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I wonder if the guy posting even knows that those of us without Twitter/X accounts cannot read any followup comments to his post, and that when we go to his (or anyone else's) main profile we just see some random ass comments from a long time ago. And the search URL he included doesn't work at all.

Twitter is already a broken platform for sharing your thoughts with others. Congratulations on discovering a way it just became even more broken.

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I was wondering wtf.

This was actually bad for me recently, cause I was unable to find tweets from a utility. Twitter would only show me tweets from random years ago, none of which were newer than 5 years old.

Later, I saw that they had tweeted about outages, and I just couldn’t see it cause I dont have an account.

This has not convinced me to get an account. I hope it convinces businesses to stop using twitter and Facebook as main platforms for pushing status notes.

idc about businesses using Twitter for comms but I have a huge problem with official govt agencies using it as their exclusive means of comms with citizens. I'm cool with Twitter being run into the ground if it helps us recognize the need/ develop a solution for a proper govt->citizen alerting system that doesn't involve proprietary and scummy businesses.

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