From the leopards-eating-faces department: In 48 hours, Matt Taibbi went from Elon Musk's hand-picked propagandist to being unfollowed by Musk, completely de-boosted in the Twitter feed, and announcing his departure from Twitter after Musk rendered Substack links completely inaccessible from the bird app.
Incredible and yet somehow predictable turn of events here catalogued by @mmasnick, who writes "The refrain to remember with Twitter under Elon Musk: it can always get dumber". https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/10/after-matt-taibbi-leaves-twitter-elon-musk-shadow-bans-all-of-taibbis-tweets-including-the-twitter-files/
It's not true that Taibbi's posts can't be searched. It works normally for me.
At the same time, the feed of the Bellingcat reporter that broke the story of the top secret US document leaks errors out for me. But I see him talking to other people normally when someone quotes his tweets.
I think that Twitter is just breaking due to lack of maintenance.
@chadloder @mmasnick I believe you, but by now I can't reliably distinguish Musk stupidity from general breakage.
@werner58 @mmasnick Musk changed it back. It was true when published (I tested it myself)