EN: #Twitter published parts of its source-code and people are speculating over what motivated #ElonMusk to go #opensource. Here's what they say! 👇
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#Twitter hat Teile seines Quellcodes veröffentlicht und die Leute spekulieren, was #ElonMusk dazu bewogen hat, #OpenSource zu gehen.
Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone
Link: wired.com/story/twitter-data-a…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data.Chris Stokel-Walker (WIRED)
Not only does Elon Musk not have a clue what he’s talking about, but this is *exactly* what he tried to do at PayPal, claiming it needed a full “V2” rewrite of the code when it didn’t.
Instead, it shifted resources away from key areas, caused PayPal to lose much more money to fraud, and eventually got him ousted as CEO.
Last month, I wrote about Elon Musk’s time at PayPal and how he’s repeating his mistakes from that period: disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wa…
#tech #elonmusk #twitter #paypal
What PayPal’s history teaches us about Elon Musk’s management of TwitterParis Marx (Disconnect)
Tired of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Skeptical of the metaverse? The non-profit, distributed, community-oriented fediverse might be for you.InfoWorld
I know there is a lot going on at Twitter right now, but here's one more thing. Twitter is ignoring #GDPR requests from people to delete their DMs.
At the moment, when you press delete on a Twitter DM (an individual message or conversation) the DM isn't actually deleted from Twitter's servers, just your inbox view.
So people in Europe have been making requests for Twitter to blitz all their messages. It hasn't properly answered them. And now regulators are looking at it
Full story here: wired.com/story/delete-twitter…
#Twitter #gdpr #infosec #technology #news #wired
People in Europe are making GDPR requests to have their private messages erased, but Elon’s team is ignoring them.Matt Burgess (WIRED)
Ah, so now he wants you to produce free content for his dying, unstable platform, after threatening you, on a whim, to shut off your free access. I see.
techcrunch.com/2023/02/04/elon…
In response, I will be discontinuing all my projects that rely on Twitter's API, and I advise you all to do the same, rather than let him decide their fate.
#twitter #TwitterAPI #TwitterBots
Japanese users reported #TwitterAPI-accessed accounts being frozen a day ago. Twitter disabled Movetodon's access about 8 hours ago.
You don't have until next week.
The casualty is not the FediVerse. The casualty is the people who relied upon free-of-charge #Twitter, directly or indirectly, for everything from authentication to robot-posted pictures of possums. They've lost all of that.
They were always the product, not the customer, of course.
While #Google #Meta #Microsoft #Twitter & #Amazon are laying off tens of thousands of people to satisfy shareholders, #Tutanota continues to grow.
Welcome with us Wren, Johannes & Noah! 🥳
Join us if you are a developer wanting to fight for #privacy!
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New year, new team members! With the start of 2023 we continue the growth of the Tutanota team: Welcome with us Wren, Johannes and Noah. All of these talented software developers are already working on improving our encrypted email client.Tutanota
Budoucí hradní mluvčí Markéta Řeháková se brání kritice, podle které bylo její vystupování ve volebním štábu Petra Pavla nedůstojné. Velkou roli v jejím výkonu měla hrát davová euforie z vítězství.Dáša Šamanová (FTV Prima)
On the second anniversary of the insurrection, Twitter restored the account of Michael Flynn, who pushed Trump to use the military to overturn the election.David Gilbert (VICE)
We normally promote the conference Tech Intersections: Women of Color in Computing on #Twitter but won't this year for obvious reasons.
Please help us spread the word about this #bipoc conference in #Oakland #California.
We're offering 20% off with promo code MASTODON. #BlackMastodon #BlackFriday
We are giving free tickets to people who have been laid off with promo code LAIDOFF.
techintersections.org
The event includes an #ally skills workshop for supporters of #woc.
A few months ago, I attended a wonderful conference put on by the “Global Freedom of Expression” program at Columbia University discussing decentralized social media and regulations aro…Techdirt
So, it’s been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it (yet — the EU’s are coming into force shortly, but pos…Techdirt
Elon Musk suspended Linette Lopez from Twitter after years of critical reporting on his companies.
In a new piece, she lays out Elon Musk’s playbook of exploiting workers while building a cult following. These tactics aren’t new. Musk has always been this way, regardless of what former boosters like Kara Swisher want you to believe. They were just happy to ignore it for access while journalists like Lopez did the work.
businessinsider.com/elon-musk-…
#elonmusk #tech #tesla #twitter #spacex
Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.Linette Lopez (Insider)
For many people who have stepped away from Twitter, Mastodon is their first experience with a decentralized social network.John Voorhees (MacStories)
After you’ve drawn such a strong distinction on speech and human freedom, you can’t make any mistake about the side on which you belong.isaac-schorr (Mediaite)
I felt moved to write this article after reading a post on Mastodon this morning. I am paraphrasing the post’s contents, because it’s not my intention to call out or embarrass any individual. I am …Mosen At Large
The domain zwezo.o-k-i.net automatically creates mirroring #Mastodon #bot accounts upon any #Twitter handles put into their search field, without authorization by the original Twitter profile owners.
I doubt, this is #legal, under EU law at least & find it highly #disturbing, that anybody can create bot accounts referring to others, who are neither aware of this nor authorized this in person.
BIG FLAW!
Please boost, so mastoadmins can take action.
#mastoadmin #followerpower #boost
@rysiek
Another day, another video.
A lot of us already have a large #Twitter #Network and would love to be able to easily search #Mastodon for them to fill out our network here.
The #Fedifinder site helps make this a reality and it recently got some updates.
This video walks through the steps to #Migrate your network across in minutes.
As always, any boosts are appreciated to spread the word... And a sub would be lovely. 😜 #twittermigration #twitterexodus #youtube #feditips
The Fedifinder service - https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ - is a great site that can make locating your existing network from Twitter on Mastodon significantly ...YouTube
My self-hosted, #indieweb #Twitter archive is up. Thanks to @eleventy and the excellent work done on the Tweeback project: github.com/tweetback/tweetback
You can find mine here: twitter.marcozehe.de
Also, if you read German, my German language archive is here: twitter.marcos-leben.de
Take ownership of your Twitter data and get your tweets back - GitHub - tweetback/tweetback: Take ownership of your Twitter data and get your tweets backGitHub
Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots
techdirt.com/2022/12/02/multip…
#elonmusk #twitter #polls #bots #spam #1
Rolling Stone has a fun article quoting multiple former Twitter employees highlighting that polls are the least secure tool on the platform, and are regularly open to manipulation by bots: “Polls a…Techdirt
Ahora que extremistas previamente expulsados vuelven a #Twitter, escribí de la plataforma:
albertochimal.com/2022/11/25/t…
…y sobre la escritura literaria en línea:
literalmagazine.com/la-muerte-…
Esta nota tiene un título alarmante a propósito. Es un cebo. Muérdelo: sigue leyendo. * El término tuiteratura se inventó en 2009: apareció en el libro Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter de Alexander Aciman y Emmet Rensin…Alberto Chimal (Literal Magazine)
⚠️ WARNING: Do not use #Hive Social!
According to research conducted by @zerforschung, the #Twitter alternative Hive Social has got a number of dangerous #security vulnerabilies.
They allow attackers to completely access and even to partly edit anyone's data, including private posts, deleted direct messages, e-mail addresses and phone numbers signed up with etc.
Once again this demonstrates that you should not rely on closed-source software to guard sensitive data.
🔗 zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en
Dieser Artikel ist auch auf deutsch erschienen. Following the Twitter takeover, a number of services promising to be an alternative gained traction. One of those is “Hive Social”, which reached more than a million users in the last weeks.zerforschung.org
I was listening to the #BBC's #DigitalPlanet this morning & happy to get the tip of downloading & archiving your data from #Twitter.
You can see how to do it here help.twitter.com/en/managing-y…
You need to "Request an Archive" but it is worthwhile doing, especially if you have invested a lot in that legacy platform.
It's easy to download your Twitter archive from your first Tweet to your last. Here's how.help.twitter.com
Hello Tooters!
I was hoping for some help during my transition from the bird place. Having left that dumpster fire behind and found a very welcoming community here, there's really only one thing I'm missing so far, real-time news feeds.
Is there a tip or trick anyone can share to help increase the stream of information I see?
As a reward, here's a puppy. If you can find him, he's yours.
#twitter #twittermigration #twitterquitter #mastodonnews #tipsandtricks #Thanksgiving
Wuensche @Anwalt_Jun viel Erfolg fuer seine Verhandlung heute... letztendlich koennte er, falls das Verfuegungsverfahren erfolgreich ist, dafuer sorgen, dass #Twitter in Deutschland erstmal Pause machen muss.
Unwahrscheinlich, aber wie heisst es nicht so schoen "Vor Gericht und auf hoher See..." 😎 Alle Infos 👉 youtu.be/UtrtflsF3eI
Update: kann man das schon einen Justizskandal nennen, wenn Twitter so einen Deal mit dem Bundesjustizministerium machen kann? Siehe Screenshots:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Anwalt_JunInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/anwalt_jun/Website: https://www.junit.de/YouTube
