I know most of y'all have fully abandoned Twitter, but good lord if he actually does this (which is not guaranteed mind you) a LOT of vulnerable people are going to get hurt.
Probably because people block bluechecks en masse to make the site slightly more bearable
I think it's a) because so many people block him and b) to pump metrics with harassment campaign "engagement"
Another reason is, he's said the block feature "significantly increase server costs", which tbh may actually be true.
Just wait until he finds out about the server costs for hosting videos
I have a baby level understanding of databases but I imagine it’s a few additional joins on the majority of queries on the site. The single feature would then cause some slowdown for many different processes. Bandwidth for downloading the content can be scaled more easily than scaling the number of DB hits. Not a sysadmin though, just a measly developer so I’m sure someone else can explain it better.
To be fair, I can't think of any way to improve my life with 44 billion dollars either.
Furthermore at this point, everyone who continues to use and advertise on his platform is complicit in enabling his bullshit.
If there’s a Nazi at the table with 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you've got a table with 11 Nazis.
This is not going to happen because both the App Store and Google Play Store require a block feature to have your app in their storefront
It’s a part of elon’s master plan of losing advertisers, access to the app stores, losing users, etc all to….
… listen the man’s a genius, who knows whats going on in there
He's a deep cover communist, there to make the working class realise how incompetent and out of touch billionaires are.
I appreciate your optimism, but twitter (X, whatever) should have been destroyed a long time ago with the way he's doing things, yet it persists...
This is not going to happen because
Coinflip if he does it fast enough and angrily enough to push it live before his underlings can beg him to reconsider
He has to be destroying Twitter on purpose, there's absolutely no way a person could make this many perfectly idiotic decisions in a row unless it was deliberate.
What I don't know is why you'd buy a social media platform for $44b and deliberately speed-run it into oblivion, but I'm sure the reasons are not good.
he's a failchild that's failed upwards his entire life and is surrounded by yes men. he's remarkably stupid.
He's really not clever or competent. From what i understand the only reason tesla and space-x can function is that they've developed proceedures for keeping him distracted and steering him away from things he can break, and even that is a constant challenge. With twitter there was no time to learn how to manage him, he just smashed through the wall, shit on the rug, and set the drapes on fire.
SpaceX has the added constraints of being a NASA contractor. For example, even though Crew Dragon was designed and built by SpaceX, has to strictly follow NASA safety and reliability specifications. NASA has a huge amount of oversight into their operations even though they're technically a private company. Which is as it should be.
But then why involve SpaceX in the first place? Unless the point is to just funnel public money into a private corporation?
As crazy as it sounds, SpaceX is the best option out of a bad bunch.
Something that a lot of people might not know is that NASA, except for prototyping, does not and never has built rockets, or crew or cargo vehicles. They build the payloads (like space probes) or supply the astronauts that go into or onto those rockets and crew vehicles. The alternative to the fixed-price contracts that SpaceX now gets are the massive-cost-overrun cost-plus contracts that have historically gone to defense contractors like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Rockwell, Northrop Grumman, etc.
NASA has historically provided the designs that those defense contractors have built, and sometimes owns the end products (like the space shuttles). This US government aerospace contracting arrangement goes all the way back to the post-WW2 days when the US Army paid Chrysler (yes, the car company) to reverse-engineer captured V2 rockets.
That's what I was wondering, because he's obviously not a smart person but things like SpaceX seem to basically function, and if he ran those the same as Twitter it'd literally be headlines like "SpaceX fires all its rockets directly into the ground for no reason" lol
IIRC that was the direct result of Elon demanding that they ignore certain safety procedures or something. Can't remember the details though but I read it somewhere.
They wanted to see if they needed an active water-deluge system for fire/debris control when a Starship booster launches. Turns out they did. They installed one as part of the repairs to their Starship test pad, so that the next prototype Starship launch has a better chance.
In my job, my clients are usually executives or VPs. They do dumb shit like this all the time. A lot of these people get to these levels of leadership for reasons that have very little to do with their competence, and they have big egos and don't listen to anyone, even when you put lots of evidence in front of them that their ideas are fucking stupid.
This right here. Steve Jobs is literally dead because of this. He rode this to the grave. He had a very very treatable form of cancer, but literally believed he could formulate his own cure using fruit juice, until he really started dying and it was too late to cure.
And he was 100x the CEO musk is. Still an absolute narcissistic and psychopathic monster, and literal crime boss, but y'know,
Anyone who thinks that capitalism is a meritocracy has never interacted directly with a member of the capitalist class.
Sure this man, gentle and of noble blood, could not be a fool! Elsewise why would the Lord God Almighty bestow upon him the natural right of rulership?
Very simple
Communist posters were becoming too powerful. The website had to be destroyed.
Twitter's bread and butter was always that it was a platform that was attractive to celebrities and politicians and have them a direct line of communication to their fans. The celebrity accounts then drew in a large userbase.
If there's one thing famous people doesn't want it is to get an uncensored feed of what people think of them. They want to have the sort of engagements that promotes the kind of personal brand they are building for themselves. If you're a big pop star you don't want to have people posting creepy sex stuff at you, if you're a queer icon you don't want a deluge of homophobia and if you're building a brand as a very serious politician you don't want a feed full of people explaining why your bullshit doesn't add up. The block function is a core feature to keep Twitter's most business-critical users on the platform. Removing it will be idiotic from a business perspective.
Making an army of bot accounts to spam "kys" at every US government official 24/7
I’ve jokingly said it before, but you never know, it might be true… Melon is actually a covert op lefty destroying fascist comms channels from within.
I'm going to go out on a leg here and guess he's going to keep the feature for himself and/or paid bootlickers.
He already appeared in my feed despite being blocked. That's part of the reason I quit, I could see how he was turning the platform into his own personal soapbox.
It's suddenly going to be a lot more important that he decimated the support team.
Also RIP to Kamiya-San's account.
Show.
I mean fuck, imagine gamergate but there's not even a block button. Your only recourse as a target would be deactivate or suspend.
