Twitter, the shitshow that keeps on delivering

[Hatredsheart]

Well,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66077195

[eny]

That's the excuse he's using...wouldn't have anything to do with a billion dollar contract with Google Cloud in 2018 that expired yesterday, and him failing to not renew it up front...

[Lenny Solidus]

https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-ca ... teur-hour/

Bloody hell Elmo.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Bi9Wl2UlkwY?feature=share

[Lenny Solidus]

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/inst ... 72336.html

[Sly Boots]

Anybody used it?

I abhor social media but wondering if I should set up an account for my YT channel. If it's anything like my Twitter one it'll barely be used

[Lenny Solidus]

Elon truly is such a fucking petulant child and continues to prove it more each day. He ignorantly threw money and his own ego into owning a business venture he clearly didn't understand - he thought that who he was would be enough to maintain its relevance and platform status. He could not have been more wrong...

Elon Musk has done the impossible. His behavior was so openly depraved and Twitter became so insufferable, that he made a Zuckerberg platform look good in comparison. Since Musk bought Twitter eight months ago, he spent that time personally spreading far-right conspiracy theories, tweaking the algorithm to favor himself, and condescending his own users. Musk removed the legacy verification system, taking away blue checks from journalists, like myself, and giving them to anyone who pays $8.

These changes caused a whirlpool of disinformation as brands and politicians were impersonated. No one could tell who was who, and Twitter’s For You algorithmic feed began to push a sea of unhinged far-right content down all our timelines from $8 blue checks. Instead of being a useful tool for sharing and reading real-time information, Twitter turned into an outrage and radicalization machine.

As Twitter cultivated an even more toxic vibe, Musk’s changes negatively impacted Twitter creators who made the platform great in the first place. In the blink of an eye, an egomaniacal billionaire came along and seemingly made all that work creators put in feel worthless. As someone who spent years publishing my journalism on Twitter and gaining thousands of followers, I felt the impact of these changes firsthand.

It didn’t take long after Musk’s October 2022 purchase of Twitter for users to begin calling out, essentially begging, for alternative platforms. Over the past year, many have popped up and some did very well, earning hundreds of thousands of users. Bluesky, Spoutible, Spill, and Post.News are a few of the prominent alternatives. These alternatives have thriving niche communities, but it’s a difficult climb to reach the hundreds of millions of users needed to become the primary Twitter alternative. Before Threads, it appeared we would go down the path of a more slow, prolonged migration from Twitter into dozens of alternatives that each serve different Twitter niches. But Threads appears to be able to do what other alternatives haven’t been able to.

Source: The Independent

[Lenny Solidus]

[Lenny Solidus]

So Elon is rebranding Twitter (flappy bird) to Twitter X (porny bird??) meaning that he spent a cool 44 billion to not only run it into the ground making it into a right-wing cesspool but also plans to kill off a worldwide recognised brand along with it.

What an absolute tool but X sounds so cool, right?

[eny]

He wants "X" to be the hub of everything — online shopping, discourse, video, everything he can get his greedy hands on.

[Alan]

Yep, The utter stupidity or wanting one app that does everything. Apps that are good are focused, if they arent theyre a mess.

[Drarok]

Excepting that massive Chinese app I can’t remember the name of. It’s everything!

E: I think it’s WeChat I’m thinking of: https://radii.co/article/wechat-takeove ... g-the-pack

[Lenny Solidus]

[eny]

"X" is fElon saying "I'll have what Xi's having"

[Animalmother]

https://techcentral.co.za/the-real-prob ... it/228811/
Microsoft and Facebook both have a trademark for X as do 900 other companies in the US alone. Musk's utter lack of imagination or apparent business sense is staggering. Plus the logo he chose was stolen from another website.

[Alan]

Not to mention the Road Dogg Jessie James and the Badass Billy Gunn.