Dear Abby, what do you think of the culture war?

 R_P wrote:
Let them... they were stiff before, and they're gonna die that way. Or?!

"Some of the social media company’s vendors have gotten stiffed."

Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down: From a Real Twitter SRE

 haresfur wrote:

influencer/troll

Twitter has obviously tweaked their algorithm to amplify Musk's tweets and tweets about him.
 
Who would have thought that one of the richest people in the world's dream job is being a social media influencer?

Things That Will Get You Permanently Banned From Elon Musk’s Twitter

Don't care anymore. 

Killed my accounts and moved to Mastodon and Counter.Social (dmax on both).

Trump's Twitter account is back online.

(Miles Davis' Orange...)

not sure what this guy is thinking
i'm hearing twitter is already dead!

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Super 70s Sports@Super70sSports·
Nov 17

"Calm down. Elon Musk literally sends people to OUTER F***ING SPACE. I’m pretty goddamn confident he can keep an app running."

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

made me lol for real
-sfw

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

The tweet of God:


If Elon Musk kills Twitter you will never hear from Me again and My son will communicate with you only on breakfast foods.

So. Much. Winning.

Mr. Musk’s team also held meetings with undecided employees who are key to Twitter’s operations to try to persuade them to stay, three people said. In his pitch, Mr. Musk said that he knew how to win and that those who wanted to win should join him, one person who spoke with him said.

Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks

Trump, Musk and Kanye Are Twitter Poisoned (Jaron Lanier, NYT)

I have observed a change, or really a narrowing, in the public behavior of people who use Twitter or other social media a lot. (“Other social media” sometimes coming into play after ejection from Twitter.) When I compare Mr. Musk, Mr. Trump and Ye, I see a convergence of personalities that were once distinct. The garish celebrity playboy, the obsessive engineer and the young artist, as different from one another as they could be, have all veered not in the direction of becoming grumpy old men, but into being bratty little boys in a schoolyard. Maybe we should look at what social media has done to these men.

I’m not claiming that Twitter is the sole influence, of course. Traditional demons summoned by great wealth have not vanished. I have no access to what goes on in the brains of other people. What I’m talking about is plain public behavior. The personalities of a great many famous and powerful people have changed in a similar way — a way we could do without.

I believe “Twitter poisoning” is a real thing. It is a side effect that appears when people are acting under an algorithmic system that is designed to engage them to the max. It’s a symptom of being part of a behavior-modification scheme.

The same could be said about any number of other figures, including on the left. Examples are found in the excesses of cancel culture and joyless orthodoxies in fandom, in vain attention competitions and senseless online bullying. (...)

 Steely_D wrote:

via GIPHY

Twitter’s finest moment? That was a pretty good $8 investment in a blue check mark.

Eli Lilly loses billions in market cap after ‘verified’ Twitter impostor promises free insulin

 R_P wrote: