Why are they spending all this time, energy and money into making a new social media app when they can just bring back MySpace

Delete your Threads account. You know what Meta as a company has done, you know the kind of person Mark Zuckerberg is. You've lived through Gamergate, the elections, covid, the fucking lot of it, and yet you're still willingly making an account on Threads. How can you possibly justify that?

Second ask: Scratch that, I hadn't read your most recent posts. Sorry for being so rude.

Third ask: "Still going to keep an eye on it" For what exactly? For it not to be as bad as it is? For it to get even worse before you decide it is wrong? You know who Mark Zuckerberg is. You know what Facebook is. Be up front: you don't actually care or stand for anything, you're only afraid of losing business. Have some dignity.

So you decided to be rude as fuck, "apologize," and then come back and be more rude?

I was incredibly clear in that post of why I am going to keep an eye on Threads, despite the concerns: Twitter was a valuable source of live news, especially during natural disasters, and Threads is the first potentially viable replacement for that. IDK if you actually follow me, but if you do you'll know I do a lot of work around natural disaster communication. Twitter was invaluable as a communication source during natural disasters. Full stop. It is not up for debate. But hey, if you want a source with more authority than a random tumblr blog, here, have a nice shiny research paper:

Mind you, that was written in 2010 and the importance of Twitter as a communications tool during natural disasters has only increased since then. There is no other tool out there, no other website--news or otherwise, that can provide such granular, specific updates when shit hits the fan as Twitter did. The only better, quicker source of information I have found during natural disasters is listening to actual radio chatter from the departments involved in whatever problem, and that can be very tricky to do if you don't know where to look or have the right equipment. There is no other site where I can go specifically follow so many of my local fire departments, my local emergency services, my local National Weather System stations, and get live pushed updates from them every single time they post.

When Twitter DDOSed itself last week and put a limit on the amount of tweets people could view and forced people to be logged in to view anything at all, the effect was immediate and BAD. People suddenly couldn't view things like missing person alerts, or weather alerts. I had people messaging me because they were trying to check the National Weather System autoalerts for their area on Twitter due to being caught in a sudden storm, but they couldn't get on to check.

Love it or hate it, Twitter had an immense amount of value and it got that value--at least in the case of natural disaster communication--because the stubborn ass government decided it was big enough to be trusted with official lines of information. Very, very few other social media sites have ever had that trust from the government. Look at how they banned TikTok on all government devices. But they DO trust Facebook, and Instagram, and Meta. Which means their chances of trusting Threads and migrating over there when Twitter finally takes its last breath are ASTRONOMICALLY higher than expecting them to go anywhere else.

We can debate the privacy and moral issues of the Metaverse and those involved until the cows come home, but it does not change the fact that if my mountain is on fire I'm gonna get information about where that fire is from wherever the fuck I can. I'm not going to wait around for it to maybe show up in a "live" updates news article from CNN from some reporter half a continent away in New York who doesn't know anything about where I live and gets the roads wrong because they just don't know. I'm going to go to the website full of my neighbors and local firefighters and see what's happening right that second.

Do we need to fix the privacy and moral issues? Yes. But we can't throw the baby out with the bathwater either. Not using Threads or any other Meta product isn't the answer here. Using them with extreme caution and only for very specific needs, for the time being, is. Long term, we need to be focusing on privacy based legislation that would finally put these companies in their place. But until then, again, I'm going to keep following my local fire departments wherever they go.

P.S.: If you're going to keep the shitty attitude, fuck right off and unfollow+block. You're not wanted here.

My only thought when this interview published.

This man's upgraded from drilling holes in the boat to using a machine gun lol

lmao

Elon Musk did not listen to 'Redesign your Logo' By Lemon Demon and it shows.

this came to me in a dream

Why is Hozier trending very on brand for this place but also add him to the people I will miss cause of bird app implosion.

His likes were my dashboard for awhile…

so, ignore this if you don't care about the train-wreck that is Twitter under Elon Musk's rule, but...

Since Musk seems pretty obsessed with this "X" farce, I think it would be hilarious if Zuckerberg made a serious public bid to buy the rights to the "Twitter" name, bird logo, and all the branding.

Either Musk refuses and makes it look like he's not really committed to the name change... or he will accept, at which point Zuck can rename Threads as "Twitter", change the logo, call them "Tweets", and it'll be like this whole thing never happened.

A little birdie An elongated muskrat told me

As fun as it is to watch Twitter fall to its demise, it is disappointing how a site that was once made for friendly engagement and discussion across the web has devolved into a site that is plagued with negativity and polarizing discussion, and is also another product of monetization taking the life out of another part of the internet. The soul of Twitter has died a long time ago, now its body has been killed off. To their eyes the death of the symbol of what this site once was is nothing but another step of expanding their lifeless money-making web empire.

at least twitter is going out with a bang. most fun the bird app has been . i will give elon that for better or worse.

twitter changes its name to x will cause so many people to see some screwed up stuff when instead of searching for twitter videos they instead search for x videos

I’d love for Elon Musk to actually somehow follow through with rebranding Twitter to X, and then having to face the repercussions of having searches for anything from google to be flooded out with porn

BIGGEST STUNT HE HAS PULLED YET