Twitter (now X) has become a great platform for following news, and many media groups (including ours) share links to…

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      I think some news companies are trying to sue him for linking to articles without paying them, which is a strange turn of events given it wasn’t too long ago that businesses would paid you to link to their site (that’s what Elon says anyway; I’m not in web commerce so I don’t know personally how it works.) So, I guess he wants to have people write the news on his site instead?

      I think news companies are going bust?

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    “Although advertisers have taken a stand against this change, Musk plans to go ahead with it anyway.”

    Lol what a fucking renob.

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    The one thing Twitter was still sort of useful for was getting feeds from news organizations that aren’t on Mastodon yet, this is going to kill it for that.

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      Yup. I still go to Twitter to supplement what I get news-wise from here and Mastodon, and as they drive news sites from Twitter, the less use I have for it.

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    And it doesn’t even matter. I’m starting to wonder if Elon is just trying to see how much he can annoy people without them moving to another social media platform. Twitter wasn’t great before and is now much worse from what I can tell, yet its users don’t actually care because if they did, they’d have moved to alternatives, which hasn’t really happened.

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    Keeping up with Twitter news has become like watching a Netflix show that you know got canceled before any of the plot threads were resolved.

    Twitter’s death is inevitable at this point, so who cares about the details?

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    This moron is trying too hard to kill Twitter (X). I really don’t understand how many people are comfortable with his vesianic decisions and keep using the platform as if nothing happens.