JohnMcL7
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I find the idea of monetizing the blue ticks a bit odd as it seems the opposite way round to how it normally works for content creators, if they're bringing large numbers of followers to the site and those followers are seeing adverts which generate revenue. I guess there are some people using Twitter more for personal promotion (particularly Musk himself) although it's still drawing people to the site.
I do wonder how people use Twitter though because these days I find between the adverts, the suggested topics, the posts people I follow have liked and the posts from others who are followed by people I follow it's almost impossible now to actually see the content from people I follow with up to 20 posts in a row that aren't content I've chosen or want to see. I've spent a while trying to keep blocking users that I'm only seeing because people I follow interact with them and closing the suggested topics but it just keeps on going generating more and more obscure topics. I did wonder if it's so bad because I don't follow many people so I did briefly try following more but that made the whole problem ten times worse.
I think the comments above about it being a right wing echo chamber sound about right at the moment.
I do wonder how people use Twitter though because these days I find between the adverts, the suggested topics, the posts people I follow have liked and the posts from others who are followed by people I follow it's almost impossible now to actually see the content from people I follow with up to 20 posts in a row that aren't content I've chosen or want to see. I've spent a while trying to keep blocking users that I'm only seeing because people I follow interact with them and closing the suggested topics but it just keeps on going generating more and more obscure topics. I did wonder if it's so bad because I don't follow many people so I did briefly try following more but that made the whole problem ten times worse.
I think the comments above about it being a right wing echo chamber sound about right at the moment.