Twitter shitter - 16 Aug 2023

Absent from Blogger for a while, a couple recent events have forced me back to record the progress of Twitter-X as it swirls ever downward.

Earlier this week, it was announced that Twitter-X had resisted federal supoena efforts to obtain information about Trump's tweets-xeets.  This was evidently an effort by Elon Musk to protect TFG from Jack Smith's investigations.  

Also earlier this week, it was announced that the Twitter-X URL shortener (t.co or something similar) was injecting delays of 5 seconds when redirecting to sites that were not in Elon Musk's good graces, including newspapers that had reported unflatteringly about Elon.  Shortly after this was documented and reported, the delay went away.

And just today, it was reported that a podcaster and professor at NYU, Scott Galloway, had been locked out of his Twitter-X account after he released a podcast unflattering to Elon Musk.  Evidently Galloway said something about unsubstantiated (inflated) range quotes from Tesla.

The only conclusion is that Elon Musk is a thin-skinned adolescent-minded twerp.

Photo is of blackberries coming into ripeness.

https://gizmodo.com/scott-galloway-locked-out-twitter-musk-1850743635