That would be called “election interference”
After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts
Submitted 1 month 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 1 month ago
Furbag@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Shocking that people are still using Shitter in 2024.
vanontom@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anybody still using it at this point deserves all the brain damage it causes. No excuses.
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Sadly, people with brain damage but aren’t vegetables can still vote (poorly).
EnderMB@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
All the shitter domains are on my DNS block list. Happier for it.
Spitzspot@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Can we revoke his government contracts now?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Maybe he was just naming all the Kanto region Pokemon from memory
Scio@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t believe for a second he could name more than five.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’re missing one! 😺
scytale@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Hardest working CEO of multiple companies. /s
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I thought that was Trump? 🤣
Mikina@programming.dev 1 month ago
Isn’t that, like, illegal?
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 month ago
No. That doesn’t make it right though.
nutsack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
the corporatocracy is an authoritarian dictatorship and there’s nothing you can do about it
androogee@midwest.social 1 month ago
Still being on Twitter? Definitely immoral, but legal.
kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
No, if you are rich enough.
NutWrench@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Why is anyone still on, “The Social Media Platform Formerly Known As Twitter” ?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Its still twitter. You can’t take the twit out as long as a twit owns it.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Preaching to the choir.
Trikami@lemmy.world 1 month ago
[deleted]Manmoth@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
…so it’s like it was during the hunter biden laptop story and covid?
riskable@programming.dev 1 month 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 1 month ago
What do they even expect? They know whose site they are using.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The remaining users are 100% in denial that it’s a Nazi website now.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Nah a lot of them are just actual Nazis.
recapitated@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Trump’s going to be mad that x is becoming a direct competitor to truth social
nicky7@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Keep being transparent as fuck, Space Karen 🤣
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month ago
Go away with your sensible explanations, we have conspiracy to uncover.
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Can you post snippets of mastodon posts on websites like you can tweets?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Well put.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month ago
Ew I. Accidently clicked on a twitter link I ieel so dirty
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
They could both live on musk’s mars colony, the first rockets are set to start as early as 2018!
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 month 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 1 month ago
Yeah but make sure they cant build a way back here first
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Or share a small dark prison cell just about anywhere and have the same, if not better, effect.
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fuck that, keep him over the in the Atlantic.
cmrn@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
😂 Space Karen
Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What a fucking joke of a platform
Chakravanti@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Don’t insult the Joker like that.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It appears the world’s most divorced bozo is at it again.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Stop.using.xitter
juice702@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Can we please kick this dweeb back to Canada or Africa?
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Hey, don’t you dare try to pawn him off on us.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 month 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 1 month ago
to be fair it’s probably because twitter is hosted on a literal potato
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
GLaDOS would NEVER associate with a chump like Musk.
kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Oh, GLaDOS allowed Wheatley be a part of the team.
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 1 month ago
No surprise.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
elon is just mad he’s stuck with the painfully dull dud jd vance
ulkesh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Shocker
eleitl@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Not technology.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Concidence? Obviously… Elon The Musky Husky is a champion of Free Speech afterall.
GreyYeti@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
I’m afraid people on Twitter will never leave it no matter what
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Why in the fuck did Biden announce his resignation on that platform?
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.