Twitter was in such a good position before Elon Musk took over, adding whatever features for no reason. Fleets, Cotweets, whatever.Ever since Elon took over, the platform lost what made Twitter unique. Elon is clearly trying to compete with everything, throwing darts at the wall, hoping one will even hit the board. Twitter does not need an AI chatbot, hiring features, or banking features.The experience of using the app has gone down the drain, too. I turned off updates right before the rebrand to x.com, and I'm glad I did, because every week I see people talking about some dumb new UI change. Why is the navbar slightly transparent? Why is there a bookmark and view button on every Tweet? Who asked for any of this? Twitter is no longer a microblogging service either. Elon is trying to turn it into a news service, referring to actual news sites as "Legacy Media". Who asked for 10,000 character Tweets and inline-with-text images? I already have Tumblr for that.But by far the worst thing is verification, and the "attempts" to try and prevent spam. To his credit, DM spam has stopped, but now you can't hold conversation in DM without paying. Also, notice how I only said DM spam, because everytime I open my notifications, I see 3 crypto scams I'm being mentioned in.Content is just less interesting as before too. Now that people are paid for Tweeting, there's an incentive to try and Tweet as much as you can and get everywhere you can. And because verified users are at the top of every reply section, all you see on popular Tweets are "lol", "😂😂", and advertisements for OnlyFans. A lot of the content you see on the site is becoming blatantly AI generated. Search "as an AI language model" and switch to recent Tweets, and just take a look at it for yourself.The thing that hit me the most, however, was making the API paid. It was so cool, there were so many applications that could do cool things with Twitter data. But now, all of that is gone. I miss the fun bots, the quirky experimental apps, the tools. Almost none of that remains.I used to like Twitter, and I still do, but I'm tired of being apart of some rich person's mental breakdown.
