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0 pointsslg3y ago0 comments

Twitter is a worse experience for me today than it was before Musk purchased the company. I don't need to even be aware of his antics for that to be true. Killing Tweetbot is the biggest issue for me. The official iOS app is awful so now I never check Twitter from my phone. Plus my timeline isn't as interesting because lots of people I follow simply stopped posting. Maybe they left due to Musk's antics, but it makes my experience worse even if I don't care about Musk.

It seems pretty inarguable that some people are using the site less. I'm one. In order for overall usage to remain the same, there needs to be people making up for that. Do these people exist? Who is using the site more because of Musk? I'm honestly not sure, because if they do exist, I don't follow them.

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margorczynski3y ago

This anecdote is the answer to the lack of data that would support the user count decline of Twitter? I'm sorry to damage your ego but you're just a single data point and extrapolating how you see things to a non-quantifiable amount of other users isn't a reasonable argument.

slgOP3y ago

I didn't say it was an answer to a lack of data. That was the reason I asked for anecdotal data that runs counter to my experience. No one outside of Twitter is going to have actual data on this and I'm not sure if we should even trust any data coming out of Twitter at this point considering Musk's reputation.

And for the record, that anecdote is not a single data point. It is a single statement based off my observations of the hundreds of accounts I follow. My timeline is less active. That isn't because I use the site less. It is because cumulatively the accounts I follow are using the site less.

lmm3y ago

> It seems pretty inarguable that some people are using the site less. I'm one. In order for overall usage to remain the same, there needs to be people making up for that. Do these people exist? Who is using the site more because of Musk? I'm honestly not sure, because if they do exist, I don't follow them.

I'm using the site more now. Japanese twitter feels a lot more natural and nicer than it did pre-Musk.

slgOP3y ago

That's interesting. What has Twitter done recently to improve the experience of Japanese users?

lmm3y ago

Trending topics have shifted. Allegedly they removed some manually-curated trending system that was previously in place, which may have been a system that worked well for some demographics but wasn't working great for Japan.

slgOP3y ago

That is mildly surprising. I would have assumed a manual process would have done a better job of adapting to different languages and cultures than an automated process unless that manual work was done by people outside that cultural context.

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kolbe3y ago

Is there a single major service from a Silicon Valley internet company that doesn't get worse by the year? They all loss lead for years and years, then try to diminish the experience for profit in late stages.

WWLink3y ago

As someone that never really used twitter before, but deleted my account when the musk drama reminded me I had one... The only difference is now I hear more people complaining about twitter being down, features being broken, search being broken, number of likes/retweets being broken, etc... but those people still use twitter and still send me links to tweets that I don't bother to read.

Personally, I don't use twitter because I don't like it - and the recent changes make me dislike twitter even more than I did before. I wish more people would walk the walk when they talk the talk. Heheh.

I like reddit because it's like a very popular forum with subforums on gazillions of different topics, and there's a lot of stuff I enjoy on there because of that.

I don't understand how using reddit vs twitter is a political decision (in most use cases). They are completely different tools.

maximus-decimus3y ago

>Who is using the site more because of Musk?

Ironically, probably musk haters.

I had a coworkers who probably despised Trump as much as Hitler, but she literally couldn't stop herself from doom scrolling his twitter account.

You don't need to make the app better to get more users, just increase engagement even if it's through the power of contempt. Just look at news channels that are always trying to make people angry.

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margorczynski3y ago

slgOP3y ago

lmm3y ago

I'm using the site more now. Japanese twitter feels a lot more natural and nicer than it did pre-Musk.

slgOP3y ago

That's interesting. What has Twitter done recently to improve the experience of Japanese users?

lmm3y ago

slgOP3y ago

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kolbe3y ago

WWLink3y ago

I like reddit because it's like a very popular forum with subforums on gazillions of different topics, and there's a lot of stuff I enjoy on there because of that.

I don't understand how using reddit vs twitter is a political decision (in most use cases). They are completely different tools.

maximus-decimus3y ago

>Who is using the site more because of Musk?

Ironically, probably musk haters.

I had a coworkers who probably despised Trump as much as Hitler, but she literally couldn't stop herself from doom scrolling his twitter account.

You don't need to make the app better to get more users, just increase engagement even if it's through the power of contempt. Just look at news channels that are always trying to make people angry.

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