It feels like Elon's running his own variation on the Sneetches, except he forgot the part where he's supposed to make money.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 03:28 (one year ago) link
well this is interesting news to wake up to
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65247272
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 06:36 (one year ago) link
“He confessed today that the only reason he went through with buying Twitter was because he believed a judge would force him to go through with the transaction."He's never admitted that till now, so it was a very whimsical interview... but he gave us some insight into the strange life of this billionaire."He also suggested the interview showed he was not always consistent in what he says.Daisley added: "He seems to be a very enigmatic figure."o rly
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 07:21 (one year ago) link
All legacy verified accounts will lose their blue tick on 4/20, Elon Musk reveals.
every time he does something like this or the doge logo thing, it makes me think of this dril tweet
the jduge orders me to take off my anonymous v mask & im wearing the joker makeup underneath it. everyone in the courtroom groans at my shit— wint (@dril) March 10, 2015
(comparing things to dril tweets is itself probably now in the 420/joker makeup/doge zone but whatever)
― soref, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 08:01 (one year ago) link
trying (and failing) to understand this https://nitter.net/― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 06:47 (yesterday) linkisn’t that site for browsing someone’s feed without being logged in?― 龜, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 12:36 (yesterday) linkit's just a really lightweight frontend that'll probably get blocked if it gets enough traffic to be noticed, not a whole lot to understand― mh, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 13:39 (yesterday) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 06:47 (yesterday) link
isn’t that site for browsing someone’s feed without being logged in?
― 龜, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 12:36 (yesterday) link
it's just a really lightweight frontend that'll probably get blocked if it gets enough traffic to be noticed, not a whole lot to understand
― mh, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 13:39 (yesterday) link
I used this for about a year pre-Musk to read twitter as they started insisting on being logged in to read, and I aint never doing that. That stopped soon after Musk took over, so lol I guess this motherfucker has improved the usability of the site for me at least
― Toploader on the road, unite and take over (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 08:41 (one year ago) link
one would think they wont be the last, twitter isnt really good for driving traffic so whats the point of putting up with its bullshit
NPR announces that its 52 accounts “will no longer be active on Twitter,” citing the social media platform's decision to label NPR "state-affiliated media” https://t.co/i19ONf1tlL— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 12, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
Taibbi: I'm leaving Twitter because of Elon's decisions NPR: We're leaving Twitter because of Elon's decisionsElon: My screen name is Harry Bōlz and my building says Titter on it, also the nonpaying blue checks go away on 4/20 now, haha— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) April 12, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
I really want to know what was going to be so embarrasing in that trial for Elon that he bought Twitter.
― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
his entire life
― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
Musk voted for Joe Biden, rather than Donald Trump, in 2021. There has been much speculation over Musk's political allegiances
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.theringer.com/tech/2023/4/12/23673003/dril-twitter-interview-profile-identity
Musk voted for Joe Biden, rather than Donald Trump, in 2021.
Someone tell the BBC we don't get to hold elections whenever the fuck we want
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
the rare case of post-election voter fraud
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link
A judge telling him that he had to buy Twitter because he'd already agreed to.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
Musk acknowledged he "shot himself in the foot with tweets multiple times" and said he would "wear bulletproof shoes" going forwardperfect snapshot of his broke mind virus
― nashwan, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
"Rather than give up the gun I shall protect my feet."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
hopefully he shot himself in the younger foot
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
“Elon Musk tells BBC that owning Twitter has been quite painful”being owned by Twitter has been quite painful morelike
― michel goindry (wins), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
long interview with Dril, using his real namehttps://www.theringer.com/tech/2023/4/12/23673003/dril-twitter-interview-profile-identitymy main takeaway here is "I'm nearly a decade older than dril. fucks sake."
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
yeah, I'm actually disappointed dril is not at least 50.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
oh wow I somehow forgot about horse_ebooks. anyway I'm pretty sure I actually remember this dude from FYAD, iirc the stuff he posted there would probably just get you banned from Twitter
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
Great interview. Always wondered how he found those tweets from accounts with no followers.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
welly wonka
― mh, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
the kids posting three word descriptions of the oompa loompa for a school lesson on twitter is very funny.
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 13 April 2023 02:25 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: Twitter to partner with eToro to let users access stocks and crypto trading— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) April 13, 2023
― limb tins & cum (gyac), Thursday, 13 April 2023 11:24 (one year ago) link
oh great.a couple of months ago twitter had a popup asking if I wanted to add an nft profile picture, the options were "yes" and "not now" - I looked in vain for the "fuck off" button.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 13 April 2023 11:31 (one year ago) link
did a twitter search for the last name of the racist oxford tech philosopher guy to see what people were saying about his nytimes oped and there was so much porn in the results cause some low follower porn account has bostrom in its handle
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 April 2023 13:08 (one year ago) link
Rocco's Basilisk
― Toploader on the road, unite and take over (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 13 April 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
...haa
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 April 2023 13:44 (one year ago) link
it kinda crazy that what substack is trying to build doesnt already exist a social platform for paying writers, youtube has been paying people for years, medium kinda tried to do it but it was sort of a hybrid model too much blog/media org thought, tho tbf substacks secret sauce is email which is even older than blogs lol, kinda doubt their twitter clone will work but it is cool that you can just roll up a website/newsletter and start getting paid, even if the company sucks and will inevitably screw over the writers
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 April 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link
The substackers I follow have almost completely abandoned Twitter and use Notes.
― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 13 April 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
wonder if theyre paying them to do it, wld be smart, notes only hope is for all of the journalists et al to go there, thats twitters draw that a lot of industry people are there
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 April 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link
the pay people to write model is pretty obvious for substack at this point but not sure how they can pay people to tweet at scale
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 April 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
other networks that pay people to post are ad based notes is not the money is all coming from newsletter subscriptions, its prob doa
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 April 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
something will be lost if twitter goes and nothing replaces it
I keep waiting for someone else to make this point but it hasn’t happened yet. Or I haven’t seen it yet. Discovery on here sucks now. But there’s a very profound thing that Twitter provides creative industries that isn’t traffic. And when it’s gone, oh boy, are we gonna feel it…— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) April 13, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 April 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
Well it's less than useless for sharing anything right now because it treats links as spam, so you waste time trying to use it to promote anything you make. Even nothing would be an improvement on that, though of course there will be something, people won't just stop using the internet.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 13 April 2023 15:28 (one year ago) link
“For you” has always penalized tweets with links fwiw
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 13 April 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
I look askance at the switchover to Notes -- I don't begrudge anyone doing it if they're already there, but placing one's faith in one private company over another seems like a lateral move.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 April 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
twitter has never really been good for sharing links its for sharing tweets
in the tech journalism world, despite a lively community of programmers on twitter, a link from a site with 2007-era web design called something like "Bob's Linux Chat" would send you several orders of magnitude more traffic than the most viral twitter link https://t.co/ZeYas8uBCn— Josh Fruhlinger (@jfruh) April 13, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 April 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
I don't know about "always" but yes it has been this way for a long time, though has got even worse of late. It's still leagues better than Facebook, who will only share links to people who have already liked your page if you pay them, or Instagram where you can't share links at all. Reddit has managed to internalise this into a culture where anyone sharing their work =spammer
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 13 April 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, April 13, 2023 11:09 AM (forty-four minutes ago)
they probably can't, substack's financials are ... shitty
― 龜, Thursday, 13 April 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
That means Substack was required to disclose financials for 2020 and 2021 only, which it did yesterday ($12m of 2021 gross revenue, $22m net loss and $55m of cash on hand).
i imagine the $12MM doesn't include the subscription revenue that goes directly to creators, only substack's cut
youtube, otoh, pulled in $29B (billion with a B) in ad revenue in 2022
i wonder if substack revenue is more stable from the pov of a creator, if you're a youtuber you're at the mercy of the algorithm but as a substack guy i wonder if most of your subscribers just end up forgetting they're paying you $50 a year
― 龜, Thursday, 13 April 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
seems like substack has an obvious path towards profitability but that might not be enough for their vc overlords
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 April 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
the model i see for the future is that everyone pays me to tweet, it's win-win
― mark s, Thursday, 13 April 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
substack fucked up by setting the default option to be that you stop paying when your subscription ends (usually after 1 year) instead of having it auto renew. nyt goes to insane lengths to make it impossible to end your subscription
― flopson, Thursday, 13 April 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link
yeah weird decision by a company that seems otherwise extremely mercenary
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 April 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
substack should be copying onlyfans' business model
― mh, Thursday, 13 April 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
I don't want to see Matt Taibbi and Jedd Legum naked thank you.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 April 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
I'm not gonna use it as a Twitter replacement; I'm just gonna send out the odd link as the mood strikes, just to keep my subscribers on the hook in between newsletters.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
its funny the new substack ideas are just copies of other social media, wasn't there like a substack chatroom recently too...
― 龜, Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link