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      It was a way to view multiple lists at once, your home feed, various accounts, hashtags, your mentions, notifications, DMs, etc. Super useful. I stopped using Twitter altogether when they updated it earlier this year and made it significantly clunkier UX + promised to make it paid.

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      It was the only way to use Twitter for me. Custom feeds for lists etc, chronological, and all on one page. Such great information density.

      I would have gladly paid to use it before the new ownership too. Then again the new update for it added a couple things I hate so that makes it easier to move on too.

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      A better frontend, basically.

      It guaranteed chronological timeline and multiple columns.

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      The only way to use Twitter for work

      Basically now you have to choose between quitting or giving money to the biggest asshole on the planet

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    what the fuck was he thinking with the rebrand? not only did he throw all of the brand identity that twitter had, x. com and especially x premium don’t exactly sound like social media sites if y’all get what im sayin

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          Just look at VR or the windows phone and you can see that money only keeps something in the conversation, it doesnt lead to adoption.

          So sure, he can keep people talking by burning billions, but thats about it

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      Makes me think of the Privateer / Elite style X spaceship games, but that’s probably because of my personal bias towards games like that.

      Everyone else would probably think Porn or the X-games first.

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    People seem to think he’s trying to make X successful. That’s not the point at all. He’s trying to convert what was once a useful commons into a smoking hole full of trolls and conspiracy theories. There’s just no other reasonable way to look at his actions.

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      I’ve been saying this for awhile now. It’s the only reason he made that very public offer at the specific price he put out. He knew he couldn’t back out. He knew the line he was crossing so it wasn’t a spur of the moment purchase. He got Larry Ellison and a Saudi Investor involved. They didn’t all have the same crazy idea. These guys know they’re on the hook to the bank for whatever but between the 3 of them they’ll cover the losses and this big hub of rumor/news sharing will die. and they can stay mostly unharmed.

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    Bluesky already has a third-party client that can replicate TweetDeck well enough. Mastodon and Misskey also have a “deck” UI.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    X, the social network formally known as Twitter, appears to be finally following through on its promise to make TweetDeck a paid service.

    Many users on X, including social media consultant Matt Navarra, say that they’re seeing a sales page for X Premium (the subscription formerly Twitter Blue) when they try to load up TweetDeck, which is technically now called XPro.

    A few of us at The Verge haven’t run into the block yet, but given how many people are saying that they can’t access XPro unless they pay, we’re guessing it’s only a matter of time.

    It said at the time that the transition would happen “in 30 days,” so the company missed its own deadline by just a bit.

    Under owner Elon Musk, X has tried to make X Premium a more enticing subscription with additions like longer posts, formatting, ad revenue sharing, and higher rankings in conversations and search — now, the company is hoping that access to XPro is worth paying for a blue checkmark.

    TweetDeck was one of the most popular third party apps for accessing Twitter until the company acquired it in 2011.


    I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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      More like he’s running around with a gun and shooting new holes into the water tank instead of trying to seal anything.

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        Shooting new holes in the water tank so the water doesn’t leak out of the existing holes as fast

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          Ha that’s a brilliant analogy, and I bet he concludes it’s partially working, he just needs to do more of the same.

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      I see Twitter as a ship too big to maneuver. Then one day it got bought and a new captain comes aboard. He deliberately breaks the hull here and there to make the ship lighter and more agile, and also fired half of the hands on deck. The ship’s taking on water faster now. He also painted over her name. Despite all this, the majority of souls on board would rather sink with the ship than jump overboard.

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      And, he’s pissing and shitting in the tank, and inviting other pissers and shitters back to the tank.

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    X has finally formally announced X Pro, two days after TweetDeck users started noticing the new branding and paywall.

    Shouldn’t this be illegal? Implementing a sudden paywall on a previously free feature without prior warning. LMAO

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      It’s not illegal if it’s part of their Terms of Service, which we all agreed to.