It's "Twitter Freedom Friday!"

[LupusDei]

It makes no sense to leave Twitter, yet. It makes perfect sense to search for and establish alternatives in the meantime, just in case if Twitter really breaks down, if not otherwise. Such alternatives cannot arise and grow otherwise. I don't get why some seems to think it's a binary choice (then, some of those people seem to operate solely in stark binary choices even when it makes absolutely no sense).

Eventually, what this will end into is extensive government regulations anyway.

 

[schism666]

 

[schism666]

 

[schism666]

 

[JohnEBbad]

But which code to learn? PERL? Ruby? Java? Python? C++? PHP? Seriously, making that decision isn't trivial.

But those that code in ADA get to work on the really cool shit.

They're Liberal Arts Majors –– Pascal is about all the complexity that they can handle.

They learned on BASIC.

 

[JohnEBbad]

zumi, with the Blue Check issue, he's proven one thing.

The Left won't put their money where their mouth is.

It's why they hate charity (especially the church) but want to use taxpayer dollars to support their causes...

 

[DeluxAuto]

zumi, with the Blue Check issue, he's proven one thing.

The Left won't put their money where their mouth is.

It's why they hate charity (especially the church) but want to use taxpayer dollars to support their causes...

Who on the Left wants to use taxpayer dollars to fund Twitter? And most intelligent people avoid sending money to "the church."

You tried.

 

[JohnEBbad]

Who on the Left wants to use taxpayer dollars to fund Twitter? And most intelligent people avoid sending money to "the church."

You tried.

When you read, you need to try to pay more attention to the sounds emanating from your moving lips and not the script running around in your head.

I never said, or implied, any such a thing.

Honest Question: Are you a moron?

:embarrassing:

 

[ll74]

zumi, with the Blue Check issue, he's proven one thing.

The Left won't put their money where their mouth is.

It's why they hate charity (especially the church) but want to use taxpayer dollars to support their causes...

People bitched when the big Mac prices went up from $1.

Don't remember them being chastised as "the left"

 

[DeluxAuto]

zumi, with the Blue Check issue, he's proven one thing.

The Left won't put their money where their mouth is.

It's why they hate charity (especially the church) but want to use taxpayer dollars to support their causes...

Who on the Left wants to use taxpayer dollars to fund Twitter? And most intelligent people avoid sending money to "the church."

You tried.

When you read, you need to try to pay more attention to the sounds emanating from your moving lips and not the script running around in your head.

I never said, or implied, any such a thing.

Honest Question: Are you a moron?

Honest question: Why do you lie when we can all see the truth?

:embarrassing:

 

[JohnEBbad]

I think I hit the nail on the head: moron.

It's called a parallel example...

 

[DeluxAuto]

I think I hit the nail on the head: moron.

It's called a parallel example...

That's not what you were attempting to do and it doesn't remove the fact that you very much implied it.

You tried.

 

[JohnEBbad]

#HLM

(Hateful Liberal Moron)

 

[JohnnySavage]

Some of youse people need to turn off the computer and go outside.

 

[DeluxAuto]

#HLM

(Hateful Liberal Moron)

We appreciate you signing your posts and calling your people.

 

[JohnEBbad]

Some of youse people need to turn off the computer and go outside.

I need to go eat some farm-fresh eggs.

 

[schism666]

I need to go eat some farm-fresh eggs.

you need to stop lying and blaming others for your struggles. so much for the party of personal responsibility.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

zumi, with the Blue Check issue, he's proven one thing.

The Left won't put their money where their mouth is.

It's why they hate charity (especially the church) but want to use taxpayer dollars to support their causes...

He didn't "prove" anything about the Left.

He dropped his initial Blue Check price the day he announced it from $20 to $8 after Stephen King told him to kick rocks over it.

There is no genius business acumen being put into praxis here, only ego and desperation.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1589961357214240768

https://twitter.com/x/status/1589963542392115209

 

[Wrong Element]

I'm truly not sure why anyone thought Mastodon was a similar option.

I think some promoters of that platform just got some buzz generated.....it's quite a different network.

Your second sentence is the answer to your first sentence. I had never heard of Mastodon before all of this started. And I don't see much actual enthusiasm for it; it's mostly "Well, I had to make preliminary plans somewhere since Twitter is steering directly towards the iceberg."

It's going to take some time for a critical mass of people to settle on a Twitter alternative. In the short run, I think most are going to tolerate Twitter as long as their individual user experience is mostly unchanged. Watching Musk flail is entertaining in itself.

 

[John_von_Neumann]

They're Liberal Arts Majors –– Pascal is about all the complexity that they can handle.

They learned on BASIC.

BASIC for liberal arts majors?? Thanks for the laugh, gramps!

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Your second sentence is the answer to your first sentence. I had never heard of Mastodon before all of this started. And I don't see much actual enthusiasm for it; it's mostly "Well, I had to make preliminary plans somewhere since Twitter is steering directly towards the iceberg."

It's going to take some time for a critical mass of people to settle on a Twitter alternative. In the short run, I think most are going to tolerate Twitter as long as their individual user experience is mostly unchanged. Watching Musk flail is entertaining in itself.

Lotta celebrities are living on TikTok these days

 

[RobDownSouth]

Lotta celebrities are living on TikTok these days

Many of them are, but the majority of them are still on Twitter. TikTok seems to have its own celebrity culture.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1589976029187244033

 

[JohnEBbad]

...

When Elon Musk took over Twitter on October 28, a great wailing and gnashing of teeth arose from not just Twitter’s employees but also the Twitterati on line. The cognoscenti declared the platform dead, and a number of them announced their departures. Others predicted that Musk would drive the platform into oblivion by chasing off all of its dynamic content providers.

It’s still early days, but according to The Verge, it looks more like Musk has touched off a renaissance instead:

Twitter’s daily user growth hit “all-time highs” during the first full week of Elon Musk owning the platform, according to a company document obtained by The Verge.

Since Musk’s dramatic takeover, Twitter’s monetizable daily user (mDAU) growth has accelerated to more than 20 percent, while “Twitter’s largest market, the US, is growing even more quickly,” according to an internal FAQ obtained by The Verge that was shared with Twitter’s sales team on Monday to use in conversations with advertisers. Per the FAQ, Twitter has added more than 15 million mDAUs, “crossing the quarter billion mark” since the end of the second quarter, when it stopped reporting financials as a public company.

If those numbers are in line with how Twitter reported metrics when it was public, they imply that the service has yet to see a mass exodus under Musk’s ownership. He tweeted on Sunday that, since his deal to buy Twitter was announced, “user numbers have increased significantly around the world.” Twitter last reported 237.8 million mDAUs and a 16.6 percent yearly growth rate for the second quarter....

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/202...rst-week-despite-celebrity-departures-n509030

 

[ll74]

Lol

More users logged on to see the shit show. Short lived.

Though the rest of them changed their name to "Elon Musk (parody)" now...so there's that.

It is fun, though, to see all the people who seem to be experts on what twitter is or is not. Especially the media