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IMO Twitter has been 100% better since Musk took over.

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csb6 4y ago
Really? Since the sale I’ve seen lots more bugs (e.g. replies failing to load, like button not working, images not loading, menus not working, Tweets not loading, etc.)
smrtinsert 4y ago
Please qualify that. The public has observed failures in infrastructure and content safety/moderation.
ericmay 4y ago
What differences have you noticed? The main one I see is that there are more blue check marks but now I have kind of trained myself to ignore those more and just pay attention if it’s gray/gold or an official org page.
- throw_pm23 4y ago
  As someone without an account, I am finally able to browse and read it. In the last months before he took over it had become literally unusable. After some seconds of scrolling a sign-up window would show up which was impossible to dismiss and neither ublock nor umatrix helped.
  - illiarian 4y ago
    That's the only good thing that happened. Meanwhile: - failures are happening more often. Just in the past week they broke "following" page for half a day, and then image uploads for a few hours (with hilarious "your account has hit the API limit for their own site) - they just randomly killed third-party apps that made Twitter what it was with zero warning or explanation - destroyed all possible credibility of blue checkmarks. Which are not just celebrities, but also government agencies - people report an increase in harassment and trolls
    - ackfoobar 4y ago
      Some outages for increased velocity can be a good trade off for twitter. I think the acquisition is partly idelogically motivated. So destroying the blue checkmark credibility is probably "mischief managed". For government accounts, they now have gray checkmarks.
      - illiarian 4y ago
        > Some outages for increased velocity can be a good trade off for twitter. What increased velocity? > So destroying the blue checkmark credibility is probably "mischief managed". This statement makes no sense > For government accounts, they now have gray checkmarks. Wat? Is this the velocity you're talking about? When they introduced paid blue checkmarks, then realized it's a bad idea, and introduced "official" label to only backpedal less than a day later, only to introduce gray checkmarks? First time I hear of gray checkmarks btw. Just checked: of course there are now gray checkmarks. And of course they are randomly assigned. And of course there are also golden checkmarks because reasons. Also randomly assigned.
  - CatWChainsaw 4y ago
    I used uMatrix to read Twitter without difficulty. Did you have most of the scripts blocked?
hstan4 4y ago
I love how this comment is flagged solely for having an unfavorable opinion to most here. Good job HN

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csb6 4y ago

Really? Since the sale I’ve seen lots more bugs (e.g. replies failing to load, like button not working, images not loading, menus not working, Tweets not loading, etc.)

smrtinsert 4y ago

Please qualify that. The public has observed failures in infrastructure and content safety/moderation.

ericmay 4y ago

What differences have you noticed? The main one I see is that there are more blue check marks but now I have kind of trained myself to ignore those more and just pay attention if it’s gray/gold or an official org page.

throw_pm23 4y ago
As someone without an account, I am finally able to browse and read it. In the last months before he took over it had become literally unusable. After some seconds of scrolling a sign-up window would show up which was impossible to dismiss and neither ublock nor umatrix helped.
- illiarian 4y ago
  That's the only good thing that happened. Meanwhile: - failures are happening more often. Just in the past week they broke "following" page for half a day, and then image uploads for a few hours (with hilarious "your account has hit the API limit for their own site) - they just randomly killed third-party apps that made Twitter what it was with zero warning or explanation - destroyed all possible credibility of blue checkmarks. Which are not just celebrities, but also government agencies - people report an increase in harassment and trolls
  - ackfoobar 4y ago
    Some outages for increased velocity can be a good trade off for twitter. I think the acquisition is partly idelogically motivated. So destroying the blue checkmark credibility is probably "mischief managed". For government accounts, they now have gray checkmarks.
    - illiarian 4y ago
      > Some outages for increased velocity can be a good trade off for twitter. What increased velocity? > So destroying the blue checkmark credibility is probably "mischief managed". This statement makes no sense > For government accounts, they now have gray checkmarks. Wat? Is this the velocity you're talking about? When they introduced paid blue checkmarks, then realized it's a bad idea, and introduced "official" label to only backpedal less than a day later, only to introduce gray checkmarks? First time I hear of gray checkmarks btw. Just checked: of course there are now gray checkmarks. And of course they are randomly assigned. And of course there are also golden checkmarks because reasons. Also randomly assigned.
- CatWChainsaw 4y ago
  I used uMatrix to read Twitter without difficulty. Did you have most of the scripts blocked?

hstan4 4y ago

I love how this comment is flagged solely for having an unfavorable opinion to most here. Good job HN