Called it. Elon’s doing exactly what I thought he would do: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/109979152813584947
Twitter is dead.
There is no point in trying to hold on to what Twitter used to be. What Twitter used to be no longer exists.
It died the moment Elon walked in the building.
Anything posted there since then has been free content on his everything app and potential crypto scam, X: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/23/twitter-elon-musk-says-he-wants-to-change-companys-bird-logo
I like the idea they think they can make an everything app when as a text app it’s so utterly broken
Who wants a bloated ‘everything’ app anyway?
I cannot understand this either: we have an everything app, it’s called our homescreen, why would you use that to launch another one?
Nobody with a brain, fuck being a slave to lock-in and walled gardens
Everything apps are really popular and profitable in Asia.
Not that I want one though.
Broken in what ways?
So many ways:
- frequent outages
- spaces drop out frequently
- blue membership gives credibility to fraudsters
- I haven’t been able to reply on mobile for the last 2 weeks
- blue features just stopped working a few weeks ago and nothings happened (dark mode, custom icons)
- analytics are inaccurate and have large gaps
- it’s awash with bots
- algo works against ux
His utter lack of understanding about how SAaS companies work is astounding. Having worked on the backend of several, they’re all hot garbage and brittle. That’s why there were so many “useless” engineers. You know, the ones he shit canned when he acquired the company? Surprise, they were probably the only reason the dumpster fire wasn’t burning down the whole city block. The thing Elon fails to understand is that someone didn’t just write Twitter on one go and gift it on to the world. It has evolved over many many years. Technology stacks change, frameworks change, standards change and these companies are trying to continually add features to applications and don’t have the luxury of just rewriting the whole stack every time something new comes out. The end result is something that is often more akin to a living organism than a website or application. He probably thinks Twitter is some program running on every server that can just be rewritten and replaced. I can’t wait for the day they try to replace it and it ends up setting Twitter back a decade.
This is your brain on Great Man Theory. ~Strawberry
I hope the everything app is a big fuckin waste of money and massive failure. Everything apps are an affront to competition and the spirit of the free market, which in turn means they’re terrible for consumers.
Not that the US even seems that interested in competition anymore. We need to demand breakups of monopolies, not cement new ones.
Everything apps are an affront to competition and the spirit of the free market
Kind of true, but also exactly what every big companies wants to have. Apple is doing the same thing in their ecosystem and so is Google in theirs, and Meta and Amazon have their on little versions of that too. That’s really the biggest problem here, Apple and Google already own the smartphone. So it’s difficult for a third party App to come in and do significant stuff, as Apple and Google can just reimplement their own version and have their App installed by default, while making life extra hard for third party Apps by breaking APIs or kicking them out of the store. See Apple and their stance on third party Web browser, they are simply not allowed in the store. Or see Meta’s VR effort, which exist for no other reason than them not being able to make significant impact in the smartphone world, so they bet the farm on VR or AR being the next big thing after smartphones, that they still have a chance of owning.
Yep! I read that post for you when you posted it. Been thinking of it regularly since and how spot on you were!!
We’ve known about the X everything app for months now. Elon hasn’t been hiding the fact that he wants to compete with all major forms of social media. Twitter’s acquisition was only the first step. Soon it will be YouTube and Twitch competition, then Instagram, etc.
The guy can’t even run a microblogging platform.
I never used twitter, and I’m certainly no fan of Elon Musk, but from what I see in the news most of his changes seem to be pretty superficial. Why are people acting like Twitter is dead? Because of a name change and people having blue checkmarks?
