[anigbrowl]

Inaccurate. Musk stated that people you follow will continue to show up. I only use the 'for you' feed when I'm bored and want stupid dopamine hits, I leave it on Following almost all the time. But that's on desktop, my understanding it that it keeps resetting itself for mobile users (of whom I am not one).

[astrange]

He only said that later; he seems to be working on a "say we'll do feature and then change it all after people yell at him for weeks" process.

[mgiannopoulos]

Sounds like moving fast and adjusting to user feedback, usually something commendable in tech, right?

[KerrAvon]

No. There's an implied willingness to listen to people in the first place when you're agile in response to feedback. You shouldn't have to bruise Elon's ego to get him to do not-stupid things.

[AmericanChopper]

This distinction you’re making relies entirely upon how you personally interpret the motives of the people involved. An interpretation that you’ve entirely invented for yourself.

[astrange]

Approximately every US news organization and Lebron James announced they weren't going to pay for checkmarks yesterday, so he announced a surprise twist where the top 10,000 famous people get free checkmarks.

…so he's now not charging people who can pay, while charging people less able to pay.

Though, the main problem is that Twitter is about as big in Japan as it is in the US, but Elon only thinks about US culture wars because his only friends are a few VCs and a retired postal worker crank named catturd2. So none of his new ideas are going to work there.

[AmericanChopper]

Criticizing somebody by speculating about their motives really only reflects badly upon you, especially if you’re going to accompany it with that much hyperbole. All you’re communicating is that you’ve replaced your ability to reason about a topic with some version of the fundamental attribution error.

> the main problem is that Twitter is about as big in Japan as it is in the US

It’s not even close. When you account for the value of ad impressions, the US market is worth about 3.5x its next biggest market (Japan), and it drops off very sharply after that. You can argue that Twitter’s policies should be less US-centric. But the reason they are that way in the first place is because the US market is their most valuable market by a long shot.

[npunt]

More like rewarding someone for putting out a fire that they started. Not exactly a model of good governance.

[mgiannopoulos]

Musk said from day one of his Twitter purchase that there will be mistakes. Move fast and break things as that other guy said. :)

[cdash]

I have had it reset a couple times on mobile a few months ago but at least recently I have not noticed it happening anymore.

[oneeyedpigeon]

Just pressing the home icon twice takes it back to For You.

[mwill]

Which is incredibly annoying, as it used to scroll you to the latest tweets, I have years of muscle memory for hitting the home button