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Heath posted:Facebook is still around. They can still text. It is insanely, bafflingly hosed up to look at people being so hyperdependent on a microblogging app that its absence will bring their lives and the lives of their families crashing down and kvetching about it. It should never have gotten that far to begin with. This stupid website collapsing will frankly be a godsend for the mental health of a lot of people fwiw, facebook is way different than the purpose twitter occupies. It shares significantly less personal details, and on top of that Twitter has been a godsend for social movements / conferences / organisations rallying around a hashtag. The big issue with Mastodon and all other substitutes is that *anyone and everyone* has been on Twitter. You had Trump for awhile, but you also have like, anyone. Only invested people are going to make a Mastodon. Same issue with personal blogs. On top of that, christ help us with all the embed links that are going to die with this. It will be like when Yahoo Answers died, but with so many articles, and such.
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resident posted:Lol I heard a very credible insider story that Elon got an explicit in person warning from Twitter Blue lead engineers that rolling out the blue check mark hastily could be abused in a variety of ways. Elon decided to fire at least one of the tech leads and the rest is history. There was the leaked seven page document a few days ago from that team telling Elon that selling blue checks was a very bad idea and here's all the horrible things that will happen, which are the things that happened because everyone whose name is something other than the smelly poo poo from an animal's rear end knew what would happen. Entropic posted:ok what happened tonight? I don't look at twitter for a few hours, i glance at it again and suddenly everyone's running around with their heads cut off doomsaying 10x as much as they usually are but the site seems to be working fine. Turns out telling people that they have to suck your cock or get fired results in a lot of people getting fired and Twitter has gone from 6000 employees to 3000 employees to 300 employees.
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Entropic posted:ok what happened tonight? I don't look at twitter for a few hours, i glance at it again and suddenly everyone's running around with their heads cut off doomsaying 10x as much as they usually are but the site seems to be working fine. https://twitter.com/HaysKali/status/1593425305464541186?s=20&t=c-JdM6Yo_HF5RRoPX6jcWQ Is just one of thing.
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Entropic posted:ok what happened tonight? I don't look at twitter for a few hours, i glance at it again and suddenly everyone's running around with their heads cut off doomsaying 10x as much as they usually are but the site seems to be working fine. Various reports say less than 300 employees agreed to join Hardcore Twitter 2.0, so everyone else is fired. Among them may be the whole payroll team and several entire critical engineering teams. And they locked up the building until Monday and disabled everyone’s badges. And the World Cup is coming up in a couple of days, which strains Twitter when it’s 100% operational.
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Entropic posted:ok what happened tonight? I don't look at twitter for a few hours, i glance at it again and suddenly everyone's running around with their heads cut off doomsaying 10x as much as they usually are but the site seems to be working fine. elon went deathcon 3 on the remaining employees
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CatstropheWaitress posted:fwiw, facebook is way different than the purpose twitter occupies. It shares significantly less personal details, and on top of that Twitter has been a godsend for social movements / conferences / organisations rallying around a hashtag. The big issue with Mastodon and all other substitutes is that *anyone and everyone* has been on Twitter. You had Trump for awhile, but you also have like, anyone. Only invested people are going to make a Mastodon. Same issue with personal blogs. Frankly, if this really is the case, it is a loving fantastic object lesson in the fundamental problems with the way the internet has become structured and if this really does cause a major collapse of internet social infrastructure then I sincerely hope something better comes up in its wake. I am finding it sincerely hard to mourn for this ugly behemoth. The internet has been genuinely the worse for its presence. The fact is that all of this artifice was built on something so paper thin that a bumbling dipshit with enough money could roll in and kill it in a matter of weeks. The tree was rotten the whole time
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JC, the net's going... the net's going black! JC! No more infolinks, transmissions of any kind. We'll start again...live in villages...if you receive this... if you survive... then find us! Find us!
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Entropic posted:ok what happened tonight? I don't look at twitter for a few hours, i glance at it again and suddenly everyone's running around with their heads cut off doomsaying 10x as much as they usually are but the site seems to be working fine. The people who PAY the people who watch the servers have quit. The people who build and maintain the servers have quit. The office is closed. Once there’s a failure we’re going to see a failure cascade and it won’t stop. An no one will be left who knows how to fix it.
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Plan R posted:https://twitter.com/HaysKali/status/1593425305464541186?s=20&t=c-JdM6Yo_HF5RRoPX6jcWQ Come on, that's just payroll. It's not like they do anything to make the actual website run. lol
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DaveWoo posted:So... where are we going to get our news after Twitter dies? newsgroups
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DaveWoo posted:So... where are we going to get our news after Twitter dies? CSPAM
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DaveWoo posted:So... where are we going to get our news after Twitter dies? Journalist might have to actually talk to people and not just summarize tweets.
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The inevitable hbo documentary on the fall of Twitter is gonna be loving insane
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davecrazy posted:Anybody who didn't delete their account the Friday he took control gets what's coming to them. you say that without knowing what Elon has in store for them. Tesla drivers with the Twitter app integration enabled will get a surprise cable from the car battery clamped to their nuts, along with the option to donate to help keep Twitter's servers running.
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DaveWoo posted:So... where are we going to get our news after Twitter dies?
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Sports news reporting is so tangled up in twitter it's going to be amazing to see everyone go back to having to watch ESPN for breaking news
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davecrazy posted:Anybody who didn't delete their account the Friday he took control gets what's coming to them. I deleted my account, nobody will know the 4 people I followed
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Enigma89 posted:I want this to be true but have done zero validation. DO we have a sense of how real this is? It's not even new news, tbh.
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sharknado slashfic posted:Sports news reporting is so tangled up in twitter it's going to be amazing to see everyone go back to having to watch ESPN for breaking news Didn't even think of this. gently caress off Adam shefter you parasite
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CuddleCryptid posted:JC, the net's going... the net's going black! JC! No more infolinks, transmissions of any kind. We'll start again...live in villages...if you receive this... if you survive... then find us! Find us! My posting is augmented.
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ok feel free to mock me if i'm immediately proven wrong, but I'm putting my chips on "twitter is dead for sure now" being the new "I'd Like to See Ol Donny Trump Wriggle His Way Out of THIS Jam!"
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sharknado slashfic posted:Sports news reporting is so tangled up in twitter it's going to be amazing to see everyone go back to having to watch ESPN for breaking news That sucks!!
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Heath posted:Frankly, if this really is the case, it is a loving fantastic object lesson in the fundamental problems with the way the internet has become structured and if this really does cause a major collapse of internet social infrastructure then I sincerely hope something better comes up in its wake.
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Castor Poe posted:The inevitable hbo documentary on the fall of Twitter is gonna be loving insane It's seriously gonna be minute by minute and second by second in some places.
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In the date of collapse predication earlier in the thread I predicted late 2024. This is what I get for underestimating Elon
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Nowher posted:In the date of collapse predication earlier in the thread I predicted late 2024. I don't think any of us really expected Elon to tank the company this quickly
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Wildtortilla posted:How will I share my greatest Splatoon 3 plays? you'll have to call your local radio station and describe them on air
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Heath posted:Facebook is still around. They can still text. It is insanely, bafflingly hosed up to look at people being so hyperdependent on a microblogging app that its absence will bring their lives and the lives of their families crashing down and kvetching about it. It should never have gotten that far to begin with. This stupid website collapsing will frankly be a godsend for the mental health of a lot of people The problem was that twitter managed to fill a niche where organizations could use it to send news out to other organizations and entities using twitter, and retweets and likes spread that stuff even further. Its basically a communications shortcut that allows news to propagate rapidly. Twitter made this stuff real easy with embedded tweets and other stuff that made journalists a big part of its ecosystem.
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