Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

  • [email protected]
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    371 year ago

    Twitter already sucked in its own ways, but X-formerly-known-as-twitter is so utter shit I have a hard time imagining people browsing and enjoying it.

    • @[email protected]
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      251 year ago

      X-formerly-known-as-twitter

      I’ve also heard people call it “Twitter, desperately trying to be known as X”.

    • Nougat
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      51 year ago

      That’s because you have a hard time imagining what it would be like to be one of the people who browses and enjoys it.

      • @fubo
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        231 year ago

        Those people are called “material supporters of fascism”.

      • Unaware7013
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        31 year ago

        Most people struggle to turn off their brain enough to be able to think as stupidly as those people do.