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Firmwarrior
Wow, sure enough: "Some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter."

Good luck with that approach, Twitter..

jordanreger
Good thing Substack is making their own Twitter... lol
honkler
because substack is bringing out "Notes" – something that serves the same purpose as Twitter.

PS: @Dang, this post should be much higher on the front page.

whateveracct
Why "should" it be? Do you think there's some sort of downvote brigading going on suppressing it?
byyll
Nothing is suppressed. I see stories about Elon Musk/Twitter every day on HN basically. If anything it's the opposite of suppressed.
whateveracct
Yeah that's what I thought. Plus, I saw this post on the front page.
honkler
No, sometimes important posts slip past by. And I made this comment when this post was not on the front page.
Firmwarrior
I was pawing around deep in the third or fourth page off the main one when I ran across this, and was really surprised to find out it hadn't gone viral even though it proved to be true

I don't think there's anything wrong with it being unpopular, though. Personally, I hate Twitter and don't care if it lives or dies. But a lot of HackerNews readers seem really invested in the site and smaller news than this has dominated the front page before

rhyme-boss
How does that improve the experience of using Twitter?
rsynnott
The grateful userbase is spared from being exposed to websites which Dear Leader has deemed unworthy, one assumes.

Nah, really, the answer is "what does the experience of using Twitter have to do with anything"?

burn_cycle
I saw the announcement yesterday for 'Substack Notes', which is clearly inspired by Twitter, and thought to myself that these companies are going to clash sometime in the future. Pretty outrageous reaction, lol.
doomleika
Welp, "copy from China" has begun, shadowbanning out link to competitor sites has been standard tactics in China SNS circle(QQ/WeChat/Weibo/Xiaohongshu/Tiktok).

I think it's due for U.S. tech company to learn a thing or two from the dark pattern in China.