Now that Elon will own twitter on Friday or Monday..

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dimitrig
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Eastern Oregon Bear said:

Another brain dead decision from the new and improved Twitter. At least they eventually came to their senses.

Twitter limits automated weather alerts from the National Weather Service



From the CNN story:

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In February, Twitter announced it would limit the number of tweets that can be sent from automated accounts, unless they pay extra, in a move it said was intended to "increase quality, reduce spam, and enable a thriving ecosystem."

The change would have a huge impact on the National Weather Service and other weather entities using automated tweets to send crucial weather alerts, like tornado warnings.

"The reason the automation exists is so that the people at the office don't have to worry about redundantly issuing a tornado warning, then going on to Twitter, and then retyping the same thing," Daryl Herzmann explained. Herzmann is a systems analyst for Iowa Environmental Mesonet and helped create the automation software used on Twitter.

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Herzmann explained Twitter was going to only allow 50 automated tweets in a 24-hour period. To put it in perspective, his account issued about 16,000 automated tweets on a slow weather day and issued 28,000 on April 4, the day the Midwest was hit with nearly 30 tornado reports.

"Without this automated process, it would take minutes for forecasters to manually prepare warning information into a tweet. For every warning issued, seconds could make the difference between life and death," said NOAA in a statement to CNN.

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Twitter, which laid off much of its public relations team after Musk took over last year, did not respond to a request for comment.

"Since Elon has basically gutted all the employees, it's impossible to interact with them at a technical level," explained Herzmann. "It's very frustrating."

Twitter originally said there would be no exceptions to its ruling to limit the number of automated tweets. But in a surprising move over the weekend, Twitter has reversed course, saying in a tweet "Twitter will allow the National Weather Service accounts to continue Tweeting weather alerts without limits." The move highlights the importance of weather alerts. Weather warnings save lives.



Maybe the NWS should pay up. I doubt the feds are too broke to pay for the service they are using.

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dimitrig
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movielover said:




This is so funny given that the Patriot Act was overwhelmingly supported by Republicans

Cal88
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dimitrig said:

movielover said:



This is so funny given that the Patriot Act was overwhelmingly supported by Republicans


movielover
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And then Obama & Holder weaponized it, along with hiring partisan ideologues at the DOJ. Now we literally have Big Brother snopping on everything. Not to mention the IRS (Lois Lerner).
AunBear89
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movielover said:

And then Obama & Holder weaponized it, along with hiring partisan ideologues at the DOJ. Now we literally have Big Brother snopping on everything. Not to mention the IRS (Lois Lerner).

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- (maybe) Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain
DiabloWags
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TSLA earnings show margins dropping to 19.3% on price cuts.
Free cash flow cratered 80%
Q1 profit down 24% YoY

Stock down $7.00 afterhours.

Tesla Beats Revenue EstimatesBut Stock Still Drops After Earnings Report Released (forbes.com)
"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
chazzed
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It's so amusing to see Republicans disavow all things Dubya. It'll be just as amusing when the same Republicans disavow all things Trump in the future.
MinotStateBeav
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chazzed said:

It's so amusing to see Republicans disavow all things Dubya. It'll be just as amusing when the same Republicans disavow all things Trump in the future.

If you're a republican in your 20s, you have no heart. If you're a democrat in you're 30s, you have no head.
dimitrig
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MinotStateBeav said:

chazzed said:

It's so amusing to see Republicans disavow all things Dubya. It'll be just as amusing when the same Republicans disavow all things Trump in the future.

If you're a republican in your 20s, you have no heart. If you're a democrat in you're 30s, you have no head.


If you're a Republican these days you are a heartless moron.

MinotStateBeav
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dimitrig said:

MinotStateBeav said:

chazzed said:

It's so amusing to see Republicans disavow all things Dubya. It'll be just as amusing when the same Republicans disavow all things Trump in the future.

If you're a republican in your 20s, you have no heart. If you're a democrat in you're 30s, you have no head.


If you're a Republican these days you are a heartless moron.


You're about to go lick the world aren't you?

AunBear89
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Nah. Republicans are too busy f$&King the world and anyone that isn't in the anti woke cult.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- (maybe) Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain
movielover
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dimitrig said:

MinotStateBeav said:

chazzed said:

It's so amusing to see Republicans disavow all things Dubya. It'll be just as amusing when the same Republicans disavow all things Trump in the future.

If you're a republican in your 20s, you have no heart. If you're a democrat in you're 30s, you have no head.


If you're a Republican these days you are a heartless moron.




Yes, $7 Trillion for the "War on Poverty", anti-war = heartless?
DiabloWags
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Gasoline shortage in South Florida and DeSantis uses the word "woke" 7x in 20 seconds of a news conference.
That's some BIG TIME LEADERSHIP right there!

People in Florida are so dumb.
And the National Review is pushing this guy as the future of the GOP?

lol

"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
BearHunter
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movielover said:



"If you care about free speech so much, build your own Twitter." - FBI
Eastern Oregon Bear
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BearHunter said:

movielover said:



"If you care about free speech so much, build your own Twitter." - FBI
Having a discussion is so much easier when you can make up fake quotes and facts.
sycasey
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LOL

movielover
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MinotStateBeav
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Bette Middler's ravings were excellent.
BearHunter
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check









dajo9
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BearHunter said:

check












Yahtzee?
sycasey
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There seems to be a weird assumption among conservatives that celebrities on the left actually care about having blue checks on Twitter, despite abundant evidence to the contrary.
dajo9
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sycasey said:

There seems to be a weird assumption among conservatives that celebrities on the left actually care about having blue checks on Twitter, despite abundant evidence to the contrary.


I see liberals pointing out that Twitter continues to give a blue check even though they haven't paid or verified.

Thought tbh, I haven't seen much Twitter since I no longer have an account.
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okaydo
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Eastern Oregon Bear
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okaydo said:


After watching recent events, I'm confident that Elon Musk and Twitter are making all the right moves to get the business world to resume advertising on Twitter.
MinotStateBeav
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Rep. Jeffries and Rep. Nadler were involved in sending threat of Prison to Matt Taibbi over an acronym mistake about CISA and CIS which turned out to not be a mistake at all via Mehdi Hassan trying to gotcha Taibbi and they used House Rep. Stacy Plaskett to send the threat. Long story short..our government is trying to arrest journalists for acronym mistakes. When's the last time they threatened arrest of a an american journalist? Does this actually concern any of you dems or are you just going to party line this?

dajo9
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Twitter now is just reading the comments of the stupidest anon's on the planet. People who would pay $8 for a blue check to have their comments jump to the top of the feed. Useless. Garbage.
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movielover
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dimitrig
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Checkmarks used to indicate that a person was "authentic" and "notable."

Now it just means someone paid a nominal fee and provided a phone number.

The checkmarks are meaningless now.
Eastern Oregon Bear
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BearHunter said:



Maybe they are bothered because Twitter is using their fame and reputation to promote Blue Checkmarks without paying them for it.
sycasey
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Eastern Oregon Bear said:

BearHunter said:



Maybe they are bothered because Twitter is using their fame and reputation to promote Blue Checkmarks without paying them for it.

Honestly, no one seems that bothered. The prevailing opinion now is that it's worse to have a blue check, because Elon devalued it.
AunBear89
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dimitrig said:


Checkmarks used to indicate that a person was "authentic" and "notable."

Now it just means someone paid a nominal fee and provided a phone number.

The checkmarks are meaningless now.



Well, to be honest, the blue check was always meaningless because, ya know, it's Twitter.


Twitter is meaningless.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- (maybe) Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain
 
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