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[JourneymanParticipant @journeyman]

Dave, It should be just below where you are looking!

Just scroll down a bit (possibly)

John

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

I wonder if it is Browser related because I see the following for starters (and Tweets etc), plus a Twittter header.

Also the layout appears slightly differently on IOS.

Wife is taking me out shopping now!! so farewell to this..

 

Edited By V8Eng on 15/03/2018 11:42:21

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Works for me in the same screen format as John

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Hah! I'm not going mad, on my system that space is empty!

Have to out now so further investigation will have to wait. Likely this is something squiffy at my end. Like my Ad-Blocker. If so, that's odd – in theory I've it set to allow adverts on this site.

Thanks,

Dave

[JourneymanParticipant @journeyman]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 15/03/2018 11:49:35:

Hah! I'm not going mad, on my system that space is empty!

Dave

Dave, glad to hear you haven't lost the plot As you say may be ad-blocker. Of late I have also found Firefox to be a bit stroppy about some content. When in doubt I always blame Windows 10 but you can't do that!

Cheers

John

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Having been told where Twitter should be it was easy to switch on Inspector and open up the innards:

At the bottom of the upper window I can see the forum page asking my Browser to open a frame containing data populated by querying platform.twitter.com.

Then the error messages blocked in yellow below include 'Loading failed for … platform.twitter.com …'

Load requests for connect.facebook, googlesyndication, ads.mytimemedia and crazyegg.com also failed; they are all trackers. These naughty load requests were tolchocked in the yarbles by my privacy protections. This is good – I do my level best to prevent websites tracking me lest the information they collect be misused. Neil's link to twitter isn't a tracker but it looks enough like one to get the chop.

I could open the door to twitter by changing my privacy settings. No need, I can go direct to Model Engineering tweets on twitter at any time if I choose to. The difference is between me explicitly deciding to use twitter (for example by clicking V8Eng's link), rather than twitter silently becoming part of a forum page, which might be a privacy intrusion.

Panic over.

Thanks,

Dave

PS I'm having minor bother with Firefox too. I guess it's bugs in the latest version which included major changes.

[ASFParticipant @asf]

Usually twitter users wanting to create more interest to their page create a giveaway item and then ask to follow and retweet to enter.

If you just want to put adverts for the latest magazine etc then your followers will disappear as that is not very interesting and also cannot be used to start a conversation.

Most of all, Twitter can be fun if there is something of substance worth tweeting about. I have also managed to meet with a few people off Twitter and developed friendships with them ( not M.E.though)

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Pleased hear that things are going a bit better now.

Shopping trip finished back home, Result!

Edited By V8Eng on 15/03/2018 17:15:46

[David TaylorParticipant @davidtaylor63402]

Neil, you probably need to be blasting pictures onto Instagram too. Twitter might be passe for the young crowd these days. Better hire a social media manager who's on top of all these platforms and can do the twitting for you.

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

I suspect a better use of our esteemed editor’s time might be to proof read the mag eg several photos on article “converting a tailstock” in#265 are miscaptioned

Edited By Frances IoM on 16/03/2018 23:22:53

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