Twitter Blows

[Jolene Benoir]

Came across this:

So...in addition to wildly reducing staff, his idea of cost-cutting is simply to not pay the bills? There's a term for that, "freeloader", though I think we should add a new term to the dictionary to describe the behavior, "Trumpian."

Twitter is refusing to pay Google for cloud services. Here’s why it matters, and what the fallout could be for users

Cloud computing is a way for businesses to access extra computational resources over the internet. Without it, the internet as we know it would malfunction.

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The issue appears to be rooted in a disagreement over service quality and performance. Twitter doesn’t think it’s getting value for money, and is withholding the latest payment in its US$1 billion contract with Google Cloud.

Apart from Google Cloud, Twitter also has a multi-year cloud computing contract with AWS to offer a host of functions. According to reports, it has also withheld payments from Amazon in the past and owed some US$70 million in bills as of March. Amazon responded by threatening to withhold payments for advertising it runs on the platform.

The dispute can perhaps be understood as yet another attempt by Twitter to radically reduce operating costs. It’s a a trend that began late last year when Elon Musk acquired the company for US$44 billion.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

WTH? If Musk and Zuckerberg do their planned cage match in the Colosseum, as the Italian Govt offered it up, can we just release some lions?"

Twitter outage: Thousands of users encounter ‘rate limit exceeded’ error message | CNN Business

Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site, or faced difficulty and delays, Saturday.

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CNN has reached out to Twitter for comment, but the platform responded with an automated poop emoji.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

WTH? If Musk and Zuckerberg do their planned cage match in the Colosseum, as the Italian Govt offered it up, can we just release some lions?

Depending on which publication you look at, I’d hold off on spreading news about that Colosseum spectacle.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

WTH? If Musk and Zuckerberg do their planned cage match in the Colosseum, as the Italian Govt offered it up, can we just release some lions?"

Twitter outage: Thousands of users encounter ‘rate limit exceeded’ error message | CNN Business

Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site, or faced difficulty and delays, Saturday.

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Think of the poor lions. Neither one would be good for the digestion.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Depending on which publication you look at, I’d hold off on spreading news about that Colosseum spectacle.

Not going to happen? Was it a false rumor? I did think it a bit odd given that they don't want anyone touching anything there so as to not be destructive to the structure and charged some idiot last week that carved he and his girlfriend's names somewhere on it.

Still, bummed that I cannot have lions.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[WolfEyes]

WTH? If Musk and Zuckerberg do their planned cage match in the Colosseum, as the Italian Govt offered it up, can we just release some lions?"

Twitter outage: Thousands of users encounter ‘rate limit exceeded’ error message | CNN Business

Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site, or faced difficulty and delays, Saturday.

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Hey Elon! Free float this!

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

So, back on June 6th, I got an email stating that there was a suspicious login to my Twitter account. I immediately went in, saw some foreign location had logged in a day earlier, logged out all signins just in case, changed my password, instituted 2FA.. What I did not do was check any tweets that may have occurred while they were in (absent-minded). A few days later, I get an email that my account has been suspended. This time I sign in and see that they posted what appears to have been 4 spam tweets, presumably cryptocurrency related.

I can get into my profile, cannot post, obviously, cannot delete the tweets in question, but also cannot de-activate my account. When I try to do so, it tells me I may not do that as I have been suspended. I had been thinking of doing that anyway, as I had been noticing more and more right wing crapola splattered about Twitter. Okay, so I do the whole *submit an appeal* option, asking them to de-activate my account. Three times, so far. Three times, no response, account still active, but suspended.

I expect no response from them, nor do I expect to be able to de-activate as I assume the suspension was automated due to spam filters, and now since Elon got rid of darn near everyone, my appeals are just going into the netherworld that is now an empty desk at the main Twitter office.

I mostly just wanted to complain about Twitter, but if anyone has an idea about how I may fix this, I'm all ears.

Thank you.

Huh. When they permabanned my account, I filed an appeal. I got a response back within an hour denying my appeal.

Twitter can suck dead rhinosceri through a catheter tube.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Twitter has always been nearly useless for me. Almost the only time I went on there is when someone here on VVO posted a link.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

PS. If you want a Twitter alternative that is algorithm- and bullshit-free, try Spoutible. You can find it online at Spoutible or in the Google Play Store. An iOS version is in the works.

 

[Noodles]

Huh. When they permabanned my account, I filed an appeal. I got a response back within an hour denying my appeal.

Twitter can suck dead rhinosceri through a catheter tube.

Was this pre or post Musk? Because if it was before, then Twitter probably had some support staff to work the issue still.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Was this pre or post Musk? Because if it was before, then Twitter probably had some support staff to work the issue still.

It was a couple of months ago, so definitely post-Musk.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

It was a couple of months ago, so definitely post-Musk.

Just sent off *appeal* number 4, but still don't expect any sort of answer. Was yours for insulting Musk? If so, I could see how they'd get right on it, lol.

 

[Kalel]

have we finally reached the end?

my feed is filled with people announcing they are leaving... some are claiming they have been marked as an AI bot and have difficulty posting..

There doesn't seem to be a consensus on where to go... some are even going back to tumblr....

 

[Noodles]

I tried, but I can't handle Tumblr. I follow accounts and tags and whatnot, but then all I get are posts from like, one of the tags, ever.

And nothing is time stanped so I don't have anynidea when it was originally posted.

 

[Isabeau]

Maybe forums will make a huge comeback.

VV1will become the new Reddit/Twitter, and we, the original VVVipers will be become legendary. They’ll mention our names at times in some thread or another, hoping we notice and comment back. They’ll get all flustered when Noodles likes one of their posts, or squee with joy when Free laughs at their memes.

We, of course, having pretty much shared our thoughts on all the subjects already, will only peruse the threads, and only comment on rare occasions.

And Cristiano will be thinking “Thank God I kept that site alive!“ and laughing all the way to the bank.

FIN​

 

[Noodles]

Then Cris will be all, "I need money" and will charge people $5 per post (only $3 for shitposts).

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Just sent off *appeal* number 4, but still don't expect any sort of answer. Was yours for insulting Musk? If so, I could see how they'd get right on it, lol.

I went after someone who was justifying Kyle Rottenhouse being where he was and shooting two people. I said something to the effect of, "so by your logic, I could parade in front of your house with an AR-15, and if you come out to confront me, I could shoot you and claim self defense."

 

[Ghost Pepper]

 

[Essence Lumin]

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