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Re:"It works better in the app " by ErroneousBosh on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:42PM (#49481996)
> X remains a large, influential real-time news and conversation platform (~half a billion combined MAUs)

Not news from anyone I want to hear about, not people I want to have a conversation with.

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Re:"It works better in the app " by LordDragonfang on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:30PM (#49482597)
Considering the number of users, even official government departments, it still has, you would have to be very myopic and have very few interests for this to be true. The fact you're posting on Hacker News at all invalidates it; a huge portion of the type of people who hit the front page here are on Twitter.
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Re:"It works better in the app " by ErroneousBosh on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:55PM (#49482851)
> a huge portion of the type of people who hit the front page here are on Twitter.

Yes, but I can ignore them.

I ignore Nazis because people get really upset these days if you punch them.

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Re:"It works better in the app " by lenkite on Saturday August 29, 2026 @05:39AM (#49488366)
The overwhelming majority of folks on twitter (>99.9999999%) are non-nazis. Oh, I don't use Twitter myself but that's because its also overwhelmingly social media spam on steroids.
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Re:"It works better in the app " by ErroneousBosh on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:17AM (#49489295)
If someone sits down for dinner with ten Nazis there are 11 nazis at the table.
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Re:"It works better in the app " by allarm on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:19AM (#49490127)
I'm pretty sure there are some here on this forum as well. Fell free to log out and never come back.
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Re:"It works better in the app " by account42 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:05AM (#49520831)
Yes, I don't follow anyone on Twitter directly but often the primary/authorative source for something that gets posted elsewhere is still an post on X.com.
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