Twitter C/D

Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”

lol maybe dont fire everyone

got something for u to scrape, Elon

lmao what trade secrets would they need? this is the Instagram comments section.

also pre musk employees are not subject to NDA.

they hold the ancient knowledge of how to craft a microblog post

He really did set 44bn on fire. Parag the greatest CEO of all time for shareholders.

Meta execs rebutting twitters claims in its legal threat over on threads https://t.co/nf6WrZLb17 pic.twitter.com/AlBp35cAoY

— rat king 🐀 (@MikeIsaac) July 6, 2023

"Quit poaching the employees that I said were completely useless "

This is something I enjoyed reading, correctly focussing on the point where "you're talking to the world" became the thing. "Everyone is a columnist" was a mistake.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/

Also the fact that Threads doesn't have a website is a bit of a dealbreaker for me.

poaching 'former' twitter employees.... that would be unemployed engineers looking for work, no poaching

kind of like Ronaldo celebrating a goal he didn't actually score

do non-compete clauses carry any weight in this case?

not that this isn't just mini-Facebook or text-instagram, is not like they weren't already doing similar things at scale

Every time I think I’m out they pull me back in

Children conceived when the mother didn't have a climax, are not ensouled btw. When it dies, its spirit neither goes to heaven or hell, it is just destroyed, like that of animals.

— Anna Komnene ☩❤️‍🔥 (@Baezantium) July 6, 2023

damn did not know that

time to ask my parents some uncomfortable questions

Ron DeSantis makes more sense now

LOL mh

so you can only search for accounts, not content? hmm

i wanted to see what people were saying about wimbledon on threads but i couldn’t really

threads thing is very dumb, everyone knows you start with a linear timeline then rug pull to a sponcon heavy "algorithmic" timeline once your users are locked in. impressive that zuck managed to fuck even this up

weird that we think he’s in charge of product design and not just trusting an upper executive level who trusts a product manager level and whatever

like either he’s completely engaged in the groupthink that decided their recent ventures are good (unlikely) or he’s just going hmm yeah looks good

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7dbe81ad-aa36-40a3-b8ec-5a21de79565f_1000x788.jpeg

:)

predict all these people go back to instagram by next week

Zuck has a real "Pair of fun gals prove kiddie pools aren't just for kiddies anymore!" vibe to him

lol otm

this kind of dad joke from Zuck seems relatively benign when compared with Elon's attempts meme humour on twitter

awfully low bar

I saw of photo the other day that Zuck posted to instagram of him and family celebrating the 4th of July where he was wearing a comedy stars and stripes hat and shorts, and I wonder if he's intentionally trying to portray himself as an endearingly corny suburban dad to improve his image

ya prob

weird that we think he’s in charge of product design and not just trusting an upper executive level who trusts a product manager level and whatever

like either he’s completely engaged in the groupthink that decided their recent ventures are good (unlikely) or he’s just going hmm yeah looks good

― mh, Friday, 7 July 2023 01:05 (nineteen hours ago) link

He frequently attends product and technical meetings for products he’s interested in and regularly commits code.

we had a boss that would commit code. one monday nothing would run because he'd been in over the weekend and renamed database columns from 'copyright' to 'copywrite' (and multiple similar changes)

lol

regularly commits code

what's "regularly" here? once a day, once a month?

perhaps Threads can be both a social media site and the UK movie at the same time

friend who worked at fb also told that zuck is a l33t coder

Elon Musk made a bad $44 billion investment after a lifetime of free rides and it made him so angry he’s spent the last year going “let’s kill trans 😭😭😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡!!” Zuckerberg meanwhile vaporized trillions and all his posts are still like “TV is awesome to watch :)”

— iPad Expert (@ByYourLogic) July 6, 2023

Views for "Tucker Carlson on Twitter" posts (assume the number of people who actually viewed the videos is much much lower).

Announcement: 137.1M
Ep. 1: 120M
Ep. 2: 60.6M
Ep. 3 (Trump indicted): 104.1M
Ep. 4: 32.4M
Ep. 5: 17.3M
Ep. 6: 32M
Ep. 7: 15.4M
Ep. 8: 8.6M

😬😬😬 pic.twitter.com/qd9Ox2WiFx

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 7, 2023

better to have fox news doing the work for you

yeah i feel like a significant part of Carlson’s core audience is old fogies who barely know what Twitter is

yeah anyone hear from bill oreilly recently

Ed Zitron wrote a hood thing this week about both Twitter decay and Threads

https://wheresyoured.at/p/the-end-of-the-honest-internet

*good thing

twitter's gonna be the new myspace, a few lonely tweets on some aging server somewhere

wait, never mind, MySpace is alive and well

Amazing facts!

In 2010, Gareth Williams, a British MI6 spy, was found dead at his London flat with his decomposing body in the bathtub, padlocked inside a bag. Police ruled his death as "accidental" concluding he died by getting into the bag on his own and accidentally locking himself inside. pic.twitter.com/YR5HNgGKBB

— Amazing facts! (@Factsofw0rld) July 7, 2023

why would you commit code as the head of a company with a zillion employees, that’s goofy

I was joking with a friend yesterday that 15 - 20 years ago we’d be excited about new websites and apps, new stuff would come out and maybe it’d be cool, maybe it’d disappear weeks later but there was at least some sense of novelty

now, most of the sites and apps that I end up using I try to avoid making an account, they’re necessary to do something I need to do, and so many are bad in ways that didn’t matter when I wanted to just goof off with friends. some of this is a function of age, but not all of it

that friend had posted how some reservations app was trash. turns out, he and his wife were on vacation and had dinner reservations, and she decided to add a reservation for a cocktail bar a few hours later. when she made the second reservation, it canceled the first reservation without any warning. so he tried signing up and the confirmation email/message weren’t working, at which point he was just pissed off

-why would you commit code as the head of a company with a zillion employees, that’s goofy

he wants to stay turned in its admirable imo like when toyota executives go work the line for a week

oh, sure

that works as solidarity as long as you’re not unionized I guess

i wouldnt call it solidarity, just being interested in whats going on

twitter not loading for me at all. people have said this before over the last few months but it’s the first time it’s happened to me

at least there used to be a fail whale

they shd bring it back

limited edition failwhale NFT