WaywardPythonI managed to access Twitter this morning, and it got me thinking. I hope all the new friends who joined us in the last 24hrs aren’t suddenly going to disappear because their old dopamine dispenser is suddenly available again.
(Secretly hoping #Tweltdown will take off as a hashtag.)
One good thing about the #Tweltdown is seeing a lot of people there suddenly announcing that they do, after all, have a Mastodon account.
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕Apologies (and considerable self-guilt) for wallowing in Twitter news, but this is quite the moment.
I've just caught the BBC's top-of-the-hour newscast, and the fact that Twitter is banning posts / profiles for referencing other services made the news summary.
Web story: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-your-money-64021412'
For anyone who doesn't think this isn't huge news with global impact, think again.
NPR as well as of the 5pm E.T. news rundown, nothing on the website yet.
More current reporting:
NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/business/twitter-ban-social-media-competitors-mastodon.html
Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/twitter-policy-links-to-social-sites/
Deutschlandfunk: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/links-zu-konkurrierenden-online-plattformen-werden-verboten-106.html
Jennifer SessionsApparently Mork has also disabled linking to Mastodon. This is the error I got when trying to post a link to one of my own toots. Full on meltdown over there it seems #twittermigration #Twitter #tweltdown