I decided to log into my old Twitter account after many years on a whim. I follow no one and have 39 followers.
I saw nothing on my feed but its owner’s boosted posts, a ton of crypto content, Pepe and anti-woke incendiaries, and heavily lopsided political ragebait.
It felt like looking at my Spam folder for a misclassified message. Like ending up on one of those SEO-optimized AI-generated websites that exist to make their owners ad impression money. The internet can certainly be a pretty noisy place but in the case of Twitter Under New Management, it’s the same set of signals weakened by a maddening amount of noise.
I can perhaps understand why but I remain unsure of how people continue to use this thing.