I can't agree: Twitter was never great but now it's a complete mess. The ads are worse than they've ever been— almost always some "As Seen on TV"-tier of plastic garbage or dumb crypto scams, features are breaking left and right (DMs aren't getting delivered, and notifications are sporadic at best) and the people paying to be at the top of my replies are inevitably the most insipid shitheads the web can produce. While I dislike "Block the Blue" on philosophical grounds, the fact is it's the only way to keep the site barely usable.

Even though Elon may not have had typical private equity goals in mind when buying Twitter, it does feel like a classic PE purchase where it has already been decided that the target is not worth investing in, and the new game is to wring as much value as possible from its walking corpse before tossing it in the trash.