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Twitter is a sad joke now, I deleted my account and created a placeholder to occasionally read tweets and I get a constant stream of near-identical bot accounts
by throwaway63467 2y ago
Twitter is a sad joke now, I deleted my account and created a placeholder to occasionally read tweets and I get a constant stream of near-identical bot accounts following me. The site is also broken and randomizing tweets for non logged in users further reduced usability for me.
There’s still tons of activity there but to me it feels the site is in a death spiral, the team seems to just manage keeping up with bugs so there is very little useful product innovation happening, or at least it seems like that to me.
- mrighele 2y agoTo be fair there have been more changes since Musk took over and I think that it is one of the main reasons (together with reduced headcount) for why there are more bugs now. That doesn't mean that all of those changes are a positive, but the pace surely improved.
- throwaway63467 2y agoYeah but I have the impression it’s mostly about revenue tweaking, not evolving the platform in a way that benefits users. Which I guess is normal as it’s a late stage scale up.
- nsxwolf 2y agoI mostly use Twitter to follow interesting people with interesting hobbies, and those same people are still there and just as interesting as they used to be. The experience hasn't changed for me at all. I wonder how much of the complaining comes from people that primarily used it for politics and culture war shit - their filter bubbles have been popped and they're now seeing things they didn't used to see and therefore it's "gone to hell".
- tim333 2y agoIt doesn't seem bad to use to me either. I think people are maybe put off by association with some of the more iffy content elsewhere on the site.
- Xeyz0r 2y agoI even stoped using it before Elon took over