Shocking that people are still using Shitter in 2024.
All the shitter domains are on my DNS block list. Happier for it.
Anybody still using it at this point deserves all the brain damage it causes. No excuses.
Sadly, people with brain damage but aren’t vegetables can still vote (poorly).
Is it? It’s where most people still post publicly, and until someone unseats Twitter on that throne (which I hope is really soon) no other network is going to compete in terms of having the users people want to follow…
Shitter is just one website. If I post to mastodon, people on hundreds of websites can see my content. Why on earth would I post to shitter if I wanted visibility???
What if you want visibility with the idiots on Twitter? A place built by idiots, for idiots.
A whale is just one animal. If I look at my driveway, I can see hundreds of ants. Why on earth would I look anywhere else if I wanted to see animals?
Because one website with millions of users is more reach than 100 websites with few users. Doesn’t mean you should use Ex-Twitter but it makes it understandable why lots still do
Millions of users is a bit of a misleading term. You mean millions of Nazis. I don’t care to talk to Nazis.
I do. Because some of them might be able to be brought to reason. I still don’t use Ex-Twitter anymore though, since they’ve blocked third party apps.
I don’t mind them having account there. They need to reach people where they are after all. I’m pissed at them for not being on any platform that is not owned by a fascist enabler oligarch at best.
I’m going to login for the first time in years just to follow Kamala Harris then log off again lol
Why do you need to see what celebs post? I never had twitter and for sure I will never have X, honestly I never understood the point, is it Facebook with smaller posts?
Not sure. My significant other used to follow football games on there while I was watching them live because she felt it help her understand what was going on. From what I saw it was good at having quick updates, but terrible at relaying accurate information. Mostly just dumb opinions that were proven wrong seconds later. It helped her learn people’s names though, not so much anything more about positions, formations, plays, or any kind of strategy. All of the drama with none of the reason it seemed to me, but I was bias I’m sure.
Hypothetical example, it would show someone pissed about a bad call, but never explain that the call was supposed to be lowering the crown of their helmet and using the helmet as a battering ram in a way that would increase safety risks for players. So unless I explained the bad call after, all they see is the play quickly, arguing and drama, but never know the reason. (Which the announcers would try to explain in many scenarios, but that audio would not show on Twitter)
Not sure. My significant other used to follow football games on there while I was watching them live because she felt it help her understand what was going on. From what I saw it was good at having quick updates, but terrible at relaying accurate information. Mostly just dumb opinions that were proven wrong seconds later. It helped her learn people’s names though, not so much anything more about positions, formations, plays, or any kind of strategy. All of the drama with none of the reason it seemed to me, but I was bias I’m sure.
I can relate to that, I normally go to those websites that have the live stats and stuff but I wouldn’t create an account just for that.
The bigger shocker to me is that the platform still exists at all… didn’t the largest advertisers pull out? I thought it was hemeraging money. I keep waiting for them to pull the plug on it, or at least sell it at a huge discounted price.
Ew I. Accidently clicked on a twitter link I ieel so dirty
What do they even expect? They know who’s site they are using.
The remaining users are 100% in denial that it’s a Nazi website now.
Nah a lot of them are just actual Nazis.
What a fucking joke of a platform
Don’t insult the Joker like that.
Musk made 151 tweets on Sunday
Assuming he’s awake for 16 hours, that’s over 9 tweets an hour. Someone is definitely scared.
Hardest working CEO of multiple companies. /s
Tesla is just getting exactly what they paid for!
Maybe he was just naming all the Kanto region Pokemon from memory
I don’t believe for a second he could name more than five.
pichaku, mancharder, metwow, monehitel…
damn, one short
prolly fake news but i would not be surprised.
telsatubby could be trying to make up his losses on a bad trade, we’ve all been there.
Teslatubby
K, thats it!!!
This is my new fave nickie for Elmo
Maybe we should take a page from the Trumpers here and declare it a conspiracy!
The deep state doesn’t want people following Harris! They don’t want you to know about it. They think they know better than you!
“Let me tell you, folks, I know how to follow people and this Twitter situation smells. I know all about smelling. Smells. Smelling. Smell… Ling! The word just sounds awful, right? They want you to smell things. They’re coming for your smells!”
Haha, yeah… This is Elon Musk’s X.com we’re talking about. It’s just sheer incompetence and the usual buggy bullshit. We should expect this as normal X behavior at this point. Is anyone really surprised that X is suddenly throwing errors when users try basic functionality? Come on. The platform is garbage and that’s not even taking account the garbage present on the platform.
Why is anyone still on, “The Social Media Platform Formerly Known As Twitter” ?
Its still twitter. You can’t take the twit out as long as a twit owns it.
Preaching to the choir.
elon is just mad he’s stuck with the painfully dull dud jd vance
Can we please kick this dweeb back to Canada or Africa?
Hey, don’t you dare try to pawn him off on us, bud.
I don’t think I’ve ever said the phrase “Go back to Africa” unironically (as in outside of making fun of racists) in my life, but here we are.
Go back to Africa Elon…
At least I said it to a white guy.
This might be one of Twitter’s automatic security features I’d heard about a while back (prior to the Musk takeover). Supposedly, Twitter stops accounts from getting a large amount of followers in a short amount of time to try to limit botting. Sometimes, rarely, it can trigger when a large amount of real people follow a real account.
I think I heard about it when I ran into the issue myself, but I don’t remember what account it was that I was trying to follow.
Go away with your sensible explanations, we have conspiracy to uncover.
People big enough to have a staffed social media team will stilk have an Xitter account just because it is a viable vector to get news out. They may also have Truth Social account, just because it’s there.
It’s funny (scary) how the police and fire department never post to thir own websites about important timely information and updates.
It’s in twitter and Facebook. I use neither anymore. Because obvious reasons.
This week, I could only find reference to the smell of natural gas covering half our city via a news site that quoted the FD’s twitter.
Great work, guys!
I agree with you and I will not let them off the hook. They have no legitimate excuse to be using racist, misogynist, transphobic, homophobic, bigoted right-wing platforms.
Do they also have a stormfront account? Fuck anyone who contributes to fascist owned platforms just because they are there.
I don’t mind them having account there. They need to reach people where they are after all. I’m pissed at them for not being on any platform that is not owned by a fascist enabler oligarch at best.
Well put.
Isn’t that, like, illegal?
the corporatocracy is an authoritarian dictatorship and there’s nothing you can do about it
Still being on Twitter? Definitely immoral, but legal.
Maybe technically in Florida and Texas, given that they passed a law to try to stop sites deplatforming Trump.
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/bills/3102.htm
“The owner or operator of a social media website who contracts with a social media website user in this State is subject to a private right of action by a user if the social media website purposely: … (2) uses an algorithm to disfavor, shadowban, or censure the user’s religious speech or political speech”.
In May 2022, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled to strike the law (and similarly there was a 5th Circuit judgement), but just this month the US Supreme Court vacated the Court of Appeals judgement (i.e. reinstated the law) and remanded it back to the respective Court of Appeals. That said, the grounds for doing that were the court had not done the proper analysis, and after they do that it might be struck down again. But for now, the laws are technically not struck down.
It would be ironic if after conservatives passed this law, and stacked the supreme court and got the challenge to it vacated, the first major use of it was used against Xitter for censoring Harris!
It would be ironic
It would be Fascism.
Why not both
Ironically, there is nothing ironic about fascism.
Of course not, fuck fascism, but even fascists can say ironic/moronic bullshit :)
Even without all that messing with stuff too much is bound to clash with protections those kinds of sites have around editorialising. That is, by doing such stuff X says “we’re not actually a pinboard, we’re a newspaper, we’re editorially responsible for what’s on there”, and then prosecution can come along and say “so, your newspaper published an article calling for <crime>, didn’t it? That’s your speech now, not speech of some random user, isn’t it?”.
People stupid enough to support fascism aren’t smart enough to recognize that it can be used against them
It’s the same stupid that thinks a dictator will preserve their freedom.
The same people who think a narcissistic billionaire is “one of them” because he says all the stupid things they’re thinking.
No. That doesn’t make it right though.
No, if you are rich enough.
No surprise.
Shocker
