For me:
* Let me opt out of all recommendations. I only want to see tweets of people I follow or tags I follow. Nothing else. I'll find more people to follow via the people I follow. Do not post random popular news, people, related stuff in my feed, period.
* Let me choose the types of tweets I see. Personally I want to see zero of (@person liked, @person replied to, ...)
* Remove the 280 character limit (but possibly only show the first N characters in the feed). I don't personally believe the 280 character limit is important to twitter's success. Twitter's difference from most other places is that people are talking from their account, in public. It's one giant flat public forum. It is not FB (friends and family) and it is not Reddit (moderated sub forums). That alone is it's strength. All the 280 character thing does is amplify hyperbole as there is on room for nuance.
I'm sure Musk has his own ideas (no censorship?) but as for me, I won't personally use twitter without the changes above. I have an account, I check about once a month or less. I see lots of the stuff above and quit. It's like having a pushy salesperson following you around and constantly recommending stuff. Rather than more sales I'd just leave for another store.
or even better make that a whitelist or blacklist option. There are some people who retweet way too much but others I'm perfectly happy to see them from.
click the "Latest Tweets" icon at the top right of the feed.
Twitter could be described as:
1) Following influencers like on Instagram -- but no cool, sexy, beautiful pictures and very boring.
2) Infinite scrolling like TikTok -- but it's boring three word text replies instead of in your face video.
3) It has leading news stories featured at the top of the feed like Facebook -- but none of your friends are on Twitter and you can't engage them negatively or positively.
Only a certain type of person is going to spend a lot of time on Twitter. That person is a minority.
Twitter still seems pretty popular without all that extra flashy trash...
https://nypost.com/2019/04/24/twitter-doesnt-reflect-how-mos...
> About 22 percent of Americans use Twitter. And roughly 10 percent of those users are responsible for 80 percent of tweets
And ~70 million US users is not exactly nothing.
Especially ones that aren't necessarily interested in photos or short videos you look at once then forget. Or in the amount of work it takes to make said photos and videos as an entry fee to be visible on a platform.
Journalism comes to mind, and with it, politics (of any persuasion).
The writer's side of Twitter is also very active, maybe like you'd expect - writers, of course, gravitate to the written word.
Twitter does have its audiences that other platforms don't cater to very effectively.
Any third-party app will do that. I find it fascinating that people are using Twitter with anything but a paid third-party app.
Reputation can matter a great deal to a billionaire and many have gone through impressive efforts to burnish theirs.
Why are Elon Musk haters so irrational when they make their arguments?
Every notable figure, and likely (almost) every person, has done things that are bad. Gandhi was a racist, Lincoln's social media squabbles led him to a duel, Edison electrocuted an elephant for entertainment or advertising, and so on. That Musk has flaws shouldn't surprise anyone or discredit him for his accomplishments.
I personally don't respect him any less if he just finds and supports smart people, but for some reason others dismiss that unless they think he is personally designing rocket engines.
On top of that, you'd have to treat his Twitter account as anomalous and not indicative of his day to day work because of ...some reason?
If you look at it from the perspective of someone who likes Musk, then he's the lynchpin of Tesla and SpaceX which are advancing humanity, every other company's EV and self-driving features are only because he lit a fire under them; and the stuff he's doing with his money is much more exciting than other billionaires like Larry Ellison.
But from the perspective of someone who doesn't like Musk, it's engineers/ scientists/ programmers doing all the real work; 90% of Musk's promises remain undelivered; and his contribution to each company is so minor he can 'lead' five companies at once and still has so much free time he wants to buy a sixth.
And if seeing him be an asshole to that diver is what changes you from one perspective to the other?...
Ask the engineers of any failed companies what real work they’ve been doing?
> 90% of Musk's promises remain undelivered
He promised the hard things that are more often than not fail. He doesn’t care if he is wrong.
> his contribution to each company is so minor he can 'lead' five companies at once and still has so much free time he wants to buy a sixth.
That’s an uncharitable take. He is obviously doing a good job given how EVs are being seen today, and how dominant SpaceX has become. One may argue he isn’t afraid of challenge, and work six times as hard of other CEOs
Regardless of the current culture, you may reject the worldview in which a few mean Tweets are a reason to destroy/forever despise a person, regardless what that person has achieved otherwise.
In fact, the more people reject this judgmental, fire-and-brimstone attitude, the better place the social networks will be.
The current standard where gangs of people try to make other people permanent social outcasts based on one or several short quips somewhere on Twitter is psychotic, North Korea style. You do not have to accept it as normal.
Delaware is actually pretty quick with court cases, a couple of months end-to-end.
Musk avoiding regulatory issues with agencies is a very different thing from incurring the wrath of a court. A judge can order jail time, fines, etc., to bring Musk into compliance with court orders.
...Twitter is an necessary mistake...
I think Musk underestimates how complicated social media is.