Re:X Is Reportedly Selling Inactive Usernames for $50k
by GuB-42 on Sunday November 05, 2023 @10:00PM
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Since you follow so many accounts, did you notice some of them closing or turning inactive?
Re:X Is Reportedly Selling Inactive Usernames for $50k
by TranquilMarmot on Monday November 06, 2023 @12:49AM
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Not really, but it seems like Twitter's recommendation engine tends to skew to a few hundred accounts/topics that I interact with the most. If something like 10-15% of accounts I follow just stopped posting, I wouldn't even notice (in fact, that might be the case!). It doesn't seem any less active than it did before Musk took over.
The big change since he took over is that now I have to block a dozen or so people every day who are just on the opposite end of who I would ever want to interact with. Not just politically, but people actively seeking to be harmful to others in one way or another. Before that, I went 14 years of using Twitter daily and had only blocked a few spam accounts.
I have yet to find another social media site that brings all of that together in a nice, "streaming" kind of way. Reddit (where I'm subscribed to ~1k subreddits) is _almost_ as good but visiting Reddit is only really interesting once or twice a day because of the nature of their algorithm. TikTok is honestly pretty close to having a mix of art and programming, but the video format isn't as information dense as text.
Twitter keeps me coming back somehow.