Agree with all this but another area that's really degraded is the comments. It used to be that when you clicked on a tweet there was a good chance the top tweets under it were either informative or amusing. Now they are just endless drivel by people who paid $8.
I'm just a news follower and I have relied on twitter to be the best source of breaking news and insight and that quality is definitely gone. Very disappointing. I still see most of the people I follow if I look for them but many are gone or they don't get fed to me with any regularity.
I haven’t used Twitter regularly since about December, but decided Friday was a good time to Wade back into the cesspool. I hate that the completely useless FOR YOU nonsense opens first, but I must report that I am extremely grateful that all of the people I’ve followed since last February were still there tweeting and live updating events as they unfolded.
It's still better than anywhere else for finding useful analysis in a breaking news environment, but my lord how the user experience continues to degrade, week after week after week... As professor Drezner says, there's no way it can continue on this trajectory without getting usurped sooner or later.
I've heard really good things about BlueSky, but I'm still on the waitlist to try it. Definitely sounds like a better environment that only lacks the network effects Twitter still enjoys.
Agree with all this but another area that's really degraded is the comments. It used to be that when you clicked on a tweet there was a good chance the top tweets under it were either informative or amusing. Now they are just endless drivel by people who paid $8.
I relied on the old-timey media (BBC, CNN) for updates. Better credible information delayed a few minutes than up-to-the-second garbage.
I'm just a news follower and I have relied on twitter to be the best source of breaking news and insight and that quality is definitely gone. Very disappointing. I still see most of the people I follow if I look for them but many are gone or they don't get fed to me with any regularity.
It seems the worry is that Blue Checkmarks aren't commanding the same influence they used to.
I haven’t used Twitter regularly since about December, but decided Friday was a good time to Wade back into the cesspool. I hate that the completely useless FOR YOU nonsense opens first, but I must report that I am extremely grateful that all of the people I’ve followed since last February were still there tweeting and live updating events as they unfolded.
3 cheers for a curated feed!
It's still better than anywhere else for finding useful analysis in a breaking news environment, but my lord how the user experience continues to degrade, week after week after week... As professor Drezner says, there's no way it can continue on this trajectory without getting usurped sooner or later.
I agree that it was still better than BlueSky this weekend. I'm less certain that will be true if the latter site starts scaling up more.
I've heard really good things about BlueSky, but I'm still on the waitlist to try it. Definitely sounds like a better environment that only lacks the network effects Twitter still enjoys.