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Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by _8j50 »

They need contests, lotteries and the ability to offer services. They are struggling to grow and monetize. Twitter is a public venue, they need to give people what they want. It's the modern bazaar market except they are not letting people exchange goods and services. Imagine tweeting a pic of something you want to sell and someone pays you (like venmo,cashapp and all) to your handle. Escrow, reputation,etc... managed by twitter.

Imagine donald trump being able to sell his funny red hats to his angry followers. Or the powerball lottery except they buy from twitter and its open to the planet!

I am just saying, they have the money, the tech to get around legalities and the lawyers to skirt it exist.

Either way, to answer the question: new boss. @Jack left.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by greenyoda »

blueflow wrote: post #16
greenyoda wrote: post #7

The "uBlock Origin" browser extension blocks Twitter's login prompt and enables you to read posts without logging in.

The default rules don't do it for me. Does it need some custom rules?

It doesn't need custom rules, but there are a variety of filter sets available on the "Filter lists" configuration page which may not be enabled by default. (Try enabling the filters under the "Annoyances" category.)

But first, make sure all the filters are updated (click the "Update Now" button on the filters page if it's enabled).

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by TekMol »

jessfyi wrote: post #18
TekMol wrote: post #15

I think this is one reason why "web3", social media with a decentralized storage layer, could become a thing. As a user, when I tweet something, I do want the whole world to be able to read it. Without logging in. Ideally via the interface of their choice. Orbis is a proof of concept: https://orbis.club/ A Twitter clone that stores the tweets on Arweave.

Nothing about this requires blockchain. There are plenty of Twitter archive sites like nitter.net that are not only open source, but also have plenty[0] of distributed instances on good old "web 2" [0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

Nitter can only archive (and update) data Twitter allows them to access.

For example, you cannot see who liked a Tweet on Nitter.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by YEwSdObPQT »

I am not sure what happend to twitter. However if you just want to browser twitter you can use a nitter instance (there are quite a few public instances).

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

I use browser plugin that redirects me to nitter when clicking a twitter link.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nitter-redirect/mo...

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by thanatos519 »

greenyoda wrote: post #7

The "uBlock Origin" browser extension blocks Twitter's login prompt and enables you to read posts without logging in.

I installed "uBlock Origin" and still get a modal login interruption when I scroll down on Twitter.

At least this will take a bit of load off my pihole :)

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by zaptheimpaler »

Investors pushed in a new CEO/management to optimize for profit per user now that the days of never-ending user growth in social media are over.

In growth mode, investors hand out free candy to companies, companies hand out free candy to you. In consolidation mode, investors want their candy (+ returns) back, so companies start taking away your candy until they determine the minimum users will accept. Many such cases.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by toyg »

cloutchaser wrote: post #20
pjc50 wrote: post #14

> I thought courts already decided in the US that the public has a right to access official government communications on social media [citation needed] Twitter is kind of disintegrating, though. They've hit a growth plateau, the users are really fractious, management doesn't understand what they want out of it, and it's the venue for social strife.

It's truly amazing how despite all this twitter is as successful as it is. Something about _very important people_ sharing their thoughts in 140/280 characters really is the addictive nicotine of the human attention span.

It is suffering though. Hollywood has largely moved to Instagram. What is left on Twitter is musicians and politicians, with their toxic communities. If musicians manage to find a better outlet, Twitter will become unable to escape the stigma of being the cesspool of humanity.

Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

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Post by toyg »

kybernetyk wrote: post #27

On my machines twitter got blocked. That's what happened to twitter. At least for me. It's a terrible website. Character limit leads to terribly shallow discussions that still need to be split into multiple posts. It's a dumb medium of exchange.

Yeah I've dropped it too. It's full of terrible people looking for excuses to abuse people, awful wannabe comedians making terrible jokes, and never-ending bitching. If FB and Instagram are where people go to show off, Twitter is where people go to moan, whine, and fight. No thanks.
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