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I mean, that’s clearly not true. But either way it’s funny, I think the doomsayers were so over the top at the start (“Twitter is going to die tonight!”) that a

I mean, that’s clearly not true. But either way it’s funny, I think the doomsayers were so over the top at the start (“Twitter is going to die tonight!”) that absolutely any level of activity is held up as a great success. Prioritising the replies of people who pay money for it was a body blow. Compensating those users for the engagement they generate is the death knell. You used to be able to find a ton of interesting conversation on Twitter, now the replies are filled with trolly garbage trying to prompt hate clicks. It’s just a bad way to spend time.

insin 3y ago
> Prioritising the replies of people who pay money for it was a body blow A Twitter reply thread will only load around 200 Tweets in total, so on Tweets which have been in front of a lot of eyeballs, it's more likely that your reply will never be seen by anyone even if you pay, which defeats their whole purpose for ruining reply threads as a selling point. Just an incredibly short-sighted change. My browser extension for Twitter [0] can hide replies from "verified" users - if you look at any Elon Musk tweet with this feature enabled, you'll be lucky if you see more than 1 reply. Quote Tweets are where it's at now if you want to find comments on busy tweets which are somewhat better than all the boosted Twitter Blue users posting cry-laugh emojis, and they've recently made those take multiple clicks to access, from one of 2 different menus (my extension also restores the old Quote Tweets link). [0] https://jbscript.dev/control-panel-for-twitter https://jbscript.dev/control-panel-for-twitter