I checked out from Twitter mid-summer, and have used it maybe twice or three times since. It’s so much better NOT using it! I miss some of the conversations, but I can find my connections elsewhere. HN is my only social media now.
I only read tweets from (self) currated lists of science / institutional Twitter accounts that provided great content or ideas (random examples: ESA, Ken Sheriff, Brian Krebs, Blender etc). The fundamental change was switching over to the "latest" feed instead of "top". This skips all the inflamatory and political drama-lama stuff that is (almost) never relevant in the long term (and if it is, it will be reported els…
What I find interesting about Twitter hatred is that it is all related to the platform slowly shifting towards not engaging in politically one-sided censorship and cancellation. That's it. Nothing else. Call it freedom of speech if you must. This continues to expose the holes in an ideology that purports to be for A and it is nearly always for B in almost everything they say. Pick any area A, listen to what they clai…
> What I find interesting about Twitter hatred is that it is all related to the platform slowly shifting towards not engaging in politically one-sided censorship and cancellation. That's it. Nothing else. Call it freedom of speech if you must.
Are you stating that Elon’s behaviors since owning the platform has been neutral and not one sided? I feel like the Paul pelosi tweet, unbanning nazis, and hunter Biden hype has shown that not to be the case.
Call it freedom of speech you say… is that what the continual ban of Alex Jones is and rebanning of Ye shows?
What I find interesting about Twitter hatred is that it is all related to the platform slowly shifting towards not engaging in politically one-sided censorship and cancellation. That's it. Nothing else. Call it freedom of speech if you must. This continues to expose the holes in an ideology that purports to be for A and it is nearly always for B in almost everything they say. Pick any area A, listen to what they clai…
Personally, I’m hating on Twitter because a) Musk is a narcissistic asshole and my tolerance for those types has plummeted since 2016, and b) the American right loves to whine about being censored while breaking all sorts of rules and norms, and generally acting like complete sociopaths. There is no “balance” to be had with an ideology that spews hate and lies, and gleefully supports taking power by whatever means necessary, even if it happens to make up half of the voting population. If the other side were full of Liz Cheneys instead of Trumpists, that would be a different story. But American conservatism has morphed into something completely decrepit over the last decade, and there is nothing unfair about platforms disproportionately moderating it into the ground — simply because it has a disproportionate share of rule breakers.
Other than a bunch of people complaining about how Twitter is changing, I haven't seen any change at all.
A lot of people are complaining about Twitter … on Twitter. Pause and reflect.
I guess, traffic is great. I bet a big fire on a busy street leads to a bunch of gawkers too -- but maybe the restaurant next door is not getting any value from that foot traffic.
In the case of twitter's business model they have lost a projected 300-400MM of ad placements for the forecasted year -- so each of those visitors is consuming cost but twitter is unable to collect the impression charges as the buys are lower than the inventory.
So yeah traffic is great -- but not always profitable (especially when you insist on peeing in the pool).
Literally this. Any examples of what exactly has changed?
They let you browse recommended content and user profiles now without getting a fullscreen "please log in" modal covering the web client, which is nice.
but a huge hit to acquisition AND value add targeted ad impressions (IE expensive impressions). It allows Elon to wave the "hey look at the huge traffic" flag around while self sabotaging the business model further.
I think more people are realizing, finally, that social media has been completely hollowed out by corporate interests. Actually seeing organic content and conversations in one's timeline seems accidental these days. What point is there in continuing to post when it's clear Twitter will give preferential treatment to paid accounts? FB/IG are no better, they'd prefer you not post text+images at all, but pivot to video…
> insist on a Discord for tech support and discussion Communities moving to discord or slack is really dumb. You lose so much discoverability in favour of real time conversation about a subject that almost always prefers asynchronous communication. Is it just hipster influence run amok? ( shakes fist )
They let you browse recommended content and user profiles now without getting a fullscreen "please log in" modal covering the web client, which is nice.
but a huge hit to acquisition AND value add targeted ad impressions (IE expensive impressions). It allows Elon to wave the "hey look at the huge traffic" flag around while self sabotaging the business model further.
Not really. I didn't have a Twitter account before, and I still don't have one. The only thing that's changed is that I find myself using Twitter more...
What I find interesting about Twitter hatred is that it is all related to the platform slowly shifting towards not engaging in politically one-sided censorship and cancellation. That's it. Nothing else. Call it freedom of speech if you must. This continues to expose the holes in an ideology that purports to be for A and it is nearly always for B in almost everything they say. Pick any area A, listen to what they clai…