“The loss of science on #Twitter is a contemporary mass extinction event”, says Professor Edward #Holmes, who recently was awarded the prestigious Croonian Medal by the Royal Society. He has also deleted his Twitter account recently. “Twitter used to be THE place where you shared ideas, data, preprints and papers. Now it’s a post-Apocalyptic hell hole.” #scicomm

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/01/16/elon-musks-war-against-science-evidence-and-objective-truth/

Twitter passa oficialmente a usar endereço "x.com"
🔗 https://tugatech.com.pt/t60341-twitter-passa-oficialmente-a-usar-endereco-x-com
...
#elonmusk #internet #SEO #twitter #noticias #tech #tugatech

Brazil's Supreme Court minister includes Elon Musk (#X / #Twitter) in inquiry on digital militias https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2024/04/08/brazil-s-supreme-court-minister-includes-elon-musk-in-inquiry-on-digital-militias

I abandoned Twtter/X a little less than two years ago and haven't missed it. I left because I noted that once Elon Musk took over, the amount of objectionable content that came my way increased significantly. Here's an interesting take from Nora Loreto, who seems to be debating whether to leave. https://noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-tide-has-gone-out-on-twitter

#Twitter #Mastodon

Judge skeptical of lawsuit brought by Elon Musk's X over hate speech research https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234901186/judge-skeptical-of-lawsuit-brought-by-elon-musks-x-over-hate-speech-research 'In a hearing over Zoom on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer appeared highly skeptical of the case, devoting the majority of the proceeding to grilling Musk's lawyer over why the lawsuit was brought at all.

Jon Hawk, X's lawyer, said at core the suit is about honoring data security agreements to protect the platform's users.

Breyer was unconvinced.

"You put that in terms of safety, and I've got to tell you, I guess you can use that word, but I can't think of anything basically more antithetical to the First Amendment than this process of silencing people from publicly disseminated information once it's been published," Breyer said.

"You're trying to shoehorn this theory by using these words into a viable breach of contract claim," the judge added.' #socialmedia #Twitter #ElonMusk #freespeech #research #hatespeech

What We Lost When Twitter Became X - "As a former Twitter employee, I watched Elon Musk undermine one of the Internet’s most paradoxical, special places."

Article By Sheon Han https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-we-lost-when-twitter-became-x

#X #Twitter #SocialMedia

Victorian medicine chest, which contains medications for pain relief, such as opium. It also includes a set of scales, weights, a pill tile, and a spatula. It was probably used in the home or by an apothecary.

Photo: Wellcome Collection, London.

#histodons #histodon #history #histmed #medhist #medical #museum #museums #Twitter #twittermigration #twitterstorians

In September 2020 I started what became a long #Twitter thread on #MultilingualResearch.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1307774697531113474

Starting today, I'm stopping it on Twitter and continuing it on #Mastodon.

Here's a rollup of the complete Twitter thread.
https://resee.it/tweet/1307774697531113474

Here's a nearly complete archived version in the @waybackmachine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220908060944/https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1307774697531113474

Watch this space for updates.

#Academia #Multilingualism
@academicchatter

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Companies and orgs that have suspended advertising on twitter this week

Apple
Comcast
Disney
European Commission
IBM
Lionsgate
Paramount
Warner Brothers
NBC Universal

Yeah, yeah, what took them so long? And how long will they stay away?
But it's a start. And better late than never.
Hopefully, more will find the courage and quit funding that cesspool; after all, there is safety in numbers.

Also https://gizmodo.com/tesla-investors-call-elon-musk-suspended-1851031830
#twitter #Apple
1/n

This was before that idiot got rid of headlines.

“Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible”
https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/
#twitter #elonmusk

Oh it gets better...

This is all part of "The Great Reset". Damn this guy's really digging his own hole

#EU #DSA #Twitter

here we go... this is Musks answer. This won't end well for Twitter!

#EU #DSA #Musk #Twitter

"The EU has just sent formal letter to Elon Musk over "indications" that Twitter/X is “being used to disseminate illegal content and disinformation in the EU" in the wake of Hamas’ attacks on Israel."

#Musk has 24 hours to respond. I love it!

#Twitter #EU #Europe

“Pointing out the rampant antisemitism on X (#Twitter) is not ‘controlling’ anyone or threatening X’s business,” says American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch following the threat by Elon Musk to sue ADL for defamation.

Looks like someone on #Twitter predicted it back in November. https://twitter.com/AnAndyPaul/status/1588544413252587520?s=20

Elon Musk engaging with white nationalists and antisemites who want to ban the Anti-Defamation League from his platform formerly known as #Twitter. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-757445

For your own safety: leave #Twitter

It’s not worth putting your safety in risk over a social media platform

After the community rules crumbling away now also the few left over safe guards like a simple but needed ‘block’ feature is in danger because overlord Elon doesn’t thinks ‘it makes sense’

Again, he couldn’t be more wrong

Even with moderation on a social platform features like blocks and mutes need to remain in place for multiple reasons

Elon, you don’t make sense

#Twitter (o X) ha querido entorpecer el acceso a las webs que no gustan a Elon Musk: lo han hecho ralentizando sus enlaces según NYT

https://www.genbeta.com/actualidad/twitter-x-ha-querido-entorpecer-acceso-a-webs-que-no-gustan-a-elon-musk-han-hecho-ralentizando-sus-enlaces-nyt

made me laugh. Appreciated. #twitter

"You maniac! You blew it up! Damn you!"

#x #ElonMusk #elon #twitter #twittermigration #twitterlogo

Creo que ya sé cuál será el nuevo logo de #twitter

Mira tú por dónde sí que vamos a ver morir a #twitter...

There is a whole (and growing) Wikipedia page about the hellsite under Noel Skum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_under_Elon_Musk

#twitter #melon

In case you still don't believe that #Twitter is now full MAGA, it just blocked promotion of a Democratic candidate's ad because it mentions #AbortionRights
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rachel-hunt-north-carolina-twitter-video-abortion_n_648b4257e4b0756ff8631dec

The thing about #Calckey is that it's developing incredibly fast in part because we realize all these recent feature announcements are urgent.

We want to build softare that's competitive not just with #Mastodon, but also #Twitter and #Bluesky.

This is why -- within the last week -- we launched post editing, numerous accessibility improvements, and other goodies.

And I personally migrated my account from mastodon.social to calckey.social.

But of course, there's bugs and slowdowns and errors. Lots of stuff that was just completely unpredictable happened.

I've personally been on the phone for hours on end trying to sort things out for the team.

Social media never sleeps.

Ich sags ja nicht gern, aber auf #Mastodon gibts immer weniger interessante lokale Inhalte. Fast alle meine #Leipzig Informanten haben im Laufe der letzten Wochen das Veröffentlichen hier komplett eingestellt. Warum?

Schade. Ich will nicht zu #Twitter zurück, aber ich will auch aktuelle lokale News 🤑🤮🙄😭

„Vox populi, vox dei“, schreibt #ElonMusk zu einer Abstimmung, ob er #Trump wieder auf #Twitter lassen solle.

Zu schade, dass Musk offenbar nicht das ganze Zitat kennt: „Nec audiendi qui solent dicere: 'Vox populi, vox Dei', cum tumultuositas vulgi semper insanię proxima sit, zu Deutsch: „Auf diejenigen muss man nicht hören, die zu sagen pflegen, ‚Volkes Stimme, Gottes Stimme‘, da die Lärmsucht des Pöbels immer dem Wahnsinn sehr nahe kommt“.

#VoxPopuliVoxDei #VoxPopuli

Inhaltswarnung: Musk Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

Fascinating analysis from the Economist: “In the four days after Elon Musk took the keys to Twitter, Republican members of Congress collectively gained around 470,000 followers. The opposite was true for Democrats in both chambers. Their House and Senate representatives lost 420,000 followers.”

#Twitter #TwitterMigration #ElonMusk #TheEconomist #data #dataviz

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/10/31/how-will-elon-musk-shape-twitter

Employees at Twitter

#twitter #100DaysToOffload #ElonMusk

https://lazybear.io/posts/employees-at-twitter/