Musk confirmed that posts containing links are deprioritized, renewing criticism that the platform is restricting access to external sources of information.
  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    30 minutes ago

    If you’re using Twitter as a news source what are you even doing in the first place?

    Go to the news outlets directly, the BBC, whoever.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    28·
    3 hours ago

    twitter has been “x’d” out. Do not expect it to be anything other than a shit show. The X means close the window, goodbye.

  • Fitik@fedia.io
    20·
    5 hours ago

    Wasn’t it known/confirmed since Twitter made their algorithm partially open source? (I think it was a year ago or so)

      • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
        7·
        2 hours ago

        Yeah, he specifically gets boosted across the site, which is why he ended up in everyone’s feeds.

  • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
    176·
    5 hours ago

    Ok but twitter isn’t even a real source for news so who cares. Go to a real news site.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 hour ago

      There was a time when a story could happen, and literally wighin minutes you’d have multiple sources of video, on the scene, as the story happens.

      I’m not promoting school shootings. I’m not encouraging them. I’m not glorifying them. But there was a LONG time when I expected a high school shooting to happen, and a high school student would livestream it with a hashtag like #schooladdress #help

      Closest I ever saw was Uvalde school security cameras showing police showing up…and being cowards. I will forever call those cowards out. You show up, 30 to 1, all with guns, and you let one student continue to kill at a time when every second is a potential live being saved or lost. They hung out in the lobby. Not only that, they restrained parents from stopping the killer themself.

      In my eyes they didn’t just show up and do nothing in the lobby. They actively aided the shooter that day.

      Sorry, I went off on a tangent, because it still pisses me off. But yeah, I fully expected one day when twitter was still a source for news, to wake up one day, and see an active shooter scene being broadcast from inside a classroom.

    • moe90@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      121·
      5 hours ago

      The problem is many people still rely on X for live news such as sport news, disaster news (earthquake news), war news (Gaza/Ukraine). But, with this change this is getting really bad lately for this platform.

      • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
        83·
        4 hours ago

        Just like many rely on Facebook. Providing news doesn’t make it a good news source.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      1·
      3 hours ago

      It’s not a source for news, but a venue.

      Or at least, it used to be.