#Twitter Chaos

[random-jot]

[winkuzz]

Also small self plug

Since twitter is going to shit (frfr) things on bluesky start ramping up again and I post there more frequently than here anyway

So if you have a 🦋 as well, feel free to follow me for silly posts and doodles/more wips than here

[narisinshambles]

This one is for @missfanaccount cause I can't be drowning alone in the Twitter chaos🥂

[sophygurl]

Hi, tumblr! Hi!

Over on twitter where I’ve been spending more of my time the last few years, everything is chaos and waiting for it all to fall apart. So folks are renewing connections in old places and joining new places and I am no exception. 

I honestly like tumblr a lot more and have always been confused about how and why I drifted from this place in the first place, but like. Maybe I’ll be back now. I know I say this every few months for like a day, but maybe this time it’s real.

Anyway, hi tumblr!

P.S. WTF is blaze?

[tomorrowusa]

The Elon Twitter chaos continues. 

The crisis at Twitter reached new heights on Friday as hundreds of employees were reported to have rejected Elon Musk’s ultimatum to keep working for the business, threatening its ability to keep operating.

As the company temporarily closed its offices to staff, Twitter users began saying their goodbyes and linking to accounts on other platforms.

#RIPTwitter, #TwitterDown, Mastodon and Myspace were all trending on the platform after the deadline passed on Musk’s ultimatum for the remaining workforce to sign up for “long hours at high intensity”, or leave. It has been estimated that hundreds of the remaining staff opted to go.

Seriously, a type of loyalty oath? Trump-style management didn’t save Trump’s numerous failed businesses and it won’t help Elon Musk.

This is what a slow implosion looks like. We’re gonna need a lot of popcorn for this one.

The departures include many engineers responsible for fixing bugs and preventing service outages, raising questions about the stability of the platform amid the loss of employees and prompting hurried debates among managers over who should be asked to return, current and former employees said.

Those former Twitter workers need to start working on a replacement platform ASAP. It would be a foolish waste of talent and a missed opportunity if they let this go by. 

Government-related Twitter accounts like that of the French Embassy in Fiji are already announcing to followers where they can be found elsewhere online. There is a gap that needs to be filled quickly.

Musk isn’t the only person to blame for Twitterpocalypse. The stupidity of Twitter’s former chair Jack Dorsey and the greed of Twitter’s former board of directors including CEO Parag Agrawal must share responsibility for this disaster. If you give a flamethrower to a known arsonist then you can’t claim you’re innocent of starting a wildfire.

Any successor to Twitter should preferably be a not for profit corporation to make it resistant to takeovers by the clueless billionaires of this world. Being nonprofit doesn’t mean you make no money. Strictly speaking, IKEA is part of a nonprofit group. A nonprofit New Twitter (or whatever you wanna call it) could still have enough income to attract talent and make investments in itself.

The internet has become too important to trust to egotistical oligarchs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

[silly-storm-chaser]

To those new to Tumblr, welcome!

To those returning, welcome back! >:)

[mattsmemes]

[dupetitrenard]

If Twitter implodes I will be sad to lose access to the disability community there, but it’s comforting to know I’ll always have Tumblr to come back to, to blog for the bestie and the pornbots, stay safe out there ladies.

[glasseswearingrabbitdetective]

I have like 100 friends/followers there, multiple accounts aside, I need them all here too! Precious friends!! TT ppl who moved with me when I went from ~600 follow account to a locked ,,, when I left for like 3 years and they STILL remained TT aa

[missezri]

Who else is just sitting with marshmallows at the ready for when Twitter finally burns to the ground?

No, I’m not going to share with Muskie.

[lupincall]

I can only see posts from 4+ hours ago on Twitter that are reposted, and 12-24+ hours for everything else. Pretty sure this is the start of the end! Twitters Infra is struggling

Glad I sorted out Tumblr and Mastodon before the fallout occurred!

[fyeahfandomss]

If you are not on Twitter but are interested in what's going on with Elon Musk's Twitter, never fear, I am back as your Twitter Correspondent.

So, on Thursday, 4/20, Elon removed all the "legacy verified" blue checks. That means that if you are, say, Taylor Swift or the Pope, and you have a blue checkmark because you have proven you identity and want to avoid being impersonated, that check mark went away unless you paid the $8 to subscribe to Twitter Blue.

The assumption was clearly that, despite all their blustering, when push came to shove the power users would nut up and pay for it, if only to avoid their fans being scammed using their likeness.

That didn't happen. As of 4/21, only weirdo Elon stans had blue checks. Those stans immediately got mad, because they had intended to purchase access to an exclusive club, and all the cool kids left as soon as they arrived.

To make matters worse for Elon, several influential shitposters began posting about #BlockTheBlue, a movement to block all paid Twitter bluechecks, and some even released scripts that would automatically block all bluecheck accounts for you.

However, some people retained their blue checks who swore they hadn't paid for them -- in particular, Stephen King and LeBron James, who had tweeted that they would refuse to pay.

Elon admitted that he had paid for these users' blue checks out of his own pocket. Is he trolling? Is it a weird simp move? Hard to say.

Now, as of 4/22, a whole mess of famous people have bluechecks who aren't paying for them. This seems to be a move to confound the automated Block The Blue scripts. Lil Nas X is tweeting angrily about how he doesn't want his blue check. People are speculating that a new policy has been silently rolled out to automatically assign a blue check to every user with other 1 million followers. Several people have pointed out that this amounts to false endorsement, i.e. implying falsely that a notable person uses or endorses your product without their permission, which is a crime. Blue checks have been posthumously assigned to Anthony Bourdain and Terry Pratchett, whose estates my money is on to be the ones to actually sue.

dril, famous shitposter and Black The Blue promoter, keeps being assigned a blue check as an apparent punishment for crossing Elon, but you can lose your blue check by changing your display name, so dril just keeps changing his display name every time they bluecheck him. Elon and dril have been engaged in this game of cat and mouse all day. The "Elon bans dril and we all throw trash at him like New Yorkers defending spiderman" meme will probably come to fruition today or tomorrow.

[catchymemes]

[daily-spooky]

[my-random--thoughts]

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[fyeahfandomss]

In the continuing story of "genius" Elon Musk taking over Twitter and then possibly fucking up entirely, apparently you have to give at least 60 days notice of mass layoffs by federal and state law in California, and shockingly enough, Musk didn't do that when he bought to company and planned to start mass layoffs within a week.

Link to a non pay-walled version of the story at Archive.org.