Twitter was better than X.

- Thread > Articles. You could quote tweet specific arguments. The new algo now kills threads.

- Short 280-character tweets forced concise thinking. The art of brevity is super needed in this AI slop world.

- 'For you' reduced the need to follow new accounts, making it tough for new creators to grow. To grow now, you need loud, polarizing, clickbait posts.

- Creator payments distort incentives: Twitter was about organic idea-sharing for the sake of it. Not commercialized attention that incentivizes spam, bots, and rage-bait.

View count is great though.

Elon & Nikita are now fixing problems they themselves created.