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[heydude6]

From what I've heard earlier in this thread, this whole rate-limiting thing is happening as a result of Musk not having renewed a contract of some sort with google and being forced to reduce traffic on his site to prevent server overload. He just chose the hastiest most ill-conceived method of doing it.

This most likely happened because Musk didn't code an exception in the ban for google, cause he didn't think he needed to code an exception for anything. Incompetence is a sufficient explanation. No extra Malice required.

[King Zultan]

This whole thing has been a massive train wreck in motion the entire time, I wonder when it will finally come to a stop?

Also I never could figure out why twitter crap shows up as a google search especially when it had nothing to do with what I typed in.

[Magmacube_tr]

This whole thing has been a massive train wreck in motion the entire time, I wonder when it will finally come to a stop?

I am afraid that Twitter is simply too gargantuan to stop rolling down the mountain. Elon is too rich. Twitter is too influential. Stakes are high.

Though it would be incredible to see it all go down at once and witness the cyber world turn into chaos as millions of refugees swarm out of thr blue birds corpse and Twitterise everywhere they touch.

[McTraveller]

Regarding Threads: Why would people leave Twitter and go to Meta, of all places?

(Also, who names this stuff?)

[Magmacube_tr]

Regarding Threads: Why would people leave Twitter and go to Meta, of all places?

(Also, who names this stuff?)

Because people dumb.

CockZuckerberg names them all.

[EuchreJack]

Perhaps Esucks just wanted to kill Twitter, and paid too much to do so.

[Strongpoint]

Regarding Threads: Why would people leave Twitter and go to Meta, of all places?

(Also, who names this stuff?)

Twitter with no tits won't work.

[King Zultan]

But I was under the impression that showing tits on twitter had been banned a long time ago.

[Starver]

(Also, who names this stuff?)

...someone (like me[1]) who remembers the good old days of t(hreaded)rn...

But who doesn't remember the bad old days of imminent nuclear attack, of course.

[1] But not me. Or at least I haven't been paid for having the idea.

[Strongpoint]

But I was under the impression that showing tits on twitter had been banned a long time ago.

Nope. As long as it is not actual pornography or non-consensual nudity and is marked as sensitive content (for which users need to opt in the settings to see), it is fine. Light erotica often goes even without being marked as sensitive content and people aren't getting banned for it.

It is so common, that I regularly get random tits retweeted by people I follow for different reasons and I am opted in because gory war news requires access to sensitive content.

On Meta nipple = ban

[Starver]

Spoiler: Tits.. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Nipple... (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Different nipples..! (click to show/hide)

_{...because someone had to. We were all thinking of them.} And at least I didn't include Ant'n'Dec...

[Criptfeind]

I am afraid that Twitter is simply too gargantuan to stop rolling down the mountain. Elon is too rich. Twitter is too influential. Stakes are high.

There was a bit of a conversation about this already, but to reiterate, I certainly felt the same way. That twitter could stagger forward off momentum, people too committed to it to swap even as it gets worse and worse and they SHOULD move, they won't because of the time and effort invested in it and how hard it'd be too move. But these latest changes are honestly so bad that I think it can actually die, this just isn't making twitter worse, this is making twitter unusable. New people or people without accounts can't use it without making accounts, quite a hurdle to bypass sight unseen, linking to twitter from outside twitter is now much less useful, content creators can't grow their audiences, at least nearly so easily, and even people already using twitter are seeing their access to it limited, there's going to be immediate negative impacts in twitters revenue and long term twitter just isn't going to be viable as a growing platform for anyone who'd want to use it. I do think that if these changes aren't reversed, we're likely seeing the end of twitter. I'm not sure what will replace them, but the bar is pretty low right now to be the service that does.

[Magmacube_tr]

I hope you are right. I hate twatter and I want to see it gone.

[lemon10]

I am afraid that Twitter is simply too gargantuan to stop rolling down the mountain. Elon is too rich. Twitter is too influential. Stakes are high.

There was a bit of a conversation about this already, but to reiterate, I certainly felt the same way. That twitter could stagger forward off momentum, people too committed to it to swap even as it gets worse and worse and they SHOULD move, they won't because of the time and effort invested in it and how hard it'd be too move. But these latest changes are honestly so bad that I think it can actually die, this just isn't making twitter worse, this is making twitter unusable. New people or people without accounts can't use it without making accounts, quite a hurdle to bypass sight unseen, linking to twitter from outside twitter is now much less useful, content creators can't grow their audiences, at least nearly so easily, and even people already using twitter are seeing their access to it limited, there's going to be immediate negative impacts in twitters revenue and long term twitter just isn't going to be viable as a growing platform for anyone who'd want to use it. I do think that if these changes aren't reversed, we're likely seeing the end of twitter. I'm not sure what will replace them, but the bar is pretty low right now to be the service that does.

Agreed, a major corporation can keep shambling on a long time past dead just on inertia, especially if they have money backing them up. But the witching hour is up, twitter as a social media platform is dead. It might twitch a few more times for brief periods, but still, its dead.
*If* Musk had been truly willing to back twitter with his money then it would be fine and healthy now (and note that he can still save Twitter if he thinks its worth it). But he isn't willing to pour more money into it.

Its a sound financial choice (re: sunk cost fallacy) not to pump twenty billion more dollars into twitter especially after he basically kneecapped it, and its almost certainly one that means that twitter in its current form is dead. Maybe something truly new will rise out of the ashes but... (squints at 12.5 billion dollar debt, and smoldering ruins of a company) it would probably be smarter for Musk to just start a new company if he really wants X.

[brewer bob]

Spoiler: Tits.. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Nipple... (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Different nipples..! (click to show/hide)

_{...because someone had to. We were all thinking of them.} And at least I didn't include Ant'n'Dec...

You forgot one:

Spoiler: boobies (click to show/hide)

Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii)

They're my favorite.