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It is so disheartening that Musk's callous and destructive management of Twitter is becoming a template/excuse for shitty choices at other companies. We exist i

It is so disheartening that Musk's callous and destructive management of Twitter is becoming a template/excuse for shitty choices at other companies. We exist in a culture and Twitter has lurched the Overton window in a direction that makes everything worse for all of us.

stronglikedan 3y ago
Twitter is a better experience than ever for the users, and leaner than ever which is better for the company. There was a short learning curve for all involved (those who were left and those who were brought on), but they've ironed out those kinks long ago.
- Daishiman 3y ago
  Every time I see a blue check mark on a contentious topic it’s never good. Good writers have left the platform or participate far less. Things break all the time. The only good thing is it’s helped me drastically reduce the time I spend mindlessly scrolling.
- mdeeks 3y ago
  Hm I have quite the opposite experience. I've never had so many bugs with Twitter as I do right now. The feed random refresh bug never went away and somehow managed to get worse. Right as I'm reading something it'll vanish without a trace. I probably see this five times per day. Sometimes I'll find my app on the "Following" feed even though I never actually switched to it (I'm weird, I actually enjoy the For You feed a lot). Sometimes the content clearly hasn't refreshed because I see new things on my desktop that aren't on my mobile app. The quality of the content has taken a sharp nose dive too. Almost everything is useless threads from "thought influencers", memes, or completely random posts that I have never interacted with ever in my life (anime memes? a thousand posts about the barbie movie) The quality of the replies is awful now that blue check users are all at the top. It essentially made it "pay to be seen" rather than having the more interesting replies at the top. This makes me the most sad I think :( Aside from that though, it feels like roughly the same app but with some small tweaks here and there.
- p_j_w 3y ago
  >Twitter is a better experience than ever for the users The fact that I was getting notifications on my phone to look at a tweet from a Blue Checkmark that I didn't follow says otherwise.
  - bmarquez 3y ago
    To be fair, I had this same issue pre-Elon. You have to go into your settings and turn off everything except "Related to you and your tweets"
    - p_j_w 3y ago
      >I had this same issue pre-Elon It didn't happen to me once before he started charging money for blue checkmarks. >You have to go into your settings Too late, app deleted.
geoduck14 3y ago
I don't think it is Twitter's fault at all. Twitter and Reddit are simply responding to companies like OpenAI scraping their data and building big models off of it without giving anything back to the websites (or their users).
bmarquez 3y ago
Facebook and Instagram started the enshittification process long before Twitter did. And Reddit even hired Ellen Pao as a scapegoat to push through unpopular decisions. Reddit was heading in this direction long before Musk was involved.

stronglikedan 3y ago

Twitter is a better experience than ever for the users, and leaner than ever which is better for the company. There was a short learning curve for all involved (those who were left and those who were brought on), but they've ironed out those kinks long ago.

Daishiman 3y ago
Every time I see a blue check mark on a contentious topic it’s never good. Good writers have left the platform or participate far less. Things break all the time. The only good thing is it’s helped me drastically reduce the time I spend mindlessly scrolling.
mdeeks 3y ago
Hm I have quite the opposite experience. I've never had so many bugs with Twitter as I do right now. The feed random refresh bug never went away and somehow managed to get worse. Right as I'm reading something it'll vanish without a trace. I probably see this five times per day. Sometimes I'll find my app on the "Following" feed even though I never actually switched to it (I'm weird, I actually enjoy the For You feed a lot). Sometimes the content clearly hasn't refreshed because I see new things on my desktop that aren't on my mobile app. The quality of the content has taken a sharp nose dive too. Almost everything is useless threads from "thought influencers", memes, or completely random posts that I have never interacted with ever in my life (anime memes? a thousand posts about the barbie movie) The quality of the replies is awful now that blue check users are all at the top. It essentially made it "pay to be seen" rather than having the more interesting replies at the top. This makes me the most sad I think :( Aside from that though, it feels like roughly the same app but with some small tweaks here and there.
p_j_w 3y ago
>Twitter is a better experience than ever for the users The fact that I was getting notifications on my phone to look at a tweet from a Blue Checkmark that I didn't follow says otherwise.
- bmarquez 3y ago
  To be fair, I had this same issue pre-Elon. You have to go into your settings and turn off everything except "Related to you and your tweets"
  - p_j_w 3y ago
    >I had this same issue pre-Elon It didn't happen to me once before he started charging money for blue checkmarks. >You have to go into your settings Too late, app deleted.

geoduck14 3y ago

I don't think it is Twitter's fault at all. Twitter and Reddit are simply responding to companies like OpenAI scraping their data and building big models off of it without giving anything back to the websites (or their users).

bmarquez 3y ago

Facebook and Instagram started the enshittification process long before Twitter did. And Reddit even hired Ellen Pao as a scapegoat to push through unpopular decisions. Reddit was heading in this direction long before Musk was involved.