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I don't know if I am doing something differently than everyone else, but I notice virtually no difference between my Twitter feed currently vs. three months ago

by JackFr 4y ago

I don't know if I am doing something differently than everyone else, but I notice virtually no difference between my Twitter feed currently vs. three months ago.

marcooliv 4y ago
I believe that this is more related to a political point of view than Twitter's quality itself.
cowsup 4y ago
Like the post said, this isn’t the first time Elon has acted this way. He posted the same sort of stuff years ago, also on Twitter. People who ignored him then can ignore him now. But, just like when certain Twitter users enter public office, Elon being the CEO of Twitter has shined a giant spotlight on him, even outside of Twitter (like this very post we’re commenting on). Elon hasn’t changed, and honestly, not much of Twitter has either. But, by using Twitter, you are ever so slightly increasing the ad revenue the company receives. If that’s not something you can stomach, leave. If you don’t care, stick around, not much will change. Up to you. The author of the post is in the former group.
tekbog 4y ago
My timeline has just been all about Musk, I hide posts and so on but it's no use. He wants to be the main character and people are giving him attention. It's annoying and I have not that much interest in it. People hate on Mastodon but there you can actually find insightful content with hashtags and see what you want, I spent a good amount of time curating my twitter TL but I don't see much use in going there right now. I don't preach to just migrate to mastodon or other places but Twitter seems like it has run its course, for me at least, I hope it improves since there used to be a lot of great content from developers once you block/mute people playing the algorithm. Additionally I'm getting DM requests all the time from bots, today alone I got 3, I don't understand what's happened.
- soneca 4y ago
  My feed is basically the same. But I am definitely seeing a lot of spam DM requests.
foolrush 4y ago
So having a self avowed Neo-Nazi invited back into the room, who cannot be reported, is “virtually no difference”?
- jsnell 4y ago
  The OP made a statement about the contents of their feed, not about content they don't see. If they don't follow neo-nazis or people who would retweet a neo-nazi, it's very easy to believe that one being unbanned makes no difference on the content they see.
- JackFr 4y ago
  I have never organically seen an Elon Musk or a Donald Trump tweet. Or frankly any neo-Nazi tweets. Like I said maybe I’m doing it differently than everyone else.
mcphage 4y ago
The ads I get are definitely junkier, but I think they've been getting worse over time, rather than one quick lurch.
rsynnott 4y ago
I think it's probably pretty dependent on who you follow and how you interact. I'm not tweeting anymore, but still have my account (I harbour some vague hope that it'll eventually do a Tumblr and get resold to some more competent steward). My timeline has gone pretty quiet, and pretty meta (a lot of it is _about_ Twitter). There's a lot more random crap suggested than there used to be; I'd say at least two thirds of my feed is suggestions or "[someone] liked". Until I blocked him, Elon tweets were inescapable (I'd never followed him, but til recently he never made frequent enough appearances on my timeline that I felt the need to block him). The ads have gone very gambling and crypto-oriented (though, interestingly, right now they're not appearing at all). All in all, it is not what is was; on the contrary Mastodon has gone from a ghost town to having most of the stuff I liked from Twitter; in many ways it's the Twitter of 15 years ago, and that's largely a good thing.

by JackFr 4y ago

I don't know if I am doing something differently than everyone else, but I notice virtually no difference between my Twitter feed currently vs. three months ago.

marcooliv 4y ago

I believe that this is more related to a political point of view than Twitter's quality itself.

cowsup 4y ago

Like the post said, this isn’t the first time Elon has acted this way. He posted the same sort of stuff years ago, also on Twitter. People who ignored him then can ignore him now. But, just like when certain Twitter users enter public office, Elon being the CEO of Twitter has shined a giant spotlight on him, even outside of Twitter (like this very post we’re commenting on). Elon hasn’t changed, and honestly, not much of Twitter has either. But, by using Twitter, you are ever so slightly increasing the ad revenue the company receives. If that’s not something you can stomach, leave. If you don’t care, stick around, not much will change. Up to you. The author of the post is in the former group.

tekbog 4y ago

My timeline has just been all about Musk, I hide posts and so on but it's no use. He wants to be the main character and people are giving him attention. It's annoying and I have not that much interest in it. People hate on Mastodon but there you can actually find insightful content with hashtags and see what you want, I spent a good amount of time curating my twitter TL but I don't see much use in going there right now. I don't preach to just migrate to mastodon or other places but Twitter seems like it has run its course, for me at least, I hope it improves since there used to be a lot of great content from developers once you block/mute people playing the algorithm. Additionally I'm getting DM requests all the time from bots, today alone I got 3, I don't understand what's happened.

soneca 4y ago
My feed is basically the same. But I am definitely seeing a lot of spam DM requests.

foolrush 4y ago

So having a self avowed Neo-Nazi invited back into the room, who cannot be reported, is “virtually no difference”?

jsnell 4y ago
The OP made a statement about the contents of their feed, not about content they don't see. If they don't follow neo-nazis or people who would retweet a neo-nazi, it's very easy to believe that one being unbanned makes no difference on the content they see.
JackFr 4y ago
I have never organically seen an Elon Musk or a Donald Trump tweet. Or frankly any neo-Nazi tweets. Like I said maybe I’m doing it differently than everyone else.

mcphage 4y ago

The ads I get are definitely junkier, but I think they've been getting worse over time, rather than one quick lurch.

rsynnott 4y ago

I think it's probably pretty dependent on who you follow and how you interact. I'm not tweeting anymore, but still have my account (I harbour some vague hope that it'll eventually do a Tumblr and get resold to some more competent steward). My timeline has gone pretty quiet, and pretty meta (a lot of it is _about_ Twitter). There's a lot more random crap suggested than there used to be; I'd say at least two thirds of my feed is suggestions or "[someone] liked". Until I blocked him, Elon tweets were inescapable (I'd never followed him, but til recently he never made frequent enough appearances on my timeline that I felt the need to block him). The ads have gone very gambling and crypto-oriented (though, interestingly, right now they're not appearing at all). All in all, it is not what is was; on the contrary Mastodon has gone from a ghost town to having most of the stuff I liked from Twitter; in many ways it's the Twitter of 15 years ago, and that's largely a good thing.