Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 10:17 am
PizzaSnake wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 10:12 am
Ellie's personal "catch and kill" program...
Well, he is a pecker .... head.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolo ... niversary/
"Meanwhile, the company’s valuation has cratered, Musk has said, to less than half the $44 billion he paid when he bought the company roughly six months ago."
I departed that app a few months ago. I primarily used it for lacrosse stuff and followed a couple of scientists and musicians…..don’t have much interest in “social media” patforms. Never been on Facebook (beyond my son being on Facebook live once) and have never been on tiktok and don’t plan on it.
And then there's this gem:
"A different change is threatening Twitter’s usefulness to the National Weather Service, which has long used automatic tweets to communicate urgent news about extreme weather to the public. Twitter users have had access to systems that allow them to push automated posts by connecting to external sources of information so that the Weather Service and meteorologists can send out quick posts when tornadoes or floods hit.
As weather conditions change, the agency relies on these automated posts to keep people up to date, sometimes sending dozens a day.
The Twitter headquarters building at 1355 Market St. in San Francisco. Rounds of layoffs have left Twitter operating with a skeleton staff of 1,500, an 80 percent reduction. (Mark Leong/for The Washington Post)
Twitter said last month it would limit automated tweets to 1,500 a month, and charge $100 per month for anyone who wanted to send up to 50,000. After the change takes effect, the Weather Service said, its automated tweets about severe weather “may not be posted.” Officials said Twitter told them no exceptions would be made to the new limits.
Twitter’s tweaks are already causing smaller issues for weather watchers: James Spann, chief meteorologist for ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Ala., said Twitter integration with Slack is broken, a problem for him because he uses the chat tool to communicate with weather spotters on the ground. They would use the auto tweets to push storm warnings to the spotters.
“That’s really aggravating,” he said. “
One day, we had a tornado event here and we had no warnings on the Slack channel.”"
Good to see that vaunted public-private partnership working so well for the public. Think the GreatPlains dolts who love "freedumb" and "free speech" will appreciate this when then wash up in the Emerald City?
"There is nothing more difficult and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. One makes enemies of those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support from those who would prosper under the new."