Looks like DMCA abuse is alive and well on Mr. Free Speech’s site
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Also, this fucking idiot said this
Musk, laughing over the situation, continued: “My timing was terrible for when the offer was made because it was right before advertising plummeted.”
In the few weeks after Musk took charge, dozens of top advertisers fled the site–apparently wary of his leadership–which has seen a slimmed down workforce and content moderation system. Musk has used the platform to push a conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi, reinstate the accounts of Donald Trump and other right-wingers previously banned for promoting misinformation, and pettily strip The New York Times of its verified badge, among other things. NPR, along with its 52 affiliated accounts, has stopped tweeting after Musk inaccurately designated it “state-affiliated media,” and then later “government-funded,” even though the federal government is the source of 1 percent of NPR’s funding.
“You caught the high water mark, I noticed,” Carlson said of Musk’s purchase.
“Yeah, so I must be a real genius here. My timing is amazing, since I bought it for at least twice as much as it should have been bought for. But some things are priceless,” Musk said. “So whether I’m losing money or not, that is a secondary issue compared to ensuring the strength of democracy. And free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy.”
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Twitter just keeps getting worse and worse for trans people. I can’t believe some (including both my partners, though one has withdrawn substantially) still think it’s worth wading through the hate every day. I nuked my account in December and my mental health improved immediately.
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This is the best visual representation of Twitter I’ve ever seen!
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Transit agencies rely on Twitter’s application programming interface, or API, to send automated service alerts so information about train delays or skipped stops go straight to Twitter, no human required (though MTA employees still monitor the account and answer questions). For a system with 28 lines and 472 stations, a bot beats a human every time: The information can be dispatched instantly — and it’s a fast, easy way for the agency to divert riders from a station or train in an emergency. It’s basically one of the only good things about Twitter. But Musk announced his paywall plan in February and proposed subscription prices late last month. Costs range from a free account for individuals that maxes out at 1,500 tweets per month to what might be as much as $42,000 per month for “enterprise”-level API access, pricing out virtually every public-facing institution on the planet.
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it sadden me every time i hear things like this because it seems rss feeds could have done this.
only, there’s not much profit in them, so there arent really any widespread apps that consume them – but really: a stream of notifications. the world shouldn’t need twitter for that.
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twitter filled a niche that didn’t need to be empty?
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The demise of consumer facing RSS feeds really bums me out, too. There was a time when everyone used them and I would follow dozens of blogs by opening my RSS reader and consuming them much like one would a newspaper. At the time it really seemed like that was the future of media. A standalone self-curated media feed. But then it just went away. As you say, there was no money in it.
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My wife is still salty about Google Reader getting killed.
You can still do RSS equivalents, I get everything (including BB) on Feedly, and you can (or at least used to be able) export OPML so you could back up your subscriptions.
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I’m with your wife on this one. I maintain my Nextcloud instance almost entirely because I wanted a replacement for Goog Reader.
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“Twitter is the world, and you live on my planet, so pay your Twitter tax!” /s
Microsoft declined to comment. Twitter’s press email replied with a poop emoji when reached for comment.
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