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« Reply #722 on: November 03, 2022, 03:48:26 AM »
oh no my bots

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« Reply #723 on: November 03, 2022, 03:48:52 AM »
also keep looking benji

i need it to get new followers when i repost what you find

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« Reply #725 on: November 03, 2022, 05:25:27 AM »
They'll pay up, no matter the whinging they are doing now, they'll all pay their $8/month and continue to feel like they're lording it over the regular users
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« Reply #726 on: November 03, 2022, 05:30:12 AM »
Without the bluetick system, children are at risk of being groomed by noname nobodies instead of verified celebrities like kevin spacey, bryan singer, jared leto or ezra miller

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« Reply #727 on: November 03, 2022, 05:35:31 AM »
imagine thinking $20 bucks a month for this sheisters is a hurt.

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« Reply #728 on: November 03, 2022, 06:37:14 AM »
amazing how depending on who you talk to the world's ills are either funded by george soros or peter thiel
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« Reply #729 on: November 03, 2022, 11:07:08 AM »
Im going to sell my Tesla stock. At the end of the day, this will end poorly for musk.

Not because of the blue check meltdowns, but simply because the companies that spend the most on ads are very risk conscious. Companies like Toyota, Progressive Insurance, Proctor and Gamble etc have nothing to lose by leaving twitter ads. The vast majority of people that consume Twitter content do it 2nd hand via embedded tweets in articles and such where no ads are displayed.
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« Reply #730 on: November 03, 2022, 11:38:57 AM »

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« Reply #731 on: November 03, 2022, 12:06:40 PM »
What still amuses me the most is the 180 from "Twitter is a private company, they can do what they want" after Trump got banned to "Twitter is too important to be in the hand of a private individual" after Musk bought it

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« Reply #732 on: November 03, 2022, 12:09:47 PM »
https://twitter.com/Sigmundine2/status/1587548144937615363

Providing more context to a story, classic Soviet tactic

He is probably referencing the sovjet newspaper pravda and how they would fact check Stalin and call him a liar all the time.  :lol

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« Reply #733 on: November 03, 2022, 12:11:26 PM »
What still amuses me the most is the 180 from "Twitter is a private company, they can do what they want" after Trump got banned to "Twitter is too important to be in the hand of a private individual" after Musk bought it

as opposed to the private individuals who ran it before and apparently allowed it to be filled with nazis and phobes
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« Reply #734 on: November 03, 2022, 12:20:43 PM »
Thought for the day: If Twatter were to disappear tomorrow, would democracy be better or worse off?

Better, because journalists would actually have to go back to actually researching and speaking to real sources instead of just linking a tweet and thinking of a one line zinger for a headline.
Nah because it's not a vacuum where the existence of twitter is the problem. If twitter disappears there will be a new app at some point, where all these people flock to. Just like MySpace dying didn't stop people from having online friends.

I don't tweet much but use twitter daily - largely for news. Sports, politics, music. It's usually the fast way for me to learn about something that interests me. An album release date, sports event, news, etc.
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« Reply #735 on: November 03, 2022, 12:34:31 PM »
here's my genuine question of the day: will we ever know if twitter is actually dying/performing worse, either as a global service or in terms of the underlying technology failing, or will it just be a series of "owns" shouted loudly without proper evidence from both sides?

like here's resetera:



I'm not even sure it's possible for the site to be performing noticeably worse in this capacity already

maybe it's, y'know, lots of increased traffic and thus hammering the servers + a personal interest in applying scrutiny you never did previously?

the site's going to be both dying and thriving for the next decade, isn't it?
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« Reply #736 on: November 03, 2022, 01:53:40 PM »
"performance"

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« Reply #737 on: November 03, 2022, 01:59:13 PM »
here's my genuine question of the day: will we ever know if twitter is actually dying/performing worse, either as a global service or in terms of the underlying technology failing, or will it just be a series of "owns" shouted loudly without proper evidence from both sides?

Someone needs to set up a website that tracks activity, like the reseta ban bot.

Since Twitter is private, we dont get any data on active users or revenue.
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« Reply #738 on: November 03, 2022, 02:29:17 PM »
i love the idea of twitter collapsing, but then i love it when i firework falls over after its lit.

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« Reply #739 on: November 03, 2022, 02:35:15 PM »
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« Reply #740 on: November 03, 2022, 04:02:28 PM »
I'm no tech guy, but tech guys have told me twitter has some of the best engineers in the world and the site works incredibly well because of it. It rarely goes down or has problems. I'd imagine we could see some fuck ups but tbh it's prob designed so well it'll be fine. I think the bigger issue will be content moderation.
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« Reply #741 on: November 03, 2022, 04:05:59 PM »
Twitter's redesign ~5(?) years ago was incredibly cutting edge from a performance and accessibility (engineering) standpoint. One of the first true mainstream Progressive Web Apps.

To be fair, the Fail Wail was a meme (and something I personally encountered many times*) during Twitter's early days, so uptime wasn't great until about 2012 (maybe due to the election) or so. (*I held an account from 2009 to 2018.)

They also lose points for shutting down their open API a while back, had a pretty fun time experimenting with it before then.

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« Reply #742 on: November 03, 2022, 05:34:10 PM »
Right wingers now worried Elon might not change much about Twitter's policies

https://twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1587874669012697090

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« Reply #743 on: November 03, 2022, 05:40:33 PM »
Ego aside, this is why I'm baffled Elon has decided to make himself the face of Twitter instead of installing a CEO to implement changes. All complaints and blame go directly at Elon, and he spends insane amounts of time reacting to it - making it worse. The little tit for tat with AOC hasn't stopped conservatives from bitching, either.

Also I think a lot of liberals are being disingenuous about the hate speech stuff. You can search the n-word right now and clearly see that shit got cleaned up fast. Not to say nothing has fallen through the cracks, but that was always the case (see: ISIS videos). My concerns are way more about the likely spam/misinformation apocalypses he is gleefully ushering in with this blue check change.
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« Reply #744 on: November 03, 2022, 06:48:15 PM »
What still amuses me the most is the 180 from "Twitter is a private company, they can do what they want" after Trump got banned to "Twitter is too important to be in the hand of a private individual" after Musk bought it
FACT CHECK: It's not hypocritical because their position is there should only be Good Private Owners and Elon Musk is Bad.

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« Reply #745 on: November 03, 2022, 06:56:12 PM »
Well, he seems to be pretty bad at it.  :elon

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« Reply #746 on: November 03, 2022, 07:18:57 PM »
Well, he seems to be pretty bad at it.  :elon
Firing existing management is a totally normal thing for new owners to do.

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« Reply #748 on: November 03, 2022, 07:52:17 PM »
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1588257225260138497

Trump was right when he said she was just like him.  :doge
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« Reply #749 on: November 03, 2022, 08:11:59 PM »
I have a crazy theory.

Anyone, right or left, who complains about shadow banning and shit like that has 99% of the time no idea what they're talking about

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« Reply #750 on: November 03, 2022, 08:14:34 PM »
Is my Twitter app broken and I maybe should try reinstalling it? No, it's Elon and the cabal trying to stop my powerful world changing speech.

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« Reply #751 on: November 03, 2022, 08:15:11 PM »
I have a crazy theory.

Anyone, right or left, who complains about shadow banning and shit like that has 99% of the time no idea what they're talking about

peter thiel is funding the erasure of aoc's notifications
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« Reply #752 on: November 03, 2022, 08:16:33 PM »
She couldn’t eat the tendies before or after filming the video?  :kobeyuck
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« Reply #753 on: November 03, 2022, 08:17:38 PM »
Elon Musk sliding into AOCs DM's :elon

She couldn’t eat the tendies before or after filming the video?  :kobeyuck
Gotta appeal to the feeder base too.
Honestly, I'm surprised she isn't just doing the Twitch donation thing  :lol
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« Reply #754 on: November 03, 2022, 08:24:00 PM »
She couldn’t eat the tendies before or after filming the video?  :kobeyuck
That was the best part though.

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« Reply #755 on: November 03, 2022, 09:00:05 PM »
"alright the first time we tried the vid, it turned out popping in an entire tendie was too much of a mouthful to get the words out at a reasonable cadence.  we could work with that but the voting public doesn't like to see cuts in a video, it feels less natural, so this time we need you to peel off tiny chunks of one tendie.  it won't be enough to taste but that's alright, we just need you eating.  put your hands really close to the camera so it will make the tendie look bigger, it'll seem like you're really eating a lot of it that way.  the casual friendly feel of talking with your mouth occupied will really get the message across that you're not mad at all"
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« Reply #757 on: November 03, 2022, 09:18:40 PM »


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« Reply #758 on: November 03, 2022, 09:21:53 PM »
:rage
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« Reply #760 on: November 03, 2022, 09:41:16 PM »
Prediction: There will be media about Twitter/musk being fined under the California WARN Act (having to pay everyone getting fired)

28 hours later he will announce HQ moving to Texas.
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« Reply #761 on: November 03, 2022, 09:46:00 PM »
https://twotter.xyz/
"Free speech."

Why would I sign up for some Nazi website? :yuck

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« Reply #762 on: November 03, 2022, 09:53:51 PM »
Im going to sell my Tesla stock. At the end of the day, this will end poorly for musk.

Not because of the blue check meltdowns, but simply because the companies that spend the most on ads are very risk conscious. Companies like Toyota, Progressive Insurance, Proctor and Gamble etc have nothing to lose by leaving twitter ads. The vast majority of people that consume Twitter content do it 2nd hand via embedded tweets in articles and such where no ads are displayed.

Put my TSLA for sale tomorrow am

Sorry Elon, but youre taking Tesla down with you

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« Reply #763 on: November 03, 2022, 10:56:08 PM »
She couldn’t eat the tendies before or after filming the video?  :kobeyuck
That was the best part though.

Remind me to never check your search history  :jeanluc

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Share the degeneracy with us benji  :phil
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« Reply #765 on: November 04, 2022, 01:30:24 AM »
Im hearing rumors that Tesla engineers are visiting blue checks at night and executing them with a shot to the head. This isnt being reported on twitter because any post about it is immediately deleted. By the time the people realize whats happening it will be too late
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« Reply #766 on: November 04, 2022, 02:50:38 AM »
Im hearing rumors that Tesla engineers are visiting blue checks at night and executing them with a shot to the head. This isnt being reported on twitter because any post about it is immediately deleted. By the time the people realize whats happening it will be too late
It's really sus that there's nothing on Twitter about this. Elon's is having his censors cleanse the platform completely of free speech. That's how you know there must be something to this.

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« Reply #767 on: November 04, 2022, 03:32:30 AM »
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1588257225260138497

Trump was right when he said she was just like him.  :doge

So was Alex Stein when he started praising big booty latinas.  Come on AOC, you know it’s true.

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« Reply #768 on: November 04, 2022, 07:40:28 AM »
Summary
  • Some Twitter staff say they are already being locked out of email and Slack accounts as mass sackings at the company begin
  • New owner Elon Musk is expected to reduce the platform's workforce of 8,000 by as much as half
  • An internal email said the cuts were designed to put Twitter on a "healthy path" - the platform struggles to make a profit
  • All staff are set to receive an email with the subject "Your Role at Twitter" by 09:00 Pacific time on Friday (16:00 GMT)
  • A class action lawsuit has already been filed against the company over the mass job cuts and the amount of notice given
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« Reply #769 on: November 04, 2022, 08:44:26 AM »
Musky has never been one to be concerned with trivialities such as the law. That's for peasants.
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« Reply #770 on: November 04, 2022, 09:23:56 AM »
It's funny because it seems like such an avoidable issue. Give people their 60 day notice, what difference does it really make for musk?

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« Reply #771 on: November 04, 2022, 10:54:00 AM »
I've seen others with experience with the WARN act who have said paying someone for 60 days while they are technically fired still counts as 60 days notice so really all he has to do is pay them
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« Reply #772 on: November 04, 2022, 11:04:21 AM »
It's funny because it seems like such an avoidable issue. Give people their 60 day notice, what difference does it really make for musk?

How does the saying go...the cruelty is the point. Granted these are top tier employees who will be snatched up in a heart beat. But uncertainty is never a good thing, and certainly not when it comes to losing healthcare during what is supposed to be open enrollment.

We'll see what happens. The state of California and the AG will likely go pretty hard on this but at the same time, he can probably delay this legally. I was confident he was fucked on the Twitter deal case (and turned out to be correct) because rich people were involved. A class action lawsuit tho...ehhh. Who knows. Maybe the AG wants to be the next senator from CA and goes wild on this. We'll see.
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« Reply #775 on: November 04, 2022, 11:20:06 AM »
Solution: we send musk, his dickriders, blueticks and assorted other lame libs somewhere to hash this all out and then drone the shit out of them :salute
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« Reply #776 on: November 04, 2022, 11:21:42 AM »
https://twitter.com/TheHorrorGuru/status/1588004069439901698

I’m fairness, old white dudes living in Thailand have a 99.9% chance of being pedos :idont
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« Reply #777 on: November 04, 2022, 11:22:13 AM »
it is funny though, just like any topic on twitter, the takeover and new regime running it has quickly become tedious as fuck :elon
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« Reply #778 on: November 04, 2022, 11:23:27 AM »
https://twitter.com/TheHorrorGuru/status/1588004069439901698

I feel the inherent urge to pointlessly correct the tweet and point out that the guy he called a pedo was someone who had mapped the cave but wasn't one of the rescue divers. (Though he was the one to suggest to bring in the British divers)
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« Reply #779 on: November 04, 2022, 11:24:41 AM »
What people forget about the cave thing is AFTER the kids were rescued, Musk said he would send in a submarine anyway just to prove he was right.

Of course he never did
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