That would imply that people who still use twitter would be interested in actual news.
If you’re using Twitter as a news source what are you even doing in the first place?
Go to the news outlets directly, the BBC, whoever.
I argue this is the one time I wouldn’t call it Twitter.
This is a problem unique to Elon’s social media’s dumpster, X. He’s actively hindering free speech and free press
Edit: sorry. I read more comments I see I’m wrong and this was an ongoing thing. Here’s my foot in mouth comment for prosperity I guess
twitter has been “x’d” out. Do not expect it to be anything other than a shit show. The X means close the window, goodbye.
Wasn’t it known/confirmed since Twitter made their algorithm partially open source? (I think it was a year ago or so)
My favorite was all the “if elon” code debacles lol. The code was hilarious.
Yeah, he specifically gets boosted across the site, which is why he ended up in everyone’s feeds.
Could learn a lesson or two from that MySpace Tom guy. He might have been my first friend on that site, but he never made a peep after that! I respect him for that.
Ok but twitter isn’t even a real source for news so who cares. Go to a real news site.
There was a time when a story could happen, and literally wighin minutes you’d have multiple sources of video, on the scene, as the story happens.
I’m not promoting school shootings. I’m not encouraging them. I’m not glorifying them. But there was a LONG time when I expected a high school shooting to happen, and a high school student would livestream it with a hashtag like #schooladdress #help
Closest I ever saw was Uvalde school security cameras showing police showing up…and being cowards. I will forever call those cowards out. You show up, 30 to 1, all with guns, and you let one student continue to kill at a time when every second is a potential live being saved or lost. They hung out in the lobby. Not only that, they restrained parents from stopping the killer themself.
In my eyes they didn’t just show up and do nothing in the lobby. They actively aided the shooter that day.
Sorry, I went off on a tangent, because it still pisses me off. But yeah, I fully expected one day when twitter was still a source for news, to wake up one day, and see an active shooter scene being broadcast from inside a classroom.
The problem is many people still rely on X for live news such as sport news, disaster news (earthquake news), war news (Gaza/Ukraine). But, with this change this is getting really bad lately for this platform.
Just like many rely on Facebook. Providing news doesn’t make it a good news source.
It’s a voluntary captured audience. They will see it because they go there already. Doesn’t matter about the quality. They don’t care anyway.
It’s not a source for news, but a venue.
Or at least, it used to be.
