Damn. Twitter is going down in real time.

[nolabear]

It is quite the thing to behold. 😳

[JohnSJ]

1. If it does, someone will get it at a bargain price

[NYC Democrat]

29. Tumblr 2.0 basically Sold to new owners for a ton.. they sold it later for basically pennies.

THIS TIME WITH A MUCH LARGER USERBASE.

[JohnSJ]

45. Unbelievable

[vercetti2021]

46. Difference between the two

Tumblr die because they stopped letting people post porn on it. Instant death. Elon is speed running to kill a company in record time.

[Texasgal]

2. I'm a small-time user

on twitter... I have been logged on tonight and I am not seeing any difference?

The only thing I am seeing is lot of posts about it going down. Am I missing something? I am not an Elon Fan by any stretch, just curious what I should be looking for?

[nolabear]

4. People diving off, Elon taking away security badges, locking buildings

Tweeting all kinds of bizarre things himself, one set of accounts—not sure if it’s real because reality is long gone—saying Elon managed to lock himself and the remaining people out when thy nullified the badges, etc. Every other trending topic is about bailing or watching it burn.

Don’t know what tomorrow will bring but it’s impressive as hell.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

39. my fave tweet tonight...

Link to tweet

?t=lDmC_-zD4Nv80JzhYnM2AQ&s=19

[DemocraticPatriot]

35. The one thing I notice is that, for the past week, I am suddenly flooded

with new followers who mostly appear to be bots or fake spam accounts... Mostly the kind which picture an attractive woman, are following 300 people but only have 7 followers, LOL

I had very few of these previously, now there seem to be several every day. No problem, I just ignore them. Thanks for following me! lol

[orleans]

40. i had one follow me tonight

i clicked on her page & she signed up in october, wants money to take care of her mom and can get into a money raising opportunity.

first time i've come upon that crap.

so i blocked her.

[DemocraticPatriot]

41. Actually they can't hurt you by following you,

it may help your account a tiny bit.

Just don't follow them back, that is what they are trying to accomplish.


Oh, and it's probably a guy. lol

[Hortensis]

52. We need to differentiate between business decline and user behavior.

Twitter's value to the world isn't Musk or its staff, or its stock price. It's the users -- information sharers from every field -- who turned Twitter from another platform to a planetwide central square for everyone from Renaissance scholars to reporters on insurgencies to meet in.

Professional users with followings and communications within their fields that they need to tend are of course concerned. I've seen a lot remaining serenely with Twitter while opening accounts elsewhere to transfer to if they need to. What proportion have actually left?

[Emrys]

3. Still working fine here. Wouldn't know there are problems if people didn't tweet about them.

In fact it's been a hilarious evening, what with the updates about Musk's latest antics and the reactions from rebellious staffers and ordinary users.

It will go down in good time if some way isn't found to reinstate or restaff the tech functions, though.

[nolabear]

6. That's my point. It's really worth watching.

Who knows what’s really going to happen but the meltdown is amazing.

[Emrys]

9. In the usual phrasing, "I can't believe this app is free."

I encountered some chitchat on one of the hashtags between RWers/Musk fans who've been crowing about clearing out the liberals and claiming the fact the site hasn't gone *poof* proves that the workers weren't needed and didn't do anything anyway.

I don't think those people are very tech-savvy. Much jealousy toward those who are and actually get paid for it, but for some reason Musk gets a free pass from them.

[wnylib]

53. I like Huffpost's headline

https://www.huffpost.com/

[NullTuples]

28. I don't think the OP means the app or site, but the corporation

Although if the stories are true, the app & site functionality won't be far behind.

[BWdem4life]

5. What, no tweet?

[SCantiGOP]

7. Employees are locked out of the buildings

But you don’t need employees.
I’ve worked around computers, and nothing ever goes wrong with them.

[eleny]

12. Has he announced that he's Napoleon yet?

Or maybe he's the real Anastasia?

[3Hotdogs]

16. Tomorrow, we take Lichtenstein.... then Luxembourg, Oh, I forgot, Czechoslovakia come before

Luxembourg.... Than the Rhineland.... No., Rhineland comes first....

[eleny]

18. Don't forget Poland!

[hatrack]

51. . . .

[AZLD4Candidate]

37. What's the difference between God and Elon Musk?

[EarlG]

14. 100% true statement

I also work around computers and have never had a single probl

[sprinkleeninow]

32. ..

😆

[Hermit-The-Prog]

36. I've never seen that ...

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ uptime
01:23:04 up 113 days, 21:15, 0 users, load average: 0.40, 0.24, 0.25

[chriscan64]

47. I only get the one with the cryptic error code.

If only I had a working computer to look up what it means.

[DemocraticPatriot]

42. Of course not! We do not suffer from 'human error'.

Love,
Hal

[Initech]

8. Is it me or does this seem like it was a political hit job?

Something about this whole Twitter mess stinks and I can't quite put my finger on it. Someone talk me down from the ledge...

[sarcasmo]

10. Yep, purchased to destroy and "own the libs."

[dsp3000]

19. I know he's rich, but to spend $44B to own the libs... lol.

[NullTuples]

30. Saudi Arabia was the secondary funder, and who knows?

Maybe other oligarchs kicked in a few billion directly to Musk, or will if he's successful. I can think of a handful off-hand including Putin & friends.

[BlackSkimmer]

48. P Diddy was also a large investor.

He seems to be keeping that on the down-low for some reason.

[tinrobot]

20. Probably not intentionally. He simply made a epically bad purchase.

He made an impulse purchase for something he didn't really need and severely overpaid for the privilege.

He also has no idea how to run a media company. You can't bully people like he does with his assembly lines.

[DemocraticPatriot]

43. I think he "misunderestimated" the number of liberals

in Twitter's employ, who have been keeping the company running...

[eleny]

11. No access to my profile, bookmarks, search feature

I've only been there a short time so it doesn't really matter. It's just so weird to see it fade like HAL the computer from 2001.

[Emrys]

24. Those features are working for me,

so it might be a temporary glitch. Or indeed, it could be Hal singing "Daisy, Daisy ..."

[eleny]

26. Yeah, mine came back but it isn't stable

Not many new tweets are loading. Things work and then don't. Makes you realize how much it takes to keep these sites working smoothly. Maybe time to send another donation to DU?!

[BlackSkimmer]

49. I'm not on twitter, but a friend is.

She said she’s not seen any changes or had any problems so far.

[2naSalit]

25. Funny how that image...

Comes to mind for so many. Even me and I have never had an account there.

[DemocraticPatriot]

44. "Daisy, Dai-sy, give me your ans---wer,

Doooooooooooooooooooooo....."

[blogslug]

13. If you're on Twitter follow @darth

He has dogs

(crying while scrolling here)

[nolabear]

17. I follow gators daily

And they declared tomorrow their last Flat Fuck Friday.

[blogslug]

21. I'm going to miss my lists

They're so good.

I opted to download my archive just so I can search out the account owners on my lists. Cross fingers I get it before it all comes crashing down.

[Sogo]

15. I once worked for a start up company that became a big success.

The owner sold it for hundreds of millions to a large company, the name of which everyone would recognize. The large company hired a CEO who knew nothing about the business model for the start up, and within a couple of years had run it completely into the ground. The original owner came back in and re-purchased it for pennies on the dollar and, last I heard, was doing really well with it again. So maybe the originator of Twitter will come back in and re-purchase it once it’s about to go under.

[iemanja]

22. I just peeked

and employees are on there posting about what a fuck up Musk is.

[tinrobot]

23. Well, at least he didn't let Trump back on before it imploded.

[rubbersole]

27. There's that.

[NYC Democrat]

31. In all seriousness no Twitter isn't going to 100% die in the next week

Or the next few weeks but with basically a Skeleton crew being all that's left maintaining it your gonna see lots more lag, lots more downtimes, and possible date breaches.

It's actually incredible how badly Musk screwed up. I predict he eventually ether jumps ship to try and save face or is forced out somehow.. and Twitter is then bought for a fraction of what it was worth when he bought it and the company has to spend years rebuilding. Basically the same thing that happened with Tumblr

[sprinkleeninow]

33. Somethin's flukey about this whole thing and doesn't compute.

[Aussie105]

34. All knowledge of Musk, Twitter and Tesla

have been expunged from my personal biological memory banks.

The air smells fresher, the Sun shines brighter, the birds sing their songs with more gusto.
The grass looks greener and the wind in the trees sings it song with more joy.

Co-incidence? Maybe, maybe not.

But try it, you might like it.

[Mopar151]

38. Trump was supposed to jump on the bandwagon, as soon as.....

Twitter took off like a rocket, thanks to Mr. Brilliant Musk.

[gulliver]

50. Now if only Facebook and Snapchat would tank (and TikTok be banned) nt