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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Jan 19, 2023 20:08:16 GMT -5
How much longer until Bank of America takes the website over I’m getting kinda bored of it just getting a little worse every day. They'll take his Tesla shares instead as that's potentially more valuable should there be substance to thr claims they've made over the years. Then, if his management of twitter is anything to go by, they'll discover all the money meant to be spent on the much hyped self driving tech and getting new products to market was thrown at projects like walking machines, dashboard holograms, laser hats or that off-putting robo tentacle charger because Elon has all the focus of a Labrador puppy in a ballpool. Twitter will end up sold at a huge loss to Peter Thiel and the Saudis, who'll run it with a less chaotic, more competent form of evil.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Jan 19, 2023 20:12:32 GMT -5
We are sorry to say that the app’s sudden and undignified demise is due to an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter – a Twitter that we no longer recognize as trustworthy nor want to work with any longer. That sentiment is only growing, and Elon's pool of advertisers is only shrinking.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Jan 20, 2023 3:44:27 GMT -5
They're trying to woo big advertisers back, not by removing the nazi content but by giving them $250,000 worth of free ads if they spend that much. Things are going just great.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 20, 2023 4:03:47 GMT -5
They're trying to woo big advertisers back, not by removing the nazi content but by giving them $250,000 worth of free ads if they spend that much. Things are going just great. Elon's usual way of making problems go away is to throw money at it (or sometimes horses) so it's not terribly surprising.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 20, 2023 13:22:48 GMT -5
Not linking it here for obvious reasons, but there's already a Chrome extension made to default your Twitter page to "Following". There's also a recently made item that can insta-block 8 dollar checkmarks.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 20, 2023 20:11:19 GMT -5
Looks like Twitter crop is gone again for now.
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Jan 20, 2023 20:44:08 GMT -5
I disagree, if only because many millions of people around the world derive pleasure from such activities that is the last line of your post. Whereas what you linked to only at the beginning of your post pleases only L-On Musk and his cadre of awfuls.
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Post by Kalmia on Jan 20, 2023 21:50:18 GMT -5
If you're using a browser to look at Twitter, then Tweetdeck still works. It's owned by Twitter but I can only presume they've forgotten it exists as it still shows things in order and with no ads. A few more recent updates aren't on there (the mixed media tweets don't show properly and it doesn't tell you if a tweet you see is from a circle) but it avoids the bad updates.
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Post by Cyno on Jan 20, 2023 21:53:31 GMT -5
If you're using a browser to look at Twitter, then Tweetdeck still works. It's owned by Twitter but I can only presume they've forgotten it exists as it still shows things in order and with no ads. A few more recent updates aren't on there (the mixed media tweets don't show properly and it doesn't tell you if a tweet you see is from a circle) but it avoids the bad updates. Maybe the Tweetdeck people are dangling shiny things in front of Elon Musk to distract him.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Jan 21, 2023 1:21:46 GMT -5
For You = showing me tweets from a day ago
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 21, 2023 1:22:57 GMT -5
I pretty much never actually go to the front page of Twitter to begin with and just go to specific people's pages so hasn't really affected me much.
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Post by Ganon83 on Jan 21, 2023 1:27:19 GMT -5
If you're using a browser to look at Twitter, then Tweetdeck still works. It's owned by Twitter but I can only presume they've forgotten it exists as it still shows things in order and with no ads. A few more recent updates aren't on there (the mixed media tweets don't show properly and it doesn't tell you if a tweet you see is from a circle) but it avoids the bad updates. Maybe the Tweetdeck people are dangling shiny things in front of Elon Musk to distract him. I actually think the biggest reason for Musk leaving this alone is that the advertisers and their PR departments would throw shit if they completely remove it. I don't know how they would even be able to function without Tweetdeck, which also means it's probably offline by Monday.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jan 21, 2023 5:10:41 GMT -5
Maybe the Tweetdeck people are dangling shiny things in front of Elon Musk to distract him. I actually think the biggest reason for Musk leaving this alone is that the advertisers and their PR departments would throw shit if they completely remove it. I don't know how they would even be able to function without Tweetdeck, which also means it's probably offline by Monday. Hasn't stopped him so far.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Jan 21, 2023 5:59:30 GMT -5
All the engineers working on Tweetdeck were fired so it's not a matter of if it'll stop working, but when. If so many commercial users rely on it, I suspect they'll relaunch it as a subscription product which will have a bunch of security holes as none of the people familiar with the software are there and they team working on it will be three people, two of which are managers.
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Post by chazraps on Jan 23, 2023 14:02:32 GMT -5
I was dreading to check why "Kevin Sorbo" was trending until I saw it's because so many people are referring to videos of bad acting as "worse than Kevin Sorbo."
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jan 23, 2023 14:42:36 GMT -5
I was dreading to check why "Kevin Sorbo" was trending until I saw it's because so many people are referring to videos of bad acting as "worse than Kevin Sorbo."
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Post by Kalmia on Jan 23, 2023 21:25:11 GMT -5
Things are going great!
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jan 23, 2023 22:44:05 GMT -5
That's the second or third time I've heard about Twitter not paying rent... and I've also heard the "explanation" that he's doing it to try and renegotiate the lease.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 23, 2023 22:58:02 GMT -5
That's the second or third time I've heard about Twitter not paying rent... and I've also heard the "explanation" that he's doing it to try and renegotiate the lease. yeah... that's not how lease negotation is supposed to go. Meanwhile....
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Post by ayumidah on Jan 24, 2023 2:04:45 GMT -5
I saw a lot of people complaining during Raw that their twitter app wasn't working well at all, but mobile browser seemed to be doing ok for me when I'd check in every now and again.
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