Twitter C/D

Like, look, I want Twitter to fail as much as the next guy, but we’re going to have to do better than typing like “cheesepizza”

are pizzerias Nazis?

one cheesepizza pleasewith extracheesepizza

All these gotchas are for words like “heilhitler” and “killjews” which aren’t even real words

Those gotchas were only intended to refute the validity of Yacarino's specific numerical claims**, which Avi Bueno intended to show are unverifiable in a system the size of Xitter.

**“Not a single authentic user on X saw IBM’s, Comcast’s, or Oracle’s ads next to the content in Media Matters’ article. Only 2 users saw Apple’s ad next to the content.”

twitter does know exactly how many user see what ads on what pages, in response to what searches, and next to what posts. whether what yaccarino says is true or not is another matter, but they do have that information.

those gotchas don't prove the letter of what yaccarino is saying wrong. and they're not saying "you find nazi stuff if you search for nazi stuff", which has always been true. they do support media matters point, i.e. users who viewed obviously racist stuff (either by searching for vile stuff and weird hashtags, or clicking around) got shown some pretty mainstream ads, by advertisers who probably don't want their stuff shown there.

most sites have a systems that prevent ads being shown next to certain topics/words. either twitter has removed this guardrail, or there is so much more of the nazi stuff that a system with a 1% failure rate seems a lot worse because there's a lot more opportunities to fail. in either case, nazi vibes.

Whiney, hashtags work by running words together like that.

last night Jimmy Kimmel did a bit on this stuff during his monologue and he referred to it by it's new name, X. it sounds so goddamn stupid when said out loud like that.

bluesky should rebrand as 'sever'

Whiney, hashtags work by running words together like that.

Elon starting to whine a lot about this one as well:

https://www.newsguardtech.com/misinformation-monitor/november-2023/

also their system should be flexible and intelligent enough to read concatenated words

What's that line, a hit dog don't holler?

Duh, hit dog will holler. Adolf Hitdog.

Death was my only wish for 10 years. Depression had me in an unbreakable choke hold.

Giving thanks today that I now feel an insatiable thirst for life. Sending you all🫶🏻 pic.twitter.com/Yv8bO5e2gD

— Zero (@bryan_johnson) November 23, 2023

He says this while living a life that sounds absolutely joyless and hellish. OK then.

that statement/picture combo is a+

there was that duty-free store billionaire who gave away all his money and lived in a modest apartment for the remainder of his life and never let anyone know he was doing it. and there’s this guy who probably could have just hired a dietician/chef and is putting his son’s blood in him and posting through it for clout and the former is respectable and the latter very funny

Zhang Yong 张勇
@zhangyong02
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15 day no tsingtao

am please help mental peril

My timeline is suddenly filled with accounts dedicated to robberies gone wrong and people falling off boats and similar

a followed one diesel-train-a-day account a few days ago and now my feed is full of dmus and steam trains (and OO-HO models of same)

Jonathan
@readonlymike
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Bored of community notes. Just let me enjoy some lies

twitter stringing along these terrible people by sending them random amounts of money is pretty funny

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:qtopjld4jf72ekg4oyco3gft/bafkreibrxt6ishvpx6upgz6okspbkxpfqwuc45qnuqba32uo3ge6nlyvey@jpeg

speaking the cold late stage capitalism financial truth to those who aspire to have 800k followers

800k was my big dream. now i feel like i'm lost

funniest thing reading the responses to that post is that no-one is blaming elon for any of twitter's problems.

Dom Lucre - I see Martin Amis is still coming up with them from his grave.

This explainer on Myanmar was something, especially the role of...telescamming

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1720022978350735417.html

I've been relatively successful at staying off Twitter the last week or so, which means I am relatively uninfirmed about the latest super-racist tweet Elon has dropped.

Uninformed. Uninfirm is what I am.

css, nice

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

hell yeah

honestly it makes the site look better and it's more transparent

hah, Josh Fruhlinger is one of the few good guys still on there I see

He's pretty active on Bluesky too

going great!

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/technology/elon-musk-dealbook-advertisers.html

At least half a dozen marketing agencies said the brands they represent were standing firm against advertising on X, while others said they had advised advertisers to stop posting anything on the platform. Some temporary spending pauses that advertisers have enacted in recent weeks against X are likely to turn into permanent freezes, they added, with Mr. Musk’s comments giving them no incentive to return.

Advertisers are “not coming back” to X, said Lou Paskalis, the founder and chief executive of AJL Advisory, a marketing consultancy. “There is no advertising value that would offset the reputational risk of going back on the platform.”

Elon’s going to have a full time job documenting in great detail all these companies not advertising on Twitter.

It's no rush. Earth can wait.

I can’t remember the last time I saw a legit advertiser. They’re like random ai blue tick accounts that tweet the account name now. Would love to know who’s paying for them.

Gotta say, Musk complaining that advertisers leaving Twitter are killing Twitter gives me hope that Twitter can be killed, and that we can all at least indirectly play a role in its downfall.

sounds like he's looking for a way out

I can think of a quick way out.

But if Xitter folded what would Musk do with all that time on his hands? How would he communicate with his sycophants?

don't let Earth hit you on the way out

he's done with earth, time to go explore space on one of those rockets he's building

Twitter should hire Santos. As CEO, as mascot, brand ambassador, whatever.

me-- the last one to duh, finally have the epiphanal "oh, there's a one-ness in trump desperately trying for acceptability in nyc society and failing mega, and elmo (i kno u HATE IT) failing at sv cool" (tho mebbe i'm wrong does anyone in sv think elmo (ditto) is smart and cool?). anyhow, both found the same angry resentment filled dipshit fans, and the same pointy-headed, justice optimizing, smarty-pants, better-than-you enemies. among other eminies, many which are fine, clean-souled leftists.

go to mars and take trump with you elmo, (yah, i know y'all hate it, nmte, but he always be elmo to me). fuck elmo in his stupid-ass cybertruck. damn i wish i could make an elmo_drivin_cybertruck gif and no i ain't, or looking.

i think i'm drunk. and it ain't noon yet. mercy

https://i.imgur.com/GE4rRPi.png

my eyes lol

Gotta say, Musk complaining that advertisers leaving Twitter are killing Twitter gives me hope that Twitter can be killed, and that we can all at least indirectly play a role in its downfall.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, December 1, 2023 11:28 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbh I had my doubts about this but lately I'm actually convinced that Twitter is dead, "X" may remain but it's rapidly going to morph into some hybrid of 8chan and Truth Social. of the 500+ accounts I follow, a third have just left, and a third just exclusively post about how much Twitter sucks now. those who are still business as usual are either bots or sports accounts, which have become more useless as the auto-updating gets worse and worse. its kind of a pain trying to look everyone up on Bluesky but imo worth it

What's funny about it is I really don't think Elon anticipated any of this. I know he wanted to make some radical changes but still thought the site would remain as active as always. I think he knew the "radical left" or whatever would be unhappy but that they'd ultimately stay on. He really thought he could strongarm the advertisers and keep the site running with 20% of the staff. He thought this because he's surrounded himself entirely with people who lick his boots 24/7. I'll miss the place but its kind of a beautiful thing to witness

Walmart has stopped advertising on X, telling Forbes it found alternate platforms to engage its customers, marking the first large company to depart from the platform after X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a string of disparaging comments toward advertisers leaving the platform in an interview with the New York Times on Wednesday.