That would be called “election interference”
After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts
Submitted 3 months ago by gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/kamala-twitter-account-follow-limit-elon-musk/
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radivojevic@discuss.online 3 months ago
Furbag@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Shocking that people are still using Shitter in 2024.
vanontom@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Anybody still using it at this point deserves all the brain damage it causes. No excuses.
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Sadly, people with brain damage but aren’t vegetables can still vote (poorly).
EnderMB@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is it? It’s where most people still post publicly, and until someone unseats Twitter on that throne (which I hope is really soon) no other network is going to compete in terms of having the users people want to follow…
teolan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t mind them having account there. They need to reach people where they are after all. I’m pissed at them for not being on any platform that is not owned by a fascist enabler oligarch at best.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why do you need to see what celebs post? I never had twitter and for sure I will never have X, honestly I never understood the point, is it Facebook with smaller posts?
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The bigger shocker to me is that the platform still exists at all… didn’t the largest advertisers pull out? I thought it was hemeraging money. I keep waiting for them to pull the plug on it, or at least sell it at a huge discounted price.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Shitter is just one website. If I post to mastodon, people on hundreds of websites can see my content. Why on earth would I post to shitter if I wanted visibility???
Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
All the shitter domains are on my DNS block list. Happier for it.
Spitzspot@lemmings.world 3 months ago
Can we revoke his government contracts now?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Seriously though, it should be grounds for getting blacklisted from the government.
Or if the company in question is strategically crucial to national interests, as is the case here, it should be put into federal receivership with the appropriate relevant agency - so, SpaceX goes to NASA, Tesla goes to the DoT, Twitter goes to the FCC, etc.
I so deeply want this to be a case of “fuck around and find out”.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Musk made 151 tweets on Sunday
Assuming he’s awake for 16 hours, that’s over 9 tweets an hour. Someone is definitely scared.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Maybe he was just naming all the Kanto region Pokemon from memory
Scio@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t believe for a second he could name more than five.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’re missing one! 😺
scytale@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Hardest working CEO of multiple companies. /s
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I thought that was Trump? 🤣
Mikina@programming.dev 3 months ago
Isn’t that, like, illegal?
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 3 months ago
No. That doesn’t make it right though.
nutsack@lemmy.world 3 months ago
the corporatocracy is an authoritarian dictatorship and there’s nothing you can do about it
androogee@midwest.social 3 months ago
Still being on Twitter? Definitely immoral, but legal.
kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
No, if you are rich enough.
NutWrench@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Why is anyone still on, “The Social Media Platform Formerly Known As Twitter” ?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Its still twitter. You can’t take the twit out as long as a twit owns it.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Preaching to the choir.
Trikami@lemmy.world 3 months ago
[deleted]Manmoth@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
…so it’s like it was during the hunter biden laptop story and covid?
riskable@programming.dev 3 months ago
Maybe we should take a page from the Trumpers here and declare it a conspiracy!
The deep state doesn’t want people following Harris! They don’t want you to know about it. They think they know better than you!
“Let me tell you, folks, I know how to follow people and this Twitter situation smells. I know all about smelling. Smells. Smelling. Smell… Ling! The word just sounds awful, right? They want you to smell things. They’re coming for your smells!”
Haha, yeah… This is Elon Musk’s X.com we’re talking about. It’s just sheer incompetence and the usual buggy bullshit. We should expect this as normal X behavior at this point. Is anyone really surprised that X is suddenly throwing errors when users try basic functionality? Come on. The platform is garbage and that’s not even taking account the garbage present on the platform.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 months ago
What do they even expect? They know whose site they are using.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
The remaining users are 100% in denial that it’s a Nazi website now.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Nah a lot of them are just actual Nazis.
recapitated@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Trump’s going to be mad that x is becoming a direct competitor to truth social
nicky7@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Keep being transparent as fuck, Space Karen 🤣
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
This might be one of Twitter’s automatic security features I’d heard about a while back (prior to the Musk takeover). Supposedly, Twitter stops accounts from getting a large amount of followers in a short amount of time to try to limit botting. Sometimes, rarely, it can trigger when a large amount of real people follow a real account.
I think I heard about it when I ran into the issue myself, but I don’t remember what account it was that I was trying to follow.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Go away with your sensible explanations, we have conspiracy to uncover.
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Which goes to show that if you are a public figure whether in politics, entertainment, or otherwise, owning your own server for social media instead of relying on Zuck and Musk should be a critical concern at this point.
There is no reason for the Harris campaign to not dip their toe into federated social media at this point given Musk’s antagonism towards them.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
And it’s so cheap to run. The only reason it’s not as worth is the limited reach and impact. But if main political figures would adopt it, the users and journalists would certainly come.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Can you post snippets of mastodon posts on websites like you can tweets?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
People big enough to have a staffed social media team will stilk have an Xitter account just because it is a viable vector to get news out. They may also have Truth Social account, just because it’s there.
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I agree with you and I will not let them off the hook. They have no legitimate excuse to be using racist, misogynist, transphobic, homophobic, bigoted right-wing platforms.
Do they also have a stormfront account? Fuck anyone who contributes to fascist owned platforms just because they are there.
teolan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t mind them having account there. They need to reach people where they are after all. I’m pissed at them for not being on any platform that is not owned by a fascist enabler oligarch at best.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Well put.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
It’s funny (scary) how the police and fire department never post to thir own websites about important timely information and updates.
It’s in twitter and Facebook. I use neither anymore. Because obvious reasons.
This week, I could only find reference to the smell of natural gas covering half our city via a news site that quoted the FD’s twitter.
Great work, guys!
set_secret@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ew I. Accidently clicked on a twitter link I ieel so dirty
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Musk and trump could share a deserted island outside the shipping lanes of the pacific and make the western hemisphere a calmer more peaceful place
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 months ago
They could both live on musk’s mars colony, the first rockets are set to start as early as 2018!
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
I’m ashamed to say that when he was talking about that originally, I was gullibke enough to think a one-way Mars trip would be worth doing.
I mean, I still think that, in the abstract, if we could make a good plan and trust the people back home. But I did not understand what massive pieces of shit billionaires all were and what a terrible idea it would be to volunteer for humanity’s very first off-world company town.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah but make sure they cant build a way back here first
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 3 months ago
Or share a small dark prison cell just about anywhere and have the same, if not better, effect.
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fuck that, keep him over the in the Atlantic.
cmrn@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Maybe the reason Elon broke every part of Twitter was just so he has plausible deniability while he meddles with everything and desperately tries to get his name in every discussion.
nepenthes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
😂 Space Karen
Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What a fucking joke of a platform
Chakravanti@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Don’t insult the Joker like that.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It appears the world’s most divorced bozo is at it again.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Stop.using.xitter
juice702@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Can we please kick this dweeb back to Canada or Africa?
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Hey, don’t you dare try to pawn him off on us.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I don’t think I’ve ever said the phrase “Go back to Africa” unironically (as in outside of making fun of racists) in my life, but here we are.
Go back to Africa Elon…
At least I said it to a white guy.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
to be fair it’s probably because twitter is hosted on a literal potato
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
GLaDOS would NEVER associate with a chump like Musk.
kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Oh, GLaDOS allowed Wheatley be a part of the team.
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 3 months ago
No surprise.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
elon is just mad he’s stuck with the painfully dull dud jd vance
ulkesh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Shocker
eleitl@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Not technology.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Concidence? Obviously… Elon The Musky Husky is a champion of Free Speech afterall.
GreyYeti@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I agree this is of questionable veracity, but could you imagine if for example fb users had trouble following Trump? There would be a whole news cycle culminating in a congressional hearing. When people talk about the asymmetrical standards that conservatives are held to vs liberals in the media this is a prime example.
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 3 months ago
He posted a picture on his stream of the error message “There’s a problem here” over the Biden/Harris campaign page, so at very least he’s trolling instead of taking his job seriously. Twitter is his private platform so whatever, but it’s another reminder that Musk will not be impartial and is actually pouring millions into the Trump campaign, so if you’re still there now would be a good time to leave.
Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yo it was a good time to leave back when he bought it. It was a good time again when he dumped moderation. It was a good time again when he changed the name to X. Really its always been a good time to leave. Anyone who hasn’t left by now has already ignored so many signs not even Ace of Base can help them.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m afraid people on Twitter will never leave it no matter what
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Why in the fuck did Biden announce his resignation on that platform?
catloaf@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Let’s be real, there’s nothing he personally could do to fix this issue. He just plain doesn’t have the skills.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is what happens when trying to give equal platforming to buttcracks on top of shoulders. They shit all over everything and dont understand why the mic was taken from them. They dont understand why we can post about single payer healthcare and they can’t say immigrants deserve to die. They think all ideals are equal on the battlegrounds of legislature.
OpenStars@discuss.online 3 months ago
Correction: some of them truly know why. However, they are trying to see what they can get away with, like a toddler testing their boundaries (“but why can’t I have dessert instead of dinner!?”). It is our fault if we fall prey to their BS.
The only thing required for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing.