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The Slow Goodbye to Twitter

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Re: The Slow Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by bko »

marcinzm wrote: post #32
sqqqqrly wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No one forced you to read Elon.

The question is what changed which in this case Elon shows up on my feed a lot more and his posts are a lot more annoying. And as I said I stopped Twitter to not see his posts. edit: I could block him but then there's the second order posts about his drama with screenshots. Realized I don't care enough about Twitter to bother and prefer a calmer life.

> The question is what changed which in this case Elon shows up on my feed a lot more and his posts are a lot more annoying. And as I said I stopped Twitter to not see his posts.

His follower count grew by ~70% so far this year (from an already high number). His engagement numbers are also very high. It would be weird if he didn't show up more on your feed.

https://www.speakrj.com/audit/report/elonmusk/twitter/summar...

> edit: I could block him but then there's the second order posts about his drama with screenshots. Realized I don't care enough about Twitter to bother and prefer a calmer life.

You can use advanced twitter mutes to block words and hashtags

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-m...

Re: The Slow Goodbye to Twitter

#62

Post by guerrilla »

lzooz wrote: post #55
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An idea that's illegal in parts of the world.

Not in the US, where Twitter is located.

You're missing the point. Twitter can't operate in those places where it is illegal if they keep that stuff on there. They want to, so he's gone.

Re: The Slow Goodbye to Twitter

#63

Post by lapcat »

aschearer wrote: post #60

All these people saying "social media is bad" -- are doing so on social media... Is it so hard to imagine for some Twitter may have filled a role similar to Hacker News? Personally, I got lots of value from Twitter, following people in the game development community. Now that's moving into various silos that are hard to find, disconnected from one another. I'll miss how it was just like I miss TIGSource and how I'll…

> All these people saying "social media is bad" -- are doing so on social media

The link is to a blog post, not to social media.

Re: The Slow Goodbye to Twitter

#64

Post by aschearer »

lapcat wrote: post #63
aschearer wrote: post #60

All these people saying "social media is bad" -- are doing so on social media... Is it so hard to imagine for some Twitter may have filled a role similar to Hacker News? Personally, I got lots of value from Twitter, following people in the game development community. Now that's moving into various silos that are hard to find, disconnected from one another. I'll miss how it was just like I miss TIGSource and how I'll…

> All these people saying "social media is bad" -- are doing so on social media The link is to a blog post, not to social media.

I'm referring to our fellow HN'ers in this thread.

Re: The Slow Goodbye to Twitter

#65

Post by [deleted] »

bko wrote: post #61
marcinzm wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The question is what changed which in this case Elon shows up on my feed a lot more and his posts are a lot more annoying. And as I said I stopped Twitter to not see his posts. edit: I could block him but then there's the second order posts about his drama with screenshots. Realized I don't care enough about Twitter to bother and prefer a calmer life.

> The question is what changed which in this case Elon shows up on my feed a lot more and his posts are a lot more annoying. And as I said I stopped Twitter to not see his posts. His follower count grew by ~70% so far this year (from an already high number). His engagement numbers are also very high. It would be weird if he didn't show up more on your feed. https://www.speakrj.com/audit/report/elonmusk/twitter/summar…

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Re: The Slow Goodbye to Twitter

#66

Post by ghusto »

I _started_ using again Twitter after 6 years, when all this drama started (don't ask why, I don't have an answer).

Here's what I've noticed has changed:

1) It's fun again! Not at all in the same way as back in the first year, but in a commercial way, like TV or something

2) It's best enjoyed if you just go ahead and smash that block button whenever you encounter someone pushing an agenda. I have certain political leanings, but I'm happy to bring out my block-gun even for people who lean with me. I simply don't want that kind of heaviness trying to be discussed in a mob-ruled short message format. Many reasonable views are also unpopular or unfashionable

3) It's no longer about hearing from your friends or people you picked. Guess this is a result of point (1), but what you see seems to be _only_ what the algorithm knows you want to see, which is a real shame

Re: The Slow Goodbye to Twitter

#67

Post by rvz »

Twitter always has been a rage factory before the Musk takeover and I already created and closed my account on the same day after trying it before many years ago. It is still an outrage machine.

It is not just Twitter that is the problem, it is the entirety of social networks that are outrage machines, and the solution is not replacing it or joining one that is worse than Twitter.

> If a good thing comes out of this whole Twitter chaos, I hope that people return to smaller communities.

This is the reason why Twitter, etc isn't going anywhere due to its central ease of discovery, no matter how bad the outrage machine is on there. This is what the author fails to realise and the journalists still can't stop using it and linking Tweets, since their audience is still there.

> stop caring so much about building an audience and learn to connect authentically again.

Yet in order for the author and other journalists to monetize their articles and get more eyeballs, they need an audience, hence the reason why many of them need to use Twitter to advertise and grift their Substack newsletter(s). [0]

The immediate collapse of Twitter has been greatly exaggerated by the past few weeks by a very small subset of angry screeching voices and doomsters.

[0] https://twitter.com/rosiesherry/status/1599063645320671232

Re: The Slow Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by lzooz »

guerrilla wrote: post #62
lzooz wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not in the US, where Twitter is located.

You're missing the point. Twitter can't operate in those places where it is illegal if they keep that stuff on there. They want to, so he's gone.

No, Twitter has been censoring tweets and entire accounts in specific countries for years. They could have done that.

https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/help-twitter...

Re: The Slow Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by lapcat »

rvz wrote: post #67

Twitter always has been a rage factory before the Musk takeover and I already created and closed my account on the same day after trying it before many years ago. It is still an outrage machine. It is not just Twitter that is the problem, it is the entirety of social networks that are outrage machines, and the solution is not replacing it or joining one that is worse than Twitter. > If a good thing comes out of this…

> This is what the author fails to realise

The author made no predictions about the future of Twitter. Literally: "I have no idea what will come next."

Also: "I’m not closing my accounts(s) down, but I definitely care less and will be posting less. even if that habit is hard to break."

Re: The Slow Goodbye to Twitter

#70

Post by nickthegreek »

aschearer wrote: post #64
lapcat wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> All these people saying "social media is bad" -- are doing so on social media The link is to a blog post, not to social media.

I'm referring to our fellow HN'ers in this thread.

You consider HN social media? I guess in a very liberal interpretation… but not by the mainstream definition.
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