Twitter - Do you Tweet ?

27 comments

• Call.Me.Ishmael

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  a year ago

  I have a Twitter account but it's my least-used social media. I use it to follow certain accounts and certain friends who are only on Twitter. For the purposes of our shared interests, Twitter allows far more explicit images than most other social medias. So, there's that. But it's really just a news feed for me.
• motorhead

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  a year ago

  No Twitter or Instagram. I’ve only used Facebook. Sometimes it’s annoying because I click on a story or photo and without an account you can’t access it It seems many news stories these days require a paywall to read. I guess I got spoiled with free news over the years and always figured the time would come when paid subscriptions would finally be the norm. I just wasn’t ready for it yet. I have a friend on the east coast that still subscribes to real newspapers. He gets a couple of New York papers plus a Philadelphia paper and msybe some others. He spends over $1200 per year on Papers
• shadowcat

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  a year ago

  TUSCL is the only media that I post on.
• Hank Moody

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  a year ago

  Twitter is free for now but Elon is making changes to try and justify his overpaid price. I follow some stuff for work and others for fun but don’t tweet. As Ish said, some of the girls who post pg13 on IG post x rated on twitter.
• Dolfan

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  a year ago

  Not on twitter, I've read tweets or news articles (using that term very generously) about tweets and been able to see them. They seem to have gradually moved more and more towards forcing an account to read. Used to be even the explicit images could be viewed without an account, then you had to click a button to see them, then you had to sign in. Now it seems you have to sign in to see anything. I presume it's likely a drive toward profitability, getting users to sign in drastically increases the quality of data they gather and allows for better targeting of ads, or at least better looking metrics to buyers of ads. The additional efficacy of those more targeted ads is highly questionable. I doubt I'll create an account, I'll probably just quit reading it.
• PhredJohnson

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  a year ago

  I find Twitter to be a great source of uncensored news. That and explicit ho posts.
• shailynn

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  a year ago

  I go to Twitter to get betting tips, a lot of people post sports betting info, but I rarely go there anymore because there’s so many ads, so much garbage to wade through, and this was long before Elon took over. Note - to read most of this stuff you do have to register. I have registered using a throw away email, not linking my name or any photos in anyway and I’ve never tweeted, or even “liked” a post before - so it’s easy to remain anonymous on there. Same with Instagram and Facebook which you pretty much have to register if you’re reading a random article somewhere on the internet and it’s linked in to one of those sites.
• crosscheck

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  a year ago

  I got a Twitter account to allow me to look at things, but I've never posted.
• twentyfive

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  a year ago

  I registered there a while back using a burner account, since Musk took over it's full of junk and pop-ups, I won't bother anymore.
• skibum609

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  a year ago

  No twitter, no snapchat, no facebook, no apps, no nothing and never will. Just gives a voice to rats, liars, thugs and children.
• misterorange

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  a year ago

  I don't use ANY of the social media platforms. I've had a Linked In page for probably 10 years or more. It's got my work history and stuff. I've never "posted" a single thing and can't remember the last time I even logged into it. Once in a while I get an email that says so-and-so sent you a message. I usually ignore it, or if it's someone I want to talk to I might give them a call. Listen, I'm 56 so I'm no spring chicken, but I'm not quite an old fart yet either. I could probably learn to understand this stuff if I had even the slightest interest in it, but I just don't see the point. I think tweeting and poking and hashtags (no idea what that means) are all silly games best suited for high school kids. Here's the thing I really don't get. Let's say shailynn uses Instagram, Motorhead uses Facebook, and crosscheck is on Twitter. If I wanted to send a message to all three of them, I'd have to do it on 3 different platforms? Or if I had some amazing re-post of an article I read and I know they just HAVE to see it, I've got to be a member of all 3 platforms and post on them individually? As far as I can tell, that's the equivalent (hypothetically) of if they each have different phone carriers (T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T) and I'd need to have accounts with each of those companies if I wanted to make a phone call to them. Maybe I'm a miserable old bastard, but I think the whole thing is just plain stupid.
• groundball

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  a year ago

  I had twitter and actually liked it for a while. Then Musk took over and I got sick of seeing so many junk ads and suggested comments for obvious cryptocurrency scams, so I deleted my account.
• motorhead

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  a year ago

  I never post on Facebook for friends or the public. I’m just in some private sports groups. But I’ve put most of the groups on snooze. People just can’t be civil. You cannot have an intelligent discussion on baseball or basketball. If don’t agree with the original poster you are just labeled as a “hater” or “not a true fan”. Kind of getting sick of it
• misterorange

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  a year ago

  ^^ Haha... better to stick with TUSCL where we are always civil and respect each other's opinions!!
• mark94

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  a year ago

  Now that Twitter allows all viewpoints, I find it useful and entertaining. The trick is to set it up to follow the right people. Starting tomorrow, Trump is no longer required to stay off Twitter under his contract with Truth Social. Will he return to Twitter ? I hope so.
• JamesSD

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  a year ago

  Technically I have a Twitter account on one of my burner email addresses I used to view porn on Twitter. But Twitter was bad before Elon and has become worse since.
• gammanu95

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  a year ago

  Yes. I started in New Orleans to receive Emergency Notifications for tropical cyclones and anything that may go wrong at one of the plants along the river. Then I started following pornstars. There's a lot of gorgeous pussy on Twitter. None of insta censorship BS Now, I created and manage the Twitter account for the practice- new physicians and staff, holiday/emergency closings, partnerships, and I share research or articles of interest to our patient market. That's how I also got my xBox series X a few years ago. Several websites would tweet updates when the Microsoft store, [view link], Target, etc would be releasing their next allotment. You go to the store website at zero hour and spam the purchase button. Eventually, not the first ten tries, but eventually that's how I scored two. One for me and one for resale on ebay - that resale paid for both and a bit more. Couldn't have done that without a Twitter account.
• ATACdawg

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  a year ago

  On the other hand, Rachel_ogds has some VERY impressive content on Twitter....🔥🔥🔥🔥
• minnow

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  a year ago

  No Twitter for me. I figure anyplace where one tweets to communicate is for the birds......
• misterorange

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  a year ago

  Musk is supposedly a smart dude, but I don't know how you square that with the fact he paid $44 billion for something worth less than TUSCL.
• Muddy

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  a year ago

  Na I'm not on twitter. I do see tweets from time to time though
• funonthaside

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  a year ago

  Musk bought Twitter merely as a power play, to attempt to prove a point about free speech. When you have the highest level of FU money possible, it's chump change to him. It wasn't a financially-sound move, for sure.
• mark94

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  a year ago

  “It wasn't a financially-sound move, for sure.” In the short run, it wasn’t. In the long run, he envisions turning Twitter into “X”, which will include video ( e.g. Tucker Carlson ) and financial services. He will also add artificial intelligence. If he pulls it off, it could increase his original investment ten fold.
• mark94

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  a year ago

  “the fact he paid $44 billion for something worth less than TUSCL.” Musk said Twitter is now valued at $20 billion. As the new CEO brings back advertisers, that will go up.
• mark94

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  a year ago

  Incidentally, SpaceX, which includes the starlink communication satellites, is valued around $150 Billion. Elon owns about 95% of that. He is expected to take that public in a few years, by which time it should be worth a lot more. So, he is building the world’s most powerful Artificial Intelligence computer ( Dojo ), has a media site that controls the flow of information ( Twitter ), he plans on building billions of robots ( Optimus), he has a worldwide communication network in space ( Starlink ), he has a fleet of rockets ( SpaceX), and millions of cars controlled by AI. Has anyone seen a movie called Terminator ?
• georgmicrodong

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  a year ago

  Twitter is great for porn and gaming. I have two accounts, one for each.
• SanchoRG

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  a year ago

  If there is a tweet worth a shit, someone will take a screenshot and post it on social media elsewhere