Gotta say I really kinda enjoy Twitter becoming virtually unreadable for me now
― omar little, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 14:15 (nine months ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 15:06 (nine months ago) link
(www is a great example of that)
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 15:07 (nine months ago) link
Easier to say George Walker Bush, if you have to say the fool's name at all.
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 15:09 (nine months ago) link
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
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 15:12 (nine months ago) link
trump is spiritually a long islander, as well as technically, tho not formally
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 15:14 (nine months ago) link
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. :)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 August 2023 15:44 (nine months ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 7 August 2023 20:15 (nine months ago) link
and I can still view over 600 tweets a day without hitting the rate limit
― symsymsym, Monday, 7 August 2023 20:40 (nine months ago) link
Still voting in polls too, two or three months after Musk said similar about those xp
― groovypanda, Monday, 7 August 2023 21:08 (nine months ago) link
sssshhhhh.... nobody tell him that the macOS app icon still shows the bird
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 09:06 (nine months ago) link
no one tell him the site url is still twitter.com
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 11:47 (nine months ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 15:52 (nine months ago) link
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
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
― flopson, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 19:10 (nine months ago) link
I can totally see him doing "twitter.com will redirect to x.com for one week, then only x.com will work"
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:05 (eight months ago) link
Narrator: x.com did not work.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:07 (eight months ago) link
Oops etc
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/09/special-counsel-obtained-search-warrant-for-donald-trumps-twitter-account-00110484
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:08 (eight months ago) link
Just noticed it's now Post and Repost instead of Tweet and Retweet smh
― jaymc, Thursday, 10 August 2023 13:55 (eight months ago) link
outrageous they didnt go with x and rex what the point of changing the name even
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 August 2023 14:05 (eight months ago) link
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.”
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.
― bulb after bulb, Thursday, 10 August 2023 14:11 (eight months ago) link
post and repost sat on a fence, one fell off, who was left?
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 10 August 2023 15:03 (eight months ago) link
solve for X
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 August 2023 15:10 (eight months ago) link
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
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 12 August 2023 05:48 (eight months ago) link
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
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Saturday, 12 August 2023 08:48 (eight months ago) link
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.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 12 August 2023 08:54 (eight months ago) link
It's another one of those places that has a fair share of idolatry set up toward its founder (name, cardboard cutouts, etc.)
― pplains, Saturday, 12 August 2023 20:38 (eight months ago) link
Founders are so cool
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Sunday, 13 August 2023 00:17 (eight months ago) link
Lol just today noticed a display at Dick’s Sporting Goods about the actual Dick and his brother.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 13 August 2023 00:37 (eight months ago) link
Was the brother's name anything other than DICK?
― pplains, Sunday, 13 August 2023 13:34 (eight months ago) link
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.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:04 (eight months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:08 (eight months ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:12 (eight months ago) link
Leaving out the important information that Dick’s full name was Dick Stack
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:52 (eight months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 14 August 2023 02:54 (eight months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 14 August 2023 02:56 (eight months ago) link
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
― Roz, Monday, 14 August 2023 08:09 (eight months ago) link
I am on a cheap Huawei phone and just realised that the old twitter logo should've been replaced by now (?)
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 August 2023 10:34 (eight months ago) link
Libertarian Party of New Hampshire put up this post which AFAICT is straight-up encouraging a spree shooting massacre in congresshttps://i.postimg.cc/63z9xh4D/Screenshot-20230814-162858.jpgit's still up there 17 hours later, I do have to wonder how many seconds it would be up if it were a left winger posting the same and how quickly the feds would be round their house.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 14 August 2023 15:35 (eight months ago) link
Twitter/X is throttling link clicks to the @nytimes website by causing a 5 second delay during the redirect. pic.twitter.com/HCTN99McNy— Max Woolf (@minimaxir) August 15, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 15:33 (eight months ago) link
I love the history of petty bullshit like this, like the fact that Instagram links have never created a nice image "card" in tweets purely because they are owned by Facebook
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 18:22 (eight months ago) link
it's like the guelphs and the ghibbelines, in fact it probably *is* them [ /lyndon larouche ]
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 18:25 (eight months ago) link
TweetDeck is dead for non-payers now.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 22:59 (eight months ago) link
Seriously, how can the destruction of this platform be anything but intentional?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 23:01 (eight months ago) link
Booooooo, they finally turned off my TweetDeck. Well, whatever, I'll post less.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 01:14 (eight months ago) link
Apparently he is now floating getting rid of block and only having mute. Terrible idea.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 18 August 2023 16:34 (eight months ago) link
Why do this??
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 18 August 2023 16:43 (eight months ago) link
Free speech!
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Friday, 18 August 2023 16:45 (eight months ago) link
Found myself the other day thinking Twitter, is that still there? Probably a death-knell when non-users start wondering if your business even exists any more!
― there's no such thing as a winnable volume war (Matt #2), Friday, 18 August 2023 16:49 (eight months ago) link
That's how I think about Threads.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Friday, 18 August 2023 16:52 (eight months ago) link