He's now back on, but with all of his followers gone.
Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
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#592No one seems to have mentioned the really interesting aspect here: Twitter must be bleeding DAUs. There are other indicators too. After the takeover they dropped the login wall, but it is back, and way more aggressive than before. You can't even scroll down to see more tweets now, or view replies. The ads are also really weird and odd. Either their ad targeting system is broken, or they just lost so many advertisers…
their entire ad backend is in a state of crisis. i have friends who were on the monetization (read: ads) teams at twitter and every single one of them has been asked/ordered to return to work if they want to collect their severance
Whoa, is this possible? is this even legal?
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#593Elon pulled a power move
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#594Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet besides Twitter.
Paul’s unbanned now.
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#595I was a pretty big Elon fan a year ago. SpaceX is/was a monumental achievement. He's gone insane. Suggesting Taiwan and Ukraine surrender, all this Twitter nonsense... I'm shorting TSLA to $50 on Monday.
Wait, when did he suggest that Taiwan surrender? I missed that. He is speed-running the Howard Hughes game.
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#596It is possible that this becomes the inciting incident that leads to a viable twitter alternative. Making many programmers and tech people annoyed at the same time isn't a wise move by Twitter.
Subreply.com is one good alternative.
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#597They must be leaking real users pretty hard if they're having to resort to banning people from even mentioning that alternatives exist.
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#598Musk now inviting people to vote on whether he should step down as CEO. I guess that's one approach to getting people back.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097?s=46...
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#599His account is back up. The follower count is slowly increasing. I guess the counter is part of some other process? Event driven?
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#600It's baffling to me that Elon seems to be taking the opposite of a first-principles view on Twitter. He fails to realize _why_ Twitter uniquely has the reach that it does. It's because it's platform-agnostic in a lot of ways. It's the base-level social protocol that all other platforms are adjacent to. By removing that connection, it completely nerfs that influence and Twitter becomes just another social network. I a…
> It's baffling to me that Elon seems to be taking the opposite of a first-principles view on Twitter.
Power corrupts. The radical idealist who becomes a despotic tyrant is practically a meme.