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im sure elon will love this and definitely not fire Esther for correcting him even though elon is the only one making himself look bad

A tweet from Taylor Lorenz, who is quote tweeting Esther Crawford, the Product Manager from Twitter.

Esther's tweet says: "The official label is still going out as part of the @TwitterBlue launch -- we are just focusing on government and commercial entities to begin with. What you saw him mention was the fact that we're not focusing on giving individuals the 'Official' label right now."

Taylor Lorenz's quote tweet says: "Now Twitter's own product people are debunking Elon's tweet 👇, saying they're reversing course and the 'official' label WILL be applied to some users, but they accidentally applied it too broadly? What a total and absolute mess"

lmao

yowza https://nytimes.com/2022/11/09/technology/meta-layoffs-facebook.html

love to vote out our most effective city councilor in favor of a regressive hack

lmaooooo i guarantee that this is damage control for all the advertisers fleeing twitter and there’s no way this was their original plan https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/1590109344976470016

Nov 8, 2022

just found out i have to pay a surprise $7500 tax in multnomah county 🥴

Nov 8, 2022

LAST WEEK: http://micro.blog is okay but doesnt work exactly how i want in terms of cross posting to twitter and other stuff. maybe i should just write my own microblog?

THIS WEEK: hmmm… maybe i dont need to worry about cross posting to twitter because it won’t exist soon

not only is twitter an impending train wreck, but the train just keeps getting faster https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1589711711233134592

this is a PERFECT encapsulation of what it feels like to be on twitter right now. twitter has been a really important part of my life since i joined nearly 15 years ago so this is an incredibly sad time for me. but it’s legitimately a very funny time too https://twitter.com/callmekitto/status/1589407148462964736

i’ve been getting spam DM requests daily ever since Melon Husk took over

“free speech is good unless it hurts me personally” https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589390597798125568

for any of my friends leaving twitter, y’all can find me on the only other social network that matters: FFXIV. i’m Myyah Hawwa on Coeurl

LOL so not only he attempting to rehire people he just laid off but is asking all of the leftovers to do the legwork of nominating people themselves??? the cruelty just keeps getting even worse https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1589335188286603264

“I completely agree, but—”

— Someone who does not, in fact, completely agree

the incredible galaxy brain of melon husk continues to amaze https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1589075543420325888

might be adding an easter egg to my personal site. as a little treat. an homage to this hell we’ve all loved

A PostgreSQL function that generates "Snowflake IDs", which are essentially bigint UUIDs that encode a timestamp within them so that they're date-relative. Twitter uses Snowflake IDs for their tweets, photos, videos, and more, and they've become a popular option for date-relative UUIDs.