Twitter is unusable unless you are using a third-party client (which they don't give full access to). I sometimes tweet into the void about issues but rarely read twitter anymore except during something like an Apple event when I want to see what a handful of people are saying.
Scrolling through my main feed (on the official web/client) is utter garbage. Sponsored-this, suggested-that, your-friend-liked, your-friend-also-follows, etc. Kill me. I want to read tweets from the specific people I follow, I don't need suggestions, I don't need the algorithm, I sure as hell don't care about followers-of-followers-type shit. The notifications I get from Twitter are also terrible, like I've given Twitter more than enough info over the last decade+ that it shouldn't be showing me certain suggested tweets (or whatever they call that block of random tweets they inject under a tweet I'm looking at).
Twitter, like most large tech companies, astounds me. I literally have no clue what their thousands of employees/"engineers" do everyday. I work at a tiny company (<15 total, 6 developers) and it feels like we make way more forward progress in a month than twitter has in the last decade. For over 6 months they completely broke their browser notifications because someone renamed their Twitter account to "tweet" and so browser notifications would open that user's account instead of the tweet it was being linked to (the URL the browser would open would be something like /tweet?id=XXXXXXXX). It's fucking ametuer hour over there and they are wasting their time on adding things like podcasts to Twitter? They doesn't deserve to succeed.
Scrolling through my main feed (on the official web/client) is utter garbage. Sponsored-this, suggested-that, your-friend-liked, your-friend-also-follows, etc. Kill me. I want to read tweets from the specific people I follow, I don't need suggestions, I don't need the algorithm, I sure as hell don't care about followers-of-followers-type shit. The notifications I get from Twitter are also terrible, like I've given Twitter more than enough info over the last decade+ that it shouldn't be showing me certain suggested tweets (or whatever they call that block of random tweets they inject under a tweet I'm looking at).
Twitter, like most large tech companies, astounds me. I literally have no clue what their thousands of employees/"engineers" do everyday. I work at a tiny company (<15 total, 6 developers) and it feels like we make way more forward progress in a month than twitter has in the last decade. For over 6 months they completely broke their browser notifications because someone renamed their Twitter account to "tweet" and so browser notifications would open that user's account instead of the tweet it was being linked to (the URL the browser would open would be something like /tweet?id=XXXXXXXX). It's fucking ametuer hour over there and they are wasting their time on adding things like podcasts to Twitter? They doesn't deserve to succeed.