{"id":24360,"date":"2022-12-16T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T15:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=24360"},"modified":"2022-12-16T16:52:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T16:52:51","slug":"twitters-decline-continues-follow-me-on-mastodon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/12\/16\/twitters-decline-continues-follow-me-on-mastodon\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter’s decline continues \u2014 follow me on Mastodon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter is slowly breaking, basic functionality is failing, Elon Musk, the new founder of Twitter,<\/a> is kicking off any journalist who ever annoyed him — and I can’t log in!<\/p>\n

So I’m declaring my Twitter to be in a state of managed decline. Follow me on Mastodon instead.<\/p>\n

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Who uses Vodafone anyway<\/h3>\n

I mostly use Twitter from my laptop. I just switched to another laptop, and … Twitter has cut off Vodafone UK from receiving two-factor authentication (2FA) login codes!<\/p>\n

I also have 2FA set up in an authenticator app on my phone, but Twitter doesn’t even ask — I enter my username and password, and I get “We cannot send a text message to this phone number because its operator is not supported” with no option to try to enter a code.<\/p>\n

Multiple Vodafone UK users report the problem, and Three UK also seems to be affected. I haven’t seen any reports yet of O2<\/sub> or EE being blocked. @VodafoneUK on Twitter says they weren’t notified by Twitter, and are looking into the issue.<\/p>\n

Musk cut off all mobile operators in Ukraine a few days before. I wonder if he got Ukraine and the UK mixed up.<\/p>\n

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Who uses Spaces anyway<\/h3>\n

Twitter Spaces was an excellent feature — a reimplentation of the Clubhouse concept of audio chatrooms. Spaces was a good way to quickly put up a public chatroom on a topic. A place you could do a podcast recording with a public Q & A afterwards. It just worked really well.<\/p>\n

I say “was,” because Musk kicked a pile of journalists he didn’t like off the service, then he found a Space with a pile of said journalists — his block didn’t keep them out of Spaces — they asked him in front of 40,000 listeners what he was thinking, and he disabled Spaces entirely.<\/em> [Bloomberg<\/a>, archive<\/a><\/em>]
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Spaces appears to be back on for now. This will last until the next time Musk goes into a Space and gets asked what the hell he thinks he’s doing.<\/p>\n

Twitter no longer does the job<\/h3>\n

I liked Twitter a whole lot and was on it intermittently most of the time. Now I’m using it only as long as my phone is still logged in.<\/p>\n

(How on Earth does anyone use Twitter on a phone? Ridiculous user experience.)<\/p>\n

I’m now posting arbitrary short-form nonsense, much of it crypto-related, to my Mastodon account — @davidgerard@circumstances.run<\/a>. That’s me camping out on a friend’s server, who said he was just trying it out, but seems to be having tremendous fun running an instance. If I move servers — a thing you can do more or less arbitrarily — I’ll let you know.<\/p>\n

I don’t have a good alternative for Twitter DMs. Email me at dgerard@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The wider crypto discourse<\/a> is still on Twitter for now. But with basic functionality randomly failing, who knows what will happen next?<\/p>\n

I can’t advise you on picking a good Mastodon server.<\/a> But you can start on one of the large generic instances and move somewhere nicer at your leisure.<\/p>\n

Mastodon is sort of clunky. It’s like if Twitter was Linux. But it’s where people seem to be going. See you there.<\/p>\n

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