Below are posts associated with the “Twitter” tag.
🔗 linkblog: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Promises To Sue Media Matters To Silence Their Speech | Techdirt'
Masnick’s frustration here is fun to read.
🔗 linkblog: As Elon Musk Endorses Bigoted Nonsense, Advertisers Find Their Ads On Nazi Content | Techdirt'
I’ve been waiting for Masnick’s response to this, and it’s good.
🔗 linkblog: X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post - The New York Times'
What a mess Musk has made Twitter into.
🔗 linkblog: Major critic of X sues after being banned from platform | Ars Technica'
The headline obscures something important—that this is about research, access to data, and Terms of Service. Worrying stuff.
🔗 linkblog: Blue checks on X are ‘superspreaders’ of Israel-Hamas war misinformation - The Verge'
Looks like Masnick’s (and others’) predictions about Musk’s changes to Twitter are coming true. This isn’t what verification is for.
attending a conference 'among my own kind'
One paper that I read and reread as I was starting to get into Twitter research was Anatoliy Gruzd, Barry Wellman, and Yuri Takhteyev’s “Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community,” published in a 2011 issue of American Behavioral Scientist. I thought of this paper again yesterday; more specifically, I thought about the anecdote that the article begins with:
Barry and Beverly Wellman moved to Toronto more than 40 years ago. Not being able to get a public school job at first, Beverly went to teach English-language subjects at a Jewish day school. She lived downtown and commuted to the suburbs. One day the principal asked her,
🔗 linkblog: Twitter is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood – The Markup'
Free speech absolutism at its finest.
🔗 linkblog: The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation | WIRED'
How a platform is managed has real consequences.
🔗 linkblog: Opinion | I Was Attacked by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I Believe It Was a Strategy To Change What You See Online. - The New York Times'
Roth’s perspective is valuable here. Scary stuff.
🔗 linkblog: How Elon Musk’s Impulses Transformed Twitter - WSJ'
What a mess this whole thing has been.
🔗 linkblog: As X bleeds cash, Musk threatens Anti-Defamation League with defamation lawsuit | Ars Technica'
This feels like a page out of Gab’s playbook.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk, Once Again, Tries To Throttle Links To Sites He Dislikes | Techdirt'
I’ve instinctively never liked t.co links, and this demonstrates what the problem with them are.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk keeps getting creepier - The Verge'
I think this is two weeks in a row that I’ve shared Casey Newton’s Platformer column, but that’s because it’s two weeks in a row he’s written something important.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Starts Bribing His Biggest Fans As He Admits The Company Is Still Burning Cash (Despite His Earlier Claims To The Contrary) | Techdirt'
Yet another wild story in the wild history of Twitter.
🔗 linkblog: Something odd is happening when you try and search Twitter for Threads links - The Verge'
It appears that Musk’s “free speech absolutism” continues to be selective and self-serving.
🔗 linkblog: It Turns Out Elon Is Speedrunning The Enshittification Learning Curve, Not The Content Moderation One | Techdirt'
I appreciate Masnick’s thinking, and I’m a big Doctorow fan, so it’s always neat to see them come together.
🔗 linkblog: Internal Twitter Video Reveals Twitter Bent Over Backwards To Protect Trump And Pro-Trump Insurrectionists | Techdirt'
Helpful summary by Masnick; bookmarking for later.
🔗 linkblog: Reddit pressures mods to end the blackout as they find new ways to protest - The Verge'
Perhaps most interesting thing here is official comment from Reddit. It’s not quite “auto-reply with a poop emoji territory,” but it might actually be worse?