pretty funny that advertisers started fleeing immediately upon hearing he was taking over, guess they knew what was up
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
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
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
Wasn’t Twitter losing money before the takeover?
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
it was profitable in 2021
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 23:45 (one year ago) link
Roffle
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 23:59 (one year ago) link
Publicly owned is right
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
oopsy daisy
― mh, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
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
― mh, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:39 (one year ago) link
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.......
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link
Reeks of desperation tbh
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 04:15 (one year ago) link
(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
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 05:44 (one year ago) link
Where do I subscribe to ILX blue so I can delete my post.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 05:46 (one year ago) link
NPR could just tweet out a middle finger emoji once a day
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 13:45 (one year ago) link
lol musk is freaking out he just emails some random npr reporter to threaten the org
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
you have to because emailing pr✧✧✧@n✧✧.o✧✧ just autoreplies with the news emoji
― mh, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link
press at npr dot org
damn it I failed the reference
― mh, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link
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.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
i have to say from experience that sucking dick underwater is rather difficult, the Musk-lovers have their work cut out for them
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
so he wants to compel tweeting now
― treeship., Wednesday, 3 May 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
the power of shite compels thee
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
UPDATE TO STORY: pic.twitter.com/eEYnKvbGUv— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) May 3, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
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’).
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 23:57 (one year ago) link
As the joke goes, he should stop digging. Or at least stop tweeting.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 May 2023 01:46 (one year ago) link
And emailing, apparently.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 4 May 2023 02:55 (one year ago) link
Actual error pages up at the minute?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 4 May 2023 12:12 (one year ago) link
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, 4 May 2023 15:37 (one year ago) link
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
― z_tbd, Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
They deleted the day Kanye was on the Alex Jones show
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
deleted the tweet that is, not the day
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
i do believe in the idea of deleted days
― z_tbd, Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
well, I've heard May 1 never happened
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
teach the controversy!
― z_tbd, Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
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
― 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.
― jaymc, Thursday, 4 May 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
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
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 May 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 May 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
That's a good point. I've only followed a very small handful of people over the last few years. There's definitely a sense of stagnation when much of what you see is the people you've been following for years, who are tweeting about the same stuff as always and apparently have no plans to leave.
― jaymc, Thursday, 4 May 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
So can we start a bluesky invites chain or what
(mostly I'm just curious tbh)
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Friday, 5 May 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
I heard someone pronounce it like "Bluski"
If that is the actual pronunciation then no thanks
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 5 May 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
Three syllables -- 'bl' - 'uesk' - 'y'
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 May 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link
xpost - tbh I vastly prefer that pronunciation
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 May 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link