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Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by celdon25 »

jjulius wrote: post #438
celdon25 wrote: post #429

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The article itself is well over 6 hours old. While you may technically be correct about the fact that Musk's tweet counts as comment, an article that has yet to be updated should be called "now inaccurate", not "fake news". The way you've misrepresented this is more akin to fake news than the article is, and likely to get your comment flagged/heavily downvoted.

> an article that has yet to be updated should be called "now inaccurate", not "fake news".

I disagree. It's a lie by omission, as same-day corrections on articles are a journalistic norm. By not doing so here, it conveniently furthers the Anti-Elon agenda that the tech media, including Techcrunch, has been confirmed to be pushing. Means, motive, opportunity.

There is a huge ethics problem with "journalists" in the USA, and they need to be not treated with kid gloves here (such as your lukewarm "now inaccurate" language). But what do I know?

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by londons_explore »

robot_no_421 wrote: post #395

Anybody feel like this is ironically going to accelerate the decline of twitter? I'm never, EVER making a twitter account. However publishers still communicate with me via tweets I could see. Now that I need an account to view tweets, publishers just have a smaller audience. I'll just see the screenshots on reddit anyway :)

> Anybody feel like this is ironically going to accelerate the decline of twitter?

If Musks claim today is true ("This platform hit another all-time high in user-seconds last week"), then it is very much not in decline...

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by calebcannon »

akira2501 wrote: post #154
nunez wrote: post #110

This killed nitter. Fuck. I guess I'm done with Twitter. Reddit is in Eternal September. Twitter is login-walled. If HN is next, I'll probably be mostly done with the Internet. This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(

> This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :( The internet is fine. The highly centralized businesses that built themselves on the technology are meeting their inevitable end.

The internet is most definitely not fine. There is an incoming tsunami of chat gpt generated bullshit that is going to make most open discussion sites more or less useless. Twitter requiring accounts and Reddit shutting down apis are both related: chat gpt et al are a threat to the social media business and ironically made possible because of the social media business. TBF I think we should all be exercising extreme (even more than usual) skepticism on any discussion sites any more.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by [deleted] »

jjulius wrote: post #438
celdon25 wrote: post #429

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

The article itself is well over 6 hours old. While you may technically be correct about the fact that Musk's tweet counts as comment, an article that has yet to be updated should be called "now inaccurate", not "fake news". The way you've misrepresented this is more akin to fake news than the article is, and likely to get your comment flagged/heavily downvoted.

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Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by londons_explore »

NelsonMinar wrote: post #143
jamesgreenleaf wrote: post #7

Musk commented on this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505 "Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"

"Data pillaging", WTF does that mean? Remember when Twitter used to give archives of tweets to the Library of Congress? And had a firehose for folks to consume as many tweets as they could?

I think it means "someone is crawling our data, perhaps because we made our API cost money, and we don't like it".

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by deciplex »

m4jor wrote: post #333
brushfoot wrote: post #198

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I'm cautiously optimistic about Lemmy. Anyone can spin up an instance, so it's decentralized, but instances are connected, so there's community. It may still be rough around the edges, but to me it feels like the spirit of the old phpBB forums combined with almost 20 years of lessons learned from Reddit.

Lemmy.ml's admin is pro chinese government and actively censors comments that are critical. What that means to you is your decision, but I want to make people aware before the mass migration date arrives. https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14k67qt/l... Highly sus

wow an explicitly marxist-leninist instance supports an explicitly marxist-leninist state? who would have thought

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by goolz »

What makes these hacks think I wouldn’t just take my ball and go home? Not sure they care, but I am in a juicy demographic, so the joke’s on them. Social media has a short shelf-life, as long as I can remember. To pull a stunt like this, well, it is ballsy to say the least. Farewell, Tweeter, you will not be missed!

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by deciplex »

londons_explore wrote: post #462
robot_no_421 wrote: post #395

Anybody feel like this is ironically going to accelerate the decline of twitter? I'm never, EVER making a twitter account. However publishers still communicate with me via tweets I could see. Now that I need an account to view tweets, publishers just have a smaller audience. I'll just see the screenshots on reddit anyway :)

> Anybody feel like this is ironically going to accelerate the decline of twitter? If Musks claim today is true ("This platform hit another all-time high in user-seconds last week"), then it is very much not in decline...

anything that elon musk says is true by coincidence only

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by BeetleB »

post-it wrote: post #140
BeetleB wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which government agency/city council exclusively uses such services for updates?

It's quite common in Nova Scotia. During the mass shooting, emergency alerts were sent out exclusively via Twitter: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rcmp-twitter-aler...

That's sad. I think for the ones in my area while they may use Twitter they tend to have some publicly accessible alternative.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by incompatible »

teddyh wrote: post #76

Paul Graham famously started to use Mastodon (but has not written anything there since last year). But the HN Status emergency “is HN down” channel is still only on Twitter. It used to be publicly readable at https://twitter.com/HNStatus >. But now, if HN was to go down, only logged-in Twitter users would be able to see why.

If HN is down, I'll just try again in a few hours, or maybe tomorrow. Maybe I'd start getting interested about what happened it was down for a week or so.

Would HN being down count as an emergency for anybody else?

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