I want to thank the DUers running the LBN for banning twits as sources

[question everything]

When I am using my iPas, as opposed to my desktop Mac, I have to click on the link to read or view the content of a twit. On occasions, as happened recently, I am stuck. Am told to either register or sign in. I will do neither.

The only way out is to back up.

No big deal. I don't consider twits from anyone a reliable source.

So I am thankful to all the DUers who post full stories and cute clips of kitties directly.

[BigmanPigman]

1. Twitter has done that to me recently

but not on DU. When I try to read Keith Olbermann, for example, I was able to read all of tweets but lately I have to sign in for some reason. I don't do Twitter and won't join just to read tweets.

[SheltieLover]

5. Same here!

I absolutely will not sign up.

[BigmanPigman]

7. I thought my family and me were the last hold-outs.

[mitch96]

15. I don't use tweeter/facebook/instagrm/tictok or any social media for that matter. Nope..nt

[BigmanPigman]

17. Me neither

but when I saod that on DU a few years ago I was told DU is social media.

[FakeNoose]

19. I have a solution that works for me

But I'm almost always on my desktop computer. (I rarely use my cellphone for internet.)

Anyway I can right-click on the Twitter link and select "open incognito window." The Incognito allows me to read all the tweets and replies, whereas I would have been stopped by Twitter otherwise. It's not exactly a paywall but an absolute insistence that I have to "sign up or log in." If it were not for the Incognito window I'd have to trash all the Twitter posts, and we have a lot of them on DU now.

I'm not sure if there's anyway to open an Incognito window on a cellphone.

[BigmanPigman]

27. I can't find an "open incognito window"

Do you think it is due to using a tablet instead of a desk top?

[FakeNoose]

28. It's offered in my Chrome browser

If you don't use Chrome, then I'm not sure if other browsers have it.

Perhaps you could give Chrome a try, just to see how it works? You can always uninstall and delete it later. Chrome does work on tablets, I have it on my tablet. It's totally safe (free from Google) and IMO the best browser out there. (If you're using a cellphone, I'm not sure if Chrome has an app for phones.)

[ProfessorGAC]

31. I Use A Tablet! We Can Do It

When you tap the link, hold your finger down for a bit. A window will pop up, given you a choice of actions.
Things like "Open In New Tab", "Copy Link", "Copy Link Text", and so on will be listed.
One of those, usually the 2nd choice is open in new incognito tab.
Should work.
I've got about as cheap an Android tablet as can be found. It works for me, and I clearly have nothing special about my hardware or software.
I am using Chrome. I can't be sure it works that way on other browsers.

[BigmanPigman]

32. Hey, that works! Yeah!

Thank you

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Cool!

Glad I could help!

[hunter]

29. Yep. I've blacklisted twitter but I can open it in a "incognito" window if I choose.

Mostly I don't.

[Ocelot II]

2. Twits or tweets?

[msongs]

3. where does it say that nt

[Polly Hennessey]

4. Twits?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. Tweets from twits?

[iemanja]

6. Most importantly

A tweet isn't reliable news. Sources matter.

[kcr]

25. It depends on who tweeted it

Reliable news sources do use twitter.

[Celerity]

9. 'I don't consider twits from anyone a reliable source.'

What about a White House TWEET? Or one from the BBC, etc?

[True Dough]

11. I'm with the discriminating crowd

Sources do matter, of course, and that INCLUDES the Twitterverse. I shall continue to read tweets, read between the lines of tweets, retweet and reject tweets on the basis of common sense.

[Celerity]

12. If it's news and no link in the Tweet (unless it is the original source, like the WH, etc) then yes,

I DEFFO verify it

so much dodgy shit floating out there

[True Dough]

14. It stinks

to live in the age of disinformation. But if our lot in life is to have to fact check constantly, so be it. It's a much lesser burden than, say, living in Ukraine.

[Celerity]

16. Humans have lived in a age of disinformation for at least a hundred thousand

years (the invention of speech, which greatly aided this, somewhere between 150,000 and 100,000 BCE or so, likely closer to 100,000 BCE).

The first major manifestation of disinformation at a complex cognitive level was when humans adopted the wilful suspension of disbelief necessary for a god or gods to be conceived of as real and existing.

[True Dough]

18. Listen, I'm not going to argue with you

because who in their right mind wants to get into a serious debate with Celerity?!?




But I'll say that for me, tuning out the god B.S. was an easy decision once I reached university age about 30 years ago. But I find it much more challenging today to discern truth from spin and propaganda on a political level, at least periodically. Sometimes it's as clear as day, but other times it makes you:

[Celerity]

20. Lol, I was not arguing, sorry if you thought I was. You said nothing I disagree with.

[True Dough]

21. Just having fun, buddy

All good!

[Celerity]

22. oh, it's almost booze time here, bought some Swedish sparking birch wine

Sav Sparkling

Sverige, Jämtlands län, Östersunds kommun

https://savhuset.se/

[True Dough]

23. Enjoy!

It certainly looks much more palatable than this (via a tweet, of all things, so I cannot vouch for its provenance)

Link to tweet

[obamanut2012]

13. I do not get the anti twitter stance of some DUers

For the reason you just stated. It's THE best source for breaking news and following developments (ie elections, hearings, war).

[question everything]

24. I find many DUers a reliable source, as with the ignorant R senator (yes, redundant)

who quoted the "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" from the Constitution instead of the Declaration of Independence. I did not watch the hearings but, no doubt, many DUers recognized that. So why not post it here as an observation? Why post twits (OK tweets) from strangers?

I think that we had this several posts here citing the tweets.

[Celerity]

26. Zero wrong w/ posting a tweet having a link to a viable source (or the tweeter itself being a viable

source, like my White House example).

If you are speaking of (tweet-wise) randos, anons with no links to their claims, then yes, those can be very problematic.

LBN requires a link to a major news source, so a tweet like I just described (rando, no link) would never have been allowed to stand anyway.

It sounds to me (perhaps I am wrong) as though you are simply trying to universalise and force your personal dislike of ALL tweets onto the board.

On occasions, as happened recently, I am stuck. Am told to either register or sign in. I will do neither.

That is your personal choice. Do you know how many times I am geo-blocked from links posted here? Hundreds of times (perhaps well over 1000). Yet I do not demand that the board only post links that even the EU can access.

I see people all the time complain about paywalls. I often try and provide an archive-based alternative link (as do a few other posters) so that all can read it, but sometimes that doesn't work.

I am not going to stop posting a valid story or article because of that, unless the admins choose to make it a rule that no paywalled sites are allowed (which they won't, as that would kneecap the site to a large degree).

[BlackSkimmer]

10. k and r. nt

[IcyPeas]

30. I liked Twitter. I still like Twitter