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I find it interesting that all the Twitter messages presented to me below this tweet are from accounts with names like “Pepe”, “End Wokeness” and Andrew Tate (how is he even posting?)

Anyway - I suppose they just group all the scumlords together to save disk or bandwidth or something idk.

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Same. I don't have a twitter account and don't browse it. Is it because it's crypto related? So much weird anger out of all those accounts.

Yes - cryptocurrency ideology has always been heavily skewed by right-wing ideology but that was also reinforced over the years as many of the people who were extreme enough to get kicked off of platforms like Patreon found alternative funding mechanisms. That of course doesn’t mean the average cryptocurrency person is embittered but the ones who are tend to be extremely vocal.

I only see some crypto and space/nature stuff. It usually has something to do with stuff you've previously viewed on twitter or whatever their algo thinks you do.

I don’t really use Twitter but never seen stuff like this before. Definitely not my vibe at all. No space, no aviation, no lolcats.

I think a big factor is what tweet's page you are looking at.

When I went to a Paul Graham tweet a couple days ago, what their algorithm gave me was full of right wing conspiracy theories, climate change denial, anti-vaccine stuff, one about Bill Gates' plan to depopulate the world, Jewish bankers control the world, and that kind of stuff.

The next tweet I went too was a John Carmack tweet. The algorithm recommended a tweet from Joe Biden, a Greta Thunberg tweet, a tweet about the Formosan clouded leopard being declared extinct in 2014 after no sightings for 40 years but then was spotted in 2019, an Edward Snowdon tweet, a tweet from the National Park Service, various humor tweets, a tweet about a lecture on how to build GPT from scratch, and a couple about business acquisition. There were right wing tweets from Glenn Beck and Scott Adams included, but they were not really political. There was also an Andrew Tate tweet that was just an inspirational statement (something along the lines of the man without a vision for the future will be stuck in the past).

I'm not in Twitter, but I clicked that link just to see what you're talking about. I must've scrolled 50 messages and saw a total of 2 pepes. That's it.

Maybe Twitter is showing you that based on your historical account behavior? :-)

I only use Twitter when I see links from HN, and have never seen anything like this before. I actually found it very confronting and upsetting.

I looked again after a while and it was back to what I would consider normal. Maybe just some glitch in the matrix.

Honestly, I see all these people screaming with unkindness and I just think, WTF happened to the world where this is OK?

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