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Twitter is very usable once you block Elon and the unhinged conspiracy accounts that he retweets.
by melodyogonna 2y ago
Twitter is very usable once you block Elon and the unhinged conspiracy accounts that he retweets.
- ivewonyoung 2y agoI frequently have the opposite problem where the algo is pushing liberal accounts tweeting $OUTRAGE_OF_THE_DAY
- almosthere 2y agoSame
- hbn 2y agoFor twitter being supposedly a right wing social media platform, the only tweets I see break 100k likes are extremely left wing political takes (and Elon's tweets cause he's almost surely gotten him to be artificially pushed in the algorithm). I've seen theories that there's like botting happening on those posts, and it kinda seems likely given how little real interaction they get.
- _bin_ 2y agoi notice the same thing. there are a handful of big rw accounts i've muted and no longer see but big lwers there always seem to be more. i also muted musk but periodically find my account has magically re-followed him, so i concur that there's almost certainly a special case in the code that artificially boosts/follows him.
- irelephant 2y agoThe algo is designed to surface accounts you may like to follow. Hence, its called "discover". You may enjoy a custom feed more.
- irelephant 2y agoIts like a hydra - more weird accounts pop up despite me blocking every one similar and pressing "not interested". Never had a similar problem on Bluesky.