk-burying-dogecoin-lawsuit/

someone run a poll on the cringiest people of all time

"that would sick"?

You never her, Elon.

every post on Elon's feed could be replaced with Gal Gadot "Imagine" and it still wouldn't be close

ugh I hate that doge icon sitting there, makes we not even want to use the stupid site.

It’s really embarrassing

Makes ME, I mean, but also maybe we

Hey @elonmusk, a few avatar ideas, уou're welcome.

From the very heart, bru. pic.twitter.com/6de2YxvCbM

— MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) April 4, 2023

on russian twitter doge coins you

wow fuck this dogecoin shit

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

When I’m dumb enough to click on a Musk tweet or reply I used to see people roasting him, now all I get are his most pathetic reply guys cheering him on.

it looks like blocking him is holding this time

I previously had him blocked and the site "mysteriously" unblocked him

So now NPR is "state-affiliated media." I so want to just dump Twitter completely, but I'm a reporter, a lot of the people I cover are on there saying things, I can't just turn it off.

NPR is not state affiliated media. It is public media. The NYT is not propaganda. It is the most robust news organization in the English speaking world. The bias as to who is being targeted on this site by its leadership is so very clear. And it’s not a small thing. pic.twitter.com/K4h8kpsqkC

— Lulu (@lourdesgnavarro) April 5, 2023

There really should be a mass media defection from Twitter, all legitimate news orgs should just drop it. I can't believe Twitter engagement adds much to anyone's bottom line.

npr shd delete their account twitter is dead anyway lol xp