Twitter C/D

For a long time I listened to everyone's complaints about the For You tab, smugly quiet about the fact mine was actually quite good and interesting. Some switch has been flicked in the last few days and not only am I getting some awful people on there, I'm getting deluged with stupid blue tick viral video accounts about cats and what not. Only thing I've changed at my end is blocking a lot of the blue accounts (I used to just mute) so maybe I'm getting punished for that.

I've also had that the last couple of days, after a month's-long period where it would always say it was on For You but actually be on Following

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Looking at it, it seems blue and gold ticks account for more than 95% of the For You feed now so I maybe that's the simplest explanation.

laptop twitter very occasionally switches me to "for you" -- with a little recent flurry after a long time apparently resignedly accepting my preference

phone twitter has NEVER ONCE switched me to "for you" -- to the extent that i half wondered if this firmness of purpose acted as a kind of anchor for my account lol (i have no idea how or whether this is possible)

i follow about 250 people, and i would guess half of them have just stopped posting in the past year, maybe another 25% posting way less. so i've been looking at "for you" a bit more than i used to, but it's so bad.

the one redeeming feature "for you" had (occasionally you see a cool reply from someone you follow to someone you don't) is gone because conversational threads are finished among people i follow (presumably blue check spam).

Twitter main character is a post from a subreddit of people volunteering to be the main character. That’s how you know twitter no longer has the juice.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 August 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Subreddits have been quoted on twitter for ever.

It's actually pretty good as a means of checking on the 'health' of other social media. So you don't see much of Insta being quoted on twitter these days, but you see a lot of funny to deranged stuff being reposted from tik tok.

Roxane Gay seems to defend all the worst, self-absorbed people on twitter

a cool reply from someone you follow to someone you don't

it often switches me to "for you" on phone and is then insistent on showing me one friend's dad yelling at tv stations and footy clubs about rugby refs' decisions for half the commute

Subreddits have been quoted on twitter for ever.

i don't think they've been discussed at length on this thread for a while.

and i can't think of a time a reddit screenshot has been the main character on twitter before. when was the last bean dad/justine sacco?

Elon has been the main character for a year or so

i don't think they've been discussed at length on this thread for a while.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 August 2023 bookmarkflaglink

My impression is that most of this thread have left twitter. Or have an account but aren't checking in.

yea it was Trump for like 5 years and now it's Elon, the only real opening for that shit was in like 2021-2022

Today's character.

The most annoying people in the world love to say there is no objective difference between good art and bad art

So I made a list of 15

Good Art v/s Bad Art: The Masterlist of 15 Differences👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/caQ0b3Aqjt

— Jash Dholani (@oldbooksguy) August 27, 2023

he's no bean dad

Old Opinion Having Guy

Surely a parody account

Bad Art Friend

congrats to The Residents for ticking all 15 of the "bad art" boxes

yes he's right abt the residents

That just feels like a “please ratio me” post.

there are so many of these trad art accounts, that ones particularly low qual tho

things that make me :) vs things that go :(

needless to say its all just nazi bs and none of them care about art at all

these bullshit takes are precision guided for negative engagement

The most annoying people in the world love to say there is no objective difference between good art and bad art. So I made a list

Painfully obvious that the first sentence is concocting an imaginary problem that only exists as a pretext to justify his tweeting out the list that he'd already written. Lame.

these bullshit takes are precision guided for negative engagement

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, August 29, 2023 1:27 PM (thirty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

its true, then if you zoom out what do these z tier right wing personalities want is there a greater plan do they see themselves on fox news one day or are they just in it for the engagement, pure posting

i know the top retvrn guy bronze age pervert has broken through to a higher level he has a book billionaires are listening to him and so forth

Seems like every day I happen upon a thread like this where almost every single reply would result in a justified ban from Twitter just a year ago

This is the link, should put a content warning about extreme genocidal homophobia before anyone clicks

prefer bean dad to 4chan TheWesternCanon guys posting bait and then responding with pepe memes tbqh.

With Elon Musk, Saudi Arabia is now the second-largest owner of Twitter https://t.co/zC2g1OYQik

— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) August 30, 2023

prefer bean dad to 4chan TheWesternCanon guys posting bait and then responding with pepe memes tbqh.

qft, jesus christ I can't believe I sit here longing for the good ol' days of bean dad

The fundamentals of Twitter's ad business remain strong pic.twitter.com/T3NdlnAmLr

— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) August 30, 2023

lately it's been all boner pills and weed gummies, tbh I'm kind of considering combining them

gummie boners

Basically podcast ads

Vince Bevins is such a mensch

At least in his reporting— The Jakarta Method is a must read book

https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-twitter-x-takeover-walter-isaacson-5f553fa

niedermeyer on bsky: "Just read this entire excerpt from the upcoming Walter Isaacson book on Elon Musk, and am gratified to report that no amount of friendly spin can keep him from coming across as an incredibly off-putting, unhealthy, vindictive weirdo. The punchline is that Elon couldn't get out of overpaying for Twitter by tens of billions of dollars so he made up for it by screwing Twitter execs out of $200m in severance and stock options and called it a W. You know, real Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein, Leonardo DaVinci shit. Good going, Walter."

That led Bankman-Fried to call Musk in May. “My bullshit detector went off like red alert on a Geiger counter,” Musk says. Bankman-Fried began talking rapidly, all about himself. “He was talking like he was on speed or Adderall, a mile a minute,” Musk says. “I thought he was supposed to be asking me questions about the deal, but he kept telling me the things he was doing. And I was thinking, ‘Dude, calm down.’” The feeling was mutual; Bankman-Fried thought Musk seemed nuts. The call lasted a half hour, and Bankman-Fried ended up neither investing nor rolling over his Twitter stock.

lol

game recognize game

gotta sign up for that

Update: X will only collect biometric data from Premium users w/ @EdLudlow https://t.co/U9rW1lHKZK

— aisha counts (@aishacounts) August 31, 2023

time to roll out what i call "soylent blue"

that logo looks like an aeroplane next to two vertical structures

this shit makes the gilded age look like the New Deal

Gilded Age work week was six days, workdays were 12 hours, child labor was rampant and life expectancy under 60. I'd still prefer this era, bad as it is.

wow checkmate

just due diligence

produces stagnation

twitter or whatever it's called requires ongoing child labour to function so what are we doing here