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I emailed Twitter's official press email address, press@twitter.com, for comment. Twitter automatically replies to all emails at that account with the message "
by revelio 4y ago
I emailed Twitter's official press email address, press@twitter.com, for comment. Twitter automatically replies to all emails at that account with the message "<poop emoji>"
Jesus Christ. It's a literal shit-show.
- rootusrootus 4y agoFor a few days there I was getting a poop emoji on redirects within Twitter instead of the blue bird. Back to normal now. Edit: No, it was doge. I was misremembering.
- notatoad 4y agothat was their april fools joke. they did it on the 3rd because the guys who know how to deploy don't work weekends
- andai 4y agoLast few days I'm getting the doge.
- rootusrootus 4y agoNow that you mention it, maybe that's what I was getting, and I was misremembering. Doge sounds right.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- fortyseven 4y agoCourse enough.
- misssocrates 4y agoIt's honest. Every engineer knows PR is shit, don't they?
- burkaman 4y agoNo, they don't. I am proud of what I'm making and I want people to know about it, and I would not hire someone with this attitude.
- misssocrates 4y agoTesla doesn't have a PR department and everyone knows about it. PR is just McKinsey style marketing bullshit.
- danenania 4y agoMusk is a PR department in human form.
- burkaman 4y agoThey had a PR department for 17 years. Also, they still do PR: https://www.tesla.com/blog https://www.tesla.com/blog. "Eliminating the PR department" was itself a PR move.
- phailhaus 4y agoPR is just Public Relations. The only way you know about Tesla is because they still do tons and tons of PR.
- freejazz 4y agoYou are just using McKinsey as a buzzword here to get people riled up, it's otherwise a completely baseless comment
- eastbayjake 4y agoIt's like people don't read the guidelines anymore: "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes." "Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- paultopia 4y agoIt is mindblowing that anyone still uses that garbage platform. Much respect to Musk for figuring out a productive use of his money (making other people miserable out of spite).
- blfr 4y agoWhy garbage platform, it's the best of the social networks. By far. Perhaps the most entertaining site on the Internet. It's really no wonder people use it.
- bachmeier 4y agoMastodon has replaced Twitter as my default, though I still use both. Twitter has too much promotion and too little interaction in 2023.
- vuln 4y agoYeah you’re like a 1%er mastodon(s) will never ever hit anything close to the MAU of Facebook, Twitter, etc It will never hit wide spread adoption. You’ll have niches sure but your average John or Jane Doe don’t give 2 shits.
- internetter 4y agoBut you could say this about any new platform? Of course it won't grow unless people use it? This is a self-perpetuating mindset that is obviously stupid (otherwise popular websites would not exist). I don't have the best words to describe this, but like Oh look! This looks great! But I won't use it because I don't think others will use it (but I also won't tell others about it because it's so unfortunate that no one will use it) Like what? If only some of the energy spent on saying a migration is impossible was spent on actually.... Migrating, the world would be a better place.
- bachmeier 4y agoI was responding to > the best of the social networks That has nothing to do with MAU. > You’ll have niches sure but your average John or Jane Doe don’t give 2 shits. Twitter itself is niche, as only 23% of people in the US use it: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/05/05/10-facts-about-americans-and-twitter/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/05/05/10-facts-ab... and even of those, most are occasional users with few tweets. Your average John or Jane Doe doesn't give 2 shits about Twitter.
- great_psy 4y agoI had to try it because I could not believe it. Yea you get a poop emoji back …