The video found on Duggar’s hard drive, as mentioned above, is indeed the Peter Scully video that Dom Lucre tweeted stills from. There is a Wikipedia article on Scully that goes into some detail about the nature of the video. I do not encourage you to read it if you have children, know people who have children, or have ever been a child. It is enough to know that the Philippines abolished capital punishment in 2006, but considered reinstating it just for him when he was put on trial.
No social media UI is fully baked from the jump. Good UI develops from user behavior trends and preferences (in addition to less altruistic directives from corporate).
I surely cannot be the only person in the world who has been trained by the internet to recognise the X symbol as an invitation to close the content that I do not wish to see.
I looked at an xcrete/xeet/tweet earlier today and instinctively clicked to logo to exit.
I’m not sure if there has been a possibly worse re-brand on the internet.
Not just confused branding, but incredibly poor user experience (I can only see a single tweet, some can see threads, some can only see a login page, all on the same tweet URL)
Typically major changes to the user experience are rolled out via what is known as an A/B test, in which changes happen to, say, 10% of users and the dev team and marketers evaluate the difference in response compared to the other 90%.
If it seems favorable, then 20%/80%… and slowly the ratio changes. This means it is easy to roll back the change if it is unpopular or hard to use.
Musk may understand business (I have my doubts) but as a mere software engineer - not even a UX designer - even I can see he is shitting on his product.
That gives me the idea of making a quick user script that changes the X logo to where clicking on it closes the current tab. That is, assuming no one else has done it.
I’ve not confirmed this, so take with grain of salt, but if true, then one really has to marvel at how well thought out and planned this rebranding was done. Clearly the work of a jenius.
Also, you can tell how bad it is because not even Sam has come around to tell us how wrong we are about his favorite billionaire.
It’s worse than that. Twitter already had a Trust and Safety Council when Elmo bought it, and as far as anyone can tell, he didn’t know about it, which is why he promised to create one. When Elmo found out that a moderation group already existed, he fired them all:
Well, “Steven” derives from “Stephen” (and further from Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos), so regardless of relative popularity, it’s Steven that is the variant, though relatively more popular than Stephen in the US, at least.
Never underestimate Sammy’s faith in his boi wonder, I believe he is currently up on his cross holding his breath and not posting due to a temper tantrum he is throwing about how persecuted he is by all of us meanies. I’m sure if he wasn’t he could find time to link to a cite that didn’t actually read which says the opposite of what he imagined it said.
If apps require two letters, I wonder why Musk did not simply rename Twitter XXX. After all, the Dos Equis Man claims to be the Most Interesting Man In The World. And it might have garnered more attention.
I’ve never Twitted. So I did not know until this week that the logo was named Larry after Larry Bird. Although I am too young to have seen him shoot hoops, I did watch him go one-on-one with Dr. J many times. He usually got smoked, in the limited subset where I was playing video games with my brother.
