This line from the 1983 movie WarGames has come to mind in the past couple of days:
Except right now it's Elon Musk instead of Dabney Coleman. And instead of the WOPR computer the problem is that Twitter is, at the moment, complete junk.
A few years ago I embedded the timeline of my most recent tweets on this blog, in the right-hand column toward the top of the page. It gradually came to be a great complement to the blog proper. Instead of making a post about anything that I found interesting enough to share, I simply tweeted it and it would also come up on the blog. It had become a "secondary spinal cord" of my humble website.
Well, as you can see, the timeline is gone. There is just a link to my individual Twitter page and you can see some of my tweets there. I say "some" because Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited how many tweets you can see per day. And oh yeah, you MUST have a Twitter account and be signed into it if you want to read tweets at all.
Mr. Musk, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US?!?
Musk claims that he's doing this to keep Google and ChatGPT and whatever other systems are out there from automatically sucking up information from Twitter.
What Musk has done instead is make Twitter absolutely FUBAR and completely useless so far as any meaningful work goes.
It's the proverbial "throwing the baby out with the bathwater". Speaking of babies, why do I now think that had he been in Solomon's place, Musk would have gone ahead and cut the little infant in two?
"Mr. Musk, after very serious consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your microblogging service sucks."
Well, there's only one thing that I can think about doing, in light of these circumstances. That being: I'm going to stop using Twitter at all, for the foreseeable future. If Elon Musk reverses course and rolls back all of these limits, I will gladly come back to Twitter and forgive its owner and anyone else responsible for doing this to us. But I need my embedded Twitter feed back to normal.
Nobody of sound mind does this to his or her customers. It's like the phone company limiting your calls to two hundred seconds per day. That's how insane these new policies at Twitter are.
Maybe Musk will get the point if enough people complain. Because right now it looks like he's sabotaging his own company. If there's a financial angle to that, I've no idea what it could be. But he needs to fix this, immediately.
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