Jasper Beardsley

"He had a McNugget in his hand, a gun to his head, and no fear in his heart."

[Berwyn Choobs @sabatonfan69]

What made the twitter algo so good was that it was primarily dominated by ordinary people. Some innocuous tweets from Joe Schmo would be some of the funniest or enlightening things you’ve read, there was insight to the human pysche.

The team at X I believe doesn’t entirely understand this. In its infancy “journalists” were few and far between and influencers were almost nonexistent. The posts were from people like you and me. There were shitposters, artists, smart people, stupid people, and schizophrenics all telling you how they really felt, and it was beautiful.

Twitter is powerful, it draws people in, but the reason it doesn’t feel the same anymore is because everyone is trying to sell you something, a product or idea. Instead of escapism to the last town square, the equivalent of a Roman forum we now have a place that feels just as dreary as the rest of the world. It’s all an ad from cyberpunk. It’s what watching the news used to feel like, all danger and dread.

Instead of the people and the words they’re saying we have binary code, numbers go brrrr. The team has no idea what people want to see, they amplify things that get the most clicks, piss the most people off, get the most people to start fighting each other in the comments. A great example of this was their attempt at a “bangers” account which was all engagement slop, and that’s not what keeps people coming back.

It just ain’t the same anymore.

[DonAlt @DonAlt]

I liked Twitter better when it wasn't run by Elon

The undertone is just so negative now, it feels like the app is designed to put everyone using it in a bad mood

[Jasper Beardsley @Maxx_Sn0w]

@Rainmaker1973 Spending any money on this is a massive self own

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

“We generated millions in pure profit by making the standard service worse” is literally the slogan of the last 2 decades for every commodity in the country.

[Gravantus @Gravantus]

This is the LAST day you can retweet this.

[lee 📡 @severedloser]

my 2025 recap:
severance
severance
severance
bullshit
bullshit
bullshit
bullshit
bullshit
bullshit
bullshit
pluribus
pluribus

[wyatt dunkin @WyattDuncan]

hearing that mike fossey recently died. RIP to one of the all time great posters on here. so many classics

[~prester pop~ @exMalwa]

RIP to one of the goats

[Jasper Beardsley @Maxx_Sn0w]

@liamgallagher Best year ever, don’t want it to end man

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Taxing unrealized capital gains is outrageous unless it’s property taxes paid by normal people that’s cool

[❥ hazel ︻デ═一 @BluebriarArts]

Man, Connor O' Malley was fuckin unbeatable in the Vine days

[Jasper Beardsley @Maxx_Sn0w]

@UnderdogNFL If we were in red and yellow the flag would be in the air before the ball was even thrown

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

so will trump be losing his job for celebrating the murder of someone with whom he disagreed

[Hamza Shaban @hshaban]

Private equity firms control the top 3 providers of fire department software

This NYT story details how they take over affordable services, retire them, and then jack up the price of new tools by 3-5x, selling modernization while feeding off a reliable stream of taxpayer funding

[Jasper Beardsley @Maxx_Sn0w]

@charlieINTEL Yeah that’ll bring the player base back

[SteelSeries @SteelSeries]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @CyberpunkGame🥳

let's celebrate by giving away EIGHT limited edition Cyberpunk Arctis 1 Wireless headsets🎁🎧

RT and follow both @SteelSeries and @CyberPunkGame to enter go go goooo

[Jasper Beardsley @Maxx_Sn0w]

@The_JerseyNerds It’s insane how much better these are

[bald ann dowd @ali_sivi]

shit has been named poop of the year by ass

[Jeff Ewing @ReelJeffEwing]

This is so genuinely offensive, recreating a famous photo of workers with the enemies of workers