The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

[hurfdurf]

The slow, sad death of Twitter

Elon Musk has hollowed out the social network just as a vital election cycle approaches

www.theneweuropean.co.uk

Old Twitter did that: there was a curated timeline of well-liked tweets, a chronological timeline, and the display of replies was weighted by how many people had liked a given response. Browsing the replies to a viral meme would regularly show up lots of riffs on the theme, and be a worthwhile use of time.

Prioritising blue tick content has broken all of these. Most Twitter users barely tweet and don’t care about followers – a “heavy user” tweets on average less than three times a week. So if someone is posting regularly enough to be willing to pay $8 a month for a blue tick, but has not built up a sizeable following organically, this is a very strong signal that the posts they are producing are no good.

It is exactly that content that Twitter’s new model relies on promoting – and those newly-minted blue ticks are quickly learning that there is no magic behind the checkmarks. New followers are not magically heading their way. The problem wasn’t a biased liberal algorithm, it was that their tweets are no good.

That means lots of blue ticks stop paying – but everyone else is forced to read the low-quality content that the remaining blue ticks produce. This is what is powering the enshittification of Twitter.

Oooof, absolutely bodying blue tick buyers.

 

[Hotwired]

Word for today

enshittification

 

[StriderX]

The biggest pull factor for Threads is that it's new and Twitter is not.

 

[JRS]

Gotta say, the signing up process for Threads coming from Insta was absolutely seamless. An object lesson for other firms in how to roll out an additional product.

Still think it's going to find it tough to compete with even an ailing Twitter though.

 

[unwashed potato!]

Is threads out and ready to go? And threads is the name of Facebook version of twitter? That came about very quietly if so

 

[StriderX]

Well at least there's competition I suppose.

 

[VincentHanna]

Is threads out and ready to go? And threads is the name of Facebook version of twitter? That came about very quietly if so

10 million subscribers already.

 

[wesimmo]

Threads: Thirty million join Meta's Twitter rival, Zuckerberg says

The Meta chief is hoping Threads, his new Instagram-linked app, will beat Twitter on numbers.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[C Kent]

lol, sign up to the company that's been busted more times than any other selling your personal information, what possible consequences could happen?

 

[C Kent]

Oh and decide for any reason you don't want a threads account anymore you can kiss goodbye to your IG one too as it deletes both

Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says | TechCrunch

Threads, Meta's Twitter rival, features an intriguing stipulation: Deleting a Threads profile also terminates the Instagram account.

techcrunch.com

 

[VincentHanna]

Oh and decide for any reason you don't want a threads account anymore you can kiss goodbye to your IG one too as it deletes both

Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says | TechCrunch

Threads, Meta's Twitter rival, features an intriguing stipulation: Deleting a Threads profile also terminates the Instagram account.

techcrunch.com

Same with losing messenger if you delete Facebook.

You can deactivate it and still retain it though

 

[C Kent]

Same with losing messenger if you delete Facebook.

You can deactivate it and still retain it though

Messenger is essentially facebook is it not? You need a facebook account to use it for instance.

 

[tenofspades]

oh good competition for Elon Musk. Although to be fair Twitter isn't in a terrible state, Threads has to has something different really.

 

[Murphy]

Although to be fair Twitter isn't in a terrible state, Threads has to has something different really.

Maybe it's just me but it sure seems like it's in a terrible state, as someone who would never sign up to one of these social media platforms all i get now when opening a tweet is the tweet itself, half of the fun and value of reading tweets for me was in reading other peoples replies. That's basically all gone now so for a non signed in user like myself Twitter has lost any and all value, i suspect they couldn't give two hoots about people like me and I'm not expecting them to. However IMO part of the reason Twitter became popular in the first place was because even casual observers could get an impression of how well or badly what someone said was being received.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

The clip that never stops giving

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1676795900306374656

 

[Silly Goose On The Loose]

Well Threads is live and right now I suspect Twitter is in deep trouble

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1676809383613804548

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1676805300039368707

 

[Silly Goose On The Loose]

Oh and decide for any reason you don't want a threads account anymore you can kiss goodbye to your IG one too as it deletes both

Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says | TechCrunch

Threads, Meta's Twitter rival, features an intriguing stipulation: Deleting a Threads profile also terminates the Instagram account.

techcrunch.com

Highly doubt that will last

 

[Silly Goose On The Loose]

oh good competition for Elon Musk. Although to be fair Twitter isn't in a terrible state, Threads has to has something different really.

ROFL, follow the money. The advertisers are running away

 

[LeeUK]

Got my Threads set up this morning using my Insta username. I thought there would be a rush on to secure names but no need.

Also noticed that all the ads on Twitter these days are borderline scammy ads. I take it no legit company advertises on Twitter anymore.