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X, Elon Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users’ access to The New York Times.

X appears to throttle New York Times::X, Elon Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users’ access to The New York Times.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    921·
    10 months ago

    That is just so petty. People can still go to the NY Times easily. Just not via Twitter. What’s the point? Pettiness. That’s the point.

    • CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3510·
      10 months ago

      That’s you and me. That doesn’t apply to most people. I have rss feeds to follow what interests me. But Twitter for a lot of people is just that, a glorified rss reader. They follow some people, some news outlets and that’s it. The number of people who visit NYT organically is, in my assumption, less than 100k. I genuinely believe that services like Google News, Meta & Twitter is where NYT gets most of their clicks from.

      • pbbp [tous]@jlai.lu
        English
        17·
        10 months ago

        The NYT has 8.6 million digital-only subscribers. Where’s that “100k” coming from ?

      • geogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        151·
        10 months ago

        I seriously doubt your numbers. Granted, I’m older, but I subscribe to NYT and go there almost daily to read the headlines, a few stories, and a couple games. I hit a few others nearly daily as well for different takes. About 20 years ago, I used Google News, but I switched a long time ago to direct paper access because I didn’t want to be fed only what I want to hear. I want a more holistic news diet.

        • czardestructo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Ditto. I was sick of sensationalism and click bait trash. Their research articles are also really well done and intelligent. I subscribe so I at least have one decent source without the mental burden of constantly having to sort fact from fiction.

    • xkforce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      10 months ago

      The richest or well second richest man on the planet has the maturity of a kindergardner with conduct disorder. This is what the market decided needed to be rewarded more than almost any other person on the planet.