Hmm, I have an old Twitter account. Elon promised that he was going to make it the best site ever, lets see what the algorithm feeds me today, January 5 2026.
1. Denmark taxes its rich people and has a high standard of living.
2. Scammy looking ad for investments in a blood screening company.
3. Guy clearing ice from a drainpipe, old video but fun to watch.
4. Oil is not actually a fossil fuel, it is "a gift from the Earth"
5. Elon himself reposting a racist fabrication about black people in Minnesota.
6. Climate change is a liberal lie to destroy western civilization. CO2 is plant food, liberals are trying to starve the world by killing off the plants.
7. Something about an old lighthouse surviving for a long time.
8. Vaccine conspiracy theories
9. Outright racism against Africans, claiming they are too dumb to sustain civilized society without white men running it.
10. One of those bullshit AI videos where the AI doesn't understand how pouring resin works.
11. Microsoft released an AI that is going to change everything, for real this time, we promise.
12. Climate change denialism
13. A post claiming that the Africa and South America aren't poor because they were robbed of resources during the colonial era and beyond, but because they are too dumb to run their countries.
14. A guy showing how you can pack fragile items using expanding foam and plastic bags. He makes it look effortless, but glosses over how he measures out the amount of foam to use.
15. Hornypost asking Grok to undress a young Asian lady standing in front of a tree.
16. Post claiming that the COVID-19 vaccine caused a massive spike (5 million to 150 million) cases of myocarditis.
17. A sad post from a guy depressed that a survey of college girls said that a large majority of them find MAGA support to be a turn off.
18. Some film clip with Morgan Freeman standing on a X and getting sniped from an improbable distance
19. AI bullshit clip about people walking into bottomless pits
20. A video clip of a woman being confused as to why financial aid forms now require you to list your ethnicity when you click on "white", with the only suboptions being German, Irish, English, Italian, Polish, and French.
Special bonus post: Peter St Ogne, Ph. D claims "The Tenth Amendment says the federal government can only do things expressly listed in the Constitution -- every other federal activity is illegal." Are you wondering what federal activity he is angry about? Financial support for daycare.
So yeah, while it wasn't a total and complete loss it is obvious that the noise far exceeds the signal. It is maybe a bit of a shock just how much blatant climate change denialism, racism, and vaccine conspiracies are front page material. I'm saddened that there are people who are reading this every day and taking it to heart. The level of outright racism is quite shocking too. It's not even up for debate that black people are just plain inferior to the glorious aryan race on Twitter. This is supposedly the #1 news source on the Internet? Ouch.
Edit: Got the year wrong at the top of the post, fixed.
Makes me laugh when people say Twitter is "better than ever." Not sure they understand how revealing that statement is about them, and how the internet always remembers.
They don't outnumber anyone. There's always a minority of hardcore supporters for any side... plus enough undecided people in the middle who mostly vote their pocketbook.
What to do about it is to point out to those people in the middle how badly things are being fucked up, preferably with how those mistakes link back to their pocketbook.
1. Denmark taxes its rich people and has a high standard of living.
2. Scammy looking ad for investments in a blood screening company.
3. Guy clearing ice from a drainpipe, old video but fun to watch.
4. Oil is not actually a fossil fuel, it is "a gift from the Earth"
5. Elon himself reposting a racist fabrication about black people in Minnesota.
6. Climate change is a liberal lie to destroy western civilization. CO2 is plant food, liberals are trying to starve the world by killing off the plants.
7. Something about an old lighthouse surviving for a long time.
8. Vaccine conspiracy theories
9. Outright racism against Africans, claiming they are too dumb to sustain civilized society without white men running it.
10. One of those bullshit AI videos where the AI doesn't understand how pouring resin works.
11. Microsoft released an AI that is going to change everything, for real this time, we promise.
12. Climate change denialism
13. A post claiming that the Africa and South America aren't poor because they were robbed of resources during the colonial era and beyond, but because they are too dumb to run their countries.
14. A guy showing how you can pack fragile items using expanding foam and plastic bags. He makes it look effortless, but glosses over how he measures out the amount of foam to use.
15. Hornypost asking Grok to undress a young Asian lady standing in front of a tree.
16. Post claiming that the COVID-19 vaccine caused a massive spike (5 million to 150 million) cases of myocarditis.
17. A sad post from a guy depressed that a survey of college girls said that a large majority of them find MAGA support to be a turn off.
18. Some film clip with Morgan Freeman standing on a X and getting sniped from an improbable distance
19. AI bullshit clip about people walking into bottomless pits
20. A video clip of a woman being confused as to why financial aid forms now require you to list your ethnicity when you click on "white", with the only suboptions being German, Irish, English, Italian, Polish, and French.
Special bonus post: Peter St Ogne, Ph. D claims "The Tenth Amendment says the federal government can only do things expressly listed in the Constitution -- every other federal activity is illegal." Are you wondering what federal activity he is angry about? Financial support for daycare.
So yeah, while it wasn't a total and complete loss it is obvious that the noise far exceeds the signal. It is maybe a bit of a shock just how much blatant climate change denialism, racism, and vaccine conspiracies are front page material. I'm saddened that there are people who are reading this every day and taking it to heart. The level of outright racism is quite shocking too. It's not even up for debate that black people are just plain inferior to the glorious aryan race on Twitter. This is supposedly the #1 news source on the Internet? Ouch.
Edit: Got the year wrong at the top of the post, fixed.