Twitter C/D

finally deleted my accounts today (all three of them). I'd only reinstated them initially because it was the only way to read the entirety of embedded twitter threads in here, and then I eventually began just using it to sports shitpost, but holy fuck has even that become toxic.

it's not inherent to Twitter but it kind of explodes there in a way that it wouldn't on FB due to difference in design.

basically a local thing happened last night - Orlando City SC is about to face Nashville SC in a best of 3 playoff series for soccer (ok FOOTBALL). yes, a best of 3 series is beyond stupid but STAY FOCUSED grr.

anyway so Nashville fans began this really aggressive, but initially purely soc...football discussion, and then one of them discovered an OCSC fan's wife had an OnlyFans and dropped that nugget at the right moment in the discussion, at which point several Nashville fans began harassing his wife, and calling him a 'cuck' on Twitter, and accusing him of making death threats, meanwhile the guy in question who started the whole OnlyFans-gate is apparently banned from several events due to making women feel uncomfortable.

like these toxic harassment campaigns just seem to be easier to pull off on Twitter with IRL consequences, and in this case it's just...over a game of footie? so I don't really wanna be part of that anymore.

(that and Elon's anti-semitism!)

Lol i did not know what what onlyfans is and was like “is this some sort of sportssite beef?”

Also just the hubris of having your ego stroked for so long that you genuinely believe that you are so smart that you don't need to listen to anyone else, especially not the folks who you can tell are genuinely smarter/more knowledgeable than you.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, October 26, 2023 11:34 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

funny thing is hes always been like this he tried to rename paypal x and they fired him lol

Is there a reason for his fascination/love for the letter X?

Like is there some lame 4chan/Reddit meme behind it?

Huge Operation: Mindcrime fan

Is there a reason for his fascination/love for the letter X?

― groovypanda, Thursday, October 26, 2023 1:37 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

my feeling is its just a cool letter particularly for a gen x brain, theres more in depth musing on it upthread or maybe in the musk thread, he bought the x.com domain for a million dollars way back in the paypal days and has been sitting on it since is part of it too, he wants to use the domain

Some history here:
https://medium.com/@jimmysoni/the-colorful-history-of-x-com-aka-the-website-formerly-known-as-twitter-53b3dfec0069

dyou think he wanted to call the twitter files the x files and was dissuaded by lawyers… or just didn't remember he had the domain until it was months too late

*mulder throws me a file*: ever heard of the never-knowingly-funny alien?

lol

lmao

Early in the creation of his second start-up, Musk had conviction about its name: X.com. This was, Musk believed, simply “the coolest URL on the internet.”

“He was really passionately inspired by that letter,” an X.com colleague recalled.

the fool is Poochie incarnate

he should go back to his planet (mars)

I always think of Jeremy from Peep Show

https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/peepshow/S01E05/gif/8ZuNiQ8PqOlE.gif

Is there a reason for his fascination/love for the letter X?

highest math he knows

I wonder how rich the guys who sold him X in the first place got off their equity in (eventually) Paypal.

Is it true he named his cars with those model numbers so it would read S3XY (and Cybertruck)

One reason sports Twitter has stayed active through the tumult of the Musk era is that the alternatives that have emerged are less appealing to sports fans. Meta’s rival app, Threads, surfaces posts to a user’s feed through an algorithm rather than in real time, making live events harder to follow. Bluesky, which was funded by a Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, does show posts in reverse-chronological order, but the app remains invitation-only and is less active than Twitter

From New York Times article

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/sports/sports-twitter-x-elon-musk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

the reason bsky doesn't work for sports is it doesn't do video

yeah u need the vids

just from my personal observation twitter sports has declined, sometimes i search celtics the day after a game to see what articles thread with clips in them and so forth are in there and theres less than there used to be, tho some of that could be due to changes in the search algo

it's still good for sports, though obv as people leave it gets worse and worse. for me MLB twitter is kinda dead, NFL twitter is on life support, but NBA twitter is still good. all depends who you follow I guess.

and yeah the algorithm kinda fucks with it now, especially the timeline being constantly broken, but last night it was fine

what this is a reply to is both worse than expected and exactly what you'd expect.

They absolutely want your extinction

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2023

What is it a reply to?

https://i.imgur.com/gqeu3pF.png

jfc this guy

Ah yes the name Lee, so tarnished that it cannot be anyone's surname anymore.

holy shit

Elon seemingly bleached the shooters Twitter account so that the shooter didn't seem so right wing. #Anonymous https://t.co/ZuIcYjFMtB

— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) October 26, 2023

Thank you, caek.

xp
Elon going full "14 Words" there.

wait what's this about cleaning up the shooter's twitter history? he removed tweets?

Yeah idk what that means. The account was deleted, which seems to be SOP for mass shooters on social media, regardless of their user behavior.

assuming that data is still stored somewhere behind the scenes regardless of it being 'deleted' (I work in software and we never actually 'delete' anything), maybe they're worried the FBI is going to be interested in that data and it'll make Elon's Nazi shit look bad

thats the old thinking, the new way is to delete everything, remove all data, no more data

the backup was in the data center that elon just unplugged without powering down

Shout out to all the single and available and definitely real young ladies liking all my current posts, thank you for your support!

twitter has been on the naughty step with the FTC for about 5 years and, to first order, is not allowed to delete anything.

Quite broken again for me today. Will display ads and people's retweets okay, but any other tweets in my feed are devoid of any actual text and are displaying that unix epoch timestamp thing (31 Dec 69)

nice

surprised he hasn’t changed it to 20 april 1969

Surprised he hasn’t changed it to 4/20/1888

fyi for those interested and who isnt in epoch time often when you see a date displayed on a website/computer/whatever device its getting it by subscribing to a service that tells it how many milliseconds have elapsed since new years 1970 then the computer does a calculation to convert that into a human readable time format, so when you see that new years eve 1969 date it means the process is failing

Dud.

Epoch time =Stooges time, gotcha

lol

Flavor Flav sings the National Anthem at the Milwaukee Bucks game: pic.twitter.com/zsiE4LszFU

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) October 30, 2023

need to get chuck d's review

OK he doesn't sing as well as most but I was won over by this, Flav clearly really truly loves the National Anthem and frankly so do I.