The Elon Musk Twitter shitshow
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Mass censorship took a huge blow today thanks to Elon Musk. We should all be thanking him.
Only person making a fool of himself in this thread tonight is you. It’s hilarious.
The only thing that has kept Twitter afloat after Musk bought it is that society (me included) has a social media addiction. So Elon's bright idea is to limit how much time people can spend on his site...
I can’t read all that without an account.
Well, I think this is the straw that broke the camel's back for me on this. Anyone want to go in with me to make a new service that is just like the old Twitter but before Elon ruined it? I'm not paying for it, but to have 500 of my allotted 600 tweets taken up by people I don't follow and I have tried to block even is complete BS. I get 600 tweets but 400 of them are right wing propaganda that Elon feels I need to read? That's how you get deleted off my phone. I guess that's the goal.
No One Believes Elon Musk’s Explanation For Breaking Twitter
Well, he finally did it. Elon Musk has broken Twitter so badly that it might as well be offline at this point.
www.forbes.com
Good summary for those who are not Musk fanboys.
I told you all that Musk is a dipshit was lucky to inherit money.
He couldn’t run a McDonald’s.
No One Believes Elon Musk’s Explanation For Breaking Twitter
Well, he finally did it. Elon Musk has broken Twitter so badly that it might as well be offline at this point.
Good summary for those who are not Musk fanboys.
Everyone is just out to get poor Elon
The easiest solution is to just delete the app. There are others out there.No One Believes Elon Musk’s Explanation For Breaking Twitter
Well, he finally did it. Elon Musk has broken Twitter so badly that it might as well be offline at this point.
Good summary for those who are not Musk fanboys.
I really liked Twitter for breaking local news/weather and for sports info.
Otherwise I wouldn’t miss it at all.
You're pathetic. He broke twitter.
No One Believes Elon Musk’s Explanation For Breaking Twitter
Well, he finally did it. Elon Musk has broken Twitter so badly that it might as well be offline at this point.
Good summary for those who are not Musk fanboys.
Competitor shits on competition, news at 9.
Same here, but he has now passed a level of bullshit I'm not willing to put up with.
Same - deleted yesterday. Really just missing it for sports right now. Going to be tough when football rolls around.
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LMAO!!! The pettiness continues!!!!
Come join us in the game threads if you miss that cesspool feeling that Twitter provides.
A lot of people are checking out Mastodon.
The number of active users rose by 294,000 over the weekend, according to CEO Eugen Rochko. I wonder why?
www.theverge.com
Instagram’s Twitter competitor launches July 6th
Meta’s next app will try to make Instagram the new Twitter.
www.theverge.com
A lot of people are checking out Mastodon.
The number of active users rose by 294,000 over the weekend, according to CEO Eugen Rochko. I wonder why?
Instagram’s Twitter competitor launches July 6th
Meta’s next app will try to make Instagram the new Twitter.
I'm curious if Bluesky can gain any traction when it opens up to everyone
Yeah and they moved its launch up to this Thursday. Originally was going to be late July. It really gives you and idea of how bad things went this holiday weekend for Twitter. There were probably emergency meetings at Meta all Saturday and Sunday and they decided to launch this puppy 3-4 weeks early due to the mass pandemonium and desire for so many at Twitter to find an alternative. It is going to be really interesting to see what happens in 36 hours.
Threads: Instagram owner to launch Twitter rival on Thursday - BBC News
The move is the latest in a rivalry between Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk.
www.bbc.com
Facebook owner Meta is launching its new app to rival Twitter and says it will go live on Thursday.
The app, which is called Threads and is available for pre-order on the Apple App Store, will be linked to Instagram.
Screengrabs show a dashboard that looks similar to Twitter. Meta describes Threads as a "text based conversation app".
The move is the latest in a rivalry between Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk.
"Thank goodness they're so sanely run", Mr Musk responded to a tweet about Threads, in an apparent fresh swipe at Mr Zuckerberg.
Meanwhile, Twitter has said that the popular user dashboard, TweetDeck will go behind a paywall in 30 days time.
The move is the latest push by Mr Musk as he tries to get users to sign up to Twitter's subscription service, Twitter Blue.
On Saturday, the multi-billionaire restricted the number of tweets users could see, citing extreme "data scraping".
It appears from Meta's Threads app that it will be a free service - and there will be no restrictions on how many posts a user can see.
"Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what'll be trending tomorrow" the description on the App Store says.
Pictures show screengrabs from the app, that look almost identical to Twitter.
Threads will also hoover up data on your phone, including location data, purchases and browsing history.
Several apps that bear a striking resemblance to Twitter have sprung up in recent years - such as Donald Trump's Truth Social and Mastodon.
Another similar app, Bluesky claimed to have seen "record" traffic after Mr Musk's move to restrict usage at the weekend.
However, Threads could be the biggest threat faced by Twitter to date.
Mark Zuckerberg has a history of borrowing other company's ideas - and making them work.
Meta's Reels is widely seen as a TikTok copy, while Stories looks similar to Snapchat.
Meta has the resources to compete with Twitter. Threads will be part of the Instagram platform, so it will also be connected to hundreds of millions of accounts. It's not starting from zero, as other would-be rivals have had to do.
Although Mr Musk has been praised in some quarters for his commitment to free speech, he has also alienated some users.
Mr Zuckerberg will hope he can pull enough disenchanted users away from Twitter to create a genuine alternative.
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Destroying twitter was actually all part of the plan! Derp.
Yeah and they moved its launch up to this Thursday. Originally was going to be late July. It really gives you and idea of how bad things went this holiday weekend for Twitter. There were probably emergency meetings at Meta all Saturday and Sunday and they decided to launch this puppy 3-4 weeks early due to the mass pandemonium and desire for so many at Twitter to find an alternative. It is going to be really interesting to see what happens in 36 hours.
Threads: Instagram owner to launch Twitter rival on Thursday - BBC News
The move is the latest in a rivalry between Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk.
Facebook owner Meta is launching its new app to rival Twitter and says it will go live on Thursday.
The app, which is called Threads and is available for pre-order on the Apple App Store, will be linked to Instagram.
Screengrabs show a dashboard that looks similar to Twitter. Meta describes Threads as a "text based conversation app".
The move is the latest in a rivalry between Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk.
"Thank goodness they're so sanely run", Mr Musk responded to a tweet about Threads, in an apparent fresh swipe at Mr Zuckerberg.
Meanwhile, Twitter has said that the popular user dashboard, TweetDeck will go behind a paywall in 30 days time.
The move is the latest push by Mr Musk as he tries to get users to sign up to Twitter's subscription service, Twitter Blue.
On Saturday, the multi-billionaire restricted the number of tweets users could see, citing extreme "data scraping".
It appears from Meta's Threads app that it will be a free service - and there will be no restrictions on how many posts a user can see.
"Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what'll be trending tomorrow" the description on the App Store says.
Pictures show screengrabs from the app, that look almost identical to Twitter.
Threads will also hoover up data on your phone, including location data, purchases and browsing history.
Several apps that bear a striking resemblance to Twitter have sprung up in recent years - such as Donald Trump's Truth Social and Mastodon.
Another similar app, Bluesky claimed to have seen "record" traffic after Mr Musk's move to restrict usage at the weekend.
However, Threads could be the biggest threat faced by Twitter to date.
Mark Zuckerberg has a history of borrowing other company's ideas - and making them work.
Meta's Reels is widely seen as a TikTok copy, while Stories looks similar to Snapchat.
Meta has the resources to compete with Twitter. Threads will be part of the Instagram platform, so it will also be connected to hundreds of millions of accounts. It's not starting from zero, as other would-be rivals have had to do.
Although Mr Musk has been praised in some quarters for his commitment to free speech, he has also alienated some users.
Mr Zuckerberg will hope he can pull enough disenchanted users away from Twitter to create a genuine alternative.
...Wait....wut?
U tellin' me that Meta's Threads is gonna launch before Starship?
UNPOSSIBLE. I was assured that Starship would ready for another launch "within 3 months"....
Meta employees like CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Mosseri have been posting alongside celebs like Shakira and Gordon Ramsey and a range of influencers who were given first access to Threads. The limited number of initial users reflects in current follower counts, with most profiles only having a few hundred and Zuckerberg and Mosseri at only a couple thousand.
Threads will be available on the web and for download on the App Store and Google Play Store starting the morning of July 6th in the US and UK. It won't be available across the rest of Europe yet, though, likely due to stricter EU data privacy rules. In the meantime, Meta employees aren't averse to patting themselves on the back while taking a dig at Twitter, as Meta product designer Peter Franko did in his first post on the site.
Threads will be available on the web and for download on the App Store and Google Play Store starting the morning of July 6th in the US and UK. It won't be available across the rest of Europe yet, though, likely due to stricter EU data privacy rules. In the meantime, Meta employees aren't averse to patting themselves on the back while taking a dig at Twitter, as Meta product designer Peter Franko did in his first post on the site.
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I just “pre ordered” in the App Store (guess it just auto downloads?) excited to check it out!Meta employees like CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Mosseri have been posting alongside celebs like Shakira and Gordon Ramsey and a range of influencers who were given first access to Threads. The limited number of initial users reflects in current follower counts, with most profiles only having a few hundred and Zuckerberg and Mosseri at only a couple thousand.
Threads will be available on the web and for download on the App Store and Google Play Store starting the morning of July 6th in the US and UK. It won't be available across the rest of Europe yet, though, likely due to stricter EU data privacy rules. In the meantime, Meta employees aren't averse to patting themselves on the back while taking a dig at Twitter, as Meta product designer Peter Franko did in his first post on the site.
Good article in Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com
"Twitter may have just had its worst weekend ever, technically speaking. In response to a series of server emergencies, Elon Musk, the Twitter owner and self-professed free-speech “absolutist,” decided to limit how many tweets people can view, and how they can view them. This was not your average fail whale. It was the social-media equivalent of Costco implementing a 10-items-or-fewer rule, or a 24-hour diner closing at 7 p.m.—a baffling, antithetical business decision for a platform that depends on engaging users (and showing them ads) as much as possible. It costs $44 billion to buy yourself a digital town square. Breaking it, however, is free."
Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time
The social network has never seen chaos quite like this.
"Twitter may have just had its worst weekend ever, technically speaking. In response to a series of server emergencies, Elon Musk, the Twitter owner and self-professed free-speech “absolutist,” decided to limit how many tweets people can view, and how they can view them. This was not your average fail whale. It was the social-media equivalent of Costco implementing a 10-items-or-fewer rule, or a 24-hour diner closing at 7 p.m.—a baffling, antithetical business decision for a platform that depends on engaging users (and showing them ads) as much as possible. It costs $44 billion to buy yourself a digital town square. Breaking it, however, is free."
Still can’t use without an account. I guess this is not just temporary.
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