Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news and websites he dislikes | The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times,...
Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news and websites he dislikes | The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times,...
Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news and websites he dislikes | The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times,...::undefined
it’s just baby throwing his daily “look at meeeee!” tantrum.
it’ll pass when someone changes his diaper and gives him his binkie.
edit: oh, hey, look at that:
But he said he’s a free speech absolutest! How could this be? /s
If only he’d kept his mouth shut he’d probably be worth another 100billion. He reminds me of all the edge lords on 4chan, except with the unfortunate fact the media keeps reporting the dumb shit be says.
X aka Twitter has not been contacted for comment because it is known to only send a poop emoji in reply to media queries.
He just wants to say the n word.
“I’m African, so I can say it”
-elun muX
He said free speech, not timely speech /s
I wonder if anyone's image has crashed from such highs to such pathetic lows. At the end of the day, it was all PR but he still had the admiration of many people just a few years back i.e before the Thai submarine fiasco. Now most people consider him a petulant child man with a massive fortune. The only good outcome of this fall has been a clear understanding that earning wealth is purely based on luck. It doesnt matter if it is millions or billions ,nothing comes due to our own genius. It is a combination of factors that result in wealth but it is mostly determined at your birth. May be this episode will humble others who might have taken a similar path due to their inexplicable wealth.
Free speech my ass...
“Free speech for me"
"but not for thee"
Mhm and thats the second thing in your ass
At first I was confused, took me awhile to see the username. Been awhile since I've had to check for those haha
Why are so many people still using Twitter, what will it take for people to leave? Musk could probably charge $10 per tweet and bunch of people would be fine with that.
The same reason 2016 happened. Lots of mentally broken people in this country. Just watched a manager, old guy, at work, go off to another old co-worker about "did you hear about what they're doing to skittles? With the fucking trans colors!?" knuckle dragging rabble rabble THEY WERE ALREADY A RAINBOW.
There are so many other valid arguements against skittles (my favorite candy). Idk whether to facepalm or guffaw that fucking skittles are now on the map to fight against.
Honestly with how fast threads, brand new, was able to jump into this compared to the growth of mastodon, I'm convinced the only thing that can convince most people to stop using a corperate bloated social media site from hell is a new, slightly less bloated (so far) corperate social media site from hell.
Twitter won't die all the way until we have something else we want to die
The removal of the capability to make money on it as a platform.
Honestly, I'm constantly asking this question regarding most social media platforms. What will it take for people to stop using platforms they don't like? It's not just the support, it's the actual monetary value of their interactions with those platforms -- you're handing those companies money by utilizing their "free" platforms. I teach online undergrad courses in mass communication, visual literacy, etc. Students talk about their use of social media platforms and many complain that they don't even like them or don't like their policies. When I ask them why they continue to use these platforms they don't like, they say it's easier to keep in contact with grandma, or military member, or someone overseas (or similar response).
Is call, text, and email not covering those individual communications? Are there not other formats that could be used instead of platforms that you don't like? It's much deeper than just that "simple" question. For many, it questions their idea of how culture and society. Especially younger people, who grew up with social media all of their lives, it's difficult to picture an existence without it, to live with the "FOMO" (fear of missing out), etc.
It's honestly a really interesting topic, and it will be necessary to question our idea of culture and what's "normal" when it comes to social media usage.
Considering the company is now, according to the CEO, close to break-even and slowly beginning to bring back advertisers and anticipating profitability in Q1 '24, I think they're going to be around for a while longer.
Beyond that element, I believe that Musk wants control of the company at least until/through the next presidential election, so X/Twitter probably isn't going anywhere in the near future.
As far as people not using it, I think those that were going to leave have left already, so I don't anticipate a huge exodus.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The delayed websites included X’s online rivals Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Substack, as well as the Reuters wire service and the Times.
On Tuesday afternoon, hours after this story was first published, X began reversing the throttling on some of the sites, dropping the delay times back to zero.
Charlie Stadtlander, a spokesman for the Times, said in a statement that the news outlet has “made similar observations of our own” about the systemic delays and “not received any explanation from the platform about this move.”
“While we don’t know the rationale behind the application of this time delay, we would be concerned by targeted pressure applied to any news organization for unclear reasons,” he said.
“Writers cannot build sustainable businesses if their connection to their audience depends on unreliable platforms that have proven they are willing to make changes that are hostile to the people who use them.”
Links to Facebook, Instagram and the new microblogging service Threads were all throttled; all three are owned by Meta, whose founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg has been locked in an ongoing online feud with Musk over not-yet-existent plans for a mixed-martial-arts fight.
I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Wow! The genius of the man. It walks the fine line between infantile and stupid.
So some more lawsuits then, I guess. This can't be legal.
Before Net Neutrality was tossed, it wasn't
Net neutrality only applies to ISPs
Meta and their army of lawyers might still find a way. Can't hurt if they'd try something useful for a change.
No time to fight that ginger robot when you're fighting the urge to ruin everything around you.
Petulant melon husk at it again.
it's fun to watch it burn
That's Elon Musk. So this is not surprising.
Lmao! Sounds like some pretty shit he would do.