The most hilarious part of the Twitter vs Thread war is that

[malaise]

Twitter suddenly cancelled their blocking of links to persons who aren’t signed up.
They sure are afraid of that mass exodus that has been taking place these past few days.
I am not signed up at Facebook, Twitter or Thread but I do read links and watch video.

[marble falls]

1. Funny how that twitter switch flipped ...

... I'm sort of like you, I have a fake facebook page, fake name and info (I also have a facebook corral page the keeps facebook from watching me) and I follow no one and am followed by no one., no twitter, will not join Thread.

I read links and watch video and leave no trail.

[malaise]

8. I don't have a Facebook page - fake or real

much to the annoyance of my siblings and their kids and grandkids.

[marble falls]

48. that's the sort of part. I don't do facebook. I only scan the "suggested friends" list. And I use...

... I use a program to block FB from following me.

[sarcasmo]

2. Jack Dorsey can swoop in next month and buy back Twitter for pennies on the dollar.

E-Loon

[Cha]

5. I don't know how smart Jack Dorsey is.. he

endorsed RFK jr for pres.

Ex-Twitter leader Jack Dorsey endorses RFK Jr. for president

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4034584-ex-twitter-leader-jack-dorsey-endorses-rfk-jr-for-president/

[SunSeeker]

14. OMG. I thought Dorsey was a bit off, but not THAT off.

He cray.

[Cha]

41. It's insane.. like he doesn't know

what RFK jr is about or doesn't care.

Our Democracy can't afford to FAFO.

:

[SunSeeker]

42. Do they see voting as a way to troll? Seriously, I don't get how they can be so irresponsible.

I guess when you're a billionaire, you're pretty immune to FAFO.
Their money protects them from fuckups.

[Joinfortmill]

23. Karma

[womanofthehills]

47. Jack Dorsey still owns something like 2% of Twitter like he always has

He was just interviewed by Russell Bland where he said he had been looking for a buyer of Twitter because countries & corporations were making keeping Twitter solvent very difficult - too many demands about what could and could not be posted.

[ret5hd]

3. I think the most hilarious part is...

anyone arguing/debating the merits of either of the money-grubbing, data-harvesting, progressive-bashing, fascist-promoting bastards.

But that’s just me…I’m easily amused and bemused (yeah, I’m using that word properly).

[brooklynite]

46. Why?

Because you don't feel the need for a social media platform? Or because both owners are rich?

Amazing how many progressives are willing to make use of a "money-grubbing, data-harvesting, progressive-bashing, fascist-promoting" communications system.

[Irish_Dem]

4. So we can read twitter comments again if we are not signed up?

It was so strange that a company blocks people from reading their website.

[tblue37]

30. Nope. Still blocked.

[Irish_Dem]

43. Thanks!

[BlackSkimmer]

38. I'm not on twitter, but I've always been able to read the links here.

I don't get how others can't.

Maybe blocker software?

[Irish_Dem]

44. I can still read some of the links, but the comments are blocked now.

Twitter comments are the best part.

[Emrys]

6. What's also (grimly) hilarious is that I can't imagine multiple posts here avidly promoting Facebook

or Instagram, or any other personal data hogs with proven past records of serious malfeasance, and cheering them on to the rafters.

It's as if Cambridge Analytica, stretching from 2013 to 2018 and seriously compromising the politics of at least two major democracies, never happened!

Lots of whoops about Threads has gazillions of signups, maybe Meta learned its lesson from the CA affair and its slapped wrists and billion-dollar fines - well, yet another Facebook scandal in 2021 involved the theft and abuse of data from half a billion users!

Anyway, in a few weeks I can imagine seeing the same sorts of complaints here about Threads content that we've been seeing for so long about Twitter content.

Still, if any of it means Musk marginally improves on being such an absolute dickhead on a daily basis, it's no bad thing.

[BootinUp]

7. (Sigh). Nt

[Emrys]

13. Sorry, did I come in a bit hot there? :) n/t

[erronis]

15. Just the right temp for me.

I'd just throw in a few of the other big social media slurpers - Microsoft, Google, "team"-type platforms, Netflix,

[Emrys]

19. It's a jungle out there, right enough! n/t

[Joinfortmill]

24. It's kinda like pick your poison

[brewens]

9. I think it was hilarious Elon blocked us and backed off so quickly. Has he ever just tried making

the right decision the first time? He has to feel like he had to eat some shit there.

[malaise]

11. Hahahahahha

Wha a flop

[blogslug]

10. I can't prove it but I'm pretty sure they removed the caps on viewing tweets too

In the past few days, I have not seen that "You can't do that" popup at all.

[malaise]

17. Yes they did

😀😀😀

[canetoad]

16. If this is a war

between twitter & threads, then I'm a conscientious objector.

[malaise]

18. Same here

😀

[2naSalit]

21. Me three!

[localroger]

20. For me the most hilarious part is Elon whining that Zuck hired all the people he laid off

...to recreate his system and steal his IP. Hey Elon, if you hadn't laid all those people off, maybe they wouldn't be working for Meta now?

[malaise]

22. That too

😀😀😀

[highplainsdem]

25. Malaise, you can reach a specific tweet if not logged in, but you're stuck after that and

can't see any more of Twitter.

No replies are visible.

If you click on the Twitter user's name in that tweet, you'll see the profile but NO tweets - not even the one you just viewed.

If you click on the Search icon in the upper left corner, you no longer get the Explore page and a sampling of tweets from different users that used to show up there, till yesterday. You now get a 404 "this page doesn't exist" error.

If you click on the main link for any Twitter account, from anywhere off Twitter, you're redirected to the log-in page and don't even see that user's profile.

So less of Twitter is visible now than two days ago, if you aren't logged in.

Here's a tweet I posted yesterday about the upcoming film on Bob Marley, and I'll put the link to that account below it, so you can check for yourself.

Link to tweet

https://twitter.com/bobmarley/

[malaise]

26. The views are off the charts here

Folks are so excited

Thanks

[highplainsdem]

27. Did you check that tweet as I asked? Can you see the Twitter replies to it? If you click

on the name in the tweet, or the link at the bottom of my message which I'll post again here

https://twitter.com/bobmarley

are you taken to the page with the profile AND with all the tweets from that account showing?

[malaise]

28. Not yet - will do later

😀

[tblue37]

29. I still can't view Twitter unless I am logged in.

[malaise]

31. I can still see the specific tweet but not the replies

😀

[tblue37]

33. I can't go to a specific tweet from a link either. One of my tablets is logged in, but my other ones

aren't, & I don't remember my password. The password retrieval process won't work for me, either, so I can only use the one tablet to access Twitter.

[highplainsdem]

40. ONLY the tweets directly linked to are visible, but WITHOUT ANY REPLIES.

The links you can find off Twitter to go to the main page for an account don't work:

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden


https://twitter.com/elonmusk


And you can't get around Twitter via links from any tweet linked to:

Link to tweet

Try clicking on @santamonicacity there. Or the hashtag #Freedom. Both take you to the log-in page.


Btw, I found the link to that tweet via a Google search for

ted lieu twitter

and Google shows 5 tweets from him...but if you scroll over to Google's View on Twitter arrow and click on that, it doesn't take you to his account on Twitter, as it should, but to the Twitter log-in page.

[Roy Rolling]

32. Does this link work?

Link to tweet

?s=61&t=rqicTMYpQYcdqQoWEoMkeg

[malaise]

34. No n/t

[Roy Rolling]

35. Last try...

This work?

Link to tweet

?s=12&t=rqicTMYpQYcdqQoWEoMkeg

[malaise]

36. I see your tweet

But can’t see more when I click read more

[Roy Rolling]

37. Scared

Why is Elmo so frightened of Twitter users?

[AllyCat]

39. Noticed that. I clicked a link not realizing it was

Muskie’s site and it played.

[UTUSN]

45. K&R