The Crowd 317: Again & Again

Hi Crowd! Funny thing I just did in the year 2026 of the common era, I set up my Twitter account. As a reminder twttr became Twitter which then became X, and apparently somewhere in there the trademark for “Twitter” has been challenged and a new company called Operation Bluebird have (re)launched Twitter at dotnow instead of dotcom. X Corp has sued, but it’s still in action and in the meantime TwitterDotNow is open for business. And business it is, a founder account costs $20, a fighter account costs $40. I threw in for $40. With that I got some badges, a chronological timeline, and a built in fact checker which promises to rank accounts based on the factuality of claims they make and news they post. This seems like a pretty nice change from the cesspool of bullshit some other sites have become. I noted that almost 20 years ago (June 2006) I set up my twttr account and immediately got flagged by the fact checker for posting fake news. Because apparently the fact checking machine…