Looks Like GNU/Linux and Free Software Folks Are Exiting Twitter Fast
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-01-04 10:33:56 UTC
- Modified: 2023-01-04 11:20:33 UTC
Twitter is doing just fine!
Summary: In spite of posting more tweets, all the statistics are down, perhaps a symptom of many people leaving Twitter in the wake of last month's big Twitter scandals (Tux Machines is followed by the sorts of people who are likely to have moved to Mastodon)
Recent Techrights' Posts
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- Route towards insolvency, not just irrelevancy
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- IBM dooms both its brand and its future
- Consumerism and Christmas
- Many of us yearn for prior decades when December was about family, not shopping
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- IBM: We Lay Off Tens of Thousands of People the Very Same Week We Spend 11 Billion Dollars (Debt) on "AI" Fantasies, Hiring About 8,000 People at Cost of 1.3+ Million Dollars Per Employee
- Seems like IBM is run by fools
- Google Still Promotes Plagiarism From WebProNews and Prolific Slopfarms
- Google News seems lost and hopeless sometimes
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- Links for the day
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- We already wrote about it twice this morning
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- what 'Linux' Foundation 'Research' is
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- Links for the day
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- calling things "AI" and "AIs" can mislead the reader
- Links 08/12/2025: Slop Failing and Windows Users Won't 'Upgrade' Due to Slop
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Sunday, December 07, 2025
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- Links for the day
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Saturday, December 06, 2025
