Twitter is now slowing traffic on links to the Patreon, WhatsApp and AIFT group financing site, at Meta’s Messenger App, as it confirms Meta analysis.
Using the tool launched by The Markup last month, readers discovered that the links to these sites were delayed at a rate of 2.5 seconds on average- we confirmed them.
Patreon Tharkup users have been undermined that the suffocating undermines their ability to reach new supporters on Twitter, which was historically a major donation platform. “It is a dirty swimming pool,” said Matt Carlin, the famous Hours Live, which takes approximately $ 30,000 per month from Patrion and is suffocated. “It is another large technical company that tries to crush the young – or in their attempts to the residents of the largest players, and they crush young men like us.”
In September, The Markup reported that Twitter, which was officially named now, the links slowed into Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram and Stensack, at a rate of 2.5 seconds on average, which can feel very slow for users. Simultaneously, we operated a tool that allows readers to test any link posted on X (which automatically limits the basic system using the T.CO field), and measuring the time that X took to redirect to its original destination. The coding brand has also built a robot that would tell us whether any links testing readers are strangled.
Shortly after publishing, readers started UsingAnd we received alerts that Patreon, WhatsApp and Messenger and Messenger seemed to be crazy. To confirm these results, we created new links and measured over a few days of re -guidance to the Patreon campaign from the best 25 years, as it was measured by tracking Graphreon on September 30.
During that time, we also tested 25 links randomly chosen for both WhatsApp and Messenger. With the exception of six messenger links that do not seem to be strangled, we constantly found the same slowdown 2.5 seconds. We do not know why most links suffocate, but not all, to the field of Messenger’s M.ME.
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The platforms found by the signs that I found X all stifled at least partially with the list of the growing features of the platform. Elon Musk said he is planning to develop X to “apply everything”, to be used not only to share posts but also send money, broadcast, and push creators to share their content on the platform.
X did not respond to a request for comment.
Patrion violated creators
Patreon is a famous collective financing platform that hosts donations collection pages for more than 200,000 creators who collect revenues from more than 6 million “shepherds”.
“The creators are being imprisoned in social platforms that get rid of their control – their community, creativity, and ability to build a business,” Laurent Krencho, Patriion’s director of policy and foreign affairs, said in a statement to send him via e -mail.
Patreon suffocation applies to recently created links. All the new Patreon that was created on Twitter for test purposes was suffocated, but when we tested dozens of old T.co links, they had no delay. It is not exactly clear when X begins to suffocate Patrion links.
“We had some funny works,” said Max Collins, the main singer and co -founder of the Eve 6.
By July, the band was aware of strangling and avoiding publishing links to Patreon on X, where they had more than 170,000 followers.
Kulins told The Markup that Patreon is very important to the band’s plan to release new music and write to the assigned fans. He said that the 649 Pation subscribers bring approximately 3000 dollars per month, or about five times the band’s revenues from Spotify, where You get about 1.5 million plays per month.
Peter Shamshiri, the host of the Podcast 5-4, which offers “progressive and sometimes support” in the Supreme Court cases, which is called X’s Patreon Links “is just a type of nail in the coffin for us on Twitter as a promotional car.” Shamshiri said that he heard previous reports on strangulation links on Twitter to other platforms, but he did not realize that the links to the Patreon page of his view were also delayed.
According to the Patreon 5-4 page, the offer is currently withdrawing about $ 56,000 per month from more than 12,000 contributors. Shamshiri said that Twitter was decisive to build a podcast audience, which started in February 2020. Shamshiri added, “When we started 5-4, for example, that was a somewhat endeavor through the Twitter ship in several ways. This is how we promoted ourselves. For progressive voices, the exhibition directs its promotional efforts in the Network Bluesky network and has found more participation on the young platform.
Carlin, the Live Working Hours, said he was not aware that the bonds of Patrion were suffocated. It is hosted by the comedian Tim Heidrikker, “Office Hours Live” earns most of his revenues from Patreon, which Carlin really said, “The offer is really happening to us and pays bills.”
She did not respond to the request for comment.
Collins, Shamshiri and Carlin agreed that Patreon’s Patreon’s breach creates great obstacles to creators who are already struggling to get attention. “We are really lucky to have a huge platform there [Twitter]. Therefore, we still benefit from these publications, even if they are suffocated or anything else. I think people who do not have a large platform really waste the mixing paper when they try to put things that are an external link. “
Shamshiri agreed, noting that “for the independent podcast independently, Twitter has always been a major part of reaching new listeners.”
Help us find more sealed sites
There are likely to be other areas that are subjected to suffocation, and we are trying to find them. One of the ways you can help is to allow us to collect brief links from your Twitter archive.
The Twitter/X archive using the tool below will extract a list of links that you have publicly tweeted and then tested each of them using T.CO TIMER to help identify new chopped sites.
Extracting the association occurs in your browser and do not look at our performance with anything except T.CO. links. There is no DMS, there is no Favis, no followers are followers, not even your username – we just reach “Taco” links, so we can check to see if they have been suffocated.
- Download your Twitter/X account in Twitter/X, go to Settings> your account> Download your data archive. You may need to wait one or more to download your archive after its order.
- Select your Twitter/X archive file
In order for this tool to work, you will cord with data on URL addresses in your Twitter archive. We do not take specific information about you, such as your IP address or Twitter. You find something interesting? Send us to email our correspondent [email protected]
There is another way in which you can help us by checking any T.CO link that you think may be suffocated using our live Twitter test tool.
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