Elon Musk’s takeover at Twitter has been interesting. He fired a bunch of people and many more resigned. Many of these people were responsible for stuff that Mr. Musk doesn’t think Twitter needs (e.g., content moderation) but others who got the axe did the critical development and infrastructure work.
Twitter hasn’t had a catastrophic technical failure yet. That has raised some eyebrows about staffing levels at other Big Tech companies. It’s too early to tell. The Fail Whale was a real thing and we are probably going to see it again.
As far as my personal usage goes, I’ve definitely ratcheted back. If the content was about the same post-Musk, I’d probably be on Twitter daily as I used to be. But, I’m seeing weird stuff in my feeds and it isn’t worth wading through the trash to find the gems right now.
I’m not sure what the alternative is but whatever it is it’s probably a better use of time than doomscrolling on Twitter.