Twitter, are you still tweeting ?

[Spartacus]

Recently the algorithms on twitter seem to have changed (okay we all know they have) and timeliness are getting filled with more blue tick paid for content, conspiracy posts (Covid was a hoax and vaccine is responsible for higher sudden deaths amongst the current ones) , anti immigration and anti woke, anti anti  everything type posts. 

Occasionally East of Dulwich makes it through but the rest of the really useful, interesting or local business tweets just aren't making it past the crud. 

Therefore I'm curious, are people still tweeting, are they just scrolling crap or are they off somewhere else ? 

It's a shame as what once was a useful (semi useful) business communication  platform seens to be vanishing up its own deranged backside. 

[Sue]

I still use Twitter to promote our gigs (@thegooseisout) but I never use it for anything else unless I hear there's an interesting (to me) thread on there.

[Bic Basher]

I still use Twitter, but it's so hard to find tweets from people I actually follow.   Like Sue, East of Dulwich still occasionally pops up in my timeline, but it's a load of blue tick nonsense.

[firth]

I still use it mainly for the Arsenal and local politics, its still good @:peckhamgooner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[firth]

I must sat Feargal Sharkey and Carol Vorderman are both excellent at reporting the mass of corruption and incompetence in our country.

[WomblingFree]

Still using. I use Twitter mostly as a news feed for topics I’m interested in (sport, music, comedy) and it works well for that - on the Following tab I just see people I follow plus the odd promoted tweet. The For You tab is hit and miss though - it picks up some things I’m interested in, but a lot I’m not.

I’d contrast this with Facebook and Instagram, where accounts I follow are just drowned out with spam these days to the point where they’re almost unusable.

[DuncanW]

I still use it quite a bit. You can toggle between For You (algorithmic) and Following which I think just shows you the content of people you follow. 

For You definitely shows a lot of the nutters but I have taken to muting the really tiresome ones... but cripes it must be written into the contact at GB News that you need to Tweet complete tripe literally 50 times a day so that's a lot of blocking.

When I use Following, I find that some of my followees are prone to quite excessive retweeting so that causes it's own irritations. I am on the imaginative handle of @duncanwellings FYI

[Spartacus]

With the newly introduced limit on the number of tweets you can see, could this be the death throes of twitter ? 

Maybe not a bad thing as a lot of social media has become toxic over the years, maybe we all need to step back and re-engage in the real, not virtual, world 😉 to see people for who they are and not to be manipulated by algorithms that reinforce our beliefs, right or wring.

Lol one can only dream !