This is the death nail in the coffin of Twitter

[AntivaxHunters]

And here it is.
This will seal the gate once & for all..

Goodbye Twitter. It was a blast. I met many lifelong friends there. But this is the end of you. You'll die because of the utter stupidity & arrogance of a billionaire who's a fucking asshole.

[hlthe2b]

1. Bottom line--Musk IS a NAZI. NO promotion, no enabling, no overt defense of such hate could signal

any other conclusion, IMO.

[Roy Rolling]

24. Nazi Twitter

Elmo thinks he can create a commercial online community of Nazis and deplorables. News flash Elmo, advertisers aren’t interested in paying real money for an adolescent concept.

Also, the community of Nazis are toothless and broke so they won’t pay either.

The blue check scam is all you got to replace advertisers abandoning Twitter and taking their money to competitors? Weak.

[yardwork]

56. I don't think Musk has an ideology beyond money.

He was paid billions of dollars to destroy Twitter, and that's what he's doing. Twitter was a problem for authoritarian states. Mobster like, they got rid of it.

And yes, Musk is fine with Nazis. He gets off on forcing people to do things, so of course he's attracted to authoritarians. It's just a game to him, though.

[hlthe2b]

58. He grew up in Apartheid South Africa--and like many privileged white S. Africans carries that racism

and resentment from Post-Apartheid evolution with him to this day. Just as the vanquished Germans post-WWI refused to accept they were not superior and were thus quite open to Hitler's missives (and Jew-blaming). Musk is not unlike many (not all) enabling German people who post-war claimed they were NEVER NAZIs, yet can refuse the designation only on a technicality. And, he is doing everything possible to enable racism, misogyny, and yes, anti-semitism while asserting his own brand of authoritarianism. If, as you claim, he were only in it for the money, he's shown himself to be a damned piss-poor money manager, given he is bankrupting Twitter at the expense of Tesla and his other investments.

[edisdead]

62. This is what I think too

Not sure about him being paid to do it though. At least not in money. Hell he paid what 44 billion for it? I think he must be promised a part in some authoritarian power grab.

[yardwork]

64. I doubt he put his own money up.

We read that the Saudis contributed billions to the purchase. I'll bet others did too. He may not be destroying Twitter on purpose, but I'll bet that the Saudis and others made sure that Musk would buy it, because they knew he'd destroy it.

Similar to Putin making sure that Trump would win in 2016.

[edisdead]

66. You are probably right

Either way the point is that he is at the beck and call of power brokers.

[TSExile]

68. He is every bit as evil...

...and clueless as the former occupant of the White House. 😡😡😡😡😡

[Lovie777]

2. My God.................

what a ugly human being.

[mahina]

3. Thats all I do there anymore.

Oh well. Any recommendations for how to safely delete it?

[mgardener]

47. Check Y tube

They have videos.
I already watched it.

[Sympthsical]

4. This is like the 27th death nail

So many final knells in this coffin.

From the rate I'm still reading tweets - whether I want to or not - I'm pressing X to doubt.

[AKwannabe]

5. Narcissist billionaires....???

He will likely be subject of management courses on what not to do after buying a “public platform” and publicly traded company.

#1 lesson Don’t be an asshole
#2 Think hard before taking private after being publicly traded. Hahahaha! Dumbass genius’.

#3 Don’t alienate your customer base by being as annoying AF!

[Nasruddin]

25. Don't think so

He will likely be subject of management courses on what not to do

If he's the subject of management courses, it will probably be to train people to be purer narcissists. And contrarians.
He seems immune to consequences and just gets richer.

As for alienating customer base ... I dunno about that either. It looks like the cycle is, "leave" twitter due to some
outrage ... then slowly come back ... then back fully ... then repeat. It's something like too big to fail.

[spooky3]

6. Blocking is the one thing that makes the site useful.

Looks as if I’ll have to move to a different source.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Obviously removing the block feature totally sucks, but I'm confused why it's specifically related

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To Nazi's and the (Edit: Sorry, Auschwitz Memorial I meant to say)?

Is there some sort of underlying relation between these things specifically, or is this just a 'storyboard' someone has created to assert that Eloon is removing Block primarily/specifically to annoy the Auschwitz Memorial and empower Nazis?

[Maraya1969]

9. I think it may have to do with the anti-Semitism that they spew out loud for everyone

to see/hear. I have not heard of the yelling really nasty things about black people or other races.

Then again I don't watch them very much. Isn't Enrico Terrio Spanish or Mexican? It seem like they don't care as long as they are willing to be pro GQP

[50 Shades Of Blue]

14. It's not the Holocaust Museum. It's the Auschwitz Memorial,

It reported a heinous account whose content I won't describe. X wouldn't suspend the account, responded that it didn't violate X standards. Auschwitz Memorial tweeted a screen grab of the response. It later tweeted that the account had been suspended.

I follow the Auschwitz Memorial account, but that's all I know. I don't know if that situation is what led to this situation but it wouldn't surprise me one bit if this is Musk's response to the Auschwitz Memorial shaming X.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

33. Sorry, brain fart ... Auschwitz Memorial

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Figured there must be some backstory, thx for filling me in

[prodigitalson]

38. I think it is because people block Musk himself and it drives him crazy.

When he took it over I started seeing lots of Elon Musk tweets. (btw I don't follow him) so I blocked him. I'm guessing a lot of other people did the same.

[ShazzieB]

39. That wouldn't surprise me at all.

He's obviously that childish and petty!

[Maraya1969]

8. We should all go over to Musk's site and bombard him with cruel comments.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

10. He'll make an exception for himself!

[EleanorR]

12. He'll just lock your account

An NYU professor with 560,000 followers says he's been locked out of his X account for over 2 weeks after declining to meet with Elon Musk
Pete Syme Aug 16, 2023, 9:34 AM EDT

https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-galloway-says-hes-locked-out-x-after-upsetting-musk-2023-8

[Sky Jewels]

11. Good. It needs to die.

[liberalmediaaddict]

13. Threads is a decent alternative

Needs a lot of improvement though.

[obamanut2012]

15. It is in beta right now

They rushed it a bit a bit ago after one of Elon's crazy stunts. Scuttlebutt is it will be "alpha" in a few months, including being available for Desktop, etc.

[Bettie]

48. I really like Spoutible

and you can use it on desktop or phone.

[SledDriver]

16. Given how intent Elmo is on killing it

One might think there is some (planned?) future event that Twitter is not meant to be around for

[ShazzieB]

40. He doesn't need to go to this much trouble to kill it.

If he wants it shut down, he could just shut it down any time he wants.

What you're suggesting is conspiracy theory material. I subscribe to Occam's razor, which says the simplest explanation is the most likely one. The idea that Musk would deliberately set up X to fail in order to hide some nefarious plot is a lot less likely than the simple explanation that he's killing the app unintentionally by being a brainless, bumbling bigot.

[WhiteTara]

17. I left soon after

Twitter was sold.

[anarch]

18. as somebody pointed out, somebody must have showed him how many people have him blocked

[ZonkerHarris]

20. i do

[area51]

65. This is what I've been wondering. I blocked Eloon long before he bought Twitter. n/t

[ZonkerHarris]

19. Say good bye to advertisers

[Recycle_Guru]

21. Disgusting. Elong Musk is a NAZI--Deplatform Twitter X

[Prairie_Seagull]

22. FYI, it's death knell.

Not grammar police, make mistakes all the time. Just thought some would want to know.

This sure seems like a death knell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_knell

What a goose stepping maroon.

Edit to spell Knell correctly. haha

[Kali]

42. "death knell" for the company

or could be "final nail" in the coffin of the company.

[Bev54]

23. I hope so and I sincerely hope that Smith is investigating Musk on the subpoena

issued for Trump's account. While Twitter was delaying the turn over of information, Musk flew to DC and met with Jordan and Comer. What is the bet he was telling them about the subpoena and putting them on notice to delete all their history.

[honest.abe]

26. I hated Twitter even before Muck.

I hope Xitter dies a rapid death.

[chia]

27. I left Twitter before the sale to Musk was finalized. I haven't missed it.

[Iris]

41. I think I left the day after - when my feed was bombarded by deplorables

[sellitman]

28. I've been on Mastodon since The Nazis were allowed back on

Left the Bird for dead.

It was a good move.

I do not feel sorry for anyone left there.

You have choices far better.

[PatSeg]

29. My god, is he trying to fail?

Maybe he's not comfortable with success.

[sheshe2]

53. He is almost as brilliant as donnie.

**cough cough**

[PatSeg]

60. Seriously

Like long lost brothers. There are so many similarities. If Musk was a natural born citizen, I'll bet he'd have run for president already.

[BlueIdaho]

30. Welcome to Elon's smoldering shit heap

It’s like he has a death wish for his social media investment. So be it pal - adios

[Prairie_Seagull]

49. Smoldering shit heep, haha

Gonna borrow that.

Don't know where you are in Idaho but I am near Spokane. Yea NW.

[BlueIdaho]

51. Oh wow!

Just across the border in CdA 👍🏻

[ImNotGod]

31. Foreign bots spreading misinformation, chaos, glomming onto accounts can now wreak havoc, free of

their arch enemy, the block. Congress needs to be aware of this especially before an election. I get several bots a day following be and which I must block.

[SergeStorms]

32. So, it's 'Truth Social' now?

Way to go, Muskox. You're revealing more
about your twisted ideology every day.

[calimary]

34. Yeah. As that one tweet asks: "what could possibly go wrong?"

[LostinRed]

35. He can't get legit advertising he need the spam

He needs the spam advertisements to get through so he can sell more. That’s what this is really about.

[Scrivener7]

36. One can only hope you're right.

[Old Crow]

37. This is a colossally stupid move on Musk's part.

Also, as a former copyeditor, I have to comment on the usage error in the post's title. I've never heard of a "death nail" -- seems to be a conflation of two separate expressions, namely "death knell" (the tolling of a bell to mark someone's death or, more loosely, an omen of imminent doom) and "nail in the coffin" (something that indicates that something will fail).

Suggested titles (if I were copyediting it): "End of block feature is one more nail in Twitter's coffin" or "Twitter's death knell: The end of the block feature."

[WiVoter]

43. Yup, I'm Done

I am very rarely on there anyway.

[ToxMarz]

44. These 'free speech' morons aren't concerned about the ability to speak freely

They are all about forcing others to listen to them, otherwise they feel they're being infringed.

[MAJones]

45. freedom is

Available anywhere other than twitter. I immediately set in motion the disengagement of my account with the stupid billionaire nazi's hate machine this am. It will take a mass exodus to truly show this ignorant moron what an idiot he is and I don't think we'll get that. Unfortunately even smart people are extremely stupid. I'll miss the puke emoji only.

[littlemissmartypants]

46. The block feature is required by app store guidelines by Google and Apple.

If he does this both will either drop the app or change their guidelines. Or he'll have to back down from his stance.

[struggle4progress]

50. "I'm pissed that this company cost me $44 billion, so I've decided to turn it

into a smouldering worthless shell!"

[Arazi]

52. He's already deleted that Xeet

Any app must have a block function to be listed in the Apple or Google stores.

Even Elmo isn’t that stupid

[Nictuku]

54. We should call it naXi

[CousinIT]

55. Block is like 'NO'. Men like Musk don't accept "NO" when they want to force

themselves or their / their tribe's views on others.

They are digitally holding us down while they do it.

It's a rapist/control mentality. Similar to anti-abortionists - ALL about control. Control is a main objective of these types. It will be maintained over others no matter the consequences to others.

When block disappears, I stop posting there.

[canetoad]

57. For several days

Without making any changes to my browser settings, I can no longer see embedded tweets on DU - only a blue link which I can't be bothered following.

Has the same happened to anyone else? I can't be bothered with Elon's bullshit any more.

[617Blue]

59. Twitter is an addiction. It will be around for many more years.

[brooklynite]

61. Mixed metaphors.....

[live love laugh]

63. Clearly he's trying to kill it and silence the voice of reason.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

67. Musk is TFG

Born on third base and thinks they are smarter then the game.

you dumbasses did not hit triples the bullpen cart drove you around the bases so you wouldn't get dirty !