Depends who you follow mate. Follow the right people for what your interested in and it can be good
Elon Musk | Owner of X and right wing man-child
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Depends who you follow mate. Follow the right people for what your interested in and it can be good
It is the primary source of news for a large amount of people. Social media is what you make of it. Follow dickheads and of course it will be awful. Follow people who you find interesting and it is engaging. Just blindly putting something down as “cesspit” is just silly really
What the hell? Just 600 posts a day one can read!
Seems like he wants to kill advertising as a revenue model completely.
It is one thing for him to blow his own money on this bizarre misadventure but what the feck are banks who gave him the loans are doing?
Right, isn't that basically just setting a cap on how much money advertisers can make? If Twitter is losing money from people using Twitter a lot, it's just dead. Immediately.
He’s such a fecking cnut.
With all due respect you sound like someone that's heard of twitter and not someone that actually uses it.
I follow my friends, like minded people, football update accounts, world news journalist, local news, car accounts, anime community, photography accounts and I get immense joy and use out of the app.
I met my wife of ten years on the app. It's a cesspool for people that want it to be a cesspool
My 600 were only through fabrizio romano i reckon
Though if you venture into the replies to people who are interesting and engaging, you are much more likely to find far-right trolls. Before the replies to those accounts often added information or nuance, now it's very nearly 100% useless shit. And it's a deliberate decision by Musk, obviously.
That was pre-Elon twitter. Now its a cesspool of alt right sad acts who pay $8 a month to boost their voices.
Thus far I wasn't that impacted by Musk's changes, I guess staying out of the American bubble and not clicking on trends helped a lot, but fecking hell this was basically a kill-switch for the platform. Even if they remove this rather quickly, you have to assume it will be coming back.
I don't have thsi alt right issue. All I see on my feed is friends family football car stuff and news
This will be the watershed now. I'm already using less and less
Both depend who you follow. In fact I’d go as to say at least on Twitter you can control exactly what you see from individual people you choose to follow whereas on Reddit you cannot control what you see from others subscribed to the same subreddit as you. Either are fine when you curate your own content though.
Twitter is great for football news, and just being in that space. Same for a lot of other events really, you get a sense of a lot of people experiencing something together. There’s a big “pigeon in the assembly hall” energy to it which is always fun.
So, I checked out the trend on this very subject, limited views.
Clicked on the trend, clicked on a couple of the tweets, now I have exceeeded my limit.
So it must count everything loaded, whether you read it or not.
In that situation, even the paid accounts are going to run out pretty quickly. This won't last the weekend.
I'm also almost certain it wasn't intentional, and this is the idiot covering for a feck up. They always announce these things beforehand, limts came in and it as 4 hours later before he made that tweet.
Clicked on the trend, clicked on a couple of the tweets, now I have exceeeded my limit.
So it must count everything loaded, whether you read it or not.
In that situation, even the paid accounts are going to run out pretty quickly. This won't last the weekend.
I'm also almost certain it wasn't intentional, and this is the idiot covering for a feck up. They always announce these things beforehand, limts came in and it as 4 hours later before he made that tweet.
Seriously? See the attached image on the tweet.
It's similar to youtube, if you go down a rabbit hole of certain topics the algorithm will promote that stuff more. Also there is a "following" tab that makes you only see things u follow.
I can't see how their new lame duck CEO wont just quit. This is like an idea that a not very bright junior/intern engineer would suggest before being laughed out of the room. Pretty remarkable if your are a senior technical figure still working at Twitter, and you have to contain yourself on a daily basis to pull your hair out in desperation and constantly imagining how you scream to your manchild boss to shut the feck up. Or just bitch slap him batman comic style.
Big organisations and 'influencers' that drive traffic and generate the most engagement want big audiences. If so many people can't see most of what they post it stops becoming a terribly attractive platform, surely?
Surely there can't be many left who still think this man is a self-made genius?
I wonder what that new CEO thinks of all this privately.
I wonder what that new CEO thinks of all this privately.
this part is so fun for me. Watching an f1 race while my other friends on twitter are doing so is fantastic. Same with Emmies or a season finale of a big series like GOT etc. Anyway that's all ruined now
can't see it
Don't have this problem really. It's not that hard to adjust what my FYP shows me. It's mainly sports, people I follow, anime, movies and TV, mainstream news and funny posts.
I only really have to deal with blue checks who are in the replies to viral posts and such. The T-shirt bots being the worst.
It already stopped being a "terribly" attractive platform long ago. Now it's just a terrible unattractive platform.
Just looked at it and it seems to count threads on your main page AND replies in them amongst the 600, whether you click on them or not. Absolutely ridiculous implementation of a pathetic new "feature"
I haven't given a shit about anything he has done since buying twitter. But a limit on the posts you can see per day (especially with the how much crap is posted about any issues) feels like the beginning of the end of a great platform
This has to be the worst thing he's done, this benefits nobody. Is there an exception to the rule?
It might be time to review posting tweets on the caf.
It might be time to review posting tweets on the caf.
Wouldn't be hard to see 600 posts in am hour when there is big news
Musk is such a loserJoe Biden's official account was also struck with that silly limit.
Did they put a limit on how many threads you can make per day btw.
yeah ive been thinking its some feck up like this that he’s just lied about and/or panickly made some last ditch policy like this to cover it up
Its just another milestone in making Twitter paywalled he’s been flirting with the idea for a long time. Gambling on the fact the addicts will pay. Pretty sure lot will but the trouble wouldn’t be keeping hold of the consumers but the producers. Why post anything when reach is so low?
At the moment, you don't even need to "see" them. It's counting replies, even if you don't click on a post
I think Musk would like me
Surely paywall is the future of social media
What a donkey. Glad I deactivated my account when he took over.
I think that much was pretty obvious, since it happened on a weekend and without prior announcement.
I’m actually surprised that Twitter are using cloud infrastructure. It’s fantastic at scaling so it’s fantastic for startups that want to achieve growth but once you reach a certain size with a lot of traffic it becomes really really fecking expensive at that scale which is why most large tech companies end up investing in their own infrastructure before that point.
Can’t remember who said it but the jist was: “you have world class writers, comedians, comics, celebrities, scientists, engineers, the list goes on… all producing content on your product for free which generates billions of views and billions in ad revenue and some genius decides to put a pay gate in the middle of that and break the entire system?”