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Someone sent me an x.com link, which redirected to twitter.com, which redirected to x.com

I know complaining about twitter is overdone, but every time I see that some artist/writer/gamedev/whatever only has a twitter to promote their work, I wonder if they're even aware what it looks like to people who aren't on twitter. Because these days you can't read most twitter accounts if you're not logged in, and even if you can see it at all, it shows stuff out of order. So your account for promoting your thing is showing tweets from like 2017 instead of your new tweet from this week saying "hey, my thing is out!"

Like I think it's always been true that twitter users overestimate how many people are actually on twitter, me included. But it was mostly harmless in an era where someone could find your account via google and see your latest tweets. And they can't do that anymore.

HUH. Well, that's interesting. Skeb have a partnership with the corporate sponsor of Misskey to add misskey.io as a login type. Skeb used to be Twitter login only, which I always thought was a huge risk given, you know. Everything. A few months ago they added an email login option, so you can use Skeb without Twitter, and now adding misskey.io on top of it really shows how much Skeb are trying to get away from Twitter.

The announcement specifically calls out the random suspensions Japanese twitter users have been hit with and makes it pretty clear Skeb sees Twitter as a giant risk. Which, honestly, feels right? It makes sense artists are worried!

昨今、海外の大手SNSの方針転換により日本のクリエイターを中心にSNSアカウントの凍結が相次いでいます。
Skebでは、クリエイター支援の観点から、日本のクリエイターの発表の場が制限されつつある現状を大変憂慮していました。
昨今の事情を踏まえ、クリエイター支援の一環として、Skebを運営する株式会社スケブは2024年3月1日より
Misskey.ioを運営する株式会社MisskeyHQと3年間のスポンサー契約を締結し、同社に対し継続的な支援を実施する運びとなりました。

Full announcement on Medium:

And Misskey:

Incredible mark of desperation here. Twitter's trying to rebrand itself as a "video-first platform".

The assertion, made by the company today in a blog post that was aimed at advertisers, follows an exodus of marketers from the platform including Disney, IBM, and Apple after Musk’s assertion that an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory was the “absolute truth.” That implosion, plus other missteps, have caused the value of the business to plummet from its $44 billion sales price last year by more than 70% according to Fidelity, one of X’s investors.

As proof of its video transformation, X touted a new video feature that is much like TikTok’s full-screen, infinite scroll, and that has over 100 million daily users—”more than half of whom are Gen Z, the fastest growing audience on X,” the blog post claimed. It also mentioned letting users publish longer-form videos, crowing that “In December alone, people watched 130 years’ worth of videos 30 minutes or longer.”