I originally drafted this post to be posted around late January. I had to undergo a surgery in January and ended up finishing it late.
There I’ve finally said it.
I’ve been rooting for Twitter (I refuse to call it by its new name until they stop redirecting to twitter.com when I type in x.com in the browser) to get better under Elon and now I’ve completely given up. I backed Elon and thought he’d improve it. I was wrong.
It’s been buggy. Look at this one for instance –
I have multiple reasons to have lost hope.
Spam
I receive these spam notifications all the time –
I never received these spammy mentions or DMs before. Now it has become so bad.
Quantity over quality
The New Twitter tried to compete with Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube to draw content creators to the platform. For this, they created premium subscriptions. In this process, they made the platform so bad that the emphasis is now on quantity than quality.
Open any random tweet that has over 100 likes and check the replies. It’s filled with random users posting unrelated content to drive up their tweet’s engagement. I find it so annoying seeing people use these lame tactics for their benefit. All the top replies are from other premium users trying to hijack the popularity of that tweet.
Removing limitations
One of the things that I enjoyed about Twitter was its character limit. It forced people to think and articulate better.
Dirty tricks to promote content
Twitter has been begging content creators to post their videos directly on its platform. Mr. Beast finally caved and posted his recent video on it and here’s what happened: https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-mrbeast-video-unlabaled-ads-creator-monetization
To this, Elon responded by saying –
It’s uncharacteristic of him to say “to the best of my knowledge”. Even Mr. Beast was surprised by the number of views he got on the platform.
This is another interesting article about what’s going on – https://www.dexerto.com/tech/twitter-x-is-reportedly-now-worth-70-less-than-elon-musk-paid-for-it-2456003/
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