Interesting Links for 02-07-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Twitter now requires users to sign in to view tweets, making it useless for sharing information with non-Twitter users

(tags:twitter OhForFucksSake )

2. "Our Dialects" - cataloguing English as she is spoke. And writ.

(tags:language UK English viaSarah )

3. Google joins Facebook in removing news links in Canada

(tags:Canada Google Facebook news )

4. Picture books featuring disability and neurodiversity

(tags:neurodiversity children books viaClare )

Comments

[captainsblog]

I noticed the MuskRat's latest move when trying to check a sports team's feed and it no let me on my phone.

I'd previously, if somewhat inadvertently, "signed up" for Shitter by allowing the "sign in with Google" option that I thought would, well, sign me in with Google, not create an actual account with the need to follow at least one user (I picked Biden just to piss him off). I also promptly changed my at-handle to _idontusetwitter (one of those capital I's is a small L) and my user name to "Elon Musk" because I heard he likes that. I have never published, liked, commented or retweeted a thing, though I did just add "Cis Male" to my profile in hopes of THAT "hate speech" (in Elonese) getting me banhammered before actually saying anything there.

[captainsblog]

Boy Genius has now backed off, saying it's a "temporary emergency" because of the sudden massive amount of data scraping on the site.

Data scraping that is now occurring only because of Boy Genius's decision to monetize access to API for the site, costing 42 large a month now and not even working for those stupid enough to pay him.

Already I'm hearing that newspeople are learning to rely on other sources for things they used to get through Tweet subscriptions. Foot, bullet. Bullet, foot.

[andrewducker]

He could have monetised things so much better than he did. I'd have paid for no ads before.
Not now though.

[bens_dad]

After Musk or just Before Musk ?

Problem with a paid "no ads" option is that he can't sell ads ...
Is there a price-point where that makes business sense ?

[andrewducker]

Twitter apparently make $12 per American user per quarter. I would happily pay significantly more than that to be a customer.