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- Open sourcing this - Lists as tabs - _Heavily_ reduced spam - Can look at Twitter without logging in I'm likely missing some other obvious/uncontroversial

by Laaas 4y ago

- Open sourcing this - Lists as tabs - _Heavily_ reduced spam - Can look at Twitter without logging in I'm likely missing some other obvious/uncontroversially good changes. I still use Twitter and plan to continue using it. I am satisfied with most of his changes.

astrange 4y ago
There's not any less spam. How could there be when he laid off all the antispam people? If you expand "see more tweets" sometimes there's normal tweets hiding down there and sometimes it's a bot trying to sell you guns.
- suddenclarity 4y ago
  How? By having different requirements and implementing another solution? Look at the guy behind YouTube purge tool. One guy accomplished more than YouTube have done for years. Why? No one knows but it's definitely not because lack of resources. I've definitely seen less spam during the last months.
  - astrange 4y ago
    Sure seen a lot more racists since he unbanned all of them to increase engagement numbers! (YouTube completely changed their comments algorithms in the last few years and it's much better now, so you probably just didn't notice that.)
    - mardifoufs 4y ago
      No, he's talking about the very recent spam explosion in the YT comments, and how a dude manged to build an actual counter to that when YT hasn't really done anything on that front. I guess spam decreased since the peak of 3 months ago, but it's still a massive problem. And again, this is in the past few months, and has nothing to do with the improvements to the yt comment algo changes of the past few years.
  - kaba0 4y ago
    Probably just less people board the sinking ship.
progmetaldev 4y ago
Not having to login to Twitter is a great feature. I don't have a Twitter account, but often see posts linked elsewhere, and hated getting hit to login each time.
TaylorAlexander 4y ago
The spam comment is interesting. I had a sharp uptick in the number of spam messages after the acquisition.
- dmix 4y ago
  My daily DM spam hit a peak last year than dropped in recent months.
madeofpalk 4y ago
> - Lists as tabs Twitter added this in 2019 https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/23/20880372/twitter-lists-alternative-timeline-swipe-feeds-pinned-follow-people-feature-update https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/23/20880372/twitter-lists-al... > - Can look at Twitter without logging in All the recent change was show non-logged in users the Explore view which is... better than the previously mostly nothing I guess. Again, you've always been able to view tweets and browse profiles if linked to directly before Elon.
kaba0 4y ago
- The site often breaking as there is no one left to put out a fire - basically microtransactions that will soon boost your posts
guerrilla 4y ago
- _Heavily_ reduced spam You mean increased...

by Laaas 4y ago

astrange 4y ago

There's not any less spam. How could there be when he laid off all the antispam people? If you expand "see more tweets" sometimes there's normal tweets hiding down there and sometimes it's a bot trying to sell you guns.

suddenclarity 4y ago
How? By having different requirements and implementing another solution? Look at the guy behind YouTube purge tool. One guy accomplished more than YouTube have done for years. Why? No one knows but it's definitely not because lack of resources. I've definitely seen less spam during the last months.
- astrange 4y ago
  Sure seen a lot more racists since he unbanned all of them to increase engagement numbers! (YouTube completely changed their comments algorithms in the last few years and it's much better now, so you probably just didn't notice that.)
  - mardifoufs 4y ago
    No, he's talking about the very recent spam explosion in the YT comments, and how a dude manged to build an actual counter to that when YT hasn't really done anything on that front. I guess spam decreased since the peak of 3 months ago, but it's still a massive problem. And again, this is in the past few months, and has nothing to do with the improvements to the yt comment algo changes of the past few years.
- kaba0 4y ago
  Probably just less people board the sinking ship.

progmetaldev 4y ago

Not having to login to Twitter is a great feature. I don't have a Twitter account, but often see posts linked elsewhere, and hated getting hit to login each time.

TaylorAlexander 4y ago

The spam comment is interesting. I had a sharp uptick in the number of spam messages after the acquisition.

dmix 4y ago
My daily DM spam hit a peak last year than dropped in recent months.

madeofpalk 4y ago

> - Lists as tabs Twitter added this in 2019 https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/23/20880372/twitter-lists-alternative-timeline-swipe-feeds-pinned-follow-people-feature-update https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/23/20880372/twitter-lists-al... > - Can look at Twitter without logging in All the recent change was show non-logged in users the Explore view which is... better than the previously mostly nothing I guess. Again, you've always been able to view tweets and browse profiles if linked to directly before Elon.

kaba0 4y ago

- The site often breaking as there is no one left to put out a fire - basically microtransactions that will soon boost your posts

guerrilla 4y ago

- _Heavily_ reduced spam You mean increased...