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- neverscared2
Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty
A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community.Why are they leaving?
Nature obtained the e-mail addresses of thousands of scientists who were identified through a social-media research project as having tweeted about papers on which they were a corresponding author1. The survey from Nature asked whether people had changed their use of Twitter in the past six months and why. The reasons respondents gave varied, but many of those who had markedly reduced or stopped their activity on X mentioned Musk’s management of the platform. Many said that they had noticed an uptick in the amount of fake accounts, trolls and hate speech on the platform.
- neverscared2
X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014
X, which was formerly known as Twitter until its recent rebranding, is having a problem displaying old posts that came with images attached or any hyperlinks converted through Twitter’s built-in URL shortener. It’s unclear when the problem started, but it was highlighted on Saturday afternoon in a post by Tom Coates, and a Brazilian vtuber, @DaniloTakagi, had pointed it out a couple of days earlier.
As it is, it appears to affect tweets published prior to December 2014, judging by posts visible on my own account. No videos are affected (Twitter only added native image support in 2011 and built-in videos in 2016), but links to YouTube, for example, are now just text with a t.co URL that doesn’t work.
- u can´t run a companny on guts and emotion... C’est la vieneverscared
- Elon will stay up all night in the office posting memes, it'll be fine.PhanLo
- lolneverscared
- Goodmonospaced
- neverscared0
Since taking over Twitter, Musk has made mistake after mistake. His latest decision proves that he has never understood the average Twitter user—or doesn’t care to build a platform for them.
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO, software developer Jeremy Vaught created the Twitter handle @music to curate news and share stories about, obviously, music. Tens of thousands of Tweets later, he’d built a following of more than 11 million. Then, last week, Twitter—now rebranded as X—took the handle off him. An email from X, which Vaught posted to the platform, offered him no explanation but told him he could choose one of three other handles: @music123, @musicmusic, or @musiclover. All three were held by other users and so would presumably have to have been taken off them.
“It feels like this would be this forever thing where somebody's got their account taken and they were allowed to go take another one,” Vaught says. "Where would we end up? That'd be crazy."
He has since been assigned @musicfan.
The confiscation is entirely within X’s terms of service. As the company tries to turn itself into an everything app, from music to video to finance, it’s likely it will need to stake a claim to handles related to its new business lines. But unilaterally taking a popular handle off a user could be bad business and another demonstration of how X under Musk is stripping away the things that made Twitter, Twitter.
“I definitely think that it gives pause to building any sort of a brand on there,” Vaught says. "When you can't have any confidence that what you're working on is not just going to be taken away, that's huge."
The platform’s success was built on people, like Vaught, doing the work to build followings and create organic communities around shared interests. Heavy-handed land grabs on top of surging hate speech, shifting policies on verification, and, of course, the dropping of a globally recognized brand in favor of a letter, reinforce the feeling that Twitter is more and more becoming a place catering to a usership of one: Musk himself.
- they transferred all his followers and posts to his new handle, so it sucks and its a duck move, but it doesnt change anything for himben98
- They coulda thrown him a few bucks, at the very leastGnash
- All going to plan. This is wonderful progress.monospaced
- neverscared1
Bots on X worse than ever according to analysis of 1m tweets during first Republican primary debateBot activity on the platform formerly known as Twitter is worse than ever, according to researchers, despite X’s new owner, Elon Musk, claiming a crackdown on bots as one of his key reasons for buying the company.
“It is clear that X is not doing enough to moderate content and has no clear strategy for dealing with political disinformation,” associate professor Dr Timothy Graham tells Guardian Australia.
A researcher at the Queensland University of Technology, Graham has tracked misinformation and bot activity on social media for several years including until Musk took over Twitter in October last year.
Graham and the PhD candidate Kate FitzGerald recently analysed 1m tweets surrounding the first Republican primary debate, along with Tucker Carlson’s interview with the former US president Donald Trump streamed on X at the same time.
- Nods approvingly. Almost there. We can do this.monospaced
- Anyone who believed Musk had a problem with bots on the platform is a gullible idiot.i_monk
- so he is a idiot...neverscared
- He was trying to back out of the purchase, now he's happy to see RWNJ bots proliferate.i_monk
- I couldn’t be happier. The more bits and upset Xers the better. Almost done now.monospaced
- So many women who wear very little clothes seem to really like my postings of 1970's comics and generative art on X. It's wildPhanLo
- formed0
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/0…
Between that and thwarting a Ukrainian drone attack, the coudl have saved countless lies, his true egomaniacal disregard for reality continues to grow exponentially. He's really looking like a baby-genius, petty, egomaniac.
- he is playing an idiotic game... he lets banned anti-semits back on the platform and then says there is no increase.. completely nuts...neverscared
- Keep up the good work Elon.monospaced
- But that’s horrific and tragic. Exactly why X can’t be gone fast enough.monospaced
- Terms of service clearly state Starlink can’t be used for offensive military action. It’s a civilian systemGnash
- But it is. Do you think all the use in Ukraine is to watch Netflix? He just didn't want to piss off Putin, kissing his ass like he always does.formed
- there was no existing coverage in that area, starlink was asked to provide it. I don't think it's unreasonable to refuse knowing it was gonna be used for warGnash
- I'm sure the US Gov't could have tasked a few of their military satellitesGnash
- Ukes can go fuck themselves.Khurram
- Fucking Nazi Banderite scum.Khurram
- Fuck the ADL too Zionist pigs.Khurram
- wow Khurram ....Nutter
- I hate them. I don't understand why the entire world must commit themselves to the Uke war. Especially considering how many of their leaders are pure Nazi scum.Khurram
- As for the ADL; champions of Zionist apartheid... less said the better.Khurram
- you don't even know a single person from ukraine what the fuck are you talking about again.sted
- I am talking about their government and their military. You know this to be true.Khurram
- Are we pretending that Ukraine doesn’t have a nazi problem?Gnash
- sted1
lol@these retards
A friend is advertising dropshipped products on twatter with proper targeting. Now some community notes started to appear that say that he is ripping off people and showing the same product on aliexpress...
Those prices listed on ali are without VAT/TAX and shipping not to mention that sometimes you don't even get the product ordered.
- sted4
How micromanaging destroys a multi billion company
- NBQ004
Elon Musk is reportedly considering the idea of charging everyone to use Twitter/X
https://twitter.com/Dexerto/stat…
Fuck that
- He's a genius, if that's what his infinitely creatively and beautiful mind has came up with, then that is the best solution. He's building the best future.PhanLo
- He has reached the last resortdbloc
- lol those Saudi bonesaw boys and ex-CIA goons must really want their money back.face_melter
- Community notesGnash
- This is by far the very best idea he’s had and I sincerely hope he implements this on a global scale as soon as humanly possible.monospaced
- DO IT!pango
- Not reportedly. There were leaked texts from when he was trying to get out of buying it, but also talking publicly about being an ambassador for free speech.garbage
- And one of his "free speech ideas" was a pay per tweet model. He's so lucky he was born rich, because he's a fucking moron.garbage
- paying for each tweet would be the ultimate expression of freedom, and I can't believe anyone would question thatmonospaced
- mono it will be per characterdoesnotexist
- face_melter4
The most desperate man on the planet strikes again. Please Taylor, please post your content on my site, right next to adverts for dick pills, balloons shaped like guns, and crypto scams posted by clowns with names like 'h1tl3r_14_88_c00l'.
She commands the largest army on the planet and could, on a whim, overthrow governments. With a single word Swifties can swarm on his house, tear him out onto the street and set him on fire while singing 'Shake It Off'. And then put the entire thing on TikTok.
- for a seat on a rocket to mars she will do it....neverscared
- Swifties? That's some faggy ass shitcrazyprick
- ^ go kill yourselfface_melter
- ^ Go suck your daddy's dick, faggotcrazyprick
- neverscared-2
Donald Trump Jr's account on X posted that his father had died, in a series of messages placed by a hacker on Wednesday.
In a string of now deleted posts, the account claimed his father had died and directed a racial slur at President Joe Biden.
- Nairn3
Apparently Bellon Fusk has made SpaceX switch from doing launch videos on YouTube to the ex-twittermess instead, which has simply resulted in people moving to watch them on NASA or nasaspaceflight.com.
lol, what a dull boy.
- neverscared3
EU warns Swellon Busk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation
Musk is told his platform, now known as X, must comply with new laws designed to combat fake news and Russian propagandaThe EU has issued a warning to Elon Musk to comply with sweeping new laws on fake news and Russian propaganda, after X – formerly known as Twitter – was found to have the highest ratio of disinformation posts of all large social media platforms.
The report analysed the ratio of disinformation for a new report laying bare for the first time the scale of fake news on social media across the EU, with millions of fake accounts removed by TikTok and LinkedIn.
Facebook was the second worst offender, according to the first ever report recording posts that will be deemed illegal across the EU under the Digital Services Act (DSA), which came into force in August.
Nevertheless, Facebook and other tech giants, including Google, TikTok and Microsoft, have signed up to the code of practice the EU drew up to ensure they could get ready in time to operate within the confines of the new laws
- muskowitz, that loudmouth prick will get the special trophy for pushing the erosion of democracyneverscared
- Nazi LosersHayoth
- but but but free speechies :(doesnotexist
- higher than truth social?? lmaosarahfailin
- who's truth?BabySnakes
- whomever has the most electrolights!keewee
- To think that has been the food for the majority of AI models...maikel
- Comie Pigs Everywhereutopian
- X the nr.1 super hub for russian disinformation campaigns... and muskovic is constantly bragging how the traffic is higher than ever...neverscared
- into the darkness
X/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information
Critics say decision by Elon Musk-owned company is ‘extremely concerningneverscared - https://www.theguard…neverscared
- i speculate he is pushing into chaos so he can then put in his payment model as a solution...neverscared
- All going to plan.monospaced
- EU seems to be the only place that is actually taking action to stop these morons (see Apple's USB-C)formed
- Let’s stop them! Derpmonospaced
- neverscared0
- ISIS back 70% more on X.... free speech hoorayneverscared
- neverscared-1
- comes off like a bitch to me...neverscared
- comes off like a bitch to me...neverscared
- comes off like a bitch to me...pango
- ones off like a bitch to me...doesnotexist
- damnitdoesnotexist
- comes off like a bitch to me...Krassy
- neverscared-2
Paris Hilton is getting a special deal to post on X
/ She’s the first celeb we know of to get a bespoke revenue-share agreement with Elon Musk’s platform. #Sliving?
- "Like bringing in a Zellers to save a dying mall" I saw this likened to.i_monk
- drgs0
- DoomOBBTKN
- Doom? I was thinking more like that baby penguin throwing flash game from 2004drgs
- that bullshit thing on the 2600 were you rape a tied up native american woman.face_melter
- ski freesarahfailin
- minesweepersted
- Asteroids. Mostly crap you just shoot your way through, but a lot of fun nonetheless.formed
- zaq1
- zaq-1