I don't think he's *trying* to kill Twitter
Unclear tho if he's trying not to.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 3 July 2023 18:01 (ten months ago) link
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
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 3 July 2023 18:10 (ten months ago) link
my personal theory about Elon Musk's psychology, motivation and core values is that he's a shit cunt.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 3 July 2023 18:12 (ten months ago) link
could be
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 July 2023 18:13 (ten months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 3 July 2023 18:14 (ten months ago) link
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, 3 July 2023 18:23 (ten months ago) link
afaict twitter.com links are no longer on the first page of google results when you search for someone with a twitter account.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 3 July 2023 18:26 (ten months ago) link
google's extreme scraping spree ended at last
― mark s, Monday, 3 July 2023 19:03 (ten months ago) link
― 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
― lag∞n, Monday, 3 July 2023 19:21 (ten months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 3 July 2023 20:17 (ten months ago) link
my personal theory about Elon Musk's psychology, motivation and core values is that he's a shit cunt meeeeeeeth.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 3 July 2023 20:28 (ten months ago) link
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"
― frogbs, Monday, 3 July 2023 20:35 (ten months ago) link
If he was on meth he wouldn’t be so puffy
― Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 3 July 2023 22:54 (ten months ago) link
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.
― ufo, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 00:27 (ten months ago) link
Twitter vibe now is sorta “it puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose!”
― rick james, critical moralist (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 01:23 (ten months ago) link
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.
― formerly abanana (dat), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 01:39 (ten months ago) link
How are embedded tweets showing up on ILX if twitter no longer allows scraping/unlogged in view?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 01:44 (ten months ago) link
ESP projection
― sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 01:55 (ten months ago) link
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.
― Roz, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 04:20 (ten months ago) link
ILX has previously long continued to embed tweets after the tweet has been deleted, presumably System just made friends with the API
― serving bundt (sic), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 05:56 (ten months ago) link
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
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 08:18 (ten months ago) link
System and Twitter, sitting in a treeInt-er-fa-c-i-n-g
― the best minds of my generation destroyed by woke (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 08:56 (ten months ago) link
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.
― Ste, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 09:12 (ten months ago) link
xpost pretty sure they decided on “threads” because it’s not an easy word to block on Twitter
― Roz, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 11:42 (ten months ago) link
Lol Camraderie
― sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 12:34 (ten months ago) link
― stet, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 12:51 (ten months ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 13:41 (ten months ago) link
from a locked account
https://i.imgur.com/xekEMXg.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 17:11 (ten months ago) link
Anyone on this thread have a spare bsky invite?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 18:36 (ten months ago) link
same
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 18:37 (ten months ago) link
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.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 06:55 (ten months ago) link
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)
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 08:48 (ten months ago) link
did they post an illegal prime number yet?
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 08:52 (ten months ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number#Illegal_primes
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 08:53 (ten months ago) link
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, July 5, 2023 2:55 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
lets see what they come up with, my guess its gonna be bad in some begging ass facebook way, like too aimed at "monetization for creators" or something, twitter isnt like the other social apps its for true posters its gotta promote real sicko behavior, which is in tension with the things competent companies want quality conversation, advertiser friendly content, profitability
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 12:00 (ten months ago) link
bluesky winning the vibe war so far
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 12:18 (ten months ago) link
threads not yet launching in the EU ftb "regulatory concerns" (data protection)
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 12:20 (ten months ago) link
yeah apparently they want to bring all the instargram data over
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 12:21 (ten months ago) link
yes i dont want the EU looking at my blurry little photos thank you
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 12:45 (ten months ago) link
Bluesky is theoretical for most people at this point
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 13:30 (ten months ago) link
A service you are not cool enough to be let into
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 13:31 (ten months ago) link
I too would like a spare bsky invite if anyone has
― Roz, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 13:31 (ten months ago) link
Don't forget, at one point gmail was invite-only, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 13:35 (ten months ago) link
Now would be a particularly good time to roll out to the public, when your main competitor is flailing. Of course if Zuckerberg can get his service rolling faster then it’s probably moot
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 13:43 (ten months ago) link
facebooks track record on imitating other social apps is not great
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 13:47 (ten months ago) link
We had to stop sign-ups to resolve the tech issues caused by all the people signing up because of Twitter's tech issues
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 13:53 (ten months ago) link
we should've stuck with Ello
― nashwan, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 14:01 (ten months ago) link
I will certainly switch to Bluesky if enough of the people I follow migrate over there, but at this point "I'm done with Twitter. Meet me over on Blue Sky," is like "Look me up next time you're on the west coast."
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 14:07 (ten months ago) link
I've been on Bluesky 3 days now; it definitely needs more work but the vibes are ok. I'm sure that will be a fleeting thing though as more conservatives log on and whine about how they're being silenced. It always works for them.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 14:15 (ten months ago) link
its pretty funny already the early adopters whining trying to protect their weird lil culture
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 14:23 (ten months ago) link