Tech Thread

[zeke]

so locked out of tweetdeck on mobile again. I'm guessing it's permanent this time.

and the new updated tweetdeck on PC is a very hefty pile of shit that barely moves.

 

[zeke]

mobile back up.

PC continues to be unsuably slow.

 

[hockeylover]

Imagine if this is true…

 

[UWHabs]

Imagine if this is true…

20 tweets a day? People are going to hit that before they get out of bed in the morning. Why not limit people to 10 likes a day too?

 

[worm]

20 tweets a day? People are going to hit that before they get out of bed in the morning. Why not limit people to 10 likes a day too?

Guess they better pay up

 

[zeke]

There goes live tweeting of news events as they happen on the ground.

 

[Wayward DP]

Imagine if this is true…

that motherfucker

 

[Wayward DP]

There goes live tweeting of news events as they happen on the ground.

I think this is a feature, not a bug. pay to play. control the information and media used to communicate it.

 

[Wayward DP]

but hey, spoutible is open to the public as of today

 

[Wayward DP]

Imagine if this is true…

I mean some folks now have to split up their threads over two fucking days based on these rules...

 

[MindzEye]

I mean some folks now have to split up their threads over two fucking days based on these rules...

Or pay Elon that sweet, sweet 8 dollar free speech fee.

 

[LeafGm]

Imagine if this is true…

I guess since they’ve failed utterly at coming up with any new features to make “Twitter Blue” worthwhile, the brilliant solution is to just make the site useless for anyone who won’t pay up.

 

[Wayward DP]

I guess since they’ve failed utterly at coming up with any new features to make “Twitter Blue” worthwhile, the brilliant solution is to just make the site useless for anyone who won’t pay up.

I had a hunch we were always headed this way

 

[LeafGm]

I had a hunch we were always headed this way

True.

Though I think it is also entirely possible that this was wasn’t planned and is a desperate change of course.

Basically, Elon may have bought into all the whining from MAGA chuds about being excluded from “the blue checkmark crowd” and genuinely came to believe that was representative of a wider untapped demand for that sweet, sweet Twitter verification with little else of any value attached to it.

And in general these days I tend to err to the side of “poorly informed, knee-jerk gut reaction” rather than “calculated long-term evil scheme” when trying to figure out what’s behind Elon’s actions.

 

[MindzEye]

I had a hunch we were always headed this way

the post capitalist way.

Usually this type of stuff ends with a government bail out, but I don't see that in Elon's future.

 

[zeke]

chef's kiss.

no notes.

 

[zeke]

Thought the bots were real, and the reals were bots.

 

[zeke]

 

[axlsalinger]

 

[mbow30]

pretty sure there is only one human nonbot who can tweet 2400 times in a day.