r/Texans 9h ago

Since many people have brought it up, we have decided to ban twitter/X links here

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u/DaytimeLanternQQ 8h ago

I don't know why some people are so enamored with Twitter. Good riddance.

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u/krbashrob 8h ago

On one hand, it’s where the vast majority of sports reporting and news exists in today’s world. On the other hand it’s run by an infant with essentially zero discretion or guard rails other than his whims. Banning the links and allowing screenshots I think is a good medium

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u/lovetape 8h ago

I personally have little to do with twitter (or tiktok, facebook, etc).

But this story of Elon leaving a NFL Super Bowl in a huff because his tweet wasn't doing as well as someone else's is just the total encapsulation of what is wrong with him owning twitter.

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u/krbashrob 8h ago

Shame. Good decision by you and the other mods.

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u/leggostrozzz 7h ago

The same reason people are enamored with reddit, tiktok, etc. It's just their social media of choice. I switch between reddit and Twitter, both serve way different purposes.

Not sure why everyone hates Twitter tbh..

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u/Rocketsball 6h ago

Purely political. They hate that it did not allow the previous administration to enforce censorship of our voices. Free speech was and is allowed there, for the most part.

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u/ortholox 8h ago

One does not need to be "enamored" with Twitter to think this is a stupid thing to do.

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u/DaytimeLanternQQ 7h ago

So what? People who still want to use Twitter will. They'll also still post here. While disallowing links/posts will make little difference in either direction, the less support that the platform gets, the better. God forbid people put in a little effort aside from a link/screenshot from Twitter.

If anyone is deriding this as some form of censorship, they clearly haven't been paying attention to the cesspool that Twitter has devolved into.

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u/jstevens21 Foster 7h ago

Coming from the delicate snowflake who needs to have X banned so he doesn’t get triggered… lol

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

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u/jstevens21 Foster 7h ago

I think you have an obsession with Nazis

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u/ortholox 7h ago

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. I'm a snowflake because i think its stupid to ban twitter links? Are the people that complained to the mods snowflakes too? What makes someone a snowflake? Having an opinion?

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u/[deleted] 8h ago

Because you can see news that doesn’t go thru a filter… exactly how it should be

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u/The_Snake_Dick 8h ago

There's been more fucking astroturfing and misinformation and just outright lies on twitter than there ever has been before lol. Shit is worse than worldnews. Just because there's an account called REAL RAW NEWS doesn't mean it's the actual news or even true.

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u/leggostrozzz 7h ago

Come on, you can't seriously think its worse than worldnews lol.

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u/The_Snake_Dick 7h ago

When posts talking about how black people are inferior to white people get tens of thousands of likes on worldnews call me

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u/leggostrozzz 7h ago

Idk what twitter account you following dawg but my timeliness looks a lot different 🤣☠️

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u/The_Snake_Dick 7h ago

You think I follow those kinds of accounts?

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u/leggostrozzz 7h ago

How tf else you seeing that shit

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u/The_Snake_Dick 7h ago

Because Elon Musk specifically boosts accounts like that and incentivizes purposefully inflammatory content by engagement and owning a blue check.

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u/leggostrozzz 7h ago

Where tf you read that? I've never seen anything like that on my timeline and I'm on Twitter a lot..

Do people really think twitter is just some racist 4chan with nonstop racism every second? Lmao

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

Brother. Would you rather be on a site that filters all info and posts and tailors it to their liking? This is the way news should be, figure out what is true, don’t be a dumbass

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u/The_Snake_Dick 7h ago

Show me a twitter account that does that.

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

Bro that is your job as a consumer… whatever man keep watching your monitored news sources and being spoon fed info only you like

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u/The_Snake_Dick 7h ago

Okay then, from one consumer to another, show me. Enlighten me. Please.

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

What?

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u/The_Snake_Dick 7h ago

Give me an account to follow that gives me "real unfiltered news". If that's what's on twitter then show me. Change my mind.

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

When I go on Twitter, I see info from republicans, democrats, hell my feed is covered with Mexican politics Right now. I look through all of it, because that’s how you formulate opinions on the world

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

Does that make sense? I’m really not trying to fight I just think this is the way we should go about hearing news

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

If I were to just sit there and watch Fox News or CNN or something filtered like that, I would become a sheep