[giobox]

While I think the app and service has gotten much worse in several ways post-Elon, I do see way less crypto spam than before FWIW. The "For You" tab now actually sometimes even surfaces tweets I'm interested in too now.

Performance and general stability has absolutely fallen for me though, and the launch of the DeSantis campaign on Twitter was a technical embarrassment/disaster as far as I could tell.

[kentm]

For me, the Twitter Blue boost has really led to a general drop in quality. I find that Blue subscribers typically don't say valuable things and are some of the most uninteresting people on the app, and yet they get boosted right to the top.

[davidbarker]

My experience is the same. Look at any POTUS or White House tweet (or a tweet from any well-known left-of-centre account) and it's reply after reply full of vitriol and hate, all pushed to the top.

It's remarkable, and sad.

[tracker1]

To be fair, it's the same for any right-of-center account as well. The vitriolic are engaging with opposition as much as anyone. It definitely plays in both directions.

My own take, is I'd like to see the establishment sellouts pushed out at far greater and faster rates, even though I don't necessarily agree with many positions, I don't like the corporatist sellouts and most politicians reach that point within a single term of federal office. There are grassroots efforts in both D & R camps to do just that.

That doesn't even get into the deep establishment in terms of Military Industrial Complex or Pharma/Food revolving doors in place. It's kind of gross. It's honestly at a point, that even if I'm in favor of more Libertarian solutions, while others want Socialism, most can agree, the establishment needs to go first, then can debate on longer term reforms.

[giobox]

Agreed, this is a very fair point. I'm also sad at the voices that have been lost one way or another through this transition.

[tracker1]

I tend to prefer the "Following" tab for the most part... yeah, you may miss some tweets, but at least what I see are more of what/who I care to see.

[rsynnott]

This was inevitable, and anyone who had ever used social media could have told him that it was a _terrible_ idea. In general, people who have to pay for attention, almost by definition aren't worth paying attention to.

[iudqnolq]

My For You tab is excellent. But as to the rest I have to disagree. I get the same number of spam DMs, and I don't see better replies to big accounts. They are real people, but they're tiny follower and accounts who aren't relevant but paid for blue.

[chatmasta]

I agree the For You tab is quite good, and is certainly better than the "recommended" tab was pre-acquisition. I wouldn't normally like being a "reply guy," but the For You tab ensures that even with hardly any followers, I can get targeted engagement when posting a reply on an extremely niche subject like package.json exports or iptables. And in turn, the algorithm responds by showing me more of that content in the future. That's the sort of positive feedback loop I appreciate, and one that will encourage more people like me (< 200 followers) to engage with Twitter.

However, it also seems to interpret "hate viewing" as "high interest" in terms of engagement. Sometimes I'll look at an account just one time, often by searching for it, in order to see some Tweet that's in the news or generating controversy. And then a few days later I'll start seeing Tweets from similar accounts in the "for you" tab, which I definitely don't want to see.

On other websites with recommendation algorithms, like YouTube, I can avoid this effect by viewing ragebait content in an incognito window, effectively curating my algorithm by opting out of it for content I don't want affecting future recommendations. But I can't do that with Twitter, because the login wall requires authentication to view more than the top three replies to a tweet. I wish there were some way to give the algorithm more intentional feedback on its recommendations.

[chimeracoder]

> While I think the app and service has gotten much worse in several ways post-Elon, I do see way less crypto spam than before FWIW

Cryptocurrency spam has declined simply because the cryptocurrency markets have tanked.

Overall spam is way, way worse than before, and it's shockingly low-effort. My DMs are absolutely useless - just chock full of obvious bot accounts who want to "date" me and just need me to click a link first.

I used to get one of those every few months, rare enough that it would surprise me. Since December or so, I've been getting multiple every day.

EDIT: In the one minute it's been since I wrote this comment, I just received yet another.

[tracker1]

I just block any follows or messages from obvious bots... it's a low signal, but with enough doing the same, it's better. I do wish there was a separate "block spammer/scammer" button as well, as trying to report anything is just frustrating. VS blocking someone I find toxic to interact with imo, shouldn't negatively effect them nearly as much as an account that's a scammer/spammer.

[kgwxd]

Elon put a dogecoin logo in place of the twitter logo. It's the most obnoxious crypto spam imaginable next to projecting a logo of it on the moon. The reason for other crypto spam falling is because they're competitors. Same thing he did with substack.