You know the best way to have an active social network is to limit people from posting on it. What genius! Especially when one tweet a day is over the limit. Elon Musk may be quietly testing daily Tweet limits and users are beyond outraged https://wegotthiscovered.com/social...y-tweet-limits-and-users-are-beyond-outraged/ Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, users have been waiting to see what changes he will make to the platform and what effect these changes will have. Twitter users today have found hints that the platform might be moving to cap how many tweets you can make and are outraged about this idea. Earlier today, many users who attempted to send a tweet were shown an error message reading: “You are over the daily limit for sending tweets”. Others were shown a message saying: “You have reached your daily tweet limit. Please try again tomorrow.” This has confused Twitter users since previously the daily limit for tweets was 2,400 per day, a number few users would ever be able to hit. Today, however, users are being shown the error message after sending one tweet, with some reporting that they get the message despite not tweeting at all. These error messages have led many to presume that Twitter will soon announce that users will have a limited number of tweets they can send per day unless they subscribe to Twitter Blue, Twitter’s premium account option that Musk has been keen on promoting in recent months. Many Twitter users are arguing that this change, if it is made official, will signal the end of the platform with many once again talking about looking for alternative social media platforms. Many Twitter users also note that this issue is happening on Nintendo Direct day, an event that usually results in a massive increase in tweets as people head to social media to discuss the latest game reveals. (More at above url)
It's like Musk bought Twitter for the express purpose of deliberately wrecking it. Like, he had an ulterior motive right from the get go, not to improve Twitter but to undermine it. So far though, he hasn't displayed an alternative, unless he was hoping to send people to Trump's TruthSocial.
You may be on to something. New Day, New Outage. Twitter suffers 'massive outage' under Elon Musk leaving users unable to tweet, message and more https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-outage-elon-musk-cost-cutting-2023-2 Twitter users on Wednesday were suddenly unable to tweet, direct message, or use other features. Elon Musk emailed staffers, directing them to "pause" the testing of new features. The outage was described as "massive" and was not fully resolved as of late Wednesday afternoon. Twitter succumbed to one of its largest outages ever, after months of cost cutting and tortured testing by Elon Musk. The ability to tweet, retweet, quote tweet and direct message on Twitter, each core functions of the platform, stopped for many users on Wednesday. The platform's site and app still functioned, so users could scroll through previously posted content, yet interacting with that content on desktop or mobile proved limited or impossible for some. One former Twitter employee described what was happening as "a massive outage," in private messages seen by Insider. In another message, a current employee at a major tech company complained to Twitter that the their company's corporate Twitter accounts were not functioning, saying "this is a huge problem." Users started to realize they were unable to tweet or retweet, for instance, because of a message that came up when trying to do so. "You are over the daily limit for sending tweets," the message read. Direct messages were simply gone with the tab only showing the message "something went wrong." As Musk has gone about changing Twitter, he has attempted to monetize several elements of the site that have long been free. The error messages seen on Wednesday might be a test, or presage in some other way, that tweeting and direct messaging could be next on his list of features to monetize. Inside the company it was a "scramble" to find the source of the problem and fix things that may have gone wrong, a person familiar with the company said. By Wednesday afternoon Pacific Time, tweeting and likes were functioning again for many users, while the ability to direct message and retweet was still out. Twitter tweeted from its Support account that the platform "may not be working as expected for some of you. Sorry for the trouble. We're aware and working to get this fixed." The outage led Musk to send a brief email to Twitter staff, instructing them to "pause new feature development" in order to ensure "system stability and robustness," according to a person who received the email. Fortune reported that Musk message earlier on Wednesday. A company representative did not respond to an email seeking comment. Issues with functionality and glitches have become more frequent with Twitter, a predicted outcome of Musk's massive layoffs and extreme cost cutting. Twitter has fewer employees today than it did more than a decade ago, while users have grown from 200 million per month to roughly 250 million per day during that same time, according to company disclosures and data from Apptopia. A former Twitter executive previously told Insider how Twitter was likely to degrade over time, not simply implode all at once. "The more likely scenario is there's a major feature breakage for some to all users. It would be discovered late, and it would be unclear what caused the problem and unclear how to fix it when you have none of the people who could fix it employed," the executive said. The speed of changes demanded by Musk is one source of problems, as Insider reported. Testing of potentially new or altered features is happening so fast and at such a scale and with so few employees that issues are not being caught right away. Even Andreessen Horowitz, who's VC firm invested $400 million in Musk's takeover of Twitter, has become frustrated with the decline of the platform and has complained directly to Musk. Certain planned changes to Twitter could have caused the outages, according to two people familiar with the company. Wednesday was the day Musk marked off to end free access to Twitter's developer API, which has allowed for the creation of automated accounts and services that millions of users have come to enjoy on Twitter over the years. From an account that shows the progression of the year as a bar graph to TweetDeck, an organizational tool created from access to the API that Twitter acquired. TweetDeck stopped working on Wednesday, as did many of the automated accounts that chose not to pay Musk for API access. Twitter on Wednesday also rolled out the ability to Tweet up to 4,000 characters at a time for users subscribed to Twitter Blue.
Comrade Musk openly sides with the Russians. SpaceX admits blocking Ukrainian troops from using satellite technology https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/politics/spacex-ukrainian-troops-satellite-technology/index.html
this is what suppression of free speech looks like, not some non-gov entity asking for enforcement of twitter's user agreement on revenge porn:
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey mocked new owner Elon Musk's company over a major outage, saying it used to be where people talked 'when anything went down' https://africa.businessinsider.com/...lon-musks-company-over-a-major-outage/pq66ee7 Twitter has had more time down since Musk has purchased it than in the previous five years combined.
Let's see what the Woz has to say about Elon Musk -- where he calls Musk dishonest and untruthful. Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Says Steve Jobs, Elon Musk Are Similar, Except... 'Robbed my family of so much money.' https://www.thestreet.com/investing...-says-steve-jobs-elon-musk-are-similar-except American Author Bell Hooks once said that "within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself." On Thursday, Apple (AAPL) - Get Free Report co-founder Steve Wozniak aimed a similar critique not at late-stage capitalism, but rather at Tesla (TSLA) - Get Free Report CEO Elon Musk, comparing him to his good friend and the leader of the Silicon Valley tech revolution, Steve Jobs. "I put them in the category of having the ability to communicate and want to be seen as the important person and being like the cult leader," Wozniak said. "A lot of people will follow them no matter what they say and they get beyond the point of being judged. A lot of cults are like that." Wozniak juxtaposed himself against that archetype, saying that he likes to live and exist in honesty. This is a trait he sees lacking in Musk, who, according to Wozniak, has repeatedly overpromised and underdelivered on the potential for his electric vehicle company. "A lot of honesty disappears when you look at Elon Musk and Tesla. They have robbed my family, myself and my wife, of so much money... with things they said that we really believed would be real," Wozniak said. Elon's Sins According to Woz Wozniak was a former booster of Tesla, dating back to 2016 when he says he spent a lot of money to upgrade his vehicle. The upgrade placed a camera and a radar in the vehicle with Musk promising that the car would be able to drive itself across the country by the end of 2016. Musk then said, according to Woz, that a new vehicle upgrade with eight cameras and even more sensors would allow the car to drive itself cross-country by the end of 2017. "OK..." Wozniak said while pointing to his wrist, miming the action of looking at his watch incredulously. So what's the difference between Musk, who he seems to dislike, and his good friend, the late Steve Jobs? "Steve Jobs really wasn't so dishonest. But he would say things in ways... he just had a way of grabbing you," Wozniak said. "But it wasn't really that untruthful. You didn't buy something thinking you were going to get 'A' but didn't get it."
Just a reminder.... your boss is a total clown if they fire you for properly and accurately describing what is going on. And now Twitter is down to one principal engineer. ‘You’re Fired!’ Elon Musk Reportedly Sacked One of the Last Top Twitter Engineers For Accurately Explaining Why His Engagement is Plummeting https://www.mediaite.com/news/youre...-explaining-why-his-engagement-is-plummeting/ Billionaire and Twitter owner Elon Musk reportedly fired one of the “company’s two remaining principal engineers” after the engineer explained that his engagement on the platform had dropped not because of a glitch, but due to diminished interest from the public. Platoformer’s Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton took a deep dive into Twitter 2.0 and detailed the remarkable story on Thursday. The journalists wrote that Musk gathered his top remaining personnel in a room and demanded to know why his engagement had plummeted: “This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.” The engineer, who Musk retaliated against, explained to the billionaire that the dive in engagement was organic and tracked with general disinterest related to him at the moment. “Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account, along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted, but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him,” the Platformer article explained. “You’re fired, you’re fired,” Musk immediately told the engineer, effectively shooting the messenger. The article also goes into great detail about the depths of misery at the social media company since Musk’s takeover. “Where are you interviewing?” and “where do you have offers?” are reportedly standard greetings in the company’s San Francisco headquarters. “ The 8th floor is still stocked with beds, and employees have to reserve them in advance,” the article adds, quoting an overworked employee, saying, “Most weeknights, they are fully booked.”
Musk drove away the majority of the top 1000 advertisers --- and then whines he has no revenue. What a clown. More than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers stopped spending on platform, data show https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/tech/twitter-top-advertiser-decline/index.html