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Comment by smcleod | Hacker News Reader

Ugh Twitter / X. That site needs to die - it’s honestly so broken, none of the redirects seem to work today.

I installed this extension, it made me hate Twitter less by not having to use it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...

That's fine but why should it be on me? It should just be HN policy to not accept twitter as article links. They're effectively paywalled. If people must, they should be submitting nitter etc links.

From the HN FAQ "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds." Instead of 30 comments on the state of twitter one nitter link would've sufficed.

I'm trying to get people to pronounce it "eggs" as in

Eggs, the site formerly known as twitter. So instead of a tweet you "egg something".

I think it gives the site the dignity it deserves.

Not bad. I still prefer Xitter though. The X is pronounced 'sh'.

That's a good one; another good one is birdchan.

Lay down some yolks

i like Xitter and Xcrete

Right, but the letter "X" may be pronounced "Eggs" and people may not even notice that you're not pronouncing it in a cool "Dimension X" scifi way with reverb and stuff.

Double Yew, Eggs, Why, Zee / Zed

Eccentric billionaire Elan Mosk, while cosplaying Howard Huges, Laid an egg that "he is going to make a wooden rocket that can land on the fondue oceans of the moon"

[edit: added the zed for friends who count on their hands starting at the thumb not pointer finger]

At this point I’m assuming this is broken on purpose (for visitors not logged in).

I wonder if people still on there realize that their posts are essentially not visible for unregistered users anymore without jumping though major hoops.

Did they fix it? Everything seems to be working for me and I don't even have a twitter account.

What redirects? Everything works fine. Not a single time I experienced any issue with Twitter since the acquisition.

Interesting fact is that according to the statistics of DownDetector, Twitter is more stable now. It was down more often prior to the acquisition.

Downdetector is completely unscientific and based on user reports. It could also be that way fewer people use the website now, so nobody is making reports to downdetector.

What still miraculously works for me is s/twitter.com/nitter.net/

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