What Do Americans Want?
Week from Monday 12th June 2023 - I'd finished writing my BLOGGYDIARYWOTSIT entry for last week, but I waited till now (Monday morning) before posting it - last minute updates concerning Sunday's final day at the CriTéRiuM du DAuphiNé and all that!
Meanwhile, Elmo has broken something else on TWITTER in his 'DRIVE TO MONETIZATION'. Last week, there were problems with the TRANSLATION plug-in. It looked like they'd finally ditched the (often hilarious, it must be said!) BING translate engine and reinstated the 'proper' G***le one. Then THAT one disappeared again. Then it returned. Watch this space.
There have also be problems with TAGGING your chums in replies, depending on which version of Twitter you're using. It's SUPPOSED to work like, when you start typing a @username in a tweet, Twitter auto-completes the name from your followers list. But twitterers report that it doesn't do that anymore, at least not on the desktop version(s). Probably a symptom of the fact that they don't WANT you just to commune with your own followers, they only need you to see theirs. You know, the ones who've bought their BLUE TICKS.
It hasn't escaped anyone's notice that there are a lot more ADVERTS popping up on their timelines these days. As I said, it's a 'DRIVE TO MONETIZATION'. I've lost count of how many I've muted this week, or at least I have clicked on the "I DON'T LIKE THIS AD" or "I'M NOT ITERESTED IN THIS AD" options, depending on which device I'm on.
ALL ADVERTS ARE BULLSHIT. Self-indulgent wank, for the most part. I ignore them, I never respond to them and I do my best to make them go away. That goes for websites, TV, commercial radio, all of it. You can take it as read that, if it's an advert, "I AM NOT INTERESTED IN THIS" is my default...
Everything still seemed to work 'properly' on the Android app for a while... but then this morning, I'm just getting that "CANNOT RETRIEVE TWEETS AT THIS TIME. PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER" grey box popping up evertime I try to do anything. So gawdnose what they're up to NOW! All this taking-down and then putting-back of features only serves to remind me that Twitter is now run on the basis of "WHAT DO AMERICANS WANT?". They seem to forget that there are OTHER people on the planet using it.
Meanwhile, Elmo has broken something else on TWITTER in his 'DRIVE TO MONETIZATION'. Last week, there were problems with the TRANSLATION plug-in. It looked like they'd finally ditched the (often hilarious, it must be said!) BING translate engine and reinstated the 'proper' G***le one. Then THAT one disappeared again. Then it returned. Watch this space.
There have also be problems with TAGGING your chums in replies, depending on which version of Twitter you're using. It's SUPPOSED to work like, when you start typing a @username in a tweet, Twitter auto-completes the name from your followers list. But twitterers report that it doesn't do that anymore, at least not on the desktop version(s). Probably a symptom of the fact that they don't WANT you just to commune with your own followers, they only need you to see theirs. You know, the ones who've bought their BLUE TICKS.
It hasn't escaped anyone's notice that there are a lot more ADVERTS popping up on their timelines these days. As I said, it's a 'DRIVE TO MONETIZATION'. I've lost count of how many I've muted this week, or at least I have clicked on the "I DON'T LIKE THIS AD" or "I'M NOT ITERESTED IN THIS AD" options, depending on which device I'm on.
ALL ADVERTS ARE BULLSHIT. Self-indulgent wank, for the most part. I ignore them, I never respond to them and I do my best to make them go away. That goes for websites, TV, commercial radio, all of it. You can take it as read that, if it's an advert, "I AM NOT INTERESTED IN THIS" is my default...
Everything still seemed to work 'properly' on the Android app for a while... but then this morning, I'm just getting that "CANNOT RETRIEVE TWEETS AT THIS TIME. PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER" grey box popping up evertime I try to do anything. So gawdnose what they're up to NOW! All this taking-down and then putting-back of features only serves to remind me that Twitter is now run on the basis of "WHAT DO AMERICANS WANT?". They seem to forget that there are OTHER people on the planet using it.
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