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Been spending some more time over on Mastodon lately. It’s felt refreshing. Reminds me a lot of the early early Twitter days. Who knows if it’ll stick, but I’m posting more there these days. macaw.social/@bhaggs
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While I don’t think Twitter will disappear, the number of people tweeting out their “forwarding addresses” elsewhere is pretty bonkers.
I fully expect an mDAU chart to be shared tomorrow and Elon to claim it as a victory for his actions.
This is really gonna be the stress test. Final match of #WorldCup2022 certainly. Then you’ve 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.
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?
To @jack’s credit, we Tweeps pushed back, asked hard questions, and called him out a lot internally and publicly–without fear that he’d be petty and instantly fire you. He was always open to discuss, even when it was discussions critical of his decisions.
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)
nytimes.com/2022/11/15/techn…
I imagine a lot of internal Slack channels will start to go quiet–due 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.
I keep thinking about this skit as we all watch Elon confidently fumble through explaining how Twitter infrastructure works. youtu.be/KwdYUIQzu-o
Samsung is gonna love being embarrassed again when people look at the API and see their tweets are being composed on an iPhone.
I would actually really like to see this happen. I think it’s 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.
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 it’s their Achilles heel.
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, they’re doing the opposite—themselves becoming essentially “tech” companies (e.g., NYT).
