Community notes existed way before Musk, FWIW.

Never saw one until he took over

It was in beta for a limited number of users exclusively in the US, but it certainly already existed before he took over. The feature was announced as "Birdwatch" at the beginning of 2021, Elons only contribution was renaming it to "Community Notes" and, if we're generous, getting it out of beta, but that probably would have happened anyway.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introduci...

You being unaware of history is not the same as that history not existing.

It is if that history is called "community notes" and the idea of it is to widely disseminate facts on Twitter.

If I never saw one as a daily user, they didn't exist, or didn't work.

I used to have a lot of fun reading Twitter while watching eurovision.

It's way worse now. It may be less content. Or it's showing me less relevant content. Or it may be due to eurovision apperatly dropping hashtags from onscrean promotion.

But the end result is, it's worse.

Weird I have same relevant content.

I used to be addicted to Twitter, checking it 10+ times a day at the very least. Now the content I get is awful, and I only end up there whenever I follow someone else's link :/

I don’t get why people complain about the content they get on Twitter. Curate carefully who you follow, only follow people who stick to a topic of interest and don’t intermix pics of their dinner or other random BS.

Then change the option at the top of your timeline from “For You” to “Following” to only see posts from people you follow. Voila, now you get decent content that’s of interest to you.

I follow a few folks writing on war in Ukraine, but since maybe Nov-Dec they all disappeared from page, and I have to go all the way to the bottom of the barrel to see anything tangentially related. Only after the algo was released I understood that was a decision by Elon, for whatever reason...

Except you know when the people I used to follow for interesting content abandoned the platform in all the turmoil.

If there’s no one on Twitter you find worth following, then of course don’t use it anymore.

yeah except now when you do that (which I have), you get a list of boosted blue checks under every tweet that are just banal and dumb.

right click name-> mute

I don’t have time to babysit intellectual toddlers. I just moved on to a different app

click name-> mute

It’s possible it changed. It’s also possible you interpreted all the news about Twitter and your view of it changed.

Regardless, welcome to the real world. It’s not so bad sometimes. :)

So fun much scrolling past all the blue check morons at the top of all the replies to any popular post. No changes at all.

Twitter isn't doomed. But rumors are that it is even more of a money pit than before, now that numerous advertisers have left the platform or reduced their spending.

The hiring of a mass media ad-exec seems to support the validity of those rumors.

> I've noticed zero difference as a too-frequent daily user.

I assumed this was how it would go for me too, but after the change to elevate tweets and replies by blue check accounts I actually stopped using it because now, every time I look at it, it's just an orgy of the dullest and most ignorant and intellectually dishonest people in the world posting the worst crap I've ever seen. Last time I checked twitter.com the tweet at the top of my timeline was somebody "questioning" whether a recent mass shooter's multiple tattoos of nazi iconography could reasonably be interpreted to mean that he was in fact some flavor of neo-nazi. And so on and so forth.

I don't follow any of these fucking people! and I don't want to see this shit. It's absolutely soul-draining.

I'm sure there are plenty of people who'll say I'm using Twitter wrong, blah blah, whatever. I don't really care—all I know is I was enjoying using it in the way its UX encouraged me to use it and now it's horrible and I've stopped, probably for good. I do wonder how many others had/are having a similar experience.

I completely stopped using the app after his choice to elevate blue check replies instead of relevant ones. The app genuinely made me angry and it felt like my curation was pointless, especially since it would keep feeding me drivel from people I didn't follow