Brian Partridge retweeted
Musk has just banned live reporting and basically all tweeting about stuff that's happening. All so he could justify ex post facto banning someone he publicly promised not to ban for violating a policy he hadn't invented yet.
Brian Partridge retweeted
Twitter suspended the account following Elon's jet but not the one following Jeff Bezos' jet. Even though they do the same thing and are run by the same guy. Why does @elonmusk hate free speech when the speech is about Elon Musk?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The BezosJets account is suspended.
twitter.com/BezosJets
Brian Partridge retweeted
On Sunday I emailed Ella Irwin, Twitter's "Product & Trust leader," to ask if this purported leaked screenshot was real. She hasn't responded. Given that @elonjet has now been permanently suspended, I guess we can assume it was. xitter.cf/JxckSweeney/status/160…
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Brian Partridge retweeted
FUSION ENERGY BREAKTHROUGH: US scientists have made one of the most significant leaps in decades in the search for the Holy Grail of energy - limitless, carbon free power - by achieving net energy gain in a fusion reaction
ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef…
Huge scoop by @thomas_m_wilson
Brian Partridge retweeted
Hey remember when Trump let prisoner Maria Butina go home to Russia and not swapping her for Paul Whelan? It’s almost as if he was on team Russia.
Brian Partridge retweeted
wow. did you even read the blog post? We never denied de-amplifying things. In fact we made clear that we do rank. We defined exactly what we meant by “shadow banning” (b/c there are many definitions) and made very clear that we didn’t do *that*…
Brian Partridge retweeted
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.
Brian Partridge retweeted
Big if true. Looking forward to seeing the data release proving this; it seems twitter would have to update its algorithmic amplification paper that found the opposite across 7 countries in 2021. cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/…
Brian Partridge retweeted
Just one bit of acknowledgement that you maybe didn’t handle this brilliantly, after which you could reassure everyone that you’d listen and be responsible. Everything would get 1000x times better overnight. But you’d rather destroy everything than be embarrassed for a second. – at San Francisco, CA
Brian Partridge retweeted
12 years ago, Twitter’s office used a Mac Mini to tunnel into the servers. One day, an IT guy found it in the closet.
“Anyone know who owns this?”
“Unplug it. Someone will show up.”
Everyone lost access to servers. Huge crisis. It became known as the “Load Bearing Mac Mini.”
Brian Partridge retweeted
Watching crypto sink after hitting an economic iceburg, seeing the GOP eat pavement after getting exactly what they wanted, and seeing emperor Elon has no clothes is too much schadenfreude after a 6 years of bad news.
Now I'm paranoid there's something lurking around the corner – at Austin, TX
Brian Partridge retweeted
Literally a week ago today, Musk posted a link to a fake news website (that once suggested Hillary Clinton was dead and had been replaced by a body double). Worse, he then deleted that tweet without explanation or apology. But sure, his “mission” is accurate information. 🤷🏽♂️
Brian Partridge retweeted
I’m so sorry to see all the #TwitterLayoffs. It’s not fun, these are people’s livelihoods. If there’s anything I can do for anyone at Twitter, Stripe, or Lyft, I’m hiring and my DMs are open 💔
