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

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      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.

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    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.

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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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    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.

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      Right? It’s annoying but I’ve seen a few people aggregate news to a bunch of Twitter links. Now they won’t be able to do that and engagement will go down even further.

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    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.

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      Google is happy to link to news sites with a paywall, I don’t see why they’d have an issue with a free signup.

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    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.

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

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      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?

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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.

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          I have been wondering if this translates over to what has also happened in the streaming segment, particularly the complete s*t show that’s happened at HBO? It feels like Warner Bros Discovery is just out to annihilate one of their most prestigious brands just because they didn’t get the same numbers of subs that Netflix does or something. Max is basically a mess, it seems like.

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      They should use Twitter for what it is, not as the main source of information. I’m so sick of it. Use Twitter as an additional channel to promote your stuff, chat with people maybe. But goddammit, don’t use Twitter as the main channel (just like how it was with Facebook years back, spit).

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    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.

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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.

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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”.

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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.

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        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.

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    I’ve never used Twitter, but on occasion been linked to something there. So if that’s intentional they’re killing off that kind of traffic on purpose. It seems all these corpo social media sites are monetizing themselves to death.

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      This is actually the interesting part of this move for me. Organic traffic into the platform from google searches, websites (like news orgs and such) that link directly to the tweets as sources, etc. if that’s not going to work, that will likely tank their engagement.