Twitter C/D

One of many large customer-facing orgs announcing today that changes to the API mean they’re binning Twitter as a customer service channel. https://t.co/ubRd76ZCCt

— Sharon O'Dea (@sharonodea) May 1, 2023

it's wild how all these wild machinations have yielded basically nothing in new revenue and lost millions. he could have just kept everything the same, not laid anyone off and just signed like a couple big ad deals with big companies and come out ahead.

advertisers did start fleeing as soon as the deal was announced tbf so by the time he took over he had a lot of work to do, and he did it poorly

i have multiple accounts logged in on mobile web but it's lost the primary one and won't let me switch to it or log in again.

lock out all your users is a cool disruptive innovation

pretty funny that advertisers started fleeing immediately upon hearing he was taking over, guess they knew what was up

management by fire

I remember losing count of the number of fires at Tesla's Fremont factory https://t.co/16X2XApU9I

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) May 2, 2023

seems clear the writing was on the wall for Twitter even before Elon bought it, I remember a few higher ups saying stuff like "we basically lucked into what Twitter became, but growth has slowed dramatically and we don't know how to turn things around"

so I don't really know what Elon could've done to turn it around, but it sure as shit seems like all his ideas so far have been bad ones. though tbh it is pretty funny that the choice to prioritize his own fans in the replies was the nail in the coffin, I know this ain't how he's gonna see it but it should be clear to Elon that Twitter is awful now because he just sucks so much

well theres a difference between being profitable but not growing enough to satisfy wall street and being unprofitable bleeding users and careening wildly towards bankruptcy

Before Elon it was probably the stuff that made Twitter better than Facebook, etc. that was keeping it from growing fast enough for Wall Street.

With Elon, it's the stink of incel and Nazi that causes money to speedily run away from it

Wasn’t Twitter losing money before the takeover?

it was profitable in 2021

also its one of those common things where if you had ownership that was willing to focus on the core product and not just blow money out the door chasing growth it easily couldve been a good business just not good enough for wall street

best case scenario for them prob wouldve been to be mildly profitable but not growing for long enough for the stock price to drop a lot then someone takes it private and runs it as a nice business, basically a fairy tale in todays financialized reality tho

echos of all the new media companies vice etc going bankrupt under the weight of foolish vc debt despite being profitable

it probably wasn't sustainable with it's ~2022 headcount and ~2022 growth for more than a couple more years, but it was not cash flow emergency musk has portrayed it as.

another genius move rolled back

One of the most important use cases for the Twitter API has always been public utility. Verified gov or publicly owned services who tweet weather alerts, transport updates and emergency notifications may use the API, for these critical purposes, for free.

— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) May 2, 2023

Roffle

Publicly owned is right

oopsy daisy

kills me there are people trying to explain twitter’s shifting rules to public organizations in the replies and they’re all blue checks. imagine being part of a homeowner’s association that’s supposed to do maintenance and then mowing all the yards in the neighborhood anyway

NEW: In a series of emails today, Elon threatened to reassign @NPR to "another company" unless the network started tweeting againhttps://t.co/fbrGeggmL8

— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) May 3, 2023

link does not resolve.......

I love that the reporter just cut and pasted his own story into the replies to get it onto Twitter. So unbelievably lame, he's basically trying to bully them to get back on. Wotta way to run a business.

Reeks of desperation tbh

(Although in follow-up replies, the reporter noted the broken link was their own fault and posted a working link:

better link https://t.co/ffFIjYhxwX

— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) May 3, 2023

(Although in follow-up replies, the reporter noted the broken link was their own fault and posted a working link:

better link https://t.co/ffFIjYhxwX

— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) May 3, 2023

Where do I subscribe to ILX blue so I can delete my post.

NPR could just tweet out a middle finger emoji once a day

lol musk is freaking out he just emails some random npr reporter to threaten the org

you have to because emailing pr✧✧✧@n✧✧.o✧✧ just autoreplies with the news emoji

press at npr dot org

damn it I failed the reference

Musk's behavior is very confusing. He spends most of his time wearing a 'LUV 2 DROWN' t-shirt and gleefully drilling holes in his boat but also frantically scooping out bucketfuls of water on occasion. Like, just let it sink, bruh. Your fans will continue to fellate you all the way to the ocean floor, enjoy the ride.

i have to say from experience that sucking dick underwater is rather difficult, the Musk-lovers have their work cut out for them

so he wants to compel tweeting now

the power of shite compels thee

UPDATE TO STORY: pic.twitter.com/eEYnKvbGUv

— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) May 3, 2023

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvOM6rQXgAA7jfi?format=jpg&name=medium

To me his behavior looks a lot like an addict trying to find his bottom (as in low point, not as in partner of ‘top’).

As the joke goes, he should stop digging. Or at least stop tweeting.

And emailing, apparently.

Actual error pages up at the minute?

works for me but just logging in I realized I haven't really visited Twitter in a while. I think it's still really good for real-time NBA updates but it's no good for anything else anymore. looked through the stuff I RT'd a few months ago and a lot of those people have just went inactive.

remembrer that house judiciary tweet, "elon. kanye. trump." (or whatever order it was)?

it was up for so long, for months. i just noticed they finally deleted it

They deleted the day Kanye was on the Alex Jones show

deleted the tweet that is, not the day

i do believe in the idea of deleted days

well, I've heard May 1 never happened

teach the controversy!

works for me but just logging in I realized I haven't really visited Twitter in a while. I think it's still really good for real-time NBA updates but it's no good for anything else anymore. looked through the stuff I RT'd a few months ago and a lot of those people have just went inactive.

― frogbs, Thursday, May 4, 2023 10:37 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I got sucked back into Twitter a couple of months ago, and my feed is definitely not the same as it once was. It's quieter, less interesting. Even during the peak Trump-era hellsite years, it felt vital in a way that it really doesn't anymore.

I feel like the Blue check comments always being at the top is causing some reactions

WHAT IS GOING ON YOU PEOPLE SOUND LIKE MONSTERS MY GOD https://t.co/FZW9lT4jUs

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 4, 2023

I think with most social media sites you spend a while curating your feed and trying to add as many interesting people as possible, but then it gets to the point where it doesn't even cross your mind to add new people. I think that's where Twitter is at for a lot of people. which is a real problem if folks are actively leaving