I believe this is the second time in a week Darren Rovell's 1.9 million-follower Twitter account has been hacked

Posting crypto, of course (he's consistently said he doesn't believe in crypto as an investment). (I've also been picking up bot followers again over the last few days after a long break.)

FYI, Twitter might have you signed up for hundreds of "interests"

Here's how to try to deselect them (I tried, but after I got halfway through the Cs it stopped registering).

have you noticed your for you tab has been especially terrible and full of random things you hate? go to settings -> privacy and safety -> content you see, and you will notice they "subscribed" you to hundreds of bullshit topics and you have to un-check all of them manually pic.twitter.com/eUHD07tbWZ

— d'Eon (@ddddddeon) June 15, 2024

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Testing to see if this image link (imagining Twitter as a truly freemium product) is viewable without logging in to Bluesky

A future of freemium gems and rng. (The jpeg was attached to this post.)

A series of strategic errors turned Twitter's offices in Colorado into an absurd mess

The long thread starts here, is full of photos, and describes a seemingly endless comedy of errors.

Twitter today was like a MMO with the owner as a Looney Tunes-style foe

dril is fighting elon pic.twitter.com/5QeISk4h2I

— kevin (@KevBeirne) April 22, 2023

A lot of funny people still on Twitter:

Hypothetically, would it be libel if some outspoken accounts were intentionally given blue checks on Twitter to make it seem they're paying subscribers?

Generational liar https://t.co/WVmkvl82Pc

— Gifdsports (@gifdsports) April 20, 2023

Just to be clear, because as of 10 minutes ago this is now an immense source of shame, that I didn't pay for Twitter Blue, and Bellingcat got the official organisation status for free.

— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) April 20, 2023

I briefly paid for Blue earlier this year to check something out I needed to confirm. I immediately canceled. The subscription expired on Feb. 18, 2023. Yet Twitter would like you to believe that I am a continued Blue subscriber. That's not true. pic.twitter.com/N6eXQRY3Pr

— Sarah Perez - please use Signal not DMs (@sarahintampa) April 20, 2023

Update:

I keep thinking Elon is gonna run out of ways to take Ls on this platform, and I keep being wrong https://t.co/5sllM7f8oJ

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) April 20, 2023

The jokes are already outdated

I think the new richest person should be required to buy Twitter now and this cycle should continue until none of them are rich anymore

— Elliott Downing (@elliott_downing) December 16, 2022

How to turn off Twitter's sound effects

twitter > settings > accessibility, display and languages > display and sound > sound effects > you’re very welcome

— Daniel Benneworth-Gray (@gray) August 8, 2022

Here are magic incantations you can try to thwart Twitter's recommended tweet algorithm

Thank you! I typed these out if anyone wants to copy:
suggest_recycled_tweet_inline
suggest_activity_tweet
suggest_who_to_follow
suggest_recap
suggest_recycled_tweet
suggest_pyle_tweet
suggest_ranked_timeline_tweet

— mitch (@p2isonline) February 6, 2022

FYI, you can turn off the Twitter feature that tells people you're listening to a "Space"

settings > privacy and safety > spaces > turn off this mind-boggling antifeature

— mx'd waste (@profanegeometry) November 26, 2021

Twitter and Zoom for Gameboy; "All Manor of Evil"; Why You Should Be Playing Project Wingman

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Genuinely envious of this name. https://t.co/3phVRgJPGs

— Jim Rossignol (@jimrossignol) December 9, 2020

GTAV B-sides pic.twitter.com/7WkAYwQVQU

— Petri Levälahti (@Berduu) December 3, 2020

Loving Madden 21 and it’s newest feature “midplay substitutions” #NFLDROPSEA pic.twitter.com/NB2APwNNFh

— Bert (@905_5998) September 1, 2020

Twitter has not fixed its cropping algorithm

Quick test to see if Twitter's cropping algorithm is still racist. pic.twitter.com/n43sESS7l8

— Anthony Tordillos (@artordillos) December 7, 2020

Has anyone tried upside down yet pic.twitter.com/ao5aamhjI9

— Richard H. Stevens (@RichardHStevens) December 7, 2020

Twitter's cropping algorithm versus the trolley problem

let the algorithm decide pic.twitter.com/NZqTrLUkUl

— Dr. Geistbot, PhD (@Geistb0t) September 22, 2020

"Twitter apologises for 'racist' image-cropping algorithm"

"The company says it had tested the service for bias before it started using it, but now accepts that it didn’t go far enough."

The bias seems to be pervasive as various clever experiments have shown:

trying something here pic.twitter.com/2e574z5aA8

— Garrett Gilchrist (@GarrGilchrist) September 21, 2020

pic.twitter.com/QNZ8xCsEKj

— sina rawayama (@sina_rawayama) September 20, 2020

I wonder if Twitter does this to fictional characters too.

Lenny Carl pic.twitter.com/fmJMWkkYEf

— Jordan Simonovski (@_jsimonovski) September 20, 2020

I tried it with dogs. Let's see. pic.twitter.com/xktmrNPtid

— - M A R K - (@MarkEMarkAU) September 20, 2020

thanks to everyone who raised this. we tested for bias before shipping the model and didn't find evidence of racial or gender bias in our testing, but it’s clear that we’ve got more analysis to do. we'll open source our work so others can review and replicate. https://t.co/E6sZV3xboH

— liz kelley (@lizkelley) September 20, 2020

I know you think it’s fun to dunk on me, but I’m as irritated about this as everyone else. However, I’m in a position to fix it and I will.

— Dantley 🔥✊🏾💙 (@dantley) September 19, 2020

Being racist isn't the only problem:

If twitter didn't see a reason to fix this, this will change their mind https://t.co/FCbi2xVY7Y

— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) September 21, 2020

I had tweeted in 2019 about @Twitter cropping #womeninAI headless while cropping men correcting. When I raised this, many men in field accused me of making up a non-existent issue just to gain attention. Sadly #AI #bias is not yet fixed. https://t.co/Evx9pjhelF

— Prof. Anima Anandkumar (@AnimaAnandkumar) September 19, 2020

Women and POC are rendered invisible on @Twitter and other platforms by biased #AI #WomenInSTEM #womenintech #WomensRights pic.twitter.com/KcaNBrYYSa

— Prof. Anima Anandkumar (@AnimaAnandkumar) September 20, 2020

possibly we should stop saying “the algorithm” and start saying “the way people programmed the app”

— Clarissa C. S. Ryan (@wintersweet) September 20, 2020

Finally:

we have seen the underlying racism of twitter's automatic photo cropping, but in an effort to uncover other biases in the algorithm, i will now spend my very valuable time on this earth testing which of the portraits from this avengers: infinity war promo image the AI likes best pic.twitter.com/VKbAqj2KI7

— davemakes 🎶🔶✨ (@davemakes) September 20, 2020

Jokes from the great Twitter outage of July 15, 2020

In case you’re wondering what people with verified accounts are doing right now, I’m looking at one and he’s just scrolling helplessly

— Maia Nolan-Partnow (@myster) July 15, 2020

A man wakes up in a world where blue checks cannot post

— temporary michael lutz account (@WarrenIsDead) July 15, 2020

i give it another 3 minutes before unverifieds start offering up their accounts to verifieds to keep tweeting from

— patty • BLM (@thepattymatos) July 15, 2020

Blue checks trying to communicate through retweets are so sad bro. Like a genie stuck in a lamp lmao

— ヒューゴ (@HugoKitano) July 15, 2020

if you pass along a message from a verified account you’re a scab

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) July 15, 2020

pic.twitter.com/XGK0zVnQSI

— Jordan Oloman (@JordanOloman) July 15, 2020

i think twitter should introduce fun new gameplay variants like this every day to keep things interesting

— Brian Lee (@BrianLeeWow) July 15, 2020

RPG based on Twitter

i wanted to shitpost about twitter drama but then i got caught up in the mechanics. so to include all possible shitposts i wrote Twitter (The TTRPG). thank you. pic.twitter.com/RvUa6A2gg9

— bij (@bijanstephen) July 13, 2020

hm. the images posted out of order. that's fine. that's Twitter (The TTRPG).

— bij (@bijanstephen) July 13, 2020

You can download a pdf version.

Today's funny posts

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A couple of the Pekin Bantams had dirty feet (malteser toes!) so they had a bath 🛁

It’s important to check feather-footed birds regularly as they can easily get clogged; if they do, just give them a soak in warm water pic.twitter.com/WOhkHIcBR6

— Lewis Dr Chicken (@DrChicken) March 27, 2020

In four months, don't forget to put the tape back over your webcam.

— Eliot in excelsior (@eliot) March 27, 2020

Sometimes you see a sign that gives you true hope and lifts your spirits and makes your heart swell. This is community. pic.twitter.com/hnEfl2TAoE

— Claire Zulkey (@Zulkey) March 27, 2020

When you are a grumpy, cold hearted assassin and your girlfriend is an innocent princess. pic.twitter.com/Z3G8pc48d8

— A happier day (@AHappierDay) March 13, 2020

If you disagree with something I tweet please feel free to venmo me $20 to reply to me. If you venmo me $50 I will read your reply. For $100 I will respond. For $200 I will respond with something that is not "I don't know how to read"

— Kendra 🐖 (@kendrawcandraw) March 26, 2020

Baby dino is learning to walk pic.twitter.com/uzemfshP31

— Oregon Zoo (@OregonZoo) March 26, 2020

my boyfriend has been wearing sweats so much he has started calling normal pants... "hard pants"

— David Mack (@davidmackau) March 26, 2020

Well if this isn’t a real life Timon and Pumbaa! During the @CincinnatiZoo closure their red river hog, Sir Francis Bacon, visited the meerkats. https://t.co/Kd3HD20QDA pic.twitter.com/30StpAFvKV

— Good Morning America (@GMA) March 26, 2020

Sometimes my cat walks around with my slipper like he’s wearing it pic.twitter.com/8PZKssZyfq

— KΔTY (@Dope_chakra) March 26, 2020

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"My 72 Hours in a Viral Tweet Vortex: A Diary"

Alexis Pereira for Vulture:

Last week, I did something a lot of people do every day: I tweeted out a joke. The joke in this case was a photo of a fake college English class essay I typed up about Tom and Jerry, then marked with frustrated red-pen notes and a D grade before tweeting it as though I were the professor at his wit’s end. To be clear, I’m not a college professor — I actually work in IT and am a comedian who performs in New York, presumably for other people who work in IT. But that didn’t stop thousands of people from seeing my tweet and assuming it was real.

...


Tuesday, February 11, 10:15 a.m.: My boss is on vacation, and my boss’s boss visits me in my office and asks me if I teach English. I tell him no, and he explains that he had to ask because people are calling him asking him to fire me. I apologize for the disturbance.

Ten funny tweets

Portuguese President makes sure Trump doesn't try that power handshake bullshit on him.😂😂😂pic.twitter.com/KzPC1QUvTu

— Bill Maxwell 🌊 #CountryOverParty (@Bill_Maxwell_) January 18, 2020

That thing where a dog brings you a dead bird it found and proudly drops it at your feet, but it's hundreds of people doing it on here and the gross bird is whatever Hillary Clinton recently said about politics.

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) January 21, 2020

This tweet takes quite a turn. https://t.co/yihdkbxJ3O

— Tim Steller (@senyorreporter) January 19, 2020

In the Clinton impeachment, every senator took a black and silver souvenir pen after they signed their oath for the Senate trial.

The original pens had a typo on them, though, so Gillette created a second batch of souvenir pens for them to keep instead. https://t.co/D4KtoBPoFJ pic.twitter.com/NNxHmy4t00

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 16, 2020

👀👀 @nick_bayton when were you born, again? pic.twitter.com/f437RASQMi

— hatty (@hattsandsocks) January 16, 2020

- Turkey 👍 pic.twitter.com/RK2axIOyLc

— Köksal Akın (@newworlddd555) January 16, 2020

He’s in deep shit pic.twitter.com/I9VinQdU8F

— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) January 19, 2020

Also suburban dads are doing their thing on TikTok and I’m loving it pic.twitter.com/ZBYj9xLwwj

— Sally Kuchar💅🏼🤷🏻‍♀️💋📚 (@sallykuchar) January 12, 2020

I'm sorry, Margaret Wise Brown died HOWhttps://t.co/FRygtGsf4p pic.twitter.com/TB7Qwj8W19

— Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes (@exclamate_) January 15, 2020

in the 1993 speed racer show, racer x works for an organization called "Internet"

so everyone constantly saying stuff like "internet's been taken over" "maybe internet can help us" "meet me at internet" "that's the boss of internet" pic.twitter.com/cT4dAQnWcs

— D🌑CFUTURE (@topherflorence) January 14, 2020

Each pig has its merits, but only one can be the chosen pig. pic.twitter.com/gU2FUtjaSo

— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) January 19, 2020

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