I guess you can find me over at @dstufft@hachyderm.io now, time to watch this hell site burn to the ground.
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With the end of the year, reflection is upon us all. I’ve decided to open my books in December to take on individual & company clients for 1:1 sessions.
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No shade to all of these Twitter alternatives but they’re all pitching themselves as a home for civil conversation when what I actually want is a unlimited chaos goblins and then a bunch of us going ‘boy, that’s nuts’
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i can’t just “pivot to instagram.” i don’t want to live on an app that makes me feel bad about myself. i want to live on app that makes me feel bad about the world.
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People who need IT support from their children every Thanksgiving because they can't print anymore keep asking why Twitter won't just keep running with no employees.
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While Musk may own Twitter, Twitter has thoroughly owned Musk -the website corrects his tweets, as many as 75% of his staff chose to quit in one night, and most of the content on the website is making fun of him. He has become the permanent main character.
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This is still the most hardcore thing Arnold Schwarzenegger has ever said
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People, people, people. I cannot stress this enough: billionaires are _not_ playing 4D chess. They’re just really really really stupid.
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Never in the history of the world has there been a bigger loser who wanted so desperately to be cool and funny than Elon Musk
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I'm a Quaker pacifist and I give you permission to find the Nazi punch funny and not hand-wring about civility.
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I see myself having a Frodo experience after twitter. Unable to reintegrate into polite society after the horrors I’ve experienced and sailing off to the undying lands
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NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at 2pm today. Before doing so, please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past 6 months" 1/
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A lot of people on here who haven't run services or carried a pager for a global system think Twitter is "fully self driving", lol
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One thing that's getting a little lost in this mix, is that some of the few people still holding on at Twitter are because they are trapped by either healthcare or visas.
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No one is more prepared to lose their entire online social media identity than millennials who have lost their AIM, MySpace, Google Reader, Google+ and remember the early years of Facebook. We will only return more powerful, more annoying than before.
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I've seen the rise and the fall of Friendster, LJ, Bebo, MySpace, Orkut, Friendfeed, Flickr, Tumblr, Google+, Snapchat, and Facebook. I've used them all, none of them matter to me anymore.
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You know, maybe inheriting apartheid cash isn’t a skillset.
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This website probably isn't going to make it to the 10 year anniversary of this video so here is getting punched.
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Of all the big social media behemoths, Twitter was the only one that truly inherited 2000s forum culture. So it’s only appropriate that it should die by the admin being incredibly divorced, having a personal meltdown, and pulling the plug on the servers for financial reasons.
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If my cat does something adorable and I get a picture of it, where do I post it that also lets me describe my existential angst over NATO Article 5
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That cuts against some of the ways people (people like me!) usually talk about this place, as a place of community or knowledge building.
But it’s always been the proximity of real elites, celebrities, politicians, etc, that’s made this platform powerful.
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You could just say something about an institution and it might go through the Twitter pipes and right into the CEO’s ear. Journalists might pick up your frame. VIPs knew they’d have to contend with “what Twitter said” about something.
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And a hundred people saying something on Twitter can feel like a lot! So relatively small groups of savvy people really could get the attention of people they’d have no chance of getting in front of in the world out there.
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It worked across scales, too. Local elites could be influenced, same as world leaders.
Twitter has never been BIG in social media terms, but it was influential because this is place where certain elites actually hung out, phone in hand, just like the rest of us.
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I’ve been struggling to articulate something about Twitter for a while. It’s the thing that I think is its key strength. Here goes:
Twitter is/became a space for elite persuasion, a way to push ideas to elites across disciplines. Media, Hollywood, DC, tech.
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I've been allergic to hashtags from the inception of this site that I keep forgetting to include #RIPTwitter. and we should all definitely include it in everything now because if it stays at the top of trending as the site is capsizing it's going to make him *so* mad
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Twitter survived the Arab spring and being an ISIS recruitment tool but is disintegrating in weeks under Space Karen
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the musk-twitter saga should be instructive, proving once again that billionaires are morons. plain & simple. yet there are people who will blame twitter employees or wokeism & maintain that he will lead us into the future. these people are also morons & unsalvageable
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
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Did you download your archive and realize it didn't come with alt text? I made a free tool to help pull down all the image descriptions you ever posted: archive.alt-text.org
It usually only takes a few minutes!
Please RT!
#a11y #accessibility #AltText
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Twitter tonight has some serious "everyone gathered around grandpa's bedside at the hospice center" energy except everyone is also making fun of grandpa.
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What you’re learning from Twitter is that individual workers have no power. But together they do.
In fact if enough refuse to follow, suddenly management has to make concessions. Even start begging.
I wonder if anyone’s ever thought of this concept before.
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This isn't really about Twitter, it's about the worst aspects of capitalism and the cultural propaganda associated with it. Leveraged buyouts, the myth that the rich are smarter than anyone else, the evils of concentrated wealth. All of it unraveling in full view (lol)
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Gentlemen, it has been a privilege tweeting with you tonight.
#RIPTwitter
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So uh, what mastodon instance should I use
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Oh damn one of the all time great threads, right up there with Rice Truck
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Got my days wrong and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine. twitter.com/b3ta/status/99
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