Twitter C/D

Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks. If you enable this then nobody can tell "this mf paid for Twitter" anymore 🥲 https://t.co/M7BQNBTumN

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) August 2, 2023

If you are a terf/racist/climate denier/landlord I am going to assume you paid.

Siloing it to a phone app only was a bizarre choice. People like to waste time on these things while they're working, and not have to open up their phone to do it.

This doesn't seem that bizarre to me. A study from 2016 found that about 80% of all time spent on social media in the U.S. is on mobile rather than desktop. I wouldn't be surprised if a) that's now higher because of TikTok, b) the global rate is also higher given the dominance of mobile in developing countries. Not everyone has a desk job, obv.

insta was phone only for ages

is threads still doing the 'algorithmic feed only' thing? (or was that mis-reported?)

(actually, i think *posting* on insta was phone-only for ages)

insta was even iphone only at first

makes sense for a photo based app as yr phone is yr camera tho

Yeah aren’t the main users of web/desktop Instagram professional photographers you’d imagine? Prestige accounts probably pushed for it but it’s not their bread and butter.

I don't think the lack of Threads use is due to the lack of web embedding/UI, just the completely confusing and underwhelming experience

Had a great opportunity to just throw it out there and let people auto-follow their instagram follows, then kind of organically let it cook for a while. Instead, I signed up immediately like many others, and the first three things I saw were two influencers I've never heard of posting boring shit and Wendy's conversing with Kum & Go

brands and influencers oh hell yeah

Yeah, Threads is a virtual mall

AlthoughThreads also gave us “stuffed crustussy” so it wasn’t a total loss

https://www.readtpa.com/p/are-the-brands-ok

Threads has a chronological following timeline now but I haven’t logged in since it launched. Ironically I use the Instagram account I had to create to join threads more than I use threads itself.

the evolution of the blue check into something people actively want to hide is one of the most incredible things

Gotta say I really kinda enjoy Twitter becoming virtually unreadable for me now

Funny thing is "L-I-R-R" is only one less syllable than "Long Island Railroad," and "L-I-double-R" is the same number of syllables. Might as well say the name.

(www is a great example of that)

Easier to say George Walker Bush, if you have to say the fool's name at all.

Like koogs said..

lol oops sorry for posting that on the wrong thread — I should've remembered the LIRR discussion goes on the Trump thread, not the Twitter thread

trump is spiritually a long islander, as well as technically, tho not formally

fwiw this is what I posted to our readers about taking down our corporate account:

A small note: If any of you followed us on what used to be Twitter, you might notice that our account is no longer there. We decided to delete it because of the ongoing degradation of Twitter/X as a useful space for the exchange of information. Its current owner has made clear that he is actively hostile to the practice of journalism and has personally harassed several news organizations that use the platform. Moreover, he has shown a brazen disregard for the privacy and security of information exchanged on the platform. To put it plainly, we don't trust the platform and do not wish to have a formal presence there.

Because many of the people and organizations we cover do still have a presence, we will continue to monitor activity on X via other accounts. So don't think that if you post something we won't see it. :)

Well, it's been 35 days or so since Twitter said that Tweetdeck would be available to verified users only in 30 days, and it still works fine for unchecked me, so that's good I guess.

and I can still view over 600 tweets a day without hitting the rate limit

Still voting in polls too, two or three months after Musk said similar about those xp

sssshhhhh.... nobody tell him that the macOS app icon still shows the bird

no one tell him the site url is still twitter.com

given his approach to the physical X sign i'm surprised he didn't login to twitter's DNS manager himself and just start changing A NAME records, why not

Siloing it to a phone app only was a bizarre choice. People like to waste time on these things while they're working, and not have to open up their phone to do it.

This doesn't seem that bizarre to me. A study from 2016 found that about 80% of all time spent on social media in the U.S. is on mobile rather than desktop. I wouldn't be surprised if a) that's now higher because of TikTok, b) the global rate is also higher given the dominance of mobile in developing countries. Not everyone has a desk job, obv.

― jaymc, Wednesday, August 2, 2023 9:32 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

twitter is a small share of social media tho, and much nerdier than the rest of social media. i reckon desktop share is much higher

honestly it doesn't seem like meta tried that hard to make threads a thing? i use ig (but not threads) and haven't been reminded of it once

I can totally see him doing "twitter.com will redirect to x.com for one week, then only x.com will work"

Narrator: x.com did not work.

Oops etc

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/09/special-counsel-obtained-search-warrant-for-donald-trumps-twitter-account-00110484

Just noticed it's now Post and Repost instead of Tweet and Retweet smh

outrageous they didnt go with x and rex what the point of changing the name even

xps just aces all around:

The opinion describes the Justice Department’s “difficulties” in initially making contact with Twitter — which had only recently been taken over by Musk — to serve the search warrant. Prosecutors first attempted to contact the company on Jan. 17 via its website for legal requests but found the page to be inoperative. On Jan. 19, the company finally connected with prosecutors but did not immediately comply with the warrant. On Jan. 25, when prosecutors prodded Twitter again, the company’s counsel claimed she “had not heard anything about the warrant.”

Finally, on Feb. 1, four days after the production deadline, Twitter raised a legal objection to the nondisclosure order.

“Although the company did not question the validity of the search warrant, it asserted that the nondisclosure order was facially invalid under the First Amendment,” Pan noted. “Twitter informed the government that it would not comply with the warrant until the district court assessed the legality of the nondisclosure order.”

nondisclosure orders are an everyday part of criminal subpoenas. no court this side of Aileen Cannon is going to throw one out on a specious first amendment claim.

post and repost sat on a fence, one fell off, who was left?

solve for X

Twitter will never die as long as people keep owning themselves on it

I really find this stat hard to believe... just exported my #DoorDash data to confirm, and i spent $25K last year just on that... how is anyone living on $40K/yr ? https://t.co/tFpS2UA2xG pic.twitter.com/I9D2n7ewPK

— Jason Steen (@jasondotnews) February 22, 2023

I refuse to believe there is a business called 'freddy's frozen custard & steakburgers', that tweet obviously just an unkind parody of other countries crass prejudices about Americans

Freddy's is real and not bad as far as cheap burgers, hot dogs, and frozen custard goes. There are a couple near me, although I haven't set foot in one in about a decade.

It's another one of those places that has a fair share of idolatry set up toward its founder (name, cardboard cutouts, etc.)

Founders are so cool

Lol just today noticed a display at Dick’s Sporting Goods about the actual Dick and his brother.

Was the brother's name anything other than DICK?

I just saw a new Freddy's the other day, but it's not close enough to my house to just run by it now and then. It would have to be a destination drive.

the 25k delivery guy came back and said most of it was from feeding multiple people at work which makes sense but was not what he was originally implying

Was the brother's name anything other than DICK?

It was but I didn't linger at the display long enough to remember it or to understand how and why Dick was the one who got to put his name on it. Beyond the obvious fact that he's a Dick.

Leaving out the important information that Dick’s full name was Dick Stack

its really funny to me that on every single web page or app a single "X" denotes "click here to close" whereas on Twitter it now directs you to the home page

like I was on it and couldn't figure out where the home button was because 20 years of internet usage has conditioned me to look past the big X

same esp since I use dark mode on everything, my eyes just breeze past the white-x-on-black-icon on my bookmarks bar

it's good though, it means I'm not always clicking on it