Musk & Twitter
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@No-Quarter said in Musk & Twitter:
Twitter had some teething issues when Musk took over while they tried to remove all the terrible code and activist bullshit. It's now undoubtedly far superior than it was before, and it's nice that arbitrary bans for incorrect opinions appear to have stopped.
For me, he should focus next on removing the porn accounts and addressing a recent issue where people are posting unrelated stuff in the replies as it takes away from the conversation. I.E. people are tracking viral tweets and just trying to promote their own content in the replies instead of responding to the original post.
I'm a fairly avid Twitter user, although read way more than post (who wants to hear my opinions after all...) and the user experience is way worse now than it was before. The bots were bad but the porn messages and destruction of conversations by prioritising blue tick click bait accounts in replies is painful. I think some of the changes are positive but i'd be hard pushed to describe the overall change as positive. I think Twitter has an identity crisis, its user base has been static for a long time and i don't see how it ever justified its valuation.
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@Dodge I agree with this.
It's also feeling less relevant. I loved how easy Twitter made it to follow news, especially breaking news. Blue ticks actually really helped with that, to establish who you could take seriously (when it came to news) and who you might be able to ignore.
But with a lot of people leaving, and the overhaul of the blue tick model, it's all a bit of a mess right now. And that's before you even get started on the bots.
Hard not to think that it's all just a sad bid for attention/love by a hyper-sensitive billionaire.
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@Dodge said in Musk & Twitter:
@No-Quarter said in Musk & Twitter:
Twitter had some teething issues when Musk took over while they tried to remove all the terrible code and activist bullshit. It's now undoubtedly far superior than it was before, and it's nice that arbitrary bans for incorrect opinions appear to have stopped.
For me, he should focus next on removing the porn accounts and addressing a recent issue where people are posting unrelated stuff in the replies as it takes away from the conversation. I.E. people are tracking viral tweets and just trying to promote their own content in the replies instead of responding to the original post.
I'm a fairly avid Twitter user, although read way more than post (who wants to hear my opinions after all...) and the user experience is way worse now than it was before. The bots were bad but the porn messages and destruction of conversations by prioritising blue tick click bait accounts in replies is painful. I think some of the changes are positive but i'd be hard pushed to describe the overall change as positive. I think Twitter has an identity crisis, its user base has been static for a long time and i don't see how it ever justified its valuation.
I ignore notifications given it's a roll call of fake accounts, but taking the time to curate my feed pays dividends. I'm also not particularly interested in discussions, more long form threads on topics I find interesting.
Often because I follow someone, that leads me to another interesting thread. I'll then see what else that account has to offer and possibly add them to my feed.
Whether some accounts are leaving bothers me not at all - there's a plethora of interesting accounts still engaged. And as to the question of what Musk paid for it, I think at his estimated wealth, you could consider it free.
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Twitter does have a bot problem etc, but on my feeds, where I mute anyone who might possibly annoy me, it's pretty good now. People don't get banned randomly, and I can look up some one I am completely opposed to aswell.
Still blocked by some loser 50 year old Guardian music columnist, after I responded to his claim that "Taylor Swift's new album was as good as anything by Fleetwood Mac" by asking him if he was "still banned from going within 100m of any schools?"
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@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
Same, I have curated lists and have high quality feeds. The old twitter blue checks were not trustworthy, and the discussions people miss are largely responsible for the mess we are in these days.
I think this is just Musk-esque garbage, to be honest.
Blue checks were 'not trustworthy'? Spare me. When news is breaking I want an easy way to distinguish journalists. When I look at an athlete I want to know it's actually that athlete, not just some random imposter. Likewise if it's an elected official. The blue check system was an easy way to make this distinction.
If you wanted to ignore them or think they are untrustworthy that's fine, but at least you could make that decision.
Replacing it with the current system has resulted in an ungodly mess where blue checks now broadly indicate the last people who you actually want to pay attention to. And you don't know who is who.
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It was my understanding that blue checks largely showed ideology, not identity, given the manner in which they were handed out.
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Well Bruce Daisley seemed to agree with me:
Daisley acknowledged that validating certain accounts (with a blue tick) was a mistake. “One of the things we felt we got wrong was verification. The intention was for a badge to say, ‘this is the real one’. What happened over time is that when these people sent things that were egregious and politically offensive, people would say to us, ‘Oh, so you’re endorsing that?’”
Twitter rescinded blue ticks not from accounts shown to be fake, but because people didn't like what the accounts said.
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@barbarian said in Musk & Twitter:
Oh well if Bruce Daisley said it then it must be right.
Who to trust, rando or ex-European vice-president of Twitter?
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Organizations, governments, etc have their own check now, so that’s still possible to use to filter your lists. News organisations are encouraged to subscribe to pass on those checks to their employees.
So easy to spot journalists if that’s what you want to do.
Blues checks are now just subscribers, so if anything there is now a greater ability to differentiate sources.
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@booboo said in Musk & Twitter:
Maybe it's my ideological leanings, but I trust X more nowadays.
Just saying.
The community notes feature is awesome, even turns up on ads (and Elons posts from time to time).
When people that have disagreed in the past agree on something, a note is surfaced. The code behind them is open sourced so people can recreate notes.
It’s fantastic for providing context when people try to misrepresent something or exclude context.
Often includes link to sources so you can do a deep dive on a subject.