WTF are elected, or any DEMs still using that "Xtwit" site??

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

I just DO NOT UNDERSTAND !!!

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On EDIT…..ADD THIS…

Some parts of Xshitter are vile, racist, ugly crap,,,and some here continue to rationalize
that too many ‘things’ at Xshitter they ‘like’, so they continue to use Xshitter.

WTF? You are then supporting the owner of Xshitter. PERIOD!

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How can ANY person continue to utilize, and continue to post at a site owned by the very person
who is dismantling the entire US government !!

Same with using AMAZON.. STOP IT !!

OR if an elected Democratic member of Congress so choses ,,, just abandon their account on
that racist Shit site, and DO NOT POST THERE EVER AGAIN.

BlueSky May not be perfect,

But HOW IN THE HELL CAN ANY DEMOCRAT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
continue their de facto support of Musk by continuing at Xitter

[Walleye]

1. Maybe we should deadname it, and call it Twitter always

[WarGamer]

2. Maybe because BlueSky is a bubble...

X runs the gamut from pure trash to the latest, most up to date news on Earth.

Remember... YOU control what you see on X.

Follow the right people, BTW ALL major DEMS are on X and use it as their primary communication media.

And guess what? 90% of X isn't politics...

Where would I follow Mary Beard without X? She isn't active anywhere else.

BTW it's DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS...

Did your slip show?

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

5. Yup, If Hitler had a business that everyone liked, no reason to stop using was there?

(Sarcasm)

But really…..

Just b/c Shitter isn’t all political,
And just b/c…. ‘oh…well I still like that shitter place to get my info,,,’

‘AND OH some parts of shitter are things I like too much’

‘Just because the owner is destroying the country,,,, ‘

“I just can’t break away” IS BULLSHIT

USING SHITTER SUPPORTS THE VERY PERSON WHO IS A
DESPICABLE AFRIKANER

Democratic members of Congress should have been the FIRST to leave Shitter.

IF any member of Congress doesn’t grasp that simple fact.
THEN they are indeed part of The Problem

[Bluetus]

8. There are no longer any excuses

There is already a critical mass of voices on Bluesky. A person will never miss anything important if they follow a reasonable set of the leading progressives on BSKY. And if there is important information that only appears on Twitter, you will find it referenced or cross-posted in BSKY.

Maybe BSKY will be a shithole in another year, but it is not that way today. Everybody should get the hell out of Twitter and deny those people the pleasure of owning libs.

[Historic NY]

25. Are you on Bluesky ?

Because everyday more elected officials come over . Most of the most popular from X are there, along with commentators and pundits. Many of the various newspapers and other media have been adding a bulesky to their shares

Unless you want to fight with scum everyday then by all means stay on X.

Seen on X
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-obama-royalties/]

[EYESORE 9001]

3. If I ran a website

which I don’t, I’d like to think I wouldn’t put money in the muskrat’s pocket by allowing links to xitter whatsoever, but, then, the revenue may be too good…

[csusan]

4. X, twitter whatever the name it still related to musk

I read posts here suggesting that we boycott different sites, stores etc. I always wonder how many of those people still use X. Thing is we can always find a reason to not give up something we use and reasons to give up something we don't use or rarely use. I still use Amazon. I hate it and have tried other online shopping sites but none are setup as well as Amazon. I am 72 yrs old and find shopping at Amazon easier. So I figure since I don't use X that makes me even with people who refuse to use Amazon but continue to use X.

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. BlueSky is F*cked up

I've tried to get in forever and can't. Their "support" is nonexistent. Maybe THAT'S why.

[DaBronx]

7. Sorry to hear that

I haven’t had any problems. Very straightforward but perhaps with all the new members they are having growing pains.

[Bluetus]

10. they are adding users 1 per second

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So I don't think it is fair to say the site is messed up as a general statement.

Perhaps if you said exactly what problem you are experiencing, there might be a solution.

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https://bcounter.nat.vg/

[Jilly_in_VA]

22. I have said so here before

I don't think the problem is worth reiterating in full, but I tried to set up an account and could not get in. I asked for support. Thir "support is a JOKE. I have never gotten in, so fuck them.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

33. I hope you take a step back. Count to 10 and try again

Did you dowmoad the app? I signed up a month ago with zero problems.

[Jilly_in_VA]

41. I did

and that was my second try. So fuck it.

[Melon]

48. This....

[hunter]

9. There's no saving the site formerly known as twitter.

The continued presence of opposition voices there will not save it.

Let it die.

Here on DU I wish I could auto-trash posts that link to that site. Instead, I've put put some people who compulsively link to it on full ignore.

I figured Jeff Bezos and Amazon would go fully to the dark side if Trump was elected and prepared myself to abandon it. I was going to do it on February 28 to make a statement, but couldn't hold out that long.

When you delete your account at Amazon they ask you to select a reason from a list of options but there were none that say what I really think so I didn't choose any.

[Maraya1969]

11. I don't do it often but if I go to Twitter it is to fuck with idiot Magats

and to fuck with musk even though I don't know if he looks at anything. (I will only post under him if there is a small number of responses)

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

35. I can see that..

My brother used to go watch FAUX News a little just to see what the Enemy was up to.

How he could stomach that crap I don’t know

I just couldn’t do that myself

[HAB911]

12. Herding cats

can't be done

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

13. Hundreds of millions of users vs tens of millions

Plus, as someone pointed out above, BlueSky is a bit of an echo chamber. Politically active people know about it. Your average person on the street likely doesn't.

[hunter]

26. DU is my only "social media" site. It's more than enough.

Most of my own political activity is organized through my real world social network. I talk to people face-to-face, on the phone, and via texts.

My little flip phone doesn't do much beyond calls and texts. It does have a camera and I can attach those photos to texts. That's about it.

Scrolling through the site formerly known as twitter, or bluesky, and yes, even DU, is largely a passive activity and numbers don't matter.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

34. Numbers do matter

If politicians want to get their message out then the more eyes who can see it the better. X/Twitter gets those messages out to more eyes. Most people aren't involved in political activity like you or involved in any politics specific social media. Getting the message out to them is more important then it is to get it to you. They aren't catering to you, they are catering the average voter who doesn't pay attention to political websites, doesn't watch political news shows, and doesn't read any political commentary.

[hunter]

45. How many social media and television addicts didn't even bother to vote?

Television and social media *IS* the problem. This is why our world is burning.

More of both is not the solution.

How bad will things have to get before people see that?

[crimycarny]

37. Why does Pete Buttigieg go on Fox News? How dare he!!

I agree. We need to be able to reach outside our own echo chamber.

Whether or not someone wants to post on Twitter or read Twitter posts should be up to them without judgments on their loyalty to the Democratic party. If someone feels strongly that they don't want to see Twitter posts, then block them or don't read them. Like it or not, Twitter is still a much larger platform than BlueSky, and to reach people outside your own echo chamber, you have to go them.

Personally, I rarely go to Twitter anymore as it's become such a right-wing cesspool. On the other hand, I'm grateful our Democratic leaders are posting on both Twitter and Bluesky because I know there is a much larger audience on Twitter. Hopefully they are reaching some undecideds on Twitter who may not be on BlueSky.

[LudwigPastorius]

14. But, Nazi Twitter has got a lot of videos of animals doing cute things.

CUTE ANIMALS!

[Frasier Balzov]

27. And the photoshopped furniture store

with the sign that says "Shack of Sit."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. WTF are DU members writing "DEMOCRAT" like the deplorables do? In capital letters no less

Not too late to edit it, you know.

[ShazamIam]

36. That bugs me as well, we are the Democratic party, and the word Democrat was created as a slur against Democratic.

I avoid using the word democrat. Sometimes using Democratic appears grammatically awkward but the main reason is probably because Democratic don't understand or k ow that the origins of Democrat was a deliberate slur.

[Gore1FL]

16. It's not like it makes Musk any money. It's a money hemorrhage.

As far as Amazon, most Americans have it in their retirement accounts.

It’s not as black-and-white as you make it out.

[Dave Bowman]

31. That scumbag can't hemorrhage enough.

[Maninacan]

17. Ron Johnson wi

Russian ron tells me to go to X to see how great Enron musk is. I told him no and that he is a coward.

[Maninacan]

51. Ron Johnson suckup

What is with Ron Johnson praising Musk as most intelligent . In all my years of working no one sucked up to anyone like that. These guys are Alpha males?

[orangecrush]

18. Same

[Voltaire2]

19. I Trash All Twitter Posts

It is the least I can do.

Our political leaders, with some notable exceptions, appear to have no sense of urgency and no will to resist the fascist coup.

[LexVegas]

20. I use what I wanna use. And it's "Democratic members". nt

[alarimer]

21. Apart from Musk being a Nazi, it's all but unusable

With all the bots and the disgusting ads.

[aggiesal]

23. A lot of them are transitioning to BlueSky, but ...

they have a ton more followers on Twitter. So any message they send on Twitter, will received more eyes.
They are also sending the same messages on BlueSky, but not as many eyes will see that message, because they haven't accumulated as many followers as they have on Twitter.
When the followers numbers on BlueSky, start to look like the numbers on Twitter, then you'll see them abandon their Twitter account and exclusively post on BlueSky.

That's how I see it.

[LeftInTX]

42. It's also hard to do both. Twitter probably remains more practical for many.

Hopefully, it will die away. But until then, that's what many use. Some were even criticizing Mexico's president for using Twitter. ("Why is she using nazi media?".) But how popular is Blue Sky among foreign governments?

[Be Leave On]

24. twitface

Generically, I refer to the "social media" mind numbing web sites as twitface.

[mellow]

28. Don't fund Nazis. Don't give Nazis control.

If you're using Twitter, your eyes and content are drawing funding to Twitter.

If you're using Twitter, you're ceding control of our communication to right wing extremists, who control the algorithm choosing what people will see.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. "WTF are elected, or any DEMs still using that "Xtwit" site??"

I have discovered that many of them are also on Threads and Blue Sky. There is apparently an app that lets people with these different social media entities, post on one and it instantly goes out on the others that are selected, all at the same time.

Right now, DU only allows displays embeds of Xitter but also recently will display a Threads post. Blue Sky will only show a link.

So if one wants to post something from them that they "see" on Xitter, they could go check to see if it also appears on an alternate and use that to post here.

[LeftInTX]

43. Oh cool about that app......I think manually posting on numerous apps has been a challenge.

Especially for reporters/media etc who are "tweeting live"

[demmiblue]

30. Also, stop recommending threads that have X links. Personally, I have put most of these people on ignore. n/t

[LPBBEAR]

39. I blocked that shitty

site in my firewall. I don't want to see any of the shit being posted there nor will I read anything posted there. If someone who claims to be on "our" side is still stupid enough and spineless enough to use that Nazi mfers site screw em. Fuck Musk and fuck Twitter/X.

[TicketyBoo]

32. Well, I'm sorry,

but I have a couple of folks I follow there who are not on BlueSky, so I continue to go there.

Sometimes I insult Musk when one of his posts incite me.

[Initech]

38. I still fight and block Nazis.

It's currently my only way of fighting back.

[ShazzieB]

40. I understand the urge to boycott websites and businesses that support RW crap.

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I really, really do. However, I also feel very strongly that we all have the right to make our own personal choices about these things, and that none of us has the right to police the choices others make about where to shop, post, etc.

I still have a Xitter account, only because the process of deleting turned out to be excessively complicated (deliberately, I'm sure). It turned out to be a multistep process, and I gave up when they started asking for extraneous information, like my phone number. (Really, Eloon? I don't think so. I have more than enough scammers calling me these days; I'm not about to let you sell my number to a million more. ) so I've settled for just continuing to not go there, at least for now.

I also have a Blue Sky account, and I hope it can eventually take the place of Xitter, but realistically, I know that's not going to happen overnight. In the meantime, entities like politicians and news organizations who need to get information out quickly and efficiently are going to continue to use what works for them. It's nice to see more and more of them signing on to and using Blue Sky, but it's very unrealistic, imo, to expect them to immediately leave Xitter entirely. Blue Sky is growing fast, but it still doesn't have the ability to reach as many people as Xitter does.

I'm hoping Xitter will eventually be abandoned by everyone except Nazis and other crazies, but any transition is going to be a gradual one. That's just how things like this work.

[LeftInTX]

44. You stated this eloquently!

[ShazzieB]

46. Thank you!

This (policing other people's choices) is kind of a pet peeve of mine, so i was happy to have an excuse to expound on it!

[Meowmee]

47. It's democratic, not democrat member... 😹

[Tickle]

49. I use Amazon and I post

on Twitter/ X guilt free. Thank you very much

[tishaLA]

50. I asked my congressman's office this very thing

This was in the middle of me complaining that he, and most of the rest of our side, isn't doing enough -- or at least not telling us what he's doing. And my representative is one of the most progressive members of the House (Jimmy Gomez).

His office said "well, he posts on Twitter what he's working on."

"And why is he even using that Nazi's site, anyhow?"

"He feels it's important to reach as many people as possible."

"Okey, but why isn't he also posting on Bluesky, which has the benefit of having progressive users?"

I finally ended the call A couple minutes later by thanking her for letting me rant for a bit.