Why are people still on there? Twitter has been sold; the old management is never coming back. X is, almost explicitly at this point, a platform meant for crypto scammers and white supremacists, and that is not going to change. If you aren't part of or adjacent to those groups, fucking leave it.
I deleted two weeks ago. I hadn't tweeted in years but I used it to read other people, but I'm done.
I'm hanging on until I get a BlueSky invite. I think a lot of people are doing the same.
Why? What could you possibly be missing at this point if you just stopped using it?
There are a lot of informative artists and educators that are otherwise scattered to the four winds (or worse, only on Facebook/TikTok/Instagram). I've learned a lot from people posting about field work they're actively doing, people certified to do all kinds of jobs I'd never otherwise get to hear from, etc. There's not as many as there used to be, but there's enough that I'd rather see what they have to say while I'm waiting for my Bluesky invite.
3D porn
People just like to Twitterbate. Can't say I get it, but then again I don't like to be pooped on during sex either. Different strokes, I guess.
Niche communities that took years to built up and that I can't find anywhere else. For example Esperanto speakers are quite active on Twitter. They also have their own Mastodon instance, but it is not the same. (I use both now)
Not exactly a twitter user , what is tweetdeck?
The only thing that made twitter useable. No ads. You put your lists of people into columns, so you only saw exactly what you wanted to see. No algos trying to shove "you may like" stuff down your throat.
I use it for work reasons but I'm not paying for it, I'll deal without and start digging into what needs can be fulfilled with mastodon. I stopped using it the first time it broke for a week due to elon and I thought it was over then.
No algo is the big one for me. Don't have to worry about that with Mastodon. And the advanced interface of Mastodon is also pretty nice.
I've never used TweetDeck but there is the Control Panel for Twitter, which makes it usable. It can auto-block all the bluechecks with under a million followers, hide the "For You" tab, block ads, and restore the old Twitter branding.
Unfortunately the main reason I use Twitter is not the platform itself, but the public figures that are on it. Mastodon (mostly) doesn't have that, though there is a trickle of some coming over.
Yeah same for the content. I use it for economic news primarily and while I'm starting to cultivate it with other means most of it is still on twitter.
Now that I think about it, since I don't interact on twitter I could make do with cross platform posting bots. Will need to spend some more time digging into mastodon this week.
I used regular lists on Twitter till I stopped using it a few months ago. No ads, chronological order. It was good
But people I followed, I started seeing only replies from shitstain bluetlickers so I dropped it for good
It was a very popular 3rd party Twitter client that Twitter actually bought way back when.
A desktop Twitter client, meant for power and business users. You could have multiple accounts open at the same time, search for mentions, etc.
We used to call it E. MDMA I mean. We used to call X Twitter.
Now we just call it a dumpster fire. X I mean. E is still pretty good tbh.
The album cover for the 1980 X album Los Angeles would be a perfect logo for Elon's little sandbox.
If he means being on X as in the party drug, and being back in his days i think he means the drugs (x=Ecstasy) were more fun than that shit post paradise that is robbing the the porno and hamster industries favorite letter, then I agree wholeheartedly.
Or he just means was on xhamster, or xporn or so forth, still agree.
Now, back to today's X
or maybe xxnx, xgroovy
I'm just think of it as TruthX. That's closer to what Twitter is becoming anyway.
Nitter is also blocked.
It was back working until a few days ago. I have faith they'll figure out a solution
And nothing of value is lost.
The project is cool and worked fine, but the Twitter isn't worth the hassle
As does Reddit, Twitter still contains some valuable information.
No dude, you have to hate these platforms with a religiously burning passion.
If you continue to use this platform, you shouldn't be surprised at something like this.
I definitely gave it up. Not giving dingdong Musk any engagement.
Tweetdeck was so good for getting deal notifications within less than a minute, they crippled the old tweetdeck after the api changes and the new tweetdeck doesnt have sound notifications
Rent free jesus
I have no idea what that is, and I'm very thankful for it.
Never go on Twitter. Try Firefish, it's the fediverse too and it's adorable.
Meh, I'm not one for hot takes and gotchas. To me the whole concept of deliberately short, unnuanced posts from everyone and their mom always seemed quite problematic, and I think my instinct on that was correct given what we've seen Twitter become over the past decade especially.
I miss long form blogging SO much. Firefish is sweet though, I normally wouldn't bother but it's very nice.
Good news for Hootsuite
Is that still in existence?
Yup. Used by comms people with multiple social media accounts