Re: tw.tter
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 12:53 pm
A hero, that's who
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Re: tw.tter
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:48 pm
f.ck off, nitter fan lol
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2022 3:07 pm
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Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 2:34 am
Musk now owns Twitter: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63402338
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 7:19 am
From my understanding...
*Except in countries that don't like that sort of thing.
- He needs to pay a third of the company's total current income to service the debt he's just saddled the company with, and it is barely in profit as it is,
- He apparently wants to transition all current in-house infrastructure (ie: servers what run Twitter) to cloud offerings,
- He wants to fire a whole bunch of people, many of who will be needed to do the transition above,
- He wants to do more targeted ads,
- He wants to let the trolls back on and go back to the 'free speech'* model that nearly killed the company years ago.
*Except in countries that don't like that sort of thing.
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 7:33 am
Firing the chief counsel without (as far as I can see) announcing a replacement seems a bit rash.bjn wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 7:19 amFrom my understanding...I give it two years tops.
- He needs to pay a third of the company's total current income to service the debt he's just saddled the company with, and it is barely in profit as it is,
- He apparently wants to transition all current in-house infrastructure (ie: servers what run Twitter) to cloud offerings,
- He wants to fire a whole bunch of people, many of who will be needed to do the transition above,
- He wants to do more targeted ads,
- He wants to let the trolls back on and go back to the 'free speech'* model that nearly killed the company years ago.
*Except in countries that don't like that sort of thing.
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 7:57 am
If he kills twitter I will be very happy
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 8:37 am
I won’t. I’ll miss it. It gets a lot of flack but can also me enormous fun and very informative.
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 9:02 am
I use tweetdeck to manage my interaction with Twitter. This means I don't see 'trending' / 'you may also like' / 'promoted' tweets, just ones from people I follow, or tweets that have specific content. It also allows me to see my 'lists' separated out - so I have on column for the comedians I follow, another for the scicomm tweets.Stranger Mouse wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 8:37 amI won’t. I’ll miss it. It gets a lot of flack but can also me enormous fun and very informative.
Occasionally I go into native twitter, and it's a horrible, amplifying place.
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 10:05 am
Seen people claim that Musk will kill off Twitter by allowing back banned people who in the name of free speech will go around being abusive.
What the f.ck? Maybe there's some corner of Twitter that's currently free of abusive and anti-social behaviour, but I haven't seen it. As far as I can see its still full of aggressive people flinging sh.t. Allowing Trump back probably won't make much difference to what people experience already.
What the f.ck? Maybe there's some corner of Twitter that's currently free of abusive and anti-social behaviour, but I haven't seen it. As far as I can see its still full of aggressive people flinging sh.t. Allowing Trump back probably won't make much difference to what people experience already.
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 10:07 am
Its the most efficient way to get information on some things. But its also a dystopian hellscape whose business model is aggression.Stranger Mouse wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 8:37 amI won’t. I’ll miss it. It gets a lot of flack but can also me enormous fun and very informative.
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 11:43 am
Quantity has a quality all of its own.Woodchopper wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 10:05 amSeen people claim that Musk will kill off Twitter by allowing back banned people who in the name of free speech will go around being abusive.
What the f.ck? Maybe there's some corner of Twitter that's currently free of abusive and anti-social behaviour, but I haven't seen it. As far as I can see its still full of aggressive people flinging sh.t. Allowing Trump back probably won't make much difference to what people experience already.
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 12:31 pm
Tbf there have been attempts to measure the level of hatred against people that Trump was spewing out, and it has decreased in the time since he was banned.Woodchopper wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 10:05 amSeen people claim that Musk will kill off Twitter by allowing back banned people who in the name of free speech will go around being abusive.
What the f.ck? Maybe there's some corner of Twitter that's currently free of abusive and anti-social behaviour, but I haven't seen it. As far as I can see its still full of aggressive people flinging sh.t. Allowing Trump back probably won't make much difference to what people experience already.
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 1:19 pm
Yes, but the ban also coincided with him not being President. So I guess its difficult to separate the two.El Pollo Diablo wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 12:31 pmTbf there have been attempts to measure the level of hatred against people that Trump was spewing out, and it has decreased in the time since he was banned.Woodchopper wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 10:05 amSeen people claim that Musk will kill off Twitter by allowing back banned people who in the name of free speech will go around being abusive.
What the f.ck? Maybe there's some corner of Twitter that's currently free of abusive and anti-social behaviour, but I haven't seen it. As far as I can see its still full of aggressive people flinging sh.t. Allowing Trump back probably won't make much difference to what people experience already.
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 2:12 pm
I guess to the sort of people who like him, they think he still is the president so, you know
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2022 5:00 pm
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2022 5:19 am
So nice to finally be free to tweet all those offensive jokes I've been holding back on.
brb teaching a seagull to seig heil
brb teaching a seagull to seig heil
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2022 9:30 am
Been doing my bit by searching for accounts using racist and homophobic terms and reporting them so far got 40 notifications of accounts being locked or suspended. Go me. Only another hundred million to go.
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2022 12:00 pm
Yes, I'm in a chatgroup that does that too. DM me if you'd like to join.Stranger Mouse wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 9:30 amBeen doing my bit by searching for accounts using racist and homophobic terms and reporting them so far got 40 notifications of accounts being locked or suspended. Go me. Only another hundred million to go.
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2022 12:46 pm
There's been a real concerted effort, it seems, from the far right to push racist and antisemitic* memes and hashtags since the muskrat took over, and of course there's huge overlap between those hateful beliefs.
*A form of racism too, of course, but a specific form with its own specific, generally conspiratorial, dynamics
*A form of racism too, of course, but a specific form with its own specific, generally conspiratorial, dynamics
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2022 2:12 pm
Musk himself is spreading fake news site conspiracy theories about the assassination attempt on Nancy Pelosi.
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/158 ... MUtEw&s=19
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/158 ... MUtEw&s=19
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2022 8:01 pm
Time to boycott linking to tw.tter?
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2022 8:52 pm
Thanks... I don't do twitter but I enjoyed the article... especially the line how he bought himself for 44Bn!dyqik wrote: ↑Fri Oct 28, 2022 5:00 pmThis covers the situation quite well:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/234 ... moderation
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2022 6:00 am
I don’t think so. Te a useful tool and getting more eyes on worthwhile posts means the self publicising conspiracy pushers don’t get it all their own way.
Re: tw.tter
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2022 12:27 pm
I've wandered off and set up accounts on mastodon.social and counter.social - same username as here and Twitter.