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People are having trouble following Harris's campaign X Twitter account
- nothrowaways 2y agoSocial media needs governance. Twitter, now bought by Elon musk who vows to destroy "woke mind virus" which he claims is a democratic party thing [1], is too consequential. [1] https://www.foxnews.com/media/musk-says-trans-child-figuratively-killed-woke-mind-virus-vows-destroy-it-my-son-dead https://www.foxnews.com/media/musk-says-trans-child-figurati...
- curtisblaine 2y agoDid it need governance when it used to lean heavily left?
- slau 2y agoYes of course. The issue here is not left vs right. The issue is “man-child thinks messing with politics and free elections is funny, and that he’s entitled to it because he bought a plot of land on the internet.”
- nothrowaways 2y agoTrue.
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- nothrowaways 2y agoYes of course. We had similar discussions on HN before too.
- jfengel 2y agoI actually feel the opposite. I supported Twitter banning Trump -- a decision made following its own stated rules. I support Musk fucking with the political process with his purely partisan decisions at odds with his stated rules. It's his web site. He paid handsomely for it. If he wants it to be TruthSocial, he should have it. And anybody with a lick of decency will avoid it.
- TazeTSchnitzel 2y agoSeems like this rate limit is gone now.
- givemeethekeys 2y agoOnce an account is following 5,000 other accounts, additional follow attempts are limited by account-specific ratios. Source: https://help.x.com/en/rules-and-policies/x-limits https://help.x.com/en/rules-and-policies/x-limits Maybe people are just maxing out their follows in order to create a news story.
- mediumsmart 2y agoI have trouble following her when she speaks too.
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- Havoc 2y agoThis really needs to be investigated. First the debacle about trump banned from Twitter now this. Companies shouldn’t be able to fuck with political campaigns like this - in either parties favour
- rsynnott 2y agoIf this is malice rather than incompetence, it seems... extremely unwise. A big part of what Twitter has left are journalists who are there through inertia; if they have to go to Threads or whatever to reliably get the presidential candidate's Tweets, that's quite bad for Twitter.