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A simple and short lived glitch does not a #3 make. Twitter is better than ever now. Elon did good.

mulletbum 4y ago
Why?
random314 4y ago
This is one of several different glitches and downtime seen this year. A revenue collapse of 40% with a surge in fake verified profiles does not make Twitter better than ever. It is crazy to see a sudden sharp 40% revenue decline being described as better than ever.
- giobox 4y ago
  While I've no trouble believing revenue dropped, where are we getting this 40 percent number and surge in fake verified profiles data from? With Twitter now in private ownership, Musk doesn't need to disclose real data and to best of my knowledge hasn't really.
  - camjohnson26 4y ago
    https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-manager-daily-revenue-has-dropped-40-500-top-advertisers-have-left https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-manager-dail...
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
libraryatnight 4y ago
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cowmix 4y ago
"Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss" -- and that's a slam on Elon who promised a ton of things like open sourcing the algorithm, etc. All I get now is a bunch of right-wing weirdo crap in my feed that I didn't subscribe to or ask for. And this thing he was complaining about back in May, he completely f'd it up post-purchase: https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-fix-twitter-feed-elon-musk/ https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-fix-twitter-feed-elon-musk/
isoprophlex 4y ago
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- sidfthec 4y ago
  I blocked him and I don't see his posts any more. What did you try to do? I'm the opposite of an Elon fan, but so many people don't seem to know how to actually use social media. Who/what you follow and who you block can completely change your experience.
  - isoprophlex 4y ago
    I thought I scrubbed things by hitting "I am not interested in Elon Musk". Prompted by your tweet I checked what it says, and the offending post on my timeline has an option "I am not interested in Business People". So that's probably how it got through. I still stand by my grossly hyperbolic diatribe about how twitter is definitely getting shittier, though.
  - bfeynman 4y ago
    Social media growth is all about recommendations and algorithms, people actually curating their network a la 2010 facebook is dead, so your idea of "how to use social media" is also aligned with completely not knowing how to make a growing social media platform where almost >99% of users are consumers and automatically are recommended things and curate their experience implicitly. People do not want to manually do anything for the most part.
    - sidfthec 4y ago
      The general issue of forcing recommendations and the general population not doing anything manually anymore is separate from the fact that as an individual you have lots of tools to curate your feeds on twitter/facebook/etc. It's also just really silly to have conversations like: "I can't stand seeing Elon on my feed!" "Have you blocked him?" "No"
      - bfeynman 4y ago
bonsaibilly 4y ago
We're just pretending it doesn't now take the better part of 10 seconds for twitter.com to load now? That response times have gotten perceivably, measurably worse over the last few months? Or that these glitches aren't now a weekly occurrence?
- AJRF 4y ago
  I don't use it anymore but the odd time a friend will send me a link to it, and it is horrifically slow. I wonder if anyone will write about this time at twitter in a few years. Would be a case study in how to decimate a websites popularity and what not to do to avoid that.
- Marazan 4y ago
  Apparently there is literally a 5 second pause on load in the javascript.

Why?

This is one of several different glitches and downtime seen this year. A revenue collapse of 40% with a surge in fake verified profiles does not make Twitter better than ever. It is crazy to see a sudden sharp 40% revenue decline being described as better than ever.

giobox 4y ago
While I've no trouble believing revenue dropped, where are we getting this 40 percent number and surge in fake verified profiles data from? With Twitter now in private ownership, Musk doesn't need to disclose real data and to best of my knowledge hasn't really.
- camjohnson26 4y ago
  https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-manager-daily-revenue-has-dropped-40-500-top-advertisers-have-left https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-manager-dail...
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]

libraryatnight 4y ago

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cowmix 4y ago

"Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss" -- and that's a slam on Elon who promised a ton of things like open sourcing the algorithm, etc. All I get now is a bunch of right-wing weirdo crap in my feed that I didn't subscribe to or ask for. And this thing he was complaining about back in May, he completely f'd it up post-purchase: https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-fix-twitter-feed-elon-musk/ https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-fix-twitter-feed-elon-musk/

isoprophlex 4y ago

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sidfthec 4y ago
I blocked him and I don't see his posts any more. What did you try to do? I'm the opposite of an Elon fan, but so many people don't seem to know how to actually use social media. Who/what you follow and who you block can completely change your experience.
- isoprophlex 4y ago
  I thought I scrubbed things by hitting "I am not interested in Elon Musk". Prompted by your tweet I checked what it says, and the offending post on my timeline has an option "I am not interested in Business People". So that's probably how it got through. I still stand by my grossly hyperbolic diatribe about how twitter is definitely getting shittier, though.
- bfeynman 4y ago
  Social media growth is all about recommendations and algorithms, people actually curating their network a la 2010 facebook is dead, so your idea of "how to use social media" is also aligned with completely not knowing how to make a growing social media platform where almost >99% of users are consumers and automatically are recommended things and curate their experience implicitly. People do not want to manually do anything for the most part.
  - sidfthec 4y ago
    The general issue of forcing recommendations and the general population not doing anything manually anymore is separate from the fact that as an individual you have lots of tools to curate your feeds on twitter/facebook/etc. It's also just really silly to have conversations like: "I can't stand seeing Elon on my feed!" "Have you blocked him?" "No"
    - bfeynman 4y ago

bonsaibilly 4y ago

We're just pretending it doesn't now take the better part of 10 seconds for twitter.com to load now? That response times have gotten perceivably, measurably worse over the last few months? Or that these glitches aren't now a weekly occurrence?

AJRF 4y ago
I don't use it anymore but the odd time a friend will send me a link to it, and it is horrifically slow. I wonder if anyone will write about this time at twitter in a few years. Would be a case study in how to decimate a websites popularity and what not to do to avoid that.
Marazan 4y ago
Apparently there is literally a 5 second pause on load in the javascript.