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  • 8 89th
    15 Dec 2022, 15:41

    @George-K That is weird. I've personally worked on a few projects that leverage ADS-B open flight tracking data. It's still open, and available on the internet, but I guess a user would just have to click a few more times to track a specific flight, including Elon's or Bezos'. It's all publicly available.

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    George K
    wrote on 15 Dec 2022, 15:51 last edited by
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    @89th said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

    It's all publicly available.

    Indeed. I would guess that using bots to aggregate the info and make it easy to find on Twitter is the issue. Similar to a (remember those?) phone book. Yeah, the person's address is publicly available, but...

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      Doctor Phibes
      wrote on 15 Dec 2022, 16:53 last edited by
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      Apparently Elon isn't as keen on those funny little practical jokes where he's the punchline.

      I was only joking

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        George K
        wrote on 20 Dec 2022, 02:13 last edited by
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        Anyone notice that Musk has been really, uncharacteristically, quiet for 24 hours?

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        • G George K
          20 Dec 2022, 02:13

          Anyone notice that Musk has been really, uncharacteristically, quiet for 24 hours?

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          Axtremus
          wrote on 20 Dec 2022, 04:35 last edited by Axtremus
          #715

          @George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

          Anyone notice that Musk has been really, uncharacteristically, quiet for 24 hours?

          Busy cutting deals palling around with Jared and the Arabs while watching the World Cup final? There is a thread on that, right?

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            jon-nyc
            wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 21:28 last edited by
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            You were warned.

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              Axtremus
              wrote on 22 Jan 2023, 02:08 last edited by
              #717

              https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/twitter-is-down-to-fewer-than-550-full-time-engineers.html

              Twitter employee head count down by 80% since Elon Musk took over. Has 1300 employees now with 550 "engineers" (by title) among them.

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                George K
                wrote on 22 Jan 2023, 02:12 last edited by
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                Interesting.

                I won't even try to pretend the implications of this. However, the platform is up and appears to be functioning pretty much as always.

                Yeah, there's bugs, and changes to under-the-hood stuff, but it appears that, unlike predictions, it has survived.

                At least for now.

                Related, how are Truth Social, Mastodon, WeMe, and Parler doing?

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                • G George K
                  22 Jan 2023, 02:12

                  Interesting.

                  I won't even try to pretend the implications of this. However, the platform is up and appears to be functioning pretty much as always.

                  Yeah, there's bugs, and changes to under-the-hood stuff, but it appears that, unlike predictions, it has survived.

                  At least for now.

                  Related, how are Truth Social, Mastodon, WeMe, and Parler doing?

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                  Doctor Phibes
                  wrote on 22 Jan 2023, 02:15 last edited by
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                  @George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                  Related, how are Truth Social, Mastodon, WeMe, and Parler doing?

                  Truth social is amazing. Just so amazing. Truly. It's been really, really great, and it has all the best people. Just the best. I could give you the numbers, but you wouldn't believe me because they're so amazing.

                  I was only joking

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                    Renauda
                    wrote on 22 Jan 2023, 02:18 last edited by
                    #720

                    Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! 😞

                    Elbows up!

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                      22 Jan 2023, 02:18

                      Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! 😞

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                      George K
                      wrote on 22 Jan 2023, 02:42 last edited by
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                      @Renauda said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                      Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! 😞

                      No shit! Look at his avatar!

                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        Horace
                        wrote on 22 Jan 2023, 02:44 last edited by
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                        Really sad to see how tribal he’s become. Fox News captures another ideological prisoner.

                        Education is extremely important.

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                        • HoraceH Horace
                          22 Jan 2023, 02:44

                          Really sad to see how tribal he’s become. Fox News captures another ideological prisoner.

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                          Aqua Letifer
                          wrote on 22 Jan 2023, 02:46 last edited by
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                          @Horace said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                          Really sad to see how tribal he’s become. Fox News captures another ideological prisoner.

                          Yeah, but Carlson was never that great to begin with.

                          Please love yourself.

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                            22 Jan 2023, 02:42

                            @Renauda said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                            Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! 😞

                            No shit! Look at his avatar!

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                            Doctor Phibes
                            wrote on 22 Jan 2023, 03:41 last edited by Doctor Phibes
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                            @George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                            @Renauda said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                            Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! 😞

                            No shit! Look at his avatar!

                            That's not Tucker, it's his twin brother, Magnus. He's so amazing. And really, really smart. Like a stable genius. He cleans out the horses so well, like really really well.

                            I was only joking

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                              Axtremus
                              wrote on 26 Feb 2023, 14:37 last edited by
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                              What else is broken at Twitter?

                              https://www.propublica.org/article/politwoops-deleted-tweets-twitter-politicians-musk

                              Politicians haven’t stopped deleting some of their most cringeworthy tweets, but Politwoops, our project that has tracked and archived more than half a million deleted tweets from candidates and elected officials since 2012, is no longer able to track them.

                              Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the platform has disabled the function we used to track deletions — and the new method that Twitter says should identify them appears to be broken. We have been unable to find anyone who can help us, and with Twitter surprising developers by announcing a move to a paid model for gathering tweet data, it’s no longer clear that Twitter is a stable platform on which to maintain this work. ...

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                                Axtremus
                                wrote on 27 Feb 2023, 00:51 last edited by
                                #726

                                Another round of job cuts at Twitter:

                                https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-lays-off-least-50-relentless-cost-cuts-information-2023-02-26/

                                "At least 50" people were let go this time.

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                                  Axtremus
                                  wrote on 8 Mar 2023, 05:33 last edited by
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                                  Yet another Twitter outage:

                                  https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/after-musks-mass-layoffs-one-engineers-mistake-broke-the-twitter-api/

                                  "... the sixth major outage since January 23." ...

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                                    Aqua Letifer
                                    wrote on 8 Mar 2023, 18:25 last edited by
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                                    Ax, are you on Twitter? How do you use it?

                                    Please love yourself.

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                                      8 Mar 2023, 18:25

                                      Ax, are you on Twitter? How do you use it?

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                                      Doctor Phibes
                                      wrote on 8 Mar 2023, 19:28 last edited by
                                      #729

                                      @Aqua-Letifer said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                      Ax, are you on Twitter? How do you use it?

                                      This is me:
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                                      This is me on Twitter:

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                                      I was only joking

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                                        Axtremus
                                        wrote on 26 Mar 2023, 16:09 last edited by
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                                        https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musk-suffers-a-huge-loss

                                        Elon Musk now values Twitter at $20 Billion.
                                        (Any one willing to buy Twitter at $20 Billion?)
                                        Musk also says he sees a path to $250 Billion valuation years from now.

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                                          26 Mar 2023, 16:09

                                          https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musk-suffers-a-huge-loss

                                          Elon Musk now values Twitter at $20 Billion.
                                          (Any one willing to buy Twitter at $20 Billion?)
                                          Musk also says he sees a path to $250 Billion valuation years from now.

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                                          Doctor Phibes
                                          wrote on 26 Mar 2023, 20:00 last edited by
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                                          @Axtremus said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                          Musk also says he sees a path to $250 Billion valuation years from now.

                                          Presumably that path doesn't involve him selling it to somebody who knows what they're doing?

                                          I was only joking

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