Who still uses Twitter / X and why?

I turned it off. I was only really into NoContextBrits and to get the attention of customer services teams who seem to think email is a shit way to communicate to solve problems. Hopefully I’ll be a minor stat on the boot up the arse that that horrid bastard deserves.

Folk have repeating that for over a year, and yet ..

I should have added 'X is dead--for me!'

If Musk has got any sort of sense of humour he’ll buy Bluesky.

I had 2 Twitter accounts - 1 business, 1 personal and I’ve removed the app from my devices. Not that I did a lot, but even with little interaction my feed was full of Elon, Trump and Farage/Reform garbage even if I’d blocked their accounts

I still use it for all the usual stuff I did before: politics, journalism, philosophy, science, and of course World Bollard Association.

It’s different post-Musk. You can no longer be banned for political views, which is an improvement, but the engagements farmers are worse, and so is the porn spam.

Pre/post-Musk I’ve almost never used the block feature.

Everyone I followed on Twitter is now on threads. so there's zero need for X. I stopped actively using it when the First Lady bought it, I deleted my acct earlier this year.

The First Lady needs a girdle and a push up bra

https://twitter.com/jacdur97/status/1856058288971882896?s=61&t=27Xz8oI3pGlaNEQvowJBcg

Not that I did a lot, but even with little interaction my feed was full of Elon, Trump and Farage/Reform garbage even if I’d blocked their accounts

I never understand statements like this. I don't see *any* of that shit.

somafunk
Full Member
The First Lady needs a girdle and a push up bra

https://twitter.com/jacdur97/status/1856058288971882896?s=61&t=27Xz8oI3pGlaNEQvowJBcg
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That pic. I never knew he was Scottish.

 

Jesus Christ poopscoop, at least I had the good grace to hide the topless First Lady behind a link.

somafunk
Full Member
Jesus Christ poopscoop, at least I had the good grace to hide the topless First Lady behind a link.

Hey, that's one hell of a man there. He needs all the exposure (to UV rays mainly) he can get.

Mind you, he'll have to be colour matched to Trump in the long term.

Not me

I have a lifetime, unappealable ban for saying Trump and everyone who votes for him is the "C" word

Hate speech apparently. I guess my mistake was using hate speech against the wrong type of people

There’s apparently nearly a million people signed up to Bluesky in the last week, it has 15million subscribers now.

I use Xitter to troll unpleasant people on it, JK Rowling gets trolled, I’ve made a few references to Elonia Musk as the new First Lady over the last few day, but I can’t be bothered to go back and see how many people I’ve pissed off.

Just sniping, not close-quarters engagement.

I have a lifetime, unappealable ban for saying Trump and everyone who votes for him is the “C” word

Hate speech apparently. I guess my mistake was using hate speech against the wrong type of people

I posted up the photo of the lady holding the sign with ‘Trump is a ****’ in front of his golf club, dunno if there were any significant repercussions, I’ve since trolled several other people like First Lady Musk, so it seems not.
I guess I could be accused of childish behaviour, but I’ve always tried to be nice to people on social media, so it’s rather refreshing to just be a complete asshole and say what I like to such reprehensible and disgusting humans. [img] [/img]

BoardinBob
Full Member
Not me

I have a lifetime, unappealable ban for saying Trump and everyone who votes for him is the “C” word

Hate speech apparently. I guess my mistake was using hate speech against the wrong type of people

Lol, well, now I know how to get perma banned when I feel the need. Kudos for going out in a blaze of glory. 😀

I guess I could be accused of childish behaviour, but I’ve always tried to be nice to people on social media, so it’s rather refreshing to just be a complete asshole and say what I like to such reprehensible and disgusting humans.

Lol, every so often someone on here posts something that makes me realise that the guilty little pleasures I have going on in my head are, in fact, shared by others too.

I'm on my 5th or 6th (7th?) account, been banned on three of them i think, gave up on a couple as they became bot magnets.

I think it's one of the funniest sites on the entire interwebs.

A few people leaving twitter because it’s so unpleasant also appear to be saying they use it to troll those they disagree with and use words they certainly wouldn’t get away with on STW.

Now do as you will - I’m all for free speech - but do some of you not think you might have been partially creating the cesspit? If you move to Bluesky and write similar stuff it will be as bad as twitter in a couple of years.

It's been a cesspit for a while

And so much misinformation, I've got a couple of mates who've fully gone down the rabithole with chemtrails etc it's a gateway to some truly nutty shit

Gave up years ago, don't miss it. It was increasingly garbage.

Hey, that’s one hell of a man there. He needs all the exposure (to UV rays mainly) he can get.

Preferably exposure to short wavelength UVC rays, which he'll get plenty of if he ****s off to mars.

Gave it up at new year.  I miss the old Twitter a bit.  I know there was the following only thing but you have to be disciplined! The chemtrail nutters and 15 min city haters did it for me… I felt better after ditching it.

I’m not sure if those not signed up to Twitter can see this, but it’s quite funny:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Clifton%20Suspension%20Bridge%22&src=trend_click&vertical=trends

I've got one foot in bluesky and one in Twitter. I signed up in 2009 to promote my music stuff, had a couple of thousand followers, and so i follow (and am followed by) people in the dance music/production community that I know or have spoken to in the past. So i still enjoy that aspect.

My bluesky account has about a dozen followers and i don't really post there anyway.

I've always enjoyed twitter for being able to stay up to date on certain things (eg news) qnd choose your own sources, but I'm starting to feel like this would still be an apposite moment to **** the whole thing off and reduce my social media consumption by a large chunk...

I use twitter only for special / niche interest stuff (my account is largely outdoors stuff in Welsh language) and thusly have few problems with the psychos, I do take the bait occasionally for shits and giggles. Not sure if Bluesky is as good for that kind of niche yet.

easily
Free Member
I’m not sure if those not signed up to Twitter can see this, but it’s quite funny:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Clifton%20Suspension%20Bridge%22&src=trend_click&vertical=trends
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As someone says on there, that bridge was always wsy too up it's own arse for most people's liking. Lol

 

As with others on here I was privileged enough to be able to curate a fairly civilised and informative space on Twitter. It was starting to get to me that even though my feed was mostly fine, it was floating in a sea of nazis so I kept looking for alternatives. Mastodon was a bit too much like setting up a custom linux kernel and threads seemed to be mostly influencer stuff I'm not interested in. Bluesky is getting more like twitter in terms of volume of users but so far the robust block function and good moderation options seem to be keeping working well.

not particularly IT savvy and never got my head around tweeting/retweeting etc so just stuck to FB as its easier to use.

ive read all the negative stuff on here about twitter/X/musk so no wish to dig any deeper and sort an account out, and to be honest it baffles me why a lot of the links on here (especially in the trump and ukraine threads) are 'X' links if we despise it so much.  why promote it?? *shrugged shoulders emoji*

I left Twitter about 18 months ago. For a political activist it was pretty useful, but the culture wars stuff got really tiresome and I really do not want to be helping Musk or to be associated with him in any way

Have had a number of accounts that were banned, ultimately deleted the last couple - the slide to the right and increasing toxicity and intolerance just ruined it for me, knocked it on the head as it was doing me no good at all. I was (and am) open to hearing and debating across a spectrum of opinion, but it got so that every single tweet thread - every single one -  would quickly lose any semblence of good faith argument and end up with accusations that I'm either a supporter of terrorism or a nonce, and of course post-Musk there's zero moderation so people can say what they want and it'll live online forever. Far better for my headspace to remove myself from it.

On Threads for awhile and joined Bluesky this week, both far more pleasant for the moment, almost all the interesting people I used to enjoy on Twitter are on Bluesky so I think that's my ultimate destination. Still on Facebook for some social groups but it's almost completely lost the useful function of keeping up to date with friends and family and instead just seems to be promoting an endless stream of right-wing groups, the ONLY interaction with which I ever have is to block, nothing I actually find interesting ever seems to pop up.

Still has the best space and defence coverage so I'm still using Twitter. Musk is muted for now, heading towards a block.

Also excellent pallet and bridge content https://twitter.com/thinkdefence

I suppose you might say there’s *clears throat* an X-odus happening?

Why yes, I was just leaving (with someone on FB’s joke)

 I’ve got a couple of mates who’ve fully gone down the rabithole with chemtrails

Your mates are turned on by rabbit pheromones?

Never had the app.

Will only occasionally follow a link from here, but since Musk has been at the helm I've not even followed links.

If everyone gave up on it, it would no longer be a "thing" and Musk loses his investment.

Now folks like LBC and Newsagents moving across to BlueSky the need to check across on ****ter is reduced. Still some folks over there that i like to catch up on (use the following tab only) but less and less. GRaun needs to have an actual feed on bluesky rather than some ****ter mirror - they'll have to move properly now I guess

Copied from Dave Troy on Twitter (so you don’t have to click a Twitter link)

/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky, for those fleeing there. Folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).

2/The people who aided Dorsey in pursuing this vision were other libertarian/post-rationalists connected with effective altruism and other online anarchist movements. One network called TPOT (‘that part of Twitter’) was instrumental. It carried over into Bluesky’s founding DNA.

3/Someone made the visualization above in 2023, showing the TPOT/EA network quite clearly. EA as you know is part of TESCREAL and the belief systems that have driven Sam Bankman Fried and Elon Musk. SBF also put money into Musk’s Twitter buy.

4/Now that Dorsey has bailed, Bluesky’s DNA is basically TPOT people but without a funding source. Who is going to win in that scenario? I don’t know, but I’m not putting money on the users.

5/Bluesky’s most recent funding round was provided by Blockchain Capital LLC. What do those folks want from their investment? I don’t know. But that’s the question to be asking. Crypto money outspent Big Oil in this cycle … to the tune of $200mm.

So anyway it’s fun to call it “the good place” but the fact is users will likely once again get a rude awakening when it either collapses or is captured by Musk, or worse. You’re using a free service on someone else’s dime; you should ask what they want from you.

7/More on that Blockchain Capital LLC funding round here.

10/?It get's worse. Blockchain Capital LLC was co-founded by Steve Bannon pal Brock Pierce, a major crypto advocate, perennial presidential candidate, and close friend of Eric Adams. Pierce has dozens of other shady MAGA/Russia ties as well.

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1856453144948961771?s=61&t=27Xz8oI3pGlaNEQvowJBcg

the-muffin-manFull Member
I still use it because I think living in your own bubble of people who only think like you is counter-productive.

Isn't that the issue though? The algorithm just shows you more and more of the same  - so you don't get a balanced view. You end up living more and more in your own bubble - intolerant of anyone who dares to have a different opinion?

intolerant of anyone who dares to have a different opinion?

That's what you think eh? Well, **** you!!

@mccraque

...see my response on P1 to this same question. 🙂

It's basically a republican state sponsored social media platform now, so is mostly useless, IMO.

Warning, deeply disturbing and probably not safe for work... or anywhere else.

https://twitter.com/BrentLeeSDCIC/status/1856340880359108693/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1856340880359108693&currentTweetUser=BrentLeeSDCIC

Warning, deeply disturbing and probably not safe for work… or anywhere else.

returns a page doesn’t exist?

^^ Works for me but I only access X via a browser. If you long click the link if might give you another option of how to open it?

(Not having the app installed is one of the ways I keep my usage down.)

I’ve signed up and spent the last few hours searching for my Twitter follows on bluesky and I’ve found 50 out of 106, out of those 50 only 6 have any posts.

So back to Twitter  it is.

This is the correct link to Poopscoop's linked tweet:

https://twitter.com/BrentLeeSDCIC/status/1856340880359108693