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Twitter is throttling traffic to websites Elon dislikes (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

It was - and it's not that the need has gone away or been fulfilled elsewhere, it's just that it's no longer viable.

I think paying close attention to this is important though. It's a case study that just keeps giving - every couple weeks we get an important reminder that billionaires and billion dollar companies aren't a good thing - their interests are not aligned with ours

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I have never used Twitter or X even once in my life. It's definitely not essential. I really don't understand how people have convinced themselves that short format screamposting into the void is somehow the peak of communication. Just quit and let your followers know why.

    If people actually cared about what you had to say, they'd go wherever you go to hear you say it. If not, were they really all that interested in the first place? or was it just convenient because they were already on Twitter and so were you?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Like it or not, Twitter is the only place where you can talk to a random developer at a huge company and get immediate confirmation that there is indeed a bug in their latest release and have a bunch of people crowdsource work arounds. There really is no alternative for professionals and experts to discuss the particulars of their fields and it really sucks that Musk is destroying that.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Yes, I get that, and it does suck. I blame that particular situation on brands/companies abandoning their own websites and canning their web developers in favor of hiring social media reps to keep a presence on Facebook/Twitter/etc instead of maintaining their own space.

    I understand why they did it. It's far cheaper and you end up reaching a larger audience, but I've always personally been a fan of just going to the website and looking at information there.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Oh, me neither. I hate the format, I used it long enough to reserve my name, then never logged in again

    But it's a centralized town square. How much news came out of there? And I mean actual news, not tabloid crap. It's where science discoveries came out first, where earthquake responses organized, where Arab spring came together

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