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Twitter is Effectively Dead and Offline to People Without an Account in Twitter

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Just like Vladimir Putin's "special operation" in Ukraine, the "temporary measure" may be a permanent one (to boost or fake sign-ups, using a phony crisis)



Summary: Twitter is going to be delisted from search engines and lurkers will stop going there; it has become a niche site with no business plan and erratic management that faces countless lawsuits

MY Twitter account was always just a copy of what I had posted in identi.ca (and later JoinDiaspora). In 2019 I stopped participating in Twitter and in 2020 it escalated even further; by the start of 2022 I had already abandoned it completely; I dumped all social control media, altogether.

"The fraudster (Elon Musk) got defrauded or at least fooled, for a change."Looking back, I should have abandoned it earlier. In retrospect, my time was wasted. Twitter is a dumpster fire and there's no way to recover from this. As a business, Twitter has truly massive debt (huge debt per capita or per head), it is still losing a lot of money (after mass layoffs of unprecedented scale), and even just keeping up with debt payments (the interest!) is infeasible. The interest rates went up by a lot. Paying as little as 5% interest on a debt like 14,000,000,000 US dollars is a lot. No wonder Twitter management thinks twice before paying its hosting bill and rent. The fools who bought this worthless, toxic asset probably have buyer's guilt/remorse but they can't get themselves to just pull the plug and call it a "write-off". They got conned. The fraudster (Elon Musk) got defrauded or at least fooled, for a change. He's not smart at all.

"A lot of people in the media want to see Twitter up in flames."Looking at the past week's news, Twitter is facing many lawsuits and lawyers aren't cheap [1]. There's a censorship problem [2] and Apple pulled out as an advertiser (it was the biggest advertiser). Now it just uses it for video hosting [3] and that's expensive [4-5], so Apple is in effect offloading the costs. A week ago Musk was mocked for lying about free speech [6] and he might be lying about the latest change [7-11], which basically denies people like me reading my own tweets (I discarded my password, intentionally, and cannot log in). Will that change be undone, ever? Some people theorise he's just trying to lure people who typically lurk into creating an account. He is trying to boast "growth", even if that's measured using bogus yardsticks.

There's plenty other negative publicity about Twitter dating a week back [12-14]. Twitter has managed to become the "bad boy" or the villain. A lot of people in the media want to see Twitter up in flames. From a purely commercial point of view, there's no reason to even keep it online anymore. If Musk files for bankruptcy (under the name "Twitter" or "X" or whatever), he might find a way out and away from class action lawsuits over severance payments.

Related/contextual items from the news:



  1. 2023-06-30 [Older] Twitter's lawsuit over censorship in India has been dismissed


  2. 2023-06-27 [Older] Q&A: Twitter Files & Government Censorship (W/ Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and Russell Brand)
  3. 2023-06-28 [Older] ★ Ahead of Season 1 Finale, Apple Has Made the Entire First Episode of ‘Silo’ Free — on Twitter


  4. 2023-06-27 [Older] Apple Put the First Episode of Silo Free on... Twitter
  5. 2023-06-27 [Older] Apple has posted the entire first episode of ‘Silo’ on Twitter
  6. 2023-06-25 [Older] Elon Musk, King of Censorship: 10 Times the 'Free Speech Absolutist' Silenced Twitter Users


  7. 2023-07-01 [Older] Elon Musk applies temporary limits on reading Twitter posts
  8. 2023-07-01 [Older] Elon Musk claims Twitter’s new login requirement is a ‘temporary’ response to data scrapers
  9. 2023-07-01 [Older] Twitter puts strict cap on how many tweets users can read each day
  10. 2023-07-01 [Older] Twitter Users Run Into Service Issues After Elon Musk Imposes Daily Limits on Reading Tweets
  11. 2023-06-30 [Older] Twitter isn't showing tweets unless you're logged in


  12. 2023-06-26 [Older] Twitter Hacker Who Turned Celebrity Accounts Into Crypto Shills Gets Prison Sentence
  13. 2023-06-24 [Older] Twitter hacker and crypto scammer sentenced to five years in prison


  14. 2023-06-26 [Older] The Chris Hedges Report: ‘Twitter Files’ Journalist Matt Taibbi Claims IRS and FBI Retaliation




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