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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by ryzvonusef on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @01:22AM (#38375446)
It was funny reading Kara Swisher keeping saying twitter is dying and is toxic and what not, while STILL doing all her first announcements on twitter, and using twitter as a source.

same with Ashlee Vance (the other journo reporting on this) and all the main players (Sam/Greg/Ilya/Mira/Satya/whoever) also make their first announcement on twitter.

I don't know about the funding part of it, but there is no denying it, the news is still freshest on twitter. Twitter feels just as toxic for me as before, in fact I feel community notes has made it much better, imho.

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In some related news, I finally got bluesky invite (I don't have invite codes yet or I would share here)

and people there are complaining about... mastadon and how elitist it is...

that was an eye opener.

nice if you want some science-y updates but it's still lags behind twitter for news.

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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by metabagel on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @01:30AM (#38375505)
I don’t use Twitter any more, other than occasionally following links there (which open in the browser, because I deleted the app).

Discoverability on Mastodon is abysmal. It was too much work for me.

I tend to get my news from Substack now.

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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by ryzvonusef on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @01:33AM (#38375542)
interesting, substack doesn't sound like a platform for the freshest news, but for deep insights.

Don't you feel out of date on substack? especially since things move so fast sometimes, like with this open-ai fiasco?

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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by tayo42 on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:25AM (#38376039)
Did being up to date really have an impact on your life? It's mostly just gossip.
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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by ryzvonusef on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @04:09AM (#38376854)
I understand what you are saying, but sometimes, news like this is perhaps the only excitement in our otherwise dull lives.
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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by metabagel on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @01:59AM (#38375797)
Twitter is incredibly uncivil. I don’t have the stomach for it.
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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by hurryer on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @01:52AM (#38375724)
Skilled operators say what sounds most virtuous and do what benefits most. Especially when these two things are not the same.
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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by hadlock on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:13AM (#38375929)
Twitter isn't dying, but it hasn't grown measurably since 2015. Still sitting at about 300m active users.
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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by bagels on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:21AM (#38375999)
Bluesky took long enough to invite me that I forgot what it even was when I got the email.
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