IMO Twitter has been 100% better since Musk took over.
In the last months before he took over it had become literally unusable. After some seconds of scrolling a sign-up window would show up which was impossible to dismiss and neither ublock nor umatrix helped.
Meanwhile:
- failures are happening more often. Just in the past week they broke "following" page for half a day, and then image uploads for a few hours (with hilarious "your account has hit the API limit for their own site)
- they just randomly killed third-party apps that made Twitter what it was with zero warning or explanation
- destroyed all possible credibility of blue checkmarks. Which are not just celebrities, but also government agencies
- people report an increase in harassment and trolls
I think the acquisition is partly idelogically motivated. So destroying the blue checkmark credibility is probably "mischief managed".
For government accounts, they now have gray checkmarks.
What increased velocity?
> So destroying the blue checkmark credibility is probably "mischief managed".
This statement makes no sense
> For government accounts, they now have gray checkmarks.
Wat?
Is this the velocity you're talking about? When they introduced paid blue checkmarks, then realized it's a bad idea, and introduced "official" label to only backpedal less than a day later, only to introduce gray checkmarks? First time I hear of gray checkmarks btw.
Just checked: of course there are now gray checkmarks. And of course they are randomly assigned. And of course there are also golden checkmarks because reasons. Also randomly assigned.