Twitter

As the man said, Twitter is trash

While we are at it...

Facebook is also trash

Busta Rhymes & Mike Ashley in friendship shocker

https://mobile.twitter.com/MoneyMikeAshley/status/1308821102655930368

What's going on with desktop twitter? Any attempt to read a thread by clicking on a tweet in someone's feed is met with a demand to log in and you can't get any further without doing so.

Not seeing this problem myself or hearing anybody else reporting the problem, so it's not general. Could even just be an issue just for you - problem with your account or your browser.

Have you got a VPN or adblocker?

Instagram often does this do to me when I have them active, I miss out on whole swathes of hipster stores due to not having an instagram account.

could someone screen dump the trending screen please

Help me out here folks. I want to create a twitter account (bad idea, I know). When I try to sign up using my email address it says "Email has already been taken." Ok, so it looks like someone has used it to create a spam account, which you should be able to deal with by requesting a "forgotten password" password reset, but when I enter my email to do that it says "Verify your identity by entering the username associated with your Twitter account.", which I obviously can't do, because I don't know it.

Any ideas?

The first 4 steps of this should find the username.
https://www.matthewbarby.com/finding-twitter-accounts-email-addresses/

(Obviously by that point you'll already have a twitter account set up.)

The latest version of their Apple app is un-fucking-usable. Reams and reams of other peoples likes, notifications that tweets you've previously seen have new replies and loads of old tweets, even though I'm using the latest view.

Honestly, I feel for their engineering team, constantly having to roll out new, stupid features to increase 'engagement' when all that anyone wants is a chronological view of who they follow. Their product team should hang their heads in shame at what they do.

Weeto has blocked me, which is interesting- I almost never post anything, so I assume she did so based on who I follow. Is this cancel culture?

Nicolas Nassim Taleb blocked me because I followed someone - I think it was Hilary Mantel - with whom he had one of his long and unelucidating arguments about nothing particularly important to anyone but him. It’s a thing…

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My firstborn recently got himself a blue tick. He's a bit gutted that he now might have to pay for the privilege.

Deleted my twitter account this summer (no blue tick), parts of it I miss but it's nice not getting all my news filtered through other people's neuroses.

TBH I'm not sure what the problem is. $100p/a to promote yourself on a platform the size of twitter isn't exactly unreasonable.

Or is it that anyone will be able to get a blue tick with money, rather than some sort of rigorous dd process?

You are the content, the users are the reason to go on twitter, why would you pay when you are already giving them free content that drives traffic to their platform?

It's not about promotion, but confirmation that the account belongs to the person they claim to be.

Because it profiles you.

It's the population as a whole that is the content, not any one user.

It's not the population as a whole though is it, it's the blue check marks that drive usage and create the majority of the content, without them the majority of people would leave

Today Elon Musk has closed all the offices and told staff to stay at home where they'll all get an email advising if they are fired or still hired.

He's a maverick genius!

After staying at home, finding you've been logged out of Slack and email, then your laptop wiped isn't really in HR 101 for letting people go.

The Twitter head of HR went on Tuesday.

I know it’s well known on here already, but Musk is a toxic cunt, isn’t he?

I’m in a minority, in that I enjoy using Twitter, but I can’t see that continuing for much longer.