Very strange-what's going on with twitter??

a reply to: Ksihkehe

You can say that there was all sorts of collusion and even though Elon let Matt Taibbi claim there was, guess what? Trump refiled his lawsuit against Twitter after the Twitter Files release, and Elon's very own Twitter lawyers stated none of that is true in their response to the lawsuit. His own lawyers debunked the whole thing. Link

He sure isn't talking about that, is he?

And I can certainly point you to the rabid hate speech if you want Twitter links, but obviously I can't post screenshots of them here as they violate the TOS. So, let me know.

originally posted by: DerBeobachter
"Very strange-what's going on with twitter"

It´s called Musk.

You think Musk is single-handedly writing every code change himself?

You're funny...

originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: Ksihkehe

You can say that there was all sorts of collusion and even though Elon let Matt Taibbi claim there was, guess what? Trump refiled his lawsuit against Twitter after the Twitter Files release, and Elon's very own Twitter lawyers stated none of that is true in their response to the lawsuit. His own lawyers debunked the whole thing. Link

He sure isn't talking about that, is he?

And I can certainly point you to the rabid hate speech if you want Twitter links, but obviously I can't post screenshots of them here as they violate the TOS. So, let me know.

Tell it to the judge that just filed an injunction against the Biden admin.

Doughty cited “substantial evidence” of a far-reaching censorship campaign. He wrote that the “evidence produced thus far depicts an almost dystopian scenario. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’ ”

AP News


I love leaving things out of my posts so people can embarrass themselves "debunking" me.

Maybe Elon's lawyer will tell this judge how it's all lies because foreign NGOs and bot farms said so.

I don't need any links to hate speech. Many alt-left accounts still end up polluting my feed with their hate. Just as many as alt-right accounts still do. The presence of hate posts is endemic to social media and it's a transparently unfounded claim that hate speech keeps accelerating. It's just laughable hysteria because you were told Musk is bad. Last I checked if they aren't criminal statements then they're free speech, which clearly you don't approve of based on your perpetual defense of censorship by government for the interests of private corporations.

I can't wait to see the 2024 platform. Can't wait to see what lemonade these bitter lemons make.

originally posted by: tanstaafl

originally posted by: DerBeobachter
"Very strange-what's going on with twitter"

It´s called Musk.

You think Musk is single-handedly writing every code change himself?

You're funny...

Who said anything about Musk righting all the code himself? He is the CEO who makes policy decisions, including massive layoffs of programmers and other IT people. It's purdee obvious that is what @DerBeobachter meant.

originally posted by: Ksihkehe
a reply to: MrInquisitive

Yeah, somebody says hate speech is on the rise. No proof, but Musk bad because media says so. Done more for the green industry agenda than virtually anybody alive, but also not a ball washer for the DNC and WEF all the time. It's a shame the left has turned into the tyrants they were supposed to protect the citizens from.

You know what's down at Twitter?

Collusion with the government to violate the first amendment and the disgusting child abuse material that proliferated while truthful post were censored for the government/pharma agenda.

You'll just have to live with all the tech sector except for Twitter, though I'll enjoy the bellyaching and "Twitter is finished". Meanwhile, the site is removing all the exploitation, both NGOs and their pet government agencies. The disgusting predators are no longer free to run their hashtags while the thousands of Twitter staff censored their political adversaries.

What do you think about the fact that Musk helped expose the US Government and its agencies operating a clandestine censorship operation colluding with politically connected tech insiders, including former intelligence agents, to violate the first amendment?

Here's some proof of a rise on Twitter -- all you got to do is google the term.

Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day.

Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.

And antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism soared more than 61 percent in the two weeks after Mr. Musk acquired the site.

These findings — from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Anti-Defamation League and other groups that study online platforms — provide the most comprehensive picture to date of how conversations on Twitter have changed since Mr. Musk completed his $44 billion deal for the company in late October. While the numbers are relatively small, researchers said the increases were atypically high.

The shift in speech is just the tip of a set of changes on the service under Mr. Musk. Accounts that Twitter used to regularly remove — such as those that identify as part of the Islamic State, which were banned after the U.S. government classified ISIS as a terror group — have come roaring back. Accounts associated with QAnon, a vast far-right conspiracy theory, have paid for and received verified status on Twitter, giving them a sheen of legitimacy.

These changes are alarming, researchers said, adding that they had never seen such a sharp increase in hate speech, problematic content and formerly banned accounts in such a short period on a mainstream social media platform.

“Elon Musk sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “They have reacted accordingly.”

Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find

For the record, a company cooperating with the government to moderate or censor hate speech and misinformation is not a free speech violation, any more than the terms and conditions of use at ATS are. Twitter and ATS are private organizations, and so don't fall under protected speech of the 1st amendment.

Looks like Zuckerberg and Meta are about to open up their own competitor to Twitter, Threads.

Meta To Launch Twitter Challenger App Threads

Reuters) -Meta Platforms plans to launch a Twitter-rivalling microblogging app called Threads, days after Twitter boss Elon Musk attracted criticism by announcing a temporary cap on how many posts users can read on the social media site.

Threads is expected to be released on Thursday and will allow users to retain followers from photo-sharing platform Instagram, and keep the same username, a listing on Apple’s App Store showed.

The rollout represents a direct challenge to Twitter, which has faced numerous controversies since Musk bought the company for $44 billion in 2022.

Last week, the Tesla billionaire announced a slate of new restrictions on the app, limiting the number of tweets users could view per day, prompting outcry from many on the platform.

he launch of Threads represents a credible threat to Twitter under Musk, whose attempts to boost revenues and reshape the platform his own image have faced severe criticism.

After acquiring the company late last year, he laid off around 80% of staff and reinstated a number of banned accounts, such as those of former U.S. President Donald Trump and conservative satirical news site Babylon Bee.

Hundreds of advertisers, concerned by a perceived rise in harmful content on the platform, paused spending with Twitter, and internal documents seen by Reuters showed the platform’s most active users becoming disengaged.

Soon there are going to be several better-run alternatives to Twitter. There are already Blue Sky and Mastadon.

originally posted by: MrInquisitive

originally posted by: Ksihkehe
a reply to: MrInquisitive

Yeah, somebody says hate speech is on the rise. No proof, but Musk bad because media says so. Done more for the green industry agenda than virtually anybody alive, but also not a ball washer for the DNC and WEF all the time. It's a shame the left has turned into the tyrants they were supposed to protect the citizens from.

You know what's down at Twitter?

Collusion with the government to violate the first amendment and the disgusting child abuse material that proliferated while truthful post were censored for the government/pharma agenda.

You'll just have to live with all the tech sector except for Twitter, though I'll enjoy the bellyaching and "Twitter is finished". Meanwhile, the site is removing all the exploitation, both NGOs and their pet government agencies. The disgusting predators are no longer free to run their hashtags while the thousands of Twitter staff censored their political adversaries.

What do you think about the fact that Musk helped expose the US Government and its agencies operating a clandestine censorship operation colluding with politically connected tech insiders, including former intelligence agents, to violate the first amendment?

Here's some proof of a rise on Twitter -- all you got to do is google the term.

Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day.

Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.

And antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism soared more than 61 percent in the two weeks after Mr. Musk acquired the site.

These findings — from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Anti-Defamation League and other groups that study online platforms — provide the most comprehensive picture to date of how conversations on Twitter have changed since Mr. Musk completed his $44 billion deal for the company in late October. While the numbers are relatively small, researchers said the increases were atypically high.

The shift in speech is just the tip of a set of changes on the service under Mr. Musk. Accounts that Twitter used to regularly remove — such as those that identify as part of the Islamic State, which were banned after the U.S. government classified ISIS as a terror group — have come roaring back. Accounts associated with QAnon, a vast far-right conspiracy theory, have paid for and received verified status on Twitter, giving them a sheen of legitimacy.

These changes are alarming, researchers said, adding that they had never seen such a sharp increase in hate speech, problematic content and formerly banned accounts in such a short period on a mainstream social media platform.

“Elon Musk sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “They have reacted accordingly.”

Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find

For the record, a company cooperating with the government to moderate or censor hate speech and misinformation is not a free speech violation, any more than the terms and conditions of use at ATS are. Twitter and ATS are private organizations, and so don't fall under protected speech of the 1st amendment.

You're wrong about your last conclusion.
Private organizations do fall under protected speech of the 1st Amendment. All you have to do is try to contest this in the Supreme Court.

originally posted by: MrInquisitive
Looks like Zuckerberg and Meta are about to open up their own competitor to Twitter, Threads.

Meta To Launch Twitter Challenger App Threads

Reuters) -Meta Platforms plans to launch a Twitter-rivalling microblogging app called Threads, days after Twitter boss Elon Musk attracted criticism by announcing a temporary cap on how many posts users can read on the social media site.

Threads is expected to be released on Thursday and will allow users to retain followers from photo-sharing platform Instagram, and keep the same username, a listing on Apple’s App Store showed.

The rollout represents a direct challenge to Twitter, which has faced numerous controversies since Musk bought the company for $44 billion in 2022.

Last week, the Tesla billionaire announced a slate of new restrictions on the app, limiting the number of tweets users could view per day, prompting outcry from many on the platform.

he launch of Threads represents a credible threat to Twitter under Musk, whose attempts to boost revenues and reshape the platform his own image have faced severe criticism.

After acquiring the company late last year, he laid off around 80% of staff and reinstated a number of banned accounts, such as those of former U.S. President Donald Trump and conservative satirical news site Babylon Bee.

Hundreds of advertisers, concerned by a perceived rise in harmful content on the platform, paused spending with Twitter, and internal documents seen by Reuters showed the platform’s most active users becoming disengaged.

Soon there are going to be several better-run alternatives to Twitter. There are already Blue Sky and Mastadon.

Good try.

But people want to use Twitter as it's much more free than the woke controlled platforms.

originally posted by: AlienBorg

originally posted by: MrInquisitive

originally posted by: Ksihkehe
a reply to: MrInquisitive

Yeah, somebody says hate speech is on the rise. No proof, but Musk bad because media says so. Done more for the green industry agenda than virtually anybody alive, but also not a ball washer for the DNC and WEF all the time. It's a shame the left has turned into the tyrants they were supposed to protect the citizens from.

You know what's down at Twitter?

Collusion with the government to violate the first amendment and the disgusting child abuse material that proliferated while truthful post were censored for the government/pharma agenda.

You'll just have to live with all the tech sector except for Twitter, though I'll enjoy the bellyaching and "Twitter is finished". Meanwhile, the site is removing all the exploitation, both NGOs and their pet government agencies. The disgusting predators are no longer free to run their hashtags while the thousands of Twitter staff censored their political adversaries.

What do you think about the fact that Musk helped expose the US Government and its agencies operating a clandestine censorship operation colluding with politically connected tech insiders, including former intelligence agents, to violate the first amendment?

Here's some proof of a rise on Twitter -- all you got to do is google the term.

Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day.

Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.

And antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism soared more than 61 percent in the two weeks after Mr. Musk acquired the site.

These findings — from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Anti-Defamation League and other groups that study online platforms — provide the most comprehensive picture to date of how conversations on Twitter have changed since Mr. Musk completed his $44 billion deal for the company in late October. While the numbers are relatively small, researchers said the increases were atypically high.

The shift in speech is just the tip of a set of changes on the service under Mr. Musk. Accounts that Twitter used to regularly remove — such as those that identify as part of the Islamic State, which were banned after the U.S. government classified ISIS as a terror group — have come roaring back. Accounts associated with QAnon, a vast far-right conspiracy theory, have paid for and received verified status on Twitter, giving them a sheen of legitimacy.

These changes are alarming, researchers said, adding that they had never seen such a sharp increase in hate speech, problematic content and formerly banned accounts in such a short period on a mainstream social media platform.

“Elon Musk sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “They have reacted accordingly.”

Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find

For the record, a company cooperating with the government to moderate or censor hate speech and misinformation is not a free speech violation, any more than the terms and conditions of use at ATS are. Twitter and ATS are private organizations, and so don't fall under protected speech of the 1st amendment.

You're wrong about your last conclusion.
Private organizations do fall under protected speech of the 1st Amendment. All you have to do is try to contest this in the Supreme Court.

How about show me one case where this has happened successfully? Oh yeah, you can't because there aren't any. Do you always just pull stuff out of thin air and claim it's true?

The First Amendment of the US Constitution limits the government—not private entities—from restricting free expression. This is why companies like Facebook and Twitter can moderate content—and also why they could suspend then-President Trump’s accounts during his last weeks in office.

Is There a First Amendment Right to Tweet?

In a way, however, you are correct, but not in the way you want it to be. Companies do fall under freedom of speech or protected speech, as per the 1st Amendment. But it is the speech of the company that is protected, not persons using the company's service. Hence social media companies can allow and disallow users to say whatever the company deems fit. If it were otherwise, don't you think people who have been censored or banned from social media sites -- such Donald Trump, for example -- would have already litigated this?

Also, federal court cases don't start at the SCOTUS level. They're first tried at the federal court level, and then the appellate court level, and then at the SCOTUS level, should SCOTUS accept the case.

originally posted by: AlienBorg

originally posted by: MrInquisitive
Looks like Zuckerberg and Meta are about to open up their own competitor to Twitter, Threads.

Meta To Launch Twitter Challenger App Threads

Reuters) -Meta Platforms plans to launch a Twitter-rivalling microblogging app called Threads, days after Twitter boss Elon Musk attracted criticism by announcing a temporary cap on how many posts users can read on the social media site.

Threads is expected to be released on Thursday and will allow users to retain followers from photo-sharing platform Instagram, and keep the same username, a listing on Apple’s App Store showed.

The rollout represents a direct challenge to Twitter, which has faced numerous controversies since Musk bought the company for $44 billion in 2022.

Last week, the Tesla billionaire announced a slate of new restrictions on the app, limiting the number of tweets users could view per day, prompting outcry from many on the platform.

he launch of Threads represents a credible threat to Twitter under Musk, whose attempts to boost revenues and reshape the platform his own image have faced severe criticism.

After acquiring the company late last year, he laid off around 80% of staff and reinstated a number of banned accounts, such as those of former U.S. President Donald Trump and conservative satirical news site Babylon Bee.

Hundreds of advertisers, concerned by a perceived rise in harmful content on the platform, paused spending with Twitter, and internal documents seen by Reuters showed the platform’s most active users becoming disengaged.

Soon there are going to be several better-run alternatives to Twitter. There are already Blue Sky and Mastadon.

Good try.

But people want to use Twitter as it's much more free than the woke controlled platforms.

You do love your alt-right buzzwords, don't you? Never mind the bollocks, here's the facts:

Yesterday, Twitter rival Bluesky experienced its biggest spike in users yet. Between Wednesday and Thursday, Bluesky doubled its user base, Bloomberg reported.

In the past few months, several news organizations left the platform, many government accounts lost verification, and many apps broke when Twitter turned off its free API. This week, Mashable reported that Twitter made search unavailable without a login, further restricting access to tweets. Just yesterday, New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) became one of the first major transportation agencies to stop sharing live updates on Twitter. In MTA's press release, acting chief customer officer Shanifah Rieara said that MTA terminated those posting services because "reliability of the platform can no longer be guaranteed."

Top Twitter influencers flee to Bluesky amid Musk’s continued debasing

Since buying Twitter last year, Elon Musk has made a series of chaotic changes to the social media service that have alienated legions of users.

That’s been good news for Bluesky, an invite-only rival that has quickly gained a following since debuting in February. So far, its app has been downloaded 360,000 times from Apple’s app store worldwide, consumer data group data.ai told Fortune, and over a million more users are on the waitlist to join. Most of the new users have been added this month, according to Bloomberg.

Bluesky was created by Jack Dorsey, who happens to also be Twitter’s co-founder. In contrast to Twitter, he wanted to build a decentralized service, meaning its user data is stored in independent servers rather than in ones owned by one company—thereby giving users more autonomy in how they interact on the platform.

“We envision an open social media ecosystem where developers have more opportunity to build and innovate, and users have more choice and control over which services they use and their experience on social media as a whole,” Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky, wrote in a blog post last year.

Dorsey has said that one of his regrets was commercializing Twitter. If he had a chance to do it over again, he’d make it more like an open source project.

“The biggest issue and my biggest regret is that it [Twitter] became a company,” Dorsey tweeted in August, responding to a question about whether the platform turned out like he wanted it to.

Bluesky is Jack Dorsey’s attempt at a Twitter redo and it’s already growing fast

Don't know how old you are, @AlienBorg, but there used to be this really popular social media site called MySpace. Guess what happened? A new, shinier site called FaceBook came along. So it will go with Twitter, particularly because of the way Musk is screwing the pooch with his $44 billion white elephant.

The majority of people aren't put off by what you call "woke" rules of the pre-Musk Twitter. What they want is a working platform they can depend on. They're not so into homophobia, white nationalism, right-wing extremism, far-out conspiracies and misinformation.

originally posted by: MrInquisitive

originally posted by: AlienBorg

originally posted by: MrInquisitive

originally posted by: Ksihkehe
a reply to: MrInquisitive

Yeah, somebody says hate speech is on the rise. No proof, but Musk bad because media says so. Done more for the green industry agenda than virtually anybody alive, but also not a ball washer for the DNC and WEF all the time. It's a shame the left has turned into the tyrants they were supposed to protect the citizens from.

You know what's down at Twitter?

Collusion with the government to violate the first amendment and the disgusting child abuse material that proliferated while truthful post were censored for the government/pharma agenda.

You'll just have to live with all the tech sector except for Twitter, though I'll enjoy the bellyaching and "Twitter is finished". Meanwhile, the site is removing all the exploitation, both NGOs and their pet government agencies. The disgusting predators are no longer free to run their hashtags while the thousands of Twitter staff censored their political adversaries.

What do you think about the fact that Musk helped expose the US Government and its agencies operating a clandestine censorship operation colluding with politically connected tech insiders, including former intelligence agents, to violate the first amendment?

Here's some proof of a rise on Twitter -- all you got to do is google the term.

Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day.

Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.

And antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism soared more than 61 percent in the two weeks after Mr. Musk acquired the site.

These findings — from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Anti-Defamation League and other groups that study online platforms — provide the most comprehensive picture to date of how conversations on Twitter have changed since Mr. Musk completed his $44 billion deal for the company in late October. While the numbers are relatively small, researchers said the increases were atypically high.

The shift in speech is just the tip of a set of changes on the service under Mr. Musk. Accounts that Twitter used to regularly remove — such as those that identify as part of the Islamic State, which were banned after the U.S. government classified ISIS as a terror group — have come roaring back. Accounts associated with QAnon, a vast far-right conspiracy theory, have paid for and received verified status on Twitter, giving them a sheen of legitimacy.

These changes are alarming, researchers said, adding that they had never seen such a sharp increase in hate speech, problematic content and formerly banned accounts in such a short period on a mainstream social media platform.

“Elon Musk sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “They have reacted accordingly.”

Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find

For the record, a company cooperating with the government to moderate or censor hate speech and misinformation is not a free speech violation, any more than the terms and conditions of use at ATS are. Twitter and ATS are private organizations, and so don't fall under protected speech of the 1st amendment.

You're wrong about your last conclusion.
Private organizations do fall under protected speech of the 1st Amendment. All you have to do is try to contest this in the Supreme Court.

How about show me one case where this has happened successfully? Oh yeah, you can't because there aren't any. Do you always just pull stuff out of thin air and claim it's true?

The First Amendment of the US Constitution limits the government—not private entities—from restricting free expression. This is why companies like Facebook and Twitter can moderate content—and also why they could suspend then-President Trump’s accounts during his last weeks in office.

Is There a First Amendment Right to Tweet?

In a way, however, you are correct, but not in the way you want it to be. Companies do fall under freedom of speech or protected speech, as per the 1st Amendment. But it is the speech of the company that is protected, not persons using the company's service. Hence social media companies can allow and disallow users to say whatever the company deems fit. If it were otherwise, don't you think people who have been censored or banned from social media sites -- such Donald Trump, for example -- would have already litigated this?

Also, federal court cases don't start at the SCOTUS level. They're first tried at the federal court level, and then the appellate court level, and then at the SCOTUS level, should SCOTUS accept the case.

You're still wrong. Try to take the cases in the Supreme Court and seem what happens. The speech of the individual vs the speech of the company. Are you sure one trumps the other?

originally posted by: MrInquisitive

originally posted by: AlienBorg

originally posted by: MrInquisitive
Looks like Zuckerberg and Meta are about to open up their own competitor to Twitter, Threads.

Meta To Launch Twitter Challenger App Threads

Reuters) -Meta Platforms plans to launch a Twitter-rivalling microblogging app called Threads, days after Twitter boss Elon Musk attracted criticism by announcing a temporary cap on how many posts users can read on the social media site.

Threads is expected to be released on Thursday and will allow users to retain followers from photo-sharing platform Instagram, and keep the same username, a listing on Apple’s App Store showed.

The rollout represents a direct challenge to Twitter, which has faced numerous controversies since Musk bought the company for $44 billion in 2022.

Last week, the Tesla billionaire announced a slate of new restrictions on the app, limiting the number of tweets users could view per day, prompting outcry from many on the platform.

he launch of Threads represents a credible threat to Twitter under Musk, whose attempts to boost revenues and reshape the platform his own image have faced severe criticism.

After acquiring the company late last year, he laid off around 80% of staff and reinstated a number of banned accounts, such as those of former U.S. President Donald Trump and conservative satirical news site Babylon Bee.

Hundreds of advertisers, concerned by a perceived rise in harmful content on the platform, paused spending with Twitter, and internal documents seen by Reuters showed the platform’s most active users becoming disengaged.

Soon there are going to be several better-run alternatives to Twitter. There are already Blue Sky and Mastadon.

Good try.

But people want to use Twitter as it's much more free than the woke controlled platforms.

You do love your alt-right buzzwords, don't you? Never mind the bollocks, here's the facts:

Yesterday, Twitter rival Bluesky experienced its biggest spike in users yet. Between Wednesday and Thursday, Bluesky doubled its user base, Bloomberg reported.

In the past few months, several news organizations left the platform, many government accounts lost verification, and many apps broke when Twitter turned off its free API. This week, Mashable reported that Twitter made search unavailable without a login, further restricting access to tweets. Just yesterday, New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) became one of the first major transportation agencies to stop sharing live updates on Twitter. In MTA's press release, acting chief customer officer Shanifah Rieara said that MTA terminated those posting services because "reliability of the platform can no longer be guaranteed."

Top Twitter influencers flee to Bluesky amid Musk’s continued debasing

Since buying Twitter last year, Elon Musk has made a series of chaotic changes to the social media service that have alienated legions of users.

That’s been good news for Bluesky, an invite-only rival that has quickly gained a following since debuting in February. So far, its app has been downloaded 360,000 times from Apple’s app store worldwide, consumer data group data.ai told Fortune, and over a million more users are on the waitlist to join. Most of the new users have been added this month, according to Bloomberg.

Bluesky was created by Jack Dorsey, who happens to also be Twitter’s co-founder. In contrast to Twitter, he wanted to build a decentralized service, meaning its user data is stored in independent servers rather than in ones owned by one company—thereby giving users more autonomy in how they interact on the platform.

“We envision an open social media ecosystem where developers have more opportunity to build and innovate, and users have more choice and control over which services they use and their experience on social media as a whole,” Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky, wrote in a blog post last year.

Dorsey has said that one of his regrets was commercializing Twitter. If he had a chance to do it over again, he’d make it more like an open source project.

“The biggest issue and my biggest regret is that it [Twitter] became a company,” Dorsey tweeted in August, responding to a question about whether the platform turned out like he wanted it to.

Bluesky is Jack Dorsey’s attempt at a Twitter redo and it’s already growing fast

Don't know how old you are, @AlienBorg, but there used to be this really popular social media site called MySpace. Guess what happened? A new, shinier site called FaceBook came along. So it will go with Twitter, particularly because of the way Musk is screwing the pooch with his $44 billion white elephant.

The majority of people aren't put off by what you call "woke" rules of the pre-Musk Twitter. What they want is a working platform they can depend on. They're not so into homophobia, white nationalism, right-wing extremism, far-out conspiracies and misinformation.

I believe twitter poses a huge problem on the woke brigade because they don't want free speech on the internet or let's say speech not subject to their outrageous demands. They want to enforce a type of compelled speech and Elon won't allow it. You seem to be really anxious and frustrated that things didn't go the way you want them to go on twitter.

originally posted by: continuousThunder
a reply to: AlienBorg
I love the mix of going to bat for Elon and not knowing what the heck you're talking about, i wonder if they could possibly be linked :O

Well, since no one here actually knows what is going on, I find it hilarious to watch everyone speculate as if they did.

Personally, I think Elon's actions so far are very consistent with what he said he would do, just like Trumps actions when he became President - so no wonder some people still suffering from TDS have a problem with it.

originally posted by: continuousThunder
a reply to: AlienBorg

Multiple people have explained what's going on to you

Rptflmao!!!

A few people have been spouting off with pure speculations with ZERO knowledge of what is causing the gliyches.

That is all.

my conjecture is :

twitter wants to become the 'voice-box' for the google brain chip that is being developed as the platform termed RESET ---> a 'thought-form Entity' which joins 'everything' into a Digital Matrix of Products and People


this is the 'Image given Life by the false prophet' found in Revelation Prophecy ..... Google it why dont cha.....Mark of the Beast

originally posted by: MrInquisitive
a reply to: tanstaafl
Who said anything about Musk righting all the code himself?

Dunno, certainly not me... I said 'Write', not 'right'.

He is the CEO who makes policy decisions, including massive layoffs of programmers and other IT people. It's purdee obvious that is what @DerBeobachter meant.

He fired all of the woke morons and useless farkers, and allowed some to reapply if they felt he had lumped them in with the wrong group...

Yes he makes policy decision, but he cannot enforce everything personally and unilaterally, he still has to deal with the people there, and root out the stragglers that escaped the initial purge.

originally posted by: MrInquisitive
a reply to:AlienBorg
You do love your alt-right buzzwords, don't you? Never mind the bollocks, here's the facts:

"Yesterday, Twitter rival Bluesky experienced its biggest spike in users yet. Between Wednesday and Thursday, Bluesky doubled its user base, Bloomberg reported."

Yeah, and here I am wondering how many of their users - especially these 'new' ones - are just bots. Probably most of them.

The majority of people aren't put off by what you call "woke" rules of the pre-Musk Twitter.

Rotflmaoa!!!

Your definition of 'majority' is highly suspect then...

What they want is a working platform they can depend on.

Thats what everyone wants.

They're not so into homophobia, white nationalism, right-wing extremism, far-out conspiracies and misinformation.

Funny, neither are the real, actual true majority of people on this planet, including the vast majority of Twitter users.

The only ones super concerned about such things are the woke mob that were mostly all canned after Elon took over.

Yeah!

An upgrade

You can now see some of the latest tweets of the people you follow even if you don't have an account. Just click on the tweets and will appear with the story.

But you can't see the other threads on the account as the page cannot be loaded. You can only see the basic information of the person you follow.

We are half-way through.

originally posted by: AlienBorg

originally posted by: MrInquisitive

originally posted by: AlienBorg

originally posted by: MrInquisitive

originally posted by: Ksihkehe
a reply to: MrInquisitive

Yeah, somebody says hate speech is on the rise. No proof, but Musk bad because media says so. Done more for the green industry agenda than virtually anybody alive, but also not a ball washer for the DNC and WEF all the time. It's a shame the left has turned into the tyrants they were supposed to protect the citizens from.

You know what's down at Twitter?

Collusion with the government to violate the first amendment and the disgusting child abuse material that proliferated while truthful post were censored for the government/pharma agenda.

You'll just have to live with all the tech sector except for Twitter, though I'll enjoy the bellyaching and "Twitter is finished". Meanwhile, the site is removing all the exploitation, both NGOs and their pet government agencies. The disgusting predators are no longer free to run their hashtags while the thousands of Twitter staff censored their political adversaries.

What do you think about the fact that Musk helped expose the US Government and its agencies operating a clandestine censorship operation colluding with politically connected tech insiders, including former intelligence agents, to violate the first amendment?

Here's some proof of a rise on Twitter -- all you got to do is google the term.

Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day.

Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.

And antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism soared more than 61 percent in the two weeks after Mr. Musk acquired the site.

These findings — from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Anti-Defamation League and other groups that study online platforms — provide the most comprehensive picture to date of how conversations on Twitter have changed since Mr. Musk completed his $44 billion deal for the company in late October. While the numbers are relatively small, researchers said the increases were atypically high.

The shift in speech is just the tip of a set of changes on the service under Mr. Musk. Accounts that Twitter used to regularly remove — such as those that identify as part of the Islamic State, which were banned after the U.S. government classified ISIS as a terror group — have come roaring back. Accounts associated with QAnon, a vast far-right conspiracy theory, have paid for and received verified status on Twitter, giving them a sheen of legitimacy.

These changes are alarming, researchers said, adding that they had never seen such a sharp increase in hate speech, problematic content and formerly banned accounts in such a short period on a mainstream social media platform.

“Elon Musk sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “They have reacted accordingly.”

Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find

For the record, a company cooperating with the government to moderate or censor hate speech and misinformation is not a free speech violation, any more than the terms and conditions of use at ATS are. Twitter and ATS are private organizations, and so don't fall under protected speech of the 1st amendment.

You're wrong about your last conclusion.
Private organizations do fall under protected speech of the 1st Amendment. All you have to do is try to contest this in the Supreme Court.

How about show me one case where this has happened successfully? Oh yeah, you can't because there aren't any. Do you always just pull stuff out of thin air and claim it's true?

The First Amendment of the US Constitution limits the government—not private entities—from restricting free expression. This is why companies like Facebook and Twitter can moderate content—and also why they could suspend then-President Trump’s accounts during his last weeks in office.

Is There a First Amendment Right to Tweet?

In a way, however, you are correct, but not in the way you want it to be. Companies do fall under freedom of speech or protected speech, as per the 1st Amendment. But it is the speech of the company that is protected, not persons using the company's service. Hence social media companies can allow and disallow users to say whatever the company deems fit. If it were otherwise, don't you think people who have been censored or banned from social media sites -- such Donald Trump, for example -- would have already litigated this?

Also, federal court cases don't start at the SCOTUS level. They're first tried at the federal court level, and then the appellate court level, and then at the SCOTUS level, should SCOTUS accept the case.

You're still wrong. Try to take the cases in the Supreme Court and seem what happens. The speech of the individual vs the speech of the company. Are you sure one trumps the other?

I'm still wrong even though I backed up my contention with facts, and asked why there have been no successful court cases against social media companies in this respect, huh? You claim "woke" culture is a cult, but your denying of the facts in this matter shows who has the real cult mindset.

You don't seem to get it. A user on Twitter isn't guaranteed free speech. The company is the final arbiter of speech on its platform. The government can't force the company to censor or not censor a person. I've provided you evidence of this, and told you to provide evidence of any court case deciding otherwise. All you have in response is to say I am wrong, and ask if I am sure of this. WEAK.

originally posted by: AlienBorg

originally posted by: MrInquisitive

originally posted by: AlienBorg

originally posted by: MrInquisitive
Looks like Zuckerberg and Meta are about to open up their own competitor to Twitter, Threads.

Meta To Launch Twitter Challenger App Threads

Reuters) -Meta Platforms plans to launch a Twitter-rivalling microblogging app called Threads, days after Twitter boss Elon Musk attracted criticism by announcing a temporary cap on how many posts users can read on the social media site.

Threads is expected to be released on Thursday and will allow users to retain followers from photo-sharing platform Instagram, and keep the same username, a listing on Apple’s App Store showed.

The rollout represents a direct challenge to Twitter, which has faced numerous controversies since Musk bought the company for $44 billion in 2022.

Last week, the Tesla billionaire announced a slate of new restrictions on the app, limiting the number of tweets users could view per day, prompting outcry from many on the platform.

he launch of Threads represents a credible threat to Twitter under Musk, whose attempts to boost revenues and reshape the platform his own image have faced severe criticism.

After acquiring the company late last year, he laid off around 80% of staff and reinstated a number of banned accounts, such as those of former U.S. President Donald Trump and conservative satirical news site Babylon Bee.

Hundreds of advertisers, concerned by a perceived rise in harmful content on the platform, paused spending with Twitter, and internal documents seen by Reuters showed the platform’s most active users becoming disengaged.

Soon there are going to be several better-run alternatives to Twitter. There are already Blue Sky and Mastadon.

Good try.

But people want to use Twitter as it's much more free than the woke controlled platforms.

You do love your alt-right buzzwords, don't you? Never mind the bollocks, here's the facts:

Yesterday, Twitter rival Bluesky experienced its biggest spike in users yet. Between Wednesday and Thursday, Bluesky doubled its user base, Bloomberg reported.

In the past few months, several news organizations left the platform, many government accounts lost verification, and many apps broke when Twitter turned off its free API. This week, Mashable reported that Twitter made search unavailable without a login, further restricting access to tweets. Just yesterday, New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) became one of the first major transportation agencies to stop sharing live updates on Twitter. In MTA's press release, acting chief customer officer Shanifah Rieara said that MTA terminated those posting services because "reliability of the platform can no longer be guaranteed."

Top Twitter influencers flee to Bluesky amid Musk’s continued debasing

Since buying Twitter last year, Elon Musk has made a series of chaotic changes to the social media service that have alienated legions of users.

That’s been good news for Bluesky, an invite-only rival that has quickly gained a following since debuting in February. So far, its app has been downloaded 360,000 times from Apple’s app store worldwide, consumer data group data.ai told Fortune, and over a million more users are on the waitlist to join. Most of the new users have been added this month, according to Bloomberg.

Bluesky was created by Jack Dorsey, who happens to also be Twitter’s co-founder. In contrast to Twitter, he wanted to build a decentralized service, meaning its user data is stored in independent servers rather than in ones owned by one company—thereby giving users more autonomy in how they interact on the platform.

“We envision an open social media ecosystem where developers have more opportunity to build and innovate, and users have more choice and control over which services they use and their experience on social media as a whole,” Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky, wrote in a blog post last year.

Dorsey has said that one of his regrets was commercializing Twitter. If he had a chance to do it over again, he’d make it more like an open source project.

“The biggest issue and my biggest regret is that it [Twitter] became a company,” Dorsey tweeted in August, responding to a question about whether the platform turned out like he wanted it to.

Bluesky is Jack Dorsey’s attempt at a Twitter redo and it’s already growing fast

Don't know how old you are, @AlienBorg, but there used to be this really popular social media site called MySpace. Guess what happened? A new, shinier site called FaceBook came along. So it will go with Twitter, particularly because of the way Musk is screwing the pooch with his $44 billion white elephant.

The majority of people aren't put off by what you call "woke" rules of the pre-Musk Twitter. What they want is a working platform they can depend on. They're not so into homophobia, white nationalism, right-wing extremism, far-out conspiracies and misinformation.

I believe twitter poses a huge problem on the woke brigade because they don't want free speech on the internet or let's say speech not subject to their outrageous demands. They want to enforce a type of compelled speech and Elon won't allow it. You seem to be really anxious and frustrated that things didn't go the way you want them to go on twitter.

You're right, the majority of people don't want a vast social media site to be a safe space for hate speech and misinformation. But you know what, people aren't insisting the government do anything about it; rather, they are deciding on their own to leave Twitter because of the problems with it and their issues with its policies. Isn't that just the free market at work? You and your fellow alt-righters want to stay on Musk's floundering white elephant and have a jolly ol' circle jerk? Have at it.

But in any case, you're going on about woke this and woke that have nothing to do with the subject of your own thread. That problem is Musk ruining Twitter by putting changing the technical aspects of it without thinking through the ramifications of doing so. This information scraping issue which has caused Twitter to change access to the site has nothing to do with supposed "woke" culture. It has to do with data mining my third parties. You're so hung up on your paranoia with woke culture that you evidently can't separate one issue from the other.