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Post by patrickmay »

tayo42 wrote: post #117
Gabriel_Martin wrote: post #38

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twitter is only important if your stuck in the bubble of twitter people. Tons of people dont use twitter, let alone even write on there. to get even like 1000 replies is still an insignificant amount, even though it feels like a lot. there are 300million people in just the US. thinking twitter replies are meaningful or represent enough people to have discourse is disconnected from the real world.

Twitter is useful for following authors and finding out when they have new books. Now I have to seriously consider GoodReads. shudder

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Post by mywittyname »

swarnie wrote: post #204
sockaddr wrote: post #26

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Wow. Glad I'm not putting energy into Twitter any longer.

As someone who's never sent a tweet, what did you get out of it Pre-SpaceJesus?

Local status updates and the occasional tidbit of interest from people whose thoughts I like to read but who twitterblog instead of using an actual blog.

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Post by Maken »

TillE wrote: post #113
bongobingo1 wrote: post #96

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That's what gets me about Elon more than anything. It's not the substance of his politics, it's that it's all so shallow, so unoriginal. There are a million interesting discussions to be had in the world today, but he's stuck on mediocre Reddit shitposting from like 2012.

Creating original content is hard.

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Post by d23 »

s1gnp0st wrote: post #178
faefox wrote: post #150

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Presumably those people weren't "hardcore" enough for Elon Twitter.

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Where did this meme of them being a cash incinerator come from (other than from Musk, hoping people didn't look into the public statements)? Last time I looked, they had a few profitable quarters on the books. Looking at the last annual statement, I see a 200M loss on 5B revenue, with them sitting on 8B in assets, 2B of which is in cash. That's nothing close to a cash incinerator.

As far as I can tell, tightening up that slightly and reasonably could have turned it profitable again. The only cash incinerator I see in this picture is bull-in-a-china-shop Musk who appears to have made the problem 100x worse.

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Post by O__________O »

paxys wrote: post #151

There were many different hypotheses on the outcome of Elon firing 80%+ of Twitter employees: 1. The site would crash and burn the next day. 2. Nothing would change. All those engineers were anyways just sitting around. 3. There would be no immediate impact (servers can run by themselves after all), but the site would slowly degrade over time as institutional knowledge around maintenance, upkeep and all the various s…

Let’s not pretend like Twitter has never had downtime, they literally popularized the “Fail Whale” meme way before Elon was around:

- https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s...

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Post by jsheard »

brucethemoose2 wrote: post #179
mikebonnell wrote: post #97

Twitter Support just posted: "Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences. We’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed." https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/163279294226274713...

Ha, that page isn't loading for me, but Nitter is: https://nitter.net/TwitterSupport/status/1632792942262747136 Maybe fetching through the API is working better?

Nitter doesn't use the official API, which seems to be what's broken, instead it talks directly to the undocumented APIs that Twitters normal web interface is built on.

I assume they do it that way to get around all the rate limiting and threat of having access revoked that the official API comes with.

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Post by _zzaw »

s1gnp0st wrote: post #178
faefox wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably those people weren't "hardcore" enough for Elon Twitter.

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That's an excellent question. Having given the matter some serious thought, I think what I'd suggest would be to start by making Twitter better, rather than worse.

I'm not a business genius though so perhaps I'm missing something crucial here.

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Post by MrOwnPut »

runarberg wrote: post #214
MrOwnPut wrote: post #153

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I believe GP said he had fun. People should be allowed to work how they want to, they have the freedom (especially in this industry) to go elsewhere. I've pulled late nights, they bought us pizza and gave us a half day later. Sometimes you have to put in work during critical times. It's certainly not construction work anyway, people are kinda soft here sometimes.

> People should be allowed to work how they want to I disagree. There is a race to the bottom and a tragedy of the commons. A company could easily exploit this by gamifying the work and hiring workers with addictive tendencies. Most national labor laws and labor contracts set a maximum number of daily and weekly working hours for a reason. Workplace safety is only one of those reasons.

Safety laws are fine, we're talking about a person saying they enjoyed a late night coding session.
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