Angelheaded Hipsters Burning for the Ancient Heavenly Connection: Emily Gorcenski's "requiem for the Twitter that could have been" emilygorcenski.com/post/angelhead…

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.

Imagine being jack right now, after having thrown his entire fucking staff under the bus to please the golden god only to have the deal fall through.

#BREAKING: FTC charges @Twitter with deceptively using account security data to sell targeted ads: bit.ly/3PIM5MJ /1

wow thanks twitter!

4liGalactic @jkap lol

Twitter Exposes Personal Information for 5.4 Million Accounts dlvr.it/SWWtHF

They absolutely should push this interface live on Friday morning. Leave the place in broom clean condition.

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 reuters.com/technology/exc…

A glorious reminder that you too can cost Elong a small part of 44 billion dollars

“You! You, Elon Musk, are addicted to Twitter. You’re the asset. You just bought yourself for $44 billion dollars.”theverge.com/2022/10/28/234…

Omfg. UPDATE: STOP PRINTING is all time. This is gonna be great. platformer.news/p/elon-takes-o…

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/Kurt Wagner Davey Alba Ed Ludlow

Looking forward to the future on Thursday. Resigned on Friday.

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: washingtonpost.com/technology/202… w/ Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 Faiz Siddiqui Elizabeth Dwoskin et al

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: flickr.com/groups (1)