Engagement on my Twitter feed has increased exponentially since I began spreading the TRUTH about the earth being flat.
I am grateful to be using @Twitter the way it was intended to be used. Expressing my freedom of speech to spread the TRUTH! #Freedom #FlatEarth #Sasquatch pic.twitter.com/vEJkG9q4Aa
— Tom Green (@tomgreenlive) December 21, 2022
If you can make it to 2050 you can live forever – eat your greens https://t.co/D1v1mF6pt5
— Tom Green (@tomgreenlive) December 21, 2022
I’m leaving Twitter, but 1st here’s a cartoon I made with my friend Jimmy Hayward. It’s based on my painting of a crazy old Lighthouse Keeper, standing naked in a storm, summoning the angels and shining his lamp to guide us through a treacherous night. I love you all so much!
My bedside table
My bedside table pic.twitter.com/sIdRYJcLTK
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.
Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter.
You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.
Kathie Griffin, Jorden Peterson & Babylon Bee have been reinstated.
Trump decision has not yet been made.
Note, this applies just to the individual tweet, not the whole account
Musk makes me think of Tom Sawyer, who is given the job of whitewashing a fence as punishment. Tom cons his friends into doing the chore for him and getting them to pay for the privilege. That’s what Musk wants to do with Twitter. No, no, no.
— Stephen Howard (@StephenHowardS2) November 3, 2022
We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers. How about $8?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
May have 2 buy Twitter now. Gonna replace the board of directors with Jimmy from my corner Fish Fry, Tommy Chung and tha guy with the ponytail on CNBC.
First line of business. Free internet on airplanes!!! 29 dollars for 1 hour is bullshit. ✈️✈️
Everyone gets a blue checkmark. Even tha bots with 10 letters in their name that hit you in DMs n just say “Hello”. Nah fuck those bots.
#WhenSnoopBuysTwitter …
LADbible Australia: A crypto entrepreneur (Sina Estavi) bought the NFT for AUD $3.88 million (USD $2.9 million) and hoped to make a hefty profit when he put it up for sale. Read the entire article @ this location.
I decided to sell this NFT ( the world’s first ever tweet ) and donate 50% of the proceeds ( $25 million or more ) to the charity @GiveDirectly
🖇 https://t.co/cnv5rtAEBQ pic.twitter.com/yiaZjJt1p0— Estavi (@sinaEstavi) April 6, 2022
Kevin Smith is hosting a Twitter Q&A TOMORROW (7/17) at 11:15am PST. The filmmaker will be talking about the Rivit TV show Hollyweed. Q&A under the hashtag #AskKevinSmith. Want to know who made that insufferable Yoga Hosers movie? Ask Kevin Seth…
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You would think the attention Donald Trump brought to Twitter that their revenue growth would not be the slowest since the company went public four years ago. The news reignited fears that rivals Facebook and Snapchat were the true kings of online advertising.
Year-over-year advertising was down and although there was a 4% increase in users it still fell short of expectations. The news resulted in shares dropping another 10%, to below $16.00, a stock that once traded at nearly $70.00 a share. No guidance offered, just Chief Executive Jack Dorsey asking for your patience.
On Thursday Dorsey spoke with analysts on a conference call explaining that Twitter was investing in machine learning and continuing to search for ways to engage advertisers.
“It will take time to show the results we all want to see, and we’re moving forward aggressively. The whole world is watching Twitter,” he said.
4Q advertising revenue declined 0.5 percent year-over-year to $638 million, and the company expects advertising revenue growth would continue to hamper user growth during 2017.
What’s sad is that Wall Street condemns Twitter because they haven’t found the magic formula to attract more new users or advertisers. I love Twitter, much more than Facebook and Google, unrelated, I know, but not really. I am here to tell you, there is no magic formula. The formula = squeeze the reach of your users / businesses and put a stranglehold on posts and results. Just a few years ago your Facebook post would reach all of your friends but over time that reach has become less and less. Now Facebook’s “magic formula” only allows your post to reach around 10% of your friends. Have you ever wondered why so few friends like your articles compared to 5 years ago? Also, didn’t they get busted for cheating advertisers? I spent a small fortune advertising and nothing came of it. At 3 AM in the morning Facebook was showering me with likes; each time I refreshed the screen, which were in 1 to 2 second intervals, there would be 200 to 300 more likes. It ended up being a total of thousands. Were they real? I am guessing, ABSOLUTELY NOT! But who knows, they don’t allow you to see all the people that liked your page, just a small portion. I wrote them 3 or 4 times but never once received a response.
Once Google got wind of what Facebook was doing, they quickly followed suit. They patented an algorithm that brought all the big companies to the top of the results, forcing the smaller businesses to pay. You can’t even keep up with Google’s algorithm changes. They are so frequent it reeks of desperation. Every few months they do something that ensures businesses will be forced to advertise, many times at the cost of worthwhile results, which is what made Google great. Sadly, once you file that IPO you are now required to pursue profits at almost any cost.
What I love about Twitter is when you follow someone, you get just what you asked for, their stories & news. They’re not limiting your reach and forcing you to pay to “boost” your post. Also the site is fast, unlike Facebook who is starting to have load times that rival MySpace. Sometimes it will take me 5 minutes to get that stupid menu to come down just so I can log out, it’s like what happened with Yahoo Mail. Stay the course, don’t ruin your site like the others and keep searching for a different solution. Please stay great Twitter!
A security issue has affected Twitter.com users that causes potentially dangerous content to appear on computer screens without warning, according to internet security insiders. A link appears on the site, and the content appears if a user simply mouse over the link, they do not even have to click it. Security professionals are recommending users avoid Twitter until the issue has been resolved.
The dangerous links have also reportedly been sent to the followers of infected users, spreading the security flaw across the Twitter network. The bug can reportedly be harmless, simply causing users to go to sites they didn’t intend to, but it can also be used by hackers to install malicious spyware on your computer.
The bug appears to be affecting both the new and old versions of Twitter, as the site was recently updated to improve the overall look and functionality, including a new capability for users to embed video clips in their posts. Experts say that using Twitter through third-party programs like TweetDeck or Seesmic should keep users safe.
A handful of fairly prominent Twitter users have reportedly been affected by the bug, including the wife of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Sarah. In her case, her Twitter page has been infected in such a way as to redirect her followers to a hardcore pornography website in Japan. Brown has more than one million followers, who were obviously taken aback by the inappropriate content found by visiting her Twitter account. Mrs. Brown warned her followers earlty Tuesday with the following post: “don’t touch the earlier tweet – this twitter feed has something very odd going on ! Sarah.”
The White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs posted a message about the bug in his Twitter account Tuesday morning, as well.
Twitter reported on its blog Tuesday morning it had fixed the security issue, after earlier saying that they had identified and were working on the problem. “My Twitter went haywire – absolutely no clue why it sent that message or even what it is…paging the tech guys…” Gibbs remarked on his Twitter feed.
Several videos were posted by internet security experts showing how the bug works. When a user’s mouse pointer moves over the infected post, they are automatically redirected to another website which may contain inappropriate or malicious content, the user doesn’t even have to click.
One expert said that so far the bug appears to have only been used for directing users to pornographic sites and other inappropriate content, but the potential is there for cybercriminals to exploit the bug by sending users to websites with malicious code.
It is not yet known how the issue originated, but experts guess that a flaw in Twitter’s code allowed the bug to arise. The flaw may have been there for years, unknown to cybercriminals and web pranksters, or may have originated recently. There have been a number of this type of worm spreading via Twitter accounts before, but this is the largest in recent years.
A handful of web security experts have advised users to log out of Twitter, disable Java Script, and avoid Twitter until a resolution to the issue is confirmed. While Twitter claims to have resolved the issue on Tuesday, experts expect problems to continue.
