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Personally, my experience remains almost entirely unchanged, so I’ve never really understood what the whole “Twitter is dead” stuff was about.

I am salty about the Twitter API though

My use of twitter has been made worse. There's always a popup nag now to "create an account" where I never had one before

So Twitter is now like…everyone else? Instagram, Facebook and even Reddit (on mobile) don’t let you see their content without a login prompt either. Yet there are no 100 articles about Reddit dying.

That was there way before Elon. If anything the login spam has been reduced.

and you cant search without having an account or being logged in.

As someone who uses mostly to keep up with the progress of AI, the recommended tweets are actually good for a change.

Community notes is a big part of it.

people who like elon musk feel better using musk's twitter, so their experience is probably objectively better since he took over.

people who dislike elon musk feel worse using musk's twitter, so their experience is probably objectively worse since he took over.

i really don't think it's much more deep than that.