cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/795792

Archived version: https://archive.ph/3PZgS
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230728012843/https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/27/elons-zero-tolerance-policy-on-csam-apparently-does-not-apply-to-conspiracy-theorist-accounts-he-likes/

I've started seeing pornography, as in dicks and cunts within a cursory scroll of whats trending, and certainly more repeated spam for buying vitamins, or redirects to win an iphone etc.

Whats going on here?

I mostly follow celebrities and tech people (the few that are left on Twitter). Someone tweeted about seeing too many ads on Twitter and I realised I’ve never seen one. Scrolled back through my feed and there’s just no ads. I certainly don’t pay Elon any money, so why am I not seeing ads? (I don’t want ads, just curious)

Concerns are growing over the fate of the site following a series of revisions since Elon Musk acquired it that have prompted a chorus of complaints by users and companies.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/769030

https://archive.is/VQOZi

Twitter is rolling out the new TweetDeck and making it a Twitter Blue-exclusive feature.

Twitter is officially launching its “new” version of TweetDeck to everyone, according to a tweet from Twitter’s support account, which is a step that it had to take to help mitigate some of the issues TweetDeck has been experiencing lately. The switch comes with a potentially-heartbreaking catch: TweetDeck is going to become a Verified-only feature in 30 days, the account says, meaning you’ll need to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription to be able to use it.

This updated version of TweetDeck has been in preview for nearly two years.

All users will be forced to switch over to the new version, according to two Twitter employees, and those staffers have also shared some slight clarifications about what’s been going on with old TweetDeck. For many on the old interface, TweetDeck has been useless recently; when I wrote this story, all of my columns were just spinning with a “Loading...” message, and my colleagues saw something similar as well.

While the empty columns popped up after Twitter began rate-limiting tweets, according to the Twitter employees, those rate limits aren’t actually causing the problems with old TweetDeck. Instead, the employees claim that the issues are because of Twitter removing legacy APIs to prevent data scraping.

“Rate limits only apply to new TweetDeck and Twitter,” wrote one employee. “Legacy TweetDeck uses legacy APIs and those have been removed to reduce scraping.” Another tweeted that the issues are “definitely not related to the rate limit.”

The work to force the switch will begin “this week,” that employee said, and in replies, people are imploring that Twitter “please don’t.” I can’t blame them — I remember not liking the TweetDeck Preview when I tried it out in 2021, and neither did my colleague Sean Hollister. I’m don’t know how much the preview may have changed now that it’s officially released, and I hope Twitter has improved it for the better, but I’m not optimistic; Twitter’s TweetDeck account hasn’t said a word since August. (And as I write this, it still hasn’t, despite Monday’s news.)

When reached for comment, Twitter’s press email auto-replied with a poop emoji, as it as been doing since March.

Update July 3rd, 6:32PM ET: Twitter is officially launching the new TweetDeck and making it a Twitter Blue-only feature.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/999543

Google has reportedly removed much of Twitter's links from its search results after the social network's owner Elon Musk announced reading tweets would be limited.

Search Engine Roundtable found that Google had removed 52% of Twitter links since the crackdown began last week. Twitter now blocks users who are not logged in and sets limits on reading tweets.

According to Barry Schwartz, Google reported 471 million Twitter URLs as of Friday. But by Monday morning, that number had plummeted to 227 million.

"For normal indexing of these Twitter URLs, it seems like these tweets are dropping out of the sky," Schwartz wrote.

Platformer reported last month that Twitter refused to pay its bill for Google Cloud services.

Twitter tells users to touch grass, adds new rule limiting how many tweets you can read per day