> A new and notable feature is the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based “veracity engine for real-time analysis” (“Vera” for short), which runs on every tweet.
I suspect that would backfire immediately, as it would mean all stories are indirectly (via many people using this) filtered by what Gemini finds plausible.
Purely as an example, when Trump was making the threats against Greenland, I tried asking ChatGPT what the economic implications would be and how to hedge against them, and it had a great deal of difficulty with even the rhetoric being "current events" rather than "a fictional scenario that will never happen".
In the case of .now it is under Amazon Registry Services, so it is pretty straightforward to cause legal troubles.
But if creator would be a little bit more forward thinking, then they would have created domain somewhere where US can't really reach and then good luck. Just look on anna's archive - .se, .org, .li
Is no one going to call out the lazy and clear AI Slop on the landing page? https://twitter.now/
"We are Twitter, reclaimed. Operation Bluebird, Inc. picked up the name X Corp. walked away from and is rebuilding it on trust, in your browser at twitter.now. We are not X, and we are not affiliated with X Corp."
"Not a price. Early Access and a stake." Not X but Y
And goes on, I'm staying the hell away from this vibe-coded nightmare.
Well it's currently down. Not down as in displaying a whale, down as in "Safari can't open the page twitter.now because Safari can't find the server app.twitter.now"
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[ 0.22 ms ] story [ 13.1 ms ] threadAll my kingdom for this in an HN extension.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank...
Anything that trains on public, unvetted data is a liability for accuracy
Purely as an example, when Trump was making the threats against Greenland, I tried asking ChatGPT what the economic implications would be and how to hedge against them, and it had a great deal of difficulty with even the rhetoric being "current events" rather than "a fictional scenario that will never happen".
I sense some issues incoming if the latter.
Also why ask for money immediately?
But if creator would be a little bit more forward thinking, then they would have created domain somewhere where US can't really reach and then good luck. Just look on anna's archive - .se, .org, .li
"We are Twitter, reclaimed. Operation Bluebird, Inc. picked up the name X Corp. walked away from and is rebuilding it on trust, in your browser at twitter.now. We are not X, and we are not affiliated with X Corp."
"Not a price. Early Access and a stake." Not X but Y
And goes on, I'm staying the hell away from this vibe-coded nightmare.