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An so a little from column a and a little from column b

He was probably worried about all that lovely RichB furniture getting nicked...

Yeah that's the one.

(replying to mik)

Makes for interesting viewing



Being an advertiser on the platform who has access to the API for data gathering against their spend gives them an insight that a lot of media outlets don't get.

Twitter today is a ghoulish car crash. Everyone's crying saying "Well, if this is the end, I loved you all, had some great times..." as if they're desperate for the site to fail. It reminds me why I periodically take a month or two away from that site, it's full of fatalistic negativity, ironically from some of it's biggest users. It's like the world's biggest mega-flounce.

Meanwhile, the data shows Twitter is busier than ever before

Yeah it’s always been full of miserable attention whores

Gavster wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:42 pmMeanwhile, the data shows Twitter is busier than ever before

Busy is only good if it means more money coming in! If advertisers are running scared, then it doesn't matter how many billions of people you have using it.

People love an arrogant prick failing.

Aside from the fact I'm £6.99 lighter this month I can't say my twitter experience has changed one iota throughout all of this, other than some more comedy memes passing by my timeline.

It has helped to weed out some ass-hats I was following though, so I've binned quite a few.

Rich B wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:57 pm

Gavster wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:42 pmMeanwhile, the data shows Twitter is busier than ever before

Busy is only good if it means more money coming in! If advertisers are running scared, then it doesn't matter how many billions of people you have using it.

People love an arrogant prick failing.

According to the data coming in from the API that the above video references, advertising revenue and adverts haven't dropped off. The guy would know as he owns a company that advertises on twitter and therefore has access to the stats via the API.

Rich B wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:57 pm

Gavster wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:42 pmMeanwhile, the data shows Twitter is busier than ever before

Busy is only good if it means more money coming in! If advertisers are running scared, then it doesn't matter how many billions of people you have using it.

People love an arrogant prick failing.

If billions continue to use it then the advertising revenues won't fall. The advertisers will change or those that have left will come back. I mean they were advertising on the biggest cesspool social media site in the first place, so how is the current state of play any worse?

As per Tim = I haven't seen anything change one bit thoughout this last few weeks.

Swervin_Mervin wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 2:05 pm

Rich B wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:57 pm

Gavster wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:42 pmMeanwhile, the data shows Twitter is busier than ever before

Busy is only good if it means more money coming in! If advertisers are running scared, then it doesn't matter how many billions of people you have using it.

People love an arrogant prick failing.

If billions continue to use it then the advertising revenues won't fall. The advertisers will change or those that have left will come back. I mean they were advertising on the biggest cesspool social media site in the first place, so how is the current state of play any worse?

As per Tim = I haven't seen anything change one bit thoughout this last few weeks.

I don't use it myself but the above video indicated that it hasn't really changed appreciably much for regular users like you say.

There was an initial spike in people posting bad things from verified accounts (abusing the new blue system) but there's an interesting point again in the video that you get picked up for haste speech and banned quickly but if you do it from a new account and you don't have any followers, no one sees it. His analogy was it would be like wandering into an empty wood and screaming abuse, no one would hear it, but it would have happened. They also effectively burnt money doing it too as they had to spin up new accounts, pay the $8 for blue and then they got banned.
Some in the media with access to the API were then able to pull the stats on hate speech and bans because of it, they could they write a story about it. At best it's ignorance and negligence through a lack of research and understanding at worst it's a malevolent act, but it's what we've become used to from the legacy media.

It seems pictures in threads don't work on Twitter any more... and comments asking why have their replies turned off.

Maybe keeping a few more engineers would have been good?

That's not to mention the huge amount of duplicate tweets in search results as you scroll through (since microservices were turned off) and that the first tweet in a thread regularly reports as being 'unavailabled' when you click on it.

IE I came to this thead via a later tweet in it - it's bigger than the preceding ones, you know how this works:

If I click on the starting tweet (so I can see the replies to it, not the later tweet, for example)....
The whole thread reports as gone.

This has happened to almost every thread I've looked at lately, including ones from Musk - where he's been quote tweeted; click on his tweet, and it reports as unavailable.

And yes, Musk is asking engineers to fly into SF on the day before the Thanksgiving weekend to justify their existence.

Probably should have thought about that before, you know, fucking sacking >50% of your staff.....

I think he's doing a great job. Seems twitter employees are mainly living in a different world.

How are you reading twitter threads if you're perma-banned, Beany? AFAIK you can no longer read stuff unless signed in.

tim wrote: Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:45 am How are you reading twitter threads if you're perma-banned, Beany? AFAIK you can no longer read stuff unless signed in.

I'm signed in but can't post, or interact etc. I sign in specifically so I can read interesting threads.

Oh lol, ban folks and then let them bark at the moon. Nice.

This made me lol. "The Spaceman..."

tim wrote: Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:49 am Oh lol, ban folks and then let them bark at the moon. Nice.

I think the official term is permenantly suspeneded.

You can't follow anyone either - as in you don't have a timeline - so literally the only benefit I have over someone not logged in is 'you can read threads'.

No messages, no interaction at all.

Barking at the moon suggests complaining - not really; I'm quite happy to not interact with people on twitter. There are still some interesting threads on there though that are worth a look, and of course doomscrolling is still a thing that can be good for a laugh.

If I could read threads without logging in I'd have dumped my account a long time ago

For someone who cares its not hard to just make another account is it