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Mike Masnick ✅

Interesting timing of Twitter changing its logo to the Doge dog... just as Elon is trying to get out of a (stupid, likely to fail) lawsuit arguing that he pumped & dumped dogecoin.

theverge.com/2023/4/3/23668356

gizmodo.com/elon-musk-crypto-d

3 Apr 2023 at 18:30 | Open on mastodon.social
30 comments
Jay

@mmasnick Wow the retweet thing sounds like a fucking mess as well.

3 Apr 2023 at 18:32 | Open on mastodon.social
AlisonW ♿🏳️‍🌈

@mmasnick
I read this and thought delayed April 1st joke, but no!
What an idiot he is...

3 Apr 2023 at 18:33 | Open on fedimon.uk
Matt Quirion

@mmasnick I just saw that change and was sure it was a hack. And then realized Elon's being so nutty that users have no canaries in any coal mines as it relates to their user experience today to help them realize anything is actually "wrong" on that platform now.

3 Apr 2023 at 18:34 | Open on mastodon.cloud
ngmi

@mmasnick
Pathetic and cringe at the same time. I wonder if there is a word for it

3 Apr 2023 at 18:34 | Open on mastodon.online
Tim Clancy
Sarah T. Roberts, Ph.D.

@mmasnick The depths of Musk’s obsession with the juvenile knows no nadir. What a fucking idiot.

3 Apr 2023 at 18:37 | Open on dair-community.social
Kim Crayton ~ Her/She

@ubiquity75 @mmasnick and they STILL bow at this mediocre, unremarkable white tech dude’s feet…there’s no fuckin way a minoritized individual would get away with this shit…my ass would be in jail

3 Apr 2023 at 19:21 | Open on dair-community.social
Sarah T. Roberts, Ph.D.

@KimCrayton1 @mmasnick I was just marveling at the fact that this appears to be Tr*mp’s _first_ criminal indictment. Like, what?

3 Apr 2023 at 19:25 | Open on dair-community.social
Chance The Lawyer ⚡︎

@mmasnick excuse me, he's doing what now

3 Apr 2023 at 18:39 | Open on masto.ai
Adam Cook

@chancerydaily @mmasnick I wonder how many engineering hours Musk expended on this…

You know… the guy that keeps complaining about Twitter’s inefficiencies under old management?

Undoubtedly, this is a Pump and Dump scheme that Musk desperately needs for some emergency reason.

3 Apr 2023 at 18:42 | Open on mastodon.social
Kevin Sours

@adamjcook @chancerydaily @mmasnick I straight image swap? Probably not that many to be honest.

3 Apr 2023 at 19:27 | Open on mastodon.social
Luis Villa

@chancerydaily @mmasnick I do not want to know but also I … pretty badly want to know.

3 Apr 2023 at 18:44 | Open on social.coop
Chance The Lawyer ⚡︎

@luis_in_brief @mmasnick he literally changed the twitter logo to the dogecoin logo, it's just that my brain couldn't process that that was literally what he had done
3 Apr 2023 at 19:06 | Open on masto.ai
Chance The Lawyer ⚡︎

@luis_in_brief @mmasnick also, it's so awesome that my timeline is just my own tweets

3 Apr 2023 at 19:06 | Open on masto.ai
Mike Connor

@luis_in_brief @chancerydaily @mmasnick short version: doge instead of the blue bird. I think just on the web.

3 Apr 2023 at 19:06 | Open on mozilla.social
Derek Brauders

@mmasnick It also explains why I'm seeing comments from people I don't follow on twitter. How to take something that's clear and straightforward, and make it muddy. Way to go, ticking people off even more.... 🙄
Although it seems to be back to normal now? (whatever normal is now.....)

3 Apr 2023 at 18:40 | Open on mas.to
Steve Hersey

@mmasnick Organizational Cheyne-Stokes breathing, presaging a final collapse?

3 Apr 2023 at 18:41 | Open on tilde.zone
Blake Leonard

@mmasnick Twitter posts I found while logged out suggest that the logo change was maybe done so that it shows up instead of the lawsuit when you search for it.

3 Apr 2023 at 18:51 | Open on fosstodon.org
Keith Ivey

@blake @mmasnick I saw one that suggested he was following in Boris Johnson's footsteps in attempting to manipulate news search results.
gizmodo.com/did-boris-johnson-

3 Apr 2023 at 19:29 | Open on mastodon.social
Urzl

@mmasnick He's a narcissist, like Trump, and gets off on flaunting to us that he's not facing any meaningful consequences.

He's doing this *because* of the pump and dump charges.

3 Apr 2023 at 18:55 | Open on mastodon.social
Matthew Chapman

@mmasnick this is the legal equivalent of Homer Simpson telling border officials "We're just innocent tourists!" and then an avalanche of drugs comes pouring slowly out of the rear door of his car.

3 Apr 2023 at 19:06 | Open on mastodon.social
Bufador

@mmasnick@mastodon.socialThe question really boils down to why anyone remains on Twitter? There are alternatives as we know.

3 Apr 2023 at 19:06 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
Missing The Point
BduzBoop

@mmasnick I am getting a ton of WWE stuff in my FOLLOWING feed, I think they are ads but not being declared as ads, so my ad blocker isn't catching them. If they are retweets they aren't saying that either.

3 Apr 2023 at 19:19 | Open on mstdn.social
Dr James J Teeth

@mmasnick

There was a time I thought Musk was going to try to convert Twitter to a blockchain. I always assumed he was dumb enough to think it could work.

Related to that was a belief he would issue his own crypto token viaTwitter.

3 Apr 2023 at 19:20 | Open on mastodon.social
Nona Moss

@mmasnick I think the broken retweet and doge thing are only happening when one opens a pinned list tab instead of the home tab. i think

3 Apr 2023 at 19:20 | Open on witches.live
Nona Moss

@mmasnick also the weirdness seems to only be happening on desktop for me but i haven't done a app update on my cell in a few days. i dunno

3 Apr 2023 at 19:24 | Open on witches.live
BduzBoop

@mmasnick Also, in regards to my jacked up Following feed, if I hover over it, it says that people I follow, follow it. Which is what I get on my For You feed? WTF!

3 Apr 2023 at 19:21 | Open on mstdn.social
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