He's not even going to pretend to do anything about the Modi censorship because Modi ~asked~ him personally and he approved it himself, so instead he has to play "poor little me I'm so busy with all these companies I'm CEO of"
Interesting thread speculating what is going on with twitter falling apart, basically a lot of interactions especially with high follower accounts are just being dumped because elon is cutting back on resources so much lol
lmao just seeking approval from ANYONE
"Do you like me?"
"Please say you like me and validate me."
"It's fine, no really, it's fine!..."
lmao putin thinks he can turn twitter into the next, uh, twitter i guess?
how much twitter sucks now has hit the mainstream lol
No one gave a shit about Twitter files and no one will give a shit about this
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/politics/elon-musk-kevin-mccarthy-meeting/index.html
Yeah, everyone knew this. Fuck Musk, Chad is great.
Musk is now trying to make the Twitter Files into videos using horribly bad memes:
50 year old men crying to a billionaire because they're not winning a popularity contest
“Believe it or not” lmao
Dave Rubin is so breathtakingly stupid.
"there was no evidence of your bullshit claims but that doesn't mean they are bullshi!"
the reason there was a 2-3 week window was because elon demanded they clear out all the "please show me less of this person's tweets" and people angrily had to readd them over the next 2-3 weeks. then elon forgot he ever made that demand because his attention span is shit. so he's still trying to figure out what caused it all.
the fact that a large amount of their followers/views dropped right after a wave of bots were removed is probably just coincidental too
people who give themselves nicknames are always the absolute pits
Their disinfo is that since the Hamilton dashboard was set up to track the flow of disinformation from Russian bots, and since it accuses people of being bots spreading this information who were not bots... Therefore the whole Russian disinformation campaign/election interference is a fraud.
In reality Russia (and others) did spread misinformation through social media and continue to do so and the right wingers spreading it were what they call useful idiots.
funnily enough I remember actual journalists asking him similar questions and him throwing a pissy fit and shutting down twitter spaces and shit
well there goes the one remaining use case i had for twitter, which was offloading screenshots and videos from my switch
even more hilarious, i'm pretty sure if they shut off the api, it's gonna break any website that has the "sign in with twitter" option. not sure how many people actually use that, but if you did you're probably out of luck.
he gave a week for people to figure out if they really want to pay money for.. a thing that helps twitter generate content.
btw if you're not aware of twitter developer.. lore... twitter use to have an extremely open API until about 2012 when they slowly started removing features (including third party apps having limited tokens to use for their apps) and developers basically left the platform in droves.
people were developing "businesses" on top of twitter which was dumb but people did it anyways and got angry and left twitter when this happen. it got to the point where after jack came back to be ceo around 2015, he "apologized" for the way they handled it.. and then proceeded to kinda fuck developers again over that time.
i think before elon acquired twitter they had released a new api and were going to try to do creative new things to attract all the developers that got sick and tired of twitter fucking over developers.
this is the death knell for it (developer wise). imagine making developers pay for an api that is shite after they previously got screwed over by the company. no one is going to build anything useful especially now that the population is slowly creeping over to terminally online chuds.
This move to paid api is kind of expected. Over the course of the last decade a lot of things have been gating off their api because of how much bandwidth they soak up...
Typically you'd just rate limit free accounts... the only reason you'd paywall if bots using APIs were a huge problem and you wanted to take a nuclear approach, right?
Well, that, and for some reason your primary revenue source died up because like two thirds of your advertisers decided to fuck off. Nobody knows why.
And then your amazing plan to sell checkmarks also fell flat on its ass because only around 200,000 people (on a platform of 450 million monthly active users) decided they wanted to stick the "bully me" hat on. Again, nobody knows how that failed....
Remember how desperate for cash Elon got dragged to the world cup final by the saudis in nothing but his t-shirt and pants? People were joking about the lowtax% speedrun but everyone's sleeping on the very real possibility of a khashoggi%
i missed the part today where elon privated his own twitter either because he's a moron or because he's desperate to be one of the boys. lmao..
lol at elon and the right wing grift circus in the span of one day mass hallucinating an issue where private accounts boost exposure, and all of them performatively going private for a few hours, insisting it helped, but then going public again because ???
morgelon’s disease
Twitter Blue people still don't have most of the promised features they're paying monthly for yet but instead how about an entirely new feature, out of the blue, that nobody cares about!
I mean co-tweets were absolutely pointless and dumb but this might be dumber. I wonder if this is going to be on top of the suggested 4000 character thing or if this is what the character thing has become. But lol at anyone going to twitter to read essays
All those "cute animal every hour" accounts are going to be killed by the API charges. The last reason for anyone to be on the site is gone.
To EVERY employee? Jesus Christ, man.
Just imagine Musk staying up to 3 AM reading a one page book report by some random admin assistant in the Twitter Facilities Management Division
There are like 25 twitter files about how Russian troll bots weren't a real thing but also we have to limit API usage because "opinion manipulators" aka libruls...
And just lmao that they announced this change to come in a week with no details and if someone, like a business, wanted to make any sort of planning, the only idea of the pricing they would deal with is from Elon responding to some random tweet.
Elno has to kill the random Virginia Wolfe quotes account and the remind-me bots and all the puppy/kitten rater bots because a bunch of people voted him off the island and that can't be a real thing, he's Elno Msuk the genius special boy who's gonna save the world! It must be those Evil Librul Bots who made him feel sad!
"Musk, Ben Shapiro... and uh.... I forgot the third one. Oops."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/eliza-bleus-own-friends-arent-buying-her-trafficking-story
reminder that in 2018 musk was having a big public meltdown and decided that anything "nano" was bullshit nonsense and tried attacking a cancer researcher working on nanoparticle treatments who happened to criticize him
https://www.livescience.com/62669-musk-nano-nanotechnology-real.html
he already did that and eli lily got mad so he backpedaled i guess he's just gonna do it again
ok sure "hey who's the current least successful person in the social media space, famously fucking up their unprofitable website? musk, right? let's do what he's doing"
Lmao I wonder what the 3 remaining advertisers think about their advert spend being shared with literal nazis because it's in a highly engaged tweet about pro nazi hate speech
Extremely excited for tweetfarming to become a thing, this sort of activity has never caused the death of a platform before!
He literally got owned by a cat lmao.
Love to make huge financial decisions for my company with "I guess..." policies
At that point, he's still talking about accounts that are paying $8/month, right? So it's still a paid API, just with a flat-rate option.
