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by Nas808 1081 days ago
I find Twitter really annoying to use now, since they made it so all of the replies from blue checkmark accounts get boosted to the top of the feed. I have to scroll past all of them just to find "normal" comments. The BlueBlocker browser extension is helping, but it can only block 1 account approximately every 15 seconds, or it triggers a rate limit and I have to sign-in to Twitter again.
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Just goes to show you why some startups fail. It's on musk, who is changing Twitter to have the characteristics of a startup that would have failed.

Yes it's enormous and popular now, but that's in spite of musks product vision.

If you use Twitter on the desktop, you can simply hide the blue check tweets. It greatly improves the quality of the content.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-blue-checks/a...

Yeah the replies were always the best part to me. That's destroyed now along with most of my interest in twitter.
You forgot to notice that Twitter has a pure chronological timeline now without any algorithmic recommendations. Surely that will outweigh people with blue checkmarks in the replies.