Once Twitter cut access to Twitter Spaces while being logged out, I knew it was only a matter of time this next step would happen.
I have used Twitter logged-off since Remi Barrette banned my original account back on March 25th, 2022 because my account had been blocked by so many of the operatives. I would use my banned account to pull up a ton of material, do searches, and use other features which are slowly being disabled or perhaps broken. For example, the amount of follows/follower data that can be pulled up by clicking on the respective tabs on an account no longer allows one to scroll through the entire list. At first I could view several hundred. Now it’s around one-hundred shrinking further.
My take on the limiting of data one can view going from 3200 items to whatever it is now, is an attempt at reducing operational costs that feel oddly like they skyrocketed instead of plummeted once Musk laid off much of the staff jerry-rigging the platform to keep it functional.
That logged-off yet able to function feature allowed me to keep tabs on all of the operatives without having to set up an active account. I’ll now have to set up a new account to reach out to journalists and others with knowing the rules for Twitter DMs have also recently become extremely restricted.
Let’s note why this is good for what Musk is doing cutting off logged-off access, noting its going to be possibly reversed relatively quickly due to EU law.
In order to access an account that has blocked your main account, you will now need to have a secondary one to see content. For those like Susan Portnoy, Brad Shuttleworth and Remi Barrette who have handfuls of accounts set up for their operations, that isn’t a problem. Yet for anyone that mistakenly signed up for blocklists, or does so in the future, things will get far more messy and far more siloed off. Here is a great Donovinian response to the dilemma.
And here is another reverse psychology interaction with this thread that those that have followed this blog since near the beginning might find humorous.
Most of the Anon researchers in disinformation that I have been covering, were proven to be the source of that disinformation. Some work for Yonder, others used to work with them, and still others work alongside Yonder due to each being part of the broader influence network essentially funded by the same people.