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by msephton 745 days ago
I think it's part of the recent trend to not mention Twitter/X because of its owner.
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Any evidence for this or just mentioning it because you can?
dang changed a twitter link to non a twitter one in the past month or so because paraphrasing the twitter one may not work, let’s not prefer twitter, blah blah [nb original link worked fine].

Sorry I didn’t archive this but should be in the history.

That said I know many here have an involuntary eye spasm episode with Elon being mentioned but not sure IA does so not sure I agree with the original accusation.

I try to not mention Xitter because I just want it to go away. It was terrible as a conversation format before, and it's completely unusable now. Oh yeah, the owner is a raging douchecanoe too. But mostly it's just broken.
That wasn’t the context of the question. We are well aware that there are randos out there who don’t like Elon. I was asking why the GP felt the need to share the assumption of the author’s reasons for not mentioning the source, despite having no evidence. You’ve managed to lower the bar even further in the conversation, however.