Twitter C/D

wonder if i could make a browser plugin to make blocking easier

I've interviewed Sweeney, he's a very odd guy, almost like speaking to a robot or something.

ah https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blue-blocker/jgpjphkbfjhlbajmmcoknjjppoamhpmm

https://www.throwbacks.com/content/images/2017/12/11-1.JPG

seems like you have to visit the accounts profile page for that extension to work but that does make the blocking a little easier

whether intentionally or ass backwards they have switched this website's business model from "selling ad space to brands" to "grifting shut ins out of their social security check with culture war horseshit" pic.twitter.com/zSnW66dEUs

— flglmn (@flglmn) April 22, 2023

I was in a hipster coffee bar today and everyone was talking about the size of your poops

— Jacob Wohl (@HornsPanda) April 22, 2023

Dril’s response to getting the blue check

you can disaggrree with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwells politics while still hanging out with them in photographs. Its totally fine

— forgiven ascended wint (@dril) April 22, 2023

I love that he's now giving them out as punishment

business genius

I have been informed it was removed because dril changed his username to remove it, but now it is back there, because I guess Elon is monitoring the account and putting it back as soon as dril removes it, which is so pathetic it's impossible to put into words really pic.twitter.com/UY15K7B4h9

— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) April 22, 2023

He must be on an Adderall bender.

From this thread of dead celebrities, it appears that every account with 1 million followers is being blue checked. https://t.co/JYHKnM6G7d

— Troy Goodfellow (@TroyGoodfellow) April 22, 2023

I feel like I’m craving a very uncomfortable and defensive interview by some dopey marketing or PR executive, where are the goods

The blue check thing is exciting for old heads because it's just a good old fashioned message board implosion

— krat (@KWholesaler) April 23, 2023

Sadly that Blue Blocker thing doesn't seem to work. I wish I'd known about the blocking masterlist before the account got suspended.

Listen, aside from the snarky response, this really isn’t appropriate. If you want to verify old accounts somehow to avoid impersonation, cool, but making it look like they’re subscribed? That’s in exceedingly poor taste. My father is dead, and has no say in the matter.

— Jack McCain (@McCainJack) April 23, 2023

The 1M follower thing is true I guess. This guy’s a popular video game designer with 1M followers.

No it’s not and no I didn’t. 😡 pic.twitter.com/cVBSULNDkF

— TimOfLegend (@TimOfLegend) April 23, 2023

if someone buys elon some buffy box sets will he stop fucking with the site

the million follower free checkmark thing applying to dead people might be the funniest bit yet

We’ve reached the point where Elon is giving out blue checks out of spite

Elon Musk just gave me mine for free and I’m not even a Hollywood celeb

how much are you paying for yours catturd https://t.co/X8eDayOvF6

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) April 22, 2023

We’ve reached the point where Elon is giving out blue checks out of spite

Elon Musk just gave me mine for free and I’m not even a Hollywood celeb

how much are you paying for yours catturd https://t.co/X8eDayOvF6

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) April 22, 2023

Huh

In the old days I would've assumed this was a joke. But thanks to Elon's checkmark system, I can safely say it's in earnest. pic.twitter.com/ggJJdj2PRD

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) April 23, 2023

Sadly that Blue Blocker thing doesn't seem to work. I wish I'd known about the blocking masterlist before the account got suspended.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, April 22, 2023 10:32 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

oops was going to say it kind of works for me at least you just have to go to the profile of the blue check you want to block (im assuming because thats where the blocking functionality is exposed) like for instance this guy https://twitter.com/Murphybear64 then if you refresh youll see hes blocked so it saves you a couple clicks

so a good block the blue workflow might be find a tweet that has a a ton of blue check replies and open the profile of each replier in a new tab then go one by one closing each tab which will in turn load the next tab activating the blocking extension

dont worry i reviewed my profile myself and its still really good. please let me change my name back to normal now pic.twitter.com/nlKZpm9Eq9

— slave to Woke (@dril) April 23, 2023

im looking to advertise my business on a social media platform that elevates the type of people in my replies who yell at the auschwitz museum, does anyone know of an app like that where i can advertise my business

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) April 23, 2023

finding identity in a website subscription...........

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fua9fyBWYAMfZDL?format=jpg&name=900x900

Has there ever been so much self-owning concentrated in one place at one time?

i get an error message when i try to sign into twitter and i can no longer browse tweets without signing in

I'm reminded of when in Fallout 76 the players that bought the membership got a little medal icon next to their name. And all the none paying users hunted them down until they had to live in walled off bunkers.

That was also funny.

— JustJake (@JustMightyJake) April 23, 2023

"I'm not a candidate, so we'll see if and when that changes," Gov. DeSantis, who is in Japan right now, says when asked about polls that show him falling behind Trump. pic.twitter.com/nDVeyBoVHN

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 24, 2023

i get an error message when i try to sign into twitter and i can no longer browse tweets without signing in

― treeship., Monday, April 24, 2023 4:01 AM (seventeen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, i've also been locked out of my account. "we've detected suspicious activity" was the message iirc. now i'm stuck in an authentication test where i move the animal to face in the direction of the hand. i do all 5 correctly and it says 'something is not quite right' every time. it feels like a blessing overall though i will be significantly more news-poor now.

this is actually the single worst thing to happen to Twitter, for me personally at least, because now for every popular tweet the top replies are from the worst people.

The thing i wonder is why these people are paying to amplify their tweets when they’re just repeating the same things a thousand other people are tweeting

They’re morons

In my day we would have amplified classier posts, like pics of our bare butts

Like check it out, I’m the 48th person to tweet that Powers Booth meme at Scotusblog

the blue check subscribers that this change to replies is surfacing are genuinely bizarre

This guy is paying for likes and follows, right?

Engagement analytics on this are nonsensical. https://t.co/uxcqlfWxAm

— Charlie Carrel (@Charlie_Carrel) April 25, 2023

What is the world coming to when obvious nobodies like Steve Albino get so many likes?

omfg lol

wait, why does charlie carrel have 0 tweets

i might be using nu-twitter wrong

the founder of Thrive UK, a program to end homelessness in the UK, is whining about woke people

the blue check subscribers that this change to replies is surfacing are genuinely bizarre

OTM. is there any point in blocking the paid checks, or is it just a bottomless well of idiocy?

(assume it's bottomless)

Carrels fairly well known in the poker scene so maybe just knows of Albini through there

I assume that's the only reason Albini saw his tweet

lol everyone is a creator to these people they have no idea how to deal with the organic power of a poster

Your like:view ratio is out of this world - multitudes higher than the most successful people on the platform. And it was subtweet.

Either you're lying, or your brainless, woke nonsense organically outperforms every other creator for some reason.

— Charlie Carrel (@Charlie_Carrel) April 25, 2023