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This is what finally drove me off Twitter. Not the acquisition, not the bots, not even the crypto-spam. It was the monetisation destroying any sense of good fai

This is what finally drove me off Twitter. Not the acquisition, not the bots, not even the crypto-spam. It was the monetisation destroying any sense of good faith or genuine opinion. Just self-serving hot takes and engagement bait.

jeffbee 2y ago
I still do not understand why people feel that they are subjected to voodoo algorithms forced on them by Twitter. The only things I see on Twitter are written by, reposted by, or replied to by people I actually know in real life. You do not have to be subject to random content on Twitter! The only things that appear unbidden in my feed are ads, and in 2024 their inventory is so thin that there's hardly any of those.
- dukeyukey 2y ago
  Vanishingly few people I know in real life use Twitter. The issue I had mostly wasn't random algorithm stuff - I used the mute button a _lot_ - it's people I previously respected and enjoyed reading the content of falling further and further into the "post hot takes and controversial opinions for engagement" trap.
- kristiandupont 2y ago
  It might not be a lot but I certainly saw tweets from Elon frequently until I muted him. I didn't follow him. I noticed this explicitly because he is so prominent but I feel that my feed has plenty of tweets from people I don't follow.
  - admax88qqq 2y ago
    There’s two explicit feeds on Twitter. “For you” and “following” One is theoretically good for discovery of content that “the algorithm” thinks is suitable for you The other is what you are asking for a stream of content _only_ from people you follow
- jen20 2y ago
  For many years, Twitter would revert the setting to see a timeline made up of tweets only from those you followed, preferring to reset you to their algorithmic feed (“For you”). They stopped this at some point (pre-acquisition) but the damage to perception was done by then.

jeffbee 2y ago

I still do not understand why people feel that they are subjected to voodoo algorithms forced on them by Twitter. The only things I see on Twitter are written by, reposted by, or replied to by people I actually know in real life. You do not have to be subject to random content on Twitter! The only things that appear unbidden in my feed are ads, and in 2024 their inventory is so thin that there's hardly any of those.

dukeyukey 2y ago
Vanishingly few people I know in real life use Twitter. The issue I had mostly wasn't random algorithm stuff - I used the mute button a _lot_ - it's people I previously respected and enjoyed reading the content of falling further and further into the "post hot takes and controversial opinions for engagement" trap.
kristiandupont 2y ago
It might not be a lot but I certainly saw tweets from Elon frequently until I muted him. I didn't follow him. I noticed this explicitly because he is so prominent but I feel that my feed has plenty of tweets from people I don't follow.
- admax88qqq 2y ago
  There’s two explicit feeds on Twitter. “For you” and “following” One is theoretically good for discovery of content that “the algorithm” thinks is suitable for you The other is what you are asking for a stream of content _only_ from people you follow
jen20 2y ago
For many years, Twitter would revert the setting to see a timeline made up of tweets only from those you followed, preferring to reset you to their algorithmic feed (“For you”). They stopped this at some point (pre-acquisition) but the damage to perception was done by then.