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Tim Chambers
SomeGadgetGuy@tchambers It's EXACTLY what many of us said would happen as Musk started talking about freeze peach.
It does NOT matter that there is a functional address on the internet called "twitter dot com".
What made twitter a unique platform has already died.
Tim Ellis 🦝@tchambers I saw some speculation that this was exactly why the Saudi's put a bunch of money into Elon's takeover. Making Twitter useless for things like this benefits them.
Helena@The_Tim @tchambers And the Russians. Does anyone really think Musk poured 50b of his own dollars into twitter?? It's controlled by the right wing.
The thing is if all news, government, celebrities with a conscience left, they could kill twitter.
Leave Twitter, destroy Musk.
DamnKimberlee@tchambers remember, the chaos is the point to anything coming out of Russia. Chief Twit wants chaos.
Get your resources on here. There are some fabulous accounts giving reliable info.
Matthieu@tchambers I recommend @uanews It’s sadly a twitter mirror and not original content. But it’s a curated list of good accounts with good info.
I don’t recommend you to follow them though, put them in a list to not spam your home feed.
I don’t recommend you to follow them though, put them in a list to not spam your home feed.
@tchambers @uanews
Another option is also lemmy
https://lemmy.world/post/484743?scrollToComments=true
Another option is also lemmy
https://lemmy.world/post/484743?scrollToComments=true
realcaseyrollins ✝️@matthieu_xyz @tchambers @uanews Thanks for this!
Robin@tchambers yeah, not a good moment for finding hard to verify in-the-moment info (!)
McWabbit🐰 has moved@tchambers That was the whole point of elno muscovy's takeover.
Platform was too powerful, too accurate and fast with political dissidents and investigative journalists all in one place. Despots threw in some money at his direction to take and control the narrative. Cue Erdogan in the last election. They've done a Facebook. But with a billionaire pos(t)er boy.
Platform was too powerful, too accurate and fast with political dissidents and investigative journalists all in one place. Despots threw in some money at his direction to take and control the narrative. Cue Erdogan in the last election. They've done a Facebook. But with a billionaire pos(t)er boy.
Patty A. GrayYup. I just came from there (NYT). However, neither #Twitter nor #Facebook ever did substitute as news sources for me. I’m a #newspaper #subscriber all the way down.
🇺🇦🌻@rogue_corq🌻🇺🇦@tchambers We've been trying to sort the wheat from the chaff regarding #russia and #Ukraine for sure, but the signal to noise ratio is far better here.
Ansel Halliburton@tchambers I don't know. I followed a lot of Ukraine accounts before, and they're very busy and interesting right now. I guess for a less tuned-in audience, the experience could be different.
Darwin WoodkaI'm checking in on https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA
and
https://twitter.com/NOELreports
and on the "Ukraine at War" discord which has bots from the reddit groups and posts the most interesting tweets
Between those and here I'm getting most of what's happening
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bryanspellmanOG@tchambers agreed. I worked in local news when Twitter arrived and taught my local journalist staff how to use and trust and research. My how the mighty have fallen :(
ProtectiveHen@tchambers Actually, I'm (unfortunately) finding it a good place for info - but I know whose accounts to check as I was following a lot of Ukraine news pre-Elon. I agree searching hashtags is a now waste of time on Twitter now because of the mass of disinfo and fascist crap (and RU bots/fake acocunts right now I'm sure)
thefakedes@tchambers here's a curated list of sources if interested https://twitter.com/i/lists/1496724288191090690
FirefighterGeek 
@tchambers It was never reliable, the unreliability was just better hidden.
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀@tchambers this is the data flow I’ve been needing since the Solstice Moment when I “left” Twitter
toxtethogrady@tchambers This was the place where I first learned Trump was indicted. Thanks to Popehat...
Zorro Notorious MEB 😡@tchambers Sorry, but Twitter was *never* a place to track breaking international news, even in the days when the Twitter C-Suite and the Obama State Department had each other on speed dial.
It was *always* a struggle for journalists to fact-check tweets. It may be worse now but it was never acceptable.
Benjamin@AlgoCompSynth @tchambers Agreed. At a minimum, Twitter should have been awesome for hyper local stories. E.g. there’s local flooding, which roads are blocked.
It could never do as good a job of that kind of news as actual local reporters or government emergency services.
It wasn’t even very good at telling you the injury status of a backup on your favorite sports team.
Kelsey Jordahl@tchambers while this is true to some degree, I think Twitter was always overrated as a real-time news source. There was (and still is) real information there, but there was always a torrent of rumor, speculation, and misinformation. It only sort of worked if you selected known reputable accounts.
Bradley 
@kajord @tchambers It was legit for news in the early 2010s. Somehow, when Obama announced his run for presidential office, the platform went to sh*t.
@Chimaera @kajord @tchambers My bad. Brain was too tired. I meant when Trump announced his run for office.
Cassandrich@kajord @tchambers It worked by organic social circles of trust in expertise surfacing the relevant takes and boosting them over the junk. All that is in ruins now.
MaybeMyMonkeys@tchambers Where is the CIA when you need them?
AlexsandraSmart@tchambers
This event, today, I heard about on the fediverse. This is where I get breaking stories now. I can't be the only one. (Still waiting for verified details from my trusted sources).
This event, today, I heard about on the fediverse. This is where I get breaking stories now. I can't be the only one. (Still waiting for verified details from my trusted sources).
slicedcheesegremlin@tchambers makes sense. The country who makes all of the bots is the one that's in danger, of course they would be working overtime.
For the love of humanity@tchambers
It's easy to find word here tho.
It's easy to find word here tho.
🇺🇦iuriimtl.eth🇨🇦 
@tchambers @spectatorindex on tweeter seems legit
@tchambers Well, surprise... surprise... THAT was Musk's (and his Extreme Right friends) goal... no question...
Allyson Williams ✅@tchambers And on Post, Mezuna
Kotking@tchambers It's on #reddit but for #twitter and news about war good place is https://www.reddit.com/live/18hnzysb1elcs all rational twitter people quoted. Fk reddit can't go to hell later after real world shit show.
sortius@tchambers I'm finding Masto pretty good these days, news ripples a lot better
Earthy in EV heaven@tchambers I miss Twitter in its good old days, when citizen journalism was instant
Coyoty@tchambers You must admit, the news is broken on Twitter.
@tchambers Twitter has become a cesspool
BenB#twitter #russia
I'm trying to port this news tracking over here (and Bluesky benbo.bsky.social) since a few months, also built a tool that archive & translate content from Telegram back to the open web. Check https://osintukraine.com
@benb
@ua @ru
There are other accounts doing good work here @ChrisO_wiki @noelreports
@tchambers also check him out @mhmck
lukiniReally good coverage on the Ukraine subreddits. Shame what's happening to that site, too, though
PJ "Vote Green" CoffeyI'd recommend
@ChrisO_wiki
Follows the human aspects of the war very well.
The sort of person who knows the technical business of war very well, is not welcome on Mastodon.
Kepala Bergetar
Gregory@tchambers in English maybe. In Russian there's so much I can hardly keep up
Bredroll@tchambers does Igor Suchko have a non twitter output? He's normally very good
Richad A@tchambers Twitter, from breaking news, to broken news. "Twitter will become the source for truth and news".
Turns out that when the informed people leave, it becomes a disinformationopia. (disinformation Eutopia).
Turns out that when the informed people leave, it becomes a disinformationopia. (disinformation Eutopia).
Namaste57@tchambers correct about Twitter. It is like a bunch of random electronic post it notes of mostly creepy ads.
xs4me2It was indeed…
hesgen@tchambers Putin attempted to flee Russia, but his plane was blown out of the sky. I read it on Twitter innit.
Xenofact (he/him)
@tchambers I am following some live blogs who sort through the drek.
Sylvhem@tchambers It’s especially ironic considering that Musk outspoken ambition was to turn Twitter into the number news canal.
earth2030 ☑️the people of Rostov are showing their Russian hearts
Ryan2one3@tchambers just go on Reddit. Oh wait...
gemelen@tchambers you just need to track the Ukrainian segment, then it's both hilarious and detailed
mkvXstream@tchambers Alt news is definitly more informative. Here is a page I built that tracks breaking headline news across 34 different categories: https://mkvxstream.com/tvstreamin/news.html
RevK 
@tchambers Agreed, it used to be *the* place for such things, once upon a time.