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We're all still going to call it Twitter forever though.
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Clarste posted:We're all still going to call it Twitter forever though. I’m pulling for Twixxer, myself.
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My favorite part about the Stupid Name Bullshit is that Elon knows that he absolutely has to keep the Twitter brand on lockdown or someone else will use it and immediately increase their value exponentially.
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CuddleCryptid posted:This is a minor thing but Twitter has officially renamed "retweets" to "reposts" which is hilarious. Just sandblasting that brand off. See that pissed me off. They could have called it "rexes" and that would be kind of bitchin'.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:See that pissed me off. They could have called it "rexes" and that would be kind of bitchin'. Or x-posting, pronounced cross-posting.
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I'm convinced that Musk's entire mission in life is to get revenge on Peter Thiel et al.
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Star Man posted:I'm convinced that Musk's entire mission in life is to get revenge on Peter Thiel et al.
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Aug 17, 2023 00:02
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I didn't say he was doing it well 
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Star Man posted:I'm convinced that Musk's entire mission in life is to get revenge on Peter Thiel et al.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Nothing he's been doing since buying Twitter has been remotely coherent. He's just making it up as he goes along. He was always bad, but since taking over Twitter he's got terminal internet poisoning. Basically everything he's done can be understood through the lens of "this should make me seem cool to the blue checkmarks."
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Aug 17, 2023 00:44
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Captain_Maclaine posted:He was always bad, but since taking over Twitter he's got terminal internet poisoning. Basically everything he's done can be understood through the lens of "this should make me seem cool to the blue checkmarks."
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Aug 17, 2023 00:51
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FlamingLiberal posted:I never really paid attention to his posts that often pre-purchase, but I think he's been like that for awhile. It's just worse now because as far as I can tell he spends all day on Twitter and his primary interactions are with scum like Catturd2 and the right-wing shitheads of Twitter Trying to look cool online does work a lot better when promoting rocket/electric car stuff rather than unbanning nazis, yes.
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https://twitter.com/dexerto/status/1692564300865450020?s=46
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Holy poo poo this is purely because he wants more eyes on right wing propaganda and his own posts.
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Its fascinating to see how Twitter has dropped all pretense of being social media to swing hard to catering to influencer accounts and political actors. Being able to control who can see your information and posts is a foundational thing for social media, and removing it just means that Twitter is no longer personal social media in any possible way, it's somewhere where you go for clout and clicks.
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Aug 18, 2023 17:56
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It also means a LOT of people are going to get chased off the platform, because extensive blocklists are they only way they can use it I hope this is one of those times he runs his mouth and then quietly forgets about it later
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Aug 18, 2023 17:59
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Yeah I would just have to stop participating in large threads because if someone you don't know gets pissed and starts to harass you then what are you going to do about it? Let alone the constant victims of neo-gamergate harassment on there.
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socialsecurity posted:Holy poo poo this is purely because he wants more eyes on right wing propaganda and his own posts.
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He probably found out how many people have him blocked and that triggered this nonsense. I block literally every ad I'm served along with thousands of right-wing bigoted dipshits. I'll miss all the science and art accounts I follow but I will definitely not use Twitter if I can't block.
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Aug 18, 2023 18:19
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It's like advertisers fighting against the TV mute button
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from the sounds of it Muting is gonna stick around but that's still not ideal (people with huge blocklists would have to recreate mute lists from the ground up, people you muted can still follow you and see your page, etc)
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Aug 18, 2023 18:22
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Wait, is this legal? Don't Apple and Google require that block be an option as part of basic safety features required for apps?
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Wait, is this legal? Don't Apple and Google require that block be an option as part of basic safety features required for apps? Turns out yes according to some person I found https://twitter.com/deathflares/status/1692579996840218843?t=4SqNfn3i7x8JSN4MG_JWyg&s=19
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Honestly I bet Musk doesn't even know that and is gonna be real surprised when it bites him in the rear end
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Yeah he's going to get TweetX banned from all the app stores.
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You'll find that the richest people on Earth do not let anything get between them and what they want. He's shackled to Twitter until it collapses at which point he'll direct his attention to one of his other toys. EDIT: https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1692594392173772803?s=20 Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Aug 18, 2023 |
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i have to thoroughly recommend this writeup from Blind Rasputin in the Trump Crimes thread regarding Twitter's court hearings from earlier in the year https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4004152&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=306#post533947081 i cannot imagine the legal competence has improved much since then
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CuddleCryptid posted:Turns out yes according to some person I found Never trust some person you found on Twitter to have accurate reads on that kind of stuff. "Informative" tweets that go viral usually exhibit basic failures of reading comprehension that lead to them being completely wrong. Those highlighted lines aren't really talking about a "block" feature, they're talking about a "ban" feature. It's particularly obvious on the Apple side, which clearly states that it's talking about the ability to block users from using the service at all.
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CuddleCryptid posted:Turns out yes according to some person I found no, they must have the requirement for the ability for the company to block/ban people from the service. allowing users to block each other is nowhere in there
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https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1692619930368127217?s=20 https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1692622763985338756?s=20 quote:Of the 153,209,283 X accounts following Musk at the time the data was collected, around 42 percent of Musk's followers, or more than 65.3 million users, have zero followers on their own account. Just over 72 percent, or nearly 112 million, of these users following Musk have less than 10 followers on their account.
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Hmm, how does that compare to other big accounts though? Considering how many users never tweet it seems reasonable that a number of users would have 0 followers.
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Dick Trauma posted:He probably found out how many people have him blocked and that triggered this nonsense. I think it's that he is almost certainly the most blocked person on the site by an order of magnitude or more. And he's a big baby about it.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Wait, is this legal? Don't Apple and Google require that block be an option as part of basic safety features required for apps?
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Do new Twitter accounts follow Musk by default?
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haveblue posted:It also means a LOT of people are going to get chased off the platform, because extensive blocklists are they only way they can use it Counterpoint: killing Twxtter would be a net positive for mankind, so any idiot idea he has that hastens that process is ultimately a good thing in spite of his intentions.
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It sounds like what they want is to replace block with only mute, which will probably still meet the App Store requirements, but will let people poo poo up your replies and there'll be nothing you can do about it (except report it, which now does nothing).
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The app store requirements being highlighted look very much like they refer to moderation rather than individual user blocking. Twitter probably falls foul of these rules in its own way, given that Parler got targeted back in the day for falling foul of the rules, but I don't think the highlighted rules clauses are the slam dunks they're being made out to be. I'm actually curious if the rampant antisemitism and other forms of hate speech will eventually lead to Google and Apple making examples out of them like they did Parler, or if that only happened because Parler was smaller and, by comparison, much more primarily focused on the right wing calls to violence while Twitter has, on occasion, other things.
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OneEightHundred posted:It sounds like what they want is to replace block with only mute, which will probably still meet the App Store requirements, but will let people poo poo up your replies and there'll be nothing you can do about it (except report it, which now does nothing). "Mute" means the muted person can still see your posts and interact with them, "block" cuts off altogether. Like, if I spammed that photo of Elon & Ghislaine every time Elon posted, muting means he wouldn't see it, but I'd have a foothold in his replies as long as I maintained the account. But if he blocked me, I would be unable to interact at all, not even read the posts. Teratrain posted:The app store requirements being highlighted look very much like they refer to moderation rather than individual user blocking. The issue, given the state of moderation on Twitter right now, is that individual user blocking is a form of moderation, literally self-moderation. If we have to rely on the current state of Xitter's moderation team, individual users blocking bad behavior is the only effective moderation there.
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Someone explain why removing blocking is a bad thing? In this hypothetical scenario, if Elon blocked me then I wouldn’t be able to see anything he tweeted unless I logged out of my account, at which point I would see everything he tweeted. I guess I don’t see how this feature even makes sense at all because I can bypass someone blocking me by just logging out? I feel like I should always be able to see tweets from people regardless of whether they’ve blocked me or not. If I don’t want to see them, then the onus should be on me to block them on my account. No?
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