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Who else would still want to advertise on twitter?
I don’t understand why people even use twitter at all at this point.
Bubbles, my friend.
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#12Are we violating TOS by using this?
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#13As Twitter and Reddit were going user-hostile past the point of no return last year I fought it for a while with actions like these. But eventually giving up and ditching them completely was unavoidable and, in hindsight, freeing.
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#15I miss tweetdeck... maybe not $8/mo miss, but maybe 9.99/yr miss it
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I don’t understand why people even use twitter at all at this point.
Addiction to scrolling
That’s probably not it. I still have Twitter because the people I follow are on there (mostly music artists). I’ve never opened the algorithmic feed. There is also a huge chance that much of the activity you see are bots. I have 0 posts and 2000 followers somehow. No way they’re human
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Addiction to scrolling
That’s probably not it. I still have Twitter because the people I follow are on there (mostly music artists). I’ve never opened the algorithmic feed. There is also a huge chance that much of the activity you see are bots. I have 0 posts and 2000 followers somehow. No way they’re human
It's not it for you, but it sounds like you are more of an edge case. I think it is true for a lot of people.
I don't see any activity myself, I don't use Twitter any more. I had an addiction which peaked with the UK 2019 election and I had to quit after that. It's an awful drug which gives no high and terrible side effects.
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#18I miss tweetdeck... maybe not $8/mo miss, but maybe 9.99/yr miss it
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#19As Twitter and Reddit were going user-hostile past the point of no return last year I fought it for a while with actions like these. But eventually giving up and ditching them completely was unavoidable and, in hindsight, freeing.
The same is true of Facebook, Google etc.
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#20If the ads on Twitter were even close to relevant I wouldn't mind just scrolling past them. But every ad I see lately is just right-wing idiocy like PragerU.
>But every ad I see lately is just right-wing idiocy like PragerU.
Any ideas why the algorithm is feeding you those ads?
I agree the ads suck, but I'm mostly getting drop-shipping junk and crypto.