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Morroque posted:I've seen the article posted elsewhere. The jist of it is that it was intentional, but not even Twitter's own employees know why. They received the order to do it, and Comms was told to draft up language for it, but that second part either kept getting delayed or just didn't even know what to say. twitter has a Comms department again?
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This also broke most, if not all, scrapers and data collection tools. Was in the middle of expanding a dataset for some linguistic research I'm doing when everything broke. Looks like I'll need to make due with what I have already and hope that's enough for a paper. EDIT: Nevermind. Posted that just as I was getting out of bed, but it looks like the makers of my scraper have found a workaround and it maybe works again. Tuxedo Gin fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jan 15, 2023 |
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The tools and apps that don't shut down may be able to switch to ingesting the web version of Twitter, which is harder to block but much slower and consumes way more bandwidth, so that's some higher bills for Musk to try to weasel out of paying
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Seeing as the remaining value of Twitter is having easy embeds on different platforms and seeing Elon Musk publicly poo poo his pants repeatedly, you would have thought the Mastodon people would have gotten around to implementing at least one of these things by this point.
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lobster shirt posted:https://twitter.com/erinkwoo/status/1614399391959502850 https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1615405842735714304 Definitely on purpose.
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Is Elon trying to throw a tantrum in hopes that someone buys him out but doesn't realize no one wants the toxic sludge that is twitter?
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Mooseontheloose posted:Is Elon trying to throw a tantrum in hopes that someone buys him out but doesn't realize no one wants the toxic sludge that is twitter? A lot of people would buy twitter if the price were right
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Shammypants posted:A lot of people would buy twitter if the price were right Well maybe musk should take it public, hold a big IPO lol
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Mercury_Storm posted:Seeing as the remaining value of Twitter is having easy embeds on different platforms and seeing Elon Musk publicly poo poo his pants repeatedly, you would have thought the Mastodon people would have gotten around to implementing at least one of these things by this point. I kind of agree, but also Mastodon isn't built around making money off ads so it's not particularly urgent that they get sudden meteoric growth or that they immediately become one of the go to ways to share an embedded post. Like it's such a different vibe from Twitter in a lot of ways so I can see why the general mindset of not wanting to make it "just like Twitter" might bleed over into functionality like that too.
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We should have our own workshop for his first tweet. I vote for at least one deliberately misspelt word.
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Surely the media will have learned their lesson and not treat everything he farts out onto Twitter as a news event this time.
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Depends on how ridiculous it is. If his posts weren't so drat stupid, they wouldn't be news.
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Why workshop his tweet when you know he's just going to open the app, brain dump without talking to anyone, and hit send
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Trump: Scottish Oatmeal Eater or Beef Eating Freeman? https://twitter.com/schwarz/status/1615712012985847808?s=20&t=RK7LKOSZahGe3CLQP_mysA
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This Is the Zodiac posted:Surely the media will have learned their lesson and not treat everything he farts out onto Twitter as a news event this time. the new head of CNN wants more trumpers for balance. So...you know...
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This Is the Zodiac posted:Surely the media will have learned their lesson and not treat everything he farts out onto Twitter as a news event this time.  I'm... not confident that they have.
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Large chunks of the media and their followers have been pretty clearly left adrift without Trump tweets to obsess over. They're absolutely doing to go straight back to them like it's 2016 all over again.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Large chunks of the media and their followers have been pretty clearly left adrift without Trump tweets to obsess over. They're absolutely doing to go straight back to them like it's 2016 all over again. By the end he was tweeting 50+ times a day and I don't think it ever had the same power as, for example, shithousing Jeb Bush at a debate.
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/CalmSporting/status/1616523418417123328?s=20&t=-Y_cXENzOVp9f80RHYxSHA Why retain a comms department when you'll handle all the tier 1 support yourself
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The Illusive Man posted:Why retain a comms department when you'll handle all the tier 1 support yourself Meanwhile companies with 9-figure advertising contracts can't even get a meeting with Musk.
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xpost from elon thread: someone named Maia crimew ( pronounced cri-mew) just leaked the entire tsa no fly list https://twitter.com/PunishedLink/status/1616834765021220864?t=zo_KguaTBCTxh2kOCu5dOA&s=19 Their blog alone is a work of art https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/how-to-hack-an-airline/ additionally they would fit in perfectly at YOSPOS 
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Ah, a Touhou fan.
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frameset posted:I just got the new layout update on Android and now to see my chronological timeline I have to always go to that middle "following" column. I'm guessing there's no way to turn this off or set Following as the default view? You’re right.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:You’re right. 
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frameset posted:I just got the new layout update on Android and now to see my chronological timeline I have to always go to that middle "following" column. I'm guessing there's no way to turn this off or set Following as the default view? They didn't spend all those resources tweaking the recommendations model for extra 1% engagement to let you just ignore it.
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Advertising and engagement hacking is the art of getting you to look at things you otherwise would not choose to. It's the core of their business model
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haveblue posted:Advertising and engagement hacking is the art of getting you to look at things you otherwise would not choose to. It's the core of their business model This is what I tell my client who ask about SEO. Their business model is "you pay them money to appear in the sponsored results, and the rest of the results aren't so spectacularly poo poo that people will abandon the platform entirely." You aren't going to get to #1. No one can guarantee that, because your competitors want the same thing and will use the same techniques and honestly they have no less right to it, and why should Google give a gently caress about any of you? What matters is conversions. Once someone sees you, are they buying something? What can you do about that? That's the thing that impression metrics don't capture, and that's where designers can make an actual difference (but still not much -- you have to be tempting).
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While this is not the most surprising discovery, a whistleblower confirms to FTC that any Twitter engineer has an unrestricted ability to impersonate any Twitter user. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/24/whistleblower-twtter-ftc-settlement/
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Musk's new policy of "just stop paying people what you owe them" now leading to truly shocking consequencesquote:Twitter is being sued for alleged nonpayment of rent by the owner of its US headquarters building in San Francisco, the latest of several lawsuits saying Twitter stopped paying bills after Elon Musk bought the company.
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We call this ‘doing a Trump’
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quote:Twitter was also sued last week by a consulting firm that says it was never paid $2.19 million owed for work it did on the lawsuit that forced Musk to complete his purchase of the company. A lot of people call today's world a ridiculously twisted dystopian joke, but it does have its bright points
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Never thought I'd see a case where I'm backing both landlords and the UK Crown Estate but Twitter truly does unite us in the most unexpected ways. I forget, did they close the UK office or are they going to get evicted from an active office?
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Why don't the people who own these Twitter HQs.... just change the locks once its been X days since they last got a rent payment? Slumlords do it all the time.
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Dull Fork posted:Why don't the people who own these Twitter HQs.... just change the locks once its been X days since they last got a rent payment? Slumlords do it all the time.
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