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lol I never realized until yesterday, Elon got ousted from OpenAI and they got bought out by Microsoft and are now on target to take over the known world quote:According to Musk, the “venture had fallen fatally behind Google.”
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I dunno if it's the same article, but they explicitly mentioned having no choice but to merge with Google because Elon stiffed them and they'd made commitments they couldn't afford to cover without funding. just a remarkable display of both business sense and ethics as always
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Mar 29, 2023 01:22
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Just got a series of emails saying my Twitter account was hacked and changed to a different email. Says it will take a few days for security to get back to me. I completely forgot I even had a twitter account, as its been over a decade since I had the job that wanted us to have accounts to astro turf various policy bullshit.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:25
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Mush shoulda stuck with the higher price point. The sort of person paying 7 per month for a check mark is either a) wealthy enough they don’t care about the diff between 7 and 20/m or b) buying it to send a message He could be making 7m per month off that same user group, cut it down to 500 years to pay off his purchase easy
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Mar 29, 2023 01:27
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Reminder that the $7 price point is if you buy an entire year of Twitter blue. Most people are paying the $11 through the apps.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:39
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I dunno if it's the same article, but they explicitly mentioned having no choice but to merge with Google because Elon stiffed them and they'd made commitments they couldn't afford to cover without funding. He could have been known as one of the big founders/backers of that for only 2% of what he spent on Twitter.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:42
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Art of the deal babee
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Mar 29, 2023 02:26
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jeffreyw posted:Vox has a recent article about this. They’re open to return but a lot won’t because Musk completely broke Twitter, there’s no support staff and the support staff keeps getting laid off, and actual engagement on Twitter was already dogshit before Musk wrecked discoverability even further. Yeah lots of companies would probably have just laid low for a couple months and then quietly returned, taking advantage of the lower rates, but there are stories of them being unable to actually get in touch with anyone to buy ad campaigns or get support cause everyone got fired. and it's not like advertisers are desperate to get on twitter, Elon is the one who needs them.
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Mar 29, 2023 02:48
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I'll forever love that like one picture that always seems to get used of him and he just looks like a complete loving moron.
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Mar 29, 2023 03:55
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you mean his bird avatar?
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Mar 29, 2023 03:58
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Kale posted:I'll forever love that like one picture that always seems to get used of him and he just looks like a complete loving moron. oh you mean the one with his face in it?
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Mar 29, 2023 04:04
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Kale posted:I'll forever love that like one picture that always seems to get used of him and he just looks like a complete loving moron. You're going to have to be a lot more specific.
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Mar 29, 2023 04:13
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You know, the one where his face looks like a bag of rotten oatmeal?
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Mar 29, 2023 04:40
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This part is just so strange to me. It's not like the premium features are scoped to the device you use to sign up for them. Even if you vastly prefer to use Twitter on mobile, why not take 30 seconds to just sign up for Blue on your laptop/desktop to save some money on a recurring monthly fee? Hell, I'm pretty sure you could just do it through your phone by going to Twitter in your browser instead of using the app.
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Devils Affricate posted:This part is just so strange to me. It's not like the premium features are scoped to the device you use to sign up for them. Even if you vastly prefer to use Twitter on mobile, why not take 30 seconds to just sign up for Blue on your laptop/desktop to save some money on a recurring monthly fee? Hell, I'm pretty sure you could just do it through your phone by going to Twitter in your browser instead of using the app. Looking into it
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Devils Affricate posted:This part is just so strange to me. It's not like the premium features are scoped to the device you use to sign up for them. Even if you vastly prefer to use Twitter on mobile, why not take 30 seconds to just sign up for Blue on your laptop/desktop to save some money on a recurring monthly fee? Hell, I'm pretty sure you could just do it through your phone by going to Twitter in your browser instead of using the app. Anyone who has at any point considered paying for twitter is incredibly dumb
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Mar 29, 2023 05:20
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people are amazing lazy, stupid, and lazy.
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Mar 29, 2023 05:21
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Devils Affricate posted:This part is just so strange to me. It's not like the premium features are scoped to the device you use to sign up for them. Even if you vastly prefer to use Twitter on mobile, why not take 30 seconds to just sign up for Blue on your laptop/desktop to save some money on a recurring monthly fee? Hell, I'm pretty sure you could just do it through your phone by going to Twitter in your browser instead of using the app. You aren't paying more when you sign up via the iOS app, Twitter has to share a cut of the payment with Apple since the order is processed through the App Store. Also, you can manage the subscription through your Apple account without having to deal with any extra bullshit. I can't imagine what kind of bullshit hoops Elon is throwing in for anyone currently subscribed to Twitter Blue who might want to unsubscribe. If you subscribe through iOS you can just hit cancel on the same tab where all your subscriptions are managed. Oh yeah, and you don't have to give your credit card info to the company who fired all their security specialists and who was owned so badly their codebase was leaked.
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Mar 29, 2023 05:44
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LanceHunter posted:You aren't paying more when you sign up via the iOS app, Twitter has to share a cut of the payment with Apple since the order is processed through the App Store. Also, you can manage the subscription through your Apple account without having to deal with any extra bullshit. I can't imagine what kind of bullshit hoops Elon is throwing in for anyone currently subscribed to Twitter Blue who might want to unsubscribe. If you subscribe through iOS you can just hit cancel on the same tab where all your subscriptions are managed. Elon is passing on the apple store mark up directly to the customer, it does cost more to sign up via the app store.
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Mar 29, 2023 05:50
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Kingo Ligma posted:Elon is passing on the apple store mark up directly to the customer, it does cost more to sign up via the app store. lol yeah the day after he had that meeting with Tim Apple where Tim laid the rules out to him, he announced it would be $11 to sign up on iOS, the customer themselves is paying the app store fee
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Mar 29, 2023 05:54
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It's also funny to me that he's desperately trying to find "features" to throw at blue users to make paying monthly more appealing, but Twitter is pretty much a finished product. There's not really any new features to be added that are in any way relevant or interesting to what you can do with Twitter. Every "brilliant" idea he's had for new features makes using Twitter aggresively worse for everyone and strays further from the things that made it "fun". It's like trying to healing a gunshot wound by shooting more bullets at someone so the pain of the new wounds is so great that you forget about your original one.
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Mar 29, 2023 06:04
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Devils Affricate posted:This part is just so strange to me. It's not like the premium features are scoped to the device you use to sign up for them. Even if you vastly prefer to use Twitter on mobile, why not take 30 seconds to just sign up for Blue on your laptop/desktop to save some money on a recurring monthly fee? Hell, I'm pretty sure you could just do it through your phone by going to Twitter in your browser instead of using the app. people are lazy and aren't going to bother
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Mar 29, 2023 06:10
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Ghostlight posted:i love that the guy is in her replies trying to pretend he has never paid for twitter but that's literally what "i can tell you from experience" means What, no. He got pushed to everybody's For You tab like a month ago after a very popular thread on workwear, that's literally what he's talking about
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Mar 29, 2023 06:23
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Devils Affricate posted:This part is just so strange to me. It's not like the premium features are scoped to the device you use to sign up for them. Even if you vastly prefer to use Twitter on mobile, why not take 30 seconds to just sign up for Blue on your laptop/desktop to save some money on a recurring monthly fee? Hell, I'm pretty sure you could just do it through your phone by going to Twitter in your browser instead of using the app. - They may not know - They may not care - They may prefer the lower friction of paying via a system that is already set up to take payments (1 tap vs. digging out your credit card and adding it to Twitter) - They may feel that paying via iOS / Android is more private, since they don't have to share financial info directly with yet another website - They may not want to bother switching devices (for many people, their phone is their primary computer today) But most of all: Never underestimate the power of defaults. Users will just do the default drat near always because it takes the least effort and zero new understanding. Defaults are wildly powerful in UX design.
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Mar 29, 2023 06:26
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Ghostlight posted:i love that the guy is in her replies trying to pretend he has never paid for twitter but that's literally what "i can tell you from experience" means Green Wing posted:What, no. He got pushed to everybody's For You tab like a month ago after a very popular thread on workwear, that's literally what he's talking about yeah the dude isn't doing the "i think you should leave" hotdog sketch.. he literally just showed up on people's feed for no apparent reason. https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bd7w/twitters-algorithmically-dieworkwear-derek-guy-famous-menswear-guy-is-sorry-to-annoy-you
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Mar 29, 2023 06:36
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Don't trust the Musk
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Mar 29, 2023 07:33
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Not sure why you would feel you need to be in charge when you don't have a clue what you are doing and keep hitting yourself in the face like a carnival clown. There's still more than enough money in the coffers to hire smart people to actually run it and be like "yo, make this profitable and a good experience for users, I'll pay you a shitload and give all the benefits you could want, you can even borrow one of my yachts now and then. Just let me know how much we make each month." And then gently caress off to Mars or whatever and don't need to think about it. Too much money breaks your brain. And burns out even poo poo humor. 
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Mar 29, 2023 07:34
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:
that man has actually leveled up past thumb all the way to big toe
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Mar 29, 2023 07:39
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He looks nothing like sergeant hulka
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The Butcher posted:Not sure why you would feel you need to be in charge when you don't have a clue what you are doing and keep hitting yourself in the face like a carnival clown. That would require him to understand that some people are better than him though.
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Do Not Fire List? More like Do Not Care List!!  Hey, why is that lawyer giving me a death-stare and reaching for his bottom-drawer whisky?....
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Pookah posted:Check out that gossamer bloatee Dogg I cannot brook the gossamer bloatee.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:the gossamer bloatee. Solid username material E: or amateur wrestling character
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blackcat12951 posted:That would require him to understand that some people are better than him though. Almost all people, in fact.
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https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/1640816782121336832?t=uAhpTVLZzNTl3bpxwiqHkA&s=19 Killing twitter has at least given me some nice laughs
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theghostpt posted:https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/1640816782121336832?t=uAhpTVLZzNTl3bpxwiqHkA&s=19 I will say, I like that Merriam-Webster is not afraid to just smoke a motherfucker when it's called for.
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Mar 29, 2023 09:47
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What's dumber, paying for Twitter or paying for Mensa?
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Mar 29, 2023 10:07
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The feature of twitter is that it can provide targeted propaganda to your desired audience and informative analytics Oh, you mean features for the inventory (general public)
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Mar 29, 2023 10:34
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Quote-Unquote posted:What's dumber, paying for Twitter or paying for Mensa? For a brief moment I thought bought was on about buying Mensa, presumably because it bullied him
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