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(51,278 posts) Fri Oct 28, 2022, 04:53 PM Oct 2022

Now that Twiter is changing directions can we hope that posters here will copy

and paste the content instead of just providing links?

That is, for textual content, not the cute ones on the Lounge..

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Now that Twiter is changing directions can we hope that posters here will copy (Original Post) question everything Oct 2022 OP

Basically, if I find Twitter content here now, or anywhere I will pass over it JCMach1 Oct 2022 #1

Oh, I don't know. Some's worth exposure. Hortensis Oct 2022 #9

I'm not on twitter, but I appreciate folks who pick out and post important info from there. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2022 #10

I won't open any posts that go to twitter. I wish we could block them. katmondoo Oct 2022 #11

I always see the content. Elessar Zappa Oct 2022 #2

Depends on the media. I see it on my desktop computer but not my iPad question everything Oct 2022 #4

I'm on an IPad always. Elessar Zappa Oct 2022 #5

Maybe you're not logged in on your iPad? Qutzupalotl Oct 2022 #7

I cerainly am logged. How, do you think, I posted and read the above? question everything Oct 2022 #12

I meant logged into Twitter on your iPad. Qutzupalotl Oct 2022 #13

Screenshots are best dalton99a Oct 2022 #3

Links allow twitter users to amplify the content if they wish. Qutzupalotl Oct 2022 #6

Better yet, don't post it at all. DU shouldn't be a re-tweeting machine. PSPS Oct 2022 #8

Twitter is the place for breaking news womanofthehills Oct 2022 #14

JCMach1

(29,031 posts)

1. Basically, if I find Twitter content here now, or anywhere I will pass over it

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Fri Oct 28, 2022, 04:54 PM

Oct 2022

If I could block it, I would.

DU should seriously consider doing that.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

9. Oh, I don't know. Some's worth exposure.

Reply to JCMach1 (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 28, 2022, 06:19 PM

Oct 2022

Link to tweet

And Twitter is the most influential social media platform on the planet. Overall, it leans LIBERAL. Ignoring it won't make it go away, but it could conceivably over time turn the liberal lean in U.S. politics to a RW lean.

Did the Duke of Wellington really make a huge strategic mistake. and above all (!) betray his principles, by taking a stand at Waterloo even though he knew Napoleon and all his nasty French troops were going to be there?

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,631 posts)

10. I'm not on twitter, but I appreciate folks who pick out and post important info from there.

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #9)

Fri Oct 28, 2022, 07:05 PM

Oct 2022

It is a near instantaneous, global conversation. It can exaggerate the best and the worst. If un- or under-moderated, the worst will take it over. (See, e.g., those who were eventually, belatedly banned).