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Because there was a certain geopolitical event about two weeks ago that was a primary reason many still used Twitter/X and now that said event is over (and whos
by minimaxir 2y ago
Because there was a certain geopolitical event about two weeks ago that was a primary reason many still used Twitter/X and now that said event is over (and whose outcome will likely cause Twitter/X to further degrade) there is no reason to stay.
The exodus is not happening randomly or in a vacuum.
- geoka9 2y agoOr possibly, once the event was over, the users in question had the idea that Twitter/X affected the outcome in the way they didn't like and they decided to boycott Twitter/X?
- ideashower 2y agoThis plus the fact that starting Nov 15 tweets become by default training material for their language models: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-your-tweets-to-train-its-ai-heres-how-to-disable-that/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-y...
- geoka9 2y agoIn view of this news, the story becomes even funnier: https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spreader/ https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spre...
- ericjmorey 2y agoAll posts on bsky are public and subject to use for training machine learning models. So a lot of people either don't care or are going to be very disappointed.