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Apparently, he's talking about moving the character limit from 280 to 4000 characters, which basically kills whatever cachet the social media site had. Twitter runs on "brevity is the soul of wit", it makes users have to summarize their thoughts, remove the cruft, and present the essentials. It's why dril became so popular, he was posting these surreal jokes in a single sentence. Now, we'll get Babylon Bee posting an unfunny transphobic joke and then spend the next 3000 characters to explain why its funny.
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Dec 11, 2022 17:25
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Young Freud posted:Twitter runs on "brevity is the soul of wit", it makes users have to summarize their thoughts, remove the cruft, and present the essentials. I have bad news about both the wit and the brevity. 🧵 (1/27)
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Dec 11, 2022 17:45
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Prism posted:I have bad news about both the wit and the brevity. 🧵 (1/27) Kinda knew someone would bring up threads, but even the threads broken into 280 character chunks at least made people organize whatever data or point they're trying to convey, like an expository paragraph in an essay being emphasized. But 4000 characters now means that people who don't have that discipline can just drop wall-of-text rants and manifestos. We'll probably see people dropping a copy & paste of the John Galt speech into the full 4000 limit, like we saw here, as a cheap joke. Also, threaded tweets, because they were both connected and individual at the same time, meant they could go viral easier and, because of that connection, allowed people to go back to the original thread by following a rebuttal or someone QTing a synopsis. With tweets now being 15 times the size, you'll get less engagement compared to 15 tweets.
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Dec 11, 2022 18:00
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Old James posted:Apple takes a 30% cut of purchases through their store (Google has a similar policy). I thought they (Apple) didn’t allow you to charge different rates in iOS vs out of iOS. Wasn’t there some fight between them and Epic about this?
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Dec 11, 2022 18:01
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Prism posted:I have bad news about both the wit and the brevity. 🧵 (1/27) Every time I see one of these I just think "why didn't this person just link off-site to a blog or literally anything other than a 50 tweet thread". I read like the first few tweets and twitter either tells me to log in or starts jamming in ads and I'm done.
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Dec 11, 2022 18:25
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funkymonks posted:I thought they (Apple) didn’t allow you to charge different rates in iOS vs out of iOS. Wasn’t there some fight between them and Epic about this? I thought so too but I couldn't find anything in the app store review guidelines about this. Maybe they were forced to drop it as part of the lawsuit outcome?
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Dec 11, 2022 18:32
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Elon un-banned the Krassenstein brothers. 
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Dec 11, 2022 18:41
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He's gonna let the rich buy verified fleets.
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Dec 11, 2022 18:45
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funkymonks posted:I thought they (Apple) didn’t allow you to charge different rates in iOS vs out of iOS. Wasn’t there some fight between them and Epic about this? Epic's problem was that they put in an in-app option to bypass the App Store payment system altogether, and was really obviously picking a fight about it. Here's the example they gave of what their new in-app payment screen would look like:  Charging one price on iOS and another price on desktop is fine. Giving both prices as options to iOS users, on the other hand, is a blatant "gently caress you" to Apple.
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Dec 11, 2022 18:54
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Main Paineframe posted:Epic's problem was that they put in an in-app option to bypass the App Store payment system altogether, and was really obviously picking a fight about it. Here's the example they gave of what their new in-app payment screen would look like: The screen did briefly look like that, before Apple pulled the Fortnite app off the store for a very clear violation of what was at the time a total ban on directing users to non-Apple payment processors. This was exactly what Epic wanted, since it gave them a harm for the already-planned lawsuit
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Dec 11, 2022 19:24
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Dick Trauma posted:Elon un-banned the Krassenstein brothers. At last, they'll finally get to share their evidence that will lead to the immediate execution of Steve Bannon by the Marshall General of the Supreme Court 
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Dec 11, 2022 22:07
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nine-gear crow posted:At last, they'll finally get to share their evidence that will lead to the immediate execution of Steve Bannon by the Marshall General of the Supreme Court
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Dec 11, 2022 22:11
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FlamingLiberal posted:That's the wrong grifter You're telling me Ed and Brian Krassenstein, Louise Mensch, Seth Abramson, and the 20comittee guy are somehow NOT just all the same person? 
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Dec 11, 2022 22:18
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There's also Rick Wilson and the entire Lincoln Project
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There's also Meidas Touch that's always given me Krassenstein/Lincoln Project vibes.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:There's also Meidas Touch that's always given me Krassenstein/Lincoln Project vibes.
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Dec 12, 2022 01:42
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nine-gear crow posted:You're telling me Ed and Brian Krassenstein, Louise Mensch, Seth Abramson, and the 20comittee guy are somehow NOT just all the same person? Wait didn't Seth Abramson get shot over a leak or a laptop or something? Thought that went really hot on Reddit years ago before they banned trumpet people.
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Dec 12, 2022 04:41
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oliveoil posted:Wait didn't Seth Abramson get shot over a leak or a laptop or something? Thought that went really hot on Reddit years ago before they banned trumpet people. No, that's Seth Rich. FlamingLiberal posted:There's also Rick Wilson and the entire Lincoln Project Rick Wilson has at least had the decency to be really goddamn legitimately funny in addition to his grifting, so that mildly sets him apart from all the other yahoos.
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Dec 12, 2022 05:35
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nine-gear crow posted:Rick Wilson has at least had the decency to be really goddamn legitimately funny in addition to his grifting, so that mildly sets him apart from all the other yahoos. And he's also honest about exactly the sort of rear end in a top hat he is. There's no grift there, he lays it out in front of you. He's a conservative prick, he doesn't hide it, he just really hates Trump and he wants the pre-Trump GOP back. I like him. I can deal with an honest rear end in a top hat. I can't stand a duplicitous rear end in a top hat.
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Dec 12, 2022 05:44
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PT6A posted:And he's also honest about exactly the sort of rear end in a top hat he is. There's no grift there, he lays it out in front of you. He's a conservative prick, he doesn't hide it, he just really hates Trump and he wants the pre-Trump GOP back. Yeah, I'd take like 5 Rick Wilsons over like 1 Louise Mensch or George Conway.
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Dec 12, 2022 05:46
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For anyone who was wondering how long it would take for Musk to go full mask-off with his transphobia, here we gooooooo I suspect there won't be much point in reporting misgendering on Twitter anymore.
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Dec 12, 2022 05:46
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Main Paineframe posted:I suspect there won't be much point in reporting misgendering on Twitter anymore. He'd already removed it from the list of things you could report, didn't he?
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Dec 12, 2022 05:49
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Main Paineframe posted:For anyone who was wondering how long it would take for Musk to go full mask-off with his transphobia, here we gooooooo Ok, what the gently caress is he talking about with the gain of function research killing millions of people? Is he implying that COVID was *created* out of it?
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Dec 12, 2022 06:42
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small butter posted:Ok, what the gently caress is he talking about with the gain of function research killing millions of people? Is he implying that COVID was *created* out of it? Yes. It’s a conspiracy theory that covid was produced in a bioweapons lab and then got out (accidentally or otherwise)
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haveblue posted:Yes. It’s a conspiracy theory that covid was produced in a bioweapons lab and then got out (accidentally or otherwise) Oh he's saying Fauci created covid. Owling Howl fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Dec 12, 2022 |
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Dec 12, 2022 07:28
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Main Paineframe posted:For anyone who was wondering how long it would take for Musk to go full mask-off with his transphobia, here we gooooooo How much more of this are we going to have to endure and how much wilder is it going to get before we finally reach the grisly end of his Lowtax speedrun. Because this really feels like he's going to eventually shoot someone in the head with a shotgun, probably himself, the way he's going.
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Dec 12, 2022 07:33
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I get the nasty suspicion we've reached peak wild and now we're just watching the corpse decompose into it's final RedCap form.
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Dec 12, 2022 08:11
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Proof that no matter how rich you are, too much internet will destroy ya brain
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Dec 12, 2022 08:19
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nine-gear crow posted:How much more of this are we going to have to endure and how much wilder is it going to get before we finally reach the grisly end of his Lowtax speedrun. Because this really feels like he's going to eventually shoot someone in the head with a shotgun, probably himself, the way he's going. Or maybe nothing happens and he just keeps being a massive shithead with no consequences while his stupid birdsite contributes more and more to trans genocide.
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Dec 12, 2022 11:56
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The "Twitter Whistleblower" has way more meat to it than the ridiculous "Twitter Files." A few highlights... https://twitter.com/AvidHalaby/status/1602127460677844993?s=20&t=7AemTePqfN33EfzWOmII5g https://twitter.com/AvidHalaby/status/1602128747225923585?s=20&t=7AemTePqfN33EfzWOmII5g https://twitter.com/AvidHalaby/status/1602132853219004416?s=20&t=7AemTePqfN33EfzWOmII5g https://twitter.com/AvidHalaby/status/1602134420655599616?s=20&t=7AemTePqfN33EfzWOmII5g https://twitter.com/AvidHalaby/status/1602137767731159041?s=20&t=7AemTePqfN33EfzWOmII5g Link to full report: https://twitter.com/AvidHalaby/status/1602137943149318144?s=20&t=7AemTePqfN33EfzWOmII5g
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Dec 12, 2022 12:42
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I deleted my twitter account right after the musk buyout went through and have not been regretting that decision. If now isn't a good time to do that I don't know when it will be.
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Musk made an appearance at a Dave Chappelle-Chris Rock show in San Francisco and was greeted with a stadium full of boos. As a result, anyone trying to tweet the video of the incident is having their accounts deleted.
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Young Freud posted:Musk made an appearance at a Dave Chappelle-Chris Rock show in San Francisco and was greeted with a stadium full of boos. As a result, anyone trying to tweet the video of the incident is having their accounts deleted.
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Here's a video of it that's still live, for now: https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveGoffman/status/1602229546383728640 Of course chances are this will just teach him not to step out of his bubble rather than to make any lasting meaningful change
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haveblue posted:Here's a video of it that's still live, for now: The quicker Musk goes Howard Hughes and starts wearing Kleenex boxes as footwear and collecting jars of his own urine and stewing in isolation, the better everyone will be.
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Mercury_Storm posted:I deleted my twitter account right after the musk buyout went through and have not been regretting that decision. If now isn't a good time to do that I don't know when it will be. I see myself doing that pretty soon, I'm just trying to get a couple of more people to realize they can speak to people in ways outside of Twitter and then I'm giving up on them and done lol I killed my Facebook account a few years ago, and when that happened I thought it was going to be very difficult to do since I used it constantly, but then about a week later I realized I wasn't even thinking about checking it. It really put in perspective for me how bad the signal/noise ratio is on that platform. Twitter is a little more challenging because it got so ingrained in a lot of people thinking they need to preserve their brand/followes or whatever and can't leave and I've gotten some actual work through it now and then. Even with the writing on the wall for years that the number of people who are able to have their full time job be Twitter shitposts is pretty small. But at the same time now that Musk has been so openly running the platform in favor of the shittiest people alive it's making it a lot easier to leave like, today, gently caress it.
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haveblue posted:Here's a video of it that's still live, for now: Wow, even people willing to go see a Dave Chappelle show think Elon Musk is one loathsome piece of poo poo too much for them.
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Mercury_Storm posted:I deleted my twitter account right after the musk buyout went through and have not been regretting that decision. If now isn't a good time to do that I don't know when it will be. Same, and I've been a lot less angry about humanity now that I'm not doomscrolling through pithy takes on every outrage, outrage to the outrage, etc. Checked it out today and most people I follow are subtweeting about some Magic: The Gathering tournament drama and even reading replies and scrolling for ten minutes I can't figure out what everyone's mad about. Who needs that in their life? I've checked out Facebook again, which I've used occasionally for events and wishing friends happy birthday, but got some unsettling reminders of how intrusive it is about spying. I've been seeing ads for things I've only had verbal discussions about. Yesterday my fiance wanted to wear a black dress, but it was covered in cat hair, so we were looking for our lint roller. Then I got a bunch of ads for some As Seen on TV marketed lint roller. No one opened their phone to search for a lint roller. That's not even the only event, it's too much to be a coincidence. Like I know that privacy is a thing of the past, but don't be so brazen about it.
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