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Call me ignorant but Twitter seems no different from what it was a year ago. There has been way more media attention and pearl clutching since Elon's takeover,

Call me ignorant but Twitter seems no different from what it was a year ago. There has been way more media attention and pearl clutching since Elon's takeover, but that hasn't translated to noticeable a difference in terms of usability and product.

bagacrap 4y ago
There have been some product changes in terms of moderation, those blue checkmarks, and impression count. I don't really blame Elon for trying new things. On the technical side I don't know what's changed. That said, I concur that Twitter is doomed. It was already not very profitable before advertisers started backing away, and Elon's tendency to "move fast and ignore regulations" won't serve him very well in the current climate of tightly regulated social media. Elon's piggy bank is no longer unlimited due to the revaluation of TSLA and the tendency for his huge sales to drive the price down even further.
bentcorner 4y ago
Twitter stopped working entirely for some 3rd party apps late last week. Dev communication looks extremely slim and the only comms has been a very vague tweet: "Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working."
- mardifoufs 4y ago
  But how is that relevant? Pulling the rug under third party apps is probably a bad move from Twitter, but everything seems to indicate that it was intentional and not just a breakage/outage caused by a shortage of staff.
  - estebank 4y ago
    Breaking SMS delivery, logins, increased number of 500 responses, failures in the recommendation engine, failures loading conversations and bugs galore, including displaying tweets of locked accounts you don't follow that someone you do follow replied to are some of the recent outages and bugs I can remember of the top of my head from the past 3 weeks.
- hbn 4y ago
  I'm pretty sure breaking 3rd party clients was intentional. Twitter had tightened the reigns on them years ago because it just cost them money to keep them alive. It makes sense that would be first on the chopping block when they're looking for cost-saving measures, and I figured it was inevitable regardless of the Elon takeover. I have a feeling it's coming for reddit too. That one I dread cause their official app is horrible.
  - medler 4y ago
    If disabling the API were intentional, a well-run company would have announced it beforehand.
occamsrazorwit 4y ago
Users have been reporting issues with missing reply notifications and missing replies for a while. It's not obvious if you're not paying close attention, so I think most people won't really notice. Try counting the number of replies versus the number of replies shown. It doesn't appear to be a spam-filter issue either as those replies are benign and still exist if you navigate to them via a profile. Here's an example I just pulled up that's the second thread on my feed: https://twitter.com/LordCarsonEsq/status/1615134592222257155 https://twitter.com/LordCarsonEsq/status/1615134592222257155 There are six replies here. If you refresh enough, you can see a different subset of two replies, so that's probably not a spam-filter.
- Amezarak 4y ago
  I’ve had this problem with Twitter since I signed up years ago.

bagacrap 4y ago

There have been some product changes in terms of moderation, those blue checkmarks, and impression count. I don't really blame Elon for trying new things. On the technical side I don't know what's changed. That said, I concur that Twitter is doomed. It was already not very profitable before advertisers started backing away, and Elon's tendency to "move fast and ignore regulations" won't serve him very well in the current climate of tightly regulated social media. Elon's piggy bank is no longer unlimited due to the revaluation of TSLA and the tendency for his huge sales to drive the price down even further.

bentcorner 4y ago

Twitter stopped working entirely for some 3rd party apps late last week. Dev communication looks extremely slim and the only comms has been a very vague tweet: "Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working."

mardifoufs 4y ago
But how is that relevant? Pulling the rug under third party apps is probably a bad move from Twitter, but everything seems to indicate that it was intentional and not just a breakage/outage caused by a shortage of staff.
- estebank 4y ago
  Breaking SMS delivery, logins, increased number of 500 responses, failures in the recommendation engine, failures loading conversations and bugs galore, including displaying tweets of locked accounts you don't follow that someone you do follow replied to are some of the recent outages and bugs I can remember of the top of my head from the past 3 weeks.
hbn 4y ago
I'm pretty sure breaking 3rd party clients was intentional. Twitter had tightened the reigns on them years ago because it just cost them money to keep them alive. It makes sense that would be first on the chopping block when they're looking for cost-saving measures, and I figured it was inevitable regardless of the Elon takeover. I have a feeling it's coming for reddit too. That one I dread cause their official app is horrible.
- medler 4y ago
  If disabling the API were intentional, a well-run company would have announced it beforehand.

occamsrazorwit 4y ago

Users have been reporting issues with missing reply notifications and missing replies for a while. It's not obvious if you're not paying close attention, so I think most people won't really notice. Try counting the number of replies versus the number of replies shown. It doesn't appear to be a spam-filter issue either as those replies are benign and still exist if you navigate to them via a profile. Here's an example I just pulled up that's the second thread on my feed: https://twitter.com/LordCarsonEsq/status/1615134592222257155 https://twitter.com/LordCarsonEsq/status/1615134592222257155 There are six replies here. If you refresh enough, you can see a different subset of two replies, so that's probably not a spam-filter.

Amezarak 4y ago
I’ve had this problem with Twitter since I signed up years ago.