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Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

I no longer feel any pull towards Twitter. I can't really recall the last time anything good came out of it for me personally. Neither ideas nor connections. The changes to the algorithm turned the platform into a form of attention roulette. As a result, hardly anyone is investing serious time into creating content for it.

When there was a clear relationship between follower count + effort and the attention you got, it made sense to invest time to create quality original content. When I logged into Twitter for the first time in a while yesterday to read a thread I had saved, I noticed that one of my scheduled tweets had gone viral. But at least for now, this feels like a solid solution to surface great content, a job Twitter used to do for me until they decided to hide all posts with external links in them.

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