PS5's Twitter Integration Now Offline

If twitter/X are serious about becoming a streaming platform, this is something that needs to be addressed

X/Twitter is relevant these days? 🤣👌

@Mauzuri fanboys gonna fanboy. anytime something bad happens “oH wELL , DidNt uSe iT aNywAY” or dumb ***** like “LOL tHis iS sTill rElevanT jUsT bEcaUsE i DoNt UsE it?”

@Mauzuri You don't need any of those to play games though. Turn on select game and your sorted!

@nomither6 @Mauzuri

I'lL uSe iT On gAMepAss.

Haven't seen any reason to share screenshots before... but that's my thing... I've never used Tweeter.

B-b-but Lord Elon promised he was looking into it!

@Mauzuri The ultimate price? Yikes, I didn't realize Sony had sent hitmen after me for buying a console! 😵

@BeerIsAwesome “The Most Dangerous Game,” indeed.

@nomither6 The difference is when they remove something important (Folders) or unimportant (sharing)

I think what Sony needs is to create their own version of Miiverse.

@Mauzuri Oh, noes. No folders? No twitter? I mean, it can play video games much better than a ps4, but who cares about video games, right? Right?

This is why ps4 is better than ps5.

@djlard your opinion . i get some people enjoy a console that has no features more than a ps2 does with no social or customization aspects. in my opinion it sucks

@naruball youd have a point if ps3/ps4 didn’t spoil some people with what they offered with the games they also had . it’s not like the ps5 even has a library worthwhile compared to its predecessors anyway

@AndyKazama what Twitter plans to do now is moot. Unless Musk sells up and leaves, Twitter will always be a shadow of it's former self.

@Mauzuri I buy a games console to be precisely that, a games console. As long as I can switch it on, select a game and then play that game it does everything I need it to. Any other features that are included are just bonuses. If those features were essential to me then I'd just buy a PC for gaming, but I don't do that because I prefer the simplicity of consoles. If the removal of twitter integration affects your life that bad then you are well within your rights to vote with your wallet.

PS5 had twitter integration...?

@Mauzuri

https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-switches-off-xbox-game-upload-to-twitter-function

I honestly don't get the fascination with folders and backgrounds. They along with twitter are irrelevant to me, I seriously don't see the point in folders, and backgrounds would be seen for a few seconds at most. I'd rather Sony focus on more useful things... Which they seem to be doing... Slowly...

@TommyNL Link leads to a 404...

@EvenStephen7 These bullets: For The Players.

I use(d) it almost every day to post my Fortnite info. Which now that I think about it I was playing that for free and it doesn’t even require PS+ so I’m apparently doing everything game related wrong these days.😂

I still think it’s a bad idea to get rid of Twitter integration as they plan on releasing 5 GaaS games over the next year or two. I think those 2 categories - GaaS and SM - go hand in hand. Guess we’ll see how it goes.🤷🏻‍♂️

@Mauzuri Agreed. Not saying the PS3 UI was perfect - it's not - but the XMB iteration was pleasing, the lack of background music wise (PS4 and PS5 I always switched off the dull ambient swirling), and it's still a better Blu-ray player in terms of features, for whatever that's worth in this age of streaming.

PS5's Share button is about as useful to me as the Bixby button on Samsung phones - it sits on the left only getting used by accident, with me wishing it could be remapped to something more useful (like opening a dedicated app or game of the user's choice).

@LiamOliver Folders are essential if you have a big games library, trust me. It's not unreasonable to want to stick things in catagories. Since this feature has existed since the PS3 with Albums which you can name and put whatever you want in them - folders by another name - why Sony haven't learnt to just put the feature in and keep it baffles me and many other people. It's pretty basic UI design stuff.

If you own say less than 10 games I can see why you wouldn't care, but at this point across PS1-PS5 including PSP and Vita, I own dozens and dozens of them and I'm not alone there.

I never knew that was a option 🤷

To quote a certain Jeremy Clarkson - Oh no! Anyway...

I'd really like to know who was using Twitter integration in the first place. How many play games on the PS5 with their phone next to them? I imagine it's a lot. The majority, surely. So...?

I used it occasionally and it was handy, but it's not something I'll miss.

Most amusing thing is that I said this might happen when they started charging for the API, and was told it didn't use the API and I didn't know what I was talking about. Yet... here we are. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@zekepliskin I have over 1,000 games in my library between PS4 and PS5 and I can assure you that folders absolutely are not essential. There is a pretty handy search facility that I can use to find any game I want far quicker than it would be to navigate to the relevant folder and then find the game within that folder. I've never used them on PS4 and I've never used them on PS5 either, because yes, they do exist on there in some capacity.

@zekepliskin Thanks for a helpful reply, I was half expecting some flack for asking.

That makes a lot of sense, especially if you have a large digital library, I guess, seeing as most of the games I play are physical, it'd never occurred to me as pinning has suited me for the handful of PS Plus games that I actually play.

Although, on reflection, it'd be handy to have somewhere to stash all those Plus Essential games I will get around to playing... One day...

@LiamOliver
Should work now, thanks for the message

@Kevw2006 "I can assure you that folders absolutely are not essential. "

Classic gamer "stating opinion/own bias as fact for all". Don't do that.

No, you can only assure me that in your specific use case they're not. Not everyone wants to use the search function to browse a specific game. Plenty of people like to have them sorted by platform or genre, with good reasons for doing so, for example completing a game in a specific genre and wanting to see what else they have that they own haven't played yet that's similar. Your solution isn't everyone's solution.

@LiamOliver You're welcome - in fact the PS3 has an option for grouping stuff automatically by platform which is automatically done every time you add a new game, too. This doesn't work so well when using ISO backups of PS2 games but you can use WebMAN (if you have it) with stuff grouped by platform as well. With or without CFW, the PS3 is just that much more logical to use.

Good riddance!

@zekepliskin Umm you literally did that exact same thing with your comment that I was replying to "Folders are essential if you have a big games library, trust me.". The only reason my comment came across that way is because I was just twisting your own words back.

I wasn't speaking for anyone but myself when I replied. You stated that folders were essential if you had a large games library, no saying that you feel like that in your case, it was a blanket statement speaking on behalf of anyone that has a large games library. You even ended your comment by saying you're not alone there. I was merely responding to say that in my case they aren't. I even specifically made a point to only reference myself as I'm only speaking about my own personal experience.

Although to further elaborate on my earlier comment when you refer to something as being essential I take that as being that it is something that is required to make something function and it just wouldn't work without, which would not apply to folders. In my own opinion I would say that they are desirable but not exactly essential.

@Kevw2006 Maybe I should have said "Folders are essential to many people if you have a big games library, trust me"_ but I don't see the point of endlessly discussing the minutiae in lieu of better things to do... all the best

I only time I used tiwwiter was to upload screenshots for the wii U but I switched to Tumblr after I found out that tumblr didn’t drop the image resolution to early 90s internet porno levels like twittelon did

@nomither6 OK... If you cannot live without sharing and "like collecting" I admit it is your personal tragedy.

Pretty sure I used it once or twice when there was no way of getting a screenshot or video from the PS4 to my phone to send on WhatsApp. Think it was PS4 > Twitter > Save to Phone > Send on WhatsApp.

PS App is much more elegant now, plus I've not been on Twitter since we've not been allowed to call them 'Tweets'.

@djlard good thing i can , & can just disregard your snide exaggeration.

@zekepliskin You know what, I'll have to try that. My PS3 is chaos and I've so many PS Plus games on it, I really should get around to it so I can sort the wheat from the chaff, I guess at worst it'll give me something to do over Christmas! Although I still have my PS4 I haven't turned it on since I got a PS5 so won't bother with that. Although I just scanned through my library and yeah, PS5 folders would be bloody useful! 😂🤣😂

@LiamOliver The way I see it, the PS3 is still the best console overall that Sony ever made, so much so I got a Japanese CECHA00 one with full PS2 compatibility (well 99% at least) to get better looking PS2 emulation and yeah, it's a pretty impressive difference via HDMI, a lot cleaner than my actual phat PS2. I want to try and capture some of that but the problem is the PS3 has HDCP on it so it's finding a splitter card.

Beyond the PS2 stuff yep the PS3 has an amazing library, lot of underrated gems like Shadow of the Damned or Lollipop Chainsaw, plus remaster/ports of stuff like the original two God of War games which run really well.

Never really got on with the PS4 whether Phat, Slim or Pro despite a couple of great games I love like inFAMOUS: Second Son however I find the PS5 better for PS4 gaming in a similar way to how the PS3 is better for PS2 gaming - better quality visuals as some PS4 games got frame rate bumps, the PS5 itself runs more quietly and obviously getting stuff in need of a remaster like Bloodborne running in 4K HDR upscaled is a plus. Bluepoint did such a great job with Demon's Souls on PS5 (plus the HD versions of GoW I mentioned earlier and MGS 2+3 that I'd love them to do Bloodborne as well, they'd knock it out of the park).

@Mauzuri Xbox ended the twitter integration as well.
Also, really? Folders are nice convenience but hardly essential. They weren't on PS4 at launch either.
Sorry but those are minor things that aren't worth even getting upset about. Games is what matters.

Bye bye, Muskrat.