“I’ll have to repair nearly every article I’ve ever written since my tweets got wiped out,” journalist and videographer Vishal Singh wrote on Mastodon on Monday, after being banned from Twitter. “Hundreds of articles written by countless journalists used my tweets. From all sides of the political spectrum. Academic papers that cited my tweets. These links and embeds are now all broken.”
These are the same dipshits that call themselves professional journalists? Embedding tweets was the dumbest shit even for those that wanted to pretend Twitter was going to keep going forever.
Yes they are incredibly stupid. There's a reason you quote in articles you write instead of just waving your hand and being like "well its over there." But no, they wanted the embeds. To get the clicks. To get the likes. To get the validation they didn't get with their bullshit career choices.
These are the same dipshits that call themselves professional journalists? Embedding tweets was the dumbest shit even for those that wanted to pretend Twitter was going to keep going forever.
Yes they are incredibly stupid. There's a reason you quote in articles you write instead of just waving your hand and being like "well its over there." But no, they wanted the embeds. To get the clicks. To get the likes. To get the validation they didn't get with their bullshit career choices.
It's like a Neal Stephenson parody of the burning of the library of Alexandria.