difficult to overstate the operational burden of shipping and observing new features in a system as complex as twitter. implementing the behavior is the easy part, relative to putting it in prod. which is why the changes he's made to the core timeline product have been incremental and have often been accompanied by downtime because shipping them broke something else.
― š šš¢šØ (caek), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
If any of the following now-suspended accounts belonged to anyone you know, please contact me: @imani_tsunami @CasuallyPerla @MadisonSaysWhat @Jona_Whitmore @Cassss0_ @MsAmanda_speaks @indra_4 @Alicia_Stone_ @amyg__g @AnthonOwo @BornKern @ChapelCissy @Cheeseconsin (cont'd)— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) April 18, 2023
Looks like a respected journalist is taking on Muskās Twitter for totally unbiased reasons
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
haa
― lagān, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: Twitter just sent out this email to business users announcing their official re-naming to X Corp. pic.twitter.com/U9zMbaTIBM— WOLF (@WOLF_Financial) April 18, 2023
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link
damn that's a cool name
― mh, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
easily the coolest letter
― lagān, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
Tomorrow: "Please note that with immediate effect our Tax ID number has been changed to 80085"
― nashwan, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
Lots of kids destroy their toys in the process of playing with them.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
honestly X Corp is a more fitting name for the kind of company they apparently want to be. it sounds vaguely supervillain-like.also i think if you could go back to the day before twitter existed and just said "X or Twitter", most people would pick X. "most people" not in the good way but in the "the average of collective taste is something that is often very blandly acceptable" way
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:44 (one year ago) link
next fun thing -- Elon shaves head or wears a bald cap and calls it LeXCorp for a day or 2
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
I honestly thought X Corp was Hank Scorpioās business name.
― WesternĀ® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BFMAAOSwbd1hJ6Ww/s-l500.jpg
Disney lawsuit in 3...2...1...
― peace, man, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
I think they have their hands full with another man-troll currently.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
Fun fact: This is the very same rule that was used to block distribution of the New York Post story about Hunter Biden, the greatest First Amendment violation in American history. https://t.co/q1P4bTCSDG— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 19, 2023
― lagān, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 21:05 (one year ago) link
The worst. Just the worst management style.
Tomorrow, 4/20, we are removing legacy verified checkmarks. To remain verified on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://t.co/gzpCcwOXAXOrganizations can sign up for Verified Organizations here: https://t.co/YtPVNYypHU— Twitter Verified (@verified) April 19, 2023
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 23:18 (one year ago) link
ya an impulsive authoritarian with zany jokes its the pits
― lagān, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
wow lawsuit time
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuHINVOaIAErkmd?format=jpg&name=large
― lagān, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 23:24 (one year ago) link
*taps wrist where my watch would be but i forgot to put it on because i smoked so much drugs*
lawsuit time
― Clay, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 23:26 (one year ago) link
Microsoft can afford all the lawyers they need to tie Twitter in knots for as long as they want.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 23:35 (one year ago) link
do I dare ask what "trained illegally" means?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 23:41 (one year ago) link
he must be talking about microsoft using twitter data to train an ai which idk if they did that or if it violated twitters terms of use def not illegal tho lol
― lagān, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 23:45 (one year ago) link
xp - He seems to be implying there's some kind of data proprietary to Twitter that MS used without permission. He's probably full of shit and he can afford the best shit, too.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 23:49 (one year ago) link
he's playing 7D Chutes and Ladders now
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 00:00 (one year ago) link
except his version is all Chutes
elon really thought all these pro social media management apps were just going to give them half a million dollars a year
― lagān, Thursday, 20 April 2023 00:03 (one year ago) link
There probably wouldāve been a way to get those customers to swallow that pillā¦like a decade agoā¦if Elon werenāt involvedā¦
― G. DāArcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 20 April 2023 02:48 (one year ago) link
Shites and Losers
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Thursday, 20 April 2023 07:54 (one year ago) link
He just consistently overestimates how important Twitter is to its power users, media companies in particular ā when the power users are actually the ones who are important to Twitter.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 20 April 2023 11:46 (one year ago) link
Musk really missed an opportunity to charge money to watch him repeatedly hit himself in the balls. You won't buy the cow if you can get the milk for free.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 April 2023 12:09 (one year ago) link
so far, blue checks are still there today
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:14 (one year ago) link
they have to go through and remove each one individually from the spreadsheet
― lagān, Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:24 (one year ago) link
and then he fires that guy doing that mid-day and asks one of his staffers why the blue check removal isn't done and the dude responds "you fired the guy working on it" so he fires that guy for mouthing off and then
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:25 (one year ago) link
Normally I'd predict blue checks will still be there by the end of the day, but 4/20 is a sacred date for Musk. Even more so than 6/9.
― Chris L, Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:34 (one year ago) link
Seems appropriate that today is also the news this breaks:
NEWS: BuzzFeed News is being shut down.— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 20, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
the checks are gone
― lagān, Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:23 (one year ago) link
ok now everybody impersonate all of the celebs who aren't blue checks
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
so ridiculous
― treeship., Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
Musk's management approach to Twitter:
http://booksellersnz.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/jenga.jpg
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:37 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuLbmqfWAA4aX4B?format=jpg&name=small
― lagān, Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:47 (one year ago) link
legacy verified blue checks are gone 'Verified' notifications are now a spam filter! feel free to block everyone in there pic.twitter.com/WpWiKCNXLw— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) April 20, 2023
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
The only users Iām seeing with blue checks are Glenn Greenwald, BJG, Nina Turner andā¦Jeff Weiss
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
uh oh
Iām Tony LaRussa— Tony LaRussa (@chknpuppetmk5) April 20, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
Anybody checked in on the insulin prices today?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:04 (one year ago) link
So who is paying?Some of the biggest celebrities to cough up the $8 include musical artists like Rihanna, Taylor Swift, and Miley Cyrus. In fact, of the few celebs that have signed up, singers and artists probably make up the bulk of it. Britney Spears, The Weeknd, Joe and Nick Jonas, Cardi B, Chance the Rapper, Coldplay, David Guetta, Shawn Mendes, and Snoop Dogg are among the other big names in music who have subscribed.Over in Hollywood, actors Ryan Reynolds, Chris Hemsworth, Hugh Jackman, and Neil Patrick Harris are keeping their blue checkmarks for a monthly fee.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
hi everyone. i want to apologize for my past behavior. I am no longer Christian nor Conservative. Also I recognize my performance on Saturday Night Live was not very good and that I should shut up more.Please forgive me.— Victoria Jackson (@HornsPanda) April 20, 2023
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:22 (one year ago) link
Very UK pol this: let's shame the people who paid.
The OBR is the ticking time-bomb for Labour's growth strategy - and for urgent defence investment ... it just cannot model investment led growth šš½ https://t.co/3FmL1g75U4— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) April 20, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link
So ... Donald Trump has no check but Don Jr. does?
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:42 (one year ago) link
I agree with this, I think he's keeping some on there so it looks like they are subscribed
LeBron and Stephen King still having checks makes me think they didn't pay and that Elon specifically preserved theirs because they publicly embarrassed him.— Barry Petchesky (@barry) April 20, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
I remember sth about the top 1000 accounts keeping their blue ticks
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 April 2023 20:01 (one year ago) link
I signed up for Twitter blue back in 2021, long before Elon bought the site, bc as a content creator, the ability to post long videos was invaluable. It still is. I respect alternative choices, but someone of us are actually paying for a useful professional service.I have zeroā¦ https://t.co/Cuvym9ovTR— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) April 20, 2023
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 April 2023 20:13 (one year ago) link