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I wanted to have faith that Twitter could actually return to it's former glory, before it was a dictatorial nightmare... Twitter literally varies it's timeline
by winternett 4y ago
I wanted to have faith that Twitter could actually return to it's former glory, before it was a dictatorial nightmare...
Twitter literally varies it's timeline every day to simply push what it wants to to everyone, just like Instagram. Literally, I've watched it switch from real time reporting to just a total spam haven that ignores everyone's wishes and pushes out repetitive content and dull posts from people and corps that pay money for visibility.
Not even top posts are ranked based by likes or even account popularity (real or even fake followers) any more. Based on what I've observed, it's just whoever pays or spams keywords that ranks first. It's just opinion of course, but I feel like dead Internet is alive and well on Twitter, and even the deal to purchase it is a promotional scheme to keep everyone distracted from the underlying feeling that Twitter is a lifeless shell of it's former self.
It eventually gets to the point where you've got to stop logging in because the emphasis on content that has no real value ranks above the real interesting, relevant, and noteworthy stuff anyone posts on there. It's corrupted far too much to go back to being functional, a smoke screen for pocket change behind the scenes. Elon could do better just building something entirely new (opinion again, but I think the people that really use it would agree).
- cuteboy19 4y agoI have never seen an authentic hashtag in the trending section. Either its some advertisement or its an obviously astroturfed political campaign.
- winternett 4y agoOr Doja Cat, Kanye, BTS, Politics or whatever random accounts pay to promote or bot to death... sigh