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> "The last year swapped stasis for chaos. Stuff breaks at random and you don’t know if it’s a bug or a decision." For a couple of months, yes, but why is he u

by nomdep 3y ago

> "The last year swapped stasis for chaos. Stuff breaks at random and you don’t know if it’s a bug or a decision." For a couple of months, yes, but why is he using the present tense? > "The advertisers have fled" I whish! There are still to many ads in my timeline > "and no-one knows what will be broken by accident or on purpose tomorrow. The example that’s closest to home for me was that the in-house newsletter product was shut down" uh? newsletter product? I don´t care if there is a bug from time to time, what is he expecting? > "Meanwhile, beyond the chaos, there has been no sense for the actual users of where we’re going. What should those newly hard-core engineers be shipping? A ‘super app’? A universal content platform with no external links? Your financial life? Seriously?" At this point I has to double check if by "being on Twitter since 2007" meant he worked there, but no, he has never worked at Twitter, he is just talking about opening a free account. And yet I writes "where we’re going" as he and Twitter where one. Maybe it was a copy/paste mistake or a typo.... or maybe he is delusional. > "And then, there are the Nazis." His definition of Nazi is probably VERY encompassing but still, what the heck is he smoking? I also have a Twitter account since 2007, and in the first few years it made a huge difference in my personal and professional life. Although I remember those years as "peak" Twitter, current Twitter is good enough and MUCH better that the stinking toxic pile it was between 2014-2022... I don´t get the hate

nkozyra 3y ago
> There are still to many ads in my timeline Yeah, but they're for dropshipping companies called Flgahzx. I wonder how low the ad rates have gotten.
- buggeryorkshire 3y ago
  Same, but also more mainstream ones where the promoted tweet is from a year ago - I wonder if they're repromoting completing campaigns to boost the stats?
rsynnott 3y ago
> For a couple of months, yes, but why is he using the present tense? Go to Slack’s status twitter, and it shows you three incidents from the last four years, not even in order. Go to some other twitter accounts, and it redirects you to a login screen. I mean, this all feels pretty broken; maybe it’s intentional and the product person is just an idiot, but really, who knows. Go to https://status.twitter.com https://status.twitter.com, and you get a cert error. Accept the invalid cert, and you get _redirected to another status page with a different, also incorrect, cert_. And so on. It’s still pretty broken. As yet another Twitter-account-since-2007 people, I’m gone. For now I’m keeping a dormant account on the basis that he might get bored and go back to the imaginary car tunnels, and Twitter sold off to someone more sensible (presumably Automattic, inheritor of all washed-up social networks), but Naughty Old Mr Car’s wacky world is not for me.

by nomdep 3y ago

nkozyra 3y ago

> There are still to many ads in my timeline Yeah, but they're for dropshipping companies called Flgahzx. I wonder how low the ad rates have gotten.

buggeryorkshire 3y ago
Same, but also more mainstream ones where the promoted tweet is from a year ago - I wonder if they're repromoting completing campaigns to boost the stats?

rsynnott 3y ago

> For a couple of months, yes, but why is he using the present tense? Go to Slack’s status twitter, and it shows you three incidents from the last four years, not even in order. Go to some other twitter accounts, and it redirects you to a login screen. I mean, this all feels pretty broken; maybe it’s intentional and the product person is just an idiot, but really, who knows. Go to https://status.twitter.com https://status.twitter.com, and you get a cert error. Accept the invalid cert, and you get _redirected to another status page with a different, also incorrect, cert_. And so on. It’s still pretty broken. As yet another Twitter-account-since-2007 people, I’m gone. For now I’m keeping a dormant account on the basis that he might get bored and go back to the imaginary car tunnels, and Twitter sold off to someone more sensible (presumably Automattic, inheritor of all washed-up social networks), but Naughty Old Mr Car’s wacky world is not for me.