Twitter C/D

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

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.

So can we start a bluesky invites chain or what

(mostly I'm just curious tbh)

I heard someone pronounce it like "Bluski"

If that is the actual pronunciation then no thanks

Three syllables -- 'bl' - 'uesk' - 'y'

xpost - tbh I vastly prefer that pronunciation

I keep thinking it's an Underworld reference

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

i am absolutely baffled by the reaction to this subway killing.

by democrats no less. it's like it's 1995 again.

I hear the A-ha song in my head each time xp

Yeah I've been watching a lot of typically very left people in my orbit just turn into raging maniacs about "crime! crime! crime!" and "somethin' oughta be done!" lately. Shit I expect to hear from my central Illinois relatives who have always been afraid of "the big city" is now being spouted by lifelong Chicagoans. It's weird and unsettling.

goldfish like memories

in this case though, it's not even about people taking a narrow view of crime that doesn't connect it to other systemic issues.

what we are seeing is people either making excuses for or even celebrating the cold blooded murder of a mentally ill homeless man.

oh yeah, the reactions to this case have been horrifying and disgusting, but it seems to be tying into a larger national mood right now where an alarming number of people seem to think every urban center is now a crime ridden cesspool

a lot of people just repeat what the people around them are saying. i wonder if any of the people you are hearing were ACAB types in 2020.