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Posted: 11/5/2022 7:37:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By macros73: Is this going to work out the way Musk thinks it will? When you fire that many people that fast, in many cases the people who are retained aren't going to be the top producers or even the average producers. They're going to be the people with the best internal connections as everyone from the top down circles the wagons and tries to weather what they see as a hostile takeover. This can happen during normal times as well, but under times of high stress even worse and more selfish decisions will have been made. No one's going to make their Elon-mandated firing list based on what's best for Twitter's growth. There are also the external repercussions: between the purchase and the mass layoffs, all of Twitter's major customers are going to reassess whether Twitter is still worth the marketing spend. If they reduce spend on Twitter, it's not like those companies will reduce the prices they charge their own customers. They'll just reallocate the spend to other marketing companies. I would rather have seen Musk spend the time and energy on either improving Tesla/SpaceX, or on a new energy generation company focused on bringing back nuclear power generation, maybe at the neighborhood or town level with small-scale generation plants. It's his money to burn. I guess we can't expect one person to revolutionize more than two industries in their lifetime. |
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Posted: 11/5/2022 7:46:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WildBoar: So Biden publicly slammed him and Twitter. Does Elon have anything legal he can do in response? he could shut down biden's account, the precedent has already been set |
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Posted: 11/5/2022 7:58:38 PM EDT
[Last Edit: giantpune]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RSG: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fg0zPRKWIAAROvv?format=jpg&name=small I dont have the twitter app. I just use the website. Is there a place to go yet to buy the $8 blue checkmark? I will sure as shit buy one to help support elon and to bust the balls of the people who thought the blue checkmark made them special. On the website, I see an option to sign up for "twitter blue" for $4.99. I don't think thats the same as the blue checkmark. |
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Posted: 11/5/2022 8:21:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Fourays2: he could shut down biden's account, the precedent has already been set |
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Posted: 11/5/2022 8:23:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RV8guy: Would it be worthwhile to remove the ability to delete tweets? If you post BS and get called on it, it should remain out there for the world to see.
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Posted: 11/5/2022 8:26:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RV8guy: Would it be worthwhile to remove the ability to delete tweets? I don't think so, but I don't use Twitter like a lot of you guys apparently do. (I only engage with musicians and streamers, never anything remotely political.) The ability to edit would be best for the cases I have dealt with - somewhere where you have a typo you only notice 2 min after posting, or where you realize you forgot a link or something. Being able to just fix the mistake rather than delete-and-redo would be nice. |
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Posted: 11/5/2022 8:29:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By giantpune: On the website, I see an option to sign up for "twitter blue" for $4.99. I don't think thats the same as the blue checkmark. It sounds like Musk is merging the two. On the subject, the thing I've seen about many more "normal" people I know expressing concern about the "charge for verification" thing is that they think that's all it is. That it just lets people know it is the official account of a public or semi-public figure, and that it does not afford any additional privileges. Of course, as we've seen, that's not the case. I too would complain about charging a subscription for pure verification, with no further benefits (aside from possibly something like a report feature for impersonators). Though a one-time fee for verification I do say would be fair. |
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Posted: 11/5/2022 8:35:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Walkure: I don't think so, but I don't use Twitter like a lot of you guys apparently do. (I only engage with musicians and streamers, never anything remotely political.) The ability to edit would be best for the cases I have dealt with - somewhere where you have a typo you only notice 2 min after posting, or where you realize you forgot a link or something. Being able to just fix the mistake rather than delete-and-redo would be nice. People delete tweets all the time out of sheer embarrassment. It's usually a libtard that posts the most stupid asinine thing you could possibly think of. So many people reply to their tweet that in order to stop the deluge of mentions popping up in their feed, they delete the tweet. It happens a lot..... |
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Posted: 11/5/2022 8:41:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AJ-IN-JAX: So now that anyone can pay $8 to get a blue check, how is that going to prevent people from just paying $8 and making fake accounts? Who cares they made $8 but theya are probably going to verify identity or being a real person or something. |
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Posted: 11/5/2022 8:43:25 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/5/2022 8:45:21 PM EDT
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I will most likely do one month at $8 just to thank Musk for making the field more playable and fair along with exposing the corruption. My $8 won't be a drop in the sea but I feel it is a fair thank you.
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Posted: 11/5/2022 8:47:05 PM EDT
[Last Edit: LurkerII]
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Originally Posted By RSG:
Ron Perlman ... Who? Any relation to: 
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Posted: 11/5/2022 8:48:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LurkerII: Ron Perlman ... Who? that ugly motherfucker |
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Posted: 11/5/2022 8:52:19 PM EDT
[Last Edit: LurkerII]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Cossa: that ugly motherfucker Yep, ugly motherfucker... I had to google him. Is this his claim to fame?  Wow, not impressed.
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Posted: 11/5/2022 8:58:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RSG:
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Posted: 11/5/2022 9:08:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Nexttime: People delete tweets all the time out of sheer embarrassment. It's usually a libtard that posts the most stupid asinine thing you could possibly think of. So many people reply to their tweet that in order to stop the deluge of mentions popping up in their feed, they delete the tweet. It happens a lot..... I understand that, I am just saying that I feel there is a legitimate need for at least time-limited deletion if there isn't an edit function. |
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Posted: 11/5/2022 9:12:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Walkure: I understand that, I am just saying that I feel there is a legitimate need for at least time-limited deletion if there isn't an edit function. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Walkure: Originally Posted By Nexttime: People delete tweets all the time out of sheer embarrassment. It's usually a libtard that posts the most stupid asinine thing you could possibly think of. So many people reply to their tweet that in order to stop the deluge of mentions popping up in their feed, they delete the tweet. It happens a lot..... I understand that, I am just saying that I feel there is a legitimate need for at least time-limited deletion if there isn't an edit function. A penny for every view, a dollar for every reply or re-tweet. |
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Posted: 11/5/2022 9:42:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/5/2022 11:53:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RSG:
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Posted: 11/6/2022 1:38:48 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/6/2022 2:14:09 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/6/2022 2:15:55 AM EDT
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Apparently Twitter employees were taking kickbacks to give blue checks? $15k haha
https://twitter.com/WSBChairman/status/1588973918379200512?t=jHFzvC-iIiKI7uUjBfjXEg&s=19 Elon confirmed. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 5:32:59 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/6/2022 6:34:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Spade: Yeah, but their also still required to follow Twitter policies. So all the ones tweeting in anger are probably violating the CoC and can be now fired for cause. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 6:44:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RSG:
Ron...buddy...don't you have some probie's girlfriend to be banging under your wife's nose? |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 6:52:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By David0858: Even more interesting. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/14727/20221106_032915_JPG-2589503.JPG A real YouTube alternative? I'm in. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 7:15:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AJ-IN-JAX: So now that anyone can pay $8 to get a blue check, how is that going to prevent people from just paying $8 and making fake accounts? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AJ-IN-JAX: Originally Posted By RSG: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fg0zPRKWIAAROvv?format=jpg&name=small Making 1000 spam bots gets very expensive at 8$ a pop. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 7:57:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By macros73: Is this going to work out the way Musk thinks it will? When you fire that many people that fast, in many cases the people who are retained aren't going to be the top producers or even the average producers. They're going to be the people with the best internal connections as everyone from the top down circles the wagons and tries to weather what they see as a hostile takeover. This can happen during normal times as well, but under times of high stress even worse and more selfish decisions will have been made. No one's going to make their Elon-mandated firing list based on what's best for Twitter's growth. There are also the external repercussions: between the purchase and the mass layoffs, all of Twitter's major customers are going to reassess whether Twitter is still worth the marketing spend. If they reduce spend on Twitter, it's not like those companies will reduce the prices they charge their own customers. They'll just reallocate the spend to other marketing companies. I would rather have seen Musk spend the time and energy on either improving Tesla/SpaceX, or on a new energy generation company focused on bringing back nuclear power generation, maybe at the neighborhood or town level with small-scale generation plants. It's his money to burn. I guess we can't expect one person to revolutionize more than two industries in their lifetime.  you seem concerned 
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Posted: 11/6/2022 8:01:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RTOinIraq: A real YouTube alternative? I'm in. Yep Espeacially if they don't censor and demonetize the Pew Tuber crowd. Mr. Guns and Gear, Backfire, Garand Thumb, and Ultimate Reloader all have huge followings and are constantly being demonetized and losing their channels for nothing but being popped by YouTube for being gun channels. I can see a mass exodus by Pew Tubers to Twitter in the near future. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 8:02:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By spidey07: I remind people that it’s not been 8 days since musk took over. And look at what is being exposed. And the left is losing their fucking minds. It’s glorious. The fucking White House posted a tweet and got fact checked RE SS benefits increasing thanks to Biden leadership. BOOM!!!! Lies exposed, truth revealed. White House removes tweet. Twitter is THE source for information and “news”, whether you like it or not.  Attached File |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 8:18:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Yobro512: Making 1000 spam bots gets very expensive at 8$ a pop. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Yobro512: Originally Posted By AJ-IN-JAX: Originally Posted By RSG: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fg0zPRKWIAAROvv?format=jpg&name=small Making 1000 spam bots gets very expensive at 8$ a pop. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 8:21:32 AM EDT
[Last Edit: RattleCanAR]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AJ-IN-JAX: I meant people making fake account pretending to be other real people. If payment is made via the phone app, then fake accounts will be hard to make. It will prevent a lot of computer based account creation. Phones are VERY individual and will be almost foolproof. If he allows account creation for a computer then he could have some challenges. One account one phone, it would crazy expensive for bots and fakes to pop up. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 8:52:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By N1150x: I'm betting an AI ran through all of the internal chats and emails. Having lived through similar layoffs in a different industry I think musk probably made the right call. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By N1150x: Originally Posted By macros73: Is this going to work out the way Musk thinks it will? When you fire that many people that fast, in many cases the people who are retained aren't going to be the top producers or even the average producers. They're going to be the people with the best internal connections as everyone from the top down circles the wagons and tries to weather what they see as a hostile takeover. This can happen during normal times as well, but under times of high stress even worse and more selfish decisions will have been made. No one's going to make their Elon-mandated firing list based on what's best for Twitter's growth. There are also the external repercussions: between the purchase and the mass layoffs, all of Twitter's major customers are going to reassess whether Twitter is still worth the marketing spend. If they reduce spend on Twitter, it's not like those companies will reduce the prices they charge their own customers. They'll just reallocate the spend to other marketing companies. I would rather have seen Musk spend the time and energy on either improving Tesla/SpaceX, or on a new energy generation company focused on bringing back nuclear power generation, maybe at the neighborhood or town level with small-scale generation plants. It's his money to burn. I guess we can't expect one person to revolutionize more than two industries in their lifetime. I'd imagine he made decisions based largely off of performance metrics, and verifiable by checks on the data from more than one source (individual preparing the report). |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 9:05:52 AM EDT
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Will I still be able to view videos in tweets from the tweets posted in arfcom that link to Twitter?
Does that make sense? |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 9:12:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By zach_: Will I still be able to view videos in tweets from the tweets posted in arfcom that link to Twitter? Does that make sense? Most likely it will appear as they do now. A link within the Twitter post. We don't see pictures or media at all, only code. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 9:34:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RattleCanAR: If payment is made via the phone app, then fake accounts will be hard to make. It will prevent a lot of computer based account creation. Phones are VERY individual and will be almost foolproof. If he allows account creation for a computer then he could have some challenges. One account one phone, it would crazy expensive for bots and fakes to pop up. Remember those accounts (bots) that make the same word for word statement about events? I would think that would be easier from a PC than a phone. Those have to be operated by bot farms in different areas. DNC: "Hey, here's what we want you to say about this subject on Twitter. Be sure to change it up a bit for each account" Bot farmers around the world: "Fuck all that" (copy pastes statement given into each account). |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 9:35:36 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/6/2022 9:37:18 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RattleCanAR: Yep Espeacially if they don't censor and demonetize the Pew Tuber crowd. Mr. Guns and Gear, Backfire, Garand Thumb, and Ultimate Reloader all have huge followings and are constantly being demonetized and losing their channels for nothing but being popped by YouTube for being gun channels. I can see a mass exodus by Pew Tubers to Twitter in the near future. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RattleCanAR: Originally Posted By RTOinIraq: A real YouTube alternative? I'm in. Yep Espeacially if they don't censor and demonetize the Pew Tuber crowd. Mr. Guns and Gear, Backfire, Garand Thumb, and Ultimate Reloader all have huge followings and are constantly being demonetized and losing their channels for nothing but being popped by YouTube for being gun channels. I can see a mass exodus by Pew Tubers to Twitter in the near future. The big thing is the massive PITA it is to get anything they deem controversial monetized. Each video has to undergo manual review, which I have one going on 4 days now. 4 days.... |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 9:40:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RSG:
Mastodon is fine for smaller communities but they will come back to Twitter when they realize no one is reading their shit. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 9:42:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JarheadPatriot: A passive stake .. doesn't sound like he can do anything. This post didn't age well. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 9:49:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RattleCanAR: Most likely it will appear as they do now. A link within the Twitter post. We don't see pictures or media at all, only code. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RattleCanAR: Originally Posted By zach_: Will I still be able to view videos in tweets from the tweets posted in arfcom that link to Twitter? Does that make sense? Most likely it will appear as they do now. A link within the Twitter post. We don't see pictures or media at all, only code. Will I be able to view the video though? I created an account there because I was not able to see the war videos in the tweets without an account. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 9:51:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rebel31: Mastodon is fine for smaller communities but they will come back to Twitter when they realize no one is reading their shit. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rebel31: Originally Posted By RSG:
Mastodon is fine for smaller communities but they will come back to Twitter when they realize no one is reading their shit. Yup. I think the whole purpose to the leftists for twitter is to just gaslight the vast majority into thinking they are wrong and actually in the minority in opposing gender surgery for teens, communism and so on. Censoring normal people and real facts. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 9:59:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RSG:
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Posted: 11/6/2022 10:30:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AK-12: Don't ever stop preaching the gospel of thyccc cheeks. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AK-12: Originally Posted By midcap: Yep Don't ever stop preaching the gospel of thyccc cheeks. 
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Posted: 11/6/2022 10:31:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By spidey07: Most all of the Indian off shore was fired. Solved that problem. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By spidey07: Originally Posted By macros73: Originally Posted By J_Von_Random: They sorted the firing list by code contributions. No one useful got fired. That's an interesting approach. Hopefully it was more than just lines of code committed. It risks weighing quantity over quality. I hope they took into account defect rates, utility added, and difficulty of problem being solved by the code and didn't keep a bunch of keyboard pounders. Most all of the Indian off shore was fired. Solved that problem. true dat |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 10:35:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PointBlank82: Apparently Twitter employees were taking kickbacks to give blue checks? $15k haha https://twitter.com/WSBChairman/status/1588973918379200512?t=jHFzvC-iIiKI7uUjBfjXEg&s=19 Elon confirmed. disgusting. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 10:36:48 AM EDT
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If Twitter gets in the YouTube game,
Rumble is toast. |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 10:37:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RSG:
Those lefty scientist are probably degenerates anyway |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 10:43:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LawyerUp: The big thing is the massive PITA it is to get anything they deem controversial monetized. Each video has to undergo manual review, which I have one going on 4 days now. 4 days.... On Twitter there is no monetization, yet. So, when you upload a video with expected monetization you are put on hold? How do the pew tubers do live streams and premiers? What is so controversial about your video? |
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Posted: 11/6/2022 10:45:59 AM EDT
[Last Edit: RattleCanAR]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mochaTX: If Twitter gets in the YouTube game, Rumble is toast. Yep Now if Twitter partners with Rumble vs writing their own code it could be a win for both. Partnering with Rumble would be a quicker and easier way to get it going. I did a test. You can embed Rumble videos into Twitter now. Hmmmm... This site doesn't show the embedded video when you do a Twitter post but it is there.
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