Twitter Reading Limits

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Ha.
99% of your Scoop game is personnel personal insults and clown/pig emjojis.
Put on your big boy pants and don't cry when you catch return fire.

Your wife said don't be mean.

[MU82]

nm

[rocky_warrior]

Probably a bad idea to to revive this thread, but I have a question as a non-twitter user....is it irreparably broken?

As a cubs fan, the best updates on rain delays used to come from twitter.  Now I can google "Chicago Cubs" and see that they have a recent twitter post about the current rain delay and updates, but if I click the link go to the Cubs twitter page, it just gives me a bunch of random posts from 2016-2022.  I can't see the most recent (especially about the rain delay)

https://twitter.com/Cubs

Is this just a side-effect of not being registered on twitter, or does it show this way for everyone?  Regardless, dumb.

[JWags85]

Probably a bad idea to to revive this thread, but I have a question as a non-twitter user....is it irreparably broken?

As a cubs fan, the best updates on rain delays used to come from twitter.  Now I can google "Chicago Cubs" and see that they have a recent twitter post about the current rain delay and updates, but if I click the link go to the Cubs twitter page, it just gives me a bunch of random posts from 2016-2022.  I can't see the most recent (especially about the rain delay)

https://twitter.com/Cubs

Is this just a side-effect of not being registered on twitter, or does it show this way for everyone?  Regardless, dumb.

The former.  It updates normally if logged in

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Probably a bad idea to to revive this thread, but I have a question as a non-twitter user....is it irreparably broken?

As a cubs fan, the best updates on rain delays used to come from twitter.  Now I can google "Chicago Cubs" and see that they have a recent twitter post about the current rain delay and updates, but if I click the link go to the Cubs twitter page, it just gives me a bunch of random posts from 2016-2022.  I can't see the most recent (especially about the rain delay)

https://twitter.com/Cubs

Is this just a side-effect of not being registered on twitter, or does it show this way for everyone?  Regardless, dumb.

Woulda thought the internet correct guy ^tm would be able to figure out twitter.

[rocky_warrior]

Woulda thought the internet correct guy ^tm would be able to figure out twitter.

Nope.  Never have, never will.  But it's not working like it has before.

[Not A Serious Person]

Threads launched on July 5. It has now lost 85% of its users

August 20
https://www.wsj.com/tech/metas-threads-app-to-launch-web-version-as-rivalry-with-x-enters-new-stage-706e8241

Time spent on the Threads app is down about 85% more than a month after its launch, according to new data from SimilarWeb, a digital data and analytics firm. At its peak, Threads had nearly 50 million daily active users worldwide a few days after launching. That number has since dropped to less than 10 million, the firm said Sunday.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Yep...it's going the way of Google+.

[forgetful]

Yep...it's going the way of Google+.

And maybe the way of Twitter...I mean X. Musk conceded today that it may fail after another round of major failures with Twitter.

[jficke13]

Probably a bad idea to to revive this thread, but I have a question as a non-twitter user....is it irreparably broken?

As a cubs fan, the best updates on rain delays used to come from twitter.  Now I can google "Chicago Cubs" and see that they have a recent twitter post about the current rain delay and updates, but if I click the link go to the Cubs twitter page, it just gives me a bunch of random posts from 2016-2022.  I can't see the most recent (especially about the rain delay)

https://twitter.com/Cubs

Is this just a side-effect of not being registered on twitter, or does it show this way for everyone?  Regardless, dumb.

Depends on how precisely you want to define this term.

On one hand, if you have an account you still are able to follow accounts and view their posts in a chronological order on the Following tab (interspersed with some of the most insane advertisements and promoted scam posts you've ever seen). So, not really broken.

On the other hand, many of the accounts that were worth following have left for one Elon-created reason or another, so the value of participating is somewhat less than it was before. With each sort of flailing decision Elon makes regarding the user experience he seems to cull another set of users from the platform. To my eye, none of what he's done has attracted anyone to the site (with, uh, one group's notable exception that you can figure out without me specifically identifying). There's also the incredible way that he's managed to sail the ship into rock after rock, (employment lawsuits--so many employment lawsuits, losing engineers who went to competitors, destroying 100% of the brand equity that he purchased in changing the name to 'X,' and so on, and so on) that not only is there's a real sense that whatever made Twitter *Twitter* is gone and never coming back but also there's a real chance it just... stops one day.

To that extent, it certainly feels irreparably broken.

[rocky_warrior]

if you have an account you still are able to follow accounts and view their posts in a chronological order

So...I'm reading that as "Yes, it's broken for those without accounts".

I agree, I only used twitter for a couple very specific things in life - and now it's not worth my time for that anymore.

edit:  Also, threads web interface is now active.  https://www.threads.net/@cubs

[ZiggysFryBoy]

I don't have Facebook or Instagram, can't see much content on those without an account either.

Are those "broken"?

[jficke13]

I don't have Facebook or Instagram, can't see much content on those without an account either.

Are those "broken"?

Well if you used to rely on them to access information but no longer can, then for you I would say the answer is "yes."

[rocky_warrior]

I don't have Facebook or Instagram, can't see much content on those without an account either.

Are those "broken"?

I don't have those either, but I can go here https://www.facebook.com/MarquetteMensBB/ and see what was posted in the past few hours.  Same here for most recent posts https://www.threads.net/@marquette.basketball

That doesn't work here https://twitter.com/MarquetteMBB - top post is from 2021

Twitter is broken for me.  You seem to want to make that political, but it doesn't work the way it used to, and is useless for my purposes now.  Hence, broken.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

I don't have those either, but I can go here https://www.facebook.com/MarquetteMensBB/ and see what was posted in the past few hours.  Same here for most recent posts https://www.threads.net/@marquette.basketball

That doesn't work here https://twitter.com/MarquetteMBB - top post is from 2021

Twitter is broken for me.  You seem to want to make that political, but it doesn't work the way it used to, and is useless for my purposes now.  Hence, broken.

min.

Political?  I just said that I can't see fb and ig content without an account.

[rocky_warrior]

Political?  I just said that I can't see fb and ig content without an account.

Really?  My FB link doesn't work for you?  Try an incognito tab.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Really?  My FB link doesn't work for you?  Try an incognito tab.

What's political about my post?  Weirdo.

[rocky_warrior]

What's political about my post?  Weirdo.

You know what you were saying.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

You know what you were saying.

Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you.

[Hards Alumni]

I didn't see anything political behind Zigs post lol

[4everwarriors]

Everything written or said by anyone is political. So long as the playing field is even, it shouldn't be an issue. After all, this is 'merica, aina?

[rocky_warrior]

After all, this is 'merica, aina?

sir, this is MUScoop.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

sir, this is MUScoop.

Political.   🙄

[rocket surgeon]

Everything written or said by anyone is political. So long as the playing field is even, it shouldn't be an issue. After all, this is 'merica, aina?

in other words, some are just more "equal" than others, eyn'a?

[TSmith34, Inc.]

And some are perpetual victims