[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/twitter/TimSweeneyEpic) "The latest Apple App Store approved fake Fortnite app: FortPro. Available now at with a $100/year subscription to NOTHING Thanks @AppStore"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1945891722518753386) 2025-07-17 17:01:54 UTC 309.4K followers, 124.1K engagements "A small victory but we mustnt rest while the Vertical Taskbar Kidnapper is at large"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1948482666631778423) 2025-07-24 20:37:23 UTC 309.4K followers, 38K engagements "Thanks to everyone who supported the effort to open up mobile competition and #FreeFortnite from the very beginning. And thanks to all of the folks who initially sided with Apple then later came around to the winning side supporting app developer rights and consumer rights"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1924970858558128424) 2025-05-20 23:29:51 UTC 309.4K followers, 767.8K engagements "@matthewstoller Disappointed that its just groceries. The government has exclusive access to so many other exciting products that arent offered at other grocery stores such as F16s"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1940137080245383191) 2025-07-01 19:55:00 UTC 309.4K followers, 26.5K engagements "Grok X feels like Artificial General Intelligence to me. It is clearly not just constructing statistically likely connections but is drawing fairly deep insights on problems it hasnt seen before in ways I havent seen elsewhere. Heres an example:"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1943398745762116029) 2025-07-10 19:55:42 UTC 309.4K followers, 17.9M engagements "@ShriramKMurthi Theres a bigger opportunity in computer science and programming (academically conveyed or self-taught) now than ever before by far in my opinion. The move to AI is like replacing shovels with bulldozers. Every business will benefit from this and theyll need people to do it"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1946721961746608267) 2025-07-20 00:00:58 UTC 309.4K followers, 38.8K engagements "A surprisingly weak roadmap from the CMA the British competition regulator. The monopolized UK app store economy has all of the vibrancy of a Soviet supermarket and consideration of unblocking competing app stores is delayed to 2026"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947985752035668350) 2025-07-23 11:42:49 UTC 309.4K followers, 34.7K engagements "@PatrickMoorhead Talking about the AI bubble is like talking about the Industrial Revolution bubble. There is a far lower ratio of scam companies than in the dot com bubble or crypto bubble. Its a field of products whose existence and utility are readily demonstrable"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1946937609017802781) 2025-07-20 14:17:52 UTC 309.3K followers, 6936 engagements "Indeed Unreal Engine is moving to Left-Up-Forward coordinates everywhere starting with UEFN and coming to UE5-6 in an incrementally-adoptable way through UI settings and C++ helper functions/macros to ease the transition. This will align Unreal with Y-Up right handed standards of USD and glTF. Why Because future 3d tools and ecosystems will be increasingly interoperable and standards-based. There are a lot of missing standards well need to propose and Team Unreal will be far more successful proposing new things if we adopt and add to existing standards and conventions. The"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1930678660098408669) 2025-06-05 17:30:37 UTC 309.4K followers, 873.3K engagements "The biggest shortcoming I see is the adoption of confused musings from online forums as facts coupled with the inability to derive deep insights from intermingled prose and graphics in sources. It needs contextual skepticism and more multimodal visual learning"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1943398748719092086) 2025-07-10 19:55:42 UTC 309.3K followers, 367.3K engagements "Big yikes: Google will confiscate for itself all profits made from AI content on YouTube. AI should be a tool for enhancing human creativity and opportunity. Now Google has made it plain that they see it solely as a means to take from creators for themselves"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1943031625995948142) 2025-07-09 19:36:54 UTC 309.4K followers, 305.3K engagements "@OfficialPCMR The lens flares send their regards"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947441468139847980) 2025-07-21 23:40:02 UTC 309.4K followers, 6300 engagements "Artificial superintelligence requires a combination of computing performance and algorithms that exceeds what we have now. It might be that it requires so much more of both that its very far away. And it might be that we have sufficient algorithms but need so much more compute that its far away. And it might be that we have enough compute but require such algorithmic advancement that its far away. It is also possible that we have sufficient compute and are just a few readily-accessible steps away from the needed algorithms such that it will arrive shortly and incrementally. Once its here it"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1946062248054792698) 2025-07-18 04:19:30 UTC 309.4K followers, 157.5K engagements "Northern District of California court has ruled on the Epic v Apple anti-steering injunctions contempt of court proceeding Details incoming"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1917704240702620044) 2025-04-30 22:14:54 UTC 309.4K followers, 1.2M engagements "Florence Nature Preserve Henderson County North Carolina"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1943821847176606199) 2025-07-11 23:56:57 UTC 309.4K followers, 28.3K engagements "@ObsoleteSony I wrote Unreal Engine X on that same model"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1948927207461585361) 2025-07-26 02:03:50 UTC 309.4K followers, 28.7K engagements "@yishan @PalmerLuckey This is what you get when you assume the same assembly process. But the assembly process in developing economies is based on using enormous amounts of labor because it is relatively inexpensive there. Here one would automate far more of the assembly line"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947059970698015041) 2025-07-20 22:24:06 UTC 309.3K followers, 1157 engagements "Apple is being extremely disingenuous in attacking the European Union here. The iOS App Store hosts the Reddit app which provides access to massive amounts of porn. Apple knows this permits it and gave Reddit a 17+ () rating and Editors Choice award"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1886649436685693082) 2025-02-04 05:34:12 UTC 309.4K followers, 495.9K engagements "Congrats NVIDIA A company that has been great to developers and users throughout its entire history"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1943008093245206749) 2025-07-09 18:03:23 UTC 309.4K followers, 124.6K engagements "@MiddleearthMixr The Appalachian accent is the closest thing to Shakespearean English that still exists"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1946761792644170077) 2025-07-20 02:39:15 UTC 309.3K followers, 97.6K engagements "This is probably fake news planted by lobbyists. If true it would mean total capitulation of the European Commission to Apple's brazen junk fees and discrimination against competing payment services makes a mockery of competition"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947689788125155760) 2025-07-22 16:06:46 UTC 309.4K followers, 42.1K engagements "Also I bet there are 100000s of topics where a human professional could write a definitive guidebook on topics that online forum posters frequently confuse and that could be used to fine-tune a lot of the low quality user content driven nonsense out of current AI models"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1943398751311143082) 2025-07-10 19:55:43 UTC 309.4K followers, 307.5K engagements "This bizarre legal opportunism wasnt on my bingo card. Its an extraneous argument as the 9th Circuit court in Epic v Apple acknowledged that Epic participates in the app market in multiple roles and remedying Apples illegal conduct (with respect to Epic as a store operator payment service operator and so on) requires a broad injunction stopping Apple practices affecting ALL developers. Epic fought for all app developers Epic won the anti-steering injunction for all app developers and the ruling was upheld all the way to Supreme Court appeal. Apple cant now take that victory away from all"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1948164701676020216) 2025-07-23 23:33:54 UTC 309.4K followers, 65.2K engagements "@ccianet It will impact these $109B markets by introducing FREE MARKET COMPETITION to the entrenched monopolies that are currently blocking it to drive up prices and drive down quality"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1947667770516070717) 2025-07-22 14:39:17 UTC 309.3K followers, 5443 engagements "@Sherman1890 I cant imagine a statement like this is in good faith. Were talking about whether local grocery stores can buy goods at the same prices as Walmart or whether the big companies can strong-arm suppliers into making their small competitors unviable through price discrimination"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1948540618126623040) 2025-07-25 00:27:40 UTC 309.4K followers, 1878 engagements "We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week. Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court's friction-free Apple-tax-free framework worldwide we'll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1917716512347152499) 2025-04-30 23:03:40 UTC 309.4K followers, 1.8M engagements "@JoeAlderman11 There was definitely a fire across the whole south side of the mountain covering several square miles. A fire that big couldnt be a controlled burn. But the trees are recovering and the Table Mountain Pines even need fire to reseed"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1942732990951399856) 2025-07-08 23:50:13 UTC 309.3K followers, XXX engagements "This has made insane progress over the past X months"  [@TimSweeneyEpic](/creator/x/TimSweeneyEpic) on [X](/post/tweet/1945957135986376935) 2025-07-17 21:21:50 UTC 309.4K followers, 58.8K engagements
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@TimSweeneyEpic
"The latest Apple App Store approved fake Fortnite app: FortPro. Available now at with a $100/year subscription to NOTHING Thanks @AppStore"
@TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-17 17:01:54 UTC 309.4K followers, 124.1K engagements
"A small victory but we mustnt rest while the Vertical Taskbar Kidnapper is at large" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-24 20:37:23 UTC 309.4K followers, 38K engagements
"Thanks to everyone who supported the effort to open up mobile competition and #FreeFortnite from the very beginning. And thanks to all of the folks who initially sided with Apple then later came around to the winning side supporting app developer rights and consumer rights" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-05-20 23:29:51 UTC 309.4K followers, 767.8K engagements
"@matthewstoller Disappointed that its just groceries. The government has exclusive access to so many other exciting products that arent offered at other grocery stores such as F16s" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-01 19:55:00 UTC 309.4K followers, 26.5K engagements
"Grok X feels like Artificial General Intelligence to me. It is clearly not just constructing statistically likely connections but is drawing fairly deep insights on problems it hasnt seen before in ways I havent seen elsewhere. Heres an example:" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-10 19:55:42 UTC 309.4K followers, 17.9M engagements
"@ShriramKMurthi Theres a bigger opportunity in computer science and programming (academically conveyed or self-taught) now than ever before by far in my opinion. The move to AI is like replacing shovels with bulldozers. Every business will benefit from this and theyll need people to do it" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-20 00:00:58 UTC 309.4K followers, 38.8K engagements
"A surprisingly weak roadmap from the CMA the British competition regulator. The monopolized UK app store economy has all of the vibrancy of a Soviet supermarket and consideration of unblocking competing app stores is delayed to 2026" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-23 11:42:49 UTC 309.4K followers, 34.7K engagements
"@PatrickMoorhead Talking about the AI bubble is like talking about the Industrial Revolution bubble. There is a far lower ratio of scam companies than in the dot com bubble or crypto bubble. Its a field of products whose existence and utility are readily demonstrable" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-20 14:17:52 UTC 309.3K followers, 6936 engagements
"Indeed Unreal Engine is moving to Left-Up-Forward coordinates everywhere starting with UEFN and coming to UE5-6 in an incrementally-adoptable way through UI settings and C++ helper functions/macros to ease the transition. This will align Unreal with Y-Up right handed standards of USD and glTF. Why Because future 3d tools and ecosystems will be increasingly interoperable and standards-based. There are a lot of missing standards well need to propose and Team Unreal will be far more successful proposing new things if we adopt and add to existing standards and conventions. The" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-06-05 17:30:37 UTC 309.4K followers, 873.3K engagements
"The biggest shortcoming I see is the adoption of confused musings from online forums as facts coupled with the inability to derive deep insights from intermingled prose and graphics in sources. It needs contextual skepticism and more multimodal visual learning" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-10 19:55:42 UTC 309.3K followers, 367.3K engagements
"Big yikes: Google will confiscate for itself all profits made from AI content on YouTube. AI should be a tool for enhancing human creativity and opportunity. Now Google has made it plain that they see it solely as a means to take from creators for themselves" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-09 19:36:54 UTC 309.4K followers, 305.3K engagements
"@OfficialPCMR The lens flares send their regards" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-21 23:40:02 UTC 309.4K followers, 6300 engagements
"Artificial superintelligence requires a combination of computing performance and algorithms that exceeds what we have now. It might be that it requires so much more of both that its very far away. And it might be that we have sufficient algorithms but need so much more compute that its far away. And it might be that we have enough compute but require such algorithmic advancement that its far away. It is also possible that we have sufficient compute and are just a few readily-accessible steps away from the needed algorithms such that it will arrive shortly and incrementally. Once its here it" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-18 04:19:30 UTC 309.4K followers, 157.5K engagements
"Northern District of California court has ruled on the Epic v Apple anti-steering injunctions contempt of court proceeding Details incoming" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-04-30 22:14:54 UTC 309.4K followers, 1.2M engagements
"Florence Nature Preserve Henderson County North Carolina" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-11 23:56:57 UTC 309.4K followers, 28.3K engagements
"@ObsoleteSony I wrote Unreal Engine X on that same model" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-26 02:03:50 UTC 309.4K followers, 28.7K engagements
"@yishan @PalmerLuckey This is what you get when you assume the same assembly process. But the assembly process in developing economies is based on using enormous amounts of labor because it is relatively inexpensive there. Here one would automate far more of the assembly line" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-20 22:24:06 UTC 309.3K followers, 1157 engagements
"Apple is being extremely disingenuous in attacking the European Union here. The iOS App Store hosts the Reddit app which provides access to massive amounts of porn. Apple knows this permits it and gave Reddit a 17+ () rating and Editors Choice award" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-02-04 05:34:12 UTC 309.4K followers, 495.9K engagements
"Congrats NVIDIA A company that has been great to developers and users throughout its entire history" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-09 18:03:23 UTC 309.4K followers, 124.6K engagements
"@MiddleearthMixr The Appalachian accent is the closest thing to Shakespearean English that still exists" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-20 02:39:15 UTC 309.3K followers, 97.6K engagements
"This is probably fake news planted by lobbyists. If true it would mean total capitulation of the European Commission to Apple's brazen junk fees and discrimination against competing payment services makes a mockery of competition" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-22 16:06:46 UTC 309.4K followers, 42.1K engagements
"Also I bet there are 100000s of topics where a human professional could write a definitive guidebook on topics that online forum posters frequently confuse and that could be used to fine-tune a lot of the low quality user content driven nonsense out of current AI models" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-10 19:55:43 UTC 309.4K followers, 307.5K engagements
"This bizarre legal opportunism wasnt on my bingo card. Its an extraneous argument as the 9th Circuit court in Epic v Apple acknowledged that Epic participates in the app market in multiple roles and remedying Apples illegal conduct (with respect to Epic as a store operator payment service operator and so on) requires a broad injunction stopping Apple practices affecting ALL developers. Epic fought for all app developers Epic won the anti-steering injunction for all app developers and the ruling was upheld all the way to Supreme Court appeal. Apple cant now take that victory away from all" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-23 23:33:54 UTC 309.4K followers, 65.2K engagements
"@ccianet It will impact these $109B markets by introducing FREE MARKET COMPETITION to the entrenched monopolies that are currently blocking it to drive up prices and drive down quality" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-22 14:39:17 UTC 309.3K followers, 5443 engagements
"@Sherman1890 I cant imagine a statement like this is in good faith. Were talking about whether local grocery stores can buy goods at the same prices as Walmart or whether the big companies can strong-arm suppliers into making their small competitors unviable through price discrimination" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-25 00:27:40 UTC 309.4K followers, 1878 engagements
"We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week. Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court's friction-free Apple-tax-free framework worldwide we'll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-04-30 23:03:40 UTC 309.4K followers, 1.8M engagements
"@JoeAlderman11 There was definitely a fire across the whole south side of the mountain covering several square miles. A fire that big couldnt be a controlled burn. But the trees are recovering and the Table Mountain Pines even need fire to reseed" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-08 23:50:13 UTC 309.3K followers, XXX engagements
"This has made insane progress over the past X months" @TimSweeneyEpic on X 2025-07-17 21:21:50 UTC 309.4K followers, 58.8K engagements