twitter has been “x’d” out. Do not expect it to be anything other than a shit show. The X means close the window, goodbye.
If you’re using Twitter as a news source what are you even doing in the first place?
Go to the news outlets directly, the BBC, whoever.
I argue this is the one time I wouldn’t call it Twitter.
This is a problem unique to Elon’s social media’s dumpster, X. He’s actively hindering free speech and free press
Edit: sorry. I read more comments I see I’m wrong and this was an ongoing thing. Here’s my foot in mouth comment for prosperity I guess
It’s not unique to Xitter. Facebook has been deprioritizing posts with links in them for a while.
Forget that Twitter/X even exists. It’s simple.
I think about this a lot lately
Wasn’t it known/confirmed since Twitter made their algorithm partially open source? (I think it was a year ago or so)
My favorite was all the “if elon” code debacles lol. The code was hilarious.
Yeah, he specifically gets boosted across the site, which is why he ended up in everyone’s feeds.
Could learn a lesson or two from that MySpace Tom guy. He might have been my first friend on that site, but he never made a peep after that! I respect him for that.
If MySpace had lived long enough to get enshittified Tom would have been replaced by an AI chat bot who never leaves you alone.
No one goes to Twitter for news anymore, they go to see where the next Klan meeting is.
That would imply that people who still use twitter would be interested in actual news.
Ok but twitter isn’t even a real source for news so who cares. Go to a real news site.
The problem is many people still rely on X for live news such as sport news, disaster news (earthquake news), war news (Gaza/Ukraine). But, with this change this is getting really bad lately for this platform.
Just like many rely on Facebook. Providing news doesn’t make it a good news source.
It’s a voluntary captured audience. They will see it because they go there already. Doesn’t matter about the quality. They don’t care anyway.
There was a time when a story could happen, and literally wighin minutes you’d have multiple sources of video, on the scene, as the story happens.
I’m not promoting school shootings. I’m not encouraging them. I’m not glorifying them. But there was a LONG time when I expected a high school shooting to happen, and a high school student would livestream it with a hashtag like #schooladdress #help
Closest I ever saw was Uvalde school security cameras showing police showing up…and being cowards. I will forever call those cowards out. You show up, 30 to 1, all with guns, and you let one student continue to kill at a time when every second is a potential live being saved or lost. They hung out in the lobby. Not only that, they restrained parents from stopping the killer themself.
In my eyes they didn’t just show up and do nothing in the lobby. They actively aided the shooter that day.
Sorry, I went off on a tangent, because it still pisses me off. But yeah, I fully expected one day when twitter was still a source for news, to wake up one day, and see an active shooter scene being broadcast from inside a classroom.
It says posts containing links. That means links to news stories. You are currently engaging with a post that is a link to a new story. Maybe you shouldn’t be here. Go find a “real” news site.
It’s not a source for news, but a venue.
Or at least, it used to be.
That’s just it, most won’t.
He wants the content there rather than people going to other sites for it - that way he knows EXACTLY what’s being posted there, what people are saying about him and Donny - he wants to own and control it all.
