Embedded tweets don't have ads or replies. News sites continue to use this mechanism for a curated window into the site. If anything, the continued use of embedded tweets would appear to fly in the face of claims of an anti-twitter cabal of MSM.
This was explored at least once by Twitter under Dick Costolo. Pretty quickly abandoned. Turns out media sites don’t want to embed other ads from other platforms on their site.
I’m still waiting for the site to go down. After Musk laid off 80% of the staff, HN and Reddit were adamant that the infra was far too complex for the remaining employees and a few Tesla/SpaceX engineers to figure out and keep running for more than a few months.
I mean, its outage rate for me has been significantly higher than before, more along the lines of the early days of Twitter when Fail Whales were a running gag. Features randomly breaking for a couple days; timeline not loading; etc.
Twitter's remaining staff is pretty clearly struggling to hold the shebang together.
That’s not really what I, or anyone making the predictions was referring to.
The prevailing sentiment was that the site would basically fail to remain functional and go offline because only incompetent yes-men would work for Elon while anyone with aptitude or experience was gone.
I don't remember that ever being the prevailing sentiment. That was a sentiment by a particular subgroup, but I remember the prevailing sentiment being that Twitter will get even worse than before. Which most people I know think has happened.
I menan, it has had a lot of outages and failures. Most of those fired were not core engineers but people who to the most part were hired to make sure twitter keeps the right external interests such as governments and advertisers happy, let users have a good enough experience to where advertisers will continue to pay twitter and most importantly to scale twitter so that it has the potential to make profit (not just break even), and they succeeded by getting Elon to buy the company. Twitter's shareholders profited. It maybe takes like a dozen people to just keep the site online but to keep users, increase revenue and profit that's why everyone else was there. You pay at most 200k times 7000 people which is around 1.4B in salaries at most (likely much less lol) for a company valued at 48B so it can be a 100B company some day. The whole point of investing is you make more money.
Of course a jerkoff like Elon who inherited his way into profiting from paypal and buying the established near market ready Tesla would not understand that, he us used to letting others run things and taking credit for it, I mean people literally credit him for rocket science (spacex!), he drank his own kool-aid.
If you seriously think that those people he fired served no purpose, I'd like to challenge you: would you buy a private twitter share now? I mean you'd have to be pretty bad at investing to do so right?
Elon's whole schtick is that he can't get people to like him even with all his money and he thinks that makes him a victim. He hasn't figured out what most normal adults figure out in roughly their 20's: no one owes you affection, nothing you own or do entitles you to someone else's affection. He sought to remedy this by expelling all who disagree with him and rallying his fans around him.
Truly sad, he could have literally built a city or an island full of his admirers if he wanted. He lost all that money over twitter loudmouths. I think he has the official record of the person who lost the most amount of money in the shortest time in the history of humanity!
How could you possibly know the KPIs and profitability of twitter at this moment? Especially since I assume you only consume anti-twitter content? None of us would buy a twitter share right now because we don’t have enough data to do so…
I’m saying we don’t have first-hand sources for revenue, nor do we have first-hand sources for expenses, which we know to some degree have both declined.
Even Elon said just 3 weeks ago that it had lost more than half its value. Why are you so insistent on clinging to such a poor argument here?
You don’t need some independent GAAP compliant audit to see that things were going exceptionally poorly before they lost the majority of their only meaningful revenue stream and that no sane person would start investing in it at this point.
I highly doubt they've rewritten even half the code. Of all the places that should know how long and hard "rewrites" are, it should be here, given all the developers.
What is manufactured? That advertised don't want their ads next to hate speech, the hate speech itself, or the fact that ads are appearing next to the hate speech?
I absolutely love that he screnshotted a word processor which highlights vague claims he's making with dashed-underlines. But what's with the double-underline of "speech"?
I don't get the dude, at all. He's weird, and impulsive. And makes mistakes that I would never make, and yet he leads teams that build things that other teams led by other brilliant people failed to build before.
I will never understand it.
I just know that in my past-life working with Air Force space command they all laughed at him when he first said he was going to have vertically landing rockets with SpaceX. The execs at GM who cancelled the EV1 all laughed at him with Tesla. Everyone on here was positive that Twitter would crash under its own weight when he nuked 80% of the staff.
I've been a daily user of Twitter since 2008.
It's glitchy from time to time, and I notice lags on my notifications. And yet it also hosts video, has a bunch of new features that I mostly like, and the "Spaces" functionality is actually pretty damned good after being total garbage when it first launched. From a feature standpoint, it's vastly better than it was before he massively overpaid for it. And yeah, there are nazis on there that weren't there before. I almost never see them, but when I do, I mute them.
So basically, it's like how the internet had always been. The nazis suck, but they're a cost I pay to not have posts like "The bat-borne coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan might have something to do with the bat-borne coronavirus lab in Wuhan" get censored.
I'm sorry... I am not intelligent because I believe in the factual truth? There are screenshots of the ads next to content, and X confirms they are real in their lawsuit filing.
It’s wild watching people like the one you were responding to talk down to others as though they were correcting a child with so much confidence while simultaneously having zero self reflection and just hiding behind this vague smoke and mirrors conspiracy nonsense. It’s completely indistinguishable from random qanon ramblings.
What part of it is manufactured? That his mask came off, and revealed a full-on reptile underneath, that's retweeting replacement theory?
You don't think that there's a problem with the richest industrialist and media mogul in the world actively broadcasting that there's a vast, global Jewish conspiracy to replace whitey?
This isn't, like, criticism of a political viewpoint! If he's going to believe in crazy things, the guy should stick to grassy knolls and flat earth and faked moon landings, or literally anything that's not 'The jews are out to get us'.
> Jewish Communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.
> I'm deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit about how western jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much
> ----
> Elon Musk: You have said the actual truth
If you agree with this, I have no further questions. It's straight-up replacement theory [1], in its ugliest, anti-semitic flavour.
I dont believe in this great replacement conspiracy.
However, I do know there are people that are pro-immigration and open boarders. I dont think that is disputable.
I also think people can foster racist attitudes against others and then be offended when people are racist against them. I dont think that is disputable either.
I think that is true of all people of all races.
I dont think it is racist or antisemitic to call out the ADL for the hypocritical stance of supporting a race based homeland in the middle east, while simultaneously criticizing racial inequity and boarder controls in the west.
As for me, I support a pluralist society that doesn't "belong" to any one race, and the right of that society to control who enters, as long as it avoids discrimination based on protected classes.
That's been a real problem for me, since I can't see embedded tweets and won't follow links going to twitter. I wish reporters would just quote the tweet they think is so important that it should be widely read.
Yeah X proves that it's still the single best source for breaking news and still the public town square.
Honestly I hope Elon holds a grudge and remembers that companies performatively pulling ads from the platform right now and charges them a premium when they eventually come back.
