The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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unwashed potato! said:
Yes I'd like to see this too. Why some can see the clear positive message, and others get angry and moan and cry on the Internet and boycott a frigging razor blade brand.




That and that they just are so fragile with their emotions and have no idea how to do anything other than be angry.

Poor parents to have kids like that.
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I see it the other way around.

Ads are generally targetted at those that are easily manipulated.. If you see this hugely positive aspirational message being pushed, then well, er, possibly you are precisely the kind of person they hoped to target.

This is how my head breaks it down

1. It opens with depressed/anxious looking people, setting the stage for this depressing/negative view of the world.. I don't relate to that at all, it's not the world I live in.
2. It then cites the most out of date, cliche'd examples of negative behaviours that for me seems not at all relatable to the modern world.. Again unrelatable to me, that's so 1980's.
3. It then uses the long line of men chanting 'boys will be boys' and scale of media reports to infer this is rife and widespread, which is not what I see when I'm socialising.
4. It then shows some 'good' examples of how to behave and stand up, which just look like normal everyday behaviours I expect people to do.

It just screams unrelatable, then the cynicism comes along and I relaise it's just a mega corp pretending to care to try to make a quick buck..

To me the tag line should have been , "Gilette, carry on an act as normal".. really inspirational and motivational..
 
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C Kent said:
Dam, I must have dreamed the whole twitter is going to stop working thing that was doing the rounds at the start of the week after some bloke said everyone had left.

Edit: my bad it was 4/5 days ago..
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They didn't say it would stop working but that things would likely to start to show up/issues would start to be noticeable

There do appear to have been issues showing up, things like 2fa not working properly (although that may have been when musk decided to shut down a load of things without knowing what they were), getting an archive of your stuff taking far longer than it should (apparently it's taking up to a week, it should only take a day or two*), translations not always working, tweets being intermittently visible, or people finding that longer tweet threads are breaking far sooner and more often than normal.


*admittedly this is probably partly due to the number of people requesting it, but it's something that if they had the teams left they would probably have increased the resources for it.
 
mattx4 said:
I'd love it if they set up Trump's account to just tweet out a link to Truth social everytime he posts.

I'm sure that would annoy Elon what's he going to do about it ban him?
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Careful putting an idea like that out into the wild, it might actually happen!

(they could just ban or even just downrank truth social links tho rather than banning Trump)
 
C Kent said:
Dam, I must have dreamed the whole twitter is going to stop working thing that was doing the rounds at the start of the week after some bloke said everyone had left.

Edit: my bad it was 4/5 days ago..
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Yup, people were getting genuinely emotional about it with goodbye posts and tweeting out mastodon links like it was going to collapse right away.
 
Werewolf said:
They didn't say it would stop working but that things would likely to start to show up/issues would start to be noticeable

There do appear to have been issues showing up, things like 2fa not working properly (although that may have been when musk decided to shut down a load of things without knowing what they were), getting an archive of your stuff taking far longer than it should (apparently it's taking up to a week, it should only take a day or two*), translations not always working, tweets being intermittently visible, or people finding that longer tweet threads are breaking far sooner and more often than normal.


*admittedly this is probably partly due to the number of people requesting it, but it's something that if they had the teams left they would probably have increased the resources for it.
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There are tweets of entire infrastructure teams apparently resigning by tech 'journalists' and ex-twitter employees, teams that were needed to keep Twitter working (they are in this thread - think it was thursday night/friday morning). Has there been numerous, almost daily tweets from the same sort of people that twitter will slow down and stop working? Yes. Personally, I've not really noticed any difference as of yet.
 
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How do you know they aren't all-hands-on-deck currently?

Finishing a meeting at 1:30am isn't exactly normal working hours is it? Although bizzarely some people think this is a good thing.
 
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C Kent said:
Speaking of, the mastodon **** show is amusing if you've been keeping up with it.
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Yup, one journalist got banned for sharing a newspaper article from the Times... because it was "transphobic". At least with the likes of Twitter, there is a professional moderation team and some consistent standards, appeals process etc. Mastodon is all amateurs/volunteers and so it's completely variable like a subreddit or an internet forum and completely unaccountable. That's fine for casual forums and subreddits say related to a hobby, interest etc. it's not really fine for something aiming to be a global platform or twitter replacement.
 
C Kent said:
There are tweets of entire infrastructure teams apparently resigning by tech 'journalists' and ex-twitter employees, teams that were needed to keep Twitter working (they are in this thread - think it was thursday night/friday morning). Has there been numerous, almost daily tweets from the same sort of people that twitter will slow down and stop working? Yes. Personally, I've not really noticed any difference as of yet.
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You've not seen any difference so there hasn't been any problems...

Meanwhile apparently the advertisers interface is reportedly messed up for some fairly big spenders and they've got no one they can contact to get it fixed (nothing important, just old campaigns being reactivated, reports of abuse posted under their campaign tweets etc not being acted on at all), resulting in them pausing all further spending.

There will be a load of things like that, which you as a presumably non disabled, non advertiser user wouldn't notice if they stopped working completely. Things like the loss of their accessibility team in it's entirety mainly just pauses improvements in the system, right up until Apple or Android make a change to their OS's that makes any changes in the API's twitter relies on, or someone who isn't familiar with the accessibility systems at Twitter makes a change and because no one is now specifically testing it gets released whilst breaking accessibility.
 
Roar87 said:
I honestly don't think I've used the word "alpha" unironically in the past 10 years.
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It's not really a phrase I use but I only found out recently that the guy who theorised the alpha in Wolf packs 40 or 50 years ago pretty much immediately worked out he was wrong. He'd been studying captive animals and it wasn't a natural trait in wild wolves and the term was largely inapplicable to wolves like it's inapplicable to humans. Not quite TIL more RIL.
 
Craterloads said:
Depending on how big elons ego is, I reckon he’s unbanned trump just so he can personally ban him again for the rubbish he was spouting about Elon begging him on his knees.
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It would be funny if he comes back, starts slagging off Elon and then gets banned again.

"I overrode the committee and banned him because I wanted to"

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In other news, he's obvs tired of the woke mob:

 
Sankari said:
Musk has crushed the hopes of Alex Jones' simps. He will not be allowed back on Twitter.

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Too bad Kim, you gargled those balls for nothing.
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My god finally something sensible from Musk. Though it seems it has to have effected his life before he can see a problem with something.
 
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