I avoided twitter for a long while after the neo Nazi took over

[redqueen]

But now I'm enjoying it again.

Link to tweet

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. And us for whom it is blocked are not, especially when no text / pic / vid is posted

Posting a link gives MuX hundreds of clicks and thus money from advertisers.

Posting content greatly reduces that. Not that it makes much of a difference to Elon government-dependent Musk.

[redqueen]

2. That is a very good point

I don't know how to link a screenshot - any tips?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. 1. You don't have to use a screenshot, 2. You can post a screenshot by hosting services

3. You can copy-paste text without using an image.


1. You can right-click on the image (or Apple / Android equivalent) and copy the link and paste it here. However, it might require a bit of editing of the link sometimes. Been a while since I stopped going to Twitter so I've forgotten any editing details if any. Might make a photo icon in the DU post indicating a broken picture, but if it is right clicked you can usually select "Open image in new tab" and see it.

2. You can drop a screen shot and maybe a browser image into a posting service like tumblr or imgur or others. I used to use Photobucket but they changed and become useless.

imgur seems relatively easy to use and doesn't require an account to post.

[Bev54]

5. Also many videos are also on youtube so you can hit the watch on youtube button on the tweet

and then post the youtube link.

[Emrys]

7. No need for a screenshot in this case as it's just text

With a tiny bit of tidying up, people can get the idea:

💀DeathMetalViking💀
@DeathMetalV

God wanted Donald Trump to live so he can lose to a black woman.

If it's an image (which will be a jpg or png), you can copy and paste it so it displays on DU with a bit of fiddling (which I'd be happy to walk you through). If you do that, you're effectively stealing bandwidth from Musk, so I can't see what objection there'd be from folks here.

If it's a movie, there's no simple way to display it on DU, but often the same movie will have been posted on, say, YouTube, so if you can find that version, you can substitute it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Thank you. . . . nt

[womanofthehills]

6. I think the bigger question is:

With a third of Americans on X - the majority under 50, why would Democrats think their voice should
not be on Twitter influencing the young? I think influencing the young overrides advertising- but that’s just me.

It’s amazing the reach you can have - i posted a reply (suggestion) 2 days ago to another person’s post about their dog’s anxiety about being home alone and got 45 million impressions in 2 days. A political tweet of mine last month got 200,000 impressions. Of course, I was responding to someone with millions of followers. You can definitely influence the young over on X.

Do we want over a hundred million young Americans to be more influenced by Republicans or Democrats ???

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Trump is taking a pounding

If Trump still thinks he's running against Biden in three more days, that would be Friday, it's time for Adult Day Care.