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>The site is slow, the UI is god awful, and the spam is - as this tweet points - appalling.

I've probably used Twitter for 1 hour+ per day, every day, for years. I hardly even notice the spam. What am I doing wrong? Is it targeting specific niches? Clearly something is working.



Nor sure why you’re being downvoted, it’s perfectly possible to never encounter this stuff on Twitter. If you encounter tweets by crypto-adjacent people (Elon Musk, etc.) or that mention crypto themes, and view the replies, you’ll easily find spam, but if you don’t do that you might never encounter it.


The key is staying away from replies, and in general staying away from “famous/popular” posts (and anything crypto adjacent).


I get some notification spam. Like this.

Like this https://twitter.com/mdj7282/status/1563203203490992128




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