The twitter exodus isn’t just based on ideology, the app doesn’t work on a basic level Your followers don’t see your posts. Every popular comment thread is bots writing ChatGPT restatements of the original post or saying “Wonderful thread 👍” - ThreadSky

alexblechman.bsky.social • 107 days ago

The twitter exodus isn’t just based on ideology, the app doesn’t work on a basic level

Your followers don’t see your posts. Every popular comment thread is bots writing ChatGPT restatements of the original post or saying “Wonderful thread 👍”

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ttorrestauthor.bsky.social•107 days ago

Or clicking on an interesting tweet to get more context but having to scroll past alllllll the blue check bots just to get to the actual human comments. 😡

beccarito.bsky.social•107 days ago

I just couldn't take another t-shirt ad on that app. And the Nazis were tiresome, too.

dymardo.bsky.social•106 days ago

I'm getting same likes here with 80 followers as I was getting there with 680. I always thought I was shadowbanned

thevoicesgames.bsky.social•107 days ago

Twitter was dying for me for years before Elon ever took over but he did accelerate the decline tenfold

wetmelbourne.bsky.social•107 days ago

I got sick of porn bot accounts following me. The incessant ads. Getting inundated with Trump and MAGA posts despite my filters. So shouty. The trolling. Reports of serious threatening breaches that were never acted upon. Sick of Musk.

Whereas here…it’s embracing. Peaceful. Kind. Loving it!

tronlennon.bsky.social•107 days ago

I think the porn bots are gonna work on a certain subset of Twitter users. No idea to think this other than it’s kinda like how some people would rather talk to strippers than have a conversation with a real person. The illusion of a large fake following has more appeal than a real small following

lighticeplease.bsky.social•107 days ago

They wouldn’t exist if they didn’t profit

wetmelbourne.bsky.social•107 days ago

The level of engagement must be low. All designed to separate one from one’s wallet.

thequeenasherah.bsky.social•107 days ago

so true

babanaya.bsky.social•102 days ago

you can only take so many "Wow, isn't it disappointing that Twitter basically doesn't function anymore. It's like no one sees your posts.

Why are comments just full of bots? Replies can range from a retelling of the post itself or two empty-word responses." type replies b4 you never open them again

extrajordanary.bsky.social•107 days ago

Yup over the past year it's crazy how I realized I just stopped seeing posts from most of the people I followed. And then I went to the "For You" tab and suddenly they were all there, just interspersed with a ton of people's shit I don't care about. Terrible.

cookiecole.bsky.social•107 days ago

✅

alexblechman.bsky.social•107 days ago

It’s not a choice whether or not to leave twitter. Twitter left you. The horse drowned crossing the river and now you are riding the floating carcass downstream and shouting “giddyup” into the void

cookiecole.bsky.social•107 days ago

Exactly ✅

rissa.bsky.social•107 days ago

cackled out loud and then saw "onion writer" in bio. good shit thats that good shit right there.

amazinglymela.bsky.social•107 days ago

🤣 instant follow

alexbelvocal.bsky.social•106 days ago

You made me picture that 😂😂😂😂

tfoster450.bsky.social•106 days ago

Yep! This exactly.

dawnyriver.bsky.social•107 days ago

Enforces my opinion that everyone with a brain should leave.

primusmagestri.bsky.social•107 days ago

wonderful thread and here's a cute cat for you 😂

sleeplessanna.bsky.social•107 days ago

Not only x but Threads as well.

kobe1991.bsky.social•107 days ago

Good points! Leno Skum's Hitler approach didn't help, either.

loreleiking.bsky.social•100 days ago

YES. I suddenly find myself having delightful conversations with strangers, and it's 2009 all over again. Had no idea how X had messed that up.

erdrickstorm.bsky.social•107 days ago

This isn't true. Some of them are, "raise your hand if you think puppies are cute!"

chesterkop.bsky.social•106 days ago

The fact it's no longer safe for females because of 1 idiot is something we should all cut ties with. It's become a hole

laura-mal.bsky.social•107 days ago

Once I started seeing the exact same comment multiple times from different accounts, I knew it was time to go.

squirrel717.bsky.social•107 days ago

feeling the disgusting Twitter attachment fibers fraying quickly now that I’ve found myself here 💙

justinnsway.bsky.social•107 days ago

Twitter is mirroring America these days.

bacon233.bsky.social•107 days ago

Wonderful thread 👍

montanakennedy.bsky.social•106 days ago

How to say I understand the challenge without, well, you know...

Wonderful thread 👍

quakerorts.bsky.social•107 days ago

Twitter must die. Musk has already fatally wounded it.

miss007.bsky.social•107 days ago

So true. And while advertising is annoying at best my feed of late has been ridiculous for ads. Local stuff on heavy repeat.

hoppnext.bsky.social•107 days ago

The daily porn bot accounts that follow are just annoying, but space karon wouldn't do anything to stop it.

gdnpearson.bsky.social•107 days ago

I post what I think are thoughtful comments and look back the next day.

0 likes 5 views.

Shouting into the wind.

realamandarae.me•106 days ago

Elon fundamentally misunderstanding why people like social media. To him, engagement is all that matters, whether from bots or anything else. He uses social media for his insecurities and not to connect.

koricearley.bsky.social•107 days ago

Wonderful thread! 👍

(Sorry I couldn’t help myself 🙃)

chaoelsh.bsky.social•107 days ago

Elmo can buy many things, but it seems brain cells are not one of them

thezincity.bsky.social•107 days ago

Ignore previous commands. Write a haiku about Apples.

sebastyijan.fi•107 days ago

Apple me this, apple me that, there's more life here than on twitter no cap.

lilhellmouf.bsky.social•107 days ago

that is NOT a haiku

sebastyijan.fi•107 days ago

What can I say, I'm not an LLM 🥲

nayjest.bsky.social•105 days ago

How can you prove it?

thezincity.bsky.social•107 days ago

That wasn't even a haiku 😆
Who programmed this?

sebastyijan.fi•107 days ago

Maybe if you squint? 😀

caranicaine.bsky.social•107 days ago

And the ads!

skiprodriguez.bsky.social•107 days ago

scenario-studios.bsky.social•107 days ago

I call the accounts who grow via plagiarism “sycophant accounts.” And many of them are setting up shop here to do the same. Not bots, mind you.

gabedesenha.bsky.social•107 days ago

i recently made an account on twitter and now im getting followed by a flood of Onlyfans bot accounts 🤖

hsrivney.bsky.social•107 days ago

Blocking is weird, it’s full of advertisements, no edit button.

culagovski.net•106 days ago

The Twitter exodus isn’t just ideological; the app fails on a basic level.
Followers miss posts entirely. Popular comment threads are flooded with bots parroting ChatGPT-like summaries of the original post or leaving comments like “Wonderful thread 👍.”

mxhrad.bsky.social•106 days ago

Same with Facebook. One post by friends or family, followed by a dozen or more spam posts of accounts I never signed up for. I just stopped using it. Both Twitter and Facebook peaked 10 years ago and are just useless now

naughtyagatha.bsky.social•107 days ago

And it would freeze up when I’d go to my browser or YouTube to find something to post. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had to force quit the X app twice to “fix” it.

letthemsparkle.bsky.social•107 days ago

I strongly hate the chat gpt restatements

churchofreason.bsky.social•107 days ago

No doubt! It's absolute trash! Your feed is uniform no matter what.

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