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But Twitter allows you to curate your graph with the Following tab way better. There are enough sub-communities and funny people for it to still work.
And all recommendation algorithms are vulnerable. Thread’s head honcho had to release a statement because the recommendation algorithm on Threads became awful over the holiday period. And they aggressively want you on the FYP!
I was never a good user for twitter, I don't engage that much except for just reading news and just follow some techie people and communities. But even for my light usage I can clearly see the downgrade of the service
I think this was always an illusion. The blue checkmark certainly hasn't presented a barrier to spammers, and if anything, the reply/promotion boost it gives you has accelerated the rate of spam now that you can more easily get attention.
That's your problem, right here. The social graph is the strongest signal there is.
Try following the people that are more interesting to you and your recommendations will vastly improve. Or don't, and just come to the Fediverse and use a nitter frontend for the occasional twitter link.
> adjusted its content accordingly to convince me of a hundred times more radical positions
Globally, these positions are not radical (sans Neo-Nazi). The average human is (strongly) opposed to American foreign policy, if not outright pro-Russian/pro-Palestinian.
That said, these topics are also great engagement bait and X does push them for that reason.
Many of us have a very selective view of the world. When you have a platform that allows most speech from anyone on the planet, such an open platform may seem extremely biased to people used to their bubbles, where their own opinion is the "normal" one and few people disagree with them.
Some Hindu-supremacist Indians support Israel because of shared Islamophobia, more or less. There is not much rabid Islamophobia outside of the West + India.
>They are common but not majority opinion.
To suggest that the (powerless) majority of 8 billion humans are not opposed to US foreign policy is... wildly out of touch. I would even wager that the average American is generally opposed to current US foreign policy.
Twitter never caught in a lot of places while threads might have a chance.
They used a small team to build an app in 5 months that handled going from 0 to 100 mil users in 5 days.
Doesn’t sound neither lots of money and engineering, or false idea if it had 100 mil signups in 5 days.
At 1.2 billion monthly users that's a pretty average CTR for that kind of thing. A little extra because threads still isn't available worldwide so some traffic was just lost.
Threads reached 100M users in July [2].
[1] https://www.insiderintelligence.com/content/threads-banks-on...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/07/10/with-10...
They didn't have to, though - the news outlets were running stories on Threads and its impending arrival nearly every day. To claim, as GP does, it was entirely "organic" is nonsense.