EDIT: Sometimes I find myself holding the spacebar, doom scrolling to reach the "peasant" comments, because at least they're actual comments.
> Fewer bots, less brigading, ideally no ads, less spam, etc.
> I am actually quite optimistic. Let the best ideas win. The blue check elitism is coming to an end.
> Given twitters known bot problem, the number of bluechecks will likely be muuuuch lower as real people start to pay for them, and the real people behind the identities have to pay for them instead of their PR staff running them, but this in turn will make them more valuable and meaningful.
…although if an account is big enough, you're safer looking at the Quote Tweets instead for actual comments (it also restores the old direct link to those in the focused Tweet), e.g. you're lucky to get more than a handful of non-blue replies under an Elon Musk tweet among the engagement farmers before you hit the maximum number of replies Twitter will load