This article is so bizarre compared to my personal experience.
> If you’re on Twitter today, you’re likely experiencing an app that is more frequently broken
I'm not, I used to get loading issues all the time in years past, not anymore.
> more random
More random ads, but actually less stuff I don't want.
> and more unhinged
The day after Elon sent all those people home to let them know if they were fired, I never got the political stuff anymore, just the content I was interacting with all along, which happens to be photography and art.
> Many users are complaining about seeing more content in the new For You feed that they don’t want to see.
I scrolled through mine, literally only photography stuff if you ignore the ads.
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The problem is, Musk’s plan doesn’t seem to be working as well as he’s saying. Twitter’s web traffic dropped by nearly 8 percent last month compared to the year before, and has been dropping for the past three months year over year, according to new estimates from data intelligence firm SimilarWeb. This directly contradicts Musk’s claims that usage is up.
I don't think that's a contradiction because similarweb doesn't measure app usage.
My photography interactions have only increased since last year too...
Yeah I noticed that the home timeline improved drastically literally the very first day that the layoffs started. My tweets also started getting more attention. They also used to push Euphoria (and other celeb gossip) content a lot, no matter how many related words I muted it still found a way back into my TL.
All of this stopped immediately after the takeover.
I think it's pretty obvious now that the employees were spending a lot of time directly "curating" recommendations (if not just boosting their own tweets or friends tweets).
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> MySpace still exists but you wouldn't call it alive.
Mastodon still exists and with ~50,000 users using it every day for 7 years globally, is something that I would not call 'alive'.
I would call it dead and has failed to 'take off'.
> If you’re on Twitter today, you’re likely experiencing an app that is more frequently broken
I'm not, I used to get loading issues all the time in years past, not anymore.
> more random
More random ads, but actually less stuff I don't want.
> and more unhinged
The day after Elon sent all those people home to let them know if they were fired, I never got the political stuff anymore, just the content I was interacting with all along, which happens to be photography and art.
> Many users are complaining about seeing more content in the new For You feed that they don’t want to see.
I scrolled through mine, literally only photography stuff if you ignore the ads.
> The problem is, Musk’s plan doesn’t seem to be working as well as he’s saying. Twitter’s web traffic dropped by nearly 8 percent last month compared to the year before, and has been dropping for the past three months year over year, according to new estimates from data intelligence firm SimilarWeb. This directly contradicts Musk’s claims that usage is up.
I don't think that's a contradiction because similarweb doesn't measure app usage.
My photography interactions have only increased since last year too...
I think it's pretty obvious now that the employees were spending a lot of time directly "curating" recommendations (if not just boosting their own tweets or friends tweets).