Hello folks,
Our very own Herbie Allen pingged with this one, and it was a boost from the verge titled Elon Musk says Twitter should be ready for new CEO by end of year/.
I just finished reading this a bit ago and there is really no time table on when he will step down although a search is under way.
Lots of mistakes have been made including the removal of the API, which might be retracted, although I don’t know that to be accurate. Please don’t quote me on that statement, as this is based on what I’m seeing and what has been disclosed within the past week.
As we discussed, it isn’t the API that’s the problem, its the people spamming through the API. People like you and I have used it legitimately by connecting things through services like DLVR which allows our blogs to be posted without us doing anything.
We were supposed to lose access this past monday, but so far, it hasn’t happened. Nobody is going to be able to pay to access that, and the fact you’ve not been truthful with your developers let alone customers which we are leads a bad taste for me.
I guess we’ll see how true this is, but I’m not impressed, I don’t know about the rest of you.
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The problem is … according to reports, he got rid of the accessibility team and the public relations team. By doing this, we had no choice but to move over to Mastodon. You can get Tweesecake for Mac and Windows that works with Mastodon. I’m on there and having more meaningful conversation than twitter and facebook combined IMHO!
With that said, since I run several accounts, I’m not going to just leave, but I’m not paying money to someone who pretty much laid off everyone he can and then backpeddled on something that was supposed to go at the beginning of the week. Could it be backlash? Maybe, but we’ll see over time.
I predict Twitter won’t survive and at some point, it’ll end up going. Users left because their favorite applications they used stopped working and twitter said nothing. The rest, I can deal with. I find social media a luxury, not a right.
Well its a real pitty mr musc didn’t come out with the issue before now.
Spamm is a blite on the net no matter if you are a hacker, a pirate, etc.
I was one still am partly a geek at any rate.
Look spam serves no purpose but to annoy at best and well at worst, its just not cool unless its your thing I guess.
I mean I’m not hhappy about it but we all have rights I guess.
If mr musk actually told us they were wanting to try to kerb spam I think he’d get a lot less backlash.
Sure we wouldn’t agree with everything but yeah I’d get that extreme if I was taking twitter.
Lets face it, the christchurch terror attack really shook the world and not in a good way.
One of the big things it showed out was the unregulated social networks.
Now thats really not changed much though everyone is aware of it.
Twitter and facebook were top of the chain.
They tried to improve.
Trump was the next klincher though he probably wasn’t the first certainly wouldn’t be the last.
So a big push to regulate online and to be honest when online and offline universes merge even like this its messy.
I mean how do you regulate something thats always open.
So anyway twitter and suuch have been getting a lot of flack to try to rain it in for at least a year.
Maybe 2 I forget.
Point is the fact they make the effort is one thing but a lot of this is experimental there isn’t a net force like mr Clansi has us believe and even then a net force didn’t mean the end of chriminal behaviour.
Making the thing payed though wouldn’t discourage hackers necessarily.
It would drive away users though.
Now obviously twitter aint making cash from third party apps and a lot of social networks have to face this, streaming to hence netflicks pricing with shared accounts.
However, dispencation should be made for accessibility and yeah I do realise anythhing can be abused its the nature of our species or the universe take your pick.
And there were people that have done business and say its just business.
But when you are the top dog, you make a mistake, your head comes off.
Its simple as that.
I’d imagine the board would have told mr musk simply that, sort your junk out, you can exit at a time of your choosing or your head comes off or something like that.
Now obviouusly they are giving him a chance so it may not happen he has 10 months to improve.
It could be more technical than that.
He is powerfull so its not like they could just chuck him without more reputation loss.
But I’d imagine that would be the case.
Who knows everyone screws up.
And not telling users was the first mistake.
The second was getting us users to find a solution.
I have been having the same issue with facebook reality access.
Signed up ages back.
Supposed to get gear and stuff but nothing.
Supposed to get work and communication, the same.
However the orgmented reality space aint taken off as it was supposed to.
The sets cost a lot for what you can use them for.
The gear that users got wasn’t completely usable either.
Its not been the ultra hit it should have as refferenced in news articles in fact with some of the layoffs orgmented reality may be a bust or at least not ready to go.
For what its worth jumping in to quick is just as bad as jumping in to late.
If twitter communicated I would have understood.
Maybe not agreed but certainly understood.
Instead they just cut off their users and that angered a lot of us.
A lot was going to go to mastodon, other companies were about to get in to have something like twitter was before it changed.
Maybe they noticed, and realised it was their doom.
I like twitter interface over mastodon never could get used to it at least for reading.
Now posting, wordpress is what I got used to.
If I didn’t then live journal or blogger.
Blogger is google so technically we have accounts on blogger all we need do is activate them.
A lot of people are using the website though so yeah that.