Twitter C/D

All fine both yesterday and today.

mine is back up now

I haven't run into any of these issues this week, is that because I only go on via desktop? I deleted my app months ago. (Also I never post, I just lurk.)

i use the website mostly too

I have never registered an account and certainly now never will, and I am unable to see any tweets.

well that part of Elon's plan worked then

Yeah, that is definitely in effect. Which is SO DUMB, because Twitter has typically had a lot (no idea how much) of traffic from non-users who follow links. Which is good for advertisers, obviously. And since the blue ticks are obviously not paying any bills, he needs as many eyeballs as he can get. But obviously trying to figure out the "business plan" here is useless, there isn't one.

I mean half the stories that get pushed out feature Twitter embeds that have needed context for the story that the article doesn't make redundant.

today I found a weird one where I went to an article and every embedded tweet showed up as the first ever tweet by Jack Dorsey, "just setting up my twittr", instead of the tweet that was supposed to appear there.

Do you pay the $8
― Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 3 July 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Imagine paying to use twitter after all this...someone somewhere is doing it.

plenty of idiots are

not the most original observation but elon came from industries where you sell things not advertising and he really thinks you should be able to sell twitter but its just not true

and its a well established industry truth, but he thinks hes smarter

there's definitely some logic to it if you think doing so will encourage people to sign up, which maybe makes sense if your social network is brand new (like it might make sense for Bluesky, if you wanna see what's going on there we want you to make an account) but Twitter is like 15 years old now, if someone doesn't have an account there by now they just aren't gonna make one. but they still might click on things or look at certain people's feeds (obviously it's still pretty good for say, NBA free agency news), and they will still see ads, so....I can only imagine this is happening because Twitter can't handle the traffic right now

several sites I visit have little widgets which show recent tweets by the author, all those seem to be broken right now, or purposely shut off. idk that seems kinda bad, like one of Twitter's strengths is that everywhere you go online will link to it somewhere, now you're just encouraging people to remove Twitter stuff entirely

yeah hes killing it, been in a death spiral for a while prob

I've barely been paying attention, but where are we currently on the 'dickhead rich guy showing his arse' to 'intentionally breaking something beautiful because too woke' spectrum?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0INKOEaMAAMbbQ?format=jpg&name=medium

yeah hes killing it, been in a death spiral for a while prob

― lag∞n, Monday, July 3, 2023 12:05 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

for sure...there's a reason the previous owners were so desperate to ensure the deal went through, from what I'd read Twitter's new user signups were not where they needed to be and social media networks by and large do not have a way to reverse things once the numbers start dropping. still what Elon is doing is just jaw dropping stuff, while I don't think he's *trying* to kill Twitter the fact that people are suspecting that may be the case is not exactly a good sign

fwiw i dont think it was in a death spiral before elon bought it, which is not to say there werent strategic challenges but thats not the same thing as actually being in the process of dying

I don't think he's *trying* to kill Twitter

Unclear tho if he's trying not to.

it's his current plaything. he figures that because he's such a bold genius if he just keeps tinkering with it eventually he'll land on The Perfect Formula That Solves Everything

my personal theory about Elon Musk's psychology, motivation and core values is that he's a shit cunt.

could be

the articles I've read on the subject claimed that Twitter probably could tread water for a while but that the best case scenario is that it would slowly bleed out in the next 10-15 years. no idea how true that analysis is but yeah when I think of a major site going into a death spiral it's not last year's Twitter (which still seemed pretty alive), it's Twitter right now

btw based on what I'm seeing there's a good chance the 600 tweet "rate limit" never existed and that the site has just been randomly melting down. some people are saying they can't trigger it and others are saying the site's just not working at all

afaict twitter.com links are no longer on the first page of google results when you search for someone with a twitter account.

google's extreme scraping spree ended at last

btw based on what I'm seeing there's a good chance the 600 tweet "rate limit" never existed and that the site has just been randomly melting down. some people are saying they can't trigger it and others are saying the site's just not working at all

― frogbs, Monday, July 3, 2023 2:23 PM (fifty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its pretty funny how elon tried to spin this as purposeful move but then he just used the name of the actual software thats doing it the rate limiter

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0INKOEaMAAMbbQ?format=jpg&name=medium

― lag∞n, Monday, July 3, 2023 12:47 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao that this guy's business is giving out financial advice. I personally would not take financial advice from a guy who gives Elon $1400 a month for apparently no reason

my personal theory about Elon Musk's psychology, motivation and core values is that he's a shit cunt meeeeeeeth.

it's pretty amusing to see even the blue checks turning on him. so much of Twitter rn is just "I really fucking hate Elon Musk"

If he was on meth he wouldn’t be so puffy

btw based on what I'm seeing there's a good chance the 600 tweet "rate limit" never existed and that the site has just been randomly melting down

i think most likely is that they tried to implement the rate limit, but that broke everything and it doesn't work properly because the rate limiter was really not meant to be used like this - some former twitter engineers were talking about that.

Twitter vibe now is sorta “it puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose!”

i've been doing the blue check search ( -filter:verified filter:blue_verified ) to block accounts today. "try reloading" blank screen has appeared a few times, but it's still loading now and blue blocker says i've added 3000 tweets to the queue.

How are embedded tweets showing up on ILX if twitter no longer allows scraping/unlogged in view?

ESP projection

i run three accounts - two for work, and my personal one and still haven't hit the limit on any of them. But I did have trouble following people the other day, from two separate accounts. 

ILX has previously long continued to embed tweets after the tweet has been deleted, presumably System just made friends with the API

Meta are apparently launching a twitter substitute called "Threads"

* do not for a second trust meta to make a social media app which isn't horrible
* don't want to be reminded of nuclear apocalypse every time I open the app

System and Twitter, sitting in a tree
Int-er-fa-c-i-n-g

So far all the shit Musk has thrown around with Twitter hasn't really affected my usage. Unfortunately the announcement of removing Tweetdeck for free has officially put the nail in the coffin. I guess I have to find something new now.

What a dickhead.

xpost pretty sure they decided on “threads” because it’s not an easy word to block on Twitter

Lol Camraderie

ILX has previously long continued to embed tweets after the tweet has been deleted, presumably System just made friends with the API

lol

from a locked account

https://i.imgur.com/xekEMXg.png

Anyone on this thread have a spare bsky invite?

same

I'm going to predict that Threads will win the soshul meedia wars if anything will, because its a known entitiy, and anyone with an instagram login can start using it right away, so plain old laziness/convenience will win out like it always does.

for some reason* it's the winding up of @_primes_ that hits home

*(reason = me being weird, but it was just such a lovely pointless rigorous simplicity of an account: all the prime numbers in order, now we will never know what the biggest one is)