In response to Lizz Winstead.
It's now a place where hypothetical potential people have more rights than actual living breathing & in many cases suffering people.
01:10 PM - Jul 03, 2023
In response to S Olson.
Sorry I need to correct the record Jason Kint is a critic of Facebook/Instagram/Meta.
It's *Dave Troy* who sussed out who is behind Bluesky & what Jack Dorsey (& Elon) are up to https://davetroy.medium.co...
It's *Dave Troy* who sussed out who is behind Bluesky & what Jack Dorsey (& Elon) are up to https://davetroy.medium.co...
davetroy.medium.com
01:04 PM - Jul 03, 2023
In response to Existential Fashion Disaster.
It was posted to Twitter (David Avalone posted it, not sure if it's his originally or someone else's)
05:27 PM - Jul 02, 2023
In response to Karen D-B.
This is a screenshot of the actual Jack Dorsey #TouchGrass tweet.
And by the way Elon owns a piece of Bluesky so wait until the coveted famous & powerful users find out about that little detail.
And by the way Elon owns a piece of Bluesky so wait until the coveted famous & powerful users find out about that little detail.
09:37 AM - Jul 02, 2023
In response to Keep On Kraken.
Posted by Jack Dorsey to Twitter in the middle of this #RateLimited #RateLimitExceeded #RateLimitedExceeded mess on Twitter (#TouchGrass)
09:30 AM - Jul 02, 2023
In response to Solitarymaninblack.
A few weeks ago Matt Iglesias was on Bluesky, he was bullied off of there largely because at time *users didn't have block or mute tools* to get him out of their feeds. So I'd expect some 'liberals' & 'apoliticals' to be harassed over there too (see jenntakahashi / bestofdyingtwit on Twitter)
09:26 AM - Jul 02, 2023
In response to Jamie Gallant.
Well I'll just chill for several hours then try again (I mostly want to reply to some DMs & figure out how we're going to do WGA strike & possible SAG-AFTRA strike stuff not on Twitter assuming the mess on Twitter cannot be fixed)
11:57 PM - Jul 01, 2023
In response to Jamie Gallant.
Yeah just a laptop here, no other devices to try. I did reboot my router & MacBook Air to see if I could force that counter to reset but alas nope.
I am hearing if you use OldTwitter with Chrome or Firefox that might work.
I am hearing if you use OldTwitter with Chrome or Firefox that might work.
11:38 PM - Jul 01, 2023
In response to Jamie Gallant.
I can't quite figure it out but another end run is if you have a different device to log in with, you can log out of it & then log in again on another. People are bouncing between phones, iPads/tablets & laptops/desktops if they have them to try. It tags the device somehow to start the read count.
11:12 PM - Jul 01, 2023
In response to Jamie Gallant.
By using Tweetdeck weirdly I was able to end-run some things but not others. There are rate limits to everything I just don't quite know what they are. I say weirdly because Tweetdeck's blog says it makes many more requests (calls) of Twitter's API than Twitter itself (e.g. refreshing TD = 3 calls).
11:08 PM - Jul 01, 2023
In response to David Leavitt.
There's literally a bug he introduced into Twitter when he decided to pull this rate limiting stunt (he's sort of messed with rate limits before & is doing it again) https://waxy.org/2023/07/t...
waxy.org
Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour" - Waxy.org
An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.
10:51 PM - Jul 01, 2023
In response to RA.
Okay a DDOS attack is where many many machines send non-stop requests to a target machine & tie up all its resources. This bug is like every Twitter user non-stop banging repeatedly on their keyboards, but it's not us, it's something Elon did to his own software.
TL;DR He done broke his toy.
TL;DR He done broke his toy.
08:55 PM - Jul 01, 2023
In response to Latanyia Bennett.
Even if you did pay $8 / month in revenue there are still limits on how many tweets you can read in a day (6000)
Also did he not think of the accounts which pay for promoted tweets or the advertisers? #NotAGenius https://www.thewrap.com/tw...
Also did he not think of the accounts which pay for promoted tweets or the advertisers? #NotAGenius https://www.thewrap.com/tw...
08:36 PM - Jul 01, 2023
In response to David Slack.
So Chief Twit will swear he did this because he is trying to fight content 'scrapers' when it's really this: https://www.businessinside...
08:16 PM - Jul 01, 2023
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
He's going to claim it's scraping, but it's really this [he broke] https://www.businessinside...
08:14 PM - Jul 01, 2023
In response to Danny Deraney.
Oh yikes, I'm allergic to bee stings. Proceed with caution there.
10:22 AM - Apr 22, 2023
In response to Darryl Wharton-Rigby.
The more I do social media, the more I care about the *quality* of the interactions than the quantity of the followers
10:20 AM - Apr 22, 2023
In response to Elie Mystal.
This was his 'genius' move at ~10 PM Eastern US time, to 'muddy the waters'
11:02 PM - Apr 02, 2023
In response to S Olson.
Over there the account (@)BlockTheBlue has a database (probably not 100% complete but a heck of a start to those who are 'nouveau bleu poseur/purchasers...
https://www.theblockbot.co...
https://www.theblockbot.co...
10:17 PM - Apr 02, 2023
In response to S Olson.
...social media companies — like traditional media companies before them — to make decisions that further boost the prominence of right-wing views, regardless of whether or not they’re really being silenced or suppressed. It’s no surprise Musk can’t please them." — Paris Marx
disconnect.blog
Twitter's Moment of Truth Approaches - by Paris Marx
When Elon Musk took over Twitter on October 27, he was determined to transform the meaning of the blue checkmark. In particular, he was incensed it was given to journalists — people he’s increasingly turned against as coverage of him has become more critical — because he felt it gave them an exclusi..
07:50 AM - Mar 31, 2023
In response to Mark Rubin.
Um, no, Facebook has a system that forces people to sign up under a 'real name' or something that sounds very like a 'real name'. And FB users are cool with 'snitching' on people on that site under pseudonyms.
When that happened to me, I left FB & the Meta companies for good
When that happened to me, I left FB & the Meta companies for good
05:24 AM - Mar 31, 2023
In response to Mark Rubin.
Is it possible to see more than just a selection of who other Spoutible users follow & who follows other Spoutible users?
Am trying to reconstruct what I had on the birb app without code or an app that does that for me (probably not going to be possible due to Twitter API charges coming soon :-(
Am trying to reconstruct what I had on the birb app without code or an app that does that for me (probably not going to be possible due to Twitter API charges coming soon :-(
05:16 AM - Mar 31, 2023
In response to Susan K Bradford.
LOL I'm not sure I can bring over my Twitter banner to here (salty language in a graphic about Chief Twit)
05:11 AM - Mar 31, 2023
In response to Peter G Mitchell 😎.
Yeah over there there's (@)BlockTheBird. Which has been very handy.
I am going to be on there on April 1st though to see if we get a repeat of this.
And also to outlast Chief Twit. ;-)
I am going to be on there on April 1st though to see if we get a repeat of this.
And also to outlast Chief Twit. ;-)
03:09 AM - Mar 31, 2023
In response to Quinn Cummings.
I'm just looking for someone to write an app / some code so I can just port my list of people I follow on the birb app to here.
But it's not going to be that easy, is it? (it never is)
But it's not going to be that easy, is it? (it never is)
02:53 AM - Mar 31, 2023
