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It's now riddled with bugs and every other "reply" is an ad for a product completely unrelated to whatever tweet it's replying to. No one outside of twitter wa

It's now riddled with bugs and every other "reply" is an ad for a product completely unrelated to whatever tweet it's replying to. No one outside of twitter was predicting it would just suddenly collapse, but instead a slow degradation of quality (ironic given that twitter is being marketed as the "#1 most accurate source of information on the internet") The top tweet under every "More Tweets" section is always a childish Musk tweet with a 420 or 69 reference in it

ghostpepper 3y ago
This hasn’t been my experience but maybe that’s due to running an adblocker
phpisthebest 3y ago
>>every other "reply" is an ad for a product completely unrelated to whatever tweet it's replying to. I find that very ironic. For years I have seen people complain about "target ads" and companies like twitter spying on everyone. Now if they are not targeted some how that is also bad... Amazing.... Though I will say I have seen a dozen HPE GreenLake ads on twitter and still have no idea what they are trying to sell me... >> instead a slow degradation of quality (ironic given that twitter is being marketed as the "#1 most accurate source of information on the internet") The top tweet under every "More Tweets" section is always a childish Musk tweet with a 420 or 69 reference in it These are not mutually exclusive... I find new twitter to be very informative and entertaining
- 8ytecoder 3y ago
  You are talking about two different types of ads. “We” hate targeted ads. “We” love context specific ads. When I search for “best EV to buy in 2023”, I’m more than happy to see a few results ads from Ford and VW. (That was the entire premise of Google when they started). But, learning that I’m interested in an EV because I messaged a friend on Instagram about it, or because I’m 35-45 years old, living in a “liberal city”, “making more than 200k”, and a “tree hugger” is what pisses people off - because that requires intense data collection about me and everything I do. “We” like relevant ads and to be specific context-specific ads.
  - ipaddr 3y ago
    Getting context specific ads from a 140 character tweet is asking for the impossible.
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UncleOxidant 3y ago
And yet plenty of people are still there on twitter. There have been plenty of reasons to leave and some have (Mastodon is now up over 11M users) I count myself as one of those leavers. But so far there hasn't been a mass exodus, there have been several small exoduses. When you boil the frog slowly it tends to stay in the pot: that seems like what we're observing at twitter. The degradation has been slow enough that most users are ok with it, at least so far.
- ipaddr 3y ago
  Most Mastodon users are on both platforms
- midoridensha 3y ago
  >When you boil the frog slowly it tends to stay in the pot: that seems like what we're observing at twitter. This isn't true: according to sources I've read, attempting to slowly boil a frog will result in the frog jumping out of the pot. Frogs aren't that stupid, though humans apparently are. This analogy is insulting to frogs. We should just change it to "When you boil the human slowly it tends to stay in the pot."
HDThoreaun 3y ago
Facebook is on its slow decline either way. At this point the goal should be to try to slow the bleeding while they look for other revenue
YetAnotherNick 3y ago
> It's now riddled with bugs Care to expand? Not a heavy twitter user, but somehow I saw more bugs pre-Musk(specially with changing network/VPN) than post-Musk.
- basisword 3y ago
  My feed is absolutely filled with Musk/Tesla posts since the takeover. I had no idea so many people/accounts were “fans” of Tesla until my feed started filling up with it. No matter how many times I mark the tweets as not relevant I still get them. I’d consider that a bug. I also often refresh the feed or get a “scroll to top for new posts” button, action it, and get the same posts that were already on the feed. Also a new issue for me.
  - ipaddr 3y ago
    The bug is too many telsa posts?
    - basisword 3y ago
      The “bug” is that the algorithm now boosts content that is good for Musk regardless of how irrelevant it is to the user.

ghostpepper 3y ago

This hasn’t been my experience but maybe that’s due to running an adblocker

phpisthebest 3y ago

>>every other "reply" is an ad for a product completely unrelated to whatever tweet it's replying to. I find that very ironic. For years I have seen people complain about "target ads" and companies like twitter spying on everyone. Now if they are not targeted some how that is also bad... Amazing.... Though I will say I have seen a dozen HPE GreenLake ads on twitter and still have no idea what they are trying to sell me... >> instead a slow degradation of quality (ironic given that twitter is being marketed as the "#1 most accurate source of information on the internet") The top tweet under every "More Tweets" section is always a childish Musk tweet with a 420 or 69 reference in it These are not mutually exclusive... I find new twitter to be very informative and entertaining

8ytecoder 3y ago
You are talking about two different types of ads. “We” hate targeted ads. “We” love context specific ads. When I search for “best EV to buy in 2023”, I’m more than happy to see a few results ads from Ford and VW. (That was the entire premise of Google when they started). But, learning that I’m interested in an EV because I messaged a friend on Instagram about it, or because I’m 35-45 years old, living in a “liberal city”, “making more than 200k”, and a “tree hugger” is what pisses people off - because that requires intense data collection about me and everything I do. “We” like relevant ads and to be specific context-specific ads.
- ipaddr 3y ago
  Getting context specific ads from a 140 character tweet is asking for the impossible.

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UncleOxidant 3y ago

And yet plenty of people are still there on twitter. There have been plenty of reasons to leave and some have (Mastodon is now up over 11M users) I count myself as one of those leavers. But so far there hasn't been a mass exodus, there have been several small exoduses. When you boil the frog slowly it tends to stay in the pot: that seems like what we're observing at twitter. The degradation has been slow enough that most users are ok with it, at least so far.

ipaddr 3y ago
Most Mastodon users are on both platforms
midoridensha 3y ago
>When you boil the frog slowly it tends to stay in the pot: that seems like what we're observing at twitter. This isn't true: according to sources I've read, attempting to slowly boil a frog will result in the frog jumping out of the pot. Frogs aren't that stupid, though humans apparently are. This analogy is insulting to frogs. We should just change it to "When you boil the human slowly it tends to stay in the pot."

HDThoreaun 3y ago

Facebook is on its slow decline either way. At this point the goal should be to try to slow the bleeding while they look for other revenue

YetAnotherNick 3y ago

> It's now riddled with bugs Care to expand? Not a heavy twitter user, but somehow I saw more bugs pre-Musk(specially with changing network/VPN) than post-Musk.

basisword 3y ago
My feed is absolutely filled with Musk/Tesla posts since the takeover. I had no idea so many people/accounts were “fans” of Tesla until my feed started filling up with it. No matter how many times I mark the tweets as not relevant I still get them. I’d consider that a bug. I also often refresh the feed or get a “scroll to top for new posts” button, action it, and get the same posts that were already on the feed. Also a new issue for me.
- ipaddr 3y ago
  The bug is too many telsa posts?
  - basisword 3y ago
    The “bug” is that the algorithm now boosts content that is good for Musk regardless of how irrelevant it is to the user.