How has your experience on Twitter gotten better over the last half year?

And are you sure that you are "The average Twitter user" since I am not even sure what that really means.

people who like elon musk feel better using musk's twitter, so their experience is probably objectively better since he took over.

people who dislike elon musk feel worse using musk's twitter, so their experience is probably objectively worse since he took over.

i really don't think it's much more deep than that.

Personally, my experience remains almost entirely unchanged, so I’ve never really understood what the whole “Twitter is dead” stuff was about.

I am salty about the Twitter API though

My use of twitter has been made worse. There's always a popup nag now to "create an account" where I never had one before

and you cant search without having an account or being logged in.

So Twitter is now like…everyone else? Instagram, Facebook and even Reddit (on mobile) don’t let you see their content without a login prompt either. Yet there are no 100 articles about Reddit dying.

That was there way before Elon. If anything the login spam has been reduced.

As someone who uses mostly to keep up with the progress of AI, the recommended tweets are actually good for a change.

Community notes is a big part of it.

Every popular political thread on there is now a blue-check right-wing echo chamber. I guess if that's your personal political bubble it feels great, but I don't think that's the "average" user.

If this stops every political threads then I’m all for it. It’s weird to me how people were so into it and I had a few friends who became tough to talk to because it was always trying to convey some esoteric (to me) twitter screaming match.

This doesn’t seem like a loss to me as I feel that kind of stuff isn’t only boring to me but kind of worse to have people so angry about politics. So this seems like a positive development to me if it’s now clearly just a right-wing echo chamber that people can now ignore.

I’m not a heavy user and haven’t noticed any changes really, but I never interacted with blue check mark people and always thought it was kind of a lame feature. And is still lame that people can pay for it.

How can we tell if that's not the average user and they are in a bubble, or that is the average user and it's us in a bubble?

Right, that's the propaganda game, to make normies think that these right wing trolls are the average opinion.

Right, that's the propaganda game, to make normies think that these left wing trolls are the average opinion.

Are you a bot?

Are you?

Pay-to-play is better now?

I believe that I represent the average user, and in my opinion, Twitter has become worse than before, especially regarding the comments section. It appears that comments are no longer sorted by relevance, but rather by whether the user has paid for Twitter or not.