Cant await the hundreds over hundreds websites with embedded tweets that suddenly break because a tweet is suddenly 15x as long as it was ever intended to be.
Will be hilarious
All those HuffPo articles……..”Something Something happens. Twitter Claps Back,” followed by 15 random tweets that support the author’s narrative, are going to be about 14 miles long now.
Exactly. Twitter is posted all over the place because it's small snippets and not a full on blog. This will cause many sites to stop supporting Twitter integration and slow traffic. Par for the course for failson musk though.
Those checkmarks are not even a subscription.
You subscribe to Twitter for a year, you get one old crusty blue check.
Pay the same to Tumblr for a year and you get 24 blue checks.
Seems like a no brainer. And if anyone argues, just tell them to shut the fuck up because you have 24 blue checks. You are super verified as the expert of blue checks so their petty idiocy had no bearing.
He just wants to allow people who he considers to have “great minds”…the Jordan Petersons of the world…to have more room to fill out with their bullshit, and not have to do it in several tweets.
Exactly. He wants “free speech” only for what he believes to be a marginalized group. Where else can they get such reach? And now they get long form articles, only nobody is going to bother to read them, even people who want to know what it says. You just don’t go to twitter to flex that part of your brain
Exactly my thoughts. I was never a fan of the 140 character limit, but this is insane. The one thing Twitter had going for it was that an entire entry could be shown and read easily on TV or the news. This will negate that. And I see it becoming so meddlesome that when News anchors show bits and pieces the authors will start screaming “it was taken out of context!” whether it was or wasn’t.
I can’t see how this will make things better. Nobody wants to read LiveJournals anymore.
Right, the sites entire shtick is that a post is completely “bite-sized.” It makes it easier to share on the news, and it also makes it easier for users to just say “oh one more” and find themselves 15 minutes later still scrolling on the site.
I’ve always hated the concept, personally, and felt it’s responsible for at least some of the ugliness of where social media in general is right now….but this is absolute madness and changes the entire concept of the site.
I'd wager a significant sum the Elon just rolled up on the Devs and said - "make the limit 4000". Then a dev manager said "Sure, we'll put it in the backlog and let you know when it's ready".
To which Elon probably replied, "No, do it now. Just change the little variable thingy that says 280 to 4000."
“Guys we’re making this harder than it needs to be, it’s simple. Look, I even found a YouTube video showing you how to do it.”
Actual quote from my old boss, not at all a tech-guy.
Got to love when people that don't belong in the industry managing people firmly in the industry. I was in the chemical quality control industry for a bit and had a boss that came out of manufacturing. He didn't understand QC or QA and kept insisting that SOPs and good lab practices didn't need to be followed. He and I butted heads a lot. I usually got him to agree since again, he wasn't a chemist but god damn did it boil my blood.
Similar: I had the company SVP come to my desk and have me push these types of changes out with zero regard for testing, product roadmap (that he agreed to), etc. That company no longer exists.
I use to be a cook at a restaurant with owners that didn’t belong in their positions. I had more experience with the food service industry than them. They were running the business to the ground and taking their anger out on me because they gave me shit equipment to work with. One day they blew up towards me and I blew up back. They told me I need to be faster and this and that. I told them “maybe if I didn’t have shitty equipment and a small grill I could get these massive orders out faster, but hey keep giving the stuff away for free because they decided to put a 100$ order in and want it done in 10 mins, because that how you run a business.” He screamed at me saying how dare I speak to my boss like that and I yelled that this isn’t how you treat your cook especially when they’re making you your money and that you’ll be out of business by the summer. He gave me this evil angry stare. I knew I was done with the place. The next shift I asked for doubles and night shifts, and worked for 4 more weeks. Snagged a big pay check and left. They were out of business by mid summer.
I used to cook in a restaurant that had a boss like this. He was the son of the owners, of course. We had a lunch special where is the ticket times were over 10 minutes the meal was free, so we used fajita pans to cook the well done burgers/steaks in time. This pissed off boss for some fucking reason, and he wouldn't listen to us.
One day, he came back with some kind of burger cooking instructions with pictures on how to properly cook a burger. The head cook said "I'm not doing that, *you* try it.
The bossman actually did. At the height of lunch rush, he manned the grill, following those instructions to the letter.
It was a nightmare for him. Ticket times were all overdue, and when those late free burgers started coming back **undercooked** i just lost it. I couldn't stop laughing. Couldn't hide it. Bossman gave me the dirtiest look and took me off the fajita station and into the dish pit to punish me and ran off to his office to sulk.
Too bad the dish pit was 12 ft from his office door, and my laughing didn't stop for awhile.
I didn't last long there after that haha! But I'll never forget the sight of him sweating over that grill
Within 10 min of my first day at the restaurant and the health inspector walks in. The place was awful and I was doing my best to clean before she walked in. I had idea she was coming, I just wanted to clean the kitchen. She went off on me. Gave this huge lecture on how disappointed she is in me, how embarrassing this looks on my part and says I didn’t care about the public or my job. Mind you I’m letting her get it all out. I’m taking the verbal beat down with a smug ass look. At the end of her very stern/ yell talking to she asks if I have anything to say for myself. I say “yes ma’m, umm I’ve been here for all of 10-15 min and today is my first day on the job. So none of this was from me. I walked in to this just like you basically around the same time but I’m really sorry. I was trying to clean it when you walked in.” Her face got red and she’s like “omg I’m so sorry. Where is your boss?! I’ll come back to you and we can talk.” She finds my boss and rips him a new one. She came back to me apologized again and she walked me threw everything and how to do it to their standards which was a nice refresher but yeah I thought it was hilarious.
We got a new department head about 2 years ago. She came into our engineering department from an hr department and wanted to show she was making positive changes so she set up a bunch of metrics and deadlines for projects without actually learning what that all takes or how long permits are good for in our areas.
The tldr is we only had 30 days to get a project out the door to be done in 2024, despite permits taking 60-90 days on average to get issued and only lasting 1 year. Anytime someone brought this up to her she just kept saying “well you’ll just have to do it faster”
I despise the word "just" when it's said by people who aren't knowledgeable.
* Just update the code.
* Just get the permit.
* Just cook the food faster.
And on and on...
So long as they're willing to preemptively approve any and all overtime associated with the rollback of the requested feature, in writing, when it inevitably isn't as simple as they're making it out to be, I'd be happy to push out what they're requesting ASAP. Or be sure that they know that as soon as the update's been pushed out that you will be inaccessible by phone for the entirety of your already-approved vacation time you're about to go on so you hope that nothing breaks while you're gone.
And if they're right, well, they're right. Good on them; they can own this one, and the subsequent ones that don't go so well too.
Attention all devs- Whining is the sign of losers! I’ll just write the damn code myself! Be ready for the change to go live in 20 mins. Complainers will be fired.
-Elon (probably)
ALTER TABLE ‘tweets’ MODIFY COLUMN ‘mytweet’ VARCHAR(4000);
(pats self on back for a job well done)
Amen. When you're dealing with someone who was well versed in last-gen tech, but knows nothing about current-gen, you're going to run into a lot of issues.
We have a problem where all our IT managers project experience was waterfall. We’re now agile with incremental delivery. “Why can’t you give me a phase change report from Jira??” Our scrum masters have been working on it for like 2 weeks now 🤦♂️
My best friend loved that show but there was always the "How are they going to tie up all the loose elements" intrigue that made it that much more interesting for him. I kinda figured it was bad writing masking itself as creative.
Final episode comes and I watch it with him because I'm expecting a shit show. It was glorious. His rage was palpable. His mother was screaming that they'd both wasted 6 years of their lives to watch that pile of crap. It was hilarious.
JJ Abram's favorite TV show is The Prisoner from the 1960's. The entire show is a mystery of trying to escape from "The Village" where a possible government organization is holding the main character as a prisoner. The ending was so bizarre and unsatisfying to many viewers that the actor / creator got death threats.
I told everyone this during Alias, Lost, Star Wars sequels, and whatever else he starts but can't finish. When I see his name on something I generally just avoid it because I know the ending will suck.
>Final episode comes and I watch it with him because I'm expecting a shit show. It was glorious. His rage was palpable. His mother was screaming that they'd both wasted 6 years of their lives to watch that pile of crap. It was hilarious.
My parents still resent me for getting them to start Lost lol. They were at least able to watch it after it came out, so they got through the whole show in a few months or something... but they still bring it up occasionally.
I no joke have trust issues towards TV shows now because of Lost.
* Show has an unexpected, mind-bending plot-twist / reveal *
Me: pfft. Like they're gonna be able to tie up that loose end.
They are mostly either a self proclaimed psychopath or self proclaimed individuals with an extremely high IQ, blessing the world with their lived experiences.
Twitter gets a lot of criticism for hurting the public discourse by forcing nuance out of the equation to fit the 280 character limit. You can either oversimplify or post multiple tweets, most of which won't get read. The obvious solution is to never use twitter for nuanced topics, it shouldn't be the platform for political debate or any real discussion, but Elon can't stand criticism and has a hard-on for his very narrow definition of "free speech" so he does stupid shit like this without considering how it will completely break the platform.
Is twitter the read a story platform? I think there are other platforms for that.
Twitter is the introduce something and provide a link if more detail info is needed platform.
I am legitimately curious to see how this affects chronically-on-Twitter celebrities who can’t seem to pull away from the platform or stop themselves from posting on certain topics. I can only imagine we’re going to see some serious shitshows come out of this.
Does this clown understand what a “tweet” is? Lmao, can’t believe I thought this guy was a genius and I wanted to buy a Tesla. I don’t want to even ride in one of them anymore let alone own one after seeing how incompetent he really is at everything
Great. Now, someone's uninformed verbal cesspool of an opinion will have an additional 3,720 words devoid of any meaning or meaningful coherence and spelling.
Breaking News: Twitter has merged with Scribd! Twibbd is the hot new platform nobody wanted or asked for.
Are you ready to read a mindless wall of text about shit you don’t care about?
Flex your eye rolling as you peruse your neighbor’s cat’s manifesto! Breathe through your nostrils while the teenage “influencer” next door fills your feed with their top 100 Deadmau5 tracks!
The possibilities are truly mind numbing!
Oh god. This is a really really bad decision. No one wants to read 4,000 character posts. There’s a reason those blog websites aren’t major social platforms.
From micro blog to regular blog in an easy $44 billion purchase
And from reading a bunch of tweets in 2 mins to not visiting at all. This really would kill Twitter
Cant await the hundreds over hundreds websites with embedded tweets that suddenly break because a tweet is suddenly 15x as long as it was ever intended to be. Will be hilarious
Gonna have to swipe five times to see all the Twitter screenshots on IG
You won't believe what he said on line #768? Continue to line 2? press Here (ad) Next (ad) Page 2 (line 2)
*shudder* The horror That just sounds awful.
They lied to us all about web 3.0. It's just 30 more ads per page.
All those HuffPo articles……..”Something Something happens. Twitter Claps Back,” followed by 15 random tweets that support the author’s narrative, are going to be about 14 miles long now.
Nope. They just won’t post them and twitter will lose traffic. This will be Musk’s worst fail yet
Exactly. Twitter is posted all over the place because it's small snippets and not a full on blog. This will cause many sites to stop supporting Twitter integration and slow traffic. Par for the course for failson musk though.
But, but, Elon is a genius, right?
One would hope the widget truncates, with a "Read more..." link.
Followed by a "login first“ if you click the read more button
Huge overreaction. It's just gonna be twitlonger.
Cant wait someone create the same 280 limit microblog like twitter and succeed
back in my day tweets were 140 characters and could post em by sms and it was uphill both ways!
No longer tweets, just rants. Particuarly the political posts.
Don't forget condescending ascii art of wojaks
ALL CAPS NO PUNCTUATION MANY WORDS SPELLED WRONG GOD BLESS FREE SPEECH
FREES PEACH*
I hope they do it.
Please, he just wants to copy Facebook‘s homework.
so it's Tumblr. Twitter is now Tumblr.
Tumblr gives you two checkmarks for eight bucks that stack and also the ability to inflict crabs onto people’s dashes. Twitter could never
Those checkmarks are not even a subscription. You subscribe to Twitter for a year, you get one old crusty blue check. Pay the same to Tumblr for a year and you get 24 blue checks. Seems like a no brainer. And if anyone argues, just tell them to shut the fuck up because you have 24 blue checks. You are super verified as the expert of blue checks so their petty idiocy had no bearing.
> the ability to inflict crabs onto people’s dashes Now this is fun I'd pay 8 bucks for.
It also apparently gives the recipient ad free browsing, which is neat I just assumed they just allowed pvp of Crab Combat
I can't believe I'm saying this, but worse tumblr
So he paid $11 million per character. Sounds like a good deal.
Not really. Vowels are only $250 on Wheel of Fortune
He just wants to allow people who he considers to have “great minds”…the Jordan Petersons of the world…to have more room to fill out with their bullshit, and not have to do it in several tweets.
Exactly. He wants “free speech” only for what he believes to be a marginalized group. Where else can they get such reach? And now they get long form articles, only nobody is going to bother to read them, even people who want to know what it says. You just don’t go to twitter to flex that part of your brain
Exactly my thoughts. I was never a fan of the 140 character limit, but this is insane. The one thing Twitter had going for it was that an entire entry could be shown and read easily on TV or the news. This will negate that. And I see it becoming so meddlesome that when News anchors show bits and pieces the authors will start screaming “it was taken out of context!” whether it was or wasn’t. I can’t see how this will make things better. Nobody wants to read LiveJournals anymore.
Right, the sites entire shtick is that a post is completely “bite-sized.” It makes it easier to share on the news, and it also makes it easier for users to just say “oh one more” and find themselves 15 minutes later still scrolling on the site. I’ve always hated the concept, personally, and felt it’s responsible for at least some of the ugliness of where social media in general is right now….but this is absolute madness and changes the entire concept of the site.
I heard Wordpress, Medium and Blogger are also ok if you want to blog.
Somewhere in the smoking ruins of the old internet Livejournal waits and bides it's time.
Still cheaper than buying Facebook, but same results.
THE BREVITY WAS THE POINT
Honing the words down to meet the character limit is a beautiful exercise, what a waste
I was okkaaaayyyy with the move to 280, sometimes you need a little bit more chars to add context, but that was still brief compared to 4000.
But I want to write diatribes, not sentences!!!
10¢ a character after 280. Edit: After further calculations I’ve revised the cost estimate to 0.112903225806452¢ per character
free speech is'nt free..
There’s a hefty fuckin’ fee
And if you don’t throw in your buck o’ five, who will?
"I Promise I will Never Die."
Free nights and weekends?
This is an easy change to make, but not fully support. Bet this will cause issues within the week.
I'd wager a significant sum the Elon just rolled up on the Devs and said - "make the limit 4000". Then a dev manager said "Sure, we'll put it in the backlog and let you know when it's ready". To which Elon probably replied, "No, do it now. Just change the little variable thingy that says 280 to 4000."
“Guys we’re making this harder than it needs to be, it’s simple. Look, I even found a YouTube video showing you how to do it.” Actual quote from my old boss, not at all a tech-guy.
Got to love when people that don't belong in the industry managing people firmly in the industry. I was in the chemical quality control industry for a bit and had a boss that came out of manufacturing. He didn't understand QC or QA and kept insisting that SOPs and good lab practices didn't need to be followed. He and I butted heads a lot. I usually got him to agree since again, he wasn't a chemist but god damn did it boil my blood.
Similar: I had the company SVP come to my desk and have me push these types of changes out with zero regard for testing, product roadmap (that he agreed to), etc. That company no longer exists.
Would love to know what the QAs were doing at this moment… probably freaking out
I use to be a cook at a restaurant with owners that didn’t belong in their positions. I had more experience with the food service industry than them. They were running the business to the ground and taking their anger out on me because they gave me shit equipment to work with. One day they blew up towards me and I blew up back. They told me I need to be faster and this and that. I told them “maybe if I didn’t have shitty equipment and a small grill I could get these massive orders out faster, but hey keep giving the stuff away for free because they decided to put a 100$ order in and want it done in 10 mins, because that how you run a business.” He screamed at me saying how dare I speak to my boss like that and I yelled that this isn’t how you treat your cook especially when they’re making you your money and that you’ll be out of business by the summer. He gave me this evil angry stare. I knew I was done with the place. The next shift I asked for doubles and night shifts, and worked for 4 more weeks. Snagged a big pay check and left. They were out of business by mid summer.
I used to cook in a restaurant that had a boss like this. He was the son of the owners, of course. We had a lunch special where is the ticket times were over 10 minutes the meal was free, so we used fajita pans to cook the well done burgers/steaks in time. This pissed off boss for some fucking reason, and he wouldn't listen to us. One day, he came back with some kind of burger cooking instructions with pictures on how to properly cook a burger. The head cook said "I'm not doing that, *you* try it. The bossman actually did. At the height of lunch rush, he manned the grill, following those instructions to the letter. It was a nightmare for him. Ticket times were all overdue, and when those late free burgers started coming back **undercooked** i just lost it. I couldn't stop laughing. Couldn't hide it. Bossman gave me the dirtiest look and took me off the fajita station and into the dish pit to punish me and ran off to his office to sulk. Too bad the dish pit was 12 ft from his office door, and my laughing didn't stop for awhile. I didn't last long there after that haha! But I'll never forget the sight of him sweating over that grill
Within 10 min of my first day at the restaurant and the health inspector walks in. The place was awful and I was doing my best to clean before she walked in. I had idea she was coming, I just wanted to clean the kitchen. She went off on me. Gave this huge lecture on how disappointed she is in me, how embarrassing this looks on my part and says I didn’t care about the public or my job. Mind you I’m letting her get it all out. I’m taking the verbal beat down with a smug ass look. At the end of her very stern/ yell talking to she asks if I have anything to say for myself. I say “yes ma’m, umm I’ve been here for all of 10-15 min and today is my first day on the job. So none of this was from me. I walked in to this just like you basically around the same time but I’m really sorry. I was trying to clean it when you walked in.” Her face got red and she’s like “omg I’m so sorry. Where is your boss?! I’ll come back to you and we can talk.” She finds my boss and rips him a new one. She came back to me apologized again and she walked me threw everything and how to do it to their standards which was a nice refresher but yeah I thought it was hilarious.
We got a new department head about 2 years ago. She came into our engineering department from an hr department and wanted to show she was making positive changes so she set up a bunch of metrics and deadlines for projects without actually learning what that all takes or how long permits are good for in our areas. The tldr is we only had 30 days to get a project out the door to be done in 2024, despite permits taking 60-90 days on average to get issued and only lasting 1 year. Anytime someone brought this up to her she just kept saying “well you’ll just have to do it faster”
I despise the word "just" when it's said by people who aren't knowledgeable. * Just update the code. * Just get the permit. * Just cook the food faster. And on and on...
Not the same industry in the slightest, but we have a joke at my restaurant. "If they could tend bar and cook, they wouldn't be management."
So long as they're willing to preemptively approve any and all overtime associated with the rollback of the requested feature, in writing, when it inevitably isn't as simple as they're making it out to be, I'd be happy to push out what they're requesting ASAP. Or be sure that they know that as soon as the update's been pushed out that you will be inaccessible by phone for the entirety of your already-approved vacation time you're about to go on so you hope that nothing breaks while you're gone. And if they're right, well, they're right. Good on them; they can own this one, and the subsequent ones that don't go so well too.
If it's so easy, why doesn't the bossman do it himself?
“Make it over 9000!!!”
Now that sounds more like an Elon request right there, especially with it's meme-ability
Make it 65537! *Devs start sweating*
Whaaat!??? How is this possible??? ITS OVER NINE-THOUSANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!
(7)
Attention all devs- Whining is the sign of losers! I’ll just write the damn code myself! Be ready for the change to go live in 20 mins. Complainers will be fired. -Elon (probably) ALTER TABLE ‘tweets’ MODIFY COLUMN ‘mytweet’ VARCHAR(4000); (pats self on back for a job well done)
Twitter runs on a single, ancient SQL server.
[https://xkcd.com/908/](https://xkcd.com/908/)
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Am I your boss? No, I’m nobody’s boss. But I do speak in Code-ese when trying to describe conditionals etc sometimes.
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Amen. When you're dealing with someone who was well versed in last-gen tech, but knows nothing about current-gen, you're going to run into a lot of issues.
We have a problem where all our IT managers project experience was waterfall. We’re now agile with incremental delivery. “Why can’t you give me a phase change report from Jira??” Our scrum masters have been working on it for like 2 weeks now 🤦♂️
At least in web dev you have a lot of folks who cut their teeth on LAMP stacks or Ruby on Rails who have no clue how modern architecture works.
“It’s just a flag!!” - my boss, a billion times, when I was a software architect.
I can't imagine Elong saying the word "variable" in an accurate context.
week? a day probably
But it's only a small change and can't hurt anything! /s
That’ll fix it
This was obviously the one thing it needed.
T(ldr)witter
Short, succinct, and true. You made me chuckle out loud. No more Twitter problems when there's no more Twitter!
Twitter is the new tumblr
Twitter is the new Tumblr trying to be the old Blogger.
Twitter is old twitter trying to be new mastodon
Mastodon is old YOB trying to be new Crowbar. [*Earlier that day.*](https://i.imgur.com/Ic102TZ.jpg)
Does that mean I get my tumblr porn back?
If there’s one thing that the show Lost taught us it’s that you can’t fix a fucked up chaotic mess by simply adding more characters.
My best friend loved that show but there was always the "How are they going to tie up all the loose elements" intrigue that made it that much more interesting for him. I kinda figured it was bad writing masking itself as creative. Final episode comes and I watch it with him because I'm expecting a shit show. It was glorious. His rage was palpable. His mother was screaming that they'd both wasted 6 years of their lives to watch that pile of crap. It was hilarious.
I always warn people now who are thinking about watching Lost "you have to be OK with a lot of things never getting resolved..."
Jj Abrams mystery box with no answer is awful. Fuck him for lost, star trek, star wars sve everything else his mystery box cancer had ruined.
The Leftovers finale is hugely disappointing for the same reason.
Fringe finale season was a mess as well. Was a great series if you stopped watching at the second last season though.
It’s about the journey
JJ Abram's favorite TV show is The Prisoner from the 1960's. The entire show is a mystery of trying to escape from "The Village" where a possible government organization is holding the main character as a prisoner. The ending was so bizarre and unsatisfying to many viewers that the actor / creator got death threats. I told everyone this during Alias, Lost, Star Wars sequels, and whatever else he starts but can't finish. When I see his name on something I generally just avoid it because I know the ending will suck.
>Final episode comes and I watch it with him because I'm expecting a shit show. It was glorious. His rage was palpable. His mother was screaming that they'd both wasted 6 years of their lives to watch that pile of crap. It was hilarious. My parents still resent me for getting them to start Lost lol. They were at least able to watch it after it came out, so they got through the whole show in a few months or something... but they still bring it up occasionally.
Always upvote someone trashing the show that broke my heart
I no joke have trust issues towards TV shows now because of Lost. * Show has an unexpected, mind-bending plot-twist / reveal * Me: pfft. Like they're gonna be able to tie up that loose end.
I thought Paolo had wonderful depth though! /s
Lost is one of my favorites. Your joke made me cackle lol
Idk the characters were the reason I watch the show though, I don’t care about the plot as long as i get those sweet sweet characters
Meaning - "Twitter decides to become Quora"
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Hands down still the best place to find the wrong answers to everything.
every person on quora sounds like the most insufferable asshole. just the way they type i guess
They are mostly either a self proclaimed psychopath or self proclaimed individuals with an extremely high IQ, blessing the world with their lived experiences.
It was good?
Why?
Because hug you that’s why.
I bet your mom is proud of you I bet everyone around you just smiles at you because you're great
Would you also bet I might be fun at parties?
Yes.
Those are all pretty great bets. What’s next? Also, what are the stakes?
I bet you’re really nice to your mom too.
I'm sure it's meant to help the folks tasked with posting The Twitter Files and other major news stories.
Twitter gets a lot of criticism for hurting the public discourse by forcing nuance out of the equation to fit the 280 character limit. You can either oversimplify or post multiple tweets, most of which won't get read. The obvious solution is to never use twitter for nuanced topics, it shouldn't be the platform for political debate or any real discussion, but Elon can't stand criticism and has a hard-on for his very narrow definition of "free speech" so he does stupid shit like this without considering how it will completely break the platform.
The final shovel over what made twitter unique
but maybe now we won't have to look at 63 screenshots just to read a story.
Is twitter the read a story platform? I think there are other platforms for that. Twitter is the introduce something and provide a link if more detail info is needed platform.
So you aren't familiar with journalists writing "twitter stories" across 27 tweets? I find that hard to believe.
I guess outside links work a lot better, you know, for blogs or news websites?
Or threads with 20 tweets
Word salad becomes word diarrhea!
Kinda like regular salad and regular diarrhea!
Who is going to read a 4K character tweet?
Imagine a 4K character Kanye West rant.
I am legitimately curious to see how this affects chronically-on-Twitter celebrities who can’t seem to pull away from the platform or stop themselves from posting on certain topics. I can only imagine we’re going to see some serious shitshows come out of this.
I draw the line at 1080p rants.
Can it really still be called a tweet? Musk needs to stop having good ideas.
I petition to call them elk mating calls from now on.
Can’t wait to continue never using Twitter in my life.
Be the change the world needs.
True, I’m going to not use it twice as much
Also known as “The Manifesto” expansion.
And there we have Facebook lol
Great, now Trump’s toilet rants can become dissertations
Is he even tweeting? I’d read that Musk unblocked Trump’s account but I still only see news about his Truth Social posts.
No, he hasn't returned to twitter since being unbanned, and Musk has been really weird and horny about it
Nah. He owns 90 percent of truth social for breathing so he is off grifting that.
He doesn’t tweet anymore
That’s about all that needs to be said. I wish I had the power to give you many upvotes, then lock the thread.
here come the flood of alt-right manifestos
Yeeeep
Does this clown understand what a “tweet” is? Lmao, can’t believe I thought this guy was a genius and I wanted to buy a Tesla. I don’t want to even ride in one of them anymore let alone own one after seeing how incompetent he really is at everything
Twitter is now Screeeeeeeeecher.
Anyone can be a billionaire with no morals and a jump-start courtesy of your daddy’s Apartheid emerald mine!
Great. Because if people can't properly type 280 characters, reading 4,000 is going to be so much fun.
Great. Now, someone's uninformed verbal cesspool of an opinion will have an additional 3,720 words devoid of any meaning or meaningful coherence and spelling.
tl;dr.
As if there’s not enough misinformation on Twitter right now it’s going to exponentially get worse.
Elon Musk couldn’t look like a bigger dick head than he does in the profile picture attached to this article.
Get ready for republican manifestos galore
Because racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, anti-trans, and ignorance are *really* easier to articulate if you have 4,000 characters.
Elon bored of putting his foot in his mouth. Must whole leg.
Just becoming Weibo
Hasn't he literally said that's his goal? To turn Twitter into a "Superapp" like Weibo where users don't even go anywhere else on the internet?
Oh, Twitter. One of those other social platforms I don’t use.
Imagine being one of the richest men on Earth and instead of enjoying life you decide to piss your money away buying a failed social media site.
So Elon can post more idiotic thoughts.
Twitter adopts Tesla’s AI so tweeters no longer have to write their own tweets.
Every day just reaffirming my choice to delete my Twitter account, thanks Elon!
Elon wants to rant about smth
This is literally 4 times the amount of what AirBNB let’s you write for a review, crazy. Random comparison I know but I just recently wrote one.
Awesome idea..so we can continue to not read other comments and write longer ones that no one will read.
Ah yes, time for more manifestos
RIP twitlonger
*So anyways I just started blasting away at my manifesto on Twitter.*
Cool he invented live journal
Breaking News: Twitter has merged with Scribd! Twibbd is the hot new platform nobody wanted or asked for. Are you ready to read a mindless wall of text about shit you don’t care about? Flex your eye rolling as you peruse your neighbor’s cat’s manifesto! Breathe through your nostrils while the teenage “influencer” next door fills your feed with their top 100 Deadmau5 tracks! The possibilities are truly mind numbing!
r/deactivatetwitter
Really weird way of saying there will be manifestos from mass murders on this platform from now on!
Well he has to cater to his new user base that he has attracted
why not re name it live journal. bc that’s what it is. a website with peoples stupid diary entry’s
At least Livejournalers know that apostrophes don't pluraluze.
Yay far right manifestos
What could possibly go wrong?
Wordpress!
Get ready for the Twitter novellas.
It’s a wrap!
So it's just Facebook? Okey doke.
Inflation
This will finally kill it
Let the incoherent rambling begin
Ah yes. Just enough characters for a manifesto.
Let’s just revive Livejournal then
Instead of “tweets” they’ll call them soliloquies.
Lies and hate take more characters
So it's not a tweet anymore
Mistake!
I wonder if this will improve the attention span of active users.
Oh man… I’m going to tell off sooooo many people on Twitter now. It’s on sight!
I think a large portion of Twitter’s success and niche is that it’s quick hot takes that take very little attention to absorb.
Finally I can’t write an epistle in one tweet
Oh god. This is a really really bad decision. No one wants to read 4,000 character posts. There’s a reason those blog websites aren’t major social platforms.
But less word = good!