For anyone looking for an alternative to #phototwitter, I want to let you know that @Flickr is still very much alive and has a wonderful photographer based community. Easiest way to start is to find and join a group that is similar to your interests: https://t.co/NVJjQ7CsrY (1)
Here's our full story on how Musk has, in one week, turned Twitter into a poisonous workplace where no one feels safe sharing information or ideas anymore, according to convos with more than a dozen employees: https://t.co/Mn21Ko9CqM w/ @GerritD@faizsays@lizzadwoskin et al
NEW: A wide swath of Twitter's trust & safety team had access to content moderation/enforcement tools frozen last week. Usually, hundreds of people on the team could remove posts w/misinfo, hate speech etc. It's now down to 15 people. Scoop w/@KurtWagner8@daveyalba@EdLudlow
NEW: Twitter is struggling to keep its most active users - what it calls "heavy tweeters" - engaged on the platform, according to internal docs.
It is the most important type of user. They are less than 10% of all users but account for 50% of revenue
https://t.co/Z30E5HFdcP
My friend told me that in Garbage Day I have a lot of different mean and snarky ways of describing Twitter and that I should do a thread collecting them all. So here goes.
Angelheaded Hipsters Burning for the Ancient Heavenly Connection: Emily Gorcenski's "requiem for the Twitter that could have been" https://t.co/RjEjAuTTHV