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Is Twitter less relevant? I'm not an active user, but I haven't seen a decrease in links to tweets over the past few months.
by onionisafruit 3y ago
Is Twitter less relevant? I'm not an active user, but I haven't seen a decrease in links to tweets over the past few months.
- TylerE 3y agoYes. A large number of the people I followed who actually posted interesting content (as opposed to bots retweeting press releases) either greatly curtailed posting, or quit all together. I followed them out the door.
- onionisafruit 3y agoI keep seeing people say this, and I expect to see a decrease in the number of tweets I see linked from the subreddits I follow. But the tweets keep coming. Maybe it's subject matter. I primarily see tweets in sports-related subreddits, so for all I know athletes and sports writers could be the only people still using twitter.
- TylerE 3y agoMost of the sports accounts would fall under "Retweeting press releases". I'm talking about people I followed, many of whom were historians so would often publish original analysis, pictures they'd personally combed the archives for and digitized, that sort of thing. Very much NOT pop culture/politics/etc.
- phpisthebest 3y ago[flagged]
- onionisafruit 3y agoThat’s not cool to call a fellow hackernews massively arrogant.
- TylerE 3y agoWhat's even weirder is someone obviously worshiping Elon, probably the single most arrogant person to ever exist, accusing someone else of being arrogant. I'm not going to waste mental cycles on one who's post history clearly reveals them as a Qultist.
- motogpjimbo 3y agoI think the phrase "legitimate users" is worthy of scrutiny in the comment you replied to.
- mustacheemperor 3y agoI've only ever really consumed twitter secondhand like you, but I have observed that since the acquisition the quality of discussion in replies to tweets I am linked seems to have significantly dropped, and as objectively as one can opine about that kind of thing. Just angry graffiti and dumpster fire arguments about at-best-tangentially related culture war topics in reply to everything. I've made this comparison once already in this thread, but it reminds me of comments on youtube in the mid 00s. But hey, youtube comments never improved much and that site is still highly relevant today, so hard to make a prediction based off my observed anecdote. And I've never used twitter much at all, so maybe I just hadn't noticed before.
- petersellers 3y agoI wonder if the observed decline in discussion quality has any correlation with the "boost" that is given to comments from accounts with blue check marks.
- parminya 3y agoThe change in discussion quality has occurred because old Twitter had an objective to cultivate one particular quality of discussion, and Musk Twitter has an objective to cultivate a different quality of discussion. These goals were stated up front by the respective decision makers. Any particular technique is simply a tool for the job. If old Twitter or new Twitter thought a method would aid in their quality cultivation goals, then they would have adopted it: if it proved counterproductive, then they would drop it. So there is almost certainly a correlation to the boost that is given to comments. But even if it is a causative correlation, the ultimate cause is not the bluecheck boost, but the desire of the decisionmaker.