Visa stopped posting on Twitter.
Etsy stopped posting on Twitter.
Adobe stopped posting on Twitter.
Lady Gaga stopped posting on Twitter.
Taylor Swift stopped posting on Twitter.
Mastercard stopped posting on Twitter.
McDonald's stopped posting on Twitter.
Nature reports that scientists are leaving Twitter. Overwhelmed by anti-science and far-right material, which is often shoved at them by the site’s trending topics and other algorithmic feeds…
I see a lot of people sharing blanket condemnations of all of those who still remain on #Twitter / #Xitter , and I need you to slow down a bit.
Sure, in some cases this is justified - journalists should really know better. But there are a lot of communities on that platform that are vital to many people's well-being that haven't been replicated on the #Fediverse or elsewhere. Take #BlackTwitter - while #BlackMastodon is growing, it's still minuscule in comparison. The number of Twitter users in #Pakistan is staggering, while they are only a handful on #Mastodon . And so on, and so forth. Twitter was a lifeline to many marginalized people, and it still is - even though it gets worse every day - and we need to recognize this.
As a white European guy, it was easy for me to walk away from Twitter (I still have an account there, but I only post "you should go to Mastodon" stuff these days) - since it is easy to find people of a similar background to interact with. But this is NOT true for everyone!
So I'd like everyone to show a bit less contempt to the remaining Twitter users in general, and put some more effort in how to make the Fediverse friendlier to marginalized voices. Because there is MUCH work to be done here!
“#Twitter has been accused in a revised civil US lawsuit of helping Saudi Arabia commit grave human rights abuses against its users, incl by disclosing confidential user data at the request of Saudi authorities at a much higher rate than it has for the US, UK, or Canada.
Tech bros are presented in this NYT story as semi-idealists hoping to build a new kind of city.
I call BS. This looks like nothing more than old-fashioned land speculation, and it's obviously turning a massive profit for the billionaires involved.
Musk is a distraction @dangillmor. it's time Andressen is given the ProPublica treatment for being the one investor whose name comes up over & over again with everything that is wrong with tech.
when you look at Andressen-Horowitz's "home runs", you'll start to see something in the milk ain't clean with how they built a tech oligopoly thru valuations.
btw: A/H is one of Musk's #Xitter coup backers. and Andressen, who can't shut the fuck up, is behind Musk's free speech #BigLie.
Media Matters looked into Xitter CEO Linda Yaccarino’s claim that “90% of the top 100 advertisers have returned to the platform. In the last 12 weeks alone, about 1500 have returned – w…
#Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, majority investor in NewsCorp (FOXNews) and whose cousin, MBS, had him imprisoned until he bent his knee in approval of his accession to the throne and paid several billions for the privilege of his freedom
Jack Dorsey
"Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Retains Stake After Elon Musk Acquisition – The Hollywood Reporter
"Running an ad-free website where millions of people gather every day to discuss facts and update scores of pages is a monumental task. It’s incredible that #Wikipedia doesn’t often go down and has few technical problems. Most of the time, Wikipedia works without issue. The same is not true for X, formerly #Twitter"
Stop talking about leaving the nazi bar while you continue to attend the nazi bar (but you go there just to tell everyone else you are leaving, soon, almost now, just a moment… “hey have I told you I’m about to leave this place?? Well, I am”).
You obviously give them money because, hey, it’s a bar, and you’re there, what are you supposed to do? Not drink and don’t pay the nazi bar owner? Sheeshh, be civilized.
Just don’t go there anymore. Don’t talk, just do it.
Listening to @mike and @Gargron, Mike brings up that it's a perfect way to steal usage from #xitter. That an open protocol is a huge advantage for creators who now know how closed platforms (and esp Elon) will freely fuck up a platform and abuse the relationship they have with their fans.
So while decentralization seems like bad business, sometimes it's not. And it's a great way for Zuck to get back at a guy he hates.
If you post to xitter, no one can sees your posts unless they have a xitter account again. Please government agencies and essential service providers, keep this mind if you don't provide a rss feed or post to a social media provider that is open to the public with out an account.
by @jackiegardina got me looking for my earliest use of the term REPRODUCTIVE SLAVERY on #Xitter, which i had already blogged about sometime around 2006-2007 but was laughed at by the "real" feminists.
white women could never be the target for fugitive slave laws... yet he we are.
Where was Elon Musk when Twitter (now Xitter) was stalling the Department of Justice after Twitter got a warrant to see what was in Trump's Twitter account?
Why, he was in D.C. — meeting with Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy. Marci Wheeler tells the story, noting the following (see /2):
"WINDOM says first batch of discovery is "roughly 11.6 million pages or files, which are load ready." Plus some search warrant returns."
#JackSmith has +11½ MILLION DIGITAL FILES amassed for his prosecution; and that doesn't even count the material coming from the #Twitter#Xitter subpoenas.
holeesheeeeit
no wonder it took so fucking long to deliver an indictment
how come Netanyahu ignores #Egypt's intel on #HAMAS and just like that GOP not only boots McCarthy, but he goes quietly... for a christofascist to take his place?
the billionaires funding Netanyahu's fascist coup also fund the USA's christian-zionists
Scientists, disturbed by anti-science and far-right content, starting to leave Twitter (boingboing.net)
Nature reports that scientists are leaving Twitter. Overwhelmed by anti-science and far-right material, which is often shoved at them by the site’s trending topics and other algorithmic feeds…
As false war information spreads on X, Musk promotes unvetted accounts (www.washingtonpost.com)
From the article:...
Twitter ad numbers plummet! Visa bought just $10 in ads in last 12 weeks, according to report (boingboing.net)
Media Matters looked into Xitter CEO Linda Yaccarino’s claim that “90% of the top 100 advertisers have returned to the platform. In the last 12 weeks alone, about 1500 have returned – w…