X appears to throttle New York Times::X, Elon Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users’ access to The New York Times.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That is just so petty. People can still go to the NY Times easily. Just not via Twitter. What’s the point? Pettiness. That’s the point.

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      1 year ago

      That’s you and me. That doesn’t apply to most people. I have rss feeds to follow what interests me. But Twitter for a lot of people is just that, a glorified rss reader. They follow some people, some news outlets and that’s it. The number of people who visit NYT organically is, in my assumption, less than 100k. I genuinely believe that services like Google News, Meta & Twitter is where NYT gets most of their clicks from.

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      1 year ago

      The richest or well second richest man on the planet has the maturity of a kindergardner with conduct disorder. This is what the market decided needed to be rewarded more than almost any other person on the planet.