The state of Twitter

It’s been over half a year since Elon took over Twitter. Back when the deal was getting finalized, I was cautiously optimistic about the acquisition. As a user, I thought that the platform could use a lot of new features that would take an energetic new management team. I was also worried that one of the most important platforms would fall into the hands of an erratic billionaire.

Taking Elon out of things, the platform in my opinion has objectively gotten worse. I have never been great with social media but Twitter was my go-to social media platform for the wealth of information and ability to make meaningful connections.

Nowadays, the platform is largely a waste of time for those who don’t pay for Twitter blue. Tweeting as a non-paying user is largely worthless as the tweets are severely nerfed. By forcing people into paying users, Twitter has lost a majority of their best content.

My timeline is now filled with blue check mark tweets… half of which are more or less ads disguised as content. The only thing better so far that I’ve seen is the parody accounts of people buying Twitter blue to impersonate real people. That was been hilarious to watch.

I have no idea where this is headed. Elon has proven a point in that you probably needed only 20% of the headcount to actually run Twitter, but we have yet to see it develop into anything remotely what he has promised. Maybe he’ll actually turn things around or maybe he’ll turn his $44B prized acquisition into nothing.