The Industrious Ant

"You don't have to take my advice, you just have to pay for it."
Boring tweets about teletext and computers - caution.
Also @[email protected]

[birdsrightsactivist @ProBirdRights]

Look its 8 dollar im gonna give to u Mr. Spaceships just kidding it is my BUTT

[Hugh Sykes @HughSykes]

#BBC #impartiality

"If you give equal weight to lies and the truth, you take the side of the lie."
- former BBC bureau chief in Baghdad, Patrick Howse, (@Baghdaddi), writing in @BylineTimes

[Hugh Sykes @HughSykes]

In #Iraq 20 years ago a cab driver asked who I worked for.
#BBC
"Ah," he said, "BBC-Tony Blair big problem!" I explained the 'problem'.
"So," he said, "BBC not government?"
No, I said, BBC not government.
Now,
if I had to explain the BBC-Lineker affair,
I couldn't say the same.

[Sky Group @SkyGroup]

It’s our birthday month 🎂🎉

To celebrate we’ve taken a trip down memory lane to our Sky archive where 80,000 original tapes are stored since 1989.

Take a sneak peak at what we’ve found ⬇️

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Elon's cousin James Musk held an emergency, "high urgency" meeting at Twitter after the Super Bowl because Elon's tweets performed worse than Joe Biden's.

Then Twitter had engineers rush to change Twitter's algorithm to ensure Elon received "previously unheard-of promotion."

[The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar]

@KevinJB_1969 Good advice, thanks - doesn’t seem to help here for some reason… it really feels like things are falling apart right now. Absolutely hate these API shenanigans, and if even the official site doesn’t work right, wondering if it really is time to call it a day.

[The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar]

The other possibility is that my tweets are too dangerous, or uninteresting, or too dangerously uninteresting, to publish. But that could never happen.

[The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar]

@jmstringerward This is so weird, even your message disappeared too! I’m ”wonderstar” on the elephant thing if that helps. 🙂

[The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar]

I did a tweet and Twitter isn’t showing it even to me because Twitter SUCKS so hard now. #GetToMastodon

[bsky.app/profile/orta.io @orta]

Hey folks, even if you're not planning on using Mastodon instantly, you should take some time this week to create an account and set up your follows.

Twitter is starting to charge for API access to the migration tools in 5 days, meaning the migration tools will probably break.

[Tech News Explore @TechNewsXplore]

The dust continues to settle following Twitter’s decision to cut off third-party apps from its API. Twitter’s poorly communicated decision means that apps like Twitteriffic and Tweetbot can no longer exist. # # # # # # #

https://t.co/AXMND9IJ5g

[Andrew O'Hara @Andrew_OSU]

@Abdurra42556147 Twitter has revoked access to its API for third-party Twitter clients. Twitteriffic, Tweetbot, Aviary, Plume, and all other apps users have enjoyed for many, many years are now all non-functional and will be discontinued. Blow to users, Twitter itself, & small developers.

[The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar]

OK… at a guess, the Hotel TVs send activity logs back to a central server, where some code burps if it gets ‘HDMI1’ or not-a-number in a ‘channel_number’ field, and crashes, maybe delaying/disrupting other jobs running on the server - something like that? https://t.co/nU3LiVqWJA

[Visvge @Sicclord1]

What?

[The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar]

@VM_Phil @mumoss Ditto. Have to admit that I’ve found some solace in Fenix for iOS (the Android version was revoked, but the iOS version still works, for now) but shenanigans like these are just increasing my use of Mastodon and driving me away from a platform that I still kinda want to use.

[kenfager.bsky.social @kenfagerdotcom]

TweetBot appears to not be working and the official @Twitter app is serving ads for scammy pretend sportball casino I don’t care about.

Quality adverts rocket boy.

[Mirthe Mertens @Mirthe_]

If this turns out NOT to be temporary, I’m gone. I hate the Twitter website and app, and refuse to use it. Too much junk there. @tweetbot makes Twitter enjoyable for me, so if Musk doesn’t allow for third party apps to be used anymore, I’m gone.

[Tweetbot by Tapbots @tweetbot]

Tweetbot and other clients are experiencing problems logging in to Twitter. We’ve reached out to Twitter for more details, but haven’t heard back.

We’re hoping this is just a temporary glitch and will let you know more as soon as we know more.

[Patrick Norton @patricknorton]

So… looks like Twitter broke iOS clients like @tweetbot and @Twitterrific. 1) Both are soooo much easier to use than Twitter’s iOS app. 2) Props to @Iconfactory for putting this warning inside the app!

[The Industrious Ant @superwonderstar]

@tvlive “We don’t (generally) do sales”, cries headline-hungry retailer who actually (generally) does: