Is Twitter/X getting a gender bias?

Informally, yes.

I'm spending a lot less time on the site formerly known as Twitter, and every time I return it feels ... urgh.

But this is entirely anecdotal.

It tends to be the case that most of Elon Musk’s audience are men impressed by his brazen attitude and experiencing his “wins” as their own. They’re also those buying the blue checks, hence you see them on top of every list of comments and in your “for you” timeline. Twitter’s algorithm itself likely has no gender bias. But Elon Musk’s improvised marketing strategy does, intentionally or not.

It’s interesting how easy it is to bury a ton of good content below this toxic fan base and the clickbait engagement grifts and scambots. There are dozens of millions of people posting genuinely intelligent, high quality links and content on Twitter, I’m sure of it. But you’ll never find them anymore. This creates a self reinforcing loop of them becoming less active and even less visible until they have no reason to open the app anymore.

I see tweet views that are approximately 1% of my followers. This seems highly abnormal. It didn’t use to be the case a year ago.