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nilay patel

@reckless182k followers

Editor-in-chief of The Verge. CNBC contributor. Host of Decoder, co-host of The Vergecast, everywhere good podcasts are served. I am in love with spectacle.

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1Oct 28, '22Sorry bro46×020k4.8k1.9k
2Nov 13, '22It is incredible how many smart people are quietly whispering that Elon has to be destroying Twitter on purpose30.5×021k952409
3Feb 20, '22The First Amendment as an all-purpose magic internet law finds itself in a Canadian court, where the judge is not amused19×09.8k1.7k287
4Dec 21, '21Aaron Rodgers just said Ivermectin is being used successfully in Indian and Japan, which: India officially pulled it from its protocols because it was ineffective and the Japan thi16.7×08.1k1.8k201
5Mar 2, '22Oh no not a first-gen iPad that hasn’t gotten software updates for a decade anything but that14.2×010k58786
6Oct 31, '22Scoop from ⁦@alexeheath⁩: it’ll be $20/mo to be verified, and if the team doesn’t ship in a week, they’re fired11.1×02.3k554179
7Nov 10, '21Today we’re updating The Verge’s policy on agreeing to “background” from tech companies. We’re doing this publicly to provide cover for other newsrooms covering tech to do the same9.5×04.5k737205
8Nov 10, '22SCOOP from @alexeheath: Twitter's chief privacy officer, chief compliance officer, and chief information security officer have all quit. Internal note warns that violating FTC priv8.1×03.2k1.2k169
9Nov 5, '22No one is going to boycott any brand for not spending ad dollars on Twitter, this is the saddest little idea in history7.7×05.4k35054
10Aug 8, '22Looking for a house occasionally offers blunt illustrations of how much we prioritize cars over people6.5×04.3k25065
11Nov 5, '22Honey we need to boycott Audi, they won’t buy ads on the Tesla guy’s website and he tweeted about it5.0×03.5k20236
12Nov 1, '22I agree that this will one day be a business school case study4.7×03.4k16348
13Sep 8, '22"I don't hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy" into RCS, says Tim Cook in response to a question at Code. "I would love to convert you to an iPhone." "I can't send my 4.7×02.3k193102
14Apr 25, '22Between Twitter employees unhappy with change, Netflix employees unhappy with new pay leveling, and the amount of money floating around tech... we are maybe 6-8 months away from a 4.7×03k252112
15Nov 4, '22The end state of the First Amendment is a Ted Cruz bill that requires GM to buy ads next to racist tweets4.5×02.9k32644
16Nov 7, '22It’s hard to explain but the Quibi energy around Twitter is extremely intense4.5×03.1k18738
18Nov 18, '22Updates from @alexeheath on the Twitter staff that's all quit: multiple teams that run core services are all gone4.1×01.6k54993
19Nov 11, '22Scoop from ⁦@MiaRSato:⁩ Omnicom - one of the largest ad agencies in the world - is recommending clients pause Twitter spending3.8×01.7k53379
20Apr 26, '22You cannot “match the law” and then also say you will “authenticate all humans” and block spam bots. The law protects anonymous speech. The law protects commercial speech. Every se3.4×02k29263
21Nov 8, '22Elon got all the way back around to how verification worked before in less than two weeks3.4×02.3k20638
22Sep 13, '22There's a whole new Verge today — we've been working on it for two years. I'm so, so excited about it.3.1×01.7k11094
23Sep 28, '23We’ll be fine3.1×226k1k2511
24Nov 18, '22Yo @elonmusk how would you say you make decisions3.1×02.2k6413
25Nov 22, '22This is objectively some boomer shit. There are entire SaaS companies that exist to manage exactly this!3.1×01.9k12152
26Dec 16, '22(welcome to hell)2.9×207k6929641
27Oct 6, '22Peloton’s CEO placing a story with the WSJ about firing 500 people and being shocked when it wasn’t a puff piece is just incredible2.7×01.6k19962
28Dec 8, '22owned2.7×02.1k3822
29Mar 4, '22My friend and brother @backlon was the first person I recruited to come work at a fledgling blog called The Verge, and today he's leaving us. I will miss him but I'm very excited f2.7×02k5830
30Nov 4, '22do i even have to say it2.6×01.9k7119
31Nov 29, '22Just a reminder that there was like a month-long trial about whether the iOS App Store is a monopoly and Apple won; the case is now sitting with the appeals court which has already2.4×01.6k12434
33Sep 12, '22One theory I have about Google is that the company is so relentlessly driven by data that it can only really see the past, and never quite invent the future2.3×01.4k13995
34Oct 30, '22Welcome to hell2.2×01.5k10719
35Apr 20, '22The reaction to Netflix having a single bad quarter is a good reminder no one remembers what competitive markets in tech are like anymore2.2×01.4k15038
36May 25, '22I just went out to buy spray paint at Home Depot and they checked my ID because they don’t sell spray paint to people under 182.2×01.5k1357
37Apr 11, '22I have also decided not to join Twitter’s board2.0×01.5k483
38Jul 8, '22Reminder that terminating a contract requires both parties to agree to terminate, you can’t just declare a contract terminated1.9×01.1k15027
39Nov 16, '22Managing a social network is harder than rockets because the users of a social network are not a deterministic system as conclusively demonstrated by Twitter’s users over the last 1.8×01.2k10023
41Aug 3, '22help1.8×01.1k8614
42Nov 15, '22In a functional market economy, Taylor Swift sees what's happening with Ticketmaster and says "we'll be going with one of your competitors next time." in America's dumb consolidate1.7×01.1k11712
43Nov 19, '22Bro that’s a variant on Murphy’s Law how on earth did you pull Grimes with this shit1.7×01.2k7124
44Apr 21, '22This is the fastest time-to-90 on the Go90 Scale of Doomed Streaming Services ever recorded. Congrats to everyone, a historic achievement. Less than a month.1.7×01k8521
45Feb 19, '22Painstaking look at how Facebook allowed the American far-right to amplify and distort the Canadian trucker convoy by ⁦@broderick⁩1.7×063827550
47Oct 31, '22Poor Jack was all “Twitter shouldn’t be a company, only you can save it Elon” and Elon’s immediate response is “what if we charge $420.69 for blue checks”1.6×01.1k9713
48Apr 14, '22This conversation between Chris Anderson and Elon Musk about speech regulation is the most depressingly stupid thing I have heard in a long time. Chris really mentioned "fire in a 1.6×01.1k9724
49Oct 18, '22My dad sent me a "please call me when you get a chance" text so I called in a panic. Here is the news: my parents are dropping U-Verse for Spectrum.1.6×01.2k1713
51Jan 30, '22Spotify is leaning directly into the comparisons to Facebook and YouTube; it lets them run the “content moderation is an impossible challenge” playbook instead of the “we bought an1.6×083220321
52Nov 7, '22Mr Free Speech just imposed a speech regulation so obviously pathetic it runs right into the SUPREME COURT BRIEF FILED BY THE ONION1.6×089514131
53Nov 15, '22If there's one thing that's true about ISP executives, it's that they understand the internet1.5×01.2k448
54Apr 19, '22This man would not last a day moderating a medium-size neighborhood parents’ Facebook group1.5×09821279
55Sep 14, '22Lots of people love our new design and a few people hate it, but you know, we made everyone talk about a open web redesign in 2022 and that makes us all winners in the platform war1.5×01k1615
56Nov 21, '22Iger coming back to Disney is the biggest “roll back the org chart changes” story in business history. We’re going to have to do like a five hour Decoder1.5×01.1k4118
57Nov 24, '21Apple Music now putting ads on the Library screen, which is entirely too much. There are 200 other discovery screens in this app, leave the library alone1.5×08634719
58May 9, '22Engineers thinking the legal system works like computers will be the death of us all1.5×09219223
59Nov 17, '22Look I'm not a lawyer anymore but I feel very comfortable saying Twitter employees shouldn't agree to a contract they haven't read and can't read for weeks to come. Scoop from @Mia1.5×074515926
61Dec 12, '22Two things: 1. Our quick posts have comments now! 2. Whatever relationship I had with Twitter has come to an end, and you can find me at , where I will be posting much more often, 1.4×09142926
62Apr 29, '22Copyright law: no one understands it1.3×07558311
63Apr 1, '22Using the power of the state to punish political speech violates which amendment, I can’t remember1.3×074114410
64Apr 14, '22Elon proposes banning spam bots on Twitter which... hey did you know spam is not actually illegal under the First Amendment? So he is writing a speech regulation because he doesn't1.3×08055120
66Nov 28, '22I told you so1.3×0953319
67Sep 21, '22Just taking a moment to consider the Nexus 4, as you do1.3×0924198
68May 6, '22Really cannot stress enough that Twitter has virtually no data to license; tweets copyrights belong to users. Elon would have to radically change the terms of service to resell twe1.3×069711933
69Mar 26, '22Twitter has 217m worldwide monthly active users. It is not the town square of anything and trying to impose government speech restrictions on it is a stupid idea1.3×0848836
72Nov 4, '22don't get it twisted, the story today is still the thousands of people who were heartlessly fired1.3×066615116
73Nov 13, '22Man got community noted into deleting it lol1.3×0898537
74Apr 26, '22You all know that “making the algorithm open-source” doesn’t mean anything, right? Twitter can publish the ranking algo code right now, just like a book. “Open source” refers to se1.2×08643817
75Nov 5, '22Reminder to everyone doing Twitter Blue subscriber and revenue math that Apple takes 30 percent of every subscription for the first year whee1.2×0878364
76Nov 11, '21This is so embarrassing1.2×0771826
78Feb 14, '22Nothing exposes how badly compressed TV is like the confetti1.1×0786605
79Nov 15, '22It took seven and half hours but I have secured six tickets to Taylor Swift in Chicago for my niece and nephew’s graduation present. Ticketmaster should be illegal or at least send1.1×0857236
80Oct 30, '22Welcome to hell1.1×0808355
81Nov 2, '22welcome to hell1.1×0805403
82Nov 4, '22welcome! to! hell!1.1×0799374
83Apr 17, '22Excited for various billionaires to engage with the real free speech problems in America1.1×06311296
84Nov 11, '22The beatings will continue until morale improves1.1×0749684
85Nov 3, '22It is with great regret that I must announce replying to all criticism with "$8" is extremely fun and rewarding1.1×0792307
86Nov 7, '22welcome to hell1.1×0713697
88Oct 31, '22Cybertruck windshield wiper design team waiting for an approval meeting that keeps getting pushed back1.1×0779297
89Apr 26, '22We have reached the “billionaires sending coded messages to their crush by putting songs in their AIM status” stage1.1×07205412
90Mar 27, '22Some misunderstandings here so I will make it plain: if you think 217m monthly actives makes Twitter a town square you have no idea that Reddit (430m), TikTok (1 billion), and Face1.0×06656023
91Jan 23, '22In the end, Aaron Rodgers canceled himself1.0×0630942
92Nov 11, '22(welcome to hell)1.0×0696525
93Nov 14, '22At this rate Elon will build Twitter into a serious Facebook competitor in just 167 years1.0×0707416
94Oct 29, '22The thing about racists is that they are so _lazy_1.0×0750213
95Dec 1, '21“Make it look like an electric beaver”1.0×0720274
97Nov 13, '22This is the funniest evidence of being brain poisoned by Twitter yet. The entire web is bent around Google, which is obvious to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to thin1.0×0685459
98Oct 18, '22nothing about this bezel is "all screen" words have meanings people1.0×0666304
99Nov 17, '21I love this fantasy world where YouTube has a competitor people will leave for1.0×06941812
100Nov 9, '22welcome to hell.jpg0.9×0688313

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