Google works great, and I use it daily as part of my job.
Maybe I’m just really good at it.
Same Twitter use for me – get the email notices, go look at them, scroll through a few of the comments, maybe dip into my home feed to see a few more from people I follow. I’m on Post News and Spoutible, waitlisted for Bluesky, but so far nothing’s the same experience as Twitter and most of the folks I follow aren’t on the other sites yet.
And now for the best part! I click on the help and support. Take a wild guess what shows up on the web page that opens. Yep. “Nothing to see here.”
I wonder if Musk has tried just punching himself in the nuts. Much cheaper than $44B.
You’ve turned off DMs but message me if you want one (including anyone else). I have 4 to give right now.
I like feedly.
I would appreciate one!
Tweetdeck is hurriedly rolling out a new UI that was in beta testing for over 2 years because of how much users didn’t like the change. The old tweetdeck was using a legacy API that temporarily got around the rate limiting before someone noticed and turned it off. As an added fuck you, the new Tweetdeck will be limited to Twitter Blue users only after 30 days.
As proof of how well thought out this rollout is going, the only place you can find this info is at @TwitterSupport. @Tweetdeck has not made a tweet since August of 2022.
Agile, low friction, UI!
And, as mentioned above, Twitter’s support is not exactly available in the first place.
That’s my preferred reader, too.
Meanwhile…
Musk is a child in a man’s body. I’m wondering whether he’ll give up on the idea of attracting advertisers and instead push his paid-for blue tick scheme as his main business model. Musk seems to have made Twitter beyond the pale for any reputable company to advertise on.
Here are links to some Ukraine war accounts, many from Twitter, on Mastodon:
Elmo has agilely backed down on the login requirement.
Not working for me
Same.
Verified on desktop - can’t see tweets logged out. You just get a login box.
I think TechCrunch got fooled and believed an accidental (incompetence-based) and temporary failure of the login requirement represented some kind of intentional climbdown.
Another vote for Feedly! Even the free version is loaded with useful features.
I’m now able to view tweets without logging in on a desktop. I can’t get anywhere if I go to the Twitter home page, but embedded tweets are visible now and I can follow the link and view the tweet in Twitter.
However, I can’t see any comments or replies.