Many broke ass, rank & file Republicans think that Donald Trump is the “smartest” person they know, and a good businessman. That’s just sad and stupid as fuck. He bankrupted a casino ffs.

i would really like a browser extension so that if i accidentally get taken to x.com, the Fail Whale will appear instead. if it could also go to a different website so that the x’s site traffic would be affected negatively, so much the better

This is why I am leaving Twitter for more reliable alternatives.

A site like Twitter is more difficult to manage than many other sites, because it’s highly custom to each and every viewer, and has a real-time aspect built into it as well. That combination is tough to do well, and Twitter built up a team of engineers who made it work.

And Elon Musk fired basically all of them.

The site is becoming more unreliable & the algorithmic timeline is just awful. New York Times have more info about this.

In February alone, Twitter experienced at least four widespread outages, compared with nine in all of 2022, according to NetBlocks, an organization that tracks internet outages. That suggests the frequency of service failures is on the rise, NetBlocks said. And bugs that have made Twitter less usable — by preventing people from posting tweets, for instance — have been more noticeable, researchers and users said.