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WhiteStanleyKubrick t1_jdu60ro wrote
More twitter news. Cooool. Need more of that. /s
Picture-unrelated OP t1_jdu62x2 wrote
Curious if he’s opening up the source code to get some free labor. Since he fired anyone who knows how to do anything lol
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008Zulu t1_jdu7a8m wrote
How many hidden comments are there from the programmers lamenting about Musk's takeover?
musluvowls t1_jdu7p5f wrote
Today I logged on to Twitter and I saw two Tweets from fucking Catturd and a bunch from Andrew Tate. Do I follow them? FUCK NO. Elon is a fascist prick, and I hope it all burns to the ground.
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oniwolf382 t1_jdu97mt wrote
"20 Billion valuation" - Elon
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StuBeck t1_jdub23j wrote
There isn’t that much thought going into this
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TechFiend72 t1_jdubt86 wrote
it wanted to be free.
Seriously though, twitter can burn. There is not a way in the US to handle free speech without allowing hate speech. That should be fixed first. It won't be because the politicians use hate speech.
cunt_isnt_sexist t1_jdud0ay wrote
1000111001001 = it's fucking shit.
There, we solved the riddle.
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musluvowls t1_jdug2my wrote
1
often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
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: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
early instances of army fascism and brutality
Choose your poison. Either way, Elon fits it.
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musluvowls t1_jdugfmf wrote
I didn't say he banned me, I said he subjected me to FUCKING CATTURD and ANDREW FUCKING TATE. Both are disgusting individuals I want nothing to do with and never followed, but yet, I have to deal with both on my Twitter feed all the fucking time. Here's an expert explaining: “Elon Musk sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist, and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” said Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. COVID-19 and other domestic and foreign disinformation and QAnon conspiracy posts are surging.
Vecna_Is_My_Co-Pilot t1_jdugjgv wrote
You should know that Musk calls himself a Free Speech absolutist. So he has absolute freedom to deliver you any speech he desires. Clearly he wants to locate the leaker of this source code so he can congratulate them on exercising their absolute right to free speech as well. Don't you too want to have absolute speech? It's free!
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musluvowls t1_jdugt7i wrote
Catturd and Andrew Tate are vile, beyond saving. Tate will likely never get out Romanian prison for sex trafficking, and most people are pretty sure Catturd is a vile pedophile from Florida (just Google it). No one wants to see or hear from those disgusting losers. So yes, if he is forcing them onto our timelines, he is a maladaptive fascist.
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Apocalypsox t1_jduh6mf wrote
If you aren't angry about literal human traffickers, you're a fucking problem too.
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musluvowls t1_jduifzz wrote
The fuck it hasn't. He puts vile shit on all our timelines all the time in his lame attempt at trolling. I've been on Twitter since 2009 and the place went to shit under Elon. Elon is a fucking idiot who allowed his goddamn OBSESSION with trolling libs to cost him AT LEAST $30 BILLION. If you don't think that fucking moron is amplifying fascist morons like CATTURD then you are as idiotic as he is. Just to test things out, I just did a fresh login to Twitter and you know who I got? Kimberly Fucking Guilfoyle. GROSS DUDE. Who would ever follow that disgusting person?
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Dommccabe t1_jduj3qm wrote
Do you think he would share the calculations he made to come up with such a number? Or the 250 billion he's come up with projecting 12 months of growth?
I have better chance if winning the lottery jackpot!!
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Darth_Tiktaalik t1_jduojiy wrote
he meant 20 billion cents not dollars
iateyourgranny t1_jdupb2a wrote
Limited cognitive functions? Was this proven in a court of law? Innocent until proven guilty!
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Let's not confuse curiosity with imagination
OnDrugsTonight t1_jduriqn wrote
That's really blatantly untrue. Ever since Musk has taken over, right wing accounts get promoted to my timeline at an absurd rate, to the point that they sometimes make up 50% of the timeline. The only interaction I have with them is clicking the "mute" button, and yet they come. Either they are all specifically paying for the privilege of being displayed to me, or the algorithm has developed an insane bias in that direction.
snakebit1995 t1_jdurz9z wrote
Surely this won’t cause problems for all the people that lost their 2FA cause they refused to pay money for it
Mine-Shaft-Gap t1_jdusfj7 wrote
Again, "go out and touch grass". Is something people say when they have nothing valuable to add, but want to get the last word in. You have no argument. Weak attempts at chirping is all you have.
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rjkardo t1_jduu1tz wrote
You are being trolled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning[Sealioning]
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sofaslippers t1_jduv11w wrote
Nah bullshit. I created a new Twitter account only for the purpose of following 2 people that have no relation to politics. Twitter now shows me tons of right wing propagandists. That’s basically the only thing I would see, even after I continuously note that I’m not interested in tweets like that. Off your knees.
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BisquickNinja t1_jduyv8v wrote
More like 12.99 with a coupon.
While he has wealth to spare, doing something like this just destroys everything in its path or associated with it, careers, communication paths, lives...
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HardlyDecent t1_jduz1se wrote
This guy is binary.
Valash83 t1_jduzeov wrote
But can anyone solve Clutch's riddle of "10001110101" ?
Mr_Piddles t1_jdv00p7 wrote
Social Media is like a garden, it needs constant pruning. Block shit you don’t want to see on sight, and the algorithms will 1) get the message and 2) you’ll stop seeing the same arguments popping up every other day.
Mr_Piddles t1_jdv0a8h wrote
Not to defend the stupidity that is making things less secure, but you can still use a third party app as an Authenticator.
snakebit1995 t1_jdv0g4f wrote
I know, I do
didimao0072000 t1_jdv0pg2 wrote
Unless you work in a high security field using air gapped systems, code leakage is pretty much impossible to prevent.
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ClassicCodes t1_jdv181i wrote
I tried this before I left Facebook and realized there was nothing left I cared to see.
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jaytrade21 t1_jdv2egt wrote
20 billion Zimbabwe dollars.
BarCompetitive7220 t1_jdv2yt1 wrote
NYT reported that the code was leaked about 2 months ago. The Chief Twit is an expert coder ( so says he). Apparently not.
acuet t1_jdv4eyy wrote
Sakes, also their cars are misaligned POS.
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fleurgirl123 t1_jdv5mba wrote
I miss lira :-(
arvigeus t1_jdv5xqv wrote
Probably not a lot. He fired most of his engineers. The skeleton crew remaining simply cannot produce enough "F U Elon" comments to match the rest of "F U Dorsey" ones.
tbarr1991 t1_jdv84qj wrote
200 million dollars oof
If elon wants to sell it for that price Ill buy and just sell it to facebook for 400 mill 😅
StuTheSheep t1_jdv8pt6 wrote
Verizon math all over again!
phluidity t1_jdv91qw wrote
> So he has absolute freedom to deliver you any speech he desires.
I mean, from a legal and even somewhat moral point, he does. He owns the platform and has the right (especially now that it is private) to use it to spew his nonsense. What he doesn't have is the right to make me read it. I am perfectly free to walk away and let the man baby rant to his sycophants. Musk has never understood that the users aren't the customers, they are the product, and this product doesn't need him.
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rikki-tikki-deadly t1_jdv9zz3 wrote
Except these days it's different because Space Karen keeps running around shitting in your garden.
Mr_Piddles t1_jdvag36 wrote
I just keep blocking and muting. My twitter is mostly still really fun and pruned to my interests.
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pegothejerk t1_jdvalvn wrote
> It's free*
*With subscription
Mr_Piddles t1_jdvas7f wrote
Facebook sucks in general, IMO. I found that unless you're following interesting people, and you like your family (and they don't just rage and aggrieve post), its a really garbage platform. It's best use is as a calendar.
billpalto t1_jdvb670 wrote
My favorite: "You can get second one free! (just pay a separate fee)".
rmpumper t1_jdvbu4n wrote
Must be using trumpian math. Value goes up +10b only because musk is the owner.
LeicaM6guy t1_jdvcvig wrote
Cure for priapism, I’d imagine.
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Hrodebert1119 t1_jdvf36a wrote
I did. I don't miss it. It caused so much anxiety. I muted so many words and they would just sneak on through anyway.
Aliteracy t1_jdvff0k wrote
Yeah the Madoff metric of evaluation.
tiny_galaxies t1_jdvfndj wrote
Facebook is the cable TV of the internet.
ClassicCodes t1_jdvhlzb wrote
Social media in general sucks. It's full of people with attention-seeking problems, scammers, or groups trying to indoctrinate you for political or commercial purposes. Social media platforms exist primarily to steal and sell your personal information to advertisers since that is their only real revenue stream. You aren't the customer, you are the product being sold to advertisers and big data companies.
dnvrwlf t1_jdvhp6g wrote
Who actually cares about Twitter at this point?
Anyone?
Golf_Alpha_Yankee t1_jdvju7a wrote
Its gonna suck for a lot of smaller content creators and small business people who rely on it for advertisement, pr coverage and social engagement but if they didn't see the writing on the wall already and found different options that's basically their own fault
gpyrgpyra t1_jdvk4g4 wrote
Facebook is good for groups about specific things in specific locations. That's about it
JustHereForTheOrbs t1_jdvl57b wrote
"My source is I made it the f*** up!" Senator Musk, 2024, fifteen minutes before the Neuralink incident.
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Villager723 t1_jdvm6y9 wrote
"Twitter needs to open source the algorithm"
(one year later...)
"No, not like that!"
dasherchan t1_jdvn9gf wrote
That has made Twitter an open source.
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bloodylip t1_jdvnsg6 wrote
In theory that's how it works. But it doesn't take into account that the platforms can and do push shit that pays for it. I try to keep my instagram pruned but for some reason, it continually pushes right wing accounts into my discovery tab, regardless of how many I block and mark as "not interested." I don't even interact with any political posts but it still pushes that shit at me.
ApatheticWithoutTheA t1_jdvnx2w wrote
I don’t know anybody in the open source community that would contribute to Twitter lol
Tkain61 t1_jdvo10r wrote
Oh, that's why they're making it open-source.
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Here is the source if anyone wants it
Burnbrook t1_jdvs55b wrote
I imagine the source code for a glorified blog site isn't all that complicated.
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> You should know that Musk calls himself a Free Speech absolutist.
Only for himself. Anyone else must have his approval or they get censored.
Anon_throwawayacc20 t1_jdvtsxy wrote
>Today I logged on to Twitter and I saw two Tweets from fucking Catturd and a bunch from Andrew Tate. Do I follow them? FUCK NO. Elon is a fascist prick, and I hope it all burns to the ground.
Social Media websites use tracking cookies to analyze and match your trends.
Considering so much of your post history on reddit involves politics, are you absolutely sure that you aren't triggering Twitter's algorithms? Are you sure you are not looking at posts involving politics, or watching youtubers involving politics? Eg. Watching drama youtubers who cover figures like Tate and do "takedown" videos on them? Likewise, are you engaging with users who follow or mention Tate? Because that could be why you are seeing it.
Please answer the question. I am not asking in bad faith, I am not concern trolling, I'm not saying this to contribute to the "culture war". It's not a defense of Elon either. No, this isn't to "poison the well", nor' am I "making the dreamworks face", as some youtubers would put it. (However it is annoying I must clarify all those points.)
I'm simply asking this as a legitimate question about how the algorithm works? Is the reason you are seeing Tate not because you keep engaging with that kind of content?
Are other users here having this same issue, even those who do not engage with political content?
mlc885 t1_jdvu0lq wrote
I want it even though it is not useful to me
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z500 t1_jdvvzdd wrote
Yeah that actually has the opposite effect on Facebook ads. Apparently blocking counts as engagement.
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Who gets to be the big spoon, here?
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supercyberlurker t1_jdvyr2u wrote
That's my take, here. Is Twitter doing anything interesting algorithmically, do they have some secret sauce approach, some special technology that lets Twitter do its thing?
Not really. It's just a pub-sub model at scale.
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ran0427 t1_jdw1faj wrote
Only thing I need to hear from Twitter now is the inevitable bankruptcy and total collapse of value. It's like watching a car crash in molasses
TogepiMain t1_jdw2r2h wrote
Millions and millions of people, many of which found twitter to be the only way they could find work. So uh, don't be such a dick about it?
TogepiMain t1_jdw2td4 wrote
Stfu, Elon
dnvrwlf t1_jdw37ob wrote
It is a basic question, so I'm not being anything but inquisitive about why anyone cares about it after that dude bought it, and it became less useful and enjoyable, in my opinion.
I didn't even know people treat it as linked in, which I also don't use.
Have a great day!
Alexstarfire t1_jdw5ur9 wrote
Dis' gon' be good.
chair and popcorn meme
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Yeah but the fun stuff happens from the "at scale part" at least from an infra perspective.
BoltgunOnHisHip t1_jdwa0rt wrote
Watching Elon's great self-destruction is pretty high tier schadenfreude tho
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jates55 t1_jdwdxw6 wrote
We will show you the code, so you can tell us for free, what to fix.
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supercyberlurker t1_jdwe1hp wrote
You have a point that the configs for their infrastructure would kind of be more interesting than their actual source code.
From a coding perspective it tends to become less interesting. Programming for scale is mostly about making simple composable services you can ramp up or down as needed.
jimmy_talent t1_jdwfvyt wrote
It's not even worth that.
Twitter was already consistently losing money when he bought it and he's only made it worse plus added a billion dollars a year in debt just to but the company.
NatashaBadenov t1_jdwge98 wrote
Twitter was invaluable for quick organizing (IMO that’s the reason it was destroyed) and the American holiday tweets are something I will sorely miss. However, I never made any real human connections there, and like you, my anxiety was through the roof. I cut the cord, so to speak, months before Mersk even floated the idea. I am a much more relaxed person now.
JohnTM3 t1_jdwgn0y wrote
Check out my new website "tweeter" where everyone who posts are "twits".
NatashaBadenov t1_jdwhqhl wrote
It’s impossible to avoid the algorithm if you speak or allow any audible media around your phone/device. It hears everything.
jeffderek t1_jdwhwrt wrote
>the algorithms will 1) get the message
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turd_vinegar t1_jdwls9b wrote
Chief twit has a long history of being a terrible coder. His foundation is terrible code, before the Paypal dumb luck.
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Why do you subject yourself to the "For you" tab instead of the "Following" tab?
serenity195 t1_jdwnw5k wrote
It’s obvious that they are begging to be trapped in an echo chamber where they exclusively see things they already know and agree with. Left-Wing Qanon
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hexbatch t1_jdwy5cn wrote
Totally a different world from the standard web blog
orrocos t1_jdwzwem wrote
20 billion doll hairs
DelTeaz t1_jdx6rxh wrote
Yea the algorithm has clearly gone to the right
HeBoughtALot t1_jdx75wp wrote
I have been telling Twitter, for years, that i don’t want to see content related to politics. I have “I’m not interested…” trending topics and suggested Tweets to no end. It used to work. Ever since Space Karen took over Twitter i get served so much bottom of the barrel political garbage, its clear to see that user pruning has been disabled.
ogipogo t1_jdx7836 wrote
That's funny because I keep hearing from all of the people that have tried blocking the trolls and still see the posts in their feed.
strugglz t1_jdx84xz wrote
Like source code from non-public servers or source code like pressing F12?
Deceptiveideas t1_jdx9eh9 wrote
Iirc it was revealed that Elon was upset his tweets weren’t showing on feeds anymore (due to high # of blocks and unfollows) that he forced the engineers to change the algorithm.
This means controversial accounts with high block counts are no longer being hidden by the algorithm and possibly even boosted.
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Mr_Piddles t1_jdxbgsn wrote
I’m not saying that they’re wrong, but it hasn’t noticeably happened to me. Except for when Elon force unblocked people. But then I went and blocked him again, and it stuck this time.
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arcticblue t1_jdxndqi wrote
It's even worse now with how aggressively they shove garbage "reels" in your face. All the reels I've seen have been incredibly stupid clickbait or just some dumbass video of a pretty girl staring in to the camera or taking her underwear off under a long shirt. I have yet to see a reel that is actually entertaining or funny and it's become so annoying that I rarely even log on to Facebook any more.
Also, I aggressively clicked the "Don't show me this page" link on every single "Suggested post" a couple years ago while also browsing in a container tab in Firefox. Evidently if you deprive Facebook of enough metrics to collect on you, you run the risk of getting banned without warning for "not being your authentic self". They demanded a government ID from me, then ignored me. It took me almost 6 months to get my account back. If it weren't for the fact that I had some baby pics of my kids uploaded there with no other backup, I would have just left it banned.
jwm3 t1_jdxt115 wrote
Unfortunately there is now a finger on the algorithm at Twitter so that is less effective.
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I’m pretty sure it’s like bankruptcy, you just walk into the office and loudly proclaim it.
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Mr_Piddles t1_jdy6a5i wrote
Everyone is saying this, but I haven’t experienced it. Maybe y’all just really love fighting and ranting about politics and don’t want to see any dissenting opinions, whereas I don’t want any of that, so I block it all.
Meph616 t1_jdy7e83 wrote
>Today I logged on to Twitter...
Well there's your problem. You logged on instead of deleting.
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Khal_Doggo t1_jdyjxfn wrote
Is it free again? Did they change their mind about twitter blue being paid?
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You’re free to pay him
WhiteHairedWidow t1_jdzx6gp wrote
Lol y’all are freaking out at his platform but aren’t doing the one thing to cause some damage..delete your twitter accounts.
Skewk t1_je00hzk wrote
While I agree… Cunningham’s law is a thing.
"The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
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It connected me to a lot of people and a lot of opportunities in the early days. I don’t think I’m overstating it to say that a large chunk of my success can be traced back to using Twitter effectively back in 2008-2012. However, it recently occurred to me that it’s given me nothing but downside and stress since 2015 or so. I nuked my account a few months back and I’m shocked how little I miss it.
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Aazadan t1_je27dd8 wrote
I would if I could, but I never made an account and I don’t visit the site.
Aazadan t1_je28s1t wrote
Blocking counts as engagement on every platform, even spam mail counts unsubscribing as being worth the same as reading it.
The only impactful way to block is client side, so that it looks to the server like you’re not engaging at all. Anything you do that tells them to not send you data generates value for them.
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