Many people have been posting Mastodon forwarding addresses in their profiles. Just a little while ago I updated my profile to say I'm
there just to watch the train wreck, keeping the Mastodon link
which was already in my profile. I could save the change without
obfuscating the link because it was "malware." So now Twitter is
engaging in outright lies and slander to suppress the competition.
Within two weeks, Twitter will be about as important as Myspace.
Tweeting a link to most Mastodon servers is now forbidden. If you try,
your tweet is blocked before you can post it.
In article <tni1em$3d2mv$1@dont-email.me>,
Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:
An experiment I tried a few minutes ago: one can tweet a screenshot of a Mastodon URL with alt text consisting of that URl.
Tweeting a link to most Mastodon servers is now forbidden. If you try,
your tweet is blocked before you can post it.
Within two weeks, Twitter will be about as important as Myspace.
Yesterday Twitter suspended the accounts of many journalists, giving no explanation.
In article <tnicro$3e1k7$1@dont-email.me>, garym@mcgath.com (Gary McGath) wrote:
On 12/16/22 10:04 AM, Gary McGath wrote:
Yesterday Twitter suspended the accounts of many journalists,
giving no explanation.
Amusingly, one of the booted journalists is Mike Masnick, who
created the term "Streisand effect."
That's just too perfect. I'd like to coin "Musk Effect" which is driving yourself into madness with unfettered power over something you're
obsessed with, but which everyone else can dispense with fairly easily.
On 12/16/22 10:04 AM, Gary McGath wrote:
Yesterday Twitter suspended the accounts of many journalists,
giving no explanation.
Amusingly, one of the booted journalists is Mike Masnick, who
created the term "Streisand effect."
Elon Musk is systematically making Twitter into a bad joke and showing
he never cared about free speech.
He suspended an account that was giving information about the travels of
his private jet, using publicly available air traffic information. This >directly reversed his earlier statement that he wouldn't. To justify it,
he created and retroactively applied a rule that says you can't tweet >anyone's current location without express permission, even using
publicly available sources. This means no real-time coverage of
speeches, concerts, and so on.
Yesterday Twitter suspended the accounts of many journalists, giving no >explanation.
Tweeting a link to most Mastodon servers is now forbidden. If you try,
your tweet is blocked before you can post it.
Many people have been posting Mastodon forwarding addresses in their >profiles. Just a little while ago I updated my profile to say I'm there
just to watch the train wreck, keeping the Mastodon link which was
already in my profile. I could save the change without obfuscating the
link because it was "malware." So now Twitter is engaging in outright
lies and slander to suppress the competition.
Within two weeks, Twitter will be about as important as Myspace.
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:04:54 -0500, Gary McGath<garym@mcgath.com>
wrote:
Elon Musk is systematically making Twitter into a bad joke and showing
he never cared about free speech.
He suspended an account that was giving information about the travels of his private jet, using publicly available air traffic information. This directly reversed his earlier statement that he wouldn't. To justify it,
he created and retroactively applied a rule that says you can't tweet anyone's current location without express permission, even using
publicly available sources. This means no real-time coverage of
speeches, concerts, and so on.
Yesterday Twitter suspended the accounts of many journalists, giving no explanation.
Tweeting a link to most Mastodon servers is now forbidden. If you try,
your tweet is blocked before you can post it.
Many people have been posting Mastodon forwarding addresses in their profiles. Just a little while ago I updated my profile to say I'm there just to watch the train wreck, keeping the Mastodon link which was
already in my profile. I could save the change without obfuscating the
link because it was "malware." So now Twitter is engaging in outright
lies and slander to suppress the competition.
Within two weeks, Twitter will be about as important as Myspace.
This is an aside to this discussion.
I don't have a Twitter account, but I have been getting e-mail
notifications of tweets, most of which have been political
announcements and news headlines, for years. Since shortly after Musk
took over, those have been replaced, almost entirely, with titty pics.
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:04:54 -0500, Gary McGath
<garym@mcgath.com> wrote:
Elon Musk is systematically making Twitter into a bad joke and
showing he never cared about free speech.
He suspended an account that was giving information about the
travels of his private jet, using publicly available air traffic >>information. This directly reversed his earlier statement that
he wouldn't. To justify it, he created and retroactively applied
a rule that says you can't tweet anyone's current location
without express permission, even using publicly available
sources. This means no real-time coverage of speeches, concerts,
and so on.
Yesterday Twitter suspended the accounts of many journalists,
giving no explanation.
Tweeting a link to most Mastodon servers is now forbidden. If
you try, your tweet is blocked before you can post it.
Many people have been posting Mastodon forwarding addresses in
their profiles. Just a little while ago I updated my profile to
say I'm there just to watch the train wreck, keeping the
Mastodon link which was already in my profile. I could save the
change without obfuscating the link because it was "malware." So
now Twitter is engaging in outright lies and slander to suppress
the competition.
Within two weeks, Twitter will be about as important as Myspace.
This is an aside to this discussion.
I don't have a Twitter account, but I have been getting e-mail
notifications of tweets, most of which have been political
announcements and news headlines, for years. Since shortly
after Musk took over, those have been replaced, almost entirely,
with titty pics.
Elon Musk is systematically making Twitter into a bad joke and showing
he never cared about free speech.
He suspended an account that was giving information about the travels of
his private jet, using publicly available air traffic information. This directly reversed his earlier statement that he wouldn't. To justify it,
he created and retroactively applied a rule that says you can't tweet anyone's current location without express permission, even using
publicly available sources. This means no real-time coverage of
speeches, concerts, and so on.
I've long since given up on making predictions about social networks and other things on the Internet. I never saw the attraction of Twitter in
the first place, hence never got a Twitter account. I think most people
who hang out there do so only because so many others hang out there.
Very likely if everyone could get together and coordinate the move,
everyone would choose to move en masse to Mastodon. Or to Usenet, if everyone was aware of Usenet and its advantages and disadvantages.
On Friday, December 16, 2022 at 10:04:56 AM UTC-5, Gary McGath wrote:
Elon Musk is systematically making Twitter into a bad joke and showing
he never cared about free speech.
He suspended an account that was giving information about the travels of
his private jet, using publicly available air traffic information. This
directly reversed his earlier statement that he wouldn't. To justify it,
he created and retroactively applied a rule that says you can't tweet
anyone's current location without express permission, even using
publicly available sources. This means no real-time coverage of
speeches, concerts, and so on.
My understanding was that the rule did have exceptions for political events, concerts, etc. So, for example, you could tweet a photo of a Senator making a speech in Congress. But apparently you could not tweet one of them
walking up the steps of the Capitol.
On 12/17/22 2:01 AM, eleeper@optonline.net wrote:
On Friday, December 16, 2022 at 10:04:56 AM UTC-5, Gary McGath wrote:
Elon Musk is systematically making Twitter into a bad joke and showing
he never cared about free speech.
He suspended an account that was giving information about the travels of >>> his private jet, using publicly available air traffic information. This
directly reversed his earlier statement that he wouldn't. To justify it, >>> he created and retroactively applied a rule that says you can't tweet
anyone's current location without express permission, even using
publicly available sources. This means no real-time coverage of
speeches, concerts, and so on.
My understanding was that the rule did have exceptions for political events, >> concerts, etc. So, for example, you could tweet a photo of a Senator making >> a speech in Congress. But apparently you could not tweet one of them
walking up the steps of the Capitol.
Twitter has been changing its rules at a rapid rate. As of 2 or 3 days
ago, there was no exception.
--
Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com
My understanding was that the rule did have exceptions for political events, >concerts, etc. So, for example, you could tweet a photo of a Senator making >a speech in Congress. But apparently you could not tweet one of them
walking up the steps of the Capitol.
I don't have a Twitter account, but I have been getting e-mail
notifications of tweets, most of which have been political
announcements and news headlines, for years. Since shortly after Musk
took over, those have been replaced, almost entirely, with titty pics.
In article <caa86272-5192-42ae...@googlegroups.com>,
ele...@optonline.net <evelynchim...@gmail.com> wrote:
My understanding was that the rule did have exceptions for political events, >concerts, etc. So, for example, you could tweet a photo of a Senator making >a speech in Congress. But apparently you could not tweet one of them >walking up the steps of the Capitol.And especially not post real-time 24x7 tracking of the Senator's location.
On Sunday, December 18, 2022 at 12:11:52 AM UTC-5, Mike Van Pelt
wrote:
In article <caa86272-5192-42ae...@googlegroups.com>,
ele...@optonline.net <evelynchim...@gmail.com> wrote:
My understanding was that the rule did have exceptions forAnd especially not post real-time 24x7 tracking of the
political events, concerts, etc. So, for example, you could
tweet a photo of a Senator making a speech in Congress. But
apparently you could not tweet one of them walking up the
steps of the Capitol.
Senator's location.
The rules are in rapid flux. He restored (most) of the
journalists. Its been pointed out that the
no-links-to-competing-services rules violate EU 'gateway
service' laws, (and there's a proposed US Law to do the same). I
don't expect that rule to stand.
He ran a poll yesterday asking if he should step down as Twitter
CEO. He promised to abide by it. It got 57% "Yes".
Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote in >news:gvopph129ifv0odlsiv9d93ogkfurit8sd@4ax.com:
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:04:54 -0500, Gary McGath
<garym@mcgath.com> wrote:
Elon Musk is systematically making Twitter into a bad joke and
showing he never cared about free speech.
He suspended an account that was giving information about the
travels of his private jet, using publicly available air traffic >>>information. This directly reversed his earlier statement that
he wouldn't. To justify it, he created and retroactively applied
a rule that says you can't tweet anyone's current location
without express permission, even using publicly available
sources. This means no real-time coverage of speeches, concerts,
and so on.
Yesterday Twitter suspended the accounts of many journalists,
giving no explanation.
Tweeting a link to most Mastodon servers is now forbidden. If
you try, your tweet is blocked before you can post it.
Many people have been posting Mastodon forwarding addresses in
their profiles. Just a little while ago I updated my profile to
say I'm there just to watch the train wreck, keeping the
Mastodon link which was already in my profile. I could save the
change without obfuscating the link because it was "malware." So
now Twitter is engaging in outright lies and slander to suppress
the competition.
Within two weeks, Twitter will be about as important as Myspace.
This is an aside to this discussion.
I don't have a Twitter account, but I have been getting e-mail
notifications of tweets, most of which have been political
announcements and news headlines, for years. Since shortly
after Musk took over, those have been replaced, almost entirely,
with titty pics.
That sounds like a significant improvement.
On Dec 16, 2022, Tim Merrigan wrote
(in article<gvopph129ifv0odlsiv9d93ogkfurit8sd@4ax.com>):
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:04:54 -0500, Gary McGath<garym@mcgath.com>
wrote:
Elon Musk is systematically making Twitter into a bad joke and showing
he never cared about free speech.
He suspended an account that was giving information about the travels of >> > his private jet, using publicly available air traffic information. This
directly reversed his earlier statement that he wouldn't. To justify it, >> > he created and retroactively applied a rule that says you can't tweet
anyone's current location without express permission, even using
publicly available sources. This means no real-time coverage of
speeches, concerts, and so on.
Yesterday Twitter suspended the accounts of many journalists, giving no
explanation.
Tweeting a link to most Mastodon servers is now forbidden. If you try,
your tweet is blocked before you can post it.
Many people have been posting Mastodon forwarding addresses in their
profiles. Just a little while ago I updated my profile to say I'm there
just to watch the train wreck, keeping the Mastodon link which was
already in my profile. I could save the change without obfuscating the
link because it was "malware." So now Twitter is engaging in outright
lies and slander to suppress the competition.
Within two weeks, Twitter will be about as important as Myspace.
This is an aside to this discussion.
I don't have a Twitter account, but I have been getting e-mail
notifications of tweets, most of which have been political
announcements and news headlines, for years. Since shortly after Musk
took over, those have been replaced, almost entirely, with titty pics.
Ah. Elon really did succeed in getting rid of all the unprofessional elements >at Twitter and replacing them with Hardcore Workers.
On Sunday, December 18, 2022 at 12:11:52 AM UTC-5, Mike Van Pelt wrote:
In article<caa86272-5192-42ae...@googlegroups.com>,
ele...@optonline.net <evelynchim...@gmail.com> wrote:
My understanding was that the rule did have exceptions for political events,And especially not post real-time 24x7 tracking of the Senator's location.
concerts, etc. So, for example, you could tweet a photo of a Senator making
a speech in Congress. But apparently you could not tweet one of them walking up the steps of the Capitol.
The rules are in rapid flux. He restored (most) of the journalists. Its been pointed
out that the no-links-to-competing-services rules violate EU 'gateway service' laws,
(and there's a proposed US Law to do the same). I don't expect that rule to stand.
He ran a poll yesterday asking if he should step down as Twitter CEO. He promised
to abide by it. It got 57% "Yes".
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