https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880

Wait a second, advertisers exercising their free speech by choosing not to spend money on your site and pressuring you to ensure moderation is kept is destroying free speech? Sounds like you are trying to destroy theirs.

Alejandra Caraballo 🐀 (@Esqueer_)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:54 GMT

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880

No, Elon - Twitter has a massive drop in revenue because of PEOPLE EXERCISING THEIR FREE SPEECH about you joining the company, trolling the Pelosi family, talking about ‘free speech absolutism’ and there being a 500% increase in racial slurs in days after you arrived.

Tom Coates (@tomcoates)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:29 GMT

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880

You tweeted a conspiracy theory from a website less credible than the National Enquirer like four days ago. We all need to look inward as well as outward.

Hank Green (@hankgreen)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:56 GMT

do any other tech reporters just feel like

shoshana wodinsky (she/her) (@swodinsky)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 12:01 GMT

Imagine living in a Mars colony with this management style

Jon Christian (@Jon_Christian)Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:05 GMT

Imagine firing half the company a week after you bought it and being confident that you made good decisions twitter.com/carnage4life/s…

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By 9AM Pacific/Noon Eastern time tomorrow, Twitter employees will know if they're laid off or not depending on whether they get an email at their work (still have a job) or personal (fired) email. This approach is likely because everyone laid off will lose access to work email.

Dare Obasanjo 🐀 (@Carnage4Life)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 01:21 GMT

Simon Willison (@simonw)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 01:51 GMT

I got the email... I still have a job but I stayed up last night watching hard-working, talented, caring people get logged out one by one and I don't know what to say. Tweeps, you are remarkable. #OneTeam #TwitterLayoffs (My colleague captured it perfectly)

eli schutze🫡 (@elibelly)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 10:49 GMT

It is done. I’m incredibly proud of the @TwitterDev team(s), and the folks I’ve worked with across nearly 9 years to keep the API and developer platform vibrant. To those in our developer community: thank you. It was my honour to serve you.

Andy Piper (@andypiper)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 08:48 GMT

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You have no idea what loss is. #TheLastofUs premieres January 15 on @HBO @hbomax #TLOU

Naughty Dog (@Naughty_Dog)Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:01 GMT

🌸 Cute Little Cherry Boy 🍒 (@kernelDecoy)Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:28 GMT

linkedin recruiters are like: I hope you were able to LAY OFF the halloween candy this week! You MUSK have heard the news about Twitter and I’m here to offer you a new NEST. We have a ton of roles available at a VERIFIED company that will pay you more than $8/mo! Let me know!

parker lyons  (@tweetsbyparker)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:49 GMT

The massive layoffs haven't quite happened yet but everyone at Twitter has already lost their job. The job they signed up for, they job they liked, the job with all the people they learned to work with and appreciate. It's a blank slate no matter which side you end up on

eli schutze🫡 (@elibelly)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:26 GMT

when i open my inbox tomorrow morning

Elaine Filadelfo (@ElaineF)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:49 GMT

This edit feature is awesome.

Eddy Guerra (@EddyWar_)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 22:07 GMT

Here's the first official communication from Twitter's new leadership to its staff, a week after Musk took over: a fun game where you get to find out if you're laid off or not based by 9am tomorrow, based on whether the email pops up in your Twitter account or personal account.

Will Oremus (@WillOremus)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 01:03 GMT

Watching people get logged out one by one, can't go to bed, can't look away. I can't believe I relate to the Avengers rn

eli schutze🫡 (@elibelly)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 03:38 GMT

There are Tweeps out there volunteering to be laid off to save teammates on Visas. I see you and I respect you. 💙💙💙 twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

ttl (@maybettl)Wed, 02 Nov 2022 21:34 GMT

Honestly I can’t imagine how stressful things are at Twitter HQ right now but I am in AWE of the god tier shitposting coming from Tweeps right now

Sophie Koonin (@type__error)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:40 GMT

Imagine all the cool stuff Tweeps are going to build on their own when this shitshow is over

🪳✨ (@roach)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:13 GMT

the fact that the first thing tweeps did when layoffs were finally, officially announced was to send so many heart emojis that we broke slack says everything no one else knows about this place. #OneTeam

Emily Fortner (@emcorinne)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:40 GMT

As a former SRE, I'd just like to say: This site isn't going to burn down. That's way too calm and organized a death for a site this big which apparently just fired most of the on-call staff.

foone🏳️‍⚧️ (@Foone)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 07:16 GMT

"Tech workers who didn't live through the dot com crash, you have no idea what's coming. Prepare yourselves." This isn't actionable. People who don't know what's coming probably don't know how to prepare for it. Dotcom crash survivors, what is your actionable advice for people?

Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 (@IanColdwater)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:47 GMT

Cool cool, Disney+ added a user agent check and blocks streaming on Linux, now, after engineers at the company previously ensured it works (since they use Linux!). Changing my user agent to Windows makes the service work again. What year is it, Disney?

Cassidy James 🐘 (@CassidyJames)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:17 GMT

It's astounding how bad the web is without an ad blocker This tax on using the web, which funds most of it, pays most of the highest paid programmers ($750k/yr+), etc., doesn't impact programmers, who almost all use ad blockers The whole situation reminds me of the lottery tax

Dan Luu (@danluu)Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:42 +0000

I want Mastodon to succeed, but there's a growing group of volunteer sysadmins now keeping the network afloat who are going to burn out.

DevSadOps (@sadoperator)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 22:01 GMT

https://twitter.com/sadoperator/status/1588290352460353536

Why anybody would volunteer to run a Rails monolith is beyond me. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

DevSadOps (@sadoperator)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 22:09 GMT

I just remembered Slack supports sed-like syntax to edit a message. 🤯 For instance: /s/great/amazing/ would replace the word “great” by “amazing” in the last message. 🔥

Kitty Giraudel (@KittyGiraudel)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:48 GMT

I'll just leave this here

Ian Charles (@ian_charles007)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:58 GMT

https://twitter.com/izs/status/1588252511235805184

Really? You call THAT a tweet? Whatever.

Dave Edelhart (@david_edelhart)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 19:34 GMT

There is nothing -- NOTHING -- so innovative, clever, or difficult, that you can *possibly* do, which will not be met with a scoffing "whatever, we don't need this, I could do that in a weekend" from some asshat on hacker news.

isaacs (@izs)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 19:31 GMT

My permanent residence card arrived aka Germany is never getting rid of me 🇩🇪✨😘

Carolyn Stransky (@carolstran)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:46 GMT

sad to announce that since Elon’s takeover, I will not be leaving Twitter. Trust me I wish I could, but I’m not successful enough to feel I can quit. related, does anyone want to give me a writing job

ely kreimendahl (@ElyKreimendahl)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:50 GMT

Public listings have made sensitive data searchable due to misconfigured third-party services

I guess it’s the end of “how is this website is free” jokes 😂

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 05:44 GMT

We’re looking for voice actors for our upcoming game Haste: Broken worlds!

wilhelm nylund (@wilnyl)Wed, 02 Nov 2022 10:09 GMT

elon musk is so good at negotiation he paid $44 billion for something worth ~$10 and then as his first order of business he proposed a $20 monthly subscription and immediately revised that down to $8 because Stephen King told him to fuck off. brilliant stuff

tc (@chillmage)Tue, 01 Nov 2022 19:10 GMT

I don’t know where I’ll go if Twitter implodes - I don’t use any other social media any more and I didn’t get on with mastodon. Twitter’s format is perfect for short-burst shitposts. My blog does have an RSS feed if you want to follow me there!

Sophie Koonin (@type__error)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 07:39 GMT

They've completely forgotten that many inactive accounts belong to people who have died and their presence is still a source of great comfort to their loved ones. Removing their accounts entirely would be in a way like losing them all over again.

Elaine Scattermoon (@scattermoon)Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:27 GMT

https://twitter.com/dbsmasher/status/1587875100560195585

This is legit important work and I am not being facetious in the least. @themightymuppet and I have tossed around the idea of an entire conference talk about Slack emoji culture.

Alex Hidalgo (@ahidalgosre)Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:34 GMT

uploaded a BUNCH of emojis at work slack today….I am super productive

Smasher of DBs. First of her name. (@dbsmasher)Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:31 GMT

one cool thing about dating men in your twenties is that you get to experience motherhood

𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞 (@talliesinyoung)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:57 GMT

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1587849100468404224

Let’s be clear that this is an absolutely unhealthy and toxic way of working as there’s no real reason to do so. This is not a startup running out of money, about to go bankrupt if not for this manic sprint. It’s the worlds richest person doing this because he can. So he does.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:52 GMT

Breaking Bad Irony (@BreakingBadIrny)Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:00 GMT

tw: suicide, depression 🧵 This #WorldMentalHealthDay, I wanted to share about a recent experience most of you won’t expect. But that’s exactly the point of my share Six months ago I tried to take my own life Here’s a photo I shared, happy, just before it happened 1/

Rebekah (@rkulidzan)Mon, 10 Oct 2022 10:08 +0000

I don't trust Twitter DMs for chatting about anything I wouldn't publicly post for my worst enemies to see. And really, I never should have. The privacy folks were right.

Al Sweigart (@AlSweigart)Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:16 GMT