they've been complimenting each other publicly for months, she's the only advertiser who supported him, he has no interest in advertising and wants to continue running all other aspects of the business, so it's a good fit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypZNWjPpOuI
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 12 May 2023 00:04 (eleven months ago) link
i wonder if the press is learning. musk tweeted that the deal is done (but did not say the name). the press is reporting the name (presumably from a source other than musk) but is saying they are "in talks" (i.e. is not trusting musk)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 12 May 2023 00:05 (eleven months ago) link
it’ll be interesting because there’s no one alive who he hasn’t turned his back on or fallen out with within months of a close relationship now
― mh, Friday, 12 May 2023 04:15 (eleven months ago) link
I fully expect the stupid Tucker streaming bid to go wrong in three ways, Carlson says something mildly critical, and Musk acts like he’s unpersoned
― mh, Friday, 12 May 2023 04:16 (eleven months ago) link
having an advertising person as ceo and musk running product doesnt seem like a recipe for success
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 May 2023 12:38 (eleven months ago) link
understanding that you need to fix the ad business is good leaving the guy who killed the ad business in charge of the tools he did it with will prob not work
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 May 2023 12:40 (eleven months ago) link
The idea of that cat thing just makes me wanna fucking die
― MaresNest, Friday, 12 May 2023 12:52 (eleven months ago) link
Jack Posobiec, Mike Pompeo, David Sacks’ anti-Ukraine rhetoric, Matt Taibbi’s first Twitter Files thread, anti-immigrant rhetoric from Larry ElderTwitter’s potential next CEO: pic.twitter.com/0ltRPT25q7— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) May 12, 2023
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 12 May 2023 13:33 (eleven months ago) link
The most off-putting culture clash to me right now is the way so many Asian accounts and/or companies have 88 in their name because in their culture it means like "super good luck,"
It actually took one of my kids to point out that celebrating a favourite tennis player with one of the years they were most successful (beat Agassi in LA the week Blue Bell Knoll came out!) as my Twitter handle was, er, no longer ok. But :shrug: At least my Insta handle means "f--- H", maybe?
― Michael Jones, Friday, 12 May 2023 13:44 (eleven months ago) link
favourite tennis player with one of the years they were most successful (beat Agassi in LA the week Blue Bell Knoll came out!)
This was a lot of homework, Mr. Jones, but I finished the assignment and learned a few things along the way.
― peace, man, Friday, 12 May 2023 13:51 (eleven months ago) link
:)
I could've avoided a whole heap o'trouble by just going with the year of the Connors match everyone* remembers. But that was painful! (* - almost no one)
― Michael Jones, Friday, 12 May 2023 14:01 (eleven months ago) link
We shall henceforth refer to '88 as the Year of Daydream Nation
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 12 May 2023 14:04 (eleven months ago) link
it is a very, very funny day on twitter
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:27 (eleven months ago) link
complaints that she's a wef/davos board member in elon's mentions
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:44 (eleven months ago) link
lmao https://twitter.com/search?q=WEF&src=typed_query
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:47 (eleven months ago) link
total meltdown. it's all over. everybody back to truth social. commie wokester in charge.
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 May 2023 17:04 (eleven months ago) link
woke commie would've been better way of saying that.
lol at the notion that ANY corporate executive in America is a "far left loon"
Elon Musk … the woke mind virus is a threat to the world.Also Elon Musk … I just hired a far left loon deeply infected with the woke mind virus to run Twitter.Twitter 2.0 was fun while it lasted - get ready for it to suck again.— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 12, 2023
― jaymc, Friday, 12 May 2023 17:09 (eleven months ago) link
a rare miss from Catturd TM
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 May 2023 17:10 (eleven months ago) link
Judging by her likes she seems like a slightly lower key type of shithead so
― Everybody's gonna get what they got coming (gyac), Friday, 12 May 2023 17:14 (eleven months ago) link
lmao that your profile tells everyone how many feeds you subscribe to, not how many are subscribed to you. thats so dumb...who wants people to know what you subscribe to?
― frogbs, Friday, 12 May 2023 19:55 (eleven months ago) link
I am excited to officially take on the role as CEO of Twitter. This has been in the works for months. https://t.co/I46A4zKh1O— Dionne Warwick (@dionnewarwick) May 11, 2023
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 May 2023 20:26 (eleven months ago) link
<3 :D :D
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 May 2023 20:27 (eleven months ago) link
please live forever Dionne
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 May 2023 20:28 (eleven months ago) link
tweet on by...
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 May 2023 20:43 (eleven months ago) link
subscribers helping Elon with damage control. No, see, she is just as crazy as us!
NEW Twitter CEO followsTucker Carlson Ben Shapiro TPUSA Blexit Wiki Leaks Dan Bongino libs of tiktok Defeat Crooked Hilary Joe RoganJack PosobiecJohn CristMark Levin Melania Trump Medical experts against COVID hysteria & the WEFWhat to make of this?— E (@ElijahSchaffer) May 12, 2023
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 12 May 2023 23:25 (eleven months ago) link
what to make of this?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 12 May 2023 23:51 (eleven months ago) link
no doubt gathering intelligence on the rebels to share with her Davos cronies
― symsymsym, Saturday, 13 May 2023 00:34 (eleven months ago) link
I scrolled all the way to the end of her follows, and one of the first 10 accounts she followed (after, like, Kim Kardashian and Steve Martin) was Paul Ryan. So, she seems like ... a Republican.
― jaymc, Saturday, 13 May 2023 01:07 (eleven months ago) link
Did your brain fall out of your head, Yglesias? The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2023
“Did your brain fall out of your head, Yglesias” is a good line.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 13 May 2023 17:02 (eleven months ago) link
i see that elon tweeted out some pepe shit at 3 am about the first amendment being the freedom to share memes with your alt right friends and the second amendment being the solution for when "they" try to prevent the sharing of memes. then the first several dozen replies are blue checkmarks with a bunch of people who love pepe and cryptocurrency
― z_tbd, Saturday, 13 May 2023 17:09 (eleven months ago) link
z_tbd - I want to point out that that specific spelling of friends - "frens" - is specifically white supremacist and anti-semetic.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-9-months-reddit-finally-bans-group-spreading-thinly-veiled-anti-semitism/
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/frenworld
― peace, man, Saturday, 13 May 2023 22:23 (eleven months ago) link
thanks, and jeez, how is he consistently even worse than one expects
― z_tbd, Saturday, 13 May 2023 22:45 (eleven months ago) link
Twitter used to routinely challenge Turkey’s takedown requests Erdogan actually had Twitter banned in Turkey in 2014 for refusing to comply. (the courts later ended the ban.)but that was on the “censorship” version of Twitter, not this new “free speech” one https://t.co/z1fO9JfkpU— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) May 13, 2023
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Sunday, 14 May 2023 01:46 (eleven months ago) link
This is where I put a roulette chip on the 0/00 line that predicts when Twitter will "comply" in opening up to the PRC.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 14 May 2023 02:09 (eleven months ago) link
Can anyone join Bluesky with an invite from a current user, or are things in lockdown mode while they upgrade stuff? I want to ditch Twitter but I’d rather keep my account active until I switch so I can try to find the accounts I currently follow on the new platform. Like, if somebody on here had an account could they invite me, or do you have a limited number of invites?
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 14 May 2023 02:26 (eleven months ago) link
circa 20 years ago user/drummer/electronic beats purveyor Jordan gave me a gmail invite. i'm hardly going to abandon him now
― mookieproof, Sunday, 14 May 2023 02:33 (eleven months ago) link
xp most people get one invite per two weeks. you can get more if you beg or ask to invite someone specific they want. you get less if you invite people who end up causing trouble, or if the person who invited you causes trouble.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 14 May 2023 06:11 (eleven months ago) link
hmu if you’ve got an extra bluesky invite
― mh, Sunday, 14 May 2023 15:05 (eleven months ago) link
Roth on Twitter:
https://defector.com/burning-down-the-house
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 May 2023 15:24 (eleven months ago) link
not sure what I've done but For You is now all writers shilling their books. #writerslift
― koogs, Sunday, 14 May 2023 19:08 (eleven months ago) link
apparently that was 'based on your likes' and checking those there were a few things that got liked just because my thumb sometimes hits like when i scroll
― koogs, Sunday, 14 May 2023 19:25 (eleven months ago) link
Does blocking someone on Twitter actually do anything beyond hiding them from you? That is, does it affect anything on their end?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 May 2023 13:24 (eleven months ago) link
it hides you from them, where muting only hides them from you
― lag∞n, Monday, 15 May 2023 13:29 (eleven months ago) link
But if I'm not posting at all, then blocking someone just means I won't see them on anyone else's thread, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 May 2023 13:37 (eleven months ago) link
they wouldn't be able to see your profile either
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 15 May 2023 13:38 (eleven months ago) link
its also an input to the algo
― lag∞n, Monday, 15 May 2023 13:40 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. If an account keeps getting blocked by people, will the algorithm eventually tag it as problematic and stop promoting it as much? I don't post on Twitter, and a lot of the limited stuff I follow doesn't have a lot of replies I'd bother blocking, but if blocking assholes I'd otherwise ignore hurts them, it could be a fun thing to do when I have some downtime. Like popping bubblewrap.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 May 2023 13:48 (eleven months ago) link
yeah when they opened sourced the algo it was revealed that getting blocked dings you a lil
― lag∞n, Monday, 15 May 2023 13:55 (eleven months ago) link
I just bought a Kevin Kruse book, but I gotta say, his level of twitter use makes me a little weary. Anyone read any of his stuff?
― Heez, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 20:17 (eleven months ago) link