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14 Dec 2022
Been spending some more time over on Mastodon lately. Itās felt refreshing. Reminds me a lot of the early early Twitter days. Who knows if itāll stick, but Iām posting more there these days. macaw.social/@bhaggs
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26 Jan 2023
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20 Nov 2022
Pretty much the only ads Iām getting on Twitter now are for faux Christmas sweaters. š„“
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18 Nov 2022
While I donāt think Twitter will disappear, the number of people tweeting out their āforwarding addressesā elsewhere is pretty bonkers.
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18 Nov 2022
I fully expect an mDAU chart to be shared tomorrow and Elon to claim it as a victory for his actions.
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18 Nov 2022
This is really gonna be the stress test. Final match of #WorldCup2022 certainly. Then youāve got NYE in Japan coming shortly after. I have a lot of faith in what was built to handle these scenarios. But at this point, who knows.
10 Nov 2022
At this point, who is gonna be left at Twitter to handle things when the first goal is scored at the #WorldCup2022 on Nov 20th?
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16 Nov 2022
To @jackās credit, we Tweeps pushed back, asked hard questions, and called him out a lot internally and publiclyāwithout fear that heād be petty and instantly fire you. He was always open to discuss, even when it was discussions critical of his decisions.
15 Nov 2022
Elon Musk has been directing subordinates to comb through Twitter's Slack and make lists of people making fun of him or his plans for firing. They've also been monitoring employee's tweets. Latest w/ @kateconger and @MikeIsaac)
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16 Nov 2022
I imagine a lot of internal Slack channels will start to go quietādue to fear anything you say may be deemed insubordinate and not showing fealty to Dear Elon. People will switch to communications platforms not managed by the company to discuss.
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16 Nov 2022
This is quite sad because Twitter had a very open culture in terms of discussion. Everyone could see what was being made, what the plan was, what the discussion had been, and even to chime in if desired.
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15 Nov 2022
I keep thinking about this skit as we all watch Elon confidently fumble through explaining how Twitter infrastructure works. youtu.be/KwdYUIQzu-o
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14 Nov 2022
Samsung is gonna love being embarrassed again when people look at the API and see their tweets are being composed on an iPhone.
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14 Nov 2022
I actually worked on removing client source from the Tweet anatomy and then years later adding it back in. Itās helpful context and does provide a humanness signal to a degree. Unless this is removed from the API entirely, simply hiding it makes things worse.
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13 Nov 2022
I would actually really like to see this happen. I think itās relatively feasible on a faster timetable as we built some of the plumbing for this for what eventually turned into the political labels on accounts.
1 Nov 2022
I still stand by the Designator/Affiliate approach we worked on as one prong of handling identity verification. Just because it didnāt solve all aspects of verification doesnāt mean it wasnāt worth implementing.
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13 Nov 2022
Fun fact, when we first launched the political candidate labels in 2018 we initially had to make the icon in the size/shape of a profile picture as it was architected to be an affiliating account instead of just a label.
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12 Nov 2022
Twitter as a platform has an outsized sphere of influence in the world which simply does not align with its actual usage. People often falsely assume Twitter is bigger than it actually is. In many ways itās their Achilles heel.
12 Nov 2022
This is the key point. Advertisers donāt need Twitter. It wasnāt in the top tier for where they wanted to spend their money even before Elon launched Brand Fraud Premiumā¢ļø.
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12 Nov 2022
Publishers also got royally burned by Facebook in the past. So they likely have no desire to get more entrenched with tech companies holding the keys to their audience. In fact, theyāre doing the oppositeāthemselves becoming essentially ātechā companies (e.g., NYT).
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13 Nov 2022
If youāre massively Twitter online, it may feel this way. If you work at Twitter or just do some general ācitizen journalismā you will know this is absolutely not the case.
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