Twitter

Elon Musk has said blocking “makes no sense.”

I found that when I was preparing to leave Twitter, the native archive feature was totally broken, so I published my personal solution since the old scrapers died with last year's api changes: (though you'll need to be comfortable pasting a couple commands into your terminal if you want to try it)

https://github.com/mcthomas/tweet-archive

I used to use Nitter to bypass the limited firewalling so I could sometimes look at what a corporation or a band had said or done. Is there any site that lets you see into the site, blocks the trackers Elon's installed etc?

These numbers are legitimately shocking.

Nearly 76% of traffic from X to its clients' sites was fake during Super Bowl weekend

No other platform came close to that

There's a few interesting data points in the piece but here's one traffic comparison:

Fake user visits to tracked ads from social media platforms over Super Bowl weekend:

• X / Twitter: 75.9%
• TikTok: 2.6%
• Facebook: 2%
• Instagram: 0.7%

What is the best tool to get URLs for all tweets within a given date range?

The ideal behaviour I'm looking for would be something like this:

Input: https://twitter.com/SpaceX 2023-09-01 2024-02-08

Output:

• https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1755763378449183003#m
• https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1755759459765567825#m
• https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1755752291578302545#m
• ...

What would be the best tool to achieve this? Thanks in advance!

Open Source Community, Seize the Day!

Elon Musk has said and done a lot of weird and outrageous things during his tenure as the owner of Twitter (now X), but we may have just seen the weirdest and most outrageous.

... Finally, this isn’t exactly a “problem” with the lawsuit, but I’ll just note the conflict in two separate statements:

X Corp. and Elon Musk are a critical Media Matters target because X is the most prominent online platform that permits users to share all viewpoints, whether liberal or conservative, and Mr. Musk is the most prominent voice on the platform and a passionate supporter of free speech.

That’s in paragraph 41 on pages 11 and 12. On Page 14 in the prayer for relief we get this:

A preliminary and permanent injunction ordering Defendants to immediately delete, take down, or otherwise remove the article entitled “As Musk Endorses Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory, X Has Been Placing Ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity Next to Pro-Nazi Content From Its Web” from all websites and social media accounts owned, controlled, or operated, directly or indirectly, by Defendants;

So… within the span of about 2 to 3 pages we are told that Elon Musk and exTwitter are passionate supporters of free speech that allow “all viewpoints” to be shared and that Musk is filing this lawsuit to force Media Matters to take down speech that he admits is absolutely true, but where he doesn’t like how they portrayed things.

Anyway, kudos to Elon. This really takes stupid SLAPP suits to incredible new levels. I didn’t think you’d be able to find a lawyer who would file a lawsuit so stupid, that makes you look this ridiculous, but you did it. Just like people doubted your ability to shoot rockets into space or make popular electric vehicles, I should not have doubted your ability to file absolutely nonsense SLAPP suits that are this laughable.

Elon Musk-owned social media company X could lose as much as $75 million in advertising revenue by the end of the year as dozens of major brands pause their marketing campaigns, the New York Times reported on Friday.

Okay X/Twitter has a very very very odd background image on its Brand Assets page such that I literally thought that my screen has dirt.
https://about.twitter.com/en/who-we-are/brand-toolkit

#x #twitter #design @twitter