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Third-party clients can’t access Twitter (mastodon.social)
42 points by detrist 1255 days ago
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dang 1255 days ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34363743, which was posted first.
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jader201 1255 days ago
Why isn’t this on the front page? I’ve been wondering what was going on, and had to actually search HN to find it. 11 upvotes in 18 minutes is definitely front page worthy.

Is HN actively nerfing Twitter posts?

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r721 1255 days ago
Some people flag Twitter/Musk-related stories by their own admission, and flagging affects HN ranking.

There was also a small previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34363743 (which is also not on front page though)

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dang 1255 days ago
It's both what r721 said and what kelnos said. Transient "X is down" stories are a dime a dozen and Twitter drama stories are...cheaper than that.

I've made an exception in this case and restored the original submission on this topic to the front page, since people are discussing it anyway.

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kelnos 1255 days ago
Because I (and I suspect many others) are tired of the Musk/Twitter drama and flag.

As a general policy, I flag all "X is down" stories, because... who cares? A random company's ops team having a terrible day does not tickle my intellectual curiosity one bit. Complete waste of space.

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