What the hell has happened to Twitter ?
Their algorithms on my feed is full of extreme pro -Zionist, anti vax, anti climate change posts. The first one on opening was a thread denying the moon landing.
Not sure if it’s bots, purposely twitter or the platform becoming fucked after they sacked so many people.
I went on Twitter the other day after Scottish First Minister, Humza Yousaf, resigned.
No insight whatsoever. It was a racist bin fire.
Yeah I logged in with an old account to look at some players timeline and made the mistake of clicking on the home page. What was a carefully curated feed of exclusively players, clubs and sports journalists was suddenly extreme hard-right, conspiratorial nonsense.
Its a very intentional choice that comes directly from Elon Musk, who ascribes to their world view.
Somehow these conspiracy theorists, who are all concerned with World Government mind control and Illuminati billionaires have decided that Musk - who was born a billionaire, has said he wants to develop a micro-chip to put in people’s heads, holds multiple government and military contracts and is currently talking about building a base on the dark side of the Moon like a fucking Bond supervillain - is their hero.
You know how you can directly link to Twitter on here? I’ve tried doing it with Threads but it doesn’t seem to work.
What am I doing wrong?
I really want to avoid the Muskverse.
I honestly don’t understand why people use X.
Me neither
Increasingly people don’t. It’s just that it are still some journalists, particularly sports journalists, who use it as their preferred platform.
TBH, it lost any utility when the blue ticks stopped meaning anything.
If they do, they are mindless idiots, and thus not worthy of following anyway.
After the Musk take over, there is one way to use twitter. Switch from “for you” to “following” and follow only relevant experts in fields of interest. Then if a professor or person you trust re-tweet someone else, manually check that account. If knowledgable or if having relevsnt expertise (or interesting for you for other reasons,) , follow if you want more sources.
You will still get some twitter-recomendations, but less. Always click “not interested” on every add by idiots and conspi people always.
That works for me. I still get the odd idiot up because people who I follow may be following him/her (or Musk hell recommendation because too msny ppl read that particular idiot) , but compared to most ppl, my account is clean with only information of some quality coming through.
Its not so different from how i used twitter in the years before I had an account. I had a word document with expert accounts, i manually typed them in. This is how I still get good use out of twitter despite the site being full of spam and low-brow idiots (as well as Pussy/ass in bio under comments, lol).
But yes, you will get a better experience if you pinpoint more and change settings to only following.
That may well be true, but I want nothing at all to do with that puerile, adolescent, narcissistic, sociopathic, entitled, fascist man-child.
Nor do I ideally, but I kind of need the app for sources…
Go to Andoid Play Store and click “Uninstall”.
Actually, your suggestions are very good but I am using it less and less. I’ve tried the Bluesky app which I rather like but it doesn’t have the verified user functionality which was the one big selling point of Twitter.
I can’t find my geopolitical discourse , updates and news as fast there. I need twitter for now. My account is not your typical twitter account though. I don’t follow a single friend, I follow 2 hobby related pages (most follow many I would assume) to keep it to a minimum and only knowledgable people, OSINT and news accounts. If you follow too diversely after the Musk take over (actually this was a problem before as well, but much more so now, so I am very selective in my follows), it’s impossible to use since twitter will recommend all sort of nonsense it thinks you may want to read and I want to, so I can be as knowledgable as possible about geopolitical issues and politics, noise to be at a strict minimum. I don’t follow any football for instance. Nothing.
So I am not your typical user really.
Thing is, with social media accounts using algorithm, I have found in general, that it’s better to specialise your account. If you don’t, the algorithm will find stuff that will waste your time always (that may be interesting in the moment, but not what you are there for). If you run a “pure” account, you can actually often scroll and just find posts that at least is related to what you are searching for (in my case, geopolitical news, OSINT of conflicts and analysis). If I had a diverse account, reflecting my real very, very diverse interests, I would spend countless hours more, looking for what I am actually looking for, and that makes it terrible ineffective and would rob me of a lot of knowledge.
Of course, this is harder now after the Musk take over. The problem is that blue ticks are priority in the algorithm and they are all mostly, with some exceptions, imbeciles and not worth reading. Tweets getting the most view’s isn’t synonomous with quality, but the algorithm has a very ugly tendency to show them, so twitter very much not user-friendly.
This part in particular had me 
But the propaganda tune has gone viral online with Gen Z users bopping around to the synthy-electro pop.
Most are clearly quite oblivious to the Korean lyrics praising a man who’s vowed to “thoroughly annihilate the US” and launched dozens of ballistic missiles.
This HAS to be a staged wind up.
Fair play to the father of the new born for displaying incredible levels of tolerance
https://twitter.com/AvonandsomerRob/status/1789688927210651707
I would say its staged.
In reality you would tell her to fuck off
Yes 100% Magnus. This is.also how I use it and it remains a.very.effective source for expert opinion if you use it like this