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Building the Future of X
- Finnucane 3y agoGet out while you can, Linda.
- meepmorp 3y agoNah, there's a book deal on this a few years down the line, however it pans out. I'd be day drinking my way through it, though.
- TheAlchemist 3y agoIt's pretty sad that a guy that created SpaceX and Tesla (ok, not entirely true for Tesla but almost) is now trying to satisfy his ego by listing "View counts feature location moved to the right side of posts" as proof of the pace of innovation...
- theolivenbaum 3y agoScraping the bottom of the barrel for anything that can show "progress"
- enumjorge 3y agoThis is the cooperate equivalent of padding your resume with skills like “Microsoft Word”.
- dmje 3y agoHey, I'll have you know I'm very good at Word
- DoreenMichele 3y agoWord to your mother.
- housemusicfan 3y agoPut that in context when you consider all the "essential" employees he fired couldn't even muster that in the last 5 years. Which begs the question: what did these people do all day?
- andrewstuart 3y agoTwitter CEO, not sure that's a job I'd want, though presumably it pays well.
- sschueller 3y agoWell, it's X CEO now and I don't know if I want that on my resume especially since it seems to be a puppet position which you have you no say at in any way.
- vidarh 3y agoOn the other hand, for anything short of bankruptcy she can trot out a story.aboit how it's only thanks to her heroic efforts it didn't go worse. Whether true or not. And how she's dealt with the backseat driver from hell.
- ahahahahah 3y agoIdk, there might be a pretty decent supply of rich narcissistic fools. It could be that it's rather lucrative being the one to be the happy ceo for their dumb shit.
- mmastrac 3y agoThis is one way to do wealth redistribution, I guess.
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoWealth is being destroyed here, no additional value is being created. There's spending yes, but not value creation.
- selectodude 3y agoThe money went from Elon to twitter shareholders. Elon having less money is value creation at its finest.
- red-iron-pine 3y agothe money went from TSLA's insane over-value to twitter shareholders. e-dawg was dipping into that overflowing fountain of made-up money that would have probably vanished before too long anyway.
- zabzonk 3y agoas soon as you see "passionate", you know "bollocks"
- PlunderBunny 3y agohttps://markmanson.net/screw-finding-your-passion https://markmanson.net/screw-finding-your-passion
- voz_ 3y agoThere's no future for these clowns.
- sergiomattei 3y agoTwitter is a circus nowadays. Barely any links load, ever. So many dead links, login requirements, infinite spinners of death…
- DoreenMichele 3y agoDead links do not a circus make. Tell me: Is it safer for People of Color, LGBTQ individuals and such to be there? Because that used to be a huge circus. I killed my "Oh, God, this was a bad idea" personal account and haven't yet figured out what to do with the account I have left. So I don't really know. Which is to say the question is sincere.
- kadoban 3y ago> Tell me: Is it safer for People of Color, LGBTQ individuals and such to be there? Because that used to be a huge circus. Lol, no. Musk unbanned all the Nazis and says that "cis" is a slur, to give a small taste.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI never know what to make of all the claims that Musk is transphobic. I don't really read much about him but I was friends at one time with someone who was friends with Elon and that mutual friend was trans.
- ahahahahah 3y agoI mean, trump has a lot of black friends too. The "cis is now a slur" thing is true on Twitter now. Musk's one trans child hates him (though he sends like a pretty shit parent in general). He fairly regular raises anti trans views. I mean, I guess you could still assume the best and that he's just an idiot and doesn't understand what he's saying.
- Timon3 3y agoHe banned the word "cisgender" as a slur. This makes it difficult to talk about trans topics, because how are you going to refer to non-trans people? "Normal"? It's an arbitrary decision meant to alienate these groups further.
- gorgoiler 3y agoTo [our users] and the world over -- the future of X belongs to YOU – blaze your glory! Did this go through comms? There’s a typo (you can use a double-hyphen instead of an em-dash but not both), two slogans where one would do, and an all-caps shout. Above all that though, I’m not sure what blaze your glory means. Am I blazing a trail or path to my own glory? Am I setting fire to my glory? To those who reply: do you agree?: speed your comments!.
- idiotsecant 3y agoIt's bold to assume this company still has communications people.
- xwowsersx 3y agoI see > To our passionate, growing communities of movie buffs, sports fanatics, tech trailblazers, and the world over That sentence can't be correct. "the world over" means "everywhere on the earth", e.g. "the love for music connects people from the world over" or "the Olympics unite athletes and fans the world over". But Linda seems to use the phrase here to mean "everyone", as in "movie buffs, sports fanatics..., and everyone", which is just, well, incorrect. How did this pass the most basic review??
- gorgoiler 3y agoThat’s another good catch. (I’ve also adjusted my quote to show I abbreviated it.) Also, the day part of the dates are a mixture of single-digit and zero-padded: 6/1 | DoubleVerify brand safety … 7/01 | Video feature update The vertical bar separator, in addition to being somewhat nerdy, is missing a space on the last item: 7/28| Ads Revenue sharing Perhaps these errors are being used to encode a hidden message of some kind? “Help I’m trapped in a PR factory”?
- meepmorp 3y agoThey're still responding to press inquiries with poop emojis, right? Linda and maybe an overworked assistant are comms at this point.
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- cooper_ganglia 3y agoAs someone who never really used Twitter before the LLM stuff started happening, and still I only pick it up once or twice per week, I've personally felt that I've had a better experience on there recently than I did a while ago. I appreciate the efforts Musk has made towards pushing back against the censorship of language that it seems like everyone nowadays wants to enforce, regardless of their background. I think he'd be doing better financially if he would shut up for 5 minutes, but hey, it's his money, not mine, haha. Although, I would like to see humans make it Mars within my life. So c'mon, Elon, just keep your trap closed for a bit, let Linda do the talking for you, and continue to be the egotistic, megalomaniac manager in the same vein as Steve Jobs, and just make really good products, please.
- eviks 3y agoHow can the censor-in-chief be pushing back against censorship?
- jazzyjackson 3y agoit's only censorship if the people I like are being silenced, otherwise it's just moderation
- sdsd 3y agoPeople are downvoting you because you're saying "Twitter okay" and the hivemind says "Twitter bad". Fwiw I had the same experience, I never cared about Twitter (had tried it a few times and just lost interest) and I've immensely enjoyed Twitter recently. So many weird people just putting ideas out there. TPOT and e/acc in particular are full of smart people I can't find elsewhere (I don't live in SF or even the US, so these aren't people I could access in my community). I also agree that the real source of the drama seems to be Musk. People are annoyed at him so they have to say "Twitter bad" as a matter of principle.
- Timon3 3y agoPeople are down voting them for this bit: > I appreciate the efforts Musk has made towards pushing back against the censorship of language that it seems like everyone nowadays wants to enforce, regardless of their background. Musks censorship is well-documented. There are only two ways one could sincerely make this argument: - by fully ignoring Musks censorship - by accepting it as good Neither option makes the commenter seem honest or well-meaning, hence the downvotes.
- insin 3y agoBig "will this do?" homework energy, padding lists to make teacher's eyes glaze over
- radicalriddler 3y agoI'm just having a laugh that there's still like 4 instances on that page alone where twitter is still a thing. Bird for sharing. Twitter down the bottom of the page. Primary light blue color. Also, for some reason the X on the favicon for this site is orange??? If you go onto twitter.com without being signed in, it says "Join twitter today" What a laugh this rebranding is.
- jasfi 3y agoTo be fair it's still in progress. It's debatable whether that's a good or bad thing. Given how strong the Twitter brand is, it could be a good thing. But the question remains: what do you now call tweets? Such strong marketing in that verb.
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- ks2048 3y agoIn the app it says "Posts" in some places where it used to say "Tweets" (and Reposts for Retweets). I imagine most people will continue to use "tweet" though.
- whoopdedo 3y ago> Also, for some reason the X on the favicon for this site is orange??? Add Reddit to the list of lawsuits.
- bodge5000 3y agoFor me the favicon is still the bird (though inverted, so the surrounded area is blue and the bird is transparent).
- radicalriddler 3y agoFavicons are cached by browsers (pretty much permanently in some). I opened a new browser and checked the page.
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- Venn1 3y agoIs the goal is to make the everything app minus the legacy microblogging bits? Trying to find patterns in chaos.
- omoikane 3y agoIt's amazing how they managed to spin rate limits as anti-spam features. Also, no mention of crippling twitter for non-logged in users.
- distortionfield 3y agoRate limits are a valid mitigation strategy for bot spam. But I’ll agree, Crippling twitter for lurkers sucked.
- andsoitis 3y ago> spin rate limits as anti-spam features Rate limiting is literally a way to reduce bot attacks, which is a key tool in spamming campaigns. https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/bots/what-is-rate-limiting/ https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/bots/what-is-rate-limiti...
- omoikane 3y agoThat is true of course, although I would think most competent rate limit implementations would set thresholds that deter bots while real users barely notice, unlike what was observed with twitter. Coincidentally, higher rate limits were a paid option. Spam might not have been the primary motivation for rate limits. Elon Musk said it was due to "data scraping and system manipulation": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552324
- ofek 3y agoThe level of schadenfreude in these comments is hitherto unseen. Whatever your view of the management happens to be let's not forget that small features or changes to large systems are not as easy as one might think. That viewpoint is literally a meme [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
- ahahahahah 3y agoOh, you mean like when that comma.ai doofus said he'd join Twitter as an intern and fix search in a month? And then musk enthusiastically brought him on to do that?
- candiodari 3y agoWhen you fire most employees immediately after doing a "leveraged buyout" with strong odors of it being a hostile takeover as well, you don't get to complain things are hard. Elon Musk bought twitter with some of his own money, yes, but also by giving twitter a massive loan which it now has to (and can't) repay. This is entirely his doing, and if he thought it was too hard, why did he do this? I mean, I know, managers do this sort of stuff without giving it much thought at all while pretending to play 5D chess, and I suspect Musk is no different.
- Imnimo 3y agoThis is an embarrassingly defensive blogpost. Who are they even trying to convince?
- enumjorge 3y agoNothing says “we’re doing great” like having to remind people about every small thing you managed to shove out to production in the last few months. I’m surprised she didn’t include that they successfully managed to replace the toilet paper in the bathrooms.
- plorkyeran 3y agoI wouldn't be surprised if they aren't managing to do that consistently.
- red-iron-pine 3y ago"office staff will now also be required to clean and restock the bathroom as part of ongoing restructuring efforts"
- ahahahahah 3y agoI mean they literally included just renaming a tab. Like, not changing any behavior, just replacing a string with another (well x times for internationalization.... but then again they probably fired that team and even if not it's certainly an afterthought to them).
- notacoward 3y ago> I’m surprised she didn’t include that they successfully managed to replace the toilet paper in the bathrooms. Did they? I'm pretty sure I heard that was a real problem, and that employees were bringing their own.
- unsignedchar 3y agoGruber had a fun take on this https://daringfireball.net/2023/07/translation_yaccarino_x https://daringfireball.net/2023/07/translation_yaccarino_x
- nologic01 3y agoShouldn't the url be blog.X.com ?
- raisedbyninjas 3y agoThe site seems allergic to using the X.com URL. I found a link labelled Go to X.com and it redirected to twitter.com. Even just browsing the English pages, you're about 10x as likely to see the old branding.
- gremlinsinc 3y agogo big or go home they should sell the Twitter name and domain.
- meepmorp 3y agoSell it to Meta, they rebrand Threads as Twitter, the cycle begins anew.
- shalmanese 3y agoThis is all just a lame attempt to DDoS https://elonmusk.today/ https://elonmusk.today/
- insin 3y agoMissing: 8/02 | Twitter Blue users can now hide their checkmarks, completing our destruction of both what we mistakenly thought they were (status symbols) and what their actual use was (verification - now available in $1,000 + $50 × user flavor!)
- simondotau 3y agoBlue checkmarks were absolutely treated as status symbols by many people, even if it was "mistaken" to consider them as such. While I do lament the loss of identity verification (hugely imperfect as the prior blue checkmark program was) I do see the abolishment of the status symbol as a sociological win that platform.
- Perceval 3y agoThe whole drama over blue checks was like a live action remake of Dr. Seuss's The Sneetches.
- simondotau 3y agoPretty much. And just as entertaining.
- CamperBob2 3y agoYou hate to see it. Or at least I do. This guy was going to take us to fucking Mars.
- sumuyuda 3y agoI didn’t see mention of killing off third party apps.
- igetspam 3y agoDo we think Bon Jovi would be happy or sad about this? Every use I can think of around "blaze of glory" is about dying in a gun fight. I'm reading this as a threat.
- diydsp 3y agoOverall, changes point in the direction of competing with youtube.
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