Twitter Blackout at eight eastern

[senseandsensibility]

It's a boycott (I think) of the interview between the two egotistical dimwits. I plan to honor it. Hope a lot of people do.

Saw that it was trending earlier, and Adam Kinzinger was advocating for it.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. I wouldn't watch even if I had a twit account,

I have far, far better things to do, like watching my paint dry, which is more important than watching 2 tyrants spew their fascist bullshit.

[FarPoint]

10. What is the Boycott about?

I don't do any Twitter...never have...so I am clueless...

[MarineCombatEngineer]

14. The "interview" of Been A Dick Donald by Eloon Musk.

2 facist assholes jerking each other off, in a metaphorical way.

[ShazzieB]

20. Omg.

I had not heard about that. How utterly pukeworthy.

I'm sure we'll be treated subjected to plenty of coverage after it's over. After all, the media thinks it's breaking news every time TSF breaks wind!

[BidenRocks]

46. Wanna bet?

CLICK!
Green Acres is .........................

[FarPoint]

41. Okay....

Sounds like an easy thing to do...boycott. thank you.

[COL Mustard]

19. Aren't you washing your hair?

Rearranging your sock drawer? Counting stars? Something important like that?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

21. Yes, something important like that.

[GopherGal]

22. Hmm. A little too cloudy here for star counting. And the light is already almost too low...

for watching the grass grow.

I'll stick with the audiobook. Not that I have any twitter presence for Eloon and his loonettes to notice the absence of.

[33taw]

2. I quit Twitter the day Musk bought it. I,m in.

[Trueblue Texan]

9. Same here. nt

[Westcoast4life]

3. I quit shortly after Elon started all his BS with Twitter. So, yea. my boycott is included. :)

[surfered]

4. I won't twitter or X . Hoping it goes under, dragging Elon with it.

[Island Blue]

5. I've been boycotting Twitter

since Elon bought it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. I thought that the boycott started at 8 eastern time

I will be boycotting twitter during this time period

Link to tweet

[senseandsensibility]

8. Yes

I get mixed up because I'm on the westcoast.

[arkielib]

7. I would boycott if

I still had a Twitter account. I deleted it as soon as Musk took over.

[JoseBalow]

11. Some posters here would die from withdrawals

[tom_kelly]

12. I've been on a twitter boycott since like before it started

[byronius]

15. That's me.

My wife quit when Elon took over.

[johnnyfins]

13. Be careful if you participate in the blackout

Little elon might sue you.

[orwell]

16. I de-twittered...

...the day EgoLong took it over.

I have never clicked on a link, even at DU since. I cancelled my account as well.

If everyone did the same EgoLong would get the message.

Somehow, people never understand that the way to punish these narcissistic assholes is to stop feeding them with clicks and attention. Don't watch their biased news coverage. Don't frequent their social media garbage channels. Don't talk about them at work. Don't buy their cars. Don't buy their bibles.

It's really quite simple. Try it, you'll like it.

F*ck those assholes.

[highplainsdem]

17. I'm honoring it.

[Blecht]

18. Bump and get off if you're on

[subterranean]

23. I'll read about the lowlights tomorrow.

[Ms. Toad]

24. I haven't logged in in ages. n/t

[Cheezoholic]

25. Was never on it. Dont InstaTocFaceTwit anything

Saw the potential evils of SM back in the Usenet and IRC days. Some of the shit on those back then would get you thrown in prison today. AOL was definitely the lines end for me for that shit. I do still have a Delphi account and am on several message boards including this one. My grandpa use to say "water's for washin'" well my phone's for callin' and occasionally texting. Everyone knows if they send me a text with more than 10 words they're gonna get a phone call, even if it's an emergency lol.

When I take a crap is my business

[JohnSJ]

26. Are you sure it didn't crash?

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-musk/

[Think. Again.]

27. Thank goodness for DU's little blue squares, I'll know what posts not to open.

[senseandsensibility]

34. The interview's already crashed

You can't make this #$$@ up.

[Think. Again.]

36. Either because of the blackout or musk shut it down to avoid the blackout being given credit for workng.

[mushroomhunter]

28. not watching

[BumRushDaShow]

29. CNBC Breaking - site crashed

Elon Musk, Donald Trump event on X crashes site, Tesla CEO blames cyberattack

Published Mon, Aug 12 2024 8:24 PM EDT Updated 3 Min Ago


Elon Musk’s much-hyped interview of former President Donald Trump on the social media platform X was quickly derailed by technical glitches in the first minutes of the scheduled start time on Monday evening.

Social media users trying to log on to the event, which was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ET, reported that they could not join X’s livestream platform.

Shortly after 8:20 p.m., Musk blamed a cyberattack for the freezing screens.

The glitch was reminiscent of X’s technical disaster in 2023 that botched Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign launch announcement.

(snip)

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/12/elon-musk-donald-trump-event-on-x-crashes-site-tesla-ceo-blames-hackers.html

[Wednesdays]

31. Oh, darn.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. ...

[Johnny2X2X]

35. 100 to 1 there was no attack

They just don’t have the infrastructure in place to support a big steam. And Musk is too much of a know it all to listen to the actual experts that he has left that probably warned him.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. I was just thinking

he had laid off something like 3/4 of his tech staff so if anything did go wrong, they would be SOL.

[Think. Again.]

39. Nope, they'd rather not admit how effective the blackout is.

[BidenRocks]

47. Makes me want to sing

[Butterflylady]

30. Never been tempted to go there

And never will. No Facebook either.

[spinbaby]

33. I finally deleted the app

I’ll miss gardening twitter, but enough is enough.

[mdbl]

37. I never use it

but my family members who use it are on board.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. According to Jen Psaki this interview just started

Jen has been laughing at Musk and TFG

[erodriguez]

42. I boycotted twitter a long time ago. I don't miss it.

[Happy Hoosier]

43. No one who cares about democracy...

… should be using that site.

[SCantiGOP]

44. I'm an ex-tweeter

Haven’t missed it. I get my fix from DU, LinkedIn, and my local newspaper’s comment and discussion section.

[orleans]

45. i heard on the radio driving home that it was hacked and it took the interview down for an hour

but it was finally running - the shitshow just started an hour late