I saw a few folks talking about it, and now I’ve noticed myself - accounts I follow that disappeared from my Twitter feed are now re-emerging. Anyone else notice this?
About 8 months ago I realized that I was no longer seeing certain accounts in my feed. Visiting their profile page, I saw they’d been posting prolifically, but they didn’t appear in my ‘following’ or ‘for you’ tabs. Mainly the ones I noticed being silenced were pro-Ukraine or anti-Russia voices, but also Democrat politicians like AOC. (Kamala Harris is still deboosted, it would appear).
I’m also noticing a change in the situation where the first 5-10 replies to any given high-profile tweet were predictably the dumbest content from the dumbest blue-check accounts, crowding out all the authentic-seeming responses. That no longer seems to be the case, now it’s more like only 1 out of the first 10 are dumb blue-check respondents.
Is this Elmo’s last hurrah to restore the relevance of the platform? I’d been using the platform less and less. With the announcement that blocks as we know it are ending, I was ready to leave. I prefer the social vibe of Bluesky. But with the reappearance of some valuable Ukrainian news accounts that don’t post elsewhere, I’ll probably stay on Twitter a while longer.
I’ve noticed it switch back and forth a bunch. Every so often, it would be filled with MAGA tweets like it was originally. But it hasn’t switched back in a little while now. So mayb
Musk is known to be tweaking the algorithm to make himself more prominent.
“He’s been pushing all engineers to do investigations daily. Meetings are scheduled at 11 p.m. and often last till midnight. The issue we are solving is simple: why are Elon’s tweet counts dropping. It’s that and only that — not about other accounts.”
Make sure you’re reading the “Following” feed, and not the “For You” feed. “For You” is more algorithmically-curated, and includes a lot of accounts you don’t follow (usually people who follow people you follow, but not always).
That’s not what I’m talking about, I’ve been seeing more of people he’s deboosted. For example Alexiandria Ocasio-Cortez is very active on Twitter and wasn’t appearing on my “Following” feed. Now I’m seeing here there, and on “For You” as well.
Same story for many other prominent accounts of liberals, democrats, Ukranians, etc. They were essentially silenced but that seems to be reversing.
Well, let’s not let word of that get back to Musk. I’m pretty sure if that’s happening, Elon has no awareness of it and it would not end well if he suddenly became aware of it.
Maybe. Or maybe this is his admission of defeat, that he knows the company is in a downward spiral and he’s got to take drastic action such as allowing people to see the accounts that they signed up to see.
Here’s another thing: I used to get a once or twice daily email alerting me to posts by the accounts I follow (like Larry the Cat, Jorts, and so forth), but for the last mo nth or two they no longer show up. I checked my settings and nothing has changed. what’s up with that?