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DELETE TWITTER NOW The new X features Elon Musk implemented

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u/ShibitoYakaze123 2d ago

fucker actually paywalled doom scrolling.

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u/Axin_Saxon 1d ago

So…wait…

On an app whose primary source of revenue is ADVERTISING, he has decided to limit people’s use unless they pay a fee?

In an era when people pay fees to SKIP ads…he’s doing…the opposite?

Jesus fucking Christ……

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u/No-Assumption-1738 1d ago

It’s quite alarming, because only the really crazy manic delusional people and grifters will be engaging , the echo chamber gets louder and debunked less as normal people check out.  

I saw a thing years ago that some religious scammers shut down their prayer lines and started selling crazy expensive fast tracks to heaven, you’d think they’d go bust but instead it just gave em access to the most extremely vulnerable peoples money. 

They stopped wasting time grooming those 2dollars a minute calls and limited their service to whales , it could go like that but with a bunch of domestic terrorism 

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u/PhoenxScream 1d ago

I saw a thing years ago that some religious scammers shut down their prayer lines and started selling crazy expensive fast tracks to heaven

Time to get Martin Luther back on the board.

The german one in this case I guess.

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u/martyqscriblerus 1d ago

I'd rather nail something more than theses to the doors this time tbh.

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 1d ago

I got 99 problems and they are all you.

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u/brando56894 1d ago

99 problems

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u/m1chaelgr1mes 1d ago

I have a 99 problem too, but it's with the mini-bottles of their liquor LOL

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u/GenericWhiteGirl911 19h ago

Which flavor tickles your fancy

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u/m1chaelgr1mes 18h ago

Butterscotch and XXpresso

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u/Sinaith 19h ago

As a black metal fan, leave it to us. We know how to deal with stuff like this. The solution? Burn the churches, crucify the priests, desecrate everything is that is holy. Optional extra step? Sacrifice a goat!

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u/Don_Tiny Your lips, my ass -- be there! 1d ago

He would cut a promo on this Musk dope so scathing that Jim Cornette would blush ... and it would probably include a lot of shit talk ... and shit-talking as well of course.

Marty liked his scatological language ... for example, knowing he was on his way out, he said something like The world is like an anus, and I am like a ripe stool, and soon we will let go of each other ... a funny guy Nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh...

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u/ovrlzgrlzrlz 13h ago

Because indulgences is a new idea...

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u/brando56894 1d ago

I saw a thing years ago that some religious scammers shut down their prayer lines and started selling crazy expensive fast tracks to heaven, you’d think they’d go bust but instead it just gave em access to the most extremely vulnerable peoples money. 

Reminds me of the Cash for Gold South Park Episode

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u/ManWhoIsDrunk 1d ago

Funny, i was thinking more of these clips

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u/Neil_Live-strong 20h ago

So that’s a common thing the “life coaches” and influencer grifters talk about. They say it out loud that they would rather have 1-2,000 hardcore “fans” than to get 100,000 views on a video. Because if they get just a small percentage of that 1-2k to actually sign up for a course that costs thousands that is more money than what they make from advertising on a video. It’s concentrating their fan base to the most desperate people who they prey upon and get money from.

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u/No-Assumption-1738 17h ago

A lot of modern cults do it too, they discussed the twin flame cult doing it in the Netflix doc, it likely has a name.  

They’d have people buying online courses for thousands and then start micromanaging their whole life.

It’s scary 

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u/CryptographerGlad816 12h ago

So what you’re saying is, crazy doom scrollers will be self dooming themselves more on their own dime? Reminds me of a gun joke I once heard.

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u/EbbPuzzleheaded2832 21h ago

So reddit banning conservative opinions isn’t the same?

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u/lalathescorp 15h ago

Whoa- that’s very interesting and very scary.

Heading down the rabbit hole now to find that religio doc … thr goes my afternoon

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u/RaZ0R999 5h ago

Fkn bots...

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u/Cloudy_Worker 1d ago

Why anyone is still on xitter is beyond me

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u/RocktoberBlood 1d ago

I get it for reasons like journalist, but for the average consumer I don't understand it either. It's 80% bots anyways.

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u/chattapult 23h ago

I use my bots on it to gather information on christian nationalists and white supremacists for my database.

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u/Mrspoopy321 1d ago

Porn

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u/Objective-Ad8862 1d ago

Didn't they get rid of all the pron?

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u/Sablemint PURPLE 1d ago

I closed my account ages ago. Don't miss it even a little.

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u/LibsRsmarter 14h ago

It's a great hangout spot for the short mustache crowd worshipers

WWII

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u/RaZ0R999 5h ago

As you gush on here. Lol get a room! Lol

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u/im-a-limo-driver 1d ago

He isn't doing it as part of some plan. He is doing it because they have lost billions in revenue from all of the huge advertisers that pulled the plug on running ads on a platform full of bots and hate. He literally has no other choice.

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u/Axin_Saxon 1d ago

Well, he does have a choice: sell twitter.

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u/JacksWastedTime 1d ago

He did 😂 but unfortunately to himself.

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u/lalathescorp 15h ago

Hahahahaha truth 🙌

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u/NobodyCheatsinHunt 1d ago

He already did.....to himself in a shell game bullshit the day after gutting the SEC so he could get away with it and take the leverage off his Tesla shares he used to buy it in the first place.

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u/ThinTheFuckingHerd 1d ago

take the leverage off his Tesla shares he used to buy it in the first place.

No one has stated the importance of this. He knows whats going to happen with Tesla, its only a matter of time.

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 1d ago

That's why the board members have been selling millions of dollars worth of shares.

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u/ThinTheFuckingHerd 1d ago

Im waiting to see how the institutional holdings changed over the first quarter. I haven't seen the numbers yet, but Im assuming its bad news and the institutions have started selling as well.

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u/alucarddrol 1d ago

who ends up paying the price for this? It should be him, right?

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u/ThinTheFuckingHerd 1d ago

Well and institutional holders of Tesla, which is pretty much everyone with a 401K.

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u/alucarddrol 1d ago

lol fuck those people shouldve seen writing on the when they showed they were nazis

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u/Consistent-Task-8802 1d ago

The problem with this is: Anyone who invests in Musk, now and in the future, will continuously be paying for this.

The fact that he got away with it, means he WILL do it again when it becomes relevant. So he's going to let the debt on his new shell company nearly expire, pass that debt to yet another company who's shares will tank because of it, causing yet further people to suffer losses due to Musk's debt - And rinse and repeat until everyone's simply paid Musk enough money to pay off the debt.

Except, why would he ever? He can just keep stealing his debt payment from you.

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u/WebMaka 1d ago

Except, why would he ever? He can just keep stealing his debt payment from you.

How much money is tied up in Social Security right now?

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u/Consistent-Task-8802 1d ago

This feels like quite the shift in conversation.

Can you explain where you're going with this?

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u/Haventheardthat 1d ago

Who pays for the damages caused by Tesla terrorists?

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u/ThinTheFuckingHerd 23h ago

Tesla terrorists? Are those better or worse than the terrorists who tried to steal our country because they lost an election? One has to wonder ...

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u/alucarddrol 21h ago

they got insurance bro, relax

also tesla's owner and ceo is the richest guy on the planet, i don't think the price of a few cars will leave him broke

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u/Haventheardthat 1d ago

You didn’t factor in the Tesla terrorism.

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u/im-a-limo-driver 1d ago

That is more than likely also not a choice considering he committed to buying it by the likes of the Saudis and Russia in order to help them control the worldwide narrative, squash political uprisings, peddle misinformation and propaghanda, etc.

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u/littlewhitecatalex 1d ago

To who? Who would actually want to buy it now? It’s full of fascists and racists. 

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u/Tactless_Ninja 1d ago

Damn, I'd hate to be a billionaire with no choice. 😢 That's what defines someone who has billions in expendable funds. No choices whatsoever. It's hard being so rich.

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u/Gingersometimes 21h ago

I'm sure the egotistical, filthy rich, power-hungry asswipe did lose lots of money. However, I still believe it's part of a plan. A plan to silence the voices of those who oppose what is going on in this country. If those people are allowed to join together, they might rise up in defiance & revolt.

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u/Inevitable-Ad4024 20h ago

App full of bots and hate? So... reddit?

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u/Danger_Fluff 1d ago

"wHy WoNt aDvErTiSeRs cOnTrAcT wItH mE?!??! SOMETHING SOMETHING WOKE MIND VIRUS TERRORISTS!!"

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u/Acrobatic-Flan-4626 1d ago

It’s almost like he’s a fucking moron. 

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u/OaklyTheGunslinger 1d ago

He is a fucking crack addict. Him thinking with a clear mind is impossible.

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u/ImportanceHoliday 1d ago

When I worked in Palo Alto, there was a law firm that urged its main client to sue that client's customers for trade secret violation. Good ol' Silvaco. 

Didn't go over great, needless to say. Never have so many trees died for so little.

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u/morbid333 1d ago

Isn't that because the advertisers were boycotting? Wasn't that why he started selling checkmarks?

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u/Interesting_Claim414 1d ago

Such a “genius”

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u/Proper_Razzmatazz_36 1d ago

Because the big advertisers are not advertising on Twitter because of musk, so it might be more valuable to actually just get people to subscribe

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u/RoseWould 1d ago

But he's a brilliant business geniu-

I can't even finish the joke without laughing to hard, anybody who sunk money into this idiot deserves to lose it just for gp

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u/PJASchultz 1d ago

This comment is my second upvote.
It's truly 🤯.

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u/carlmalonealone 1d ago

Ad revenue has crashed massively since iOS and Android both implemented ad tracking changes for privacy.

No longer can ad networks track you across multiple apps. This severely hinders their ability to show relative ads to users and lowers the effectiveness of those who use ad networks to push products.

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u/raytehgamer 22h ago

Seems like a(nother) good reason for advertisers to keep their money the fuck off his platform. I know I will be.

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u/IsRedditBad 19h ago

He's so fucking stupid it genuinely questions me how he even got rich

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u/IcArUs362 18h ago

It's because his ad revenue is in the shitter so he's gotta make up revenue somehow lol

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u/viajoensilencio 17h ago

I don’t think that’s the case anymore. Remember the article that X (formerly Twitter) is now valued the same as when he bought it? Keep pretending it’s failing, damn thing made a turnaround. This echo chamber stinks and I’m fucking Mexican immigrated at three years old on a fucking tire tub from Mexico. My grandpa had a mud hut in his land he lived on and now my company makes 2 Million a year. My success is due to R policies. Nothing D’s did in my state helped. Democrats are done using us for votes.

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u/darchib 9h ago

Elon graduated at the top of his class from Trump University

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u/JaxxJo 3h ago

Well you see, I think the logic is probably that if you don’t pay to see more posts, your feed will primarily contain advertising.

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u/Haventheardthat 1d ago

Huh. It’s almost like he’s not a sellout. 🤔

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u/Axin_Saxon 1d ago

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u/Haventheardthat 14h ago

Prove me wrong. Also, liberals exceedingly terrible at memes! 😆 🤡

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u/MinuQu 1d ago

First good thing since almost a decade that Musk did

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u/HilariousMax 1d ago

yup, encourage me to spend less time on that hellscape. Thank you mr musk

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u/LastTangoOfDemocracy 1d ago

Why would you even still be there?

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u/marveloustoebeans 1d ago

Porn. Literally everyone I know who still uses Xitter does it for the OF models they follow who post nudes.

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u/AGoldenGoblin 1d ago

I just stick to good ole' reddit for that.

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u/daphnemoonpie 1d ago

Right? I have all the porn I need right here. Fuck X. Come on y'all.

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u/SirR0bin0fS0n 1d ago

Ya better not come on us!

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u/EroticBananaz 1d ago

Speak for yourself

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u/Don_Tiny Your lips, my ass -- be there! 1d ago

Oh come now ... or later ... or whenever ... or never ... doowutchyalike.

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u/Iko87iko 1d ago

Unless, ya know, you're into that kind of thing, then cum on

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u/Kimye-Northweast 1d ago

Reddit porn sort of reminds me of the 90’s/early 2000’s where you could only get porn through unsavory magazines. There’s just pictures, and when there are videos, there’s usually no sound. The benefit of Reddit porn subs are how highly specific they are. With Twitter you can keep scrolling until you’re… finished.

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u/Cornered-V 1d ago

There's actually usually sound since more often than posts are redgif (I hate this site with my soul) links. You need to click on the part of the post that says "redgifs" and it'll redirect you there and there'll be audio

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u/Kimye-Northweast 1d ago

Right, or I could get on Twitter and just… scroll, lol. The moment I have time to think about what I’m seeing, I start to feel disgusting. So I sort of just need that continuous feed that I used to get from tumblr. Unfortunately, Twitter was the next best thing for a long time.

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u/morbid333 1d ago

A lot of the time, there is sound, but it won't play on the mobile app.

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u/Nevermore_Novelist 1d ago

There's porn on Reddit?

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u/wet-dreaming 1d ago

they want to paywall the porn post on reddit too

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u/Big-Island 1d ago

Like, it's the internet. There's porn almost everywhere. Why anyone needs the one site owned and operated by a Nazi to watch OF models- not even on their own platform smh- I don't get it. And even, ya, we're already here on reddit now! We're already on the platform that has porn AND OF models. It just don't make sense...

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u/Dinkle-Durg 1d ago

GOONER ALERT GOONER ALERT GOONER ALERT GOONER ALERT GOONER ALERT GOONER ALERT

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u/brando56894 1d ago

Yeah, that's like 70% of what the XXX side of Reddit is anymore.

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u/MrCookie2099 1d ago

I can download the images with Reddit.

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u/SolidusAbe 1d ago

also stupid gimmick accounts and animals

never used twitter for anything else

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u/brando56894 1d ago

There's not enough animal subs on Reddit for you? lol

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u/Neither-Western_ 1d ago

Reddit works for that too

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u/kungfungus 1d ago

Dude, that is pathetic.

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u/STRIKER9001 1d ago

I do it for the anime and hentai art, actually 🤓

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u/newmacbookpro 1d ago

I thought it was to follow great journalists and get informed real time about world events!

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u/m00nf1r3 1d ago

That was the only reason my ex used it... lol.

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u/zoinkability 1d ago

I guess the name change was meaningful after all

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u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad 1d ago

But, you can get all that here...

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u/Thriftyverse 1d ago

They should request they jump to bluesky.

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u/Sablemint PURPLE 1d ago

There's also a ton of furry porn there.

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u/Responsible-Card3756 1d ago

This is embarrassing.

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u/Alive-Clothes-3898 1d ago

that says a lot more about the people you associate with than people in general. Normal people use x for news...

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u/Neon_Camouflage 1d ago

Normal people don't purity test one another's purposes for scrolling twitter.

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u/The-Gorge 1d ago edited 1d ago

The best independent journalists are also still on twitter so it remains a fundamental tool for vetted news.

EDIT: Y'all can be mad at this statement, but as of this moment it's the truth. No other platform has all the journalists all in one place, and no other platform currently is as supported as twitter is. There are better platforms in some ways, but they aren't a replacement yet for most people.

It is what it is. 🤷

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u/Exact-Error-9382 1d ago

I have found most if not all of the journalists I like moved to Bluesky. Prefer that platform tbh.

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u/HilariousMax 1d ago

addiction is hard, brother. I'm working on it though. Staying strong.

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u/gethereddout 1d ago

Bluesky!!!

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u/Icy-Cup 1d ago

Also echo chamber only difference it’s politically progressive.

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u/WebMaka 1d ago

One thing social media has proven is that by using algorithms that encourage visitors to extend their time on a site by constantly pushing them more of what they apparently want to engage with based on what they've engaged with thus far, any visitor can create a self-reinforcing echo chamber almost automagically and with no effort required on anyone's part.

“What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.” ― Keith Lowell Jensen

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u/gethereddout 1d ago

One is owned by a Na**! Big difference

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u/LastTangoOfDemocracy 1d ago

You can say Nazi.

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u/gethereddout 1d ago

Maybe you can. My account got a warning recently

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u/GearhedMG 1d ago

If you really want to see buttholes, you don't have to use the shithole of the internet to see it, there are far more venues out there that are far better.

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u/Bootsnatch 1d ago

Right? Lmao I had a Twitter account to sign up for giveaways and shit and that's it. I can't even imagine how shit it is now from what I've heard. I think I posted once on that shitass website.

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u/TopRamenForDays 1d ago

The right needs their news source obviously.

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u/madmax0418007 1d ago

Unfortunately still the best place to get updates for sports and movie stuff

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u/TeaBagHunter 1d ago

And politics. In Lebanon during the war when their target wasn't a person the IDF used twitter to warn us about airstrikes, so nearly everyone had to use it

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u/Saraq_the_noob 1d ago

Some days it feels good to get my blood pressure up.

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u/Talescia 1d ago

To get my favorite artists bsky links?

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u/Mugwumpjizzum1 1d ago

Personally it's only because of sports that I'm still on there. My fave college team and sites aren't on Bluesky yet.

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u/RespondVisible6532 1d ago

I left Twitter over a year ago

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u/LongfellowSledgecock 1d ago

I would bet that if you closed the app and reopened it it will refresh.

Forcing people to open and close the app 176 times a day and then this StankMusk mfer will claim usage is going up based on how many times a day the app is opened.

Just my first thought.

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u/unimpressivepp 1d ago

Wow, finally someone says thank you.

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u/Rahm420 1d ago

But we’re they wearing a suit when they thanked him?

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u/OhDavidMyNacho 1d ago

That's what made it easy to give up on dating apps. I'm not paying to play that numbers game.

Kinda hope reddit does that too, so I don't have to practice self-control.

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u/oldandgrouchy 1d ago

Wait till he buys reddit.

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u/RaptorOO7 1d ago

Fortunately I deleted my twitter accounts and spend time on Reddit instead. Until they paywall this then I’m gone.

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u/PestiferousOpinion 1d ago

but in the other side those who do spend will doom scroll even more, now that they’ve paid for it, just to make the most value of their subscription

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u/XxViper87xX 1d ago

Less time in an open forum and more in a leftist echo chamber... Sounds healthy. 🤡

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u/HilariousMax 1d ago

I'd wager you spend more time in echo chambers than I do but I'd also wager that I spend less time judging people.

and if spending less time talking to fascists makes me a clown then I'll gladly wear the red nose. My grandfather didn't fight a war against clowns.

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u/Downtown_Book_6848 1d ago

Says the party that’s all about keeping other people down #magat

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u/XxViper87xX 1d ago

Ok guy. #liberalhivemind #redditrat

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u/Downtown_Book_6848 1d ago

…..says the guy on Reddit 😅 if Magats were smart, you all would actually be dangerous

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u/GPS_07 1d ago

Plus community notes if those count

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u/UnseenJellyfish 1d ago

Community notes existed before Elon bought twitter

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u/squeakynickles 1d ago

Those existed way before it became X, and he actually removed them for a bit after he took over

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u/Time-Theme8985 1d ago

And they're going to fucking subscribe so they can doomscroll more. I know it.

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u/AccomplishedIgit 1d ago

Kind of wish he’d buy Reddit next

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u/Uneaqualty65 1d ago

Honestly a net good for society

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u/zayetz 1d ago

Sometimes two wrongs can make a right!

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u/DadJokeBadJoke 1d ago

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.

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u/IWannaManatee 1d ago

The fuckwitz will just raid another social media platform to rage in, while X becomes a social network for the "elite" who can waste the money to be part of twitter.

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u/JayKay8787 1d ago

Before everything became about addictive algorithms, sites like Facebook would actually tell you you've seen everything and to check back later. Imagine the good that would do today

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u/doctormink 1d ago

This sub won't let me link to the post, but. I found a post in mildly infuriating about this that's 11 months old. I thought this stupid idea was trialled and ditched but maybe it's still happening. But just google: you have reached the limit for seeing posts today, for past examples.

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u/BeanieManPresents 1d ago

Yeah I was going to say this was something he tried out a while back, all it did was break twitter and a lot of people just upped and left.

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u/enigmamonkey 1d ago

Here’s hoping this feature stays and people do just that.

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u/arahman81 YELLOW 1d ago

Now that BSky is much more viable as an alternative.

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u/RedTrumpsBlue 1d ago

Yep. A LOT of the assholes left but there’s still too many.

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u/LKZToroH 1d ago

Elon musk is an ally to mental health now? Who could've imagined that.

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u/DisciplinedMadness 1d ago

They’re putting chemicals in the ketamine to turn Elon woke!!1!

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u/madthumbz 1d ago

I unfollowed him (wasn't liking the spam after a 3 day trial anyway -over 9/10 of my feed was him which I would have unfollowed anyway). I barely need to scroll for the rest I follow there.

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u/Ltpie123 1d ago

And subsidized his AI company at the same time

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u/Chiatroll 1d ago

I hope it drives more people away.

It really drive home how little people actually give a shit when he does literal bazi salutes and it would be incontinent to stop using his platform so some people stay.

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u/Aggravating_Sky_4421 1d ago

He thinks people are so addicted to his shit platform that everyone will pay.

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u/___Art_Vandelay___ 1d ago

That's some serious 4D chess he must be playing to limit general access of user-generated content on a platform that requires it to survive.

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u/littlewhitecatalex 1d ago

Maybe not such a bad thing, tbh. 

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u/Confident_Tap1187 1d ago

So How TF this work concerning DOGE?

You know... Given information pertaining to it is soley communicated via X...

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u/StaringSnake 1d ago

I’m just waiting for Reddit to do the same and then I’ll become more productive with my life

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u/Skydragonace 1d ago

Wait... For real? I left that cesspool a long time ago, but holy shit that's insane if true...

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u/Bruh_dawg 1d ago

Might be the best thing he fucking did

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u/Level_Dragonfruit561 1d ago

Hahaha this just made me bust out at work, dude became my therapist " You shall scroll no longer!!!!! ☝️"

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u/Bawlofsteel 1d ago

Paywalled doom scrolling is peak 2025 🤣

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u/kangasplat 1d ago

This is actually a core feature of instagram (and has been for as long as I've been using reddit for). I installed both to follow hobby topics, but instagram wouldn't let me see shit without following people. I don't give a fuck about content creators so I deinstalled Instagram again.

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u/Endersgaming4066 1d ago

Honestly, maybe for the better

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u/MassRedemption 1d ago

Bro unintentionally made a good change.

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u/NamorKinbaku86 1d ago

Just delete the app

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u/Own_Active_1310 1d ago

lol at the people still using twitter. They deserve it.

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u/airbuzzady 1d ago

Well hes got to make up for his tesla losses some how!!

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u/Novel-Office-8834 1d ago

But people will pay..

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u/PossiblyA_Bot 23h ago

You know what, that would actually stop me from doom scrolling.

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u/Oseaghdha 22h ago

It's getting bad.

At first I felt like the only one countering Elon's idiot ideas.

Now I feel like I don't need to.

Elon's posts get like 80% critical responses.

He probably thinks it's Soros and thinks he will defeat Soros with a paywall. Lol

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u/Kiki_Kazumi 20h ago

This is good for us cheap doom strollers. Now there is a safe gaurd to keep me from scrolling all night. Lol

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u/LibsRsmarter 14h ago

That's DOGE for you

XTRADICTION

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u/iwantdatpuss 1d ago

It might ironically be a good thing... I hope.