I genuinely miss when Twitter felt like the internet’s real-time pulse instead of a giant engagement farm.
Back then you’d open the app and instantly find breaking news, underground communities, insane humor, random threads, and people actually speaking their minds without trying to satisfy an algorithm. Crypto Twitter especially was different. People found projects early, built real communities, hosted legendary Spaces, and created entire narratives out of nowhere. It felt organic. It felt alive.
Now the timeline feels manufactured. Every post is optimized for impressions. Every reply is bait. Every opinion feels forced, sponsored, or designed to farm outrage. The app used to reward creativity and consistency. Now it rewards whoever can manipulate attention the hardest.
A lot of the best creators either left, got buried, or stopped caring because the atmosphere changed so much.
Old Twitter felt chaotic in the best way possible.
This version feels like watching people perform for an algorithm.