[Brazelton] Twitter

GasBandit

Staff member
Maybe I’m ethically culpable but I refuse to accept that the additional revenue Twitter brings in by my presence is outweighed by the costs of my traffic.
When he can still count you as a subscriber, he can still use that "total active subscribers" metric to woo advertisers.
 
An update to this:
"When I says 'whoa,' Iiiiii means WHOA!"

--Patrick
 

figmentPez

Staff member
Elon Musk takes @America handle from X user to promote Donald Trump

"The @America handle appeared attached to a brand new account setup just this month, in October 2024. However, this rare, one-word geographic handle had already been long registered by another X user more than 14 years prior to Musk taking the handle from them, in September 2010.

"According to a person familiar with the situation, X took the handle from the user much like how Musk’s social media company took the @X handle from its original registrant last year. "
 
We can only repeat once again that anyone who still has a Twitter handle or uses it is actively supporting Trump and the extreme right, and helping dismantle American democracy in favor of an oligarchy even more obvious than it already is.
 
Yeah, between the changes to blocking and THIS unearthed nugget, I'm done. I should've deleted my account long ago, but this is the one-two punch excuse I needed. I've made a post about it to inform anyone following me, and give it a week for people to see, but I'll delete it this time next week.

I'll post on Bluesky more going forward.

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figmentPez

Staff member
TBH the current "block" functionality made little sense to me. "No way buddy, you can't read my public posts! Unless you, you know... log out."

Even on this forum, "banned" users can still read any public content.
Twitter heavily limits what you can view without logging in. Not just obvious stuff, like not being able to view replies, and not having search functionality, but subtler stuff that may not be obvious, like how it'll only show you highlighted tweets from an account. If you're not logged in you may not see their most recent tweets someone has made, you won't be able to see most of what they've tweeted, and it won't give any indication of how much recent content you're not seeing. You might see a dozen tweets going back months, but not see hundreds more from that same time span.

The block button used to be a six-inch high fence. Since X has steadily upped their efforts to force people to log-in, the block button has become more substantial.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Twitter heavily limits what you can view without logging in. Not just obvious stuff, like not being able to view replies, and not having search functionality, but subtler stuff that may not be obvious, like how it'll only show you highlighted tweets from an account. If you're not logged in you may not see their most recent tweets someone has made, you won't be able to see most of what they've tweeted, and it won't give any indication of how much recent content you're not seeing. You might see a dozen tweets going back months, but not see hundreds more from that same time span.

The block button used to be a six-inch high fence. Since X has steadily upped their efforts to force people to log-in, the block button has become more substantial.
Ah ok, here's a logical explanation

 

Dave

Staff member
So I've resisted deactivating my account because there were a couple of people that I follow and because it's a good place to get reports if something goes wrong here. But I find it extremely difficult to go there lately without having to wade through a morass of racist or misogynistic or jingoistic posts from people I don't follow and don't want to see.
 
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it's a good place to get reports if something goes wrong here.
We have Discord for that now.
And anyway, Twitter is not going to long survive Musk's meddling. The only thing keeping it alive right now is his personal fortune combined with his habit of delaying his bill payments. Which is a shame, because it used to be THE premier place to shout into the void, but now you are forced to preselect which void you want to scream into, sometimes with an associated subscription fee.

--Patrick
 
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