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Twitter is fine. I have a large follower account, nothing is wrong with the site, besides the terrible name change.

For the record prior to his takeover, twitter went down a lot more often. What has changed is new features finally getting added unlike before where it took months for them to change anything

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Twitter still resolves to a working webpage but what it was as a cultural element is dying. The closest thing to a digital city square we had, and techbro shows up to enshittify it and let his minions vandalize the place.

I kinda agree with the X/Twitter name change but I really want to stress that it is STILL the same service.

I am a large account/heavy user and it’s still very good.

The worst part was changing how DMs worked. Before you could get in touch with Celebs or famous people and know it was them. Right now it could be a parody account, it’s tough to tell. Is that really pmarca in my DMs or a twitter blue user?

Beyond that I think the site has improved. And it will probably get better and you should hop on.

It’s not just political hell fire (which was ‘nerfed’ if you will, in virality during the for-you algo update). I have qualms too but I really do mean it: the site is still very good.

source: 10 year, 70k follower - heavy user

> And it will probably get better and you should hop on.

Nothing advertises desperation more than seeing someone begging people to use the service while dismissing problems with the service in a thread that is literally about a huge problem in the service (but one of a long line of threads about newly-introduced problems with the service).

It's fine other than losing so much revenue that its unsustainable and a substantial portion of their data for basically no reason.

I made nearly 3k posting last month - no different than I did in the past - there is huge incentive to be a creator their now.

Are you an active user or a hater? I have a feeling most people complaining about the site have some other driving force like hating the guy politically that winds them up.

I don’t like him either but from a heavy user he’s been improving things. Prior management took years to ship.

His biggest sin was scaring away Liberals for the time being.

What kind of content creator are you? What’s your thematical topic?

I am a passive user only reading things related to 1 specific thing and some time ago when logging on I was informed that I can no longer use 2fa for my account because security costs extra. Don't remember the details but it appeared absurd.

SMS 2FA was put behind the paywall - ostensibly because they saw "bad actors" abusing it, but more likely because it costs money to send text messages and they're bleeding like a stuck pig thanks to Musk.

App and keyfob-based 2FA is still free.

Also non sms 2FA is much more secure. Telecoms are famous for garbage security. There are naughty places on the web where you can essentially buy the privilege of taking over a targeted phone number courtesy of a compromised employee account. For instance T-mobile has reported major widescale breaches in 2023 and purportedly small scale breaches where an employee account is taken over and used to essentially sell control of customers phone number are much more common to the point there was a telegram channel set up specifically for this purpose and hearing "T-Mobile Up" was a common occurrence.

I have for instance entirely disabled SMS 2FA wherever possible and strongly prefer my yubikey.

His biggest sin is scaring away advertisers so they are hugely in the red despite shedding most of their employees. No matter how useful twitter is to you personally if it doesn't make money eventually it will have to make a change or go away.

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