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After the failwhale days, Twitter has been quite stable for me with the only exception being the live-refresh features on tabs of the website that have been open for days (which I don't think many websites would handle well).

There has been a serious degradation in the quality since the acquisition:

- Sporadically loading tweets - I could go on some tweets and refresh the page multiple times, with tweets fading in and out of existence showing "This tweet is unavailable"

- Tweets that quote tweets of accounts you have blocked behave weird in multiple ways. Sometimes it's just showing a "This tweet is unavailable" instead of "This tweet is from an account you have blocked", and a few interacting with them crashed my timeline on mobile, having to restart the app

- On a few occurences, every third tweet on the timeline was an ad

- 1-2 notifications from crypto spam bots reaching me every day. The same thing previously was filtered out quite reliably (I assume), since then it happened ~once ever 6 months

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And those are only the things I've seen personally. Yeah, they are no deal-breakers, and mostly sporadic failures, but it very much feels like a service that is degrading by the day.



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