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Patrick Powers's avatar

I signed up for Twitter when it first came out. I said, limited to 128 characters? Only if I ever have a lobotomy. I never looked at it again.

Magic Girl's avatar

I remember when it was just pure text, one liners in its very early days. I think they expanded to 288 or something in a single tweet, brevity was supposed to be sexy or something. But when Elon came around as owner, you could then pay to make long-form tweets (still a limit but it was fairly robust to pay $8/month to not be so restricted). So I tried that for a year, and I was continually losing access to my account "for things I said," so in early 2025 I did not renew for a paid account and closed it entirely, after 11 years. I refuse to play the game X offers: pay to be censored.

Bill.K's avatar

Brilliant! Thanks :-)

Adam Wise's avatar

Never felt the need to be on Twitter or X… it may have some “real journalists”, but I can get those stories elsewhere, without supporting Elon.

Pasha Von Sternberg's avatar

Is there a way to do this to fakebook feeds?

We're being swamped with "we stand with satanic toddler torturers" accounts...

John Mann's avatar

Nice to see it being referred to as Twitter rather than "X".

(Also nice to see Antiwar.com at the top of the page, but I guess that goes without saying!)

Allan Connal's avatar

Good information, many thanks.

Hassan Al-Mosawi's avatar

Peace be upon you by Gaza and Jerusalem - Honour and victory are the allies of the axis of resistance and its allies, and humiliation and shame are for the axis of evil, Epstein Class (USA, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, NATO Governments, New Nazi, Masonic, Zionist and Israel) and its allies.

Chuck Nasmith's avatar

Educate Organize Agitate & Repeat! Power to the People. One State Greater Palestine. TY Caity & Co.. Continue all and share.

Diana van Eyk's avatar

I wonder if there's something similar on BlueSky.

I was removed from X the day Trump was inaugurated (probably for retweeting too many proPalestine posts) and my FB account was hacked no way for me to get back in (after I asked if anyone had heard of BRICS -- a few years ago when I first heard about it), so BlueSky is the only platform left to me.

And I still get lots of right wing crap that I immediately unfollow.

Valerie's avatar

Thank you, Caitlin!

Bushrod Lake's avatar

I kind of go with the people I know (if it's not an AI rendition) on a daily basis. I don't need lists.

C. J. Fitzpatrick's avatar

I'm still shocked by how many people have no Bluesky presence after Netanyahu publicly called X a battlefield and Musk a friend.

Loam's avatar

🙏🏽 👍🏽

Jo Waller's avatar

The fact that you are still on X and that you think you're being targeted by 'Zionists' and that you can avoid this by following certain accounts of your supposed choosing shows how very far you are from avoiding the algorithm. You are not resisting being influenced by US based interests in oil, arms, media, pharma, animal ag, finance and tech who have persuaded everyone that Israel is controlling the poor old US of A.

When the conspiracy of 'globalist' Jews controlling, surveilling and impoverishing us first arose out of the 'covid' debacle, Caitlin agreed with me that there was no such thing. Now, she seems to have fallen for it.

Marci Sudlow's avatar

You can just keep a list of urls in a text or html file on your computer. No need to use the formats they give you.