Indeed. Twitter recently killed off the apps and RSS feeds used by twitter power users. Those users who were likely to post widely viewed content on twitter or those who would embed tweets in news articles.
Very few people produce on any platform. Musk has the value relationship exactly backwards. The creators do get value from twitter, but they generate the bulk of the business value Twitter has and they can easily move to other platforms.
Haven't see any meaninfull problems.
A bit less spam and crap.
Really? Amount of ads is so high, it’s pretty much every 4 tweets. It’s unrecognizable from a year ago
I have noticed annoying add a few time, I deactivated adblock on Twitter to see what they are doing.
Install addblock, you are welcome.
Pretty easy to attract spambots, just mention "metamask instagram account hijack unban sugar daddy glock". There's a lot of other-language spam too, some of it from state actors trying to hide news in the search results.
Re:Substack Notes Launched
by ModernMech on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @04:46PM
(#35531314)
> Musk is the least of my concerns, I can ignore his account if I cared that much.
You really can't tho. Even if you block him, he'll still routinely show up in your timeline when people tweet a jpg of his tweets. Even if you somehow ignore all that, he'll still do random shit like change the Twitter logo to a dog to make sure you don't forget it's his playground, and you're just an NPC in his main character existence.
That wasn't just any dog, that was doge the now mascot and namesake of the cryptocurrency dogecoin of which Musk has been known to pump with memes.
Re:Substack Notes Launched
by ModernMech on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:24PM
(#35533092)
I should have known there was some shallow meaning behind it.
Re:Substack Notes Launched
by brigandish on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:52PM
(#35533733)
What's the deep meaning behind any company's logo? Start with Google, then Facebook and move on.
He's being sued for pumping it too, which makes 4/3 a weird time to run a late April Fool's joke about it.
Re:Substack Notes Launched
by Shekelphile on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:11PM
(#35533836)
You can't actually block Musk's account these days. If you do, his tweets will still be automatically put in your feed.
> higher quality accounts have been interacting less
any source / concrete examples of this? I've asked for this before but all I ever hear are general, sweeping claims without any actual data.
The only reason most larger accounts are still "active" is because nobody wants to have to rebuild elsewhere without strong commitment from platform owners - and outside of Tumblr, nobody has really done that. Except maybe now with Substack, we'll see.