Why is Twitter still a dumpster fire 15 years later?

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[Slightlyunlucky]

I don’t get twitter to be honest. I tried for a while. It’s just pandering to attention seekers who think they are funny. Some are, but most aren’t.

And you maybe right.

[bipple]

lingering guilt about the phantom responsibility for the 2016 presidential election

Straight out of the laws of media in terms of the tetrad, specifically the retrieval quadrant

As a result of Clubhouse, Twitter has become a utility again specifically for DM‘s in order to follow up with people met on Clubhouse

The editorialization of TwitterIs something that if you don’t know how to ignore it and know what you’re getting into when you press explore that’s on you and in terms of the limitation of expression in general in terms of expressing any sort of nuance beyond 16 step tweets that nobody reads except others that are compelled to read it for probably sycophantic motivations

[convertingcreative]

I kind of appreciate how it stays the same. It fulfills it’s purpose – short form, near immediate content you can read in on sentence.

I think it’s annoying how a lot of the other platforms constantly try to reinvent themselves and break away from what they were good at to copy another one. Obviously pivoting is important but some seemingly reinvent all all the time.

[chargingblue]

I think Twitter is one of the strongest platforms out there tbh. Why? They stick with what works, short text commentary that allows engagement from anyone.

Facebook Instagram Snapchat, everything else is trying to overlap and steal ideas from other places to do better and it’s overwhelming

With Twitter I know what I’m getting

[Aizsheet_Midrurorz]

They let politics overrun the platform… It crushed the entertainment industry and creators and a lot of them moved on to other platforms like IG & TikTok.

People on Twitter buying followers and likes also went through a meltdown when many bot accounts were removed. Now many accounts with thousands and millions of followers often only have 1-12 likes on each post, which highlights the fakery and serves as an embarrassment to previously “major” brands. Many of those brands can’t continue to purchase likes and follows now due to the economic downturns.

Twitter also did little to update it’s UI and features to make it more modern over years, other platforms display posts in a much more clean way. Twitter should have taken an opportunity to create index pages for specific (niche content) and enhanced it’s search to make better viewing options for the breadth of posts that happen every day, instead they’re still stuck with their very dated “trending” page that gets trolled hard with spammers and boring content.

Now there are many accounts, but most of them are not active. Twitter is also pushing post boosting and follower campaigns to make money, but most legacy users know that paying for that will return little value because Twitter is not as active and engaged in people’s minds as it once was.

A major push to highlight less known content and unknown users on all platforms would likely be the best thing to create more active communities, but artists are realizing that these platforms make huge money by offering little to no economic value if a user can’t break past the rules, paywalls, and promotional gateway.

It’s time to push back on platforms and expect them to work for creators, not to profit off of them while giving little to nothing back.