Security, Privacy, Photog, Music. Previously: very early Twitter employee. Now CTO Alembic, OTF Advisor, 1man entertainment machine. I helped build this thing.
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2007
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John Adams retweeted
So impressed with the grit of @tomascooking & team. Alembic applies pandemic-era contact tracing maths to marketing attribution, which companies like NVIDIA use to predict ROI from marketing spend! 🤯! LFG!
My company Alembic just raised their $14M Series A round! Support for the round from Jensen Huang, Joe Montana and Jefferey Katzenberg. It's been a long journey and so proud of the team and excited for what is next!
A startup I co-founded has managed to thrive through one of the worst startup markets in years, raising a $14M Series A - read all about it. morningstar.com/news/marketw…
I don’t post here anymore because this site is now overrun and mismanaged, but I thought I’d mention that collection agencies for Twitter are now calling my house, for Twitter’s debts, 10 years after I quit. Just, wow.
Verifying my account on nostr
My Public Key: "npub16nns38hjuav7d8gd8hsgjt7jpq8xthj284xy0m5vkq09t5w5f3nq7sg3th"
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John Adams retweeted
Microsoft owns the trademark for X. This is just too good.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Microsoft only holds this trademark for videogame-related services; this wouldn't affect Twitter.
However, Meta holds the "X" trademark for "online social networking services... social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming and application development..."
tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87…
Just remember that “X” is the universal symbol for close, dismiss, or cancel. Bye Twitter, it was a good run.
Could a company be any more irresponsible?
Looking at you @ouraring
Yes, yes, let's give my employer access to my fucking sleep schedule.
ouraring.com/blog/introducin…
How many companies had to send out a "Twitter fucked us and we lost access to the API because Elon wants 42k/mo" emails after this weekend? Looking at you. Microsoft, Hootsuite and many others...
This bill is unimplemetable, ridiculous, and an affront to freedom of speech and privacy. How about we just block Utah entirely? Maybe that’s what they intended. axios.com/2023/03/24/utah-li…
Yup that’s right, Now Larry the Bird is in a museum. Seen today at the Legion of Honor. What have we done, tweeps?
Agree they might be killing SMS entirely.
I agree with speculation that removing SMS is about Twitter saving money. Gong off the data here I bet Twitter's SMS bill has been in the ballpark of $10M/year for authentication SMS, probably less. xitter.cf/RachelTobac/status/162…
I’d also like to state that Twitter’s API has been throwing a shitload of errors all morning. Guess 2.6% of (2fa sms holding) users can break the site now
If your caught up in phony stark’s latest 2FA mess, and turned you off, go get a Yubikey or install Authy. It’s better than SMS
See also;
97.4% of Twitter accounts do not use any sort of 2 Factor Authentication at all
transparency.twitter.com/en/…
John Adams retweeted
This is a blog post from 2008 about Twitter and SMS costs: blog.twitter.com/en_us/a/200…
While people complain about the 2FA security change for Twitter Blue only, it just continues the long pattern of SMS costs affecting Twitter
2FA is not secure on SMS, but breaking security and doing it on a long weekend is chaos. Most will turn it off, sadly. blog.twitter.com/en_us/topic…
