X apparently added 5-second delay for links to sites Musk doesn’t like
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That will take years. I doubt Twitter will survive long enough for that to make its way through the courts.
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I fail to understand how these petty, evil, self-centered public figures continue to have so many ardent fans and supporters. If Twitter / X were a baseball team, Musk would be the most universally-hated owner in sports.
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I just assumed that he broke Twitter even worse, and that's why links became so much shittier. The solution was to simply increase my avoidance of the unreliable Twitter, and now I find myself spending more time on Facebook directly again...which didn't have issues lagging with links.
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Some people over on Bluesky are reporting that their accounts are getting locked if they DM someone a Bluesky invite code.
No idea how true it is, but wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
No idea how true it is, but wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
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I wonder if mobile/desktop played a part?
I was quite sure the issue was Twitter, because the funky lag seemed to be (based on the URL bar) some kind of problem with the Twitter tiny-URL/redirect-tracking middle page. Which once I worked out, I started spending more time on the other sites directly vs trying to link to them, avoiding the "buggy, laggy, unreliable" Twitter site.
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Jon, you missed a fun detail: this is the exact same tactic that Putin's telecom agency used to tarpit links to and from Twitter in 2021. https://meincmagazine.com/gadgets/202...firms-roskomnadzors-twitter-blocking-blooper/
The clearest tell for who Musk really is and admires is the people he keeps drawing inspiration from.
The clearest tell for who Musk really is and admires is the people he keeps drawing inspiration from.
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You should include "mediocre" (of mind, and more broadly) in there. Otherwise the description leaves too much room for the widespread lie that he's "smart."
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Did you miss the previous 150 toxic dictator things? You're still doing this Hall Monitor routine even though Elon Musk is clearly so bad that random name-calling in comments stand as informative correct descriptive propositions?
Also if you read the article you'll see that puerile is a misleading understatement: this is a deliberate attack on website traffic, since a delay of even 3 seconds can cut visitors by 50%. It's like saying someone cutting of a food supply line deliberately to stop the food going where it's needed somewhere is "puerile." That's a harmful deliberate attack, that's not just man baby pooping his pants. At this point calling it childish seems like a deflection.
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But my whole argument was "Why do you need Twitter in the first place".
I get that Twitter has an incredible algorithm, one that takes long time to mature. My point wasn't "Twitter alternatives" it was "make social media less impactful on your life, to the point of no longer needing it".
While everything you said, I don't disagree with, there isn't anything quite like Twitter, and that's why many haven't left despite it being X now... I'm more saying "Make social media less of an impact on your life, to the point where you can easily leave it go". That's what I did, slowly but surely, I started weaning myself off Twitter, and now had the opportunity to just let it go.
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I mean, forums like this one (and others not owned by big media corporations) are social media, and were that before Facebook and all that. Usenet newsgroups before that (ah the early 1990s) and BBSs before those. Now I get that "social media" as we currently understand it means "some rando on the other side of the world will like your post" but hey, we have likes here now, although the audience is clearly much smaller.
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"Pedo Guy" Musk is an immature, spoiled, crybaby. We'd all be better off if he went back to South Africa.
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This is what we should expect from this alleged "free speech absolutist." The sooner everybody bails on TwitterX, the sooner we can all read about something more interesting.
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South Africans don't deserve that punishment, just let him go to Mars, alone, no return ticket. It may tank the average IQ on that planet, though.
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Our attitudes toward social media are at a stage similar to how smoking was regarded until the 1980's. "It doesn't hurt anyone else and it's nobody's business what I do."
That turned out to be dirty, self-serving lie that continues to kill innocent people, didn't it?
That turned out to be dirty, self-serving lie that continues to kill innocent people, didn't it?
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I wonder if Jim Jordan or Kevin McCarthy are willing to commit perjury to protect Musk if they get asked about those meetings.
Or if they decide that Musk isn't worth protecting.
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People seem to be looking at "using Twitter" from the viewpoint of "posting on Twitter" but the majority of Twitter users rarely if ever post.
Most of what people "still using Twitter" are doing is consuming content. And if the people you want to follow are only posting to Twitter, then, well, you need to be on Twitter. Although that's only a part of things. It's also things like:
- Groups running Twitter polls to decide things. Want to vote in their poll? Get a Twitter account. (Think more like community groups deciding which restaurant to go to rather than anything really important.)
- Businesses/towns/officials only posting updates to Twitter. An annoying number of places only post things like "we're closed today" or "such and so street will be closed" on social media, despite having their own websites. "Social media" in this case generally means "Twitter and Facebook" and Facebook's algorithm guarantees you'll never see it until it's too late, so that leaves Twitter.
Now Musk is doing everything he can to get that content off Twitter. Things like breaking APIs used to post weather alerts and threatening brands are making it clear that Twitter/X is not going to be a solution at some point in the future. But the problem is that there's nowhere for that stuff to go. So... Twitter/X it is.
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No, he does not. He called the NYT a "racial genocide apologist." That makes him, once again, full of shit. Only the most racist of assholes would even consider the idea that anyone is pushing for genocide in South Africa, or that anyone is pushing for genocide of white people.
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Probably not. Twitter does not have a monopoly in the social media space, nor is NYT their competitor.
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Ah, someone else has followed Elon down the Replacement Theory rabbit hole I see.
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How can a white, apartheid, billionaire even say such a thing?! It's mind boggling. But, I mean, it's not like hypocrisy is unknown from his ideological camp...
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Nah. It was infantile and puerile back when it was first proposed. At the time it was tolerable because we didn't know that context, but it was infantile and puerile regardless. It just became significantly less tolerable when we found out that context.
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The guy is more than a petulant child. He’s part of the conspiracy. Recall that the Xitter CEO has been held in contempt for ignoring and delaying the response to a Jan 2023 Jack Smith subpoena for Trump's DMs around the Jan 6 insurrection. During that 12 day delay, Xusk visited Jim Jordan and McCarthy twice. Geez I wonder why? Did Trump have insurrection planning DMs with those sycophants? Those two were among the only 21 Twitter profiles Trump followed. Musk warned them? Covered for them by deleting DMs?
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Has anybody considered (or try to prove or disprove) that large news websites may have thousands of URLs stored in the t.co database and therefore due to database glitches (or design) may lead to delayed clicks?
Due to firing people, the databases may have technical issues, which could explain why on different days, the delay seems different for each publication.
Is there any proof that this is just Elon being a dick? Is there any proof that this is not a technical issue?
My comment wil probably be downvoted like anything that isn't Elon bashing, but please can someone clarify?
Due to firing people, the databases may have technical issues, which could explain why on different days, the delay seems different for each publication.
Is there any proof that this is just Elon being a dick? Is there any proof that this is not a technical issue?
My comment wil probably be downvoted like anything that isn't Elon bashing, but please can someone clarify?
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First of all, Twitter made no claims like that. My rule with companies that refuse to explain why they do some dodgy thing is that they don't want to admit to the real reason. Because they are making the choice to stay quiet and I don't like giving them the benefit of the doubt that comes with people assuming an innocent explanation.
Also we have to consider that the sites being hit with this delay are all sites that Elon doesn't like. Which fits with his pattern of trying to supress anyone saying things he doesn't like.
Unless you can point to sites that Elon likes which are also being throttled.
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The delays were of a consistent time (5s) and applied to consistent and highly specific targets.
And seriously, this is a simple database table we're talking about here - if it's significantly more complicated than 'Full link', 'Shortened link' and maybe some originator data I'd be surprised - and indexing is not exactly recent tech.
It might have been an innocent glitch, but I highly doubt it.
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Never thought it would be possible that I would despise someone more than I despise Trump.
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Plus you'd only ever be querying them by the shortened link, what it is targeting is irrelevant. So if all shortened links were slow to resolve, it looks like a bug, if links to specific sites are slow, it looks targeted.
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Musk is a noisy, petty, spiteful brat.
Trump has a far greater capability to bring about an actual fascist dictatorship (in all but name) in America if he gets elected. And if he does get elected, that's it for democracy in America for quite some time, because the current crop of high-rank Republicans are not going to relinquish power if they get hold of it.
I'm not big on the whole 'hate' thing, but I think Trump is a valid person to hate.
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I feel like Trump is exchangable. Right-wing America was ready to embrace anyone to defeat those libs and take the next escalating step in the evolving culture war.
Musk on the other hand has assets, money, power and is not dumb as a rock.
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Does anybody know if any platform which enables "direct" sharing to other platforms has started using the X logo?
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Does he really have power? In certain limited ways, maybe. The most influence he has is Twitter, and while that's not insignificant, it's a dying platform.
Trump, on the other hand, is a cult leader with a frighteningly devoted following - just see Jan 6 for an example of that.
Musk is spiteful and can certainly make certain communities' lives significantly harder and more unpleasant by riling up hate against them, but Trump can literally destroy democracy.
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