Elon's Antics

[Famine]

Meta's lawyers say they have no ex-Twitter staff.

Also Threads is entirely living up to Zuckerverse standards:

Spoiler: Very Tall Image

Neatly encapsulating one of the primary reasons I wouldn't go near it - or any other Zuckerverse "products" - with a forty foot unobtanium pole.

Incompetent egotist outranks competent demonlizard any day of the week. I only have to block 75 advertisers individually every day* to make Twitter functional...

Or "Advertisers? What advertisers? I don't see any advertisers", as it's known to his apologists

 

[UKMikey]

You do need to be signed in to Twitter to be able to view tweets, and yes, you can blame Elon for that:

Twitter has started blocking unregistered users

Elon Musk blamed “data pillage” and claims the move is temporary.

www.theverge.com

It is reportedly a temporary measure to combat platform abuse.

Gonna spoiler this because...ick...but I think the language is permissible here.

Ick.

I have the nagging suspicion the "platform abuse" explanation is a lie and it's tied to the non-subscriber browsing limits. Supporting traffic is too costly and money's not coming in.

I don't disagree and the data pillage reason or excuse sounds dodgy as heck, but were Twitter a public company it might have been difficult to justify curbing drive-by clicks from non-Twitter users as presumably it limits the audience for whatever advertisers they have left. I think the site's back to normal now though if so I don't know for how long or whether this limit will be reduced.

 

[TexRex]

I don't disagree and the data pillage reason or excuse sounds dodgy as heck, but were Twitter a public company it might have been difficult to justify curbing drive-by clicks from non-Twitter users as presumably it expands audience for whatever advertisers they have left. I think the site's back to normal now though if so I don't know for how long or whether this limit will be reduced.

It's preventing me from visiting a user profile from outside without signup and login, as I've got users that I "follow" bookmarked. I can view a single tweet but no replies are displayed, nor are preceding tweets in the case of threads, and viewing a profile from a tweet displays a bio and no tweet feed.

I will say that I've never seen a conventional ad on Twitter and the only time I've seen a "promoted" tweet is when someone has posted a screenshot of one because it was either funny or questionable. It does seem as though unregistered traffic wasn't a revenue stream, and so it was purely a burden.

 

[UKMikey]

I will say that I've never seen a conventional ad on Twitter and the only time I've seen a "promoted" tweet is when someone has posted a screenshot of one because it was either funny or questionable. It does seem as though unregistered traffic wasn't a revenue stream, and so it was purely a burden.

I guess they only milk people who sign up if that's the case. Maybe it's a consent thing.

 

[Blitz24]

I guess they only milk people who sign up if that's the case. Maybe it's a consent thing.

It is a growth limiting move. Advertisers would essentially be capped on views and that's not going to be very palatable to them.

 

[DK]

The mask isn't just off at this point, it's been incinerated in a flaming Tesla Model Y wreck.

 

[McLaren]

Take some joy in the fact that Tucker’s “views” on Twitter are dropping with each episode. The man is becoming nothing without Fox.

 

[Blitz24]

Take some joy in the fact that Tucker’s “views” on Twitter are dropping with each episode. The man is becoming nothing without Fox.

Wait, he still has a show?

partial /s

 

[MIE1992]

I knew I hated Tate as soon as I read about him trash-talking anime some time ago. I don't really love the entire medium as much as I really like certain productions that happen to be anime, but still.

 

[Liquid]

 

[Blitz24]

Best way to get people to forget about Twitter is to rename it to something else that ends up worse.

 

[Danoff]

I've never seen anyone so single-mindedly attempt to destroy their own business.

 

[Liquid]

I've never seen anyone so single-mindedly attempt to destroy their own business.

Brand recognition, the name, is pretty much the only thing that Twitter had left.

Had

 

[Famine]

 

[Liquid]

An awful name, sounds like the most basic placeholder, for a horribly ill-prepared and clearly ill-defined... something. I don't want AI marketplaces, I just want a short-message text feed with the occasional picture or video.

 

[Famine]

An awful name, sounds like the most basic placeholder, for a horribly ill-prepared and clearly ill-defined... something. I don't want AI marketplaces, I just want a short-message text feed with the occasional picture or video.

It's his thing. He's more obsessed with "X" than Perdita/Agnes was; all the companies have something to do with "X", the big company over the top is literally called "X" and he keeps putting "X" in his kids' names.

But at some point - after all the pump and dumps, market manipulation, crypto obsession, and now this third run at banking - people are going to realise he just wants a cut of that banking pie so he doesn't need to rely on his mates like Thiel bringing capital in.

Also he can't even keep Twitter going as standard. Where the tits is all the intellect for making that happen going to come from?

The above all reads like a prepared statement for a hostage, as the woman sipping from the most poisoned chalice in the world - and who replaced a literal dog - is having to rationalise some crazy-ass crap her boss just blurted out one day and told her to make happen.

 

[Blitz24]

It's his thing. He's more obsessed with "X" than Perdita/Agnes was; all the companies have something to do with "X", the big company over the top is literally called "X" and he keeps putting "X" in his kids' names.

But at some point - after all the pump and dumps, market manipulation, crypto obsession, and now this third run at banking - people are going to realise he just wants a cut of that banking pie so he doesn't need to rely on his mates like Thiel bringing capital in.

Also he can't even keep Twitter going as standard. Where the tits is all the intellect for making that happen going to come from?

The above all reads like a prepared statement for a hostage, as the woman sipping from the most poisoned chalice in the world - and who replaced a literal dog - is having to rationalise some crazy-ass crap her boss just blurted out one day and told her to make happen.

He's going to try to place the banking portion of the app into something unregulated, isn't he? Then he's going to cause a bank run and lose everyone's money, isn't he?

 

[McLaren]

Changing the name to his old pipe dream during the PayPal days isn't going to change the turd sandwich Twitter still is.

 

[Tornado]

Imagine owning something that's so ubiquitous, so well known, that derivative words are universally recognized. When you Tweet something, everyone knows what that means. A small handful of companies in the history of technology have become so engrained in culture that their product name is used as a verb. An image is photoshopped, to Google something, to Tweet something.





And imagine deciding that you want to throw that recognition away for a name rebranding that preteens would struggle to think is cool. Is that the entirety of his thought process all along? Is his entire, increasingly-manchild thought process all based around allegedly funny things he read on Cracked or I-Mockery 15 years ago?

 

[Liquid]

Is his entire, increasingly-manchild thought process all based around allegedly funny things he read on Cracked or I-Mockery 15 years ago?

You're not going to believe the answer!

 

[UKMikey]

Dude's been reading too many Marvel comics.

 

[Tornado]

 

[Liquid]

He's going to try to place the banking portion of the app into something unregulated, isn't he? Then he's going to cause a bank run and lose everyone's money, isn't he?

The last thing you should do is put your bank details on Twitter. Might as well jump feet first into a mincer.

 

[Famine]

The "X" rollout begins, to form:

I did briefly have an "X" in place of Larry earlier on, but of course he can't even do that right. And the favicon remains.

But we're supposed to believe we should trust "X" with apparently our entire lives to this, and him.

Oh and you might also notice that this logo, from the guy who's got a "thing" for good design, is a standard unicode character - 𝕏 - which is also uncopyrightable.

 

[Blitz24]

The last thing you should do is put your bank details on Twitter. Might as well jump feet first into a mincer.

I'd rather just pay a scammer than give Elon money... Wait, that's the exact same thing.

 

[Danoff]

This is practically an onion article.

 

[TexRex]

Oh and you might also notice that this logo, from the guy who's got a "thing" for good design, is a standard unicode character - 𝕏 - which is also uncopyrightable.

smort

 

[Jimlaad43]

 

[Blitz24]

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@x is owned by someone else who has been on the site for 16 years. I expect "eminent domain" by Musk who will confiscate it just because.

 

[Moglet]

Pretty much sums up my thoughts on this whole thing nicely:

Spoiler: Swears