| ▲ | jezzamon 3 days ago |
| I think that's the first time I've seen someone positive about that change. My experience has been by showing blue tick users above others, the experience has become a lot more biased because it's only a certain type of person that pays for Twitter |
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| ▲ | next_xibalba 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Twitter/X user here. I agree with GP, it’s better than it was pre-Elon. The For You feed definitely seems less biased, more interesting, and fewer flame wars. I also think the exodus of Bluesky-ers has helped that (for which Elon gets partial credit). Yes, they do seem to have been backfilled by their right-side mirror images, but those people don’t seem to get amplified to the degree their predecessors were. |
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| ▲ | sanktanglia 3 days ago | parent [-] | | You are really going to try and say right wingers aren't amplified on twitter? I literally have an account that just follows gaming accounts and I was having to block people throwing out slurs daily | | |
| ▲ | overfeed 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | > You are really going to try and say right wingers aren't amplified on twitter? FWIW, they see it - but interpret it as "Twitter being less biased" now, because from their POV, Twitter had a pro-liberal bias before Musk, and is now trending towards what they consider neutral. | | | |
| ▲ | wisty 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] |
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| ▲ | bookofjoe 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes, people like me who CAN’T STAND TO SEE THEIR TYPOS etc. up there on display forever. |
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| ▲ | gyanchawdhary 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Isn’t that a good thing that you have already created a mental filter about people who pay for it as being of a “certain type” .. the problem with ticks being bestowed upon some journalists is that they become the brokers/influencers by the virtue of simply working for a newspaper .. that power is vaporised now .. tbh the real question is why didn’t twitter pre musk implement community notes .. I mean it’s not such a bleeding edge / hard to execute idea .. |
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| ▲ | kej 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | >tbh the real question is why didn’t twitter pre musk implement community notes They did. Community notes are just the rebranded "Birdwatch" program that predates Musk. | |
| ▲ | TheAceOfHearts 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Community Notes was literally built by pre-Elon Twitter: Birdwatch was first announced on August 2020, and it was initially launched on January 2021. On November 2022, Elon rebranded it to Community Notes and made it widely available. | |
| ▲ | mac-attack 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | In the same way that someone speaking on behalf of the White House is held to a standard whenever they speak, the same applies to journalists that are representing a newspaper. Making everyone 'equal' is a political heuristic that IMO presupposes that journalists can't be trusted and are as useful as a random person paying $20/mo. | | |
| ▲ | thevillagechief 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I'm going to go ahead and say that the last 5 years did in fact show that journalists cannot be trusted. I will agree that random persons paying $20 obliterates what was already an embarrassingly low bar. Really, opening it up just expanded the pool of what was already just influencers/activists. And why did celebrities have the bluecheck? It's probably more useful as a verification mechanism. | | |
| ▲ | VoidWhisperer 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but wasnt that the original purpose of the blue checkmark - a verification that the twitter account was who they are saying they are, be it a person, company, etc? | | |
| ▲ | thevillagechief a day ago | parent [-] | | It was a status symbol pretending to be a verification. There was a reason the people were referred to as "blue checks". And it could be taken away if you fell afoul of the prevailing norms at the time. |
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| ▲ | lawlessone 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | >that power is vaporised now and replaced with something worse. |
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| ▲ | moralestapia 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Then make that two times. I also think Twitter under Musk is much better, way much more functionality in it. |
