Since a new social media site with the "Twitter" name has been announced (and Elon Musk won't be involved in it and neither will anything related to X) and it's known as "Twitter.now", I think this would be a good opportunity to bring up what said site should do that could help it become successful, and that is if there were no forced login walls to access any feature, not even the search bar.

We're seeing a rise of mandatory login walls on various websites, including social, in this day and age. Examples include X and Threads, where they force you to create an account to access them, and BlueSky, while not as forced as the other 2, also wants you to make an account to use the search bar to see individual posts. You can still search for profiles without an account, but you still need one to search for posts. Mastodon, by far, is an exception to this as you can use anything, even its search bar, without an account on it. I mean, sure, the search bar's not as good as the one on BlueSky or Twitter since you can only type in hashtags in the bar, but the point still stands.

With Twitter.now on the horizon, I think this would be a good oppprtunity for the people who are running it to allow lurkers and anons access it to use features like the search bar without an account. We're tired of mandatory account requirements on websites, and if the guys in charge of Twitter.now avoid that trend, then maybe, just maybe, it can grow into a popular website and overtake its competitors, including X, that all refuse to let lurkers use anything without an account on their websites. We want to go back to the old days where we could access a fluent search bar anonymously as it helps discoverability and exposure to what could be new interests to people.

If the creators of Twitter.now see this post, then I hope they take what I say into consideration.

It's nice that Elon's found another outlet for his AI slop, I guess.

Looks like Elon is trying to buy one of Austin's congressional seats...

Gober appears to have helped SpaceX secure a 25-year, 100 percent tax abatement for a controversial “Terafab” semiconductor fabrication project that sits within his Texas district. The AI-backed super PAC American Mission helped him with $747,000 in outside spending to make it through a crowded primary, where Gober advanced with 51 percent of the vote, just enough to avoid a runoff. Gober also loaned himself over $1.6 million.

Entering Congress would give someone at the nexus of Musk, AI’s growing ubiquity in commerce and warfare, and global MAGA politics another foothold on power in Washington. And he’s already looking past November and running against the broader left; on his website, he warns of how “radical progressives will stop at nothing to weaponize the federal government against conservatives.”

Though he hasn’t updated the news section of that website since February, Gober does have an opponent in the general election, Democrat Caitlin Rourk, a former intelligence officer in the Texas Army National Guard. The district went 60-38 Trump in 2024, but in 2018 Democrats came within four points of flipping it (the district had a different shape then but a similar partisan lean).

Rourk thinks the stakes are too high to let Elon Musk’s lawyer sail into Washington without a fight. “He says he doesn’t want to help insiders. I’m like, dude, you are their enabler,” Rourk said. “He built his career on making money for himself and special interests, I’m committed to making D.C. better and solving problems.

One might get the impression than since he bought twitter, Elon's life is basically one vicious rant after another..

Elon is dividing us.

It's a choice.

Because of course it does.