I see very low engagement and half of my followers are obvious fakes. Although I previously said that Twitter as a product has improved, the content has become horrendous and I wouldn't be surprised if it shuts down after the US elections.
I even subscribed to to premium, but only to use Grok. It's not only alright for most task, its also the only LLM integrated with the current events feed(which is twitter) and its actually very useful to get informed about recent events.
Also, the app still has most of the interesting people but it feels like wandering into the most disgusting part of the town just to go to this cool club and I kind of feel like people wish those people move somewhere else.
I don't know, maybe Elon should just put a pop-ups with the few talking points that he keeps pushing for so I can accept and hide those from my timeline? Something like "I agree that the following people are horrible: ..." then "I agree that only Trump can save us from those" and be done with it. It's just boring, the same BS over and over again just so I can keep up with a few interesting people and current events.
I agree that content has gone down hill quite a bit. Though personally I don't think it has anything to do with bots. People I used to follow and respect have devolved into posting memes and engagement bait. When there is discussion it usually ends up as 2 sides taking past eachother. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with social media feeds in general, information overload, and providing means of fast gratification.
It really does feel like social media is making people stupider, myself included. At the same time it's also providing me some sense of interest aligned community aligned that I can't really get elsewhere. I'm sure others feel the same.
It's possible that I'm wrong about social media making us stupid, and very possible that it's just illuminating the stupidity that was always there.
Either way I wish it were reversed and trending towards increase in highlighting smart discussion.
(Side note, I've also tried Mastodon and found that there was equal or greater stupidity in the communities there)
No, I don’t attribute it to bots. IMHO it’s the algorithm that optimizes for the most outrageous stuff and the Elon’s politics.
I’ve also seen that people I follow because I enjoy their stuff also start getting much less views and engagements and I attribute that to not tweeting on the topics the algorithm is pushing for.
It almost feels like the site has an idea on what the content should be and those providing the “correct” content are awarded.
> I even subscribed to to premium, but only to use Grok. It's not only alright for most task, its also the only LLM integrated with the current events feed(which is twitter) and its actually very useful to get informed about recent events.
In April of this year Grok hallucinated a missile attack
An ML algorithm with a news feed attached seems kind of interesting, like if it was going to try and make predictions about what’s going on and about to happen, it would be able to use the actual events later that day as a cost function, or something like that, haha.
I even subscribed to to premium, but only to use Grok. It's not only alright for most task, its also the only LLM integrated with the current events feed(which is twitter) and its actually very useful to get informed about recent events.
Also, the app still has most of the interesting people but it feels like wandering into the most disgusting part of the town just to go to this cool club and I kind of feel like people wish those people move somewhere else.
I don't know, maybe Elon should just put a pop-ups with the few talking points that he keeps pushing for so I can accept and hide those from my timeline? Something like "I agree that the following people are horrible: ..." then "I agree that only Trump can save us from those" and be done with it. It's just boring, the same BS over and over again just so I can keep up with a few interesting people and current events.