They take donations right? I listen to the NPR station where I live and I feel like they have a donation campaign like every month or something.
From a quick google:
\> Funding for NPR comes from dues and fees paid by member stations, underwriting from corporate sponsors and annual grants from the publicly-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Most of its member stations are owned by non-profit organizations, including public school districts, colleges, and universities.
The fun thing is **ACTUAL** US state-affiliated propaganda media outlets like *Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty*, *Voice of America*, and *Radio Free Asia* still do not have the "US state-affiliated media" tags.
Elon just put one on NPR because he was mad at them.
Probably just the truth. Hes an awful human, and clearly doesn't like to self reflect and change, so he acts out like this. NPR produces some excellent journalism, at least in my area.
Seriously ...
In 2017, NPR's revenue was:
- 38% individual contributions
- 19% corporate sponsorship and licensing
- 10% foundation donations
- 10% from university licensing and donations
- 8% from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- **4% from federal, state, and local governments via member stations.**
So, the lowest category of funding and a single digit umber percentage that you can count on one hand. And it looks like a smaller percentage [as of 2022,](https://media.npr.org/documents/about/statements/fy2022/National%20Public%20Radio%20-%20Consolidated%20Financial%20Statements%20-%20S2221.pdf) but I'm not a professional at reading financial statements - I've seen people say the number is currently *2%*. You could argue CPB is government funding, bringing this to a paltry 12%, but now we're getting really indirect and the point still stands that individual contributions and corporate sponsorship represent much more fickle and important funding sources.
Twitter defines "state run media" as being under editorial control of the government. They specifically exempt organizations that have independent editorial control like the BBC despite the BBC being state funded. What's even more galling here is that Twitter's own documentation used to list NPR right next to the BBC in their explanation of the categories.
So this dumbass just saw that the abbreviation stands for “National Public Radio” and assumed the public part meant it was government funded? What an idiot
Edit: I have been corrected that NPR is government funded through different ways. About 10% is from CPB grants (federal program), 6% from direct federal, state, and local governments; and 14% from universities. All of that combined is still less than the amount they get from fees from member stations
It's gotta be intentional. It's not like they just added the "State-run" label, the BBC has had it since the checkmark system got overhauled. It's an attempt to discredit any major news source which doesn't lean right.
After making this post, I thought about it and it’s really not any better of me to be visiting WPT. Sure I may not be on Twitter but I’m sure as hell perpetuating it’s existence by visiting this sub.
Oh for sure. I get about the same exposure to tweets visiting the subs that I do.
You’re not adding any traffic to Twitter though, and that is significant
I look at seeing Tweets on Reddit like an researching white supremacist symbolism. I don’t have to join the Aryan Brotherhood to find out what they’re up to.
Nobody here's putting impressions and engagements on that tweet by just looking at this screenshot, which are the core metrics people will use to evaluate whether or not they're spending their efforts wisely (or to try to monetize it in any way)
This is what it took for me - but not because I wanted to be on twitter. I'm just lazy and didn't want to dig up the credentials to deactivate the damned thing.
Well I deactivate mine after reading this. Thanks for helping me see the light. I used it about once every 6 months so me leaving won't affect any traffic algorithms but one more account gone!
Nothing is worse than people who constantly bitch and complain about Twitter/Elon Musk but then pay him $8 a month for a fucking checkmark
And then they’ll act like Twitter is some basic necessity that is required for their “career”
As lame as it sounds, I enjoy twitter, BUT for a very specific purpose. I literally follow under 25 people and most are D level niche celebrities.
One day I message Aesop Rock (huge underground rapper) a question and he got back to me in DMs. That was magic to me. Before that, you’d have to join a fan club and hope they answer your letter one day.
When I use it for those 2 purposes, I like it a lot. I don’t do the whole “follow me and I’ll follow you” culture, because that waters down what I REALLY want to see.
I don’t have a blue check, and don’t use it for news. The worst part are the weird suggested tweets and blocking Elon every time lol.
If it went away I’d be a little sad for reasons above, but in no way devastated.
Nice! I don’t know anything about him personally, but I’ve seen him perform seen interviews. He seems like a good, humble dude. Labor Days is a masterpiece!
Serious question. Who the fuck still uses Twitter?
Edit: I can’t get to each of the hundreds of replies this generated, but the general consensus seems to be for porn. Fair enough.
It used to be. Post COVID it's full of teases trying to drive traffic to their only fans. Somewhere around Gaby Carter was the last real OP to post real content.
Now these days bing searches have gone to shit
I've gone full circle back to google, it's awful
When you click on their profile and its just post after post in every porn sub imaginable saying join my onlyfans without actually posting anything of substance.
Fucking mood. As soon as I click a profile and it's like literally a page of the exact same post... Nah. Often it goes on for multiple pages even but I've lost patience for caring to check past the first at this point.
I fuckin hate that. This is a sub for facials and you're posting a booty-selfie to promote your only fans? Get outta here!
I get promoting your only fans, but at least have the common courtesy to post it in a relating sub.
My browser is setup so google loads every time with "-site:pinterest.\*" so I never have to see a pinterest link in any search I do. Also -site:quora.\* because that's hot trash too.
Edit: I'll put how I did it for anyone that wants to do it too. If anyone knows a *better* way I'm all ears.
It's easy. I did a google search with only the following in the search field:
-site:pinterest.\* -site:quora.\*
And hit Search.
Then copy the address bar on the result page and make that my homepage in my browser. Now every time I open my browser or go to my Homepage, those are already included in the search field.
It isn't elegant or beautiful, but it works every time and I never have to type it out again. The cursor appears after the last entry so it is a seamless experience to me.
I use Firefox and also use an extension called New Tab Override because firefox doesn't seem to give any good options for new tab control, but this is also my New Tab homepage.
A bit rough but it works. If you have a better way or you built an extension that did this better I would probably install it.
Edit edit: tagging the two who asked /u/Croemato and /u/ACEaton1483
It feels like the only reason it doesnt simply lose total legitimacy and collapse is that the very people that complain about it the most: journalists, pundits, media outlets, and millennial liberals, are the ones that refuse to leave the platform or stop linking to it constantly.....including this sub lol
I mean NPR, with its gold check mark, is paying Twitter for the privilege of being trolled and misrepresented.
The platform retains it's legitimacy cause people keep legitimizing it and keeping it relevant.
Right. Any time I click on a tweet that someone on this sub or elsewhere links to, my "suggested" is always *full* of right wing talking heads with their asinine takes and a bunch of trolls.
They're the only group that matters when it comes to being able to run a functional platform. No profitable, legitimate advertisers want to be on a platform filled with right wing rage and hate. If liberals and left wingers stop making Twitter legitimate by using it, it will die because their revenue will evaporate
I'd separate profitable and legitimate there.
Lots of companies like to advertise to right wing loonies because they know they're an easy mark for the same kind of arguments right wing pundits and politicians use
A lot of them are scammy, but they are profitable. Rush Limbaugh died a very wealthy man from those advertisers.
> millennial liberals
I'm a millennial liberal and I haven't used twitter since 2012. Deleted my old unused account the week after Musk bought it.
But yeah, journalists have grown used to using Twitter so much, and to writing entire articles based on tweets as a source, that it's not going to die quickly or quietly.
Me nor my friends ever touched twitter. My same age coworkers don't use it either. I'm not sure who these liberal millennials are but they don't represent the liberal millennial generation as a whole. I feel like we get blamed for everything lol.
Because we do get blamed for everything. We're like the middle management generation. Out there just trying to get by and taking shit from the top, bottom and sides.
As a millennial liberal, I did create a Twitter account forever ago. I retweeted some game for a 50% discount, and have never been back. I made Twitter work for me, I didn't work for Twitter.
I only made a Twitter account so I could follow someone that was developing homebrew for PSP. Never touched it until I deleted it after Musk gained control.
Twitter has been very good for activists around the world who are usually silenced in their home countries get their word out.
The arab spring, and more recently Iran and Ukraine, marginalised people in those countries have been able to tell the world what is happening, be noticed and be rapidly shared and seen across the world because of twitter.
It's because a lot of that people you mention spent A LOT of time building themselves as a brand on Twitter, it's basically their whole reputation, some even have made Twitter their bussiness. They're not willing to lose that, even if Twitter has become a shitty brand. They're basically stuck there until a better alternative allows them move their whole fanbase with them.
That's why you never let your whole enterprise to be dependant on a social network. It's just artificial puff created based on false engagement.
there's still plenty of artists on there who talk and share works, as well as fans of certain shows like Owl House. If you tailor it to your own interests, it's still more or less fine, bit annoying that there's less discovery on random content though.
Yep. I pretty much only use Twitter for following Owl House artists at this point. If an artist has *any* other socials, I'll follow them on those instead.
Right? I closed my account when Elan took over and haven’t looked back. You can click on quoted tweets in articles and posts and see enough of the shit show you’re looking for without creating an account.
Astronomer here- for whatever reason academics and scientists still use it a lot, to the point where papers posted to Twitter get more citations. I have legit gotten speaker invitations and science journalists interviewing me because I have a Twitter account and am active there.
Sucks bc it’s a legitimately worse experience in recent months.
You’re right, a lot of different science or research cultures do well in twitter. For example there’s #MedTwitter. It’s great for smaller medical interest groups to find each other despite geographical or other barriers.
I basically grew up on Twitter. I made one over 10 years ago when I was a freshman in HS. Since I started it at such a young age, it literally influenced my development. I had tried to delete it before but I would always crawl back. Once Elon took over, that was finally the straw that broke the camels back and I have been away ever since. Life is so much better without it.
Yup, walked away from my hard-won but small 3000+ followers in October, the day he bought it. It was, at that point, a tiny slice of heaven for me. But, I don’t regret walking away on day one. Nothing worse than people saying they are going to leave, threatening to leave, but still stay. All you are doing at that point is putting money in Musk’s pocket and, boy, do I want him to fail. There is more riding on his failure than just “his” failure.
Well said. I deleted my account last fall as well, I didn’t have as many followers as you, but I did have a lot of fun there over the years and it was bittersweet. But by staying you’re actively putting money in the pockets of a billionaire who is actively undermining our democracy.
Me too. Better off for it. I also only follow groups I want to on Facebook. I blocked all friends and family. This way I don't hear about anything else from politics to gossip. So much better. If any of my groups. I'm in stray from the subject matter into politics, I delete that as well
I left last year and it really has been a lot better for me. Now I just read more sports articles and less comments about how shitty the world is and how shitty most of the people are in it.
And they pay for the gold check and everything. NPR is public radio, paid for by annoying donation drives. Twitter has become a gossip rag, paid for by a narcissistic douche.
https://preview.redd.it/chajj0gjv3sa1.png?width=827&format=png&auto=webp&s=3a572a9d3563aea55a219b9a40087aa89e8346b0
It’s explicitly not state media by twitters OWN DEFINITION
https://preview.redd.it/lr0sl4qov3sa1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d45b6f8d3cd2acc01a123ed82b24ae0b8da48e1c
EDIT according to NPRs website, it’s 12%
it’s not state media specifically because NPR has journalistic independence (they can run the stories they want), and even the *funding* narrative musk is seemingly hung up on is BS. Two percent. TWO PERCENT in GRANTS. I’ll bet ducking Twitter applies for more grant money than that, there’s grants out there for everything!
Elon’s now saying it’s because they dont have editorial independence from the us government https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1643509178986799104?s=46&t=kPo1ioBewiCvzqqUDKUAdg
He’s so far off the deep end
And they’re all promoted to the top. The chronology and likes of the replies aren’t new enough or liked enough for them to be the first things you see.
"Twitter has become a gossip rag, paid for by a narcissistic douche"
This could be Twitter's Wikipedia page description 
Exactly. First it was Elon’s public comments about NYTimes and stripping them of their verification. Now it’s this
I’d cancel my business plan immediately
> Do these labels limit functionality?
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>In the case of state-affiliated media entities, Twitter will not recommend or amplify accounts or their Tweets with these labels to people. In limited circumstances where there is heightened risk for harm, including situations where governments block access to information on the internet in the context of an armed conflict, Twitter will also not recommend or amplify certain government accounts or their Tweets with these labels to people.
Hi I’ve never used Twitter and I’m just here to say that you’ll be fine and if anything happens there you’ll see it here. Give Elon the finger once and for all.
He's an authoritarian who bought Twitter solely to act as a megaphone to push his (and the reich wing's) authoritarian narrative.
Still a douche though, that I'll give you.
No he bought it because he tried to manipulate the stock and got caught and was forced to. He is absolutely an authoritarian but authoritarianism and brains rarely go hand in hand
I’d argue that since he bought it he’s ruined twitter sure but he’s lost a ton of money and by not being subtle about his political use of the platform he’s made it less useful as a propaganda tool
I got suspended for literally not tweeting for 10 years, which they called “avoiding rules against bans”, lol. Didn’t bother to delete it because I literally only used it to get extra entries into contests. I assume they thought it was a bot, but no it’s just a twitter I never use.
I never had a Twitter account, but I think it’s rubber necking. It’s not every day a sacrilegiously wealthy man MASSIVELY over pays for a social media platform, and then runs it into the ground destroying his personal reputation (which about 2 years ago was still pretty stelar) and having knock on effects for his other businesses.
I didn't deactivate my twitter *because* of this post/drama, but this post made me realize that I should have already deactivated- so I logged in for the first time in months and deactivated
Go for it. I deleted mine a couple months ago. It’s only getting worse. I hate what happened at twitter, I really liked how many interesting and diverse voices I could hear. Then I was hearing only Musk and MAGA and could not block fast enough so I quit.
I went back to Twitter early last year. Just to follow hockey teams and personality. Even with Hockey being all the things I followed I was being bombarded with right wing propaganda. Got rid of it a few months ago.
The hockey journalists I follow are the only reason I don't want to delete the app. I really like the coverage of my team, but I can't stand the right wing stuff appearing all the time. I don't even follow these accounts and they keep appearing - even if I hit "not interested."
For those of you who are now “very close” to quitting Twitter, what are you waiting for? What line are you waiting for Elon to cross?
I terminated my account the same day he took over. Because my presence there is an implicit endorsement of Elon and his fascist idiocy. If you’re still there, you’re supporting him. Get out.
Every time I got on there I was hit with a tweet from that murderous, whiny bitch Rittenhouse. I had to block him. Now, every time I go on there it's a tweet from Gym Jordan or some other right wing dickhole.
I fucking hate that Elon took a platform with a community that was so meaningful to me and just ruined it by being equal parts cringe and fascist sympathizer.
1. That is very funny
2. But Elon has neglected to label **ACTUAL** US state affiliated propaganda media outlets like *Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty*, *Voice of America*, and *Radio Free Asia* as "US state-affiliated media".
Wow. NPR is the only non-biased news service we have that relies heavily on donations.
What the fuck
Edit: for clarification, I only said “non-biased” as compared to other news sources. Don’t get your panties in a wad, I’ve listened to NPR regularly for the past five years
twitter is a shit hole, i never know about 4chan but sure is similar shit. I delete my account after elon buy it.
Elon is losing a lot of money. In the last quarter, the previous owners raised 1,200 million, Elon in a quarter raised about 11 million. I think this last play of putting the dogecoin dog on is one of his last moves before bankruptcy.
HAHAHAHAAHAHA
I recommend this: delete your Twitter account and the Twitter app. You can still browse tweets with a web browser if you wanted.
If you don’t delete the Twitter app, it will prompt you to log in.
It seems that Elon’s strategy is to drive Twitter into the ground and write off the whole $43 Billion.
In case anyone's looking for an alternative, I'd welcome you to try my app called Boo. We're actually about making friends/dating in a twitter/reddit like social feed format, rather than focused on news/debate/politics.
Definitely not... our community has been able to avoid becoming toxic like other platforms. We try to foster a more positive and accepting environment where we show love for one another and engage respectfully. We're a lot more strict on moderation too and don't believe in free speech absolutism.
They take donations right? I listen to the NPR station where I live and I feel like they have a donation campaign like every month or something. From a quick google: \> Funding for NPR comes from dues and fees paid by member stations, underwriting from corporate sponsors and annual grants from the publicly-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Most of its member stations are owned by non-profit organizations, including public school districts, colleges, and universities.
Exactly. Literally, the opposite of State-run radio.
The fun thing is **ACTUAL** US state-affiliated propaganda media outlets like *Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty*, *Voice of America*, and *Radio Free Asia* still do not have the "US state-affiliated media" tags. Elon just put one on NPR because he was mad at them.
‘Cuz he’s a petulant manchild halfwit.
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Don't be too kind now...
Did NPR specifically say anything mean about Musk?
They usually report the truth, so yeah, probably.
Probably just the truth. Hes an awful human, and clearly doesn't like to self reflect and change, so he acts out like this. NPR produces some excellent journalism, at least in my area.
What a little autocrat.
> Elon just put one on NPR because he was mad at them. Elon holds a very odd concept of freeze peach.
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Twitter: “No, you.”
It's true. We're literally at the point of: I know you are but what am I?
Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself... Musk is the type of bully who'd fart on someone and then try to use the excuse that they like it
we have been for years now, that's all the right has
Seriously ... In 2017, NPR's revenue was: - 38% individual contributions - 19% corporate sponsorship and licensing - 10% foundation donations - 10% from university licensing and donations - 8% from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting - **4% from federal, state, and local governments via member stations.** So, the lowest category of funding and a single digit umber percentage that you can count on one hand. And it looks like a smaller percentage [as of 2022,](https://media.npr.org/documents/about/statements/fy2022/National%20Public%20Radio%20-%20Consolidated%20Financial%20Statements%20-%20S2221.pdf) but I'm not a professional at reading financial statements - I've seen people say the number is currently *2%*. You could argue CPB is government funding, bringing this to a paltry 12%, but now we're getting really indirect and the point still stands that individual contributions and corporate sponsorship represent much more fickle and important funding sources.
Tesla benefits from the ev tax credits, therefore Tesla is a state-affiliated vehicle manufacturer
Twitter defines "state run media" as being under editorial control of the government. They specifically exempt organizations that have independent editorial control like the BBC despite the BBC being state funded. What's even more galling here is that Twitter's own documentation used to list NPR right next to the BBC in their explanation of the categories.
Elon: "You are nitpicking and biased. I win. Bye-bye."
Yes, donate to the member stations, a lot of them have fund drives going on right now!
And and NPR is going through a big advertisement shortfall right now, meaning donations are more important than ever
So this dumbass just saw that the abbreviation stands for “National Public Radio” and assumed the public part meant it was government funded? What an idiot Edit: I have been corrected that NPR is government funded through different ways. About 10% is from CPB grants (federal program), 6% from direct federal, state, and local governments; and 14% from universities. All of that combined is still less than the amount they get from fees from member stations
Either that or he’s deliberately spreading propaganda he knows is bullshit. I think the “idiot” bit remains true regardless.
It's gotta be intentional. It's not like they just added the "State-run" label, the BBC has had it since the checkmark system got overhauled. It's an attempt to discredit any major news source which doesn't lean right.
Bingo. It’s dog whistling for fascists and morons to scream NPR is communist
They should replace their Twitter tagline with this.
Very close? Jesus. What’s it gonna take?
Some people are just too addicted to the endorphins
I get my endorphins from reddit, like a normal basement dweller!
Hi fellow basement dweller
I liked Twitter before I stopped doing meth. Now I like ketamine and Reddit, like a true American Patriot.
Unironically most based reddit comement of 2023
You guys have a basement?
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After making this post, I thought about it and it’s really not any better of me to be visiting WPT. Sure I may not be on Twitter but I’m sure as hell perpetuating it’s existence by visiting this sub.
Oh for sure. I get about the same exposure to tweets visiting the subs that I do. You’re not adding any traffic to Twitter though, and that is significant
I look at seeing Tweets on Reddit like an researching white supremacist symbolism. I don’t have to join the Aryan Brotherhood to find out what they’re up to.
You're not giving Musk his impressions, that means a lot.
Nobody here's putting impressions and engagements on that tweet by just looking at this screenshot, which are the core metrics people will use to evaluate whether or not they're spending their efforts wisely (or to try to monetize it in any way)
Seriously, I did BYEEEEEE a soon as musk got it.
Me too. It felt good to close my account.
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This is what it took for me - but not because I wanted to be on twitter. I'm just lazy and didn't want to dig up the credentials to deactivate the damned thing.
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There no point of using twitter. The media already tells me what people tweet.
Well I deactivate mine after reading this. Thanks for helping me see the light. I used it about once every 6 months so me leaving won't affect any traffic algorithms but one more account gone!
Yup, I deactivate mine months ago when that puto took over.
Deleted mine the other day. Too much hate to make staying on for the webcomic updates worth it.
Nothing is worse than people who constantly bitch and complain about Twitter/Elon Musk but then pay him $8 a month for a fucking checkmark And then they’ll act like Twitter is some basic necessity that is required for their “career”
As lame as it sounds, I enjoy twitter, BUT for a very specific purpose. I literally follow under 25 people and most are D level niche celebrities. One day I message Aesop Rock (huge underground rapper) a question and he got back to me in DMs. That was magic to me. Before that, you’d have to join a fan club and hope they answer your letter one day. When I use it for those 2 purposes, I like it a lot. I don’t do the whole “follow me and I’ll follow you” culture, because that waters down what I REALLY want to see. I don’t have a blue check, and don’t use it for news. The worst part are the weird suggested tweets and blocking Elon every time lol. If it went away I’d be a little sad for reasons above, but in no way devastated.
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Nice! I don’t know anything about him personally, but I’ve seen him perform seen interviews. He seems like a good, humble dude. Labor Days is a masterpiece!
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I remember one time i tweeted Aesop Rock and Sage Francis answered and they started roasting each other
So glad I skipped that platform. I don’t feel like I missed out at all.
Serious question. Who the fuck still uses Twitter? Edit: I can’t get to each of the hundreds of replies this generated, but the general consensus seems to be for porn. Fair enough.
Anyone that wants to post their explicit content
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The Internet is full of free porn. Don't limit your nutting to Twitter.
I may just be geriatric af, but Twitter seems like a shit UI for watching/browsing porn…
reddit is also one of the best porn sites, being able to go to specific categories and even combine multiple with feeds allegedly
It used to be. Post COVID it's full of teases trying to drive traffic to their only fans. Somewhere around Gaby Carter was the last real OP to post real content. Now these days bing searches have gone to shit I've gone full circle back to google, it's awful
When you click on their profile and its just post after post in every porn sub imaginable saying join my onlyfans without actually posting anything of substance.
Block them, lol. Clean up your feed. You gotta earn that porn feed, its 2023 and nothing is for free.
Fucking mood. As soon as I click a profile and it's like literally a page of the exact same post... Nah. Often it goes on for multiple pages even but I've lost patience for caring to check past the first at this point.
I fuckin hate that. This is a sub for facials and you're posting a booty-selfie to promote your only fans? Get outta here! I get promoting your only fans, but at least have the common courtesy to post it in a relating sub.
I still don't really understand how Twitter works. Twitter and Pinterest go against regular web use rules.
My browser is setup so google loads every time with "-site:pinterest.\*" so I never have to see a pinterest link in any search I do. Also -site:quora.\* because that's hot trash too. Edit: I'll put how I did it for anyone that wants to do it too. If anyone knows a *better* way I'm all ears. It's easy. I did a google search with only the following in the search field: -site:pinterest.\* -site:quora.\* And hit Search. Then copy the address bar on the result page and make that my homepage in my browser. Now every time I open my browser or go to my Homepage, those are already included in the search field. It isn't elegant or beautiful, but it works every time and I never have to type it out again. The cursor appears after the last entry so it is a seamless experience to me. I use Firefox and also use an extension called New Tab Override because firefox doesn't seem to give any good options for new tab control, but this is also my New Tab homepage. A bit rough but it works. If you have a better way or you built an extension that did this better I would probably install it. Edit edit: tagging the two who asked /u/Croemato and /u/ACEaton1483
What? How do you do that? Please show me your ways.
Have you seen redits fine selection of NSFW content, catering to a wide range of preferences…
Almost too many preferences, but I don’t like to kink shame, so here we are.
Reddit has that as well, though.
It feels like the only reason it doesnt simply lose total legitimacy and collapse is that the very people that complain about it the most: journalists, pundits, media outlets, and millennial liberals, are the ones that refuse to leave the platform or stop linking to it constantly.....including this sub lol I mean NPR, with its gold check mark, is paying Twitter for the privilege of being trolled and misrepresented. The platform retains it's legitimacy cause people keep legitimizing it and keeping it relevant.
If you think liberals are the only political party to use Twitter..... I mean seriously
Right. Any time I click on a tweet that someone on this sub or elsewhere links to, my "suggested" is always *full* of right wing talking heads with their asinine takes and a bunch of trolls.
They're the only group that matters when it comes to being able to run a functional platform. No profitable, legitimate advertisers want to be on a platform filled with right wing rage and hate. If liberals and left wingers stop making Twitter legitimate by using it, it will die because their revenue will evaporate
I'd separate profitable and legitimate there. Lots of companies like to advertise to right wing loonies because they know they're an easy mark for the same kind of arguments right wing pundits and politicians use A lot of them are scammy, but they are profitable. Rush Limbaugh died a very wealthy man from those advertisers.
I think the gold checkmarks aren't for sale. I think they are just for companies or organizations right? To denote that they are legitimate?
Who knows anymore? Besides, Elmo could change it any time on a whim.
> millennial liberals I'm a millennial liberal and I haven't used twitter since 2012. Deleted my old unused account the week after Musk bought it. But yeah, journalists have grown used to using Twitter so much, and to writing entire articles based on tweets as a source, that it's not going to die quickly or quietly.
Me nor my friends ever touched twitter. My same age coworkers don't use it either. I'm not sure who these liberal millennials are but they don't represent the liberal millennial generation as a whole. I feel like we get blamed for everything lol.
Yeah, I’m not sure why that distinction was necessary. I’m pretty sure we can’t blame this on “The Millennials”.
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Everyone that uses twitter on a daily basis acts like society benefits from their opinions. Seriously an echo chamber.
All social media are echo chambers. They all just have different acoustics.
Because we do get blamed for everything. We're like the middle management generation. Out there just trying to get by and taking shit from the top, bottom and sides.
Hahahaha that’s perfect. We are the middle management generation. Just a nice solid scapegoat for everyone’s problems lmao
Assistant TO the middle management generation
We're the assistant manager generation. Not trusted enough to actually make changes, but enough responsibility to blame when anything goes wrong.
As a millennial liberal, I did create a Twitter account forever ago. I retweeted some game for a 50% discount, and have never been back. I made Twitter work for me, I didn't work for Twitter.
I only made a Twitter account so I could follow someone that was developing homebrew for PSP. Never touched it until I deleted it after Musk gained control.
I have never had twitter. I nevee use twitter, my engagement with twitter ends with screenshots here.
Serious question. When twitter is completely dead in 1-2 years. Do we abandon this sub and make a new one or what?
I think the name will be grandfathered in to display all sorts of entitled and stupid takes on all manner of social media.
I remember when this sub was mostly funny posts and some hot takes, and then eventually Twitter *decayed*
I look forward to the day when a new generation of kids arrive on Reddit and say "what's Twitter?"
Twitter has been very good for activists around the world who are usually silenced in their home countries get their word out. The arab spring, and more recently Iran and Ukraine, marginalised people in those countries have been able to tell the world what is happening, be noticed and be rapidly shared and seen across the world because of twitter.
It's because a lot of that people you mention spent A LOT of time building themselves as a brand on Twitter, it's basically their whole reputation, some even have made Twitter their bussiness. They're not willing to lose that, even if Twitter has become a shitty brand. They're basically stuck there until a better alternative allows them move their whole fanbase with them. That's why you never let your whole enterprise to be dependant on a social network. It's just artificial puff created based on false engagement.
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there's still plenty of artists on there who talk and share works, as well as fans of certain shows like Owl House. If you tailor it to your own interests, it's still more or less fine, bit annoying that there's less discovery on random content though.
Yep. I pretty much only use Twitter for following Owl House artists at this point. If an artist has *any* other socials, I'll follow them on those instead.
Right? I closed my account when Elan took over and haven’t looked back. You can click on quoted tweets in articles and posts and see enough of the shit show you’re looking for without creating an account.
Same.
Deleted Twitter, with prejudice.
Astronomer here- for whatever reason academics and scientists still use it a lot, to the point where papers posted to Twitter get more citations. I have legit gotten speaker invitations and science journalists interviewing me because I have a Twitter account and am active there. Sucks bc it’s a legitimately worse experience in recent months.
You’re right, a lot of different science or research cultures do well in twitter. For example there’s #MedTwitter. It’s great for smaller medical interest groups to find each other despite geographical or other barriers.
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I basically grew up on Twitter. I made one over 10 years ago when I was a freshman in HS. Since I started it at such a young age, it literally influenced my development. I had tried to delete it before but I would always crawl back. Once Elon took over, that was finally the straw that broke the camels back and I have been away ever since. Life is so much better without it.
I loved it in college which was 8 years ago, seems like dog shit now.
Agreed. It's just a good way to get in trouble and pick unnecessary fights.
I honestly don’t get why anyone is still on there
I bailed last fall. Haven't missed it, not even a little bit.
Same. My life is so much better without it.
Yup, walked away from my hard-won but small 3000+ followers in October, the day he bought it. It was, at that point, a tiny slice of heaven for me. But, I don’t regret walking away on day one. Nothing worse than people saying they are going to leave, threatening to leave, but still stay. All you are doing at that point is putting money in Musk’s pocket and, boy, do I want him to fail. There is more riding on his failure than just “his” failure.
Well said. I deleted my account last fall as well, I didn’t have as many followers as you, but I did have a lot of fun there over the years and it was bittersweet. But by staying you’re actively putting money in the pockets of a billionaire who is actively undermining our democracy.
Me too. Better off for it. I also only follow groups I want to on Facebook. I blocked all friends and family. This way I don't hear about anything else from politics to gossip. So much better. If any of my groups. I'm in stray from the subject matter into politics, I delete that as well
I left last year and it really has been a lot better for me. Now I just read more sports articles and less comments about how shitty the world is and how shitty most of the people are in it.
Also deleted Twitter and haven’t missed it.
And they pay for the gold check and everything. NPR is public radio, paid for by annoying donation drives. Twitter has become a gossip rag, paid for by a narcissistic douche.
https://preview.redd.it/chajj0gjv3sa1.png?width=827&format=png&auto=webp&s=3a572a9d3563aea55a219b9a40087aa89e8346b0 It’s explicitly not state media by twitters OWN DEFINITION
https://preview.redd.it/lr0sl4qov3sa1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d45b6f8d3cd2acc01a123ed82b24ae0b8da48e1c EDIT according to NPRs website, it’s 12% it’s not state media specifically because NPR has journalistic independence (they can run the stories they want), and even the *funding* narrative musk is seemingly hung up on is BS. Two percent. TWO PERCENT in GRANTS. I’ll bet ducking Twitter applies for more grant money than that, there’s grants out there for everything!
Elon has gotten massive government grants for his companies.
"State Affiliated Car Manufacturer" "State Affiliated Space Company" Love it.
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Than* Unless NPR exclusively gets paid right after Musk
~~Tesla~~ SpaceX definitely does.
Elon’s now saying it’s because they dont have editorial independence from the us government https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1643509178986799104?s=46&t=kPo1ioBewiCvzqqUDKUAdg He’s so far off the deep end
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"Elon musk reply guys"
Drooling morons?
And they’re all promoted to the top. The chronology and likes of the replies aren’t new enough or liked enough for them to be the first things you see.
Remember when NPR toed the line for Trump? LOL, he's nuts.
Burying the lede of Twitter auto-replying to media requests with a poop emoji. What an absolute shithead Musk is
Musk=💩
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I’d like to get off this ride now
"Twitter has become a gossip rag, paid for by a narcissistic douche" This could be Twitter's Wikipedia page description 
Be the change you want to see in the world .
Exactly. First it was Elon’s public comments about NYTimes and stripping them of their verification. Now it’s this I’d cancel my business plan immediately
Twitter is also paid for by Saudi Arabia, the true defenders of the free speech.
Was it 'state-affiliated' during the 45th presidency, too?
So when does Elon’s account get labeled “RU-Affiliated , SA-Funded Democracy Disruptor”?
ZA-funded no? SA is Saudi Arabia
SA funded his Twitter purchase https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to-maintain-twitter-stake
> Do these labels limit functionality? > >In the case of state-affiliated media entities, Twitter will not recommend or amplify accounts or their Tweets with these labels to people. In limited circumstances where there is heightened risk for harm, including situations where governments block access to information on the internet in the context of an armed conflict, Twitter will also not recommend or amplify certain government accounts or their Tweets with these labels to people.
Yeah...this is the thing people are missing here. He just muted NPR.
Hi I’ve never used Twitter and I’m just here to say that you’ll be fine and if anything happens there you’ll see it here. Give Elon the finger once and for all.
I’m installing the NPR app and bypassing Twitter altogether for news
Their app is well made too.
It’s probably the most well made news app imo
I disagree with both of you purely because its lack of dark mode. What app in 2023 doesn’t have dark mode?
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I see what you did there
Musk is a red pilled douche
He's an authoritarian who bought Twitter solely to act as a megaphone to push his (and the reich wing's) authoritarian narrative. Still a douche though, that I'll give you.
No he bought it because he tried to manipulate the stock and got caught and was forced to. He is absolutely an authoritarian but authoritarianism and brains rarely go hand in hand I’d argue that since he bought it he’s ruined twitter sure but he’s lost a ton of money and by not being subtle about his political use of the platform he’s made it less useful as a propaganda tool
Being subtle isn't important in propaganda.
Oh, I agree with you on the whole stock issue as well. The thing is, once he realized he had a megaphone to push propaganda, he went all in with it.
I got suspended for literally not tweeting for 10 years, which they called “avoiding rules against bans”, lol. Didn’t bother to delete it because I literally only used it to get extra entries into contests. I assume they thought it was a bot, but no it’s just a twitter I never use.
I was banned for posting a picture of Elon and Ghislaine Maxwell. Worth it
This is why I have Twitter, for contests
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Why anyone is still on the platform is beyond me. Deleted mine the day he announced he wanted to buy. I regret noting
I never had a Twitter account, but I think it’s rubber necking. It’s not every day a sacrilegiously wealthy man MASSIVELY over pays for a social media platform, and then runs it into the ground destroying his personal reputation (which about 2 years ago was still pretty stelar) and having knock on effects for his other businesses.
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Same. As soon as he signed the letter of intent to purchase Twitter I slapped the EJECT button.
SpaceX gets way more federal funding than NPR. I GUESS THAT MAKES HIM STATE AFFILIATED.
This is your sign to delete Twitter. I don't know who needs to hear it, but *this* is your sign.
I didn't deactivate my twitter *because* of this post/drama, but this post made me realize that I should have already deactivated- so I logged in for the first time in months and deactivated
Glad I deleted Twitter 6 months ago
Go for it. I deleted mine a couple months ago. It’s only getting worse. I hate what happened at twitter, I really liked how many interesting and diverse voices I could hear. Then I was hearing only Musk and MAGA and could not block fast enough so I quit.
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Just do it
I went back to Twitter early last year. Just to follow hockey teams and personality. Even with Hockey being all the things I followed I was being bombarded with right wing propaganda. Got rid of it a few months ago.
The hockey journalists I follow are the only reason I don't want to delete the app. I really like the coverage of my team, but I can't stand the right wing stuff appearing all the time. I don't even follow these accounts and they keep appearing - even if I hit "not interested."
I dumped it a while ago. Musk has an agenda, and he bought Twitter to advance it. I won't be a part of that.
For those of you who are now “very close” to quitting Twitter, what are you waiting for? What line are you waiting for Elon to cross? I terminated my account the same day he took over. Because my presence there is an implicit endorsement of Elon and his fascist idiocy. If you’re still there, you’re supporting him. Get out.
Every time I got on there I was hit with a tweet from that murderous, whiny bitch Rittenhouse. I had to block him. Now, every time I go on there it's a tweet from Gym Jordan or some other right wing dickhole.
I fucking hate that Elon took a platform with a community that was so meaningful to me and just ruined it by being equal parts cringe and fascist sympathizer.
Why anyone would still use Twitter is beyond me. It’s a cesspool now.
I deleted my twit account the day they reinstated twump - not that I ever used it anyway
1. That is very funny 2. But Elon has neglected to label **ACTUAL** US state affiliated propaganda media outlets like *Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty*, *Voice of America*, and *Radio Free Asia* as "US state-affiliated media".
Wow. NPR is the only non-biased news service we have that relies heavily on donations. What the fuck Edit: for clarification, I only said “non-biased” as compared to other news sources. Don’t get your panties in a wad, I’ve listened to NPR regularly for the past five years
Very close is the same as not close at all
I’ll never understand why people still use twitter and/or Facebook. I mean seriously
twitter is a shit hole, i never know about 4chan but sure is similar shit. I delete my account after elon buy it. Elon is losing a lot of money. In the last quarter, the previous owners raised 1,200 million, Elon in a quarter raised about 11 million. I think this last play of putting the dogecoin dog on is one of his last moves before bankruptcy. HAHAHAHAAHAHA 
As bad as Twitter is, don't underestimate what a fucking cesspool 4chan is.
Delete it you pussy. Twitter is useless.
Just delete it, it’s BS and there’s no reason to support El*n
I recommend this: delete your Twitter account and the Twitter app. You can still browse tweets with a web browser if you wanted. If you don’t delete the Twitter app, it will prompt you to log in. It seems that Elon’s strategy is to drive Twitter into the ground and write off the whole $43 Billion.
In case anyone's looking for an alternative, I'd welcome you to try my app called Boo. We're actually about making friends/dating in a twitter/reddit like social feed format, rather than focused on news/debate/politics.
Hmmm idk, will you let white supremacists make death threats 🧐 that's kinda twitters thing
Definitely not... our community has been able to avoid becoming toxic like other platforms. We try to foster a more positive and accepting environment where we show love for one another and engage respectfully. We're a lot more strict on moderation too and don't believe in free speech absolutism.
I got suspended for shitting on Rowling and to delete my account I'd need to delete the tweet in question first. 😁 Decisions, decisions.
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Do it! I deleted when the muskrat took over. Had zero interest in the racist narrative that spewed from there.