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Their website is broken for normal users. Try visiting anyone's profile page over the web — you'll get a 467 error

[0] e.g. Elon: https://twitter.com/elonmusk

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Wow. Glad I'm not putting energy into Twitter any longer.

As someone who's never sent a tweet, what did you get out of it Pre-SpaceJesus?

Not much to be honest so it's not really a loss

Local status updates and the occasional tidbit of interest from people whose thoughts I like to read but who twitterblog instead of using an actual blog.

I quit Twitter when Elon took it over. It provided me with:

Easy access to information and articles about breaking news events.

Community.

A feed of interesting articles and discussions.

Enjoyment gained from following quickly evolving memes, discussions, and jokes.

A way to verbalize incidental thoughts, and the pleasure of crafting those thoughts into small nuggets to share with my friends.

Of course there are many negative aspects to Twitter, but those are the things I found value in.

All still present (positive and negative) on Twitter, plus the benefit to open-minded people of hearing opinions from all sides, which has improved post-Elon.

I used to run a bot that broadcasted my town's current alternate side parking rules (for snow removal operations) but after twitter got weird the town decided to make a text messaging service for it.

I still use it to follow certain artists but if that subcommunity moves I'll follow them elsewhere.

Works fine on my end (considering the contents of his tweets, I almost wish it didn't, though...)

To save everyone the click his feed is equal parts misogyny [1], 3 AM shit posting [2], and tantalizing flashes of self awareness [3].

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632574090216103937

[2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632682409366781953

[3] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632275726912110593

That second one, poking fun at the BBC for saying that Twitter "can't protect users from trolling," was really the BBC shooting itself in the foot with a laughable headline burying the lede of the article:

> Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk

> Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk. [1]

For some reason, the headline decided to focus on "trolling" over an increase in child sexual assault and state-co-ordinated disinformation...

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64804007

Honestly the "insider" even talking about "protecting" people from trolling and state co-ordinated misinformation(?) in the same sentence as protecting them from csam makes it very hard to believe it's something genuine.

Sounds like the people who say all the petty things they dislike about someone on the internet and then finishes with "he's a pedo" to add gravitas.(yes elon does fall into this category)

'Trolling' has basically come to mean 'misinformation' among the general public, in the same way that 'hacking' has come to mean 'cybercrime'.

Is there any information on the 467 error? Doesn't appear to be standard. Any ideas or other companies using 467?

everything is super broken. I can't load help pages. Links to 3rd party sites (that use t.co links) don't work. All kinds of fubar going on.

Twitter seems to have fixed that issue. Your link loads fine for me.

Works fine.

What is http code 467? Something Twitter made up?

What, they didn't go with something like 420, or even 69?

I guess there's still one aspect of the company that Musk hasn't "fixed" yet...

He'll probably bring this back, claim to have invented it, and ban/threaten to sue anyone who says otherwise: https://evertpot.com/http/420-enhance-your-calm

Works here

They fixed it :-)

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