TwitterMusk

Post by **endar** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 2:08 pm

No idea

I think it was a very conveniently timed smoke screen for all the US Supreme Court bullshit

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 3:09 pm

I think he's just a massively incompetent idiot who's fucked everything up by firing absolutely everyone who knew what they were doing because he's an arsehole

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 3:16 pm

Maybe he's got shares in Bluesky, and he's trying to hobble Twitter?

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 4:43 pm

dng wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 1:45 pm so does twitter work again yet or is it still broken or what? it seems strange there's barely been any mention of this on the news considering how obsessed with using twitter all journalists seem to be

That's because journalists can no longer write anything without using Twitter, so they've been hoist on Jean-Luc Picard.

Post by **endar** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 6:57 pm

Indeed

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 7:28 pm

Sounds a bit rude!!!!!

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 7:52 pm

I've seen a couple of creative types saying how the fall of Twitter will damage their communities, and how Twitter enables creativity to spread, grow, and join together. All I can say is, THANK GOD! for n3ta forum peeps giving my stuff a like/retweet on Twitter, because regular Twitter peeps haven't got the slightest interest in what I make / discussing the creative process / collab-ing, etc, no matter how much 'reaching out' *vomits* or trying to join in, that I do.

Is the above ^^^ sour grapes? Yes.
Is the above ^^^ accurate? It feels like that to me, most of the time on there.

And that's ^^^ why, in my opinion, forums are betterer!

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 8:37 pm

twitters algorithms basically ensure small accounts never get seen and large accounts always get seen (and instagram and youtube and whatever are probably similar), so essentially there's an in built alienation and marginalisation barrier in every social media platform (that then flips and accelerates popularity if you pass some arbitrary threshold)

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 8:38 pm

which is why they always feel like you're shouting/weeping into a void

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 8:39 pm

and then twitter even used to basically hide all your friends posts anyway, so it wasn't even useful for seeing what you guys had posted half the time, which was the only reason i ever really had it any way

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 8:39 pm

in short, everything is terrible

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 8:40 pm

also no one ever actually clicks on links that lead out of social media sites, so they're completely useless for self promotion anyway, unless the thing you're self promoting is your own tweets

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 10:01 pm

dng wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 8:37 pm twitters algorithms basically ensure small accounts never get seen and large accounts always get seen (and instagram and youtube and whatever are probably similar), so essentially there's an in built alienation and marginalisation barrier in every social media platform (that then flips and accelerates popularity if you pass some arbitrary threshold)

That sounds about right - ugh!

Post by **vom** » Tue Jul 04, 2023 8:01 am

the ongoing death of twitter has caused me to set up a linktree. a linktree!

https://linktr.ee/vomvorton

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 04, 2023 11:21 am

its okay everyone facebook are going to save us now

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... unch-rival

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 04, 2023 11:21 am

i assume thats named after the tv show

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Tue Jul 04, 2023 1:23 pm

Meta / Facebook's announcement seems like it might have been behind Musk's recent shitfit where he said he was willing to fight Mark Zuckerberg in a boxing match or something, like they were a pair of Youtubers. (Male Youtubers, even the normal ones, seem to be going through a phase of having broadcast boxing matches for reasons.)

And yeah, when I heard the accouncement I instantly thought of traffic wardens.

Oh, and Google's webcrawlers are delisting tweets due to not being able to load them, seeing as they're designed to crawl the net anonymously. There is also some sort of misconfiguration where the site is so messed up it keeps sending multiple requests everytime anyone loads a page, so in effect Twitter keeps on repeatedly DDOSing itself. That might be linked to the recent changes.

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 04, 2023 1:45 pm

excellent. who knew programmers might actually be necessary employees for a website

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:37 pm

vom wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 8:01 am the ongoing death of twitter has caused me to set up a linktree. a linktree!

https://linktr.ee/vomvorton

Nice! I think I might do summat similar!

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:44 pm

i assume thats named after the tv show

Sign up now!
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Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:51 pm

As for fights... if anyone on n3ta wants to take me on at Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots...

Post by **endar** » Tue Jul 04, 2023 3:19 pm

"Bouncy boxing" is my fight style of choice

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jul 04, 2023 3:46 pm

I wouldn't last a round at that!

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jul 04, 2023 3:47 pm

Unless I was fighting a five year old.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jul 04, 2023 3:48 pm

In which case, I might make it to the end of 12 rounds, and hopefully scrape a draw.

Post by **endar** » Tue Jul 04, 2023 10:51 pm

It's a reet laugh, although we had to wear the face protection when i did it. Which is probably wise

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:25 am

ves, i'd have to wear faece protection because my feace is my fortune.

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jul 05, 2023 2:36 pm

Thank God we left the EU, otherwise Threads wouldn't be launching here tomorrow. BREXIT BONANZA1!

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/ ... l-data-use

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jul 05, 2023 7:12 pm

If you've got an Instagram account, search term 'Threads' on there, then click on that brown ticket icon, that then takes you to threads.net, whereupon you see a countdown clock, displaying (03:51:07)

Um... okay... good? Bad? Other?

Post by **dng** » Wed Jul 05, 2023 8:24 pm

The Brown Ticket sounds like it should be some mildly horrifying urban legend

Post by **vom** » Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:54 pm

Threads doesn't stand a chance next to my new social media platform, "Grave of the Fireflies"

Post by **dng** » Wed Jul 05, 2023 10:05 pm

excellent

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jul 06, 2023 12:37 pm

dng wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 8:24 pm The Brown Ticket sounds like it should be some mildly horrifying urban legend

Heh!

Also, I missed my brown ticket opportunity, so no Threads for me!

FOR NOWN!

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:20 pm

Has anyone managed to sign up to Teralds? If so, what's it like?

Post by **dng** » Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:29 pm

Shite

Post by **dng** » Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:29 pm

I mean, I haven’t tried it, buts it’s going to be, isn’t it?

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:40 pm

Oh, definitely! I was just curious!

Post by **dng** » Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:47 pm

They should call it Brands

Post by **dng** » Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:47 pm

Just go all out and make it the most corporate social medium ever

Post by **dng** » Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:48 pm

Just brands talking to brands about brands forever, 100% pure uncut advertising on and on without end

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:51 pm

It will be beautiful.

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jul 13, 2023 3:32 pm

"Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads? The app is vapid, boring and destined to fail
The blandness of the Threads experience makes me yearn for the trolls of Twitter"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... itter-meta

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jul 17, 2023 7:31 pm

blombluss wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 7:52 pm All I can say is, THANK GOD! for n3ta forum peeps giving my stuff a like/retweet on Twitter, because regular Twitter peeps haven't got the slightest interest in what I make

Bless y'all! I owe you all a pint (of beer). *thumbs up*

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 17, 2023 8:38 pm

but i didn't do anything

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jul 17, 2023 9:03 pm

In which case, you only get a half!

Post by **Mrak** » Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:32 am

I drive past Wolverhampton regularly. I'll pop in and grab mine.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Jul 18, 2023 3:02 pm

Bostin!

Post by **dng** » Tue Jul 18, 2023 3:04 pm

(and shaun)

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jul 19, 2023 7:27 pm

I'm going to tweet / upload another 8 (actually 13!) things, and that'll do for me.

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jul 19, 2023 7:35 pm

I'm trying to gee myself up to edit together Krentz EP 03, but it's made up of five individual files, and uses one or two Actionscript tricks when viewing in .swf format, which don't record well in .avi / .mp4 form, so I think I'll leave that for another time.