OK. This is one reason why Twitter needs an edit function.

I initially thought it was the nephew who cried.

I'm glad to find out I was wrong.

As well as the methods explained in the first two replies,

you can also hotlink some images hosted on other sites. I say "some" as different sites have different attitudes to hotlinking, as they may be sensitive to people effectively stealing some of their bandwidth.

As long as the image ends in the suffix .jpg, .jpeg or .png it should display as long as the host site doesn't have hotlinking blocked. Some media sites carry images which can't be hotlinked in this way as their URLs don't end in any of those suffixes. As mentioned elsewhere in the replies, you need to use the post preview function to check whether the image will display on DU.

Twitter images can also be hotlinked, but it's a little more involved. If you see a Twitter image you want to post, say you're using Firefox, you need to left-click on the image so it displays in isolation, then right-click on it and a variety of choices will appear. Select Copy image link then you can paste the URL into the DU posting or reply box. Choosing a random image I found, you'll end up with a URL something like this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkavoqmWIAIh7W1?format=jpg&name=large

You need to delete everything from the ? onwards (including the ? ) and replace it with .jpg. It should then display like so:



Be aware that some on DU are sensitive to Twitter content, especially since Musk took over. They're unlikely to object to a simple image as nobody will necessarily be aware of where it's from.

Some GIFs will display on DU, but it's hit or miss whether you can find one that ends with the suffix .gif - some GIF hosting sites have sharing tools which will help.

You can also post YouTube content. You just need to copy the URL from your browser's navigation box and paste it, and it should embed and play when clicked on.

The fact Musk has developed this vision of Twitter as having "sides",

and that he identifies with one "side" over another and sees the other as some sort of an enemy says it all.

Nobody can serve as a successful moderator of a community with that dynamic going on, and he'll have an enormously tough time ahead trying to forge anything like a functional Twitter if he carries on like that (which he will, because I don't think he's capable of changing). Any successor will also face a huge task because Musk's poisoned the well.

With the majority of Twitter's active users seemingly utterly fed up (or worse) with Musk and paid blue-tickers rapidly gaining pariah status and being blocked by some on sight, it's not exactly a well thought out recruitment campaign for the paying customers he's fixated on getting.

Divisions obviously exist on Twitter, always have. But they're not as simple as that bipolar framing.

Musk pissed off a number of users he'd probably assume to be on his "side" with that stupid and shortlived scheme to ban outlinks to rival platforms. Opposition came from all quarters - and that's what you'd expect given the libertarian populist rhetoric he's been spouting.

It's like his commitment to free speech - the more you pay, the freer it is, unless he takes something you post personally, in which case you'll be forced to go take your speech elsewhere and be free with it.

It's been fun watching him trying to rationalize his decisive defeat in the poll about whether he should quit as CEO or not. Kim Dotcom (yes, he's still around) insisted it was down to liberal bot activity, and pointed out that Musk now had data from the poll to identify those bots and eliminate them. Musk's response was the reply "Interesting."

This on a platform where he was gloating a few weeks ago at having conquered the bot problem, posting a GIF of him gurning and gesticulating over a bot grave!

What he did when he posted that poll was fire the starting pistol for a competition between those who wanted him to remain as CEO and those who didn't. Both sides of opinion had access to similar tools to spread the word and mobilize votes. It just so happens that one side is more numerous on Twitter and has better networks (including DU). If the result came as a surprise to him, then he should take it as a wake up call. His reaction since doesn't convince me that the poll was a clever ruse to let him back away from Twitter gracefully. He's moaning that nobody who could fulfil the role wants to take it on. He's trapped himself, with nobody involved in any of his three main businesses happy with what he's doing, and like quicksand, the more he struggles at the moment, the more trapped he becomes.

So now you have his acolytes wandering around Twitter moaning after the event that they didn't know about the poll, that 12 hours was too short for it to run, that it was held at the wrong time of day on the wrong day of the week, etc. etc. Some have even been driven to frame the poll as a brilliant trap set by Musk to weed out users who're disloyal to him! Whether that means they think he's going to kick off those millions who voted to fire him, I've no idea, but some of them are crazy enough.

Most of Musk's angst at the moment seems to be to do with money (despite the fact he's a nominal multibillionaire), and more notably, Twitter's looming bankruptcy, which he's discussed openly with some on Twitter itself. It's almost like he has no pals or trusted peers to turn to in his everyday life.

It's incredible, but less and less surprising as we watch him flailing in action, that he didn't realize from the start that Twitter's been very good for many things over the years. It's just that making money hasn't been one of them.

I'm not clear what you mean by Twitter "subscribers".

If you mean active users, that 2 million figure is way wrong. These were the figures last summer:

Legal action launched against Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro

I'm willing to lay a modest wager that at least one of the replies to Musk

will include this 2014 pic of him and convicted child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell:



If he sees it, Musk may deflect and come out with his usual excuse that Maxwell "photobombed" him.

That would be all very well, but ...

This is yet another thing Musk hasn't thought through, and the countermeasure is laughably simple:

James Felton
@JimMFelton
Sorry nobody saw your post, it didn’t appeal to bootlickers

Corvid Stan Account
@Minignu1

I like how this just incentivises us to block all paid checkmarks.

Michelle Mone's businessman husband faces jail if found guilty of Spanish tax charge

I could handle reading less *about* Twitter and more based on the *information* it carries.

That includes people moaning about Twitter and those of us who continue to use it.

I understand that some think it important to keep up with Musk's latest meltdowns. I see far more about Musk here than I do on Twitter itself, but nobody forces me to read more than the post titles.

Twitter's at least two-edged, like most things in life (even DU). It's an unbelievable international resource, and it's long been deeply flawed, like anything that involves a large number of people.

Some people seem to think its problems began when Musk took over. They must forget how long it took for Jack Dorsey's team to take action on hate speech like antisemitism and ban Trump, for instance, and revolting content has been a constant irritant which you can largely avoid if you use the filtering tools provided and don't go looking for the worst of it.

Musk has deepened many of those problems, but they've always been something you have to find ways to step around if you want to make Twitter useful. At the moment, you can still do that.

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