# Now that Musk bought Twitter -- Breaking News only **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news, elon-musk\ **Created:** [November 29, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737 "2022-11-29T13:10:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/281 "2023-07-09T21:20:16Z")
Curious how long that post took to swype? šŸ‘† I watch my friend and she seems to swype common words or something then switches to two-thumb then back. Swip swip swip, bappity bappity bap, swip swip. Is that what you do? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/282 "2023-07-09T21:23:17Z")
I have no idea how long that took. This took 13 seconds ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/283 "2023-07-09T21:25:25Z")
I mostly donā€™t type letters unless i fail three times to get it to swype the word i want. Then i look at what Iā€™ve written and try to fix stuff that i notice is wrong. Like, i had to change swipe to swype. When i do type letters, i do it with my index finger, not my thumbs. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/284 "2023-07-09T21:39:58Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Speaking texts doesnā€™t work well. At least not yet. Speaking as someone who did a full time voice transcription service, speaking slowly is not as important (although it helps!) but fully enunciating, or even over-enunciating is the key. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/285 "2023-07-09T21:43:31Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > When i do type letters, i do it with my index finger, not my thumbs. Iā€™ve never understood thumb-typing. Take the biggest globbiest finger you have and poke at the tiny keys with it. Seems totally backwards, and a great way to drop your phone since youā€™re not really holding onto it. For me itā€™s always phone in left hand, index finger of right stabbing at keyboard. Iā€™ve fiddled with swype, but the back and forth between swyping and picking the correct word _and_ fixing typos is too many balls to juggle. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/286 "2023-07-09T22:08:09Z")
Iā€™m left handed, so i hold the phone on my right hand and swype with the left, and occasionally stab with the left. The last phone that i had with a tiny physical keyboard, i did use both thumbs. But Iā€™ve never used thumbs for a virtual keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/287 "2023-07-09T22:12:43Z")
Interesting. I typed the same sentences (on a laptop keyboard) and did it in just under 8 seconds. I am sure it would take me longer than 13 seconds on a phone regardless of method. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/288 "2023-07-09T23:08:51Z")
I gave up on swiping pretty early. Not only was it always slower, but it couldnā€™t figure out what word I wanted to type. I find itā€™s easier to type using my thumbs, which is about half the speed I can type on a real keyboard. It just didnā€™t seem worth it to learn, even if it would eventually get faster. Too much headache correcting it. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/289 "2023-07-10T00:33:40Z")
I am a poor typist. I donā€™t type substantially faster than i can swype. Iā€™m told that the fastest swypists beat the fastest typists, iirc. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/290 "2023-07-10T01:07:39Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Iā€™m told that the fastest swypists beat the fastest typists, iirc. Iā€™m a fast swypist, but a faster typist and I greatly prefer typing. Same preference working on a computer over a phone. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/291 "2023-07-10T02:07:42Z")
I had gotten pretty efficient at typing on my phoneā€™s keyboard but then Elon Musk bought Twitter and forced us all to go back to T9. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/292 "2023-07-10T02:36:41Z")
Wasnā€™t this a breaking news thread before we all got fascinated by phone UI? Maybe I should report myself since I was certainly part of the hijack. šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/293 "2023-07-10T02:48:07Z")
Yeah, me, too. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/294 "2023-07-10T07:00:10Z")
> ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/295 "2023-07-10T07:27:28Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > There are lots of phones in the market with specs better than a lot of PCs. It is funnyā€“my mid-range phone chip is rated at 80 gigaflops for the CPU and 486 gigaflops for the GPU, and today that is considered to be slow. (The Cray 1 supercomputer? 0.16 gigaflops.) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/296 "2023-07-10T16:28:57Z")
I have an iPad Pro with the M1 chip, which is rated at 2.6 Teraflops. The new M2 iPad is 3.6. The M2 pro chip hits 6.8 Tflops. This is just about the same performance as the ASCI ā€˜Whiteā€™ Supercomputer from 2000: > **[ASCI White](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCI_White)** > > ASCI White was a supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, which was briefly the fastest supercomputer in the world. > It was a computer cluster based on IBM's commercial RS/6000 SP computer. 512 nodes were interconnected for ASCI White, with each node containing sixteen 375Ā MHz IBM POWER3-II processors. In total, the ASCI White had 8,192 processors, 6Ā terabytes (TB) of memory, and 160Ā TB of disk storage. It was almost exclusively used for large-scale computation... That thing weighed over 100 tons and consumed 3MW of electricity. An Ipad Pro M2 weighs 486 grams and can run for 10 hours on a 28 Wh battery. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/297 "2023-07-10T17:04:58Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Iā€™m a fast swypist, but a faster typist and I greatly prefer typing. Same preference working on a computer over a phone. This is me, too. But Iā€™ve been a touch typist for ā€“ dangā€” nearly 60 years (since junior high). ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/298 "2023-07-10T17:22:55Z")
I had typing in HS (probably around 86), but became a super fast, efficient tough typist when I started playing MUD video games in our university terminal rooms. So much typing! ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/299 "2023-07-10T17:51:14Z")
Moderating: Letā€™s please drop the hijack about typing styles/methods in this thread, as it is a breaking news only thread. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/300 "2023-07-10T17:53:27Z")
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