After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts
Some people think Musk is scared about the change in the race.
I agree this is of questionable veracity, but could you imagine if for example fb users had trouble following Trump? There would be a whole news cycle culminating in a congressional hearing. When people talk about the asymmetrical standards that conservatives are held to vs liberals in the media this is a prime example.
He posted a picture on his stream of the error message "There's a problem here" over the Biden/Harris campaign page, so at very least he's trolling instead of taking his job seriously. Twitter is his private platform so whatever, but it's another reminder that Musk will not be impartial and is actually pouring millions into the Trump campaign, so if you're still there now would be a good time to leave.
Yo it was a good time to leave back when he bought it. It was a good time again when he dumped moderation. It was a good time again when he changed the name to X. Really its always been a good time to leave. Anyone who hasn’t left by now has already ignored so many signs not even Ace of Base can help them.
at very least he’s trolling instead of taking his job seriously
Let's be real, there's nothing he personally could do to fix this issue. He just plain doesn't have the skills.
This is what happens when trying to give equal platforming to buttcracks on top of shoulders. They shit all over everything and dont understand why the mic was taken from them. They dont understand why we can post about single payer healthcare and they can't say immigrants deserve to die. They think all ideals are equal on the battlegrounds of legislature.
Correction: some of them truly know why. However, they are trying to see what they can get away with, like a toddler testing their boundaries ("but why can't I have dessert instead of dinner!?"). It is our fault if we fall prey to their BS.
The only thing required for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing.
Shocking that people are still using Shitter in 2024.
Anybody still using it at this point deserves all the brain damage it causes. No excuses.
Sadly, people with brain damage but aren't vegetables can still vote (poorly).
Is it? It's where most people still post publicly, and until someone unseats Twitter on that throne (which I hope is really soon) no other network is going to compete in terms of having the users people want to follow...
All the shitter domains are on my DNS block list. Happier for it.
Can we revoke his government contracts now?
Seriously though, it should be grounds for getting blacklisted from the government.
Or if the company in question is strategically crucial to national interests, as is the case here, it should be put into federal receivership with the appropriate relevant agency - so, SpaceX goes to NASA, Tesla goes to the DoT, Twitter goes to the FCC, etc.
I so deeply want this to be a case of “fuck around and find out”.
Musk made 151 tweets on Sunday
Assuming he's awake for 16 hours, that's over 9 tweets an hour. Someone is definitely scared.
...so it's like it was during the hunter biden laptop story and covid?
Why is anyone still on, "The Social Media Platform Formerly Known As Twitter" ?
Its still twitter. You can't take the twit out as long as a twit owns it.
Preaching to the choir.
Isn't that, like, illegal?
Maybe technically in Florida and Texas, given that they passed a law to try to stop sites deplatforming Trump.
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/bills/3102.htm
"The owner or operator of a social media website who contracts with a social media website user in this State is subject to a private right of action by a user if the social media website purposely: ... (2) uses an algorithm to disfavor, shadowban, or censure the user's religious speech or political speech".
In May 2022, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled to strike the law (and similarly there was a 5th Circuit judgement), but just this month the US Supreme Court vacated the Court of Appeals judgement (i.e. reinstated the law) and remanded it back to the respective Court of Appeals. That said, the grounds for doing that were the court had not done the proper analysis, and after they do that it might be struck down again. But for now, the laws are technically not struck down.
It would be ironic if after conservatives passed this law, and stacked the supreme court and got the challenge to it vacated, the first major use of it was used against Xitter for censoring Harris!
Even without all that messing with stuff too much is bound to clash with protections those kinds of sites have around editorialising. That is, by doing such stuff X says "we're not actually a pinboard, we're a newspaper, we're editorially responsible for what's on there", and then prosecution can come along and say "so, your newspaper published an article calling for
<crime>
, didn't it? That's your speech now, not speech of some random user, isn't it?".No. That doesn’t make it right though.
the corporatocracy is an authoritarian dictatorship and there's nothing you can do about it
No, if you are rich enough.
Still being on Twitter? Immoral and destructive, but still legal.
Maybe we should take a page from the Trumpers here and declare it a conspiracy!
The deep state doesn't want people following Harris! They don't want you to know about it. They think they know better than you!
"Let me tell you, folks, I know how to follow people and this Twitter situation smells. I know all about smelling. Smells. Smelling. Smell... Ling! The word just sounds awful, right? They want you to smell things. They're coming for your smells!"
Haha, yeah... This is Elon Musk's X.com we're talking about. It's just sheer incompetence and the usual buggy bullshit. We should expect this as normal X behavior at this point. Is anyone really surprised that X is suddenly throwing errors when users try basic functionality? Come on. The platform is garbage and that's not even taking account the garbage present on the platform.
Trump's going to be mad that x is becoming a direct competitor to truth social
What do they even expect? They know who’s site they are using.
The remaining users are 100% in denial that it's a Nazi website now.
Nah a lot of them are just actual Nazis.
Keep being transparent as fuck, Space Karen
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This might be one of Twitter's automatic security features I'd heard about a while back (prior to the Musk takeover). Supposedly, Twitter stops accounts from getting a large amount of followers in a short amount of time to try to limit botting. Sometimes, rarely, it can trigger when a large amount of real people follow a real account.
I think I heard about it when I ran into the issue myself, but I don't remember what account it was that I was trying to follow.
Go away with your sensible explanations, we have conspiracy to uncover.
Which goes to show that if you are a public figure whether in politics, entertainment, or otherwise, owning your own server for social media instead of relying on Zuck and Musk should be a critical concern at this point.
There is no reason for the Harris campaign to not dip their toe into federated social media at this point given Musk's antagonism towards them.
People big enough to have a staffed social media team will stilk have an Xitter account just because it is a viable vector to get news out. They may also have Truth Social account, just because it's there.
I agree with you and I will not let them off the hook. They have no legitimate excuse to be using racist, misogynist, transphobic, homophobic, bigoted right-wing platforms.
Do they also have a stormfront account? Fuck anyone who contributes to fascist owned platforms just because they are there.
I don't mind them having account there. They need to reach people where they are after all. I'm pissed at them for not being on any platform that is not owned by a fascist enabler oligarch at best.
Well put.
It's funny (scary) how the police and fire department never post to thir own websites about important timely information and updates.
It's in twitter and Facebook. I use neither anymore. Because obvious reasons.
This week, I could only find reference to the smell of natural gas covering half our city via a news site that quoted the FD's twitter.
Great work, guys!
Ew I. Accidently clicked on a twitter link I ieel so dirty
Maybe the reason Elon broke every part of Twitter was just so he has plausible deniability while he meddles with everything and desperately tries to get his name in every discussion.
😂 Space Karen
Musk and trump could share a deserted island outside the shipping lanes of the pacific and make the western hemisphere a calmer more peaceful place
They could both live on musk's mars colony, the first rockets are set to start as early as 2018!
I'm ashamed to say that when he was talking about that originally, I was gullible enough to think a one-way Mars trip would be worth doing.
I mean, I still think that, in the abstract, if we could make a good plan and trust the people back home. But I did not understand what massive pieces of shit billionaires all were and what a terrible idea it would be to volunteer for humanity's very first off-world company town.
Yeah but make sure they cant build a way back here first
Fuck that, keep him over the in the Atlantic.
What a fucking joke of a platform
Don't insult the Joker like that.
Stop.using.xitter
It appears the world’s most divorced bozo is at it again.
Can we please kick this dweeb back to Canada or Africa?
Hey, don't you dare try to pawn him off on us, bud.
I don't think I've ever said the phrase "Go back to Africa" unironically (as in outside of making fun of racists) in my life, but here we are.
Go back to Africa Elon..
At least I said it to a white guy.
to be fair it's probably because twitter is hosted on a literal potato
GLaDOS would NEVER associate with a chump like Musk.
Oh, GLaDOS allowed Wheatley be a part of the team.
No surprise.
elon is just mad he's stuck with the painfully dull dud jd vance
Shocker
Not technology.
prolly fake news but i would not be surprised.
telsatubby could be trying to make up his losses on a bad trade, we've all been there.
Teslatubby
K, thats it!!!
This is my new fave nickie for Elmo