oski003 said:

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AunBear89 said:

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sycasey said:

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oski003 said:

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sycasey said:

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This whole blue check debacle shows that Musk truly does not understand the incentives of social media. The whole purpose of the blue check was that it represented VERIFICATION: if you saw a Tweet from, say, LeBron James, the check meant you knew it was actually from him (or at least an account controlled by him). Anyone without a check mark was fake.

To make the whole thing pay-for-play with no verification removes the whole benefit. Anyone can just pay eight bucks and pretend to be LeBron. Why would any celebrity or media organization want to pay for that kind of "service?"

Maybe if they had just opened up the blue check process to everyone (with payment) but as part of it forced them to provide legal identification and use their real names, that would work. Blue checks for celebrities and reporters and also random nobodies would at least all be consistently accurate, and some people would want to pay.

But Elon is too galaxy-brained for that. Now he's made it so no one wants to pay (not even Catturd). Amazing.

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It is against their policy. Is nobody enforcing it?

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-impersonation-and-deceptive-identities-policy

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I have tried hard to understand how this has anything to do with my point, but I have failed.

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l003 gonna 003.

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You can do better than this.

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Just embarrassing.

Musk went from "watch me, free-speech champion, expose previous corrupt shadow-banning on Twitter!" to blatantly throttling another media company, in 130 days. pic.twitter.com/PW3YXAk5U0

— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) April 7, 2023

🚨 Matt Taibbi has removed all references in his bio to the “Twitter Files” 👀 pic.twitter.com/lObUNfGuwz

— LeGate🤠 (@williamlegate) April 8, 2023

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LOL again.

🚨 Matt Taibbi has removed all references in his bio to the “Twitter Files” 👀 pic.twitter.com/lObUNfGuwz

— LeGate🤠 (@williamlegate) April 8, 2023

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And the Twitter files ended, not with a bang, but with a whimper. They now take their place on the trash heap of failed republican investigations, next to hunters laptop, obamagate, and the Durham investigation

— surelyyoucantbeserious (@surecantpickem) April 8, 2023

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has little to do with twitter files though..so the "Lol" is kind of stupid. It's about musk deciding to block links to substack, which imho is an absolutely brain dead decision. Taibbi agreed to publish Twitter Files on twitter with the agreement that he'll have access to the files at twitter. Now Musk wants to block the one platform Taibbi uses to write his own articles with. Hopefully Musk reverses this stupid decision.

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movielover said:

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Aren't there still several other writers?

They revealed - at minimum - vast government censorship.

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MinotStateBeav said:

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I mean he is...but he's also a capitalist. He see's substack as a competitor instead of seeing it as a site that drives traffic to twitter itself. I believe twitter is essentially trying to create it's own substack like service.

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sycasey said:

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MinotStateBeav said:

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I mean he is...but he's also a capitalist. He see's substack as a competitor instead of seeing it as a site that drives traffic to twitter itself. I believe twitter is essentially trying to create it's own substack like service.

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So it looks like everyone is willing to sell out free speech when it's beneficial to them. Interesting.

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Eastern Oregon Bear said:

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MinotStateBeav said:

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I mean he is...but he's also a capitalist. He see's substack as a competitor instead of seeing it as a site that drives traffic to twitter itself. I believe twitter is essentially trying to create it's own substack like service.

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I'm looking forward to Twitter's substack like service that limits articles to 280 characters.

Shouldn't Twitter wait until they have their service in place before outlawing Substack?

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MinotStateBeav said:

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sycasey said:

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MinotStateBeav said:

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I mean he is...but he's also a capitalist. He see's substack as a competitor instead of seeing it as a site that drives traffic to twitter itself. I believe twitter is essentially trying to create it's own substack like service.

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So it looks like everyone is willing to sell out free speech when it's beneficial to them. Interesting.

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Not really selling out free speech lol. He didn't shut down substack and Taibbi can say whatever he wants on twitter other than posting the links. I know you want it to be a binary choice so you can criticize musk..so feel free.

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sycasey said:

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MinotStateBeav said:

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sycasey said:

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MinotStateBeav said:

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I mean he is...but he's also a capitalist. He see's substack as a competitor instead of seeing it as a site that drives traffic to twitter itself. I believe twitter is essentially trying to create it's own substack like service.

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So it looks like everyone is willing to sell out free speech when it's beneficial to them. Interesting.

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Not really selling out free speech lol. He didn't shut down substack and Taibbi can say whatever he wants on twitter other than posting the links. I know you want it to be a binary choice so you can criticize musk..so feel free.

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So this sounds exactly like what the previous Twitter leadership did with the Hunter Biden story. Not censored and any other outlet can still publish any story they want, right? Only now you defend it. Curious.

My point is now and has always been that Musk is no better for "free speech" on Twitter than anyone else who ran that company. Thanks for helping to prove me right.

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Re MSNBC. Now unlocked…https://t.co/YyzVwZdSwS

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) April 6, 2023

My savagery is proportional to hypocrisy and bad marketing.

Restricting competitors and restricting even people talking about competitors = weak sauce.

The pro free speech schtick is a marketing thing. Not a real position. It is therefore fair to mock it. https://t.co/QpMdtbMWbh

— Lyn Alden (@LynAldenContact) April 8, 2023

BREAKING: @ElonMusk shut down this pro-censorship BBC reporter and left him scrambling on how to justify his own questions on misinformation and the supposed rise in hate speech.

Listen till the end. pic.twitter.com/J7L6eKtKJK

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) April 12, 2023

After getting caught red-handed repeatedly lying, this BBC reporter finally pretends he has no view, is just repeating the claims of @ISDglobal that maligns Twitter as being more hateful.

Look who funds ISD Global:https://t.co/Avsro4xHxc pic.twitter.com/s76YSJdmQI

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 12, 2023

Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 14, 2023

sycasey said:

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Rather than monetize what had been a highly coveted feature on Twitter, Elon Musk has managed to make it worthless. Genius at work.

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DiabloWags said:

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sycasey said:

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Rather than monetize what had been a highly coveted feature on Twitter, Elon Musk has managed to make it worthless. Genius at work.

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Yup.
At this rate, i's just a matter of time before Twitter becomes MySpace.

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DiabloWags said:

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sycasey said:

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Rather than monetize what had been a highly coveted feature on Twitter, Elon Musk has managed to make it worthless. Genius at work.

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Yup.
At this rate, i's just a matter of time before Twitter becomes MySpace.

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dimitrig said:

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DiabloWags said:

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sycasey said:

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Rather than monetize what had been a highly coveted feature on Twitter, Elon Musk has managed to make it worthless. Genius at work.

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Yup.
At this rate, i's just a matter of time before Twitter becomes MySpace.

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It's already there.

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dimitrig said:

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sycasey said:

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Rather than monetize what had been a highly coveted feature on Twitter, Elon Musk has managed to make it worthless. Genius at work.

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Yup.
At this rate, i's just a matter of time before Twitter becomes MySpace.

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It's already there.

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calpoly said:

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oski003 said:

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dimitrig said:

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DiabloWags said:

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sycasey said:

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Rather than monetize what had been a highly coveted feature on Twitter, Elon Musk has managed to make it worthless. Genius at work.

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Yup.
At this rate, i's just a matter of time before Twitter becomes MySpace.

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It's already there.

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In the liberal alternate universe, 14 million is the same as 368 million. Is this what happens when you can't fail a grade?

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This explains how you graduated from college.

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BBC misinfo... pic.twitter.com/vbrxTLXJ8u

— APOCTOZ (@Apoctoz) April 12, 2023

Twitter has now restricted our automated tweets and as a result this account can no longer post all watches/warnings/advisories as they are issued. We will continue to provide general updates, but ensure that you have multiple means for receiving weather information & alerts.

— NWS Billings (@NWSBillings) April 13, 2023

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In February, Twitter announced it would limit the number of tweets that can be sent from automated accounts, unless they pay extra, in a move it said was intended to "increase quality, reduce spam, and enable a thriving ecosystem."

The change would have a huge impact on the National Weather Service and other weather entities using automated tweets to send crucial weather alerts, like tornado warnings.

"The reason the automation exists is so that the people at the office don't have to worry about redundantly issuing a tornado warning, then going on to Twitter, and then retyping the same thing," Daryl Herzmann explained. Herzmann is a systems analyst for Iowa Environmental Mesonet and helped create the automation software used on Twitter.

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Herzmann explained Twitter was going to only allow 50 automated tweets in a 24-hour period. To put it in perspective, his account issued about 16,000 automated tweets on a slow weather day and issued 28,000 on April 4, the day the Midwest was hit with nearly 30 tornado reports.

"Without this automated process, it would take minutes for forecasters to manually prepare warning information into a tweet. For every warning issued, seconds could make the difference between life and death," said NOAA in a statement to CNN.

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Twitter, which laid off much of its public relations team after Musk took over last year, did not respond to a request for comment.

"Since Elon has basically gutted all the employees, it's impossible to interact with them at a technical level," explained Herzmann. "It's very frustrating."

Twitter originally said there would be no exceptions to its ruling to limit the number of automated tweets. But in a surprising move over the weekend, Twitter has reversed course, saying in a tweet "Twitter will allow the National Weather Service accounts to continue Tweeting weather alerts without limits." The move highlights the importance of weather alerts. Weather warnings save lives.

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