I will not talk about the ethics and privacy issues of Twitter but about user experience and quality of content on feed.
The quality of content on your feed is as good as the people you choose to follow. Choose selectively, block and mute liberally. Keep doing this, and your feed will be fantastic.
I use Twitter only for work. I set my Trending country to some country I have never heard the name of outside of trivia books containing nation capitals.
And my Twitter experience is fantastic. Have meaningful discussions, learn new things, gain new perspectives.
> The quality of content on your feed is as good as the people you choose to follow
Twitter is incentivized to introduce engagement-generating garbage into your feed whether you want it or not. You'll be fighting a never-ending battle.
Twitter's default view is an algorithmic timeline which in addition to being ordered randomly (you can't easily tell whether you've reached the end, thus spend more time on it and more opportunities to see ads - I believe this was the original reason why all social platforms switched to this model), it will also include tweets from people you don't follow.
You can opt-out and go back to the chronological feed (not sure if that also includes tweets from people you don't follow) but the setting "accidentally" resets every so often.
"Engagement" also goes beyond ads that you see. If you "engage", despite not seeing ads yourself, you're still contributing to their DAU/MAU metrics and creating content that others might engage with and they might see ads.
I will not talk about the ethics and privacy issues of Twitter but about user experience and quality of content on feed.
The quality of content on your feed is as good as the people you choose to follow. Choose selectively, block and mute liberally. Keep doing this, and your feed will be fantastic.
I use Twitter only for work. I set my Trending country to some country I have never heard the name of outside of trivia books containing nation capitals.
And my Twitter experience is fantastic. Have meaningful discussions, learn new things, gain new perspectives.
I keep away from politics and such.
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