@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill the smallness on display can hardly be measured

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill Why is anyone remaining on the comments thread of his 44 billion dollar blog again?

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill And every one of those news sites and their reporters will happily continue to generate free content for him.

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill time to move away of X - Hello Washington Post, New York Times, The Atlantic etc.

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill and yet, millions of people are still there, like what more does the guy have to do?

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill Those news outlets should stop covering him, his businesses, and don't accept any advertising from him.

Then they should do everything they can to encourage every other news outlet to do the same. Make him a non-person, and his businesses unprofitable.

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill

Can some please confirm Musk got past age of 2, ( which is infamous for toddler tantrums ), went through childhood, puberty then adolescence and as actually an ADULT. He seems to be have like a spoilt 2 year old.

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill

^ cc @peterhense
This _still_ is in my eyes “Abuse of dominant power” …
#TFEU or it will break.

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill Great research (assuming it's true). "ElonJet now posts on Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky." I don't think that last sentence is very professional though, looks like something personal.

"ElonJet now posts on Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky."

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill ElonJet also posts on Telegram, Nostr, and (*sigh* guess you gotta cover all the bases), TruthSocial.

Also, people shouldn't forget that it was under Dorsey's watch that the t(dot)co shortener was implemented, with some not being happy about it.

https://www.fastcompany.com/1657986/twitter-introduces-bitly-baiting-url-shortener-tco

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill on the other hand, […] malice […] incompetence.

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill

Anybody who is still on Twitter, either socially or professionally, they get what they get. I really don't have any sympathy? It's not like he masks who he is. Musk is trash.

Jamie

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill so.. it's not all user agents, but if you want to bypass this behavior you can change your browser's agent to Curl apparently 🤦‍♂️

joel@joels-Mac-mini ~ % for link in $links;do echo $link;time curl -v `echo $link` --user-agent Firefox 2&>1;echo $?;done
https://t.co/AKFXiLrMz5
https://t.co/uQqI9nXYRv
https://t.co/KJHtHOHSPX
https://t.co/DTuxeaN4Hw
https://t.co/gLNJk8zKpj
curl -v `echo $link` --user-agent Firefox 2&> 1 0.01s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 22.868 total
0

@drewharwell free censorship by musk

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill nothing he does is shocking. TwitX is dead and has been for awhile.

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill And even though they publish an article like this one, the Washington Post is still giving content to Twitter from every reporter with a byline. Hey, reporters, do you even read your own paper?

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill every one of these news sites should be setting up their own ActivityPub instance and giving their people accounts there. Then they can either ditch Twitter or only mirror posts to it. That won't stop Musk's throttling efforts but it will send a message.

Free speech should include freedom to say "look elsewhere".

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill pathetic. He’s off the deep end, needs help. And his clearances with gov should be revoked.

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill petty minded tosser. #MuckFusk

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill

Musk's twisted version of "free speech."
I appreciate his unintended transparency.

#Musk

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill @zebpalmer

As long as he's not reducing the speed at which Tweet Deleter removes my content there, I don't mind. Not sure why people still are on the dead bird site anyway.

@jeremybmerrill @drewharwell please beat us more Elon says nytimes etc

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill
When are they going to finally abandon X?

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill 🤣🤣

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill
Did Elon show up to fight Mark last night?

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill Ah, the concept of free delayed speech.

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill It's beyond me why *any* news organization is still on Twitter. 🤷‍♂️

@drewharwell@mastodon.social @jeremybmerrill@journa.host Oh no!!

No longer relevant to me... I'm not on Twitter. In fact, I added twitter.com to my ad blocker, so don't even see embedded tweets.

Why is this so hard for some people (cough cough... journalists)?

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill Twitter / X started doing this with Threads links right after Threads launched. https://www.threads.net/@jank0/post/CuV_5fprO3z

@drewharwell 😂 he’s so petty.

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill absolutely his right, but frankly he's strangling himself slowly while doing it. If there was an exercise in shooting one's self in the foot, Xitter (pronounced "Shitter") would be it. I'm not convinced it's not on purpose.

I've seen this tactic before. Destroy something by taking it over and mismanaging it on purpose. *cough Libertarian Party*

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill @JosephMenn lol I just can’t

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill A real free speech absolutist? Or a petulant toddler of a dictator?

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill this behavior is the same as CCP 😂

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill He’s a controller but he won’t win. Money isn’t everything. Everyone must support sources and sites that he doesn’t control. We have to preserve sources of accurate information and news distribution that is true and uncompromised.