The ads are they feel like late night cable at 2 AM. When you optimize for one person and one person who has an incredibly unique experience because he's the most followed person on the site, like you're going to get a totally wacky experience for everyone else. You know, I love screenshotting. It's like horrible ads and just like sharing them. And then you see these whole conversations. This has been happening for months where people are like, why is Elon seeing this? We have to tweak the algorithm this way because the ads are showing up like this.
Twitter rose to prominence as a global public square that helped enable the Arab Spring, but Elon Musk has changed all that. The platform is complying with governments more, and a murky algorithm and blue check jungle makes it feel less relevant and less reliable than ever before.
Nayeema and Kara break down how the fruit has fallen and where it may eventually land (Yahoo Mail, anyone?) with Zoë Schiffer, managing editor of Platformer, and Ryan Mac, The New York Times’s tech and accountability reporter, who was among those banned by Musk back in December.
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