interesting
― that genius dn i thought of on Zing but couldn't update to (Hunt3r), Monday, 6 November 2023 15:23 (six months ago) link
Apparently, Elon has never read either The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or Stranger in a Strange Land.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:01 (six months ago) link
prob not a big book guy
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 November 2023 21:05 (six months ago) link
there's a reason he's so salty about wikipedia -- it's where he spends all his time
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 15:22 (six months ago) link
no shade towards Hitchhiker's Guide but I fear that Elon would become even more annoying if he read it
― c u (crüt), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 20:06 (six months ago) link
Otm
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 20:10 (six months ago) link
That would be a singularity of annoyance.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 20:11 (six months ago) link
I imagine he'd try to become Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 22:20 (six months ago) link
So now all my "Notifications" are about random tweets I've never interacted with.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 15:04 (six months ago) link
hey maybe you want to know about them
check out this tweet
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 15:05 (six months ago) link
because you liked that tweet, we're recommending this other tweet. evening? sorted!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 15:06 (six months ago) link
Classic.
Greedy CEO who pretends like he’s self made. In reality, just a clown & fraud. Always has been, always will be. Quit the tough guy act in these senate hearings. You know where to find me. Anyplace, Anytime cowboy. #LittleManSyndrome pic.twitter.com/JNvT7IsA6m— Sean M. O'Brien (@TeamsterSOB) June 21, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 20:32 (five months ago) link
lol get him
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 20:33 (five months ago) link
oof
Exclusive: Apple is pausing all advertising on X, formerly Twitterhttps://t.co/RV69yHZHIi— Ina Fried (@inafried) November 17, 2023
― frogbs, Friday, 17 November 2023 19:53 (five months ago) link
I'd like to see someone actually say they will pull advertising completely and never return, rather than these 'pauses'
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 17 November 2023 19:57 (five months ago) link
yeah was thinking the same
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 19:58 (five months ago) link
It’s a Humanitarian Pause
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:13 (five months ago) link
the benefit of pausing is that it gives apple the time to turn toward the camera, break the 4th the wall, and really level with the consumer before resuming
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:16 (five months ago) link
I was thinking, sure, nice move, but remember when all those big companies "paused" shortly after Elon purchased it in the first place and they mostly came back and it made no difference at all?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:18 (five months ago) link
eh i think ad revenue is still down significantly
― 龜, Friday, 17 November 2023 20:22 (five months ago) link
yeah I thought it was a fact that their revenue was down like 70% since he bought it, plus I mean if you just hop on there now clearly the ads are uhhh quite a bit different now
I'm not really surprised they're using the word "paused", aren't people still sort of assuming he's going to sell at some point?
― frogbs, Friday, 17 November 2023 20:26 (five months ago) link
Who needs IBM anyway when you're still attracting advertisers of this calibre to your site?
👩🍳 Keep your fingers safe from sharp knives with the Stainless Steel Finger Protector!👸Get It Now👉 https://t.co/iViI1cx99C pic.twitter.com/LNY9BSbWd7— Pavevo (@pavevocom) November 5, 2023
― groovypanda, Friday, 17 November 2023 20:29 (five months ago) link
^^i definitely see more weird junk ads than anything these days, the big companies even if they haven't given it up totally certainly appear to have pulled back
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:31 (five months ago) link
Why are you even all still looking at Twitter at this late date, who even posts anymore
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:42 (five months ago) link
its still good for sports
― frogbs, Friday, 17 November 2023 20:48 (five months ago) link
xpost basically everyone who always has
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:49 (five months ago) link
I saw one righteous defense, which was basically "I was here before you, asshole," and another funny defense, basically "the only reason I am still here is so that I can benefit financially from the inevitable class action suit."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 November 2023 20:57 (five months ago) link
xp i dont think that's remotely true, I'm barely on there myself unless it's to follow an NBA or NFL game I can't watch. when I go on otherwise it really does feel about half as active as it used to be
― frogbs, Friday, 17 November 2023 21:04 (five months ago) link
Hmm. I go on now and people are posting vids from the protests they’re at.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:11 (five months ago) link
A lot of people I follow either have left or post much less frequently.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:13 (five months ago) link
people on blusky and masterdon not getting anywhere near the audience of Musk Ox's twitter
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:24 (five months ago) link
today twitter tried to make me watch a 30-second ad before viewing a 19-second video
gtfo
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 November 2023 21:28 (five months ago) link
As someone constantly recovering from numerous self-inflicted cooking wounds, I very much like the look of that finger protector you're all being so disparaging about.
― I don't want to catastrophise but there's a catastrophe looming (Matt #2), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:31 (five months ago) link
My chrome extension still successfully keeps twitter cleaned up for me (and also keeps it called twitter). But the time has come to move on. My prob is actually the number of people I follow who *haven't* left yet. Reporters, writers, comedians. Or maybe they have and just moved somewhere other than Bluesky, but fuck scouring more than one of these sites at a time. That's like a distraction in search of a distraction. I think I'll just have to get back in the habit of getting the news *after* it happens rather than while it is happening.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 November 2023 21:38 (five months ago) link
Oh yeah, I wasn't implying that they haven't taken a big revenue hit, just more that all those big names backing away didn't do anything prevent the site as a whole from being driven directly into the fascist ditch.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:38 (five months ago) link
A friend posted the other day "How much longer do news organizations have to say 'X (formerly known as Twitter)." It's a good question, but I think the answer is, a good long while. X is such a stupidly generic name that if you just drop it into a news story people who are not actually engaged with social media probably still don't know what it means (while they have definitely heard of Twitter).
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:45 (five months ago) link
You can just say "the social media platform X"
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 17 November 2023 23:49 (five months ago) link
will be funny when someone else gets control of it and changes it back to twitter
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 23:53 (five months ago) link
Elon would definitely insist on keeping his favorite domain name
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 17 November 2023 23:55 (five months ago) link
the coolest domain in the world
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 23:56 (five months ago) link
wish i'd had the insight to see that one letter is the most badass of all
― Clay, Friday, 17 November 2023 23:58 (five months ago) link
x marks the spot, people will love it
― c u (crüt), Friday, 17 November 2023 23:59 (five months ago) link
the treasure? quite simply the most valuable thing in the world: posts
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:05 (five months ago) link
i once believed that x was the most badass letter of them all
but now i ask y
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:10 (five months ago) link
A friend posted the other day "How much longer do news organizations have to say 'X (formerly known as Twitter).Until the AP Stylebook changes its guidance
― jaymc, Saturday, 18 November 2023 01:30 (five months ago) link
The thing about those ads is that no ad has ever influenced me to buy an IBM or Apple, but I've definitely impulse-purchased cool, dumb gadgets that have shown up in my social media feeds.
― peace, man, Saturday, 18 November 2023 13:52 (five months ago) link
Ideally Musk and Trump will both just die and solve a bunch of problems big and small at once.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 November 2023 14:25 (five months ago) link
good piece https://maxread.substack.com/p/context-collapse-collapse
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 18 November 2023 20:56 (five months ago) link
Being reported that, go figure, Yaccarino's industry pals are strongly suggesting she jump ship.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/20/linda-yaccarino-elon-musk-advertising-resign-x-twitter
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 November 2023 03:55 (five months ago) link
urged her to leave "before her reputation is damaged."
lol okay
― mookieproof, Monday, 20 November 2023 03:57 (five months ago) link