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I'm outta here folks, I might post a Mastodon link in the next few weeks if i set one up. No matter how few followers you have, don't underestimate how valuable your attention and usage data is to Twitter. Vote with your time.

I'm outta here folks, I might post a Mastodon link in the next few weeks if i set one up. No matter how few followers you have, don't underestimate how valuable your attention and usage data is to Twitter. Vote with your time.

@bfod @SegHaxx console.log(‘here A’) // My hackjob console.log(‘here B’)

everyone post your most salient line of code

@bestofdyingtwit All of that can be spoofed. I regularly use an IP that is not in my actual location. Not to mention the armies of Chinese/Russian government accounts who want trump back.

it's 6:59am and i'm already exhausted guys

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@elonmusk How are you identifying unique votes?

Trump poll getting ~1M votes/hour!

@elonmusk Musk’s historical knowledge of referenda is clearly as lacking as his historical knowledge of free speech.

Reinstate former President Trump

@elonmusk @saylor Massive scope for cheating.

@saylor When polls are about a significant question, even those who don’t follow me tend to hear about it. That said, I agree with the idea of an all-user poll. Should also be an all-user by country poll.

@elonmusk @HardcoreNolley Finally some indication that this man is capable of acknowledging that dangerous misinformation does actually exist.

@HardcoreNolley No

What should Twitter do next?

Um, I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but if you wanted to launch a coordinated mass-scale disinfo campaign that would normally get shut down, now would be the time to do it. Systems are up but hardly any human processes are happening. “Mods are asleep”, so to speak.

@kierafisher59 @bbcquestiontime 1.89% more of the turnout voted to “Leave the EU”, after literally being told we’d stay IN the Single Market.

@bbcquestiontime The majority of England voted for Brexit....just get on with it!

“We need to export to our biggest and most obvious market which is 20 miles across the Channel” This #bbcqt audience member who trades with European countries says his business is “hanging in there”, claiming Brexit is a “disaster for our economy” Watch bit.ly/3GrL8GI twitter.com/bbcquestiontim…

@nottrobin It's profound seeing every tech industry person who has ever given me a bad feeling, or set off a red flag in my mind personified/amplified in a single individual, then that person buy a huge company and publicly run it into the ground under the guise of a "secret master plan".

knowing how they worked. They'll be understaffed and working long hours on unintelligible spaghetti code. Musk really has no idea about software. (2/2)

Just thinking about how, with the skeleton crew who choose to remain at Twitter, Twitter is going to have to rehire the majority of its engineers. Those engineers will then have to maintain a bloated intertwined set of legacy codebase with no-one remaining at the company (1/2)

@elonmusk Did you honestly not consider the advertising Brand Safety issues around creating a twitter-scale 4chan? "Hurr lots of people are logging in to enjoy cringe gore" - that's it?

And … we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol

@MichaelGuimarin @elonmusk

@elonmusk Elon, there's a bunch of us in SV who will come up tonight to help on the infra side to keep the site up. If you need help just ask.

How do you make a small fortune in social media? Start out with a large one.

@5h09un That’s the whole thing with Musk cultists. The naive fantasy about being “blessed” by coming into contact with him. If you really want a job learning quickly under pressure, there’s already thousands of tech startups where the CEO isn’t such a douche & gives more f*cks about you.

@NoContextBrits He did nazi the car until the end.

@adamndsmith @MollyJongFast So, a twitter-scale 4chan. What could possibly go wrong?

Twitter data suggests most of the people buying Twitter Blue are promoting three things: right wing politics, cryptocurrency, and porn. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Learn it the easy way or learn it the hard way.

@paulg Now do people who are praising him. Are you checking their credentials as former tech company CEOs?

In both those companies, people die if the software doesn't work right. Do you really think he's not up to managing a social network?

It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.

@Moose15636897 @paulg That doesn’t change the point. Should they have to be restaurant owners before they comment on their experience of the restaurant? Do Elon’s fans need to have been CEOs of billion dollar companies before they praise him?

@kickstink @paulg So your saying the angry yelpers who complain about restaurants when things aren’t going their way are providing useful feedback?

UX rant: -Waving the edge of the browser in/out isn’t normal user behaviour, don’t base testing on it. -Coding to deal with disorganised feedback/decisions makes mess, even when final UX is the same. -Don’t introduce ideas/instructions you won’t back up with your own time/effort.