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In reply to the discussion: Why are so many DU posts just links to twitter? This has increased greatly recently. [View all]librechik
(30,663 posts)53. DU is a superb (IMO) "news aggregator" for liberals
So almost all of our posts start with articles/videos from other places. Apparently Twitter reaches a lot of folks on DU, but I seldom go there. When I find a Twitter piece here that I watch, I'm grateful to the DUer who posted it here so I don't have to go to Twitter.
That being said, Twitter kinda sucks.
And DU, thank goodness, is not Twitter.
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Why are so many DU posts just links to twitter? This has increased greatly recently. [View all]
erronis
Dec 2021
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Thanks, EarlG. My biggest issue is with posters not even bothering to add a sentence or two about
erronis
Dec 2021
#6
It looks like a Firefox add-on "DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials" was blocking the tweet content.
erronis
Dec 2021
#17
amazing how much on twitter promotes trump and right wingers & it's all true of course nt
msongs
Dec 2021
#10
An additional couple of lines of text under the Tweet or Tube link would be a courtesy
Tetrachloride
Dec 2021
#16
My "problem" was a add-on "DuckDuckGo Privacy Blocker". It wouldn't allow the twitter image
erronis
Dec 2021
#18
What do conspiracies about Twitter's leadership have to do with what is posted by people on DU?
Renew Deal
Dec 2021
#39
Probably nothing. But every DU post that is viewed goes into the twitter.com DB.
erronis
Dec 2021
#49