For one thing, this is sad because even more of the Internet is no longer reachable. The Internet shrinks, and will continue to get smaller as enshittification continues.
But on the other hand, this is really starting to look like the death knell of Twitter. It's quickly becoming extremely inconvenient to see any tweets on Twitter now.
Fine by me. I never saw any value in it, even well before Musk took over. The character limit is guaranteed to eliminate any nuance, and the interface makes it incredibly difficult to follow what discussion there is.
I think originally when Twitter was created, the idea was that it would also be accessible via SMS and so the limit was imposed in order to allow a a tweet to fit into one SMS message.
We’ve had Twitter since SMS cost per-message on most plans.
For one thing, this is sad because even more of the Internet is no longer reachable. The Internet shrinks, and will continue to get smaller as enshittification continues.
This was only a problem because of improper centralization in the first place. From that perspective, this is the Internet self-correcting a defect.
And that, good folks, is how you run a service into ground.
Musky is probably wondering how to charge search engines indexing his site for free
a part of me wants this to get worse so that people finally realize elon is insane once and for all
#BoycottGoogle #BoycottMusk #BoycottBillionaires
What is his endgame
I'm enjoying watching Twitter go up in flames in real time. 🍿
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