I've been using Twitter since the early days and while it hasn't crashed and burned it definitely performs worse than it used to. The only bots now are the ones willing to play dirty so every one of my tweets typically gets liked by at least one "adult" account with 18+ material on it. I go to my lesser used accounts (that I have for my business) and 90% of the ads are for scams, NFTs, outright porn, and sleezy mobile games.

Let alone the technology itself. Someone liked one of my tweets the other day and it showed up in my notifications but it took hours to show up on my page as a like. Sometimes I tweet and it doesn't show up for a long time and I don't even know if it successfully posted. And every single one of my notifications is right wing, not a single liberal notification on most days.

Not even mentioning that Musk has been pretty eager to ban people he disagrees with. Which is the opposite of what he said he would do. And "tweet" was a "verb"... you know how hard it is to get your own verb as a product? But he just threw that brand equity out.

So yeah, it may not have crashed and burned but from a technology and a culture perspective it is not what it used to be.