Twitter and The Musk

[Edward64]

I'm just an occasional user of Threads (and X). But don't understand the rationale here, sees like a mistake to have all these words blocked. I'm going to guess there'll be significant blowback and Meta will compromise some, but interesting to see how this plays out.

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Meta acknowledged in a statement to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms and said that other terms are being blocked, but the company declined to provide a list of them. A search by The Post discovered that the words “sex,” “nude,” “gore,” “porn,” “coronavirus,” “vaccines” and “vaccination” are also among blocked words.

“The search functionality temporarily doesn’t provide results for keywords that may show potentially sensitive content,” the statement said, adding that the company will add search functionality for terms only “once we are confident in the quality of the results.”

Lucky Tran, director of science communication at Columbia University, discovered this himself when he attempted to use Threads to seek out research related to covid, something he says he does every day. “I was excited by search [on Threads],” he said. “When I typed in covid, I came up with no search results.”

[GrantDawg]

Threads had a chance to grab some of the post-twitter real estate. After getting out quickly, all they have done is shoot themselves in the foot.

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[Ghost Econ]

I for one have my checkbook ready to pay for Twitter.

Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, is to charge all users subscription fees | X (formerly known as Twitter) | The Guardian

[Lathum]

That has to be the death knell, no?

[Mota]

I'm enjoying BlueSky a lot more than Twitter now. My timeline was flooded with weird right wing nuttiness, and BlueSky is just nice and fun. Thanks to GrandDawg for the invite and the Wheel of Time chat.

[sovereignstar v2]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

Threads had a chance to grab some of the post-twitter real estate. After getting out quickly, all they have done is shoot themselves in the foot.

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Did you still have that Bluesky invite?

[JonInMiddleGA]

I'd miss Twitter for its use in aggregating HS football scores on Friday nights.

Other than that, ehhhhhh

[GrantDawg]

I have one. I will get it to you when I get home.

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[Ghost Econ]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I'd miss Twitter for its use in aggregating HS football scores on Friday nights.

Other than that, ehhhhhh

My local news stations all have constantly updating scoreboard on their website. Are they not as thorough in GS?

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by Ghost Econ

My local news stations all have constantly updating scoreboard on their website. Are they not as thorough in GS?

My experience, there is a pretty big lag in some scores back when I kept up with high-school ball. Especially from the more rural schools. I imagine if you follow the right people you can get live updates faster.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by Mota

I'm enjoying BlueSky a lot more than Twitter now. My timeline was flooded with weird right wing nuttiness, and BlueSky is just nice and fun. Thanks to GrandDawg for the invite and the Wheel of Time chat.

You're welcome! Sorry for my weirdness there. I like it, but I do need to figure out how to get into more subjects on there. I am good with the Wheel of Time stream (obviously), but other than that I follow a couple of lawyers that talk about court stuff and I have followed few sports people. None of the sports people are active on there though. The way the feed is set where it shows you every bodies comments as well as posts makes me wary to go too broad on follows. If you follow a bunch of people with a bunch of crazy interests, the timeline can get cluttered. As it was I had to unfollow one person that had followed on twitter. She was a WOT and gamer fan on twitter, but she was thirst-trapping on Bluesky. Too many nude/mostly nude posts and comments on nude/mostly nude posts that first of all would get me in trouble from my wife. Secondly, not something I really wanted to see.

[RainMaker]

I mostly just use it to find information on something happening in a game. Saw Chubb got hurt and went on Twitter to look up info last night. Plenty of views of the injury with reporters giving updates. That's probably its most valuable function.

[thesloppy]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

I mostly just use it to find information on something happening in a game. Saw Chubb got hurt and went on Twitter to look up info last night. Plenty of views of the injury with reporters giving updates. That's probably its most valuable function.

That's exactly how I used to use Twitter...but I used to be able to do that effectively without an account/signup, and one of the recent updates seemingly put a stop to that for unregistered users, and I'll be damned if I'm going to register for Twitter NOW

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Ghost Econ

My local news stations all have constantly updating scoreboard on their website. Are they not as thorough in GS?

I don't think any of the TV stations here do that, plus with close to 200 games statewide every Friday it gets a little ... hectic

There's a site that does little else but scoreboard (ScoreATL), there's ScoreStream, tho both of those are prone to error and often lag 1-3 hours behind real time. There's several newspapers that do their area in fairly real time, there's several more web-entities covering HS sports in a geographic area that do that as well (largely aggregating). And a fair number of teams tweet updates in real-time or at least every quarter.

Over the years I've managed to cobble together a pretty good list of accounts that are both reliable and timely.

Of the two regions I follow most closely (my alma mater and Will's alma mater) there are 14-16 teams. At any given moment on a Friday night, I can tell you the score within a half hour of real time for nearly all of them. As well as the next opponent for the alma mater, most of their past opponents, and half or more of the teams in the region that would be their first round playoff matchup.

[Ksyrup]

I created my Bluesky account a few weeks ago, but between issues with my dad's health and an Alaska cruise - plus the commitment needed to try to find accounts to follow that mimic what I have on Twitter right now - I've only logged in once.

[Flasch186]

Anyone want to share an invite?


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[Mota]

Originally Posted by Flasch186

Anyone want to share an invite?


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I'll send you one right now.