• @howler@beehaw.org
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    171 year ago

    This is hilarious. The biggest inconvenience this will cause, is people asking “can you post a screenshot? I dont use Twitter.”

    • grahamsz
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      71 year ago

      It is kind of a disaster for emergencies. Twitter is the defacto social network whenever any disaster strikes round here, the sheer volume of people, emergency services and the versatility of hashtags make it great for that.

  • anji
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    151 year ago

    Because what Twitter really needs right now is less engagement.

    • @nodester@partizle.com
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      11 year ago

      They’re trying to juice up their stats for advertisers. More registered users = more surveillance capitalism.

  • comicallycluttered
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    81 year ago

    Lol. “Town Square”. Hah.

    Honestly, thank you, Elon. Now I’m not even tempted to visit that toxic hellscape echo chamber of awful shit.

    Bastard somehow did something that’ll probably have a more positive effect on my mental health.

    This is a net positive (for me), but it’s still fucking dumb, and his fault. “Too many sites were scraping us :(” Yeah, dude, that’s what happens when you pull the “API is only for the wealthy now” nonsense.

    I swear, this could be prescient, actually. Could easily see Huffman pulling this shit within the next few weeks. (Lol, I wouldn’t put it past him to do it tomorrow.)

    The advertisers must love this.

    • NotSteve_
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      1 year ago

      He kind of already has implemented something like this. If you ever try and load a mobile reddit thread in your browser, you’re greeted with a download the app-wall like 50% or more of the time.

      it’s better in the app

      • comicallycluttered
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        21 year ago

        Lol, probably should have specified. My bad.

        Steve Huffman. You may know him as /u/spez on reddit.

  • Cat
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    81 year ago

    These social media giants seem to be self destructing themselves on purpose.

    • Celediel
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      21 year ago

      A culture entirely based on growth will do that eventually.

    • kmkz_ninja
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      11 year ago

      Seriously though, what is causing all of these various media platforms to ramp up the attacks on their users so obviously? Reddit blocking apps, Twitter login-hiding posts, Google shutting down adblockers. Is it coordinated? Does it just make sense to make a rush for money when every company is doing the same?

      • morry040
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        A lot of the tech companies were slammed by investors over the last two years for missing their earnings and many of them are still struggling to go back to 2021 optimistic growth rates. The layoffs last year have also cost them a lot of their best talent, so the quality of innovation, decision making, and execution has suffered. You are now left with a bunch of older executives who never really understood that it was their younger talent that was the core of their company’s success, so they fall back on older methods like increasing prices and cutting costs to try and lead the board / shareholders into thinking that their ridiculous executive salary packages are somehow justified.

  • @esaru@beehaw.org
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    Twitter users can’t post to the general public anymore. Their posts are visible to users logged into Twitter only. That should render Twitter useless to whoever wants to post something to people on the Internet. I wonder what journalists, companies, or politicians think about it.

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      I was just over on the r/worldnews livethread on the Ukraine war and the embedded tweets were showing up just fine. I’d actually forgotten about this thread and tried clicking on one for further details, and got the “you’re not logged in” notification.

      Ironically, I had a Twitter account years ago that I created purely because something I was doing at the time required one for login purposes. I never used it and I can only assume it was deleted a few months back when Twitter said they were purging “inactive” accounts. I’m certainly not creating a new one now.

      actually start doing their fucking jobs as journalists and write out the content of the tweet in their own words.

      They’ve got ChatGPT for that now.

  • @Kuroneko@beehaw.org
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    61 year ago

    Welp, this kills Twitter for me permanently. I closed my account after Mush took it over but sometimes I’d check out tweets and replies my Discord friends would share. Big tech just keeps shooting itself in the foot lately.

  • @Elbrond@feddit.nl
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    51 year ago

    Well, that makes it even easier to never visit Twitter again. Right now I was sometimes tempted to follow a link and see what it was about, but I’ll be happy to quit that habbit too.

  • @Disgustoid@startrek.website
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    41 year ago

    That’s certainly one way to begin a social media detox along with Reddit’s idiocy over third party apps. This will make it much easier to ignore Twitter since I deleted my account there and have no intention of signing up again just to view tweets.

  • bermuda
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    31 year ago

    I mean it kind of already was, right? You could view specific tweets and a couple replies before a banner showed up asking you to sign in and preventing you from scrolling further. It did the same thing if you tried to click on certain things. I had a firefox extension to bypass it which worked wonders. I assume there’ll probably be a new one for this.

  • @Qiz@beehaw.org
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    31 year ago

    Will this affect Google search? That’s got to be a good driver for Twitter right?

    Maybe trying to get people that end up there after a search to sign up would be a better tactic.

  • @African_Grey@beehaw.org
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    Mastodon is better anyway. I deleted Twitter ages ago when Musk took over. It’s amazing how many people have stayed there despite how much he’s shit all over the userbase. He makes Spez look like a saint.

    • Kaldo
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      Mastodon might be “better” but it’s in a completely different league if it’s missing 99% people I actually care about following on twitter. On mastodon the feed is just random people talking about their personal stuff and misusing hashtags, and usually when you bring this up the answer is “well duh, mastodon is not supposed to be twitter, it is its own thing”.

      • kippidashira
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        11 year ago

        Agreed. There’s a lot mixed messaging from the userbase where we’re recommended to switch to Mastodon from Twitter but also respect that Mastodon is not supposed to be a Twitter replacement.

        • FaceDeer
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          11 year ago

          It may not be a Twitter replacement, but perhaps it can still fulfill whatever specific needs they’re currently fulfilling using Twitter.

          I’m not the best person to judge since I never really “got” Twitter in the first place, but the basic function of “announcing a small piece of text to the world” is shared by a whole lot of different platforms.

      • Chozo
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        it’s missing 99% people I actually care about following on twitter

        This is what’s stopping me from really giving Mastodon a shot. Nobody that I care about uses it, except for a few bot accounts that are just mirroring that user’s existing Twitter feed, and they’re not even monitoring those accounts on Mastodon so trying to interact with them is fruitless.