11 sats \ 6 replies \ @DawnoftheDead 7 Aug \ on: Elon Musk Has Turned X Into His Personal Political Playground BooksAndArticles
X is a bad social media platform. For example you have to create an account to just view tweets. This makes it feel too corporate and it ruins the experience.
But also the character limit is gone. The magic of twitter was the character limit which ensured a high signal to noise ratio even when it came to jokes and memes. But gone
Its a shame
X is a bad social media platform. For example you have to create an account to just view tweets.
This is proof it's a good platform, so good they need to protect it from scraping.
This makes it feel too corporate and it ruins the experience.
But every major platform is corporate, means this one is just transparent and YOU are the product on the others.
the character limit is gone
I don't like this either, yet the site is more popular than when they had it. It's also a different AI/Bot landscape and it shows some responsiveness.
So the receipts show it is a good platform, just that our preferences are bad.
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You need to pay to remove the character count
You can view tweets via SN link post , very convenient feature
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I'm not sure who I thank for never having had a twitter account.
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Twitter started in 2006 but became popular in 2008 especially after Obama election
It’s ok if Obama uses Twitter but Trump or Elon no way
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Good point.
I was just listening to BBC radio in the car (all the stations are the same and either play dross or condemn wrongthink) Basically it was a pseudo-analysis of Musk's influence in light of his recent support for the popular view on the partiality of the UK PM.
The way I see it, by 2019, the scales of left right balance was so far left, there was no further left to go to. He is actively bringing the discourse on his platform back to balance.
Obviously the radio wanted to caution against his apparent right leaning tendencies. I call bullshit.
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