Twitter Accounts

[Jolemai]

I have two invite codes for one of the Twitter replacement apps, BlueSky, if anyone wants?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Surely if musk has fucked it so royally the best thing to replace Twitter with would be nothing?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Bluesky no longer requires an invite for sign up. I've set an account up today but it's really just a placeholder for now, I have none of the time, energy or patience required to sort out building up what I've got on Twitter (which I now use about 20% as much as I did 2-3 years ago).

Also I looked and for a start I don't think Wolves have an account on there (they did set one up on Threads, which I never bothered with), unless Twitter actually falls over completely I just don't think you'll get the scale of migration needed.

 

[Tredman]

The Incel-in-chief is really doing well at making the various parts of his evil empire work well together.

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[machin05]

Looks safe

 

[Tredman]

Looks like it's finally time to bin twitter, seems like my one post a year touched a nerve.

 

[The Bear]

Gotta block the h8ers

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Seems there's a bit of a push to abandon Elon's shit tip of a site.

So if you're that way inclined, feel free to follow me here: https://bsky.app/profile/oscillatewwfc.bsky.social

 

[visage]

I read the 'Character Limit' book on a long haul flight recently. Musk really is breathtakingly cunty - some of the shit he got up to during the takeover is scarcely believable.

 

[Alan]

Seems there's a bit of a push to abandon Elon's shit tip of a site.

So if you're that way inclined, feel free to follow me here: https://bsky.app/profile/oscillatewwfc.bsky.social

They're on track to add over a million new accounts this week.

It's a really interesting one; web apps don't often get a second wind of mass interest like this. I figured BlueSky would pretty much carry on like Mastodon with a small but respectable number of users.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I read the 'Character Limit' book on a long haul flight recently. Musk really is breathtakingly cunty - some of the shit he got up to during the takeover is scarcely believable.

He's a terrible mix of being fucking thick but also thinking he's really clever. He also seems to think that Iron Man was real.

Combine that with the Trump-esque fortune of being rich because Daddy was rich, but pretending your wealth is all down to your own inherent genius.

Dreadful, dreadful creature.

On a very petty level he basically jams traffic from Substack links, which meant everything I wrote in the summer got about 10% of the traffic it used to. Why does he do this, because he can, because he's a cunt.

 

[Alan]

Just read that the new subscriber count ticked over 1,000,000 today. Was at ~700,000 when I first heard about the ruckus yesterday.

That's a massive influx; shout outs to the engineers there who are probably pulling all sorts of wild hours to keep the servers from catching fire.

@BarryBondage is available holy shit

Not anymore!

 

[Tony Towner]

I've signed up to BlueSky as I'd like to do a Guardian style Twitter huff, but only a small percentage of those I follow have migrated. Wolves haven't for instance, so if you still need to go on Twitter it seems a bit pointless

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It'll take a while, I probably should have walked months ago when Square Head decided it was a swell idea to basically block links to non-profit fan websites like mine, but it was the thought of throwing away 2,500+ followers and starting all over again...

As it is, I'm not sure how much time I'll have to post anywhere let alone write properly in the very near future, so I may as well have a look. Not flouncing off Twitter as such, I just won't use it very much (I've already chopped down massively since he systematically wrecked it) and any links to OW if I do happen to write anything will be Bluesky only (what's the point putting them on Twitter, no-one gets to see them with his stupid algorithms).

I gave up discussing politics on Twitter years ago - it's been poisonous for a long time and was only getting worse. Hopefully the cuntbag element of Wolves support doesn't cross over to Bluesky, we do have some appalling "fans".

 

[Kenny]

Let me know when things swing away from Twitter.

I only use the place to see what others are posting and share funny/wtf shit on here.

 

[Jolemai]

It's certainly picking up speed; especially now it has an app. Haven't seen much Wolves stuff on there yet though.

 

[Hereford Wolf]

Liking Bluesky a lot. I dumped Twitter 3 years ago. This seems like a platform for the good guys.

 

[Tredman]

Yeah same, I like it. Feels like twitter from a few year ago. Might even make a post one day too

 

[jlo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8dm0ljg4y6o

It's looking so much better now. I had a lot of history on my twitter account and was reluctant to lose it as so many media outlets etc rely on it. But it's such a vile cesspit full of hate and bullying, I was only just waiting for an excuse to delete it. So I've downloaded my history and now deactivated it. Not sure I need bluesky from a posting perspective any more as life has changed, but I'd like to help build something new so have an account on there now.

It would be so nice to see X collapse ala myspace, based on current ownership. Shame for the people originally behind it who poured so much effort into it. Jack Dorsey has been a sell out though.

Switching sends a message. Now need the mainstream accounts to make a move, journalists too.

 

[Tony Towner]

All the Philly Eagles journalists I follow have moved to duel posting in the last 24hrs. Obviously that's about engagement rather than morals, but hopefully we'll see something similar over here eventually