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Really, all it is doing is surfacing the asinine nature of Twitter itself. Those inane, dumb, wrong, malicious tweets have always been there, you just weren't l
by zdragnar 2y ago
Really, all it is doing is surfacing the asinine nature of Twitter itself. Those inane, dumb, wrong, malicious tweets have always been there, you just weren't looking for them. Now there are promoted tweets, and the tweeters being promoted are people you didn't find interesting in the first place.
The only thing that has changed is Twitter is directly speaking to their average audience, which you are not, and that is now painfully more obvious.
- bangaroo 2y agowell that kind of breaks the entire utility of the platform, doesn't it? the thing that was nice about twitter way back when was the fact that it felt very community-focused and the people who were most actively involved generally had feeds that largely represented their interests. it wasn't hard to stay away from the garbage, and what you saw felt more intuitively targeted towards your interests. i used it to keep up with friends and leaders in fields i found interesting and found it a lot more intuitive and engaging than other platforms at the time. no doubt we're a decade or more past peak twitter, but it seems like the algorithm has entirely flipped and is designed explicitly to surface as much lowest-common-denominator content as possible, drowning out anything targeted that you're actually interested in. i'll never say it was particularly wonderful, but it was better than it is now.