Official Twitter Thread (1 Viewer)

[AAABatteries]

Does this seem like the behavior of someone who is not concerned with selling advertising to you?

Not that day, buddy!

Halloween with Joe Rogan? Let's see.........

Yeah, our boy didn't have a care in the world that day, I promise

The emojis also depict my reaction to seeing that there's people who still don't know the guy's a total fraud.

I think there's areas where he's somewhat a fraud and areas where he's a pioneer or at least pushing the pioneering along. I don't even use Twitter but as an "outsider" a lot of what he's done doesn't make sense if his goal is to grow the platform. Seems like he has secondary goals when it comes to Twitter that he cares much more about than advertisers - maybe those things are political, I have no clue and it doesn't interest me personally.

 

[bigbottom]

From an ad revenue perspective, these reported results have to be devastating for business.

No idea if the reports are accurate and more importantly how they relate to other platforms.

But of course, if accurate, they are awful for selling advertising.

I don't know anymore than what I read and hear online with this, but listening to Musk on Rogan on Halloween (thus the costumes) a few months ago, it seems he's not that concerned with selling advertising. Whether or not he can afford to hold that position, is of course another matter.

And please, let's let that be as political as this gets.

is it political to point out how hilariously preposterous this lie is?

The dude publicly lobs juvenile insults at advertisers who stop giving him business. I mean, come on. You run a business, Joe, and occasionally sell ad space. Does this seem like the behavior of someone who is not concerned with selling advertising to you?

But doesn’t that cut both ways? If a business owner cares about advertising revenue, it wouldn’t seem that insulting departing advertisers would be a good way to either win them back or attract new advertisers. If anything, this seems more like the actions of a petty person with FU money.

 

[bigbottom]

Does this seem like the behavior of someone who is not concerned with selling advertising to you?

Not that day, buddy!

Halloween with Joe Rogan? Let's see.........

Yeah, our boy didn't have a care in the world that day, I promise

The emojis also depict my reaction to seeing that there's people who still don't know the guy's a total fraud.

Not in every sense. How can you argue with what he’s been able to accomplish technologically with Tesla and SpaceX?

 

[AAABatteries]

This is all pretty common knowledge, and I gotta admit it's kinda weird to find a place on the internet that doesn't seem to know it.

Not that weird - I care enough to post here but I don’t care enough to research any of it. And I consider myself fairly well informed on the whole compared with the average person out there.

I’m consistently baffled with how people in this forum assume what the average person knows about anything. The average person pays no attention to the inner workings of Twitter much less things that are actually important to their life (like the government). As a tangent, this is why social media and misinformation is so dangerous to society.

 

[Joe Bryant]

This is all pretty common knowledge, and I gotta admit it's kinda weird to find a place on the internet that doesn't seem to know it.

Not that weird - I care enough to post here but I don’t care enough to research any of it. And I consider myself fairly well informed on the whole compared with the average person out there.

I’m consistently baffled with how people in this forum assume what the average person knows about anything. The average person pays no attention to the inner workings of Twitter much less things that are actually important to their life (like the government). As a tangent, this is why social media and misinformation is so dangerous to society.

Agreed. And let's please keep it that and way less about how some people are fascinated others don't seem to know everything they do.

 

[bigbottom]

Does this seem like the behavior of someone who is not concerned with selling advertising to you?

Not that day, buddy!

Halloween with Joe Rogan? Let's see.........

Yeah, our boy didn't have a care in the world that day, I promise

The emojis also depict my reaction to seeing that there's people who still don't know the guy's a total fraud.

Not in every sense. How can you argue with what he’s been able to accomplish technologically with Tesla and SpaceX?

He is great at marketing and hiring good people- a common trait among the ultra-wealthy, very few of whom actually did the things that made them rich. His knowledge of applied tech is a joke. The dude founded and runs a tunnel-digging company and he doesn't understand groundwater, for crissakes.

Gotta say, this is an exciting anthropological discovery- a place on the internet that still buys the Musk myth! I thought these died out for good about six months ago.

I find your condescension quite off-putting. He's the visionary founder of multiple companies that have made material technological advances benefitting humankind, yet you want to reduce him to a myth, and suggest that anyone suggesting otherwise is just an ignorant rube. Just for me personally, I have a place in a very rural area, but thanks to Starlink, I can now stream content in the middle of nowhere. And that's nothing compared to the millions of remote locations across all seven continents that can now access the Internet and be plugged into world events. The importance of connectivity among remote populations cannot be overstated.

 

[Joe Bryant]

I find your condescension quote off-putting. He's the visionary founder of multiple companies that have made material technological advances benefitting humankind, yet you want to reduce him to a myth, and suggest that anyone suggesting otherwise is just an ignorant rube. Just for me personally, I have a place in a very rural area, but thanks to Starlink, I can now stream content in the middle of nowhere. And that's nothing compared to the millions of remote locations across all seven continents that can now access the Internet and be plugged into world events. The importance of connectivity among remote populations cannot be overstated.

Thanks. And tobias please drop it there. We're not going to do the "right wing edgelord" stuff here anymore as the political forum is gone. Please drop that angle.

If people want to discuss Twitter/X, do that.

 

[bigbottom]

I find your condescension quote off-putting. He's the visionary founder of multiple companies that have made material technological advances benefitting humankind, yet you want to reduce him to a myth, and suggest that anyone suggesting otherwise is just an ignorant rube. Just for me personally, I have a place in a very rural area, but thanks to Starlink, I can now stream content in the middle of nowhere. And that's nothing compared to the millions of remote locations across all seven continents that can now access the Internet and be plugged into world events. The importance of connectivity among remote populations cannot be overstated.

Thank. And tobias please drop it there. We're not going to do the "right wing edgelord" stuff here anymore as the political forum is gone. Please drop that angle.

If people want to discuss Twitter/X, do that.

I would argue that discussing the flaws and management decisions of the man who bought Twitter and took it private is, in fact, discussing Twitter/X.

It is. And that’s much of what has been happening in this thread without issue.

 

[tymarsas]

Yulia Navalnaya (Alexi Navalny’s wife) had her account suspended a day after she created it.

Aaand she’s back.

Someone on another social media site said it was likely an automatic banning due to her account being reported by large number of Russian trolls. And that it was likely reinstated after it was reviewed by a human. Seems reasonable to me, rather than something nefarious by Twitter itself.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Yulia Navalnaya (Alexi Navalny’s wife) had her account suspended a day after she created it.

Aaand she’s back.

Someone on another social media site said it was likely an automatic banning due to her account being reported by large number of Russian trolls. And that it was likely reinstated after it was reviewed by a human. Seems reasonable to me, rather than something nefarious by Twitter itself.

For sure. But this is exactly the kind of thing that happened under the previous regime or on other social media platforms where certain people and/or media companies then get a hold of it and turned it into an every day for 60 days news story to create a narrative about bias and a lack of free speech.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Yulia Navalnaya (Alexi Navalny’s wife) had her account suspended a day after she created it.

Aaand she’s back.

Someone on another social media site said it was likely an automatic banning due to her account being reported by large number of Russian trolls. And that it was likely reinstated after it was reviewed by a human. Seems reasonable to me, rather than something nefarious by Twitter itself.

For sure. But this is exactly the kind of thing that happened under the previous regime or on other social media platforms where certain people and/or media companies then get a hold of it and turned it into an every day for 60 days news story to create a narrative about bias and a lack of free speech.

Twitter was one of several social media companies that conspired with the government to suppress stories that (probably correctly) stated that covid-19 escaped from WIV. That was an intentional moderation decision, not just a case of an algorithm misfiring.

 

[CletiusMaximus]

Yulia Navalnaya (Alexi Navalny’s wife) had her account suspended a day after she created it.

Aaand she’s back.

Someone on another social media site said it was likely an automatic banning due to her account being reported by large number of Russian trolls. And that it was likely reinstated after it was reviewed by a human. Seems reasonable to me, rather than something nefarious by Twitter itself.

For sure. But this is exactly the kind of thing that happened under the previous regime or on other social media platforms where certain people and/or media companies then get a hold of it and turned it into an every day for 60 days news story to create a narrative about bias and a lack of free speech.

I can't imagine many people are still holding on to the myth that Musk ever had some sort of altruistic purpose with Twitter to fight for the free speech rights of his users. Its quite evident that was always 100% BS, similar to his claims about eradicating bots from the platform. Honestly, it seems if Musk is talking about Twitter there's a good chance he's talking #### - for reasons or motivations I don't pretend to understand.

 

[CletiusMaximus]

I will say I still get a moment of the old jumpy & quo when a super-hot bikini bot gives me a for a reply comment I made about the Packers defense three months ago.

 

[BlackCrowes]

https://x.com/safety/status/1759951622682395020?s=61&t=5XLSqlRoe-MgRZSQDZGkow

Our platform's defense mechanism against manipulation and spam mistakenly flagged @yulia_navalnaya as violating our rules. We unsuspended the account as soon as we became aware of the error, and will be updating the defense.

she must have done something the porn bots don’t.

 

[Desert_Power]

I will say I still get a moment of the old jumpy & quo when a super-hot bikini bot gives me a for a reply comment I made about the Packers defense three months ago.

She sounds like a keeper

 

[McBokonon]

Saw that a Boeing aircraft had a wing flap start falling apart in my financial feed. Went to the comments of the news article tweet here:

https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1760293185052401998?s=46

Saw that almost all of the comments had something to do with blaming Boeing’s recent publicized mishaps on their diversity hiring programs and DEI in general. I Googled this to see if this was a common theme within a certain information ecosystem I won’t get specific in naming and saw that the new owner of Twitter had tweeted in January:

“"Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?," Musk wrote. "That is actually happening."”

And now a certain information ecosystem is apparently amplifying this message, which is that Boeing and other companies who have DEI policies are putting your lives in danger with their DEI policies because these employees likely aren’t qualified presumably because there aren’t actually enough qualified people of color but they’re hiring them anyway.

But this isn’t racist.

 

[the moops]

Yulia Navalnaya (Alexi Navalny’s wife) had her account suspended a day after she created it.

Aaand she’s back.

Someone on another social media site said it was likely an automatic banning due to her account being reported by large number of Russian trolls. And that it was likely reinstated after it was reviewed by a human. Seems reasonable to me, rather than something nefarious by Twitter itself.

For sure. But this is exactly the kind of thing that happened under the previous regime or on other social media platforms where certain people and/or media companies then get a hold of it and turned it into an every day for 60 days news story to create a narrative about bias and a lack of free speech.

Twitter was one of several social media companies that conspired with the government to suppress stories that (probably correctly) stated that covid-19 escaped from WIV. That was an intentional moderation decision, not just a case of an algorithm misfiring.

Well we don't know that this was in fact a misfiring algorithm, do we?

 

[Capella]

I will say I still get a moment of the old jumpy & quo when a super-hot bikini bot gives me a for a reply comment I made about the Packers defense three months ago.

They really love when I talk about the Bucs potential free agent moves from last off-season. Wish I knew this back in the day!!!1

 

[Joe Bryant]

Worlds colliding. Ndamukong Suh talks about Europe and America and Restaurant Tipping

https://twitter.com/NdamukongSuh/status/1760292227245384051

 

[Terpman22]

https://x.com/safety/status/1759951622682395020?s=61&t=5XLSqlRoe-MgRZSQDZGkow

Our platform's defense mechanism against manipulation and spam mistakenly flagged @yulia_navalnaya as violating our rules. We unsuspended the account as soon as we became aware of the error, and will be updating the defense.

she must have done something the porn bots don’t.

Definitely believe this super coincidence after her wrongfully imprisoned husband died of..."Sudden Death Syndrome"

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Yulia Navalnaya (Alexi Navalny’s wife) had her account suspended a day after she created it.

Aaand she’s back.

Someone on another social media site said it was likely an automatic banning due to her account being reported by large number of Russian trolls. And that it was likely reinstated after it was reviewed by a human. Seems reasonable to me, rather than something nefarious by Twitter itself.

For sure. But this is exactly the kind of thing that happened under the previous regime or on other social media platforms where certain people and/or media companies then get a hold of it and turned it into an every day for 60 days news story to create a narrative about bias and a lack of free speech.

Twitter was one of several social media companies that conspired with the government to suppress stories that (probably correctly) stated that covid-19 escaped from WIV. That was an intentional moderation decision, not just a case of an algorithm misfiring.

Well we don't know that this was in fact a misfiring algorithm, do we?

The lab leak thing was definitely not a misfiring algorithm. That was an intentional moderation decision that resulted in spreading goverment-sanctioned misinformation about a public health emergency.

FreeBaGel pointed out that under Old Twitter, lots of people did occasionally get banned because of algorithmic mishaps, or because of mass reporting campaigns. Those were unfortunate, but I don't want to memory-hole the legitimately dystopian stuff that the previous regime did. The random account suspensions never bothered me, probably because I don't post anyway and I don't care if some edgelord gets mass-reported. But the censorship of actual, legitimate news bothered me a lot.

Edit: If you're talking about Navalny's wife, I obviously no idea what the deal with her account was, and I don't care. It seems to have been resolved.

 

[ILUVBEER99]

Most of the replies under posts have nothing to do with the original post. They need to figure out a better way to rank the replies so there is some relevance to what was originally posted.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Saw that a Boeing aircraft had a wing flap start falling apart in my financial feed. Went to the comments of the news article tweet here:

https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1760293185052401998?s=46

Saw that almost all of the comments had something to do with blaming Boeing’s recent publicized mishaps on their diversity hiring programs and DEI in general. I Googled this to see if this was a common theme within a certain information ecosystem I won’t get specific in naming and saw that the new owner of Twitter had tweeted in January:

“"Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?," Musk wrote. "That is actually happening."”

And now a certain information ecosystem is apparently amplifying this message, which is that Boeing and other companies who have DEI policies are putting your lives in danger with their DEI policies because these employees likely aren’t qualified presumably because there aren’t actually enough qualified people of color but they’re hiring them anyway.

But this isn’t racist.

Google released its new AI application on the exact same day you posted this.

 

[McBokonon]

Saw that a Boeing aircraft had a wing flap start falling apart in my financial feed. Went to the comments of the news article tweet here:

https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1760293185052401998?s=46

Saw that almost all of the comments had something to do with blaming Boeing’s recent publicized mishaps on their diversity hiring programs and DEI in general. I Googled this to see if this was a common theme within a certain information ecosystem I won’t get specific in naming and saw that the new owner of Twitter had tweeted in January:

“"Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?," Musk wrote. "That is actually happening."”

And now a certain information ecosystem is apparently amplifying this message, which is that Boeing and other companies who have DEI policies are putting your lives in danger with their DEI policies because these employees likely aren’t qualified presumably because there aren’t actually enough qualified people of color but they’re hiring them anyway.

But this isn’t racist.

Google released its new AI application on the exact same day you posted this.

Ok? I searched for “Boeing DEI” and the first three links were to Boeing themselves, then a Barron’s and NY Post article talking about Elon’s tweet. Are you suggested Google wanted to make sure I found Elon’s tweet so I could come in here and bash Twitter? It’s obviously not surprising there would be findable news articles about one of the most famous people in the world making an inflammatory comment about a major company. Or were you just sharing a tidbit agnostically?

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Saw that a Boeing aircraft had a wing flap start falling apart in my financial feed. Went to the comments of the news article tweet here:

https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1760293185052401998?s=46

Saw that almost all of the comments had something to do with blaming Boeing’s recent publicized mishaps on their diversity hiring programs and DEI in general. I Googled this to see if this was a common theme within a certain information ecosystem I won’t get specific in naming and saw that the new owner of Twitter had tweeted in January:

“"Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?," Musk wrote. "That is actually happening."”

And now a certain information ecosystem is apparently amplifying this message, which is that Boeing and other companies who have DEI policies are putting your lives in danger with their DEI policies because these employees likely aren’t qualified presumably because there aren’t actually enough qualified people of color but they’re hiring them anyway.

But this isn’t racist.

Google released its new AI application on the exact same day you posted this.

Ok? I searched for “Boeing DEI” and the first three links were to Boeing themselves, then a Barron’s and NY Post article talking about Elon’s tweet. Are you suggested Google wanted to make sure I found Elon’s tweet so I could come in here and bash Twitter? It’s obviously not surprising there would be findable news articles about one of the most famous people in the world making an inflammatory comment about a major company. Or were you just sharing a tidbit agnostically?

Swap out "Boeing" for "Google" and "broken airplane wing" with "broken AI" and you have the exact same story, only with a much more direct causal connection. These two stories occurred within 24 hours of each other. You were familiar enough with one them to post about it here despite the "no politics" rule, but you seem to be unaware of the second.

The thing about social media if you set up your bubble to give you nut-picked versions of various narratives, that's what you're going to get fed to you. If you set up your bubble on the same platform with people who select for steel-manned versions of those narratives, you're going to get those fed to you instead. The former is better if you just want to be mad at the other tribe, and obviously there's a huge market for that. The latter is much better if you want to understand the world and the people in it. SM can be pretty great if you make it great.

 

[Joe Bryant]

Yulia Navalnaya (Alexi Navalny’s wife) had her account suspended a day after she created it.

Aaand she’s back.

Someone on another social media site said it was likely an automatic banning due to her account being reported by large number of Russian trolls. And that it was likely reinstated after it was reviewed by a human. Seems reasonable to me, rather than something nefarious by Twitter itself.

For sure. But this is exactly the kind of thing that happened under the previous regime or on other social media platforms where certain people and/or media companies then get a hold of it and turned it into an every day for 60 days news story to create a narrative about bias and a lack of free speech.

Twitter was one of several social media companies that conspired with the government to suppress stories that (probably correctly) stated that covid-19 escaped from WIV. That was an intentional moderation decision, not just a case of an algorithm misfiring.

Well we don't know that this was in fact a misfiring algorithm, do we?

The lab leak thing was definitely not a misfiring algorithm. That was an intentional moderation decision that resulted in spreading goverment-sanctioned misinformation about a public health emergency.

FreeBaGel pointed out that under Old Twitter, lots of people did occasionally get banned because of algorithmic mishaps, or because of mass reporting campaigns. Those were unfortunate, but I don't want to memory-hole the legitimately dystopian stuff that the previous regime did. The random account suspensions never bothered me, probably because I don't post anyway and I don't care if some edgelord gets mass-reported. But the censorship of actual, legitimate news bothered me a lot.

Edit: If you're talking about Navalny's wife, I obviously no idea what the deal with her account was, and I don't care. It seems to have been resolved.

Please, let's not steer this over to lab leak or Navalny as that immediately gets political. Thanks.

 

[McBokonon]

but you seem to be unaware of the second.

Why would you assume this? This is a Twitter thread.

And just to add that this article about Boeing and the subsequent comments I read about was found in my curated fintwit feed. It has to do with a publicly traded company and it’s one I have actually bashed quite a bit in the stock thread for a long time, so I was interested.

 

[fatness]

For those users who follow people, this might be of some importance: https://www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...-now-to-block-unwanted-calls/?sh=5b6b0e333399

Earlier this week, X (formerly Twitter) announced that audio and video calls are now available to everyone on the service. By default, this means anyone you follow can make an audio or video call to you. X has automatically turned this on for everyone, there’s no opt-in. Suddenly, the mere act of following a person or brand gives them the right to phone you.

 

[Chaos34]

For those users who follow people, this might be of some importance: https://www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...-now-to-block-unwanted-calls/?sh=5b6b0e333399

Earlier this week, X (formerly Twitter) announced that audio and video calls are now available to everyone on the service. By default, this means anyone you follow can make an audio or video call to you. X has automatically turned this on for everyone, there’s no opt-in. Suddenly, the mere act of following a person or brand gives them the right to phone you.

You choose who can call you and no one gets your phone number, which is better than super popular WhatsApp.

Users can choose whom they receive calls from. It can be people in their address book, verified users, people they follow, or everyone. Users can also enable 'Enhanced call privacy' setting through the Message settings option in the settings on the top right corner.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

For those users who follow people, this might be of some importance: https://www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...-now-to-block-unwanted-calls/?sh=5b6b0e333399

Earlier this week, X (formerly Twitter) announced that audio and video calls are now available to everyone on the service. By default, this means anyone you follow can make an audio or video call to you. X has automatically turned this on for everyone, there’s no opt-in. Suddenly, the mere act of following a person or brand gives them the right to phone you.

I'm sure Matt Yglesias will be calling me any day now.

 

[fatness]

For those users who follow people, this might be of some importance: https://www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...-now-to-block-unwanted-calls/?sh=5b6b0e333399

Earlier this week, X (formerly Twitter) announced that audio and video calls are now available to everyone on the service. By default, this means anyone you follow can make an audio or video call to you. X has automatically turned this on for everyone, there’s no opt-in. Suddenly, the mere act of following a person or brand gives them the right to phone you.

You choose who can call you and no one gets your phone number, which is better than super popular WhatsApp.

Users can choose whom they receive calls from. It can be people in their address book, verified users, people they follow, or everyone. Users can also enable 'Enhanced call privacy' setting through the Message settings option in the settings on the top right corner.

I think we can agree an automatic Opt-Out on this feature would be better than an automatic Opt-In (coupled with an explanation of how to get out of what Twitter had just opted you in to).

The recent changed also exposed members' IP addresses to anyone who follows you. Stalkers everywhere are going to like this feature.

 

[Chaos34]

For those users who follow people, this might be of some importance: https://www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...-now-to-block-unwanted-calls/?sh=5b6b0e333399

Earlier this week, X (formerly Twitter) announced that audio and video calls are now available to everyone on the service. By default, this means anyone you follow can make an audio or video call to you. X has automatically turned this on for everyone, there’s no opt-in. Suddenly, the mere act of following a person or brand gives them the right to phone you.

You choose who can call you and no one gets your phone number, which is better than super popular WhatsApp.

Users can choose whom they receive calls from. It can be people in their address book, verified users, people they follow, or everyone. Users can also enable 'Enhanced call privacy' setting through the Message settings option in the settings on the top right corner.

I think we can agree an automatic Opt-Out on this feature would be better than an automatic Opt-In (coupled with an explanation of how to get out of what Twitter had just opted you in to).

The recent changed also exposed members' IP addresses to anyone who follows you. Stalkers everywhere are going to like this feature.

Yup, thanks. I've set it up how I want.

For pc and laptop I guess none of this matters. 98% of my twitter reading is on pc. But if you use it on your phone alot, follow fatness' link and set it up how you want it. Seems necessary.

I really like x. It keeps me company when nothing else seems interesting. I am not interested in pop culture, most news, shock media, politics of any sort and I've self-moderated enough to see what does interest me and nothing else. It hasn't been trouble. It hasn't taken much time. A second here and a second there. Both my for you and following are issue free, and for me, interesting and entertaining. It's sports, music, friends, science, tech, history, wars around the planet, crypto and some miscellaneous novelty and comedy. The garbage that was getting through no longer is, but I think I'm in a very low percentile of users who want to avoid much of the stuff subject to garbage. I know Musk is ferociously stubborn when his business ideas are failing, like Tesla was for so long, but I'm not gonna be surprised if X dies. I'll blame everyone too lazy to make it what they want... those in power who oppose him...

and Elon.

I can't think of a reason this call feature, which is part of his plan for an everything app launched with opting every user in. What leads to that kind of decision? it's terrible. Especially coming from the guy who claims he doesn't want a telephone number. He just wants to communicate online. He thinks modern telecom should be replaced by new tech. His privacy has been frighteningly invaded. Wth, dude.

Since I'm writing, I'll say I'm all for the free speech effort despite its failings. I don't care if white supremacists or Hassan Nasrallah or anyone has a platform as long as I can filter them out of my business. In fact, I want them to have public platforms available to all. 15 years ago, I used to read translations of Nasrallah speeches. An outfit called memri was providing the service. For the past 2 years, I've been doing the same with Putin speeches. I wish he was on X too. Putin/Trump tweets would be fun. The western media tells you what it wants you to know and buries everything else unless you dig. I wish the US media didn't bury so much of what Hitler was saying in those wild rants. I would have let him on X too. It's good to keep an eye on bad guys and not trust the eyes of western media wholesale. Get it first hand. Free speech has problems. It could be said that it is the worst form of speech except for all other types of speech that have been tried. /churchillsortof

 

[IvanKaramazov]

How come nobody is breathlessly starting a thread about Facebook and Instagram being down? I thought people were deeply invested in seeing social media companies operate with the maximum amount of technical efficiency . . .

 

[SWC]

How come nobody is breathlessly starting a thread about Facebook and Instagram being down? I thought people were deeply invested in seeing social media companies operate with the maximum amount of technical efficiency . . .

i did notice the world seemed a little better today take that to the bank brohan

 

[The Commish]

How come nobody is breathlessly starting a thread about Facebook and Instagram being down? I thought people were deeply invested in seeing social media companies operate with the maximum amount of technical efficiency . . .

i did notice the world seemed a little better today take that to the bank brohan

If they never came back, it's be even better. IK, might want to revisit the bold...seems wildly off (at least to the "people" here). Several here would be wildly happy to see it all go away

 

[Runkle]

Kudos to the creatives, "Character Limit" is a great name for a book about this debacle.

 

[rockaction]

This has been an interesting month for me. I've spent a bunch of time on Twitter/X to get the lay of the political land and sort of catch up on the news. It's been invaluable. One thing I have noticed is that there are a ton of bots and it seems to rankle its users. This is one today from Jonah Goldberg

https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch/status/1775659569458430006

"Every day I report or block a half dozen “I’m so grateful for [random financial/bitcoin advisor]” replies, mostly to dog tweets. If the X algorithm was actually working, it wouldn’t keep allowing the same ******** from different accounts. It’s clearly policy to allow this spam."

There was also an article in the Intelligencer about the "***** In Bio" posts that appear all over the platform. I mean, when you've drawn the notice of New York Magazine, then something is up.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/who-is-behind-all-the-*****-in-bio-porn-spam-on-x.html

So yeah, it's been a heck of a month and Twitter/X was sort of crucial in learning about where the past ten or so years on the right and left have been going and are now headed. I don't think I'd get as succinct a reading of the current climate without it.

 

[rockaction]

And wow, I almost made my first public comment. I almost told David Simon he was a prick and an *******.

Nice way to get started.

 

[titusbramble]

This has been an interesting month for me. I've spent a bunch of time on Twitter/X to get the lay of the political land and sort of catch up on the news. It's been invaluable. One thing I have noticed is that there are a ton of bots and it seems to rankle its users. This is one today from Jonah Goldberg

The only time I ever see bots is if I go into a really deep dive of replies, i.e. if I'm actively seeking where things have been filtered down or deprioritised as you would expect posts from bots to be handled?

 

[Mitchie]

A lot of P*rn these days, doing whatever to try to make money I guess

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I see bots in replies all the time. Seems trashy.

 

[FairWarning]

I see bots in replies all the time. Seems trashy.

It’s been bad lately.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

A lot of P*rn these days, doing whatever to try to make money I guess

Last week was the first time I noticed that. I forget what thread it was, but at least half of the comments were people promoting their OF and included explicit videos in the reply.

 

[titusbramble]

I see bots in replies all the time. Seems trashy.

It’s been bad lately.

They are literally nuking bots as we speak, although unless you get a lead on the sign up mechanism it's literally just whack-a-mole

 

[belljr]

So any ideas here?

I follow 5 accounts. I always keep it on the following tab.

Now my following tab shows no posts and asks me to "connect" with people

Eta: it actually says this is your timeline let's get started.

But I'm already following

 

[shuke]

So any ideas here?

I follow 5 accounts. I always keep it on the following tab.

Now my following tab shows no posts and asks me to "connect" with people

Eta: it actually says this is your timeline let's get started.

But I'm already following

You need to follow more than 5 accounts.

 

[rockaction]

rockaction in bio

 

[massraider]

This has been an interesting month for me. I've spent a bunch of time on Twitter/X to get the lay of the political land and sort of catch up on the news

Nope, there are less bots now.

Just ask Elon, he'll tell you. And you might be thinking there are a lot more bots in replies to posts, but nope, that's your imagination.

 

[rockaction]

Nope, there are less bots now.

Just ask Elon, he'll tell you. And you might be thinking there are a lot more bots in replies to posts, but nope, that's your imagination.

massinbio

 

[Capella]

It’s funny how we talked about the porn bots early in this thread a while ago and now there are 15x as many, easily. Spread like fleas.